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Comment Re:RROD is all about heat (Score 1) 607

by PetriBORG on Thursday August 20, 2009 @02:32PM (#29136381) Attached to: Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2%

While everything I said is anecdotal of course, their entire poll was a self reporting group... I saw this poll (or a poll very close to it in content) back when it was still live... I found it via a website instructing people to go there and complain about their broken xbox 360s!

Clearly MS should just release some statistics on the matter and shut people up but it probably is somewhat higher then normal and don't want to open themselves up to lawsuit... but 54%? Thats laughably unreliable. MS would have fixed the issue after release with that kind of major problem simply because it would have cost them more money to keep the cycle of repair going.

Comment RROD is all about heat (Score 0) 607

by PetriBORG on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:29PM (#29134399) Attached to: Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2%

The whole issue is all about heat, I've bought my Xbox 360 right after xmas the year it was released and have had very few issues with it. I personally believe it is because I've always used it up-right and the power supply well ventilated. The only issue I had w/ it at all is when I accidentally knocked it over and wrecked my COD5 disk recently.

Comment Re:Perhaps we should surveil the surveyors... (Score 2, Insightful) 103

by PetriBORG on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @04:38PM (#29029459) Attached to: Adobe Flash Cookies Raising Privacy Questions Again

Yeah but in case you hadn't noticed the courts accept a large amount of digital evidence in courts with less then a steller backing, or so it seems to me. As a programmer I know *nothing* on a computer is 100% reliable right down to the CPU microcode (blue pill hacks). It really is turtles all the way down.

Comment MOD +5 this (Score 1) 103

by PetriBORG on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @04:33PM (#29029351) Attached to: Adobe Flash Cookies Raising Privacy Questions Again

Thanks for that link, very cool.

Comment Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams (Score 1) 882

by PetriBORG on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @02:42PM (#28870891) Attached to: Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams

I live in DC where they do the whole 45/35 thing in school zones and I don't know where you live or anything, but here in DC they love to put speed cameras out in front of those schools which give tickets. A couple of days ago in the news it was revealed that those people who were doing 45 were being given tickets by the system automatically, even though they shouldn't have because school wasn't in session, OOPS!

Comment Re:So that's their plan.... (Score 1) 218

by PetriBORG on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @10:42AM (#28781685) Attached to: Microsoft Makes Second GPLv2 Release

Since its GPLv2, its clear that step two is "Require patent licensing" and hidden step four is "Sue any forked projects in ground for infringement".

Comment Re:Total Hijack (Score 1) 263

by PetriBORG on Monday June 15, 2009 @09:12AM (#28334167) Attached to: Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague

anagama - The bug you're showing in your link is from the slashdot code being broken in "classic" mode. I view slashdot in multiple browsers on multiple platforms and its basically broken in all of them unfortunately. The new "D2" does not appear to be broken though on the other hand, so you might try using that one instead. Dissussions Viewing Preference should allow you to switch to the other style.

Comment Re:Corporate FUD is the real enemy here (Score 3, Insightful) 213

by PetriBORG on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @11:29AM (#28280251) Attached to: The Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign

Maybe you could suggest the wiki entry be deleted. It doesn't sound like this guys posts have enough external reference points to hold itself up, and it doesn't sound like it is relevent enough to warrant a wiki article... There was a thing a while back about how wikipedia was clearing out those kind of entries. Just a thought.

Feed Engadget: Microsoft ends Xbox 360 RROD "coffin" program, still paying for shipping (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:52PM

Getting an Xbox 360 RROD was never any fun, but at least getting it fixed was easy, since a quick phone call would get you a pre-paid "coffin" in which to send the broken console back for repairs. Not anymore -- although Redmond will still pay for return shipping, the company's beancounters have decided to axe the expense of sending custom packaging out to people who need repairs, meaning anyone who gets an RROD will need to pack things themselves. Not the end of the world, but we share Joystiq's take: just send it however you can, since MS is fixing it anyway, and then save the return carton in case something else goes wrong -- knowing the 360, it very well might.

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Comment Re:Yeah, Sorry Guys. (Score 1) 280

by PetriBORG on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:34PM (#28128667) Attached to: Mozilla Jetpack and the Battle For the Web

While I can understand what you mean, it seemed to me that this transaction-cloud or whatever, could be used to hold your money like a bank (presumably in an anonymous way) so that you could get to your money w/o the government being able to track it... After all that is really how the IRS knows about your money - because banks are required to report on you, and so are your employers.

I do agree with you though in its unlikeliness.

Submission + - China Japan on collision over rare-earth metals (news.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: JAPAN'S increasingly frantic efforts to lead the world in green technology have put it on a collision course with the ambitions of China and dragged both government and industry into the murky realm of large-scale mineral smuggling.

Submission + - Google unleashes Wave on developers (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

superglaze

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:09PM

superglaze writes: "Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system.

Anyone will be able to create a "wave", which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space.

Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client."

Comment Re:Yeah, Sorry Guys. (Score 1) 280

by PetriBORG on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:06PM (#28126743) Attached to: Mozilla Jetpack and the Battle For the Web

Thats why in the book Diamond Age when someone(s) invented a highly encrypted non-traceable way for people to do transactions governments collapsed because they couldn't tax people anymore. Its merely a background point in the book, I almost wish he wrote a book on just that topic I think it would be great. Its one of Neal Stephenson's best books imo.

Submission + - Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak 2

Submitted by archatheist on Thursday May 28, 2009 @12:49PM

archatheist writes: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have engineered a mouse whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for (different) human version. This is interesting because the gene is implicated in human language, and this has changed how mice squeak. Forget planet of the apes... get your tiny paws off me, you darn dirty mouse!

Submission + - Expect 18 Androids in 3 Flavors by Year's End

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @12:22PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Andy Rubin, senior director for Mobile Platforms for Google, has announced that by the end of the year there will be 18 to 20 phones using the Android operating system made by eight or nine different manufacturers. Google will offer three different versions of Android OS: a completely free and generic flavor with no pre-loaded Google applications; a slightly-customized version of Android OS that comes pre-loaded with Google apps like Gmail and Google Calendar; and a completely "Google-fied" Android OS bearing all sorts of Google branding and integration with Google's services. Will Parks reports that 12 to 14 of the upcoming Android phones are expected to use the slightly-customized version of Google's Android OS requiring the manufacturer to agree to a distribution deal with Google that would allow the handsets to come pre-installed with Google-ware. The remaining 5 or 6 Android phones will come to market completely decked out with "The Google Experience" and a "Google" logo on the phone. This third option provides risk and reward opportunities because the openness of the store could be a hit with consumers, but could also lead to poorly constructed applications or ones, like the baby shaking app for the iPhone, that could give Google a taint. When it comes to apps, Rubin says: "We want to abide by the law, but not rule with an open fist.""

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