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Comment Re:This is why we can't have anything nice (Score 1) 364

by eagleyes on Friday August 05, 2011 @01:44AM (#36994228) Attached to: Finding Fault With the Low, Low Price of Android

When I try to navigate to maps.google.com on my windows 7 phone, it does not work (nor do I get any indication on why it does not). It works perfectly on my wife's android phone.

Works perfectly fine on my Windows Phone 7.

Comment Missing from the article (Score 5, Insightful) 394

by eagleyes on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @06:43AM (#34471438) Attached to: Programming Mistakes To Avoid

The most common programming mistake to avoid: Reading badly written articles about "what programming mistakes to avoid".

Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books 108

Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 19, 2009 @09:52PM from the monopoly-remedy dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Three library associations have asked the Justice Department to oversee Google's plans to create a massive digital library, so as to prevent excessively high pricing for institutional subscriptions. They said that there was unlikely to be an effective competitor to Google's massive project in the near term. They also asked for academic author representation on the Registry board. Google's plan to digitize millions of books has been criticized by a variety of sources and has recently been shut down in France."

GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 419

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 14, 2009 @03:03AM from the ready-when-it's-ready dept.

supersloshy writes "Contrary to popular opinion, GNOME 3 will not be released in March next year. It has been delayed until September 2010, six months later. According to the news message, this is because 'our community wants GNOME 3.0 to be fully working for users and why we believe September is more appropriate.' GNOME 3's main goal is to re-define the ways people interact with the desktop, mainly through a new UI design (currently called 'GNOME Shell'), while GNOME 2.30, set for release in March, will have a focus on being stable. An early visual tour of GNOME 3 has been posted at Digitizor."

Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women 411

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 01, 2009 @09:31AM from the short-but-neither-brutish-nor-nasty dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Yale University researchers believe that if evolutionary pressures of sexual selection and reproductive fitness continue for another 10 generations, the trends detected in their study may mean that the average woman in 2409 AD will be 2 cm shorter, 1 kg heavier, will bear her first child five months earlier, and enter menopause 10 months later. 'There is this idea that because medicine has been so good at reducing mortality rates, that means that natural selection is no longer operating in humans,' says Stephen Stearns of Yale University. 'That's just plain false.' Stearns and his team studied the medical histories of 14,000 residents of the Massachusetts town of Framingham, using medical data from a study going back to 1948 spanning three generations, and found that shorter, heavier women had more children than lighter, taller ones. Women with lower blood pressure and cholesterol were also more likely to have large families as were women who gave birth early or had a late menopause. More importantly, these traits are then passed on to their daughters, who also, on average, had more children. The study has not determined why these factors are linked to reproductive success, but it is likely that they indicate genetic, rather than environmental, effects. 'The evolution that's going on in the Framingham women is like average rates of evolution measured in other plants and animals,' says Stearns. 'These results place humans in the medium-to-slow end of the range of rates observed for other living things.'"

ARM Launches Cortex-A5 Processor, To Take On Atom 176

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 25, 2009 @12:50AM from the true-diversity dept.

bigwophh writes "ARM launched its new Cortex-A5 processor (codenamed Sparrow) this week, and while it's not targeted at the top end of the mobile market, it is a significant launch nonetheless. The Cortex-A5, which will likely battle future iterations of Intel's Atom for market share, is an important step forward for ARM for several reasons. First, it's significantly more efficient to build than the company's older ARM1176JZ(F)-S, while simultaneously outperforming the ARM926EJ-S. The Cortex-A5, however, is more than just a faster ARM processor. Architecturally, it's identical to the more advanced Cortex-A9, and it supports the same features as that part as well. This flexibility is designed to give product developers and manufacturers access to a fully backwards-compatible processor with better thermal and performance characteristics than the previous generation."

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