Comment Re:Consoles... (Score 1) 434

by toejam316 on Friday March 21, 2008 @11:24PM (#22826598) Attached to: DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone

Really? I didn't notice that, what with all the hassles of making sure games are compatable with my Television, and then making sure I have the right addons for aformentioned game, oh and also making sure that I download the latest patches so I don't get stuck at area X. Oh crap, I don't have enough hard drive space left to save. Mmmmmmm... Familiarity DOES sell well, I suppose...

Submission + - New Form of Matter Melds Lasers, Superconductors

Submitted by

sterlingda

on Friday May 18, 2007 @09:31PM

sterlingda writes: ""Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors — superconductors. The work introduces a new method of moving energy from one point to another as well as a low-energy means of producing a light beam like that from a laser. The new state is a solid filled with a collection of energy particles known as polaritons that have been trapped and slowed." The work is published in the May 18 issue of Science."

Feed News: Opinion: Are iPod-banning schools cheating our kids? (feedburner.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Sunday May 06, 2007 @03:32AM

In this Computerworld opinion piece, Mike Elgan writes that schools banning iPods to foil cheating should instead be requiring the use of devices like iPods during tests.

Journal Journal: "Customer Service" at RitzCamera

Journal by pedestrian crossing on Thursday May 03, 2007 @06:02AM

I just want to do a quick journal entry to warn fellow photographers not to waste their time doing business with RitzCamera. What follows is my experience with them:

I ordered a Nikon D80 from them in December 2006. My order arrived quickly, and I was happy. Unfortunately (or as you will see, probably fortunately), I didn't think ahead and order any accessories to go with the camera and lenses.

Feed Microsoft, Trying to Avoid a European Fine, Defends Demand for Royalties (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @11:12PM

Microsoft filed documents defending its demand to be paid royalties for releasing some software code to competitors.

Feed Barclays' chip and PIN readers will work for other banks (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @05:32AM

PINsentry will read all APACS-standard cards

Barclays Bank is introducing a handheld chip and PIN card reader for the home in an escalation of its online banking security. Other chip and PIN cards will work with the Barclays device, not just cards issued by Barclays.

Submission + - Novell Bombards SCO with Summary Judgment Motions

Submitted by rm69990 on Saturday April 21, 2007 @11:40PM

rm69990 writes: Novell has filed 4 motions for Summary Judgment against SCO, which essentially ask the court to toss the remainder of SCO's case that isn't already being arbitrated between SUSE and SCO. One seeks a ruling from the court that Novell transfered none of the copyrights in Unix to SCO, which is backed up by many exhibits and declarations from people who negotiated the deal. Another, along the same lines, asks the court to toss the portions of SCO's Unfair Competition and Breach of Contract claims pertaining to the Unix copyrights. The third asks the court to rule that Novell did not violate the Technology License Agreement between SCO and Novell, and last and also least, the fourth seeks to toss the Slander of Title for the additional reason that SCO has failed to prove any special damages. These motions follow 2 motions for summary judgment filed by Novell late last year on 2 of their counterclaims.

Feed Lenovo laying off 1,400 employees, looking overseas (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Saturday April 21, 2007 @10:32PM

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Tough news on the Lenovo front, as the "world's third ranking PC manufacturer" is looking to axe 1,400 of its US-based employees -- and fast. Reportedly, the firm has decided to lay off a good chunk of its American-based work force "within the next 30 to 60 days" as it turns around and creates around 750 new positions in Brazil, China, India and Slovakia. The company stressed that its return to profitability last year was greatly assisted by the laying off of upwards of 1,000 employees, and insinuates that the latest cost-cutting measures are just attempts to "make the organization more efficient by reducing expenses." The cuts also include a whopping 20-percent of the work force at Lenovo's Research Triangle Park (RTP) location and around five-percent overall, but should net some $100 million in savings for the new fiscal year. Sadly, it just seems to get more cutthroat every year in the corporate arena, regardless of accomplishments.

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Submission + - $90,000 103in HDTV reviewed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16, 2007 @04:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: Found this review of Panasonic's 103in plasma. Not only is the screen itself massive, but the price tag comes close to $100,000! I guess if you can afford a room big enough to house it, you can afford the TV. http://www.trustedreviews.com/tvs/review/2007/04/1 6/Panasonic-TH-103PF9-103in-Plasma-TV/p1

Submission + - Wi-Fi highly critical flaw found in Linux

Submitted by thisispurefud on Sunday April 15, 2007 @04:23AM

thisispurefud writes: A flaw has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to run malicious code and take control of a laptop, even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130717-pg,1/arti cle.html

Journal Journal: Wikipedia screws up its students at Google Summer of Code

Journal by YA_Python_dev on Thursday April 12, 2007 @06:16AM

This year's students for Google Summer of Code have been selected and assigned to one of the 137 partecipating organizations or free software projects. To all of them except the Wikimedia Foundation, which asked to partecipate and was accepted and assigned five student slots by Google. But Wikimedia then failed (despited repeated warnings fro

Submission + - AACS cracked, again

Submitted by EmTeedee on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @05:20AM

EmTeedee writes: From a blog post on DLTV:

This time the target was the Xbox 360 HD DVD add on. Geremia on Doom9 forums has started a thread on how he has obtained the Volume ID without AACS authentication. With the aid of others like Arnezami they have managed to patch the Xbox 360 HD DVD add on.
and later in the same article:

It appears that XT5 has released a application that allows the Volume ID to be read without the need to rewrite the firmware. This would mean that anyone could simply plug in the HD DVD drive and obtain the Volume ID from any HD DVD without the hassle of flashing it.

Submission + - How to allow multiple physical console users

Submitted by

_Sharp'r_

on Saturday April 07, 2007 @05:41PM

_Sharp'r_ writes: "I'm trying to design the least expensive way to make OpenOffice, email, and a web browser available to students in a new charter elementary school. In my past experience working with charitable computer donations, I can usually get three to four working computers out of five donated "broken" computer systems, usually with plenty of monitors, keyboards and mice left over. I'd like to use one computer for multiple students by attaching multiple monitors, usb keyboards and mice.

The infrastructure is FreeBSD, with only a few MS Windows systems for certain staff. We're planning to use either FreeBSD or Linux with remotely stored home directories for the donated student desktops. These are multi-user operating systems in terms of physical resources required and operation, but only one physical console per machine. What drivers/OS versions support multiple local input devices and monitors that can be attached to a specific login session? Will this require virtualization? Is there a config I haven't found that you can use to assign these devices to specific ttys? Have you done this before?"

Journal Journal: OpenBSD: GPL violator?

Journal by slashdot_commentator on Saturday April 07, 2007 @12:38AM

Michael Buesch, lead developer of the Linux driver for Broadcom's wifi chipset (bcm43xx), stumbled across copied code in the OpenBSD's bcw driver earlier this week. The problem is that the bcm43xx linux driver uses a GPL license. OpenBSD inadvertently makes that linux code available to be used in a proprietary manner, by virtue of its BSD license (and not giving proper attribution where due).

Journal Journal: Microsoft Rushes out patch for .ANI hack 1

Journal by sharper56 on Monday April 02, 2007 @06:27AM

In the words of Nelson "Ha! Ha!", this article in Computerworld.uk brings us news that Microsoft is pushing out patch for all windows OSes for the animated cursor exploits that have been crossing the internets this weekend. The buried lede is Microsoft had been notified of this problem back in Decemeber 20006, so there goes the commitment to security meme.