In the last six years, there’s been one constant when discussing Microsoft’s foray into the strange and seductive world of video game console manufacturing: they had yet to turn a profit on any of it. No more, with today’s announcement of Microsoft’s second quarter earnings which showed a relatively impressive six-month income of $524 million.
20 year old ethnic Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in a “cyber war” against Estonia.
Dmitri Galushkevich was fined 17,500 kroons (
£830) for an attack which blocked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.
Wine 0.9.54 was released today, with the following main changes:
* Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work, please help us testing it.
* A number of RPC fixes.
* Various improvements to the debugger support.
* Lots of bug fixes.
Two months ago I walked through how to build a Hackintosh Mac on the cheap using PC parts. Since that post, the OSx86 scene has changed rapidly, and now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac—no command line hacking required.
The most beautifully cabled servers.
Owning 5.4 million shares of Apple stock is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, you have a huge fortune. On the other, you can lose a $219 million in a week. This is just one of the reasons I have chosen not to own 5.4 million shares of Apple stock.
Going up against the Fox News monster can be tough, especially when they’re overflowing with ignorance on the subject of games. Geoff Keighley talks about his appearance with GameDaily BIZ.
“I sort of felt a little bit like I was on an Onion News Network skit or something like that. It was a little off the wall…”
3 hours of insanity, direct from the nuts themselves.
Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, John Travolta, and Kelly Preston are all there in the front row clapping away.
If this video, direct from the Church of Scientology, doesn’t scare the living daylights out of you, I don’t know what will.
Good luck, Anonymous.
We benchmarked the MacBook Air against the MacBook and MacBook Pro to see how it held up comparatively. Predictably, the MacBook Pro outperformed its counterparts in the majority of our tests. But the MacBook Air (1.6 GHz Intel, 2 GB RAM) went toe-to-toe with the MacBook (2 GHz Intel, 1 GB RAM) in many of our tests, falling just short in most.
Each 700-MHz cellular antenna can service a larger footprint, which means fewer cells will be required overall. That should, theoretically, make it cheaper to build a national wireless network. However…”the dirty little secret of cellular data is that two customers with Slingboxes can take down an entire EVDO cell”. Yikes!
A vigilante group is threatening to expel the Church of Scientology from the Internet.
A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is a time period when registrars can delete a domain at no cost, but in this time frame a registrant could…
