knidu - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Oh Oh (Score 1) 150

by knidu on Thursday August 29, 2013 @08:20PM (#44712467) Attached to: New Zealand Bans Software Patents

um, no... the standard is still Microsoft Office here At least in business, government and tertiary education in New Zealand

Comment Re:QA is not the problem (Score 1) 323

by knidu on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @08:25PM (#44245637) Attached to: Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash

Ive seen RAM modules installed backwards. "Wait!", you say, "Isnt there a notch which prevents that?" Well, yes, there WAS a notch...

I see your RAM and raise you a VGA cable into a wall socket. You'd think the D shape would be a clue, but no, no it wasn't.

1080p, Human Vision, and Reality 403

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @10:00AM from the even-one-eyed-pirates-like-hdtv dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'1080p provides the sharpest, most lifelike picture possible.' '1080p combines high resolution with a high frame rate, so you see more detail from second to second.' This marketing copy is largely accurate. 1080p can be significantly better that 1080i, 720p, 480p or 480i. But, (there's always a "but") there are qualifications. The most obvious qualification: Is this performance improvement manifest under real world viewing conditions? After all, one can purchase 200mph speed-rated tires for a Toyota Prius®. Expectations of a real performance improvement based on such an investment will likely go unfulfilled, however! In the consumer electronics world we have to ask a similar question. I can buy 1080p gear, but will I see the difference? The answer to this question is a bit more ambiguous."

Microsoft set to Announce Zune 360 and 180 66

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @06:30PM from the moving-up-in-the-world dept.

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Blueberry Bob writes "Just in time for the iPhone June launch, Microsoft is planning to launch the Zune 360 and 180. The 360 will be a widescreen video and music player available in 40 and 80 GB models, whereas the 180 will be a smaller device similar in size to the iPod nano. Oddly enough, only the 180 model will feature a cellphone — Microsoft believes that the combined cellphone/music player market is better served in compact players. 'Although the default behavior will be to connect the Zune 360 and 180 to a Windows machine and use the default Zune software (which is also undergoing a revamp) it will be possible to put the Zune 360 in to disk mode and the device will be treated like any ordinary USB storage device and will therefore be accessible from Mac and Linux machines too. The built in indexing in the 360 will allow you to easily search for songs, however out of the box it's not possible to create playlists on the 360 itself, they still need to be managed by the Zune software.'"

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