Comment Why were other companies so lazy? (Score 1, Interesting) 332
Why on Earth nobody else had the guts to stand up against MS if prior art seems to be so easy to find?
Comment Re:Can anyone at MS write in English? (Score 1) 345
No, MS Word prevents them that.
Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction 258
dotarray writes "Hope may be at hand for the poor souls addicted to video games. Recent research from South Korea has shown that a common anti-depressant, Bupropion (sold as Welbutrin, Zyban and Voxra) can 'decrease craving for Internet game play' as well as the brain activity triggered by video game cues. This is a drug often used to help quit smoking, to lose weight or to recover from drug addiction, in addition to typical anti-depressant and anti-anxiety uses. And, with Korean scientists already on-board, how better to test this theory than to gather up a bunch of StarCraft players?"
Comment Re:Windows Live Photo Gallery (Score 1) 326
MPEG-LA has ius prima noctis?
Comment Re:Apple Plan (Score 1) 495
If everybody needed only appliances, who could become a developer? Even Jobs had to have a hacker on his hands to succeed. Now he tries to keep them as far as possible. Passion and marketing can do only so much... What we are witnessing now is an inflation of trademark.
Comment I would agree with this quote... (Score 1) 385
I use technology in order to hate it more properly. (Nam June Paik)
Comment Re:Privacy? (Score 1) 336
Me too. The "Games for Windows" tag should be the other way around anyway. And nothing else.
Comment Re:opt-out paradigm (Score 3, Interesting) 153
It seems that Google is in some kind of a hurry and tries to catch-up with Twitter and Facebook using Gmail (quite aggressively) as a leverage. It seems that they didn't ponder a lot about social consequences of their move.
Comment Re:False Positives? (Score 1) 819
*****Warning: Linux Troll*****
If you are the resident "expert" then your family didn't have much choice. Just like my girlfriend didn't :)
Comment Re:Not a Computer... an Appliance (Score 1) 1634
Well, it has all the components that normal computer have, and behaves that way to - seems very computerish to me! Now all we have to do is to hack it.
Comment Icons are also visual tags for faster orientation (Score 1) 256
I noticed that I take half a second to a second more to find the now iconless menus in Ubuntu 9.10. It looks like icons can become a visual markers to not actually look at them and decipher their meaning but just to memorize the general outlook of them, like when you read, you read the whole words, not just letter by letter.
Comment Re:I wouldn't want a HTML5 only Web now (Score 1) 265
BTW; if you are concerned about Flash CPU usage, use 10.1 beta which has GPU decoding under Windows. I have seen it using almost nothing while playing 1080P video over youtube.
Wow, that's really sensible, throwing hardware solutions against software that acts like cancer in the web ecosystem since its inception.
Comment Perfect brain for jarheads! (Score 2, Funny) 81
I can imagine this will end up in "Shoot the enemy here or here to kill him." Also available in spanish.
Comment The '10s called... (Score 1) 322
... and they wan't their focus back. I can multitask e-mail, phone/SMS, 3 IM chats at a time while watching TV and at the end of the day I can't really remember is a blur (I born in the '80s). I'm trying to scale back on all this distractions by having a call whitelist on my cell phone which is also muted most of the time (SMS is actually better for managing distraction), my e-mail client checks for e-mail every hour or two (or I just leave it closed and open it once or twice a day).
A "multi" prefix doesn't necessarily make tasking better. It's mostly hype if you ask me.
A "multi" prefix doesn't necessarily make tasking better. It's mostly hype if you ask me.
Comment Redefinition of life as we know it... (Score 1) 214
The same thing is happening to biology what already happened to Newtonian physics with relativity theory.
