Comment screen ratio more then bezels (Score 4, Interesting) 137
while it's nice that thin bezels help to keep the size down having a 4:3 or at least a 16:10 screen ratio would be a much better improvement
Comment split fee at user level (Score 3, Interesting) 106
don't share money from a common pool, but split each user fee based on his readings. spammers will still get some money, but only from people that actually read their books: not so many I would say.
Comment Re:How about something more useful? (Score 3, Insightful) 156
What makes this great is that your client/coworker/family member can take a picture of the code and send it to you. That's far more doable than having them try to remember what the error message said. "Oh, it said skynet falls or something". Apps like Google goggles will search the picture for the QR and you have usable information.
What if your client/coworker/family member directly take a picture of the error message? Why going through this QR crap?
Comment free money? never happens!! (Score 2) 61
Guess who eventually will pay for that $72.8 millions?
No gift is worth a reduction in competition. Will we ever learn?
No gift is worth a reduction in competition. Will we ever learn?
Submission + - Rockefeller fund dumping fossil fuels, hits Exxon on climate issues (reuters.com)
mdsolar writes: The Rockefeller Family Fund said on Wednesday it will divest from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and "eliminate holdings" of Exxon Mobil, chiding the oil company for allegedly misleading the public about the threat of climate change.
The move by the U.S. based charity, which will also include coal and Canadian oil sands holdings, is especially notable because a century ago John D. Rockefeller Sr. made a fortune running Standard Oil, a precursor to Exxon Mobil.
The move by the U.S. based charity, which will also include coal and Canadian oil sands holdings, is especially notable because a century ago John D. Rockefeller Sr. made a fortune running Standard Oil, a precursor to Exxon Mobil.
Comment Re:Would it not be easier.. (Score 1) 144
Would it not be easier to just install traffic monitoring devices along roadways, and let your car's on-board navigation system interface with those?
and that how is supposed to be fun?
Comment Re:80's flashback (Score 1) 992
There is nothing inherently dangerous about speed, The thing that is most dangerous of all is variance in speed.
exactly
Just try jumping down from 20th floor. It's just when you hit the ground, and fall stops, that it hurts.
Comment Don't worry, evolution will fix it (Score 0) 992
just let Darwin do his work!
Comment Re:we've come a long way (Score 1) 238
> Yep, it's like mama always said - don't put arsenic in your pies or your customers won't be very happy.
but they won't complain either
but they won't complain either
Feed Engadget: AMD announces plans to open up ATI graphics drivers (engadget.com)
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Laptops
It looks like AMD's trying to make some friends in the open source community, with it today announcing some new drivers for Linux along with some details on its plans to open up its drivers to the community at large. Set to be released later this month, the new Catalyst 7.9 software will add Linux support for the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series of graphics processors, along with other "major performance improvements across the board," which it says should result in a "90 per cent improvement in such popular titles as Doom 3 and Quake 4." What's more, AMD also reportedly took advantage of this week's Kernel Summit to announce a fairly major push to go open source with its drivers. As part of that initiative, AMD will apparently work with the open source community develop a 2D and 3D driver that supports all the latest Radeon chipsets, and it'll even release documentation to let anyone (with the necessary skills) build some drivers from scratch. According to blogger Christopher Blizzard, however, that will apparently be a rather slow process, with the documentation for the 2D drivers coming first, and the 3D docs coming some time after that. Still, we're guessing that there's quite a few folks that now know what they'll be doing with their free time for the foreseeable future.Read - AMD Press Release
Read - Christopher Blizzard, "A new road for AMD and ATI"
[Via LWN.net]
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CRIA Falling Apart? 242
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) has been falling apart recently. The biggest blow occurred when 6 major Canadian independent labels quit which was followed by some problems with the Copyright Board. Of course, this is all happening after the whole Sam Bulte incident. The article explains what happened with plenty of links for specific information."
Diebold Threatens Wary Voting Clerk 632
An anonymous reader writes "From the Salt Lake Tribune: a wary county clerk called in BlackBoxVoting.org to test the integrity of Diebold voting fraud machines, part of a recent $27 million statewide purchase (to make sure that only the "Right" candidates win). Diebold goon says machines are now jinxed and it may cost up to $40,000 to fly in a company witch-doctor to make sure there were no warranty violations. Since EVERY SINGLE VOTER who uses these machines is a potential hacker looking to alter election results, why is Diebold so concerned? "
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