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  1. marfig

    Apple Wins 'Slide to Unlock' Patent Victory

    Motorola announced the intention to appeal. So not only there's a strong chance it will be overturned, but for the time being this ruling will just have no effect on current devices.
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    Synology DS212 NAS Server Review

    At this price, definitely a home consuming device too. We are known to spend more on GPUs. Thanks for the great review Greg! I'm a sucker for NAS devices. I've sold mine two years ago and ever since have been regretting it. I'd love to have seen a picture of its innards. More importantly, can...
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    Can Future iPads Cannibalize TV Purchases?

    I think yes. Tablets can indeed cannibalize TV audiences. However, I'm not so sure they will be able to replace a home TV on any number of houses to become noticeable. A tablet screen can never make up for a good movie watching experience for instance. They may mean TV audiences on tablets may...
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    Independent Games Festival Opens Audience Voting

    I'm divided between Frozen Synapse and Spelunky. But soon enough I'll be taking a look at Dear Esther, which will probably make my decision harder if this commercial version is an improvement over the old Source Engine mod version.
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    Independent Games Festival Opens Audience Voting

    Here's the full list of finalists: With 4 nominations, including Grand Prize: Dear Esther With 3 nominations including Grand Prize: Spelunky With 2 nominations including Grand Prize: Fez Frozen Synapse Johann Sebastian Joust With 2 nominations: Botanicula...
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    Planning to RMA Your Hard Drive? Make Sure Your Data is Safe

    Indeed. The issue is with the term "refurbished". It does not mean to Newegg to fix an hard drive.
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    Planning to RMA Your Hard Drive? Make Sure Your Data is Safe

    Hmm... seems like Newegg is the one at fault here. I'm pretty sure manufacturers don't refurbish hard drives. But I'm confident Newegg refurbishes them from computer parts. The user does mention the HDD had a complet Dell OS install. This is what Newegg says about refurbished products: Seems...
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    US PC Sellers Sell $144 Billion In New Gear

    But you deliberately posted a link to an article making deliberate comparisons between Apple, PC manufacturers and retail stores. It's not that so much that you can't pass an opportunity to deliberately praise Apple through the most weird (and disturbing) means imaginable; including constant...
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    US PC Sellers Sell $144 Billion In New Gear

    Comparing Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Sony and Dell to Apple is... just weird. But then following that with a comparison between Best Buy, Walmart and Apple just takes the cake. I don't know what else to say about this report. Oh... wait. Its a market research firm. That's ok then. They never...
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    AMD Sends Us 'Verdetrol' Performance-Enhancing Pills (Yes, Really)

    Next, Ubisoft starts offering Xanax.
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    Well thats one way to fly a J35....

    Totally don't! I enjoyed your post and was pleasantly surprised to have a discussion on the matter. :) Going hobby programming isn't an easy option, at all! You are not alone and I'm no exception myself. In fact, if you go to a programmers forum -- any programmers forum -- you will see that...
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    Apple's iPad 3 Rumored to Launch in March

    Oh? You will like Samsung tablets with Android then.
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    Well thats one way to fly a J35....

    No, no no. It's important someone tells the developers that hitting a building makes the fighter explode and landing on water does not. void collision_detection(player p, vehicle v, obstacle o) { /* ... */ if (v = plane && o = building) kill p; } I can understand the...
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    Canonical to Cease Support for Kubuntu

    It's a rare day the day I hear some piece of news that makes me regret the decision I took a few years back to go with a minimalist distro. This was not that day. Never really fancied Ubuntu from day one. But do respect what they did; It's the one distribution responsible for the widest...
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    Smartass in the family

    It's a shame though. So much talent wasted on Facebook.
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    Random Craigslist Finds

    I'm an expert on M$ Windoze and Internet Exploder. I worked for some years in Africa so I also have very good knowledge of Ubuntu, the South African programming language for the Linus operating system. I've been for 20 years on the internet and never got out.
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    The Internet Stratification: Tales of an Unequal Web

    The following maps didn't make it to the original article because I didn't know they existed. I could have known they existed, had I written that article in Europe or North American and, as such, benefited from a faster and less limited connection that would have allowed me to do proper research...
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    Original Everquest Taking the Free-to-Play Route

    That they all are moving these things to free-to-play, doesn't bother me. What bothers me is calling them free-to-play when they are anything but. Here's a few alternative names I humbly present to the community for adoption: M$2P - Moar Expensive to Play ??2P - I Though They Said It Was Free...
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    The Internet Stratification: Tales of an Unequal Web

    I do think we should be critic of what is being offered to us in terms of bandwidth. It's a service and we pay for it. As customers we should always be highly critic, regardless of what happens somewhere else in the world. However, I do think "we" (western internet culture) have been highly...
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