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Submission + - 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist/Programmer - Samia Halaby (youtube.com)

Submitted by erickhill on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:16PM

erickhill writes: Short (9 minute) video documentary of Samia Halaby.

Samia Halaby is a world renowned painter who purchased a Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985 at the tender age of 50 years old. She taught herself the BASIC and C programming languages to create "kinetic paintings" with the Amiga and has been using the Amiga ever since. Samia has exhibited in prestigious venues such as The Guggenheim Museum, The British Museum, Lincoln Center, The Chicago Institute of Art, Arab World Institute, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Sakakini Art Center, and Ayyam Gallery just to name a few.

Submission + - Scientists Teleport Matter More Than Three Feet (foxnews.com)

Submitted by

erickhill

on Friday January 23, 2009 @06:04PM

erickhill writes: "While it feels odd to be promoting a scientific report coming from Fox News, the fact is Gene Roddenberry even sat up (in his grave) and took notice of this:
"Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard."
"

Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynotes, 1998-2008 108

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @06:32PM from the should-have-employed-a-turtleneck-cannon dept.

Ian Lamont writes "The Industry Standard has put together a collection of video highlights from Steve Jobs' Macworld keynotes since his return to Apple in the late 1990s. It's interesting to watch. Jobs was basically able to turn tech product demonstrations into convincing consumer spectacles that made even the simplest product feature — such as the handle on the clamshell iBook — seem innovative and utterly desirable. And while his appearance changed greatly over the years (compare his 1998 iMac demonstration with his "iPod Mini" keynote in 2004, when he was reportedly trying to treat cancer with a special diet), his enthusiasm never waned. Of course, he may make appearances at Apple's WWDC or other events, but a Macworld expo with Phil Schiller headlining just won't be the same."

Submission + - Club Nintendo goes Live (wiimedia.com) 2

Submitted by

AKAImBatman

on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:03PM

AKAImBatman writes: "Nintendo has launched their new Club Nintendo service that allows customers to earn "coins" for purchasing Nintendo products. Coins can then be redeemed for items like exclusive DS games, playing cards, Wii Remote holders, DS cases, and other Nintendo branded items.

Points are earned by registering Wii games (50 points), DS games (30 points), or by purchasing Wii Shop items (10 points) after your Wii Shop account has been linked to your Club Nintendo account. Users may link their account under the "Settings" area of the Wii Shop channel.

Prices range from 300 coins for a Wii Remote holder to 800 coins for the Game & Watch Collection for the Nintendo DS."

Submission + - What happened to Palm? (thestandard.com) 1

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Saturday June 28, 2008 @10:54AM

Ian Lamont writes: "Palm's fourth quarter results came out a few days ago, and they were not pretty: Palm reported losses of 40 cents per share, for a quarterly loss of $43.4 million. It's the fourth straight quarter of losses, and it's clear that the company is not faring well in the rapidly evolving smartphone market. The Treo line is lagging after seven years, and while the Centro has done well, it's not well enough to compete with the likes of the iPhone 3G and RIM's surging BlackBerry line. New competition is on the horizon, with developers and manufacturers working on the Goolge Android platform and the recent news that Symbian is being open-sourced. What happened to Palm? What can the company do to effectively compete in the mobile market, and turn its fortunes around?"

Submission + - Doubts over Intel's WiMAX service pricing claim (thestandard.com)

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @06:31PM

Ian Lamont writes: "An Intel executive has suggested in a blog post that WiMAX could lead to massive savings on broadband Internet, mobile voice, and mobile data service prices. His post lists a WiMAX-based package of services, including home broadband, mobile voice and broadband, home phone service (including international) and even video phone service for $50 to $100 total. It sounds great, but unfortunately for Intel and consumers, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon, thanks to factors ranging from costly WiMAX buildouts to the telcos' lucrative business models based on existing wired and 2.5G/3G infrastructures. There are also questions about WiMAX's actual range following a messy Australian rollout, although the vendor there claims the Australian service provider under-provisioned the network."

Submission + - A USB 3.0 split? (thestandard.com)

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Sunday June 15, 2008 @09:28PM

Ian Lamont writes: "Nvidia and other chip designers are accusing Intel of 'illegally restraining trade' in a dispute over the USB 3.0 specification. The dispute has prompted Nvidia, AMD, Via, and SiS to establish a rival standard for the USB 3.0 host controller. An Intel spokesman denies the company is making the USB specification, or that USB 3.0 'borrows technology heavily' from the PCI Special Interests group." He does, however, say that Intel won't release an unfinished Intel host controller spec until it's ready, as it would lead to incompatible hardware."

Submission + - Support grows for universal power adapter (thestandard.com) 1

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Saturday June 14, 2008 @08:46PM

Ian Lamont writes: "Westinghouse is the first major electronics manufacturer that has publicly committed to using a 'smart power technology' that will let people use a single universal adapter to power their laptops, cell phones and other electronics. The universal adapters, which use a technology developed by a startup called Green Plug, will act like a hub that several devices can plug into, and will also shut off the power supply when the device is turned off or has finished charging. The first are expected to go on sale in early 2009 for under $100, according to Westinghouse's CTO. Eventually, Westinghouse and other manufacturers that use the technology could stop shipping adapters with their products, because customers may already have universal adapters at home. However, some manufacturers may not be inclined to use universal power adapters: The article notes Apple gets supplementary revenue from the sale of proprietary connectors for the iPod and other devices."

