Comment Re:Jobs saw it coming? (Score 1) 117
Nice catch. You've definitely earned your internet research merit badge.
Comment Jobs saw it coming? (Score 1) 117
This is probably just a complete coincidence, but a few months ago Apple removed the shopping cart system from iTunes, switching it to a "wish list" system with 1-click purchasing. Did they see this coming?
Comment Stolar should have been fired earlier (Score 1) 86
People seem to forget why Stolar was fired in the first place. He was instrumental in killing the Saturn (though he certainly doesn't shoulder all of the blame for that). People complain that Sega has always had terrible management, well Stolar was at the top of that list at that time.
Of course this is my opinion, but I think that one of the reasons the Saturn couldn't compete was lack of diversity in software (ironically, the very thing he touts in the interview). Stolar was obsessed with sports titles. He was convinced that Americans would play nothing else (probably came up with that idea from the popularity of Genesis success with sports titles), and he became notorious for blocking developers of anything else. The Saturn's library stagnated due to Sega's worsening relationship with developers, while Sony went out of their way to put anything and everything on the PS1.
Stolar was not the genius that could have saved the DC, he is the cancer that killed it before it had a chance. It's unfortunate that Sega didn't fire him during the Saturn days - it might have saved their future.
SIDE NOTE: I think it's funny that, even after all these years, all that Stolar can talk about is sports. Every anecdote he has in that interview is sports related. Some things never change.
Odd Planet Confuses Scientists 142
eldavojohn writes "While there's been a lot of debate about what is a planet, there is a recent discovery that has scientists even more confused. COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) spotted an object that appears to be the size of Jupiter yet is 21.6 times more massive ... and orbits its star in a mere four days and six hours. Now, the other piece of the puzzle is that the star it orbits is more massive and only slightly larger than our Sun. But they can't describe this thing orbiting it. So far they think it is more likely to be a 'failed star' but have settled with 'member of a new-found family of very massive planets that encircle stars more massive than the sun' to describe it accurately."
No Space Porn (For Now) 260
With the entry to sub-orbital flight, and even orbital flight, becoming ever so slightly easier, the obvious thought of space porn kicks in. Who wouldn't want to see two or more people going at it like rabbits in a weightless environment (or at least trying to go at it like rabbits in a weightless environment)? Sadly, Virgin Galactic has turned down a $1 million offer to do just that. The offer was made by an unidentified party who was willing to put the money up front to do a space porn movie. Considering that a flight aboard VG costs $200,000 for a two-hour flight, $1 million doesn't seem too bad. Though how much you could actually do and perform in two hours is debatable. And what if one or more of the actors gets sick?
Firefox Security Head Says Microsoft Obscures OS Holes 214
theranjan writes "When a Security Strategy Director at Microsoft decided to compare Internet Explorer security vulnerabilities with those of Mozilla Firefox, he may have forgotten that the Head Security Strategist of Mozilla was a former MS employee. In a rebuttal of the study, which finds IE more secure than Firefox, Mozilla said that the number of vulnerabilities publicly acknowledged was just a 'small subset' of all vulnerabilities fixed internally. The vulnerabilities found internally are fixed in service packs and major updates without public knowledge. 'For Microsoft this makes sense because these fixes get the benefit of a full test pass which is much more robust for a service pack or major release than it is for a security update. Unfortunately for Microsoft's users this means they have to wait sometimes a year or more to get the benefit of this work. That's a lot of time for an attacker to identify the same issue and exploit it to hurt users.'"
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