Slashdot | Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline The most interesting part of this to me is that Gates doesn’t use email. What? get with it. I saw the following comment and was confused.
Gates calling himself low tech is most likely an attempt to deflect further questions. It was well known in his time at Texas A&M that he would personally respond to many emails from students, and as he was leaving the university he made it known that he frequented a popular aggie message board.
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Study: Inkjet printers are filthy, lying thieves This was an interesting test I thought. It would have been interesting to see how long they could keep printing after the printer says “out of ink” before the printer stops or else they notice a problem. In some respects, this is like penalizing a car’s fuel efficiency because the low fuel warning light comes on. I don’t swap the cartridge until I notice a problem. I think I get about 50% extra use out of it. (I have a canon)
The study by TÜV Rheinland looked at inkjet efficiency across multiple brands, including Epson (who commissioned the study), Lexmark, Canon, HP, Kodak, and Brother. They studied the efficiency of both single and multi-ink cartridges. Espon’s printers were among the highest rated, at more than 80 percent efficiency using single-ink cartridges. Kodak’s Easyhare 5300 was panned as the worst printer tested, wasting 64 percent of its ink in tests. TÜV Rheinland measured cartridge weights before and after use, stopping use when printers reported that they were out of ink.
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Microsoft’s coffee table: the future of computing? Microsoft is at it again in the hardware arena with Surface, a table-style PC with a touch-sensitive screen, unveiled today California today in California. It is expected to retail for about $10K, but that will drop as more units are sold.
The machine replaces a traditional mouse and keyboard with its advanced screen. Using a so-called “multi-touch” interface, people can move items around in front of them with their fingers or write on the table using a pen. It reminds me of the computer Scientology Tom uses in Minority Report.
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Microsoft “v. pleased” with brown MP3 player sales (and brown flight suit) – Computerworld Blogs: Microsoft has beaten its goal of shipping over a million Zune digital music players by June, capturing a 10 percent market share in the hard-disk-based music player category, said Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division.
”It’s a good start. It’s not an overwhelming start. I’m not going to pretend it’s some gigantic move,” said Bach. It took the iPod 14 months to reach 600,000 shipments, but it was much earlier in the game than the Zune, when the market for digital music players wasn’t so hot. Apple has likely sold around 25 million iPods over the same time it has taken the Zune to reach its goal, according to financial analysts. Those numbers include the much less expensive low end iPod shuffles and the somewhat less expensive flash memroy models. Still M$ is no Apple and Apple is winning this battle and this war. We see where things go though.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7367
Per Daily Tech, Sony has decided to ship only the 80GB model of the PS3 to Korea. This kind of stinks, but unlike the Xbox 360, the 2.5-inch hard disk drive inside the PlayStation 3 may be upgraded by the user freely. Sony’s Korean division appears to be well aware of this, and according to official information posted on the PlayStation Korea website. I don’t think it’s much of a big deal for folks, but if it is, message boards will flare up and Sony will do what it needs to to secure this vital market.
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