Mategan - Slashdot User

Comment Re:not surprising (Score 4, Informative) 386

by Mategan on Thursday December 17, 2009 @04:08PM (#30478182) Attached to: DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of <em>Avatar</em> In Germany

Also happened in Australia. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=677232&p=40#r783 Cant imagine these are 2 isolated cases when its such a popular movie either.

DVRs Help Some TV Shows Improve Ratings 297

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 02, 2009 @02:55PM from the we've-only-been-telling-them-that-for-a-decade dept.

ubermiester writes "After years of panicked lawsuits by content providers against TiVo and DVR technology in general, the NYTimes is reporting on yet another lesson for the content providers to learn and then immediately forget: 'Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies, cars, and beer. According to Nielsen, 46 percent of viewers 18 to 49 years old for all four networks taken together are watching the commercials during playback, up slightly from last year.' The article also notes viewership increases 'in the range of 7 to 12 percent, with some shows having increases of more than 20 percent when DVR ratings are added. The four networks together are averaging a 10 percent increase."

New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD In the Palm of Your Hand 123

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 02, 2009 @12:48PM from the melts-in-your-mouth dept.

Engadget has a recent teaser video promising HD content via XBMC running on a 600MHz Beagleboard. This could mean great things for home theater putterers, with the Beagleboard tipping the scales at a modest $150 and the ability to fit in the palm of your hand. Already running on everything from MIDs to AppleTVs and now moving to ARM-powered devices like the Beagleboard, it looks like XBMC needs to be renamed from "Xbox Media Center" to "ubiquitous media center."

Submission + - Software companies sues popular Australian forum (whirlpool.net.au) 3

Submitted by Pugzly on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:25AM

Pugzly writes: In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is sueing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system...

Comment Re:Stupid article... (Score 1) 349

by Mategan on Sunday March 06, 2005 @04:38PM (#11860332) Attached to: Is Horse the New Mouse?

Im left handed and I use my mouse on the left hand side. I use a simple, standard Logitech wheel mouse - no extraneous buttons on the side as its impossible to hold in your left hand. At work, I use my mouse on the right, and it has extra buttons. Having the mouse on 2 different sides enables you to differentiate nicely between "work" and "home" - handy if you use a different OS too. As for noone uses a mouse left handed, well Ive got several customers who would disagree with you. However, the market must be small as mouse manufacturers tend to ignore this segment.

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