Submission + - AP targets blog excerpts with DMCA notices (thestandard.com)

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Friday June 13, 2008 @04:07PM

Ian Lamont writes: "The Associated Press, the non-profit news gathering and distribution service, has filed DMCA takedown notices against social news/blog The Drudge Retort for posting short excerpts of AP stories. The website has complied with the notices, and has described some additional details. In a letter to Rogers Cadenhead, the owner of The Retort, the AP believes 'the Drudge Retort users' use of AP content does not fall within the parameters of fair use.' Another comment, posted by AP staff on multiple blogs and news sites, says the news service gets concerned when 'we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.'"

Submission + - USB Drive Life Varies Up To 10 Times (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Thursday June 12, 2008 @11:30AM

Lucas123 writes: "Differences in the type of memory and I/O controllers used in USB drives can make one device perform two or three times faster and last 10 times longer than another, even if both sport the USB 2.0 logo, according to a Computerworld story. While a slow USB drive may be fine for moving a few dozen megabytes of files around, when you get into larger data transfers, that's when bandwidth contrictions become noticeable. In 2009, controller manufacturers are expected to begin shipping drives with dual- and even four-channel controllers, which will increase speeds even for slower drives."

Submission + - Will the iPhone kill Java-based cellphone games? (thestandard.com)

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Sunday June 08, 2008 @10:38AM

Ian Lamont writes: "In the runup to Apple's WWDC 2008, Chris Tompkins thinks that the iPhone's gaming potential 'might finally put the lackluster Java-based cell phone gaming market to death.' He cites the iPhone's use of Core Animation adapted for ARM processors, which he says allows for the advanced effects of OS X and now OpenGL-accelerated 3D games, as well as the importance of an on-demand store and Internet connection. Tompkins says that while certain genres lend themselves to the iPhone's touch controls, such as real-time strategy games (think StarCraft) the lack of physical controls will force developers to creatively approach the multitouch and accelerometer on the iPhone. His advice to Apple — make a compelling overture to independent game designers, and treat them like rock stars:

'Once they've created a few Apple branded games which show off the truly impressive abilities of gaming on a multi-touch platform, open up a set of tools for the thousands of other independent game designers and see what happens. We don't want Grand Theft Auto IV, just something a little more engaging and colorful than Peggle, with a creative flair, to play while we rock out to our tunes on the subway ride home.
Tompkins, incidentally, is one of several people who have recently pointed to Apple's mobile gaming potential."

Submission + - Gates' last MS speech cites "mega" data ce (thestandard.com)

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Tuesday June 03, 2008 @02:44PM

Ian Lamont writes: "Bill Gates, in an address to the TechEd Developers conference, talked about Microsoft's plans for hosted services, and revealed that the company is planning data centers on 'a scale that we haven't thought of before' that will apparently enable the company to offer all of its server-based products over the Internet. The talk did not include details in terms of capacity or scale. This was Gates' final publicly scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee, and he acknowledged that Microsoft's success is 'due to our relationship with developers.' On July 1, he will start spending most of his time at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."

Submission + - Dot-coms from the '90s bubble: Where are they now? (thestandard.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday May 30, 2008 @08:03AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Industry Standard has put together a list of 10 dot-com stars from the Internet bubble of the late 1990s, and tracked down what happened to the services and their founders. A lot of the services are still around, albeit under new ownership, including eToys, Garden.com, and DrKoop.com. Others have been completely reinvented — Boo.com, an online clothing retailer that burned through $125 million in funding in the late 1990s, is now an online travel community. Of the founders, many were able to cash out early and/or achieve later online success. Excite's Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer later started JotSpot, which was bought by Google, and Kraus now directs work on Google's OpenSocial initiative. Others did not fare as well, such as two of the co-founders of Garden.com, who declined to cash out at the height of the bubble, and are currently 'between business ventures.' The insiders' post-mortems of the failed dot-coms are interesting — several suggest the concepts were good but too early for their time, while others identify specific factors that led to the failures — ranging from a lack of advertising to 'intense' greed."

Submission + - Vista Selling really well, says Ballmer (pcauthority.com.au) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 22, 2008 @05:15AM

An anonymous reader writes: Steve Ballmer is in no way disappointed with Windows Vista. It is selling "incredibly well", he told a press conference in Herzeliya, Israel today. "Vista sells on almost 100 per cent of all the new consumer PCs around the world," the Microsoft CEO proclaimed. He added that the operating system was also selling on, "45 percent of all of new business PCs". Which is enlightening, since business users are about the only buyers of new PCs that get a choice.

Comment The Never Ending Story (Score 1) 1

by erickhill on Sunday May 18, 2008 @11:15PM (#23458158) Attached to: Microsoft circles back to Yahoo with new offer

Somehow I can't help but think that if MS simply buys a portion of Yahoo rather than all of it, they'll wind up paying too much. Yang has some serious work to do to prevent getting yanked by the shareholders (or Icahn).

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