“Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease,” he said in the interview. The issue, in his view, is whether the tools that bring computing to children are “agnostic on learning” or “take a position on learning.” “O.L.P.C. has become implicitly agnostic about learning,” he said.
Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of individual performance improvements, but there are also new features, which make OpenOffice.org larger and may slow things down. What is the net effect on performance? This benchmark measures versions 1.1.5 to 3.0
Straight from Michael Dell, a first look at their Mini Inspiron Notebook which will go toe-to-toe with the Asus Eee and HP 2133.
It has become apparent during the last few hours that Comcast, everyone’s favorite ISP (especially in the BitTorrent world) has been hacked. The message on the homepage read: “KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST.”
2007’s Bioshock recieved almost universal acclaim from the gaming press for it’s unique form of Storytelling and excellent Art Deco style design. It has been used for a posterboy in the games as art debate and has been the catalyst for game designers to seek less linear methods of storytelling, but what are the pitfalls of a Bioshock sequels?
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got on stage at D6 with Walt and Kara to talk… Microsoft, of course. While the company is still being rather coy about Windows 7 — some have blamed loose lips early on in Vista development for saddling the OS with too high of expectations and making things difficult for developers
There you have it. Griffin changes to Turion Ultra.
Support for a tabbed user interface in the Nautilus file manager is a feature frequently requested by users of the GNOME desktop environment. It’s finally here and you can try it yourself.
Wild Tangent founder and CEO Alex St John is no longer a believer in in-game advertising.
In retrospect, St John says that it is a huge mistake to ever interrupt a game while somebody is playing it. He is no longer thinks injecting ads into console games is a “bright idea or where the market opportunity is.”
Thanks to the rising trend toward miniaturization, carbon nanotubes – which are about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and possess several unique and very useful properties – have become the choice candidates for use as building blocks in nanosized electronic and mechanical devices. But it is precisely their infinitesimal dimensions, as well
Either Apple’s getting leakier or the fakers are getting fake…ier, but the latest round of supposed 3G iPhone pictures is upon us courtesy of Dutch site iPhoneclub.nl and our old friend Mr. Blurrycam, and they’re pretty convincing.
This is a screenshot of the output from running the Top command on my CentOS box before it completely crashed due to the traffic from an article that made it to the homepage. The httpd.conf file had been misconfigured and was allowing far too many apache processes to spawn which ate up all the memory so the box switched to Swap memory (kswapd).
