Comment Re:Linux Brands? Alpha, Purism, System76, ZaReason (Score 1) 287
Or the KDE Slimbook
Comment Emulated games (Score 1) 2
How well do emulated games run on the Pandora? Not performance-wise, since the Pyra has more modern hardware and can probably support many newer systems, but using keypad and general "feel"
Comment Re:iMosh (Score 1) 158
No, because mosh is GPLed, and you can't have GPL stuff in the iphone store.
(This doesn't stop someone from reading the protocol spec and writing their own from scratch, of course)
Comment US Only (Score 1) 140
My guess is that this will be US only, so it'll be useless outside the US even if you can have someone in the US buy it for you and ship it to you.
Comment Re:Déjà Vu (Score 1) 218
No, real. http://slashdong.org/
Comment Re:I doubt it (Score 2) 271
Actually, you can sync the DAG card to GPS time.
Comment Re:Forgive my ignorance... (Score 2, Funny) 262
Gives you write access to
Comment Re:It blocked installs till 10 AM local time too (Score 1) 380
$50USD? Here (in new zealand) it's listed as $90USD! What a rip off..
Comment Took them long enough.. (Score 2, Interesting) 135
They're a bit late.. Tugrik did this what, almost 10 years ago?
http://www.stompboxnetworks.com/
Comment ipv6 (Score 1) 949
Hmm, I wonder if they track ipv6 IPs?
London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows 438
BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"
Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? 746
nk497 writes "Writer makes the case that Windows 7 is a turning point for Microsoft, and we all might start liking them soon ...
'While it's not winning everyone over, there are real signs that Microsoft has taken criticisms on board where it matters most: in the software and services that it provides. The idea of a faster, slimmer Windows is one that most Vista owners would automatically put on their wishlist, and it seems that Microsoft has genuinely done something about it. It's not just reignited interest in the Windows product line, but it's got users appreciating a fresh approach from Microsoft as well.'"
Comment AbanQ (Score 1) 264
There's a program called AbanQ, formerly known as FacturaLUX, which works quite well in a POS. However, it is oriented mainly to the Spanish market and has little U.S. support, I'm afraid :-(
Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest 1507
Reservoir Hill writes "Pope Benedict XVI canceled a speech at Rome's La Sapienza university in the face of protests led by scientists opposed to a high-profile visit to a secular setting by the head of the Catholic Church. Sixty-seven professors and researchers of the university's physics department joined in the call for the pope to stay away protesting the planned visit recalled a 1990 speech in which the pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, seemed to justify the Inquisition's verdict against Galileo in 1633. In the speech, Ratzinger quoted an Austrian philosopher who said the ruling was 'rational and just' and concluded with the remark: 'The faith does not grow from resentment and the rejection of rationality, but from its fundamental affirmation, and from being rooted in a still greater form of reason.' The protest against the visit was spearheaded by physicist Marcello Cini who wrote the rector complaining of an 'incredible violation" of the university's autonomy. Cini said of Benedict's cancellation: 'By canceling, he is playing the victim, which is very intelligent. It will be a pretext for accusing us of refusing dialogue.'"
Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution 709
An anonymous reader writes "InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe proposes a novel solution to the ongoing spate of RIAA lawsuits over alleged music copying. He suggests legislation which cuts back corporate copyrights from 120 years to 5 years. 'We should do what we do to children who misbehave,' he writes. 'Take away their privileges.' Wolfe says this is regardless of the misunderstanding surrounding the latest case, which apparently isn't about ripping CDs to one's own computer. As to those who say copyrights are a right: "That's simply a misunderstanding of their purpose. Copyrights, like patents, weren't implemented to protect their owners in perpetuity. They are part of a dance which attempts to balance off societal benefits against incentives for writers and inventors. You want to incentivize people to push the state of the creative and technical arts, but you don't want give those folks such overbearing protections that future advances by other innovators are stifled." What do you think; is it time to cut off the record industry?"
