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Acer To Launch 3D Notebook In October? 135

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 08, 2009 @06:44PM from the jumping-right-out-at-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Acer is planning to announce a 3D notebook computer by end of October. If Acer indeed comes out with a 3D laptop then it'll be the world's first manufacturer to do so. The most interesting thing about Acer's machine is that it requires no special glasses. The 15.6-inch notebook features built-in software which can convert regular 2D movies to 3D and directly support 3D movies." Update: 06/08 23:18 GMT by T : According to the linked story, the no-glasses version is still in the works; the current iteration does still require special glasses.

Comment KDE Logo (Score 1) 199

by eille-la on Sunday May 03, 2009 @12:07PM (#27806727) Attached to: Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE

Why is the very old KDE logo still used by slashdot?
http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart.php

NSA Overstepped the Law On Wiretaps 164

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 17, 2009 @08:03PM from the can-i-hear-you-now dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that legal and operational problems surrounding the NSA's surveillance activities have come under scrutiny from the Obama administration, Congressional intelligence committees, and a secret national security court, and that the NSA had been engaged in 'overcollection' of domestic communications of Americans. The practice has been described as significant and systemic, although one official said it was believed to have been unintentional. The Justice Department has acknowledged that there had been problems with the NSA surveillance operation, but said they had been resolved. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the intelligence community, did not address specific aspects of the surveillance problems, but said in a statement that 'when inadvertent mistakes are made, we take it very seriously and work immediately to correct them.' The intelligence officials said the problems had grown out of changes enacted by Congress last July to the law that regulates the government's wiretapping powers, as well as the challenges posed by enacting a new framework for collecting intelligence on terrorism and spying suspects. Joe Klein at Time Magazine says the bad news is that 'the NSA apparently has been overstepping the law,' but the good news is that 'one of the safeguards in the [FISA Reform] law is a review procedure that seems to have the ability to catch the NSA when it's overstepping — and that the illegal activities have been exposed, and quickly.'"

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 476

by eille-la on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @02:29AM (#27131353) Attached to: Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland

Or maybe, as a company who buy for million dollar of licence to an MCP, you are somewhat disposed staying with that MCP if they offer support too.

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 476

by eille-la on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @02:26AM (#27131341) Attached to: Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland

As an MCP, you are probably not allowed to sell your support service to a customer who did not bought you the microsoft software licences first.

Comment Re:That's some serious scope creep... (Score 1) 429

by eille-la on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @09:45PM (#25635771) Attached to: Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself?

I'd like to know what you dislike of Hibernate. I am in the process of learning the whole library and find it quite useful right now. I guess you might be an experienced developer and should be able to provide examples and details to back your opinion. Not that I am an hibernate zealot or anything, I am just curious about the alternative or better ways to develop project with something else then hibernate when that kind of tool is needed.

Pierre

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