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Comment Re:tag: omgtreason (Score 1) 360

by solar_blitz on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @02:48PM (#22639418) Attached to: Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV

I didn't say they should make a new laptop in five years, just that the macbook air might be a more feasible product if it waited for 5 more years of product enhancements - by then they'd have a 300-400 GB flash drive, etc. And I know plenty of people who use the WiFi technology to get online with their iPod Touch models, maybe not when they travel around the city like you can with the iPhone but just in general. And like I said, I didn't know of a solution to that.

Submission + - Visual Studio and Eclipse compared and contrasted

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02, 2007 @10:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: Getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can seem counterintuitive at first. Without being too philosophic about IDE design, this article presents the main differences between Visual Studio and the Eclipse IDE.

Feed Sun seeks profit from Internet TV (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @11:32PM

Sun begins selling a high-end server that can send out 160,000 simultaneous streams of video over the Internet.

Google, Intel, Microsoft Fund Robot Recipes 73

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @10:00PM from the cook-until-sentient dept.

Dotnaught writes "Google, Intel, and Microsoft are funding what may become a robot invasion. Money from the three tech companies has enabled researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to create a new series of Internet-connected robots that almost anyone can build using off-the-shelf parts. These "recipes" describe how to build a robot that connects to the Internet using common parts and a $349 Qwerk controller from Charmed Labs."

Are Web Ratings Dangerous To Sites? 54

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @08:43PM from the a-million-different-ways-to-count dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "For website publishers, a poor web rating can be disastrous. Bad television ratings mean television shows get canceled, bad web ratings mean websites go out of business. For advertisers, accurate web ratings are critical to optimize spending. Inaccurate ratings data means advertisers will overspend on poorly performing sites or not advertise on smaller sites whose numbers are really much higher than reported. In the case of Canadian web site Digital Home, already hit with an advertising boycott by Bell Canada over the site's pro-consumer editorial content, the site's owner is now in danger of ending operations, apparently due to the inaccuracies of ComScore rankings. For example, Google Analytics reported Digital Home served up over 2.7 million page views in January to almost 250,000 unique visitors. A web buyer at one of Canada's largest advertising agencies confirmed that ComScore reported just 32,000 visitors. Added to this is ComScore's secretly-installed spyware troubles."

Feed Nano-nose sniffs out sickness (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Sunday April 22, 2007 @01:12PM

A panel of nanoparticles is being trained to detect the 'scent' of illness by detecting particular combinations of proteins in body fluids

Feed Drug takes no nonsense from cystic fibrosis (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Sunday April 22, 2007 @01:12PM

It may treat some forms of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis and works by telling the cell's protein-making machinery to ignore 'nonsense' mutations

Feed Seat Belt Intervention Shows Many Lives Can Be Saved On China's Roads (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday April 22, 2007 @11:12AM

A novel road safety intervention in Guangzhou, China, has shown the potential for significantly increasing the use of seat belts among drivers and front seat passengers in motor vehicles. "The China Seat Belt Intervention" has demonstrated how simple, cost-effective strategies can save lives in highly populous regions.

Feed ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT snapped in the wild (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday April 22, 2007 @10:32AM

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

Shortly after going from codenames to a more retail-friendly tiltling scheme, ATI's midrange RV630, er, HD 2600 XT has already been acquired, photographed, and slapped into one lucky PC overseas. According to the author, the card sports 256MB of GDDR4 RAM, and even more impressive, doesn't require any sort of external power connector to suck down the respectable 80-watts of power required for usage. It also appears to have a single-slot cooler and a hefty heatsink, not to mention a snazzy flame job that any true geek should adore. Let's face it, you're after the pics, so feel free to click on through for a few more shots and screengrabs from the installation. [Warning: Read link requires registration]

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