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Comment Handhelds only (Score 3, Interesting) 245

by jigoman on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @11:47AM (#27846625) Attached to: Apple Racks Up the Gaming Patents

I think convergence is what's is prompting this. Imagine making the iPhone/iPod Touch a portable gaming console. Remember when we used to carry a cell phone, iPod and DS? Millions of you already have Apple's gaming device in your hand. I can't see any sense in Apple coming out with a dedicated gaming device.

Also, I was browsing the AppStore last night and noticed a couple of games that were previously only on the Nintendo DS (Cooking Mama being one). The graphics/gameplay were identical if not better.

Comment Safari on XP Safari on OS X! (Score 1) 850

by jigoman on Monday June 11, 2007 @04:01PM (#19469315) Attached to: Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC

It's just an initial take, but so far Safari on my XP box feels about 30 times faster than my OS X install. I don't know if that neccesarily a good thing. Hey Apple, how about showing your core users some love?

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by jjennabullet on Monday May 28, 2007 @10:16AM

Feed Enhancing eBay with Firefox extensions (slashdot.org)

From feed by lcfeed on Monday May 14, 2007 @10:12AM

eBay is a great way to acquire hard-to-find collectibles. Trouble is, the best deals are often found in auctions that end in the middle of the night. When that happens, the Biet-O-Zilla (BOZ) extension for Firefox can help you, by tracking auctions...

Feed Lab-made 'Microtornadoes' May Reveal Destructive Secrets Of Real-life Twisters (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday May 14, 2007 @10:12AM

With meteorologists concerned about a possible worldwide intensification of tornado activity, scientists are proposing a new approach to studying formation of twisters, which pack Earth's most violent winds. It involves forming microtornadoes under millimeter-scale crystalline "igloos" according to a recent article.

Dvorak Avocates Open Sourcing OS X 571

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 18, 2006 @01:45PM from the jigga-whaa dept.

xzvf writes "Dvorak claims OS X and Apple in trouble. He suggests open sourcing OS X for an epic battle with Linux. In many ways, this is just insane rambling, but it's certainly entertaining on some levels." From the article: "That would make the battle between OS X and Linux the most interesting one on the computer scene. With all attention turned in that direction, there would be nothing Microsoft could do to stem a reversal of its fortunes. Let's start at the beginning. There's been a lot of fuss over Apple's rollout of the unsupported Boot Camp product, which lets Mac users run Microsoft Windows easily on an Intel-based Macintosh. I got into various levels of trouble when I suggested that Apple was going to gravitate towards Windows since it would be easy to do and there was some evidence that the company might want to do it."

NASA Study Shows Antarctic Ice Sheet Shrinking 407

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 03, 2006 @10:53PM from the that's-polar-bear-country dept.

deman1985 writes "A recently released NASA study has shown that the Antarctic ice shelf is shrinking at an alarming rate of 36 cubic miles per year. The study, run from April 2002 to August 2005, indicates that the melting accounted for 1.2 millimeters of global sea level rise for the period. From the article: 'That is about how much water the United States consumes in three months and represents a change of about 0.4 millimeter (0.01575 inch) per year to global sea level rise, the study concluded. The study claims the majority of the melting to have occurred in the West Antarctic ice sheet."

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