Comment Re: Typical govt idiocy driven by money/power (Score 1) 313
Are they banning Subway from calling it "bread"? If not, it's Tax legislation. End of.
Comment Re: Typical govt idiocy driven by money/power (Score 1) 313
No, this is specifically a law which determines whether the produce qualifies as taxable via VAT.
There are also food purity laws too, but this isn't one of them.
Comment Compiled into a *working* OS? (Score 1) 89
Doesn't this prove it can't have been the XP source code?
Comment Re: No, they're serious (Score 1) 126
"You feed beefburgers to swans!"
Comment Re: Could be a disaster for Wine development, rath (Score 1) 193
Easy to do with employees during a time when you could physically restrict access to the code at the workplace and be pretty damn sure no-one saw code they shouldn't have.
Not so much with a bunch of volunteers based all around the globe who access the code through the interwebs.
Comment Coming Soon... (Score 2) 91
PS2 mini and PS3 mini...
Comment Re: Losers. (Score 2) 283
Pfft. You mean you need to use a mnemonic representation of the instruction set opcodes?
Amatuer!
Comment Welcome to the new original sin... (Score 1) 130
Except we won't make you come to confession, we'll make you take drugs your whole life.
Comment Re: Not invented here (Score 1) 86
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say NIH at will on Slashdot.
Atari Is Back In the Hardware Business, Unveils Ataribox (hothardware.com) 110
Reader MojoKid writes: Atari CEO Fred Chesnais confirmed the company was working on a brand new console back in June this year at E3, but today the company has officially unveiled the product. The new Ataribox console draws on some of the classic styling of the original Atari 2600 console but with a modernized flare, though still sporting that tasty wood grain front panel. Atari is also looking to make the Ataribox a bit more user-friendly and expandable than its Nintendo rivals through the addition of an SD card slot and four USB ports (in addition the requisite HDMI port). The new console will be based on PC component technologies but will be available with a number of classic games to let you bask in the early days of console gaming. However, Atari will also be bringing what is being billed as "current content" to the console as well. So, we can expect to see brand new licensed games for the Ataribox, although it's hard to say, given just its size to go on, what sort of horsepower is lurking under the Ataribox's hood. "We know you are hungry for more details; on specs, games, pricing, timing," said Atari in a statement sent via email. "We're not teasing you intentionally; we want to get this right, so we've opted to share things step by step as we bring this to life, and to listen closely to the Atari community feedback as we do so."
Comment Re:In other news (Score 1) 114
Well, who wouldn't be afraid of browser competition when their browser sucks ass?
Comment Re:Directory Opus (Score 1) 22
I thought it was about a floppy disk drive for the ZX Spectrum.
Comment Re:How the Scots can F the Brits (Score 1) 493
Spain has stated that if Scottish independence is gained within a correct constitutional framework they will not oppose it.
They've stated they would not oppose the validity of an independent Scottish state, but they have said nothing of the sort with regards to said state's EU membership.
How again is that bullshit?
Comment Re:What happened next? (Score 1) 493
Sinn Féin's abstinence from Parliament effectively reduces the number of seats required for a majority to 322, so that would give a CON/DUP alliance a 6-7 seat majority. But that's still too slim in my opinion. Very much like the Major government of '92-'97 - a couple defections here, a couple bi-elections there - and the majority is gone. Certainly not a suitable state of affairs going into the most important negotiations in a generation.
Comment Re:Great, but what about open codecs? (Score 1) 136
Yes, there is a marked difference. I don't remember Theora, Dirac, etc having the backing of Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia and Realtek amongst others.
Oh, and guess what? The people who have to pay the licence fee care about the licence fee - which is precisely why the Alliance for Open Media was created in the first place.
