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Comment Re:More than a BOP (Score 1) 289

by bigzigga on Monday July 19, 2010 @12:31PM (#32952356) Attached to: IEEE Looks At Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machines

Additionally, the fact that an ROV couldn't engage the BOP using its onboard HPU (the so-called "hot stab") also casts doubt on the claim that an acoustic trigger would've done any good.

Comment Re:Push Support (Score 1) 1619

by bigzigga on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @05:52PM (#17529830) Attached to: iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote

I checked out the specs on Mail from Apple's website. The only reference to Exchange I could find was support for NTLM v2 authentication. Being able to natively authenticate and being able to talk Direct Push or do RPC over HTTPS with Exchange are two very different things.

Viiv 1.5 May End Traditional Media PCs 263

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 28, 2006 @09:50AM from the don't-trust-things-with-two-i's dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET.com.au makes an interesting case for why the next revision of Viiv will kill off living room PCs as we know them. Instead, we'll be streaming content to digital media adapters from a PC in our home office. From the article: 'The existence of digital media adapters will totally remove the need to have a media centre PC taking up space in your living room, unless you're one of the few users that finds it practical to do anything other than passively soak up multimedia content whilst relaxing on the couch.'"

DRM Reduces Battery Life 296

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 17, 2006 @05:14PM from the sucks-in-multiple-ways dept.

gr8_phk writes "An interesting article over at C|Net claims that playing DRMed music can reduce battery life up to 25 percent. Yet another reason to stick with plain old MP3 files." From the article: "Those who belong to subscription services such as Napster or Rhapsody have it worse. Music rented from these services arrive in the WMA DRM 10 format, and it takes extra processing power to ensure that the licenses making the tracks work are still valid and match up to the device itself. Heavy DRM not only slows down an MP3 player but also sucks the very life out of them."

Philips Recalls Almost 12,000 Flat Panel TVs 173

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 16, 2006 @11:58PM from the unsafe-at-any-speed dept.

wh0pper writes "Arcing capacitors have caused Philips to recall select Ambilight flat panel (read plasma) TVs. Because the TVs make use of flame retardant materials, damage was only sustained to the TVs and not homes. This is the first time I've heard of TVs having this type of issue. How safe are LCD and DLP TVs from this type of thing?"

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