minikeen - Slashdot User

Comment Hurray. (Score 5, Insightful) 495

by minikeen on Monday January 16, 2012 @11:04AM (#38713444) Attached to: House Kills SOPA

As a non-US citizen that's been watching the developments of this closely, I am extremely glad that this has happened. Hell, I'm sure everyone is. Now just need to do something about PIPA, and we can breathe a nice sigh of relief (for a while)

Comment Poor analogy. (Score 1) 3

by minikeen on Monday November 28, 2011 @06:36AM (#38188460) Attached to: Coding - the new Latin

It's definitely an interesting topic, and one that really is necessary to discuss, but the analogy just falls flat. I'm not sure where Mr Hope is going with it really. Latin, whilst useful in niche situations, hardly has the wide-ranging usefulness of programming knowledge. I assume it's just being used here to refer to the relative unpopularity of programming, but their movement could do with either coming up with a better analogy, or clarifying what they mean before this becomes a catchphrase for them.

Submission + - Facebook developing phone with HTC (allthingsd.com)

Submitted by ProbablyJoe on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @10:21AM

ProbablyJoe writes: AllThingsD is running a series of stories this week about a possible new Facebook phone, codenamed 'Buffy'.

The phone is said to be in development by HTC, who collaborated with Facebook earlier this year for the Salsa and ChaCha/Status phones, which both had physical Facebook buttons, and a degree of integration with the social network.

While these rumours have been going around for quite a while, the article contains some new information, and neither Facebook or HTC are denying the rumours.

The phone will be based on Android, but like Amazon's Kindle Fire, will be heavily modified to integrate with Facebook, potentially using Facebook's HTML5 platform.

While we're unlikely to see any official announcements or releases any time soon, Facebook are eager to compete with Google and Apple, and are likely to want a phone of their own on shelves as soon as possible.

Submission + - ARM claims PS3-like graphics on mobile GPU (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

l_bratch

on Thursday November 10, 2011 @05:46AM

l_bratch writes: ""British computer chip designer ARM has unveiled its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) for mobile devices.

The Mali-T658 offers up to ten times the performance of its predecessor."

ARM claims that its latest GPU, which will be ready in around two years, will have graphics performance akin to the PlayStation 3. If this has acceptable power consumption for a mobile device, could we be seeing ultra-low power hardware in high-end PCs and consoles soon?"

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