GiantCranes - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Interesting search... (Score 1) 315

by GiantCranes on Wednesday August 09, 2006 @02:08PM (#15875428) Attached to: The Face of One AOL Searcher Exposed

I clicked the link before reading what it was. I then wrote a little note to big brother by searching for : "sorry, that last search was not something that I was interested in. I just clicked a link on slashdot"

Sony's Obsession with Proprietary Formats 491

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 05, 2006 @11:10AM from the repeating-the-mistakes-of-yore dept.

geoffrobinson writes "Jonathan Last, writing for a lay audience in the Philadelphia Inquirer, comments on Sony's push for the Blu-ray format: 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. One of life's more satisfying ironies, however, is that the same fate often befalls those who fixate on history... ...Obsessed with owning proprietary formats, Sony keeps picking fights. It keeps losing. And yet it keeps coming back for more, convinced that all it needs to do is push a bigger stack of chips to the center of the table.'"

PS3 Cell Processor 'Broken'? 417

Posted by Zonk on Monday June 05, 2006 @08:27AM from the it's-drinking dept.

D-Fly writes "Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'" This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt. Just the same, doesn't sound too good for Sony or IBM.

Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer 292

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 20, 2006 @12:08PM from the can't-make-things-worse-right dept.

Zephyros writes "The WSJ reports that the Bush administration has appointed a Civil Liberties Protection Officer in order to assuage the public's privacy concerns. From the article: 'As the son of a U.S. aid worker stationed in Guatemala during the 1970s civil war, Alex Joel recalls being unable to tell the good guys from the bad as both armed soldiers and civilians alike would order his family out of their car to search it. Those first-hand brushes with totalitarianism, says Mr. [Alex] Joel, have led him to take the rights of individuals very seriously.' It remains to be seen how effective he will be, but at least they're recognizing the concern."

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