Tech stuff for the slacker (Free subscription) | yesterday
October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux - Ars Technica : "In less than two weeks of general availability, Windows 7 has already captured a market share that is greater than Snow Leopard and Linux. Details inside."
Tech stuff for the slacker (Free subscription) | yesterday
$400 for a 360 AND PS3? Walmart pre-empts Black Friday - Ars Technica : "We're edging closer to Black Friday, the magic shopping day where people literally kill and die over low prices on all manner of things they don't need. Expect long lines at stores, advertisements leaked online, and at least a few trampled grandmas thrown into the mix. Walmart seems to be doing something new to avoid this...
Mike the Mad Biologist (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the things I can't stand about non-open access publishers is that federally-funded scientific results ( federally subsidized in multiple ways ) are locked behind a publisher's for-profit firewall. Given the high prices of journals and universities' need to cut expenditures, library budgets are getting slashed. So what's a scientist to do? Have a colleague whose institution has a subscription...
Download Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: OS Updates , Microsoft It's only been a couple of weeks since Windows 7 was released, but Microsoft's new OS has already captured a larger percentage of the market than Apple's OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Linux (yes, all of Linux). This doesn't come as a huge surprise, considering how many Windows users were clamoring for Win7 after the flop that is Vista. Microsoft says Windows 7's launch...
Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The days of photographic privacy are over. It is important for people of all ages, but especially teenagers who are most prone to rash behavior, to understand this and its implications. Chris Foresman’s November 2, 2009 article for ARS Technica, “Students suspended for racy slumber party pics, file lawsuit,” is the latest well-publicized case in [...]
Credit Writedowns (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Warren Buffett And The G20 – The Baseline Scenario On dollars, commodities, China, imbalances and oligarchs A close look at the new antitrust allegations against Intel – Ars Technica Intel paid dell to limit AMD shipments. G20 maintains $1trn stimulus as Brown calls for global bail-out fund Interesting idea from Brown Labored Conditions – Up and Down Wall Street – R. [...]
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it’s an understandable error. The site’s owner Hank Risan tells FastCompany his catalog of music doesn’t include tracks by the original artists, who, of course, own the publishing rights to their music (many have long resisted posting...
PhoneDog.com Cell Phones articles (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Imagine hanging out somewhere, minding your own business, maybe checking email or texts on your iPhone, when suddenly this message pops up on screen: If you have a pristine, fully sanctioned iPhone, you can breath easy. Those with jailbroken phones may want to pay attention to this, though: A Dutch hacker has figured out how to tunnel into jailbroken iPhones, via SSH, and remotely turn on the message,...
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
It was one of the most sought after applications on the Internet until it was leaked earlier today. And now that it's out there—and it is all over the place, easily findable by anyone able to use a search engine—we can all move on with our lives. Yes, Microsoft COFEE, the law enforcement tool that mystified so many of us (including Gizmodo~! and Ars Technica~!), is now available to download....
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica: October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux — In less than two weeks of general availability, Windows 7 has already captured a market share that is greater than Snow Leopard and Linux. Details inside. — Windows 7 arrived two weeks ago and so far it’s selling quite [...]
Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Bl (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Beatles fans did not know whether to gasp or cheer when a little-known music site, BlueBeat.com, began to sell the Fab Four's remastered catalog for just 25 cents a song. After all, it was less than two months ago that fans were let down when rumors proved false that the Beatles would be available on iTunes. If the Apple Computer folks couldn't get the Apple Records all-stars, how did BlueBeat do it?...
Switched (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Filed under: Computers [Ed. note: The intricate and wondrous designs of crop circles have mystified and enthralled generations of global spectators from all walks of life. A new, unique crop design , which is actually a square, has recently appeared and is specifically designed for geeks and nerds (particularly those who happen to be brilliant programmers). Ben Hopfeng-Aertner, a German programmer,...
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A judge stops back catalogue sales of old (popular) Beatles tracks - and we have more information about the company behind the seller, Bluebeat Bluebeat suddenly has far fewer Beatles tracks for download A judge has ordered Bluebeat, the US website that had been selling the Beatles' entire discography for digital download - and which justified its doing so on the basis that the tracks were "re-recorded"...
Econsultancy blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ars Technica has an interesting post revealing some sordid tales from the world of iPhone development. The tales center on iPhone app developers who claim to have developed apps that they really didn't develop. And they're getting away with it because of an NDA culture that permeates much of the development world. NDAs, or non-disclosure agreements, of course, are those pesky little agreements that...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Poor PC gamers. First they hear the soul-crushing news that Modern Warfare 2 won't support dedicated servers , and now Infinity Ward has broken their hearts yet again. During a Best Buy online chat, the developer fired off a string of bad news, affirming a 9-vs-9 player limit, the inability to kick players from ranked matches and a lack of console commands. Ars Technica has laid out the full list...
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