It's just a Twitter clone, that charges users for membership, instead of monetizing them through ads or selling their data. A lot of people think that will lead to a better service, so it got a lot of hype recently.
So first you say these display got "horrible image persistence problems" and then you say "you wouldn't notice it just like that". So can't be that big of a problem? I have one with a LG panel, and the only time I noticed some ghosting is when someone on the internet told me to turn my screen completely gray - otherwise I wouldn't even know about it.
GIMP, tried out a lot of image editors and imho it goes like this: Photoshop > GIMP > Elements > Pixelmator. Pixelmator has a really nice UI, but it's lacking features left and right. Photoshop is still the nicest, especially for coders, who don't know what they are doing (real artist only need a canvas and a brush anyway).
I think what they mean is, the datacenters actually running Watson would consume too much power. A mobile app with millions of users would require many many instances of Watson running, so 10 racks of servers per instance doesn't sound feasible.
No please don't think like that. Assange even said today he would agree to go to Sweden, if they promise to not send him to the U.S. He's terrible afraid of being send to the U.S, and rightly so. The U.S. repeatedly demonstrated, that when it comes to political prisoners they don't care much about human rights, the law, or habeas corpus. Look how Bradley Manning is being treated or may I just remind you of Guantanamo Bay? These things really happen.
Now Assange believes, that the extradition to Sweden, for whatever reason, is just a false pretence to send him to the U.S. What makes the whole case dubious is the timing the case came up, which was right after WikiLeaks's diplomatic cables release, and also that Sweden immediately issued an InterPol warrant, which is kinda unusual for the alleged charges. So I'd be highly suspicious, too.
So they are adding 176px to the height of the display? Any idea why they would do that? Apple usually goes for something new exciting, when introducing new products. "We made the iPhone5 taller and added a few pixels on top, so it can display 5 icons on the home screen" sounds like the anti-thesis of excitement.
DateTime code bugs happen all the time, there are so much things to consider and it's hard to test, because the problem conditions might not occur for years to come. Remember this? http://news.cnet.com/new-years-hangover-for-zune-users/ (also I too am guilty of producing a similar bug in a software a few years ago)
I don't think there was a rational motive behind this, or we would have heard about it by now. What the scary truth seems to be is, that these individuals are in a severely distorted state of perception, in which the killing of people becomes justifiable for them. He has most likely a extreme case of depression, psychosis or something else along those lines, of which the causes need to be investigated. But there will never be a reasonable "why", other then a sad story of a human being, who's life went wrong at one turn or another and in the end his mind malfunctioned. To prevent this from happening, I'd argue, given the amount of people, the complex society we live in and the unfortunate circumstances some people experience in their live, we need to accept that disturbed personalities like these sometimes "happen", and I'm not sure how to avoid that. In my opinion, the most effective prevention would probably be to restrict easy access to lethal weapons. When we realize that (sadly) our society can produce minds like this, we have to make sure you can't buy smoke grenades at a pawn shop.
Yeah, the news kinda comes down to: "CERN data centers run Linux", which is cool, considering the work that is done there, but not really that surprising at all ;)
I bought one as my primary work machine for developing iPhone, iPad and Android apps and I can recommend it to any developer of all sorts. This is just a really nice developer machine, I love coding on that thing.
Wow, interesting. Hard evidence that language affects our low level perception of the world. There was always speculation, that different languages influences the way we "think", but I haven't seen such a black-and-white proof yet.
11 years development? I believe D2 came out 11 years ago, but D3 wasn't in development for the last 11 years. They released quite a few other games in meantime. Notably WoW, which kept the whole company completely busy for at least 3-4 years.
That's a real flaw, a old 15" MBP with 1680x1050 would practically be a better choice. This is just dumb, that a 2880x1800 display is worse than a 1680x1050 display because of the way the software handles these resolutions. Unless I'm missing something...
Well I haven't tried it, but I don't think it'll be that bad. You don't really have to use Metro and stuff like Notepad++ still works fine, so I'm sure you can work just fine with it. So what's the big deal?
It sure fits nicely together, but I doubt this was the plan all along. Google general strategy seems to be to collect as much data as possible just in case it might become useful one day. Good decision to load up the StreetView cars not just with cameras for pictures, but with all kinds of sensors to collect a bunch of potentially useful metrics. That data is becoming handy for quite a few things now.
I doubt Microsoft will make a native iOS version of Office. Simply for the reason that they'll have to distribute through the AppStore, meaning Apple will take a 30% cut. I don't think Microsoft would be ok with Apple talking a cut on a product like Office.
Well it depends on execution though. Just 'having' a feature isn't the whole story. For some reason I've the feeling Nintendo is gonna come up with some fun, innovative concepts for their system, that make it appear novel and interesting, while Microsoft's implementation looks forced on and unnecessary. At least that's how it seemed with the Wii vs. Kinect.
Bitcoin is very alive and kickin right now. The bitter truth is Bitcoin is now the de facto standard method of payment for all kinds of shady, criminal & laundering services on the net. What you got is a lawless currency, with no regulations what so ever, and no (assumed * ) oversight of trade. There so much hacking, fraud and insider scams going on, that trusting an online wallet like Bitconica is just waiting for your money to be stolen. Very hostile environment. No, this is not like "real money" at all, but it still holds value.
* it is assumed gov. institutions are monitoring large transactions now
Wow, very cool! This is exactly what I needed right now. I had bad dreams about what would happen if my Google account disappeared all of the sudden, but didn't do anything about it yet. Now I will be able to sleep better!