When we heard about Blu-ray-to-PSP movie transfers getting all official we got pretty excited, even though the announcement was a little skimpy on the details: How big are the files? How long will it take to download a movie? How odious is the DRM? Most importantly, when? Well, we’ve got ‘em all right here.
The Asus Eee PC is about the size of a small hardback book, and weighs two pounds. Rather than storing data on a spinning hard drive, it uses the type of solid-state flash memory more common in portable music players.
In contrast to users of proprietary software, users of GNU/Linux and other free software reveal a distinctly self-sufficient ethic, among other key differences.
We feel sorry for poor NEC. While everyone at CES is busy buzzing about Alienware’s gorgeous curved DLP display (including us), NEC is quietly showing off its CRVD-42DWX+ display that’s more or less identical: a 2880×900 (double WXGA+) panel with a contrast ratio of 10000:1.
“All NVIDIA gamers may receive a free copy of Portal
™: First Slice, a special version of the award-winning new game from Valve, by visiting www.steamgames.com/nvidia1 and “Taking the test.” Steam will then auto-detect the presence of NVIDIA hardware and make Portal: First Slice available immediately, free of charge…”
So you’re about to be laid off by you megacorporation that thoroughly mismanaged its position in the market and is giving you the shaft because of it. What’s a CompUSA employee to do? We’d say adding your own photos to LCD product shots on the online store is as good a way as any.
It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had 200 of his top engineers working on the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t work…
Get ready for internet cops!
A 51-year-old sysadmin has gotten a record jail sentence after attempting (and failing) to write code that would have destroyed everything on one of his company’s servers.
Discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding in the opposite direction from most galaxies. The galaxy, known as NGC4622, lies 200 million light years away in the constellation Centaurus.
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According to Brad Stone over at The New York Times, AT&T openly stated at CES that they may start filtering Internet content. This is a very big announcement because most ISPs (even Comcast) have up until this point claimed to be net neutral. So much for being a wide-open pathway to the Information Superhighway
