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Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files 126

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @06:22PM from the rodents-of-unusual-size dept.

Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."

Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company 406

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @02:59PM from the dog-ate-it dept.

markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone 3GS.'"

An AI 4-Year-Old In Second Life 234

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 14, 2008 @09:37AM from the currents-and-eddies dept.

schliz notes a development out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where researchers have successfully created an artificially intelligent four-year-old capable of reasoning about his beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human children his age. The technology, which runs on the institute's supercomputing clusters, will be put to use in immersive training and education scenarios. Researchers envision futuristic applications like those seen in Star Trek's holodeck."

Samurai-Sword Maker May Cool Nuclear Revival 317

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 14, 2008 @08:56AM from the can't-cut-it dept.

NobleSavage sends a story from Bloomberg about Japan Steel Works Ltd., a company that still makes Samurai swords, and how it may control the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. "There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak. Utilities that won't need the equipment for years are making $100 million down payments now on components Japan Steel makes from 600-ton ingots. Each year the Tokyo-based company can turn out just four of the steel forgings that contain the radioactivity in a nuclear reactor. Even after it doubles capacity in the next two years, there won't be enough production to meet building plans."

Comment Re:No troll, but the WHOLE UI is slow (Score 1) 728

by larane on Friday April 19, 2002 @10:30AM (#3373404) Attached to: Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing?

Why didn't you get a TiBook instead then?

The obvious: money. 500mhz with lots of ram should be enough for web browsing, ssh and X forwarding (which I have working on OSX but guess what--it's slow)--I didn't see the need to spend $800 more on the tiBook. But the point is not whether Apple makes any machines worth having (the TiBook is nice, no doubt about it) but that OSX is such a poor performer when compared to Linux on the same hardware or Linux or Windows on similar quality i386 hardware. How can it be that Apple, with all its resources, is not able to come up with a faster OS than the Linux PPC distros, which have so few people and so little money supporting them? Maybe because, like other proprietary systems, they are much, much more interested in positioning themselves to make money (by forcing hardware upgrades) than in offering something useful. OK, alright, it's capitalism, but in this case any user not willing to fork out for a new G4 based system got screwed....one might think that a useful, quick OS that worked on even older Mac hardware would also make money but that's not the direction they chose. It's telling how they decided not to support older machines and yet within months users (presumably in their spare time) had come out with software that enabled OSX on those same unsupported machines. So it wasn't that hard--but it wasn't in Apple's interest, so they didn't do it. This to me is what the beauty of open source is all about--a focus on the software, not on the business politics.

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