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Comment Re:Do we really need the commentary? (Score 1) 364

by ozsynergy on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @05:12PM (#29291493) Attached to: Game Over For Sony and Open Source?

Good Business Decision? Look at the market: WII - No Linux - Targetted by home brew and warez scene -- CRACKED XBOX360 - No Linux - Targetted by home brew and warez scene -- CRACKED PS3 - Linux - Only targetted by warez scene - Not cracked If this decision motivates a joint cracking effort then they kiss millions of dollars in game revenue good bye. All because they were to cheap to pay a developer to maintain drivers ?

Comment Re:Stephen Conroy (Score 1) 183

by ozsynergy on Friday August 14, 2009 @06:45PM (#29071971) Attached to: Australian ISPs Soon To Become Copyright Cops

Are you assuming that the majority Christians back ACL / Family First Policy Ideas ?

Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. 505

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 21, 2009 @01:21AM from the gig-here-gig-there-pretty-soon-it-starts-to-add-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This experiment graphs the memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera) over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS." IE 8 was not included "because the author could not find a way to prevent it from opening a new window on each invocation of the command."

Microsoft Launches New "Get the Facts" Campaign 524

Posted by timothy on Friday June 19, 2009 @08:00AM from the grease-monkey-vs.-redmond-rhinos dept.

ko9 writes that Microsoft has re-launched its "'Get the facts' campaign, in an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome. Needless to say, IE8 comes out as the clear winner, with MS suggesting it is the only browser to provide features like 'privacy,' 'security,' 'reliability.' It even claims to have Firefox beat in 'customizability.'"

Comment Re:Wrong Comparison (Score 1) 516

by ozsynergy on Monday January 12, 2009 @03:14AM (#26414189) Attached to: The Environmental Impact of Google Searches

Thats just going into the reactor.

Then you have to put the extremely toxic radioactive waste into specially made containers.

Transport it a long way to a dumping ground. Which had to be mined out specially for this waste.

Nothing quite like "clean" "green" "carbon free" nuclear power is there!

MySpace Digital Music Service Is DRM-Free 93

Posted by kdawson on Friday September 26, 2008 @12:20PM from the little-music-with-your-gossip dept.

Anti-Globalism sends word that MySpace flipped the switch on its online, ad-supported, DRM-free music service that will "... give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels. Unlike much of the material at Apple's iTunes store, the music sold through MySpace's new service won't contain the protections that limit how many times a track can be copied. MySpace is hoping to set itself apart from iTunes even further by allowing its users to create an unlimited number of playlists containing up to 100 songs apiece, a sharing concept similar to music services already offered by Imeem and Last.fm."

Web Server On a Business Card 169

Posted by kdawson on Friday September 26, 2008 @10:01AM from the at-your-service dept.

mollyhackit writes "We've seen tiny Web servers in the past, but rarely ones that are home-built. Here's a guide to building your own tiny web server with a footprint no larger than a business card. The design uses two major chips. One handles the SPI to MAC/PHY translation for the ethernet jack. The other chip is a PIC24F, which hosts a simple web server and reads files stored on a microSD card. All components run at a low 3.3 volts. Part of the compactness of the design comes from the PIC24F having programmable pins; only four jumper wires were needed. The single-sided SMD design is easy to manufacture at home. Part 1 covered many of the 24F's features and both posts have full code available."

Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card 290

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 25, 2008 @11:11PM from the time-value-of-money dept.

theraindog writes "High-end graphics cards get all the glory, but most folks have a difficult time justifying $300 or more for a single PC component. But what if you could get reasonable performance in all the latest games from a budget card costing as little as $70? With game developers targeting the relatively modest hardware available in current consoles and trickle-down bringing cutting-edge features down to budget price points, today's low-end graphics cards are more capable than ever. To find out which one offers the best value proposition, The Tech Report has rounded up eight graphics cards between $70 and $170, comparing their game performance, Blu-ray playback acceleration, noise levels, and power consumption, with interesting results."

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