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That sounds really, really sketchy--like the... 82 Views / 5 Replies  
That sounds really, really sketchy--like the exact opposite of how the judicial system is supposed to work. Isn't that supposed to be, you know, near-automatic grounds for change of venue or...
Posted by Makosuke, on Yesterday at 01:49 PM, in Mac News
Interesting test, and since they're in the... 133 Views / 5 Replies  
Interesting test, and since they're in the business of selling warranties they have no particular reason to skew their results. In fact, they have a very good reason to be truthful--if they...
Posted by Makosuke, on May 1, 2013 at 03:51 AM, in Tech News
You go with what you think is the best bid, but... 862 Views / 17 Replies  
You go with what you think is the best bid, but if those Windows machines are running Windows 8, I'd like to take a bet on whether that's what the students will be seeing in the workplace. It's the...
Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 30, 2013 at 08:47 PM, in Tech News
I honestly wouldn't bet on ANYTHING 5 years from... 813 Views / 8 Replies  
I honestly wouldn't bet on ANYTHING 5 years from now in the tech industry--5 years ago the iPad didn't exist, the iPhone was a brand new product, Android phones looked like BlackBerries, and people...
Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 30, 2013 at 04:16 PM, in Tech News
Windows Phone's UI problems are not due (mainly)... 965 Views / 17 Replies  
Windows Phone's UI problems are not due (mainly) to its UI flatness, they're more fundamental design issues.

Claims are that iOS7 will behave similarly, just look a lot different, now that Ive is...
Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 29, 2013 at 04:51 PM, in Tech News
Downfall of civilization 1,024 Views / 8 Replies  
Thanks to Japan's penchant for auto-flush, seat warmers, and lids that raise themselves with a motion sensor, I'm used to seeing things like this, although Kohler is taking it to a whole new level.
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Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 19, 2013 at 02:19 PM, in Tech News
Experts? 1,079 Views / 15 Replies  
Not many, and not for long.

I just loved it how three or four years ago all the analysts and industry "experts" were writing about how Apple "had to" start selling a netbook, or they would be...
Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 13, 2013 at 07:40 PM, in Tech News
Sad but symbolic 119 Views / 2 Replies  
Honestly, DrSkywalker, LucasArts ditched every worthwhile creative property a decade ago and has been a mill churning out nothing but endless Star Wars franchise titles for years. I'm sure this...
Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 4, 2013 at 07:14 AM, in Tech News
PM 1,036 Views / 9 Replies  
Assuming that that does really mean port multiplier (as opposed to those multi-drive arrays with hardware RAID that connect via a single eSATA port), that's a pretty big deal--this would mate very...
Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 3, 2013 at 02:34 AM, in Tech News
Server Mini 1,036 Views / 9 Replies  
Now there's the way to server-up your HTPC mini. Ugly, but I'd still be very tempted to mate one of these to a low-end Mini in a closet in lieu of dangling a USB3 drive or three off of it; it would...
Posted by Makosuke, on Apr 2, 2013 at 06:31 PM, in Tech News
I think you figured out what I was getting at,... 1,146 Views / 26 Replies  
I think you figured out what I was getting at, but just to be clear, I understand that, and what I said still stands. Even without having to enter the password (if you haven't enabled that in the...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 28, 2013 at 06:17 PM, in Mac News
In fairness 114 Views / 3 Replies  
The gorilla arm issue would make using the touchscreen on this for regular productivity impossible, of course. But in fairness, reading the product info (and looking at the $5000 price tag), it's...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 26, 2013 at 04:15 PM, in Tech News
Neither the MacNN nor the Daily Mail article says... 1,146 Views / 26 Replies  
Neither the MacNN nor the Daily Mail article says that, and it can't be true. The actual article says:



