Comment I have never prayed to you before (Score 1) 582
If you can pray to Crom for vengeance, I'd say Blizzard is screwed.
Submission + - Intel Updates vPro Platform and Features (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Intel's has certified the Core 2 Duo E6550, E6750 and E6850
processors for vPro, and is releasing the new low-power
Q35 Express chipset with a companion ICH9-DO Southbridge, and 82566DM
Gigabit Network controller.
With these new chispets and technologies, the vPro platform offers
next-generation Intel Active Management Technology, enhanced Intel
Virtualization Technology, and Intel Trusted Execution Technology (aka Intel
TXT). vPro also offers support for next-generation management standards like
WS-MAN and DASH (draft 1.0 spec) and support for v1.2 of the Trusted Platform
Module. Intel has plans to provide continual updates to the vPro platform
and will likely enhance vPro further after the launch of their "Montevina"
platform in the first half on 2008."
Submission + - Mozilla exec claims Apple is hunting open source
Rob writes: Apple chief Steve Jobs expects to do more than lure Internet Explorer users to Apple's
forthcoming version of Safari for Windows — he envisions a duopoly within the browser
market at the expense of FireFox and others, according to Mozilla COO John Lilly. Lilly
pointed to a pie graph representing the browser market that Jobs showed at last week's
Apple developers' conference. The graph was made up with just two browsers: Safari and
Internet Explorer. The graph "betrays the way that Apple, so often looks at the
world," Lilly said. "But make no mistake: this wasn't a careless presentation,
or an accidental omission of all the other browsers out there, or even a crummy marketing
trick," he said. "Lots of words describe Steve and his Stevenotes, but
'careless' and 'accidental' do not. This
is, essentially, the way they're thinking about the problem, and shows the users they want
to pick up."
Submission + - Top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
Lucas123 writes: "Computerworld reporter Mary Brandel spoke with academics and head hunters to compile this list of computer skills that are dying but may not yet have taken their last gasp. As 'Stewart Padveen, Internet entrepreneur and founder of AdPickles Inc., says, "Obsolescence is a relative — not absolute — term in the world of technology.".
'In the early 1990s, it was all the rage to become a Certified NetWare Engineer, especially with Novell Inc. enjoying 90% market share for PC-based servers.
'"It seems like it happened overnight. Everyone had Novell, and within a two-year period, they'd all switched to NT," says David Hayes, president of HireMinds LLC in Cambridge, Mass.'"
Submission + - IPv4 unallocated address exhaustion by 2010
An anonymous reader writes: Ars Technica is reporting on how the unallocated IPv4 address pool could run out as soon as 2010. The IPv4 Address Report gives details on just how fast the available pool of IPv4 addresses is diminishing. Will ISPs be moving towards IPv6 any time soon? Or will IPv4 exhaustion become the next Y2K?
Submission + - Ubuntu founder says Microsoft is our pal
Golygydd Max writes: "Who says that Microsoft and open source developers are enemies? It's not Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He says that Microsoft is not the patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, and that the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years."
Feed Chernobyl alert over birth defects (pheedo.com)
Radiation or relocation? A study of birds around Chernobyl suggests that nuclear fallout may be responsible for human birth defects in the area
Feed Review: Spam fighters (macworld.com)
Feed Free Songs With Built In Ads Is Not The Answer (techdirt.com)
An idea that's been discussed for years and apparently is now a hot one for various startups is to try to create a legitimate file sharing system, where before you can listen to the music, you have to first pay attention to an advertisement. It's simple for recording industry execs to understand, so they like it -- but they seem to be missing the key point: it's not what music listeners want. Just look at how many people were willing to jump to satellite radio claiming the lack of ads on many satellite music stations was a key driver. Also, these file sharing systems need to recognize that they're still competing with the ad-free versions (also known as unauthorized file sharing programs). The trick to making money in these spaces isn't to saddle the content with some annoyance no one wants -- but to make it more valuable in a way that people are willing to pay.
