Just when you thought twitter was better than actual conversation, you see this. College Humor does another LOLriffic origional "Twitter in real life" to show us that we are non-stop reverse stalking. The funny part is, we already do this -- just everyone else can save our tweets for later.
How would you feel if you're using your electronic device, say a PDA, laptop, or even an internet capable media player and all of a sudden you're forced to watch an advertisement? Apple patented such an idea which involves locking the system, playing an advertisement, and even requires some input like pressing a continue button. Whether or not Apple wants to use the patent, it would certainly suck if this idea were implemented.
On a side note didn't the Gizmondo do this?
Source: Slashdot
I'd expect Futuremark to have something ready first, but the Unigine Corp. has created the world's first DirectX 11 benchmark. This isn't something like Battleforge (the world's first DirectX 11 supported game), this actually does do a few DirectX 11 only things, the most obvious being hardware tesselation. If you have Winodws 7 fired up and are one of the early adopters of the Radeon HD 5000 series, give Heaven a go.
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Mr. Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, credited for inventing this awesome thing called the Internets, has signed up for Twitter. This could potentially rip a hole in the time/space continuum. Apparently hopped on the Twitter bandwagon yesterday, and is using Tweetie -- Good choice!
Apperently he thinks either the app or the Twitter website has a confusing user interface. Why not follow him? In the past 24 hours, he has managed to rake in over 7,000 followers, impressive!
Windows 7 has turned out to be the most successful OS in a long time, and it is being accepted as a huge improvement and even a curiosity of Apple Fanboys, but for students it has been a bit of a frustrating process.
Apparently quite a few people have had numerous issues installing the downloadable $30 student upgrade edition for 32-bit Vista -- the file doesn't unpack to an ISO, but instead to an executable and two bundles that don't function properly -- and sadly the process errors out with a 64-bit app trying to launch on 32-bit systems. It's possible to create an ISO using some hackery, but the install process seems to be 50/50 after that.
The good news -- Microsoft is trying not to spoil the experience for everyone, so they are offering refunds to students who are having issues upgrading. Also if you are still stuck in a rut, DownloadSquad has a handy guide to making the ISO, in case you're interested -- and they say the installer does work in the end :)
Have you been having troubles? Leave a comment!
[via Engadget]
Net Neutrality is a sort of kept hush-hush thing on the Internet. But what Net Neutrality is is basically the Internet as you know and enjoy now. You have the freedom to access any information at any time using any service provider you choose and they have no right to block content. Of course, unlawful content like certain types of pornography and pirated software ("warez") are the only things that is actually regulated by governments, if they care to find it.
Why is this a big issue? Service providers want to sacrifice this freedom of information access for a "higher quality of service". They claim that bandwidth is wasted all the time on content they don't agree with. Basically they want to turn the Internet into cable TV. While the basic flat rate helps you keep in touch with most of the world, you still have to pay a premium for the extra content, like an HBO subscription or on-demand service. Also notice, just for the sake of example, that pornography that's all over the internet is nowhere to be found on cable TV.
So to prevent service providers from being controlling and effectively censoring the Internet, which we all know is supposed to be the free exchange of information, the FCC has set forth rules and regulations. You want this, because if say AT&T decides to cut off access to a website because they constantly crticize AT&T, well there's a problem there (but I guess not really advertising your competitors as much on cable is alright).
But basically it's the same shindig we've come to love for the past 15 or so years that Internet finally became mainstream. As long as the content is lawful, then it would be against FCC regulations to prohibit access to that content.
Which is kind of funny considering the FCC went on a censoring crusade after Janet Jacket's "wardobe slip" back in that Superbowl half-time show.
Sources: Maximum PC, FCC (PDF)
Today, Motorola made a little slip-up -- posting the Motorola Droid homepage a bit to early -- and it has specs galore! The one thing it does not say is the Price, which we are urging to see. It looks to be on-par with what the iPhone has to offer with a much bigger screen res, but a small lack of Proccessing power.
A 3.7-inch, 16:9 touch screen with 480 x 854 resolution. A 5 megapixel camera with 4x zoom, autofocus, and dual LED flash (which is new in a smartphone). A 1400 mAh Li-ion battery for up to 385 minutes of usage time and 270 hours standby. A 550MHz processor (Slightly slowe than the iPhone's). A pre-installed 16GB microSD card. GPS, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g WiFi, and a micro USB port. Six ounces of weight spread out over a 2.4 x 4.6 x 0.5-inch body.
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