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Comment Makes you wonder, though...what else? (Score 1) 327

by romonster on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @04:11PM (#30229940) Attached to: Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy

Wonder what else our armed forces and government have purchased that is fake or just plain doesn't work the way it should...

Comment Google Mail is not Vaporware (Score 4, Insightful) 192

by romonster on Thursday March 13, 2008 @10:48AM (#22739140) Attached to: Vaporware - the Tech That Never Was

You might say Google Mail is in the running, having been in beta since 2004

According to this Wikipedia article (or, more specifically, its sources), Google Mail has 10s of millions of users. I'd hardly call that Vaporware.

Submission + - PS3 gets DivX support, coming soon to Xbox 360 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Mpegged on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @11:22AM

Mpegged writes: The popular DivX video codec will soon be supported on the PlayStation 3. A future firmware update will deliver full support for DiVX on the PS3. DivX CEO Kevin Hell also hinted that support is coming to the 360 as well. 'During the SMid Cap conference call with investment firm JP Morgan, Hell was asked if the recent deal that will see DivX codecs shipped with new versions of Microsoft's standalone Media Center Extenders means that such support will also be arriving on the Xbox 360. "Yes!" was his immediate reply, although he quickly qualified that confirmation with a disclaimer that the deal was still in the negotiation process and had not yet been finalized.'

Feed Gateway ships quad-core desktop into US stores (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @03:12PM

Retail proposition

Gateway let slip a quad core desktop into some major US retail outlets today. It's called the Gateway FX, it costs from $2099.99 and - as you will guess from the price tag, it is aimed at the PC enthusiast and "digital creation" markets.

Feed Human Brain Breaks Down Events Into Smaller Units (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @02:33PM

Humans breakdown activities into smaller, more digestible chunks, a phenomenon that psychologists describe as "event structure perception." Event structure perception was originally believed to be confined to our visual system, but new research published in Psychological Science reports that a similar process occurs when reading about everyday events as well.

Comment Makes you wonder, though...what else? (Score 1) 327

Comment Google Mail is not Vaporware (Score 4, Insightful) 192

Submission + - PS3 gets DivX support, coming soon to Xbox 360 (arstechnica.com)

Feed Gateway ships quad-core desktop into US stores (theregister.com)

Feed Human Brain Breaks Down Events Into Smaller Units (sciencedaily.com)

Feed News: SanDisk, Yahoo release Wi-Fi MP3 player (macworld.com)

Feed Is the 'Web OS' just a geek's dream? (com.com)

Feed News: Google apologizes for using part of rival's software (macworld.com)

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