Comment Re:Rugged on the outside, Windows on the inside (Score 0) 96
Ok so I can install Windows with no antivirus, no malware protection and use IE without worrying about anything? About time!!
Comment Rugged on the outside, Windows on the inside (Score 1) 96
So it runs Windows? Who cares if it survives a fall or in Antarctica, as soon as you connect it to the net it will be infested with malware and virii!
Comment Silver Lining (Score 0) 413
Maybe now Fedora will switch to apt-get. Wait... was the guy driving working for ubuntu by any chance?
Comment Re:The Year of the Linux Desktop arrives? (Score 0) 263
Instant LCD, Jesus. Sound like you've take one too many LSD.
Comment Ascension stopover (Score 0) 544
Jesus's toenail as he rose to heaven??
Comment Re:Wouldn't surprise me if both sides are right. (Score 0) 70
Every person I have met that used the word silo in a business context coincidentally turned out to be the most annoying, corporate ass-licking mediocre under achieving loser.
Comment Re:That's 10x the budget of all of those "films" (Score 0) 339
The punishment has to be high to make the risk not worth while. there might be a 1% chance of getting caught so 10x the cost as a punishment would make a clever thief extremely rich.
iPad Mini Could Retail For $250, Delete iPad 2 211
Nerval's Lobster writes "If the Apple rumor mill proves correct, the unveiling of the iPad Mini this week could mean sayonara for the iPad 2. At least, that's the prediction of Evercore Partners analyst Rob Cihra, who wrote in a recent note to investors that he believes Apple will remove the iPad 2 from its lineup to make room for a smaller tablet. Apple insider excerpted parts of Cihra's note Oct. 19. Of course, that's just one analyst speculating about the future plans of a company known for playing things close to the proverbial vest: Apple's Oct. 23 event in California could feature all sorts of surprises. So what do we know about the iPad Mini? First, that it might not be called the iPad Mini — that's a moniker dreamed up by the press. Second, a cheaper and smaller iPad could impact the market for e-readers and 'price-sensitive users,' according to J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz, which in turn could mean a challenging future for Amazon, Google, and other IT vendors marketing cheaper tablets. Third, the media—driven by unnamed sources and blurry spy photos—seems to have collectively settled on a 7.85-inch screen without a high-resolution Retina Display."
Comment It's Alive (Score 0) 274
Google+ is a frankenstein monster between Twitter and Facebook with Google Wave thrown in, something Microsoft would be proud of. If Google had any balls they would shut it down and sack anyone who backed it.
Comment If you want performance (Score 1) 160
The more you abstract what's underneath the less performance you can achieve. Assembly vs C, C vs Java/C#/Python, Running code on a host vs a guest virtual machine, I think you get the point.
Comment Murderer (Score 0) 521
iPad Killed
Comment Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score -1) 1027
Yeah, like saying Hitler was not important in the life of Jews.
Final Attempts To Contact Mars Spirit Rover Fail 95
dotancohen writes "After nearly a year of trying to reestablish communications with the Mars Spirit rover, NASA has decided to suspend efforts. Communications channels used to contact the vehicle (redesignated from "rover" to "spot" when it got stuck in a sand trap) will be used to develop a communications base with the next Mars rover: the ambitious Mars Science Laboratory."
Comment Re:The NSA was running at 600mhz in 1950 (Score 0) 128
Nasa put men on the moon in the 60's so does that mean we should all be going on holiday (vacation) to the moon? Some technologies don't scale or are too expensive to mass produce.
Comment Re:The NSA was running at 600mhz in 1950 (Score 0) 128
Yeah that line of tin foil hats you have were in use 200 years ago.
