Darshu - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Valuable goods will be stolen (Score 5, Informative) 136

by Darshu on Sunday January 09, 2011 @06:30PM (#34817786) Attached to: Vodafone Customer Database Breached

On the contrary. ID is not permitted to be required. See right here:

http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/contactus/merchantviolations.html

[On an OT note, since when does Slashdot require me to wait for an extraordinarily long period of time when I am just trying to reply with some simple information]

Comment Re:escalators too (Score 1) 698

by Darshu on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @08:23PM (#32833986) Attached to: Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks?

Actually that's precisely why they removed them. I believe official policy is to not encourage any walking as one may trip and fall. Yes dumb it is.

The Apple Broadcast Network 190

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, 2010 @07:30PM from the interesting-future-ahead dept.

Hodejo1 writes "In 1959 5,749,000 television sets were sold in the US, bringing the cumulative total of sets sold since 1950 to 63,542,128 units. This number supported, through advertising, three national television networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS (a fourth, Dumont, folded in 1956) and numerous local independent stations. Now here are another set of numbers. As of April this year Apple sold 75 million iPhone and iPod touch units, devices capable of delivering video via Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. Add to that figure 2 million iPads and counting. By the end of the year Apple should have about 90 million smart mobile devices in the wild. That makes a proprietary amalgam greater than what the TV networks had in 1959 and one that easily serves as a foundation for a pending broadcast network that will be delivered not through tall radio towers, but through small wireless hubs and the Internet. Call it the Apple Broadcast Network. iAd is how Apple plans to pay for it."

Top Apple Rumors, Bricks, Low Price, NVIDIA 283

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday October 10, 2008 @01:12PM from the my-macbook-is-broken dept.

Vigile writes "With the news that Apple will be releasing new MacBook products on October 14th, speculation has begun on what exactly those new products will be. Tips of a manufacturing process involving lasers and a single 'brick' of aluminum are catching on, as is the idea of a sub-$1000 netbook-type device. More interesting might be the persistent rumors of an NVIDIA chipset adoption that would drastically increase gaming ability, allow MacBooks to improve their support for OpenCL and take advantage of the new Adobe CS4 software with GPU acceleration. Will NVIDIA's ailing chipset business get a shot in the arm next week?"

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