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Comment Re:2 Sequels of a bad film? (Score 1) 464

by frozenray on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @10:17AM (#31687208) Attached to: Will Smith In For <em>Independence Day 2</em> & <em>3</em>

Movie review

Meanwhile, Jeff Goldblum, flying in the crashed enemy saucer, which is piloted by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, gets inside the mother ship and uses his laptop computer to put a virus into the aliens' main computer system. He can do this because the aliens, like every other life form in the galaxy, have basically no choice but to use the "Windows 95" operating system; in fact the whole reason why they have attacked the Earth is to destroy Bill Gates.

SCO v. Novell Goes To the Jury 67

Posted by timothy on Friday March 26, 2010 @08:30PM from the perhaps-it's-the-oj-jury dept.

Excelcia writes "Closing arguments in the six and a bit year old slander of title case between SCO and Novell occurred today and the case is finally in the hands of the jury. It's been an interesting case, with SCO alternately claiming that the copyrights to UNIX did get transferred to them, and that the copyrights should have been transferred to them. 'Judge Ted Stewart said, after the jury left to begin to deliberate, that in all his years on the bench, he's never seen such fine lawyering as in this case.' We're not going to find out the results until at least Tuesday, however, as one juror is taking a long weekend. Great lawyering notwithstanding, we can all hope next week that the Energizer bunny of all spurious lawsuits will finally go away."

Comment Re:Hype and Results (Score 1) 596

by frozenray on Friday January 08, 2010 @12:18PM (#30695762) Attached to: Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet

You're right, it's not - for the record, I believe that the Apple Tablet will very likely define the way these devices will be designed and used, much like the iPhone did for high-end smartphones - and I'm not an Apple fanboy. Apparently, Dan's brillant satire in the GP seems to be a little too close for comfort for some people here...

Comment Re:Hype and Results (Score 0, Redundant) 596

by frozenray on Friday January 08, 2010 @11:37AM (#30695058) Attached to: Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet

We are now in the "As Macworld or the Worldwide Developer’s Conference draws near, the chatter builds to a fever pitch. Rumor sites jockey for position, posting a new unverifiable, contradictory rumor every hour or so. eBay is flooded with six-month-old, slightly used gadgets as college students, underemployed web designers and independent musicians struggle to clear credit card space." phase.

Click here for the rest of the Apple life cycle

Comment Better alternative: c't Yagi antenna (Score 1) 146

by frozenray on Thursday December 31, 2009 @08:23AM (#30604288) Attached to: Boost a Weak 3G Modem Signal, With a Saucepan

German c't magazine recently published an interesting design for a directional WiFi antenna (about 9 dBi gain) which can be built from materials lying around in most households (not in mine, though - unless someone invents an antenna made out of discarded pizza cartons):

Example (he should have been more careful with the length and spacing of the wires)
The original article in c't (German)

Doesn't do much good for 11n, though, as that standard uses several antennas and the signal processing algorithms are optimized to use their specific characteristics.

Comment Re:So in 2047... (Score 1) 124

by frozenray on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @06:07AM (#30127224) Attached to: Intel Allows Release of Full 4004 Chip-Set Details

> The only problem is they're both working on it and not working on it at the same time

I imagine this poses one hell of a problem for middle management when it comes to year-end reviews. I don't know, do they put their developers into boxes containing poison gas flasks linked to geiger counters in order to determine who's slacking off and who's actually working?

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