Comment I'd bet a million bucks the WH tweets about this (Score 0) 89
Great. Now we get the pleasure of seeing The Great Pumpkin waxing poetic about this one win in an otherwise disastrous trade-war.
Comment Re:Holy Hype-fest Batman! (Score 0) 185
It's not locked into Windows. You can create OS X, iOS, and Android applications with Delphi.
Comment Re:Holy Hype-fest Batman! (Score 0) 185
Um, Delphi has no more ties to Oracle than Java does. Oh wait, Java is owned by Oracle. Um, what exactly is your point?
Comment In my experience, AT&T is awful as an ISP (Score 0) 230
I waited years for AT&T to offer UVerse to my home in Austin, and when they finally did, all they offered was 12Mbps. I repeatedly told them (as recently as January of this year) that I wanted more bandwidth, and they repeatedly told me they wouldn't be upgrading "my area" further anytime soon (78736). Screw AT&T. I hope Google (and others nationwide) whip your lackadaisical asses into oblivion.
Comment Very Interesting (Score 0) 128
The question now will be how long it takes before the drivers (OpenCL, DirectX, OpenGL) and even the OSes themselves can take advantage of the architecture. And once that's done, AMD would be wise to work directly with the big compilers (gcc, Clang, msvc, and Intel if they would do it) to allow developers to flip a bit so that the RTLs could use OpenCL for as many math calculations as possible. After all, this is just one step closer to performing nearly all floating point math on the "math-coprocessor" (aka GPU).
Submission + - North Korean missile in upright firing position (cnn.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: North Korea has raised at least one missile into its upright firing position, feeding concerns that a launch is imminent, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday.
This comes as the world continued to keep watch for a possible missile launch by the secretive government, and a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in the region.
In the latest daily tough talk from the North, a government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that "war can break out any moment."
This comes as the world continued to keep watch for a possible missile launch by the secretive government, and a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in the region.
In the latest daily tough talk from the North, a government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that "war can break out any moment."
Comment Finally! (Score 0) 134
I finally get to remove famous ex-gfs from old photographs! Scarlett- consider yourself forgotten, so PLEASE stop all those desperate phone-calls and emails.
Comment That's no moon.. it's a space station!! (Score 0) 78
It's not a planet. It's really a planetoid-sized space station leaving and re-entering orbit as they test their main engines.
Submission + - IE6 still strong in China (conceivablytech.com)
RackNine writes: "Net Applications estimates that IE6 has a share of 33.8% in China, StatCounter estimates about 40.2%.
Consider the fact that there are currently about 477 million Internet users in China and you get 160 to 192 million IE6 users.
That is potentially more than all Internet users in Africa and the Middle East combined (187 million)."
Consider the fact that there are currently about 477 million Internet users in China and you get 160 to 192 million IE6 users.
That is potentially more than all Internet users in Africa and the Middle East combined (187 million)."
Submission + - Neanderthals mated with human (eurekalert.org)
Med-trump writes: Neanderthals, whose ancestors left Africa about 400,000 to 800,000 years ago, evolved in what is now mainly France, Spain, Germany and Russia, and are thought to have lived until about 30,000 years ago. Now scientists have identified a piece of Neanderthal DNA (called a haplotype) in the human X chromosome and conclude that this haplotype is present because of mating with our ancestors and Neanderthals. The study was published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Comment Re:It hardly will change the processormarket.. (Score 0) 234
Isn't that what people were saying after K7 and before Opteron?
Droid X Gets Rooted 97
An anonymous reader writes "The Droid X forums have posted a procedure to root the new Motorola Droid X, putting to rest Andoid fans' fears that they would never gain access to the device's secrets due to a reported eFuse that would brick the phone if certain boot files were tampered with. Rooting the phone is the first step in gaining complete control over the device."
Comment Re:TiVo invented timeshifting? (Score 0, Troll) 490
One could argue that if innovation moves far enough past the initial idea, it indeed qualifies as reinventing. While the rest of us pony up and recognize what an innovation Tivo was, you're of course free to continue to express your technical objections by shuffling your VCR tapes, having your VCR flash "12:00am", and looking up the upcoming TV schedule with your TVGuide and setting VCRPlus to record shows. The rest of us will use our DVRs and not have to worry about adjusting the tracking.
DirectX 11 Coming To Browser Games 200
arcticstoat writes "Forget Farmville, Flash puzzlers and 8-bit home computer emulators. The next generation of browser games will be able to take advantage of DirectX 11 effects, not to mention multi-core processing and both Havok and PhysX physics effects. A new browser plug-in called WebVision will be available for Trinergy's new game engine, Vision Engine 8. This will enable game developers to port all the advanced effects from the game engine over to all the common browsers. Of course, any budding 3D-browser-game dev will face the problem that not every PC has a decent graphics card that can handle advanced graphics effects. Not only that, but limited bandwidth will also limit what effects a developer can realistically implement into a browser game. Nevertheless, this is an interesting development that could result in some tight 3D programming, as well as some much more interesting browser games."
Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic 807
DJRumpy writes "The Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg won fame and fans by arguing that many of the alarms sounded by environmental activists and scientists — that species are going extinct at a dangerous rate, that forests are disappearing, that climate change could be catastrophic — are bogus. A big reason Lomborg was taken seriously is that both of his books, The Skeptical Environmentalist (in 2001) and Cool It (in 2007), have extensive references, giving a seemingly authoritative source for every one of his controversial assertions. So in a display of altruistic masochism that we should all be grateful for (just as we're grateful that some people are willing to be dairy farmers), author Howard Friel has checked every single citation in Cool It. The result is The Lomborg Deception, which is being published by Yale University Press next month. It reveals that Lomborg's work is 'a mirage,' writes biologist Thomas Lovejoy in the foreword. '[I]t is a house of cards. Friel has used real scholarship to reveal the flimsy nature' of Lomborg's work."
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