Since you have to click a confirmation dialogue every time you make an IAP, I don't even...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 25, 2013 at 03:19 PM, in Mac News
Accountability? 109 Views / 3 Replies  
It would be nice if it turned out that, rather than just eating their crap-sandwich and complaining about it, EA's miserable business practices actually did reflect on their bottom line enough to...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 18, 2013 at 05:41 PM, in Tech News
Ouch... 163 Views / 6 Replies  
The reality for all those "Google = open" parrots of a company whose entire business model is built on advertising income must sting. Yes, you can still sideload apps if you're geeky enough to care,...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 15, 2013 at 06:53 AM, in Tech News
Only half of it 494 Views / 7 Replies  
The launch catastrophy may be primarily an EA problem, but shutting down licensing servers killing the product entirely is universal for any software that requires an always-on internet connection...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 10, 2013 at 06:01 PM, in Tech News
Bingo 494 Views / 7 Replies  
And that is why I refuse to buy games that require an always-on internet connection to function.
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 9, 2013 at 07:48 PM, in Tech News
Good News 134 Views / 4 Replies  
That's great news that VP8 is finally legitimately usable (assuming Google doesn't decide to be a jerk about it down the line). The bad news, of course, is that VP8 is still fundamentally inferior...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 7, 2013 at 08:14 PM, in Tech News
Classy, RIAA/MPAA/DAA (the "D" does not stand for a nice word) 113 Views / 2 Replies  
Not the least bit surprised, but I'm sure it's the "can't make an omelette" perspective for the copyright gestapo.

What would have been hilarious is if Google had complied with HBO's takedown...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 6, 2013 at 06:25 AM, in Tech News
Too Twitchy 169 Views / 2 Replies  
This block triggered on my Mountain Lion system, except I'm running the latest non-beta (11.6.602.171) Flash, so there's nothing to update to. I'm not exactly a Flash fan, but it breaks non-HTML5'd...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 2, 2013 at 03:11 PM, in Mac News
Ouch 85 Views / 1 Replies  
It's honestly getting to the point where, if I were a browser vendor, I'd just remove support for a Java plugin from the browser entirely. The tiny number of people who use Java-based applets that...
Posted by Makosuke, on Mar 1, 2013 at 05:29 PM, in Tech News
Not unusual 1,009 Views / 11 Replies  
On the game, there are MANY major, mainstream games with in-game currency packs that offer "jumbo" options costing up around $100, in addition to a bunch of smaller ones ranging in price down to a...
Posted by Makosuke, on Feb 28, 2013 at 08:37 PM, in Tech News
Creepy 775 Views / 9 Replies  
The technologist in me thinks this is awesome. Another step toward Dennou Coil or GiTS:SAC in the real world.

And then I think about the actual, practical use of it as shown in this video, and...
Posted by Makosuke, on Feb 25, 2013 at 04:26 PM, in Tech News
Sci-fi 127 Views / 2 Replies  
Honestly, this is about the most purely sci-fi, straight-out-of-a-movie device I have ever seen. It's a remote-controlled telepresence face on a stick on wheels that looks physically impossible--it...
Posted by Makosuke, on Feb 3, 2013 at 04:40 AM, in Tech News
I don't buy it 786 Views / 9 Replies  
My wife was in Japan over the Christmas season, and I tried to order her an iPad mini--direct from Apple, at that.

And I couldn't, because early in the season Apple wasn't even taking orders for...
Posted by Makosuke, on Jan 17, 2013 at 02:06 PM, in Tech News
The Pro version is a $9 upgrade for paid 2.x Pro... 384 Views / 13 Replies  
The Pro version is a $9 upgrade for paid 2.x Pro users. Which seems pretty reasonable, and the installer says clearly in big, red text. The player remains free, courtesy MS, of course. (How...
Posted by Makosuke, on Jul 29, 2012 at 10:16 AM, in Mac News
You're right about SATA and RAM, but I wouldn't... 6,885 Views / 44 Replies  
You're right about SATA and RAM, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the advantages of SMP; very few "desktop" applications are SMP aware, but being that you're talking workstations here, there's a...
Posted by Makosuke, on Jul 27, 2004 at 08:03 PM, in Mac Desktops
 
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