Comment Re:Useful tool (Score 2) 273
return false;
Comment Re:Still fairly affordable (Score 3, Informative) 130
Also, from the article: "Although you will be able to download the SDK and use it with an existing Kinect for Xbox 360 for your own, personal development purposes <snip>"
Sounds good enough for hobbyists.
Sounds good enough for hobbyists.
Comment Re:HDMI? (Score 1) 208
Yes.
Comment Underscore.js (Score 2) 65
I admit I haven't heard of this before but a quick glance through the documentation reveals nothing that any CS student couldn't knock out with a couple days work. Compared to the excellent Underscore.js (http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/) this comes out as a damp squib. Am I missing something?
Comment Re:Where is print preview for God's sake? (Score 1) 292
It's already there in the latest Chrome Canary builds (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs) though you do have to go to "about:flags" to turn it on. It's apparently scheduled for release in Chrome 9.
Comment Re:best practices: how to code for IE (Score 1) 472
I suppose the missing "</p>" tag on your IE-only site best reflects the spirit of your post :)
Comment Video search blows up the the Flash debug player (Score 1) 310
The video site is unusable (literally) if you have the debug version of Flash Player installed. I keep getting this error popup which says
Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095: SmartPreviewNetStream was unable to invoke callback onMetaData. error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onMetaData not found on SmartPreviewNetStream and there is no default value.
at SmartPreview()
at SmartPreview_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
Visa Says No New Processor Breach After All 38
Buzz has been building for the last week about what might be a new data breach at a credit-card processor. No, not Heartland, a different one. Now Computerworld is reporting that Visa claims there was no new breach. Whom to believe? "In actuality, Visa said in a statement issued today, alerts that it recently sent to banks and credit unions warning them about a compromise at a payment processor were related to the ongoing investigation of a previously known breach. However, Visa still didn't disclose the identity of the breached company, nor did it say why it is continuing to keep the name under wraps."
Comment Link? (Score 4, Informative) 128
Would it be too much to expect the summary to actually link to this Penny Arcade comic? Or should I go crawl back under the rock I've been living in? :)
Anyway, for the too-lazy-to-google set, here's the link http://www.penny-arcade.com/
Comment Re:Shill me one more time!!! (Score 1) 898
Are Magazines/Tech review sites/Editorials real anymore or are they just industry backed reviews (aka advertisements)? Is advertisement driven content real journalism?
I remember almost every tech journal I picked up a couple years ago reviewed Vista as the "New Coming". Yet, a year later these journals are bemoaning how Vista "sucks" (which it does btw).
Er. So? They're shills when they say it is awesome, but they speak the truth if they say it sucks later on. Because you know, Microsoft only pays them to gush about Betas.
As for Windows 7 feeling "so much more responsive".. well, depends who is paying you to write that review innit?
Check out http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/10/1522246&from=rss . Even though the article does look at the perceived increase in speed with one raised eyebrow, the comments in that article should be pretty insightful.
Comment Re:only one thing to say (Score 2, Informative) 580
Office depot will go one step further you can email them the document and they'll print it at no additional charge on whatever paper you need.
Kinkos does the same thing. https://printonline.fedexkinkos.com/
Comment Re:Alrighty then... (Score 1) 1733
HEY TOM CRUISE!!!!
If you're reading this.
And why wouldn't he read new for nerds
NYT Exposes the Identity of Fake Steve Jobs 166
mattatwork writes "NY Times writer Brad Stone figured out the real identity of Fake Steve Jobs. With classic nick names like 'freetards' and 'beastmaster' Fake Steve captured an audience of 700,000 visitors to the site and around 50 emails a day. According to Daniel Lyons, the senior editor at Forbes magazine who maintained the blog, there is no definite plan for the future of the site. 'Mr. Lyons said he invented the Fake Steve character last year, when a small group of chief executives turned bloggers attracted some media attention. He noticed that they rarely spoke candidly. "I thought, wouldn't it be funny if a C.E.O. kept a blog that really told you what he thought? That was the gist of it." Mr. Lyons says he recalled trying out the voices of several chief executives before settling on the colorful Apple co-founder. He twice tried to relinquish the blog, but started again after being deluged by fans e-mailing to ask why Fake Steve had disappeared.'"
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