Comment Re:Help me out here. (Score 1) 235
1,006 megawatt-hours total. I guess they used all that up, so now they're closing it.
Comment Re:A Third Contender arrives (Score 3) 23
It also rounds out the teams nicely: Red, Green, and now Blue.
Comment Re:Star Trek - not Star Wars. This is a holodeck. (Score 1) 90
What does Data's evil brother have to do with this?
Comment Re:impressive video (Score 1) 90
In an nVidia video about this they show a green screen mode. The system knows the camera field of view and projects a green screen (with tracking markers) over only that area. The rest of the surrounding scene is displayed normally so that lighting and reflections are consistent.
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 90
The best thing about graphene-based products is that we'll be able to power them with cold-fusion.
Comment Re:Dang I'm old (Score 2) 132
OS/2 2.0 was the shit. I used to have my phone number in my usenet signature, and once got a call from John Soyring, the guy in charge of the OS/2 program, to thank me after I posted a glowing review of it.
Comment Re:Oh,sure! (Score 4, Funny) 103
That one was mostly hand built in England. Which makes the poor quality entirely understandable.
Comment Re:Won't make an impact (Score 5, Insightful) 96
Dead surprised to see the US on that list. No doubt they'll change their mind once they realize they can make a quick buck at the expense of the planet.
Comment Re:Old. (Score 1) 207
Get off my lawn.
Microsoft's OneDrive Web App Crippled With Performance Issues On Linux and Chrome OS (theregister.co.uk) 114
Iain Thomson, reporting for The Register: Plenty of Linux users are up in arms about the performance of the OneDrive web app. They say that when accessing Microsoft's cloudy storage system in a browser on a non-Windows system -- such as on Linux or ChromeOS -- the service grinds to a barely usable crawl. But when they use a Windows machine on the same internet connection, speedy access resumes. Crucially, when they change their browser's user-agent string -- a snippet of text the browser sends to websites describing itself -- to Internet Explorer or Edge, magically their OneDrive access speeds up to normal on their non-Windows PCs. In other words, Microsoft's OneDrive web app slows down seemingly deliberately when it appears you're using Linux or some other Windows rival. This has been going on for months, and complaints flared up again this week after netizens decided enough is enough. When gripes about this suspicious slowdown have cropped up previously, Microsoft has coldly reminded people that OneDrive for Business is not supported on Linux, thus the crap performance is to be expected. But when you change the user-agent string of your browser on Linux to match IE or Edge, suddenly OneDrive's web code runs fine. The original headline of the story is, "Microsoft loves Linux so much, its OneDrive web app runs like a dog on Windows OS rivals".
Comment Re:Well, wait a minute... (Score 1) 153
Missed it by *that* much.
Comment Steve would be so proud. (Score 5, Funny) 235
It's inspiring to see that Apple can still Think Different, and radically reinvent its products generation over generation. Who could have predicted such a groundbreaking development?
Comment Re:Who won? (Score 2) 43
Both, neither, pick one. It's not a win for net neutrality though.
Netflix: "Comcast is preferring their own services over others! Net neutrality, net neutrality!!"
Comcast: "Alright, let's cut a deal."
Netflix: "Comcast is preferring their own services and ours! All is right with the world! Screw you, video streaming startups!"
Comment Knowing I will never need to use it again (Score 1) 249
My fondest memory is the day after I finished my previous job where I realized that I would never accept a job again that required me to use it. Fingers crossed anyway.
The Unintended Consequences of Free Windows 10 For Everyone 277
Ammalgam writes: Microsoft seems to be really driven to pushing over a billion people to the new Windows 10 platform as soon as humanly possible. In the latest push to make this happen, the company has basically decided that (somewhat off the record), pirates can come in the side door and it really doesn't matter what the state of their Windows license is, they can get Windows 10 for free. To get deep into the weeds on how this is happening, you have to read Ed Bott's excellent article on ZDNET – "With a nod and a wink, Microsoft gives away Windows 10 to anyone who asks." However, on Windows10update.com, Onuora Amobi asks whether the cost benefit analysis has been done and if this deluge of new members will have a detrimental effect on the Windows Insider Program.
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