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Comment Re:This is why we need the on-live service to succ (Score 1) 132

by chazwurth (#31637508) Attached to: Nvidia's GF100 Turns Into GeForce GTX 480 and 470

And you know who buys the top of the line super expensive cards? Pretty much no one.

Then why can't supply satisfy demand? Prices on all the enthusiast-oriented cards have been going up for months, and if you really want a top-end card (5970 for example), it's really hard to find one.

Monitors are getting bigger and cheaper, and a lot of people want to play at (minimally) 1900x1200 at high settings. For newer games that takes expensive cards.
Microsoft

Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" 443

Posted by timothy from the after-sherlock-holmes'-more-obscure-brother dept.
JacobSteelsmith writes "Microsoft is attempting to re-brand its Live Search, also known as Kumo. Bing, as it's known, is another attempt by Microsoft to lure consumers away from Internet search leaders such as Google. Microsoft has posted a quarterly loss in its online advertising business, compared to Google's sales, $4.7 billion in the first quarter. According to the Live Search blog, Bing goes 'beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions' by combining a 'great search engine' with organized results. It also adds unique tools to help the user make important decisions. It is being touted as a 'decision engine.'"

Comment Re:College (Score 1) 124

by Mark_MF-WN (#23569613) Attached to: Doughnut-Shaped Universe Back In the Race
Ah, the classic argument of the intellectually incompetent: using a single case to prove a general principle.

But if really think that single examples prove something, let me use myself as a counterexample.

I'm the only person in my extended family who is in college right now -- and my college is very small and doesn't provide access to stuff like that from outside the intranet. There's only one person in my family who does research, and he and I don't speak. My friends in college were mostly lit and business students, and those who've graduated still aren't working in labs with access to research journals... for some reason.

Basically, your bizarre argument seems to boil down to one or more of the following:

  • Everyone on /. is in college.
  • Everyone on /. who isn't in college hangs out with people who are.
  • Everyone on /. works in a scientific field, because amateur interest in science is inconceivable.
  • It's entirely reasonable to expect people to have to break the law in order to participate meaningfully on /..

Feed Techdirt: Pump-And-Dump Stock Spammers Made $20 Million (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed
Well, we already knew that pump-and-dump stock spam scams worked for the spammers, but we weren't aware of just how well they worked. Apparently a group of pump-and-dump spammers made out to the tune of $20 million before they were caught. Of course, unlike in some cases, these scammers involved the executives of the companies they were hyping up -- though, it's unclear to what extent those executives understood what the scammers were planning to do.
Television

Journal Journal: PS3 PVR in the Pipeline.

Journal by ozmanjusri
In what looks like an accidental leak yesterday, Sony New Zealand boss Warwick Light let slip that the company plans to release a digital tuner for the Playstation 3 that will mean the consoles will be able to be used as a TiVo-like digital video recorder. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10455415

It appears that the tuner will be released as a USB add-on, accompanied by a software upgrade that will allow PS3s to record television to their internal hard drives.
Businesses

Submission + - An Ebay Sale is a Sale

Submitted by syousef
syousef writes: An Ebay Sale is a Sale says an Australian New South Wales State Judge in a case where a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway aircraft. The seller tried to reneg because he'd received an offer $100,000 greater than the Ebay sale price elsewhere. The buyer who had bid the reserve price of $150,000 at the last minute took him to court. "It follows that, in my view, a binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendent and that it should be specifically enforced," Justice Rein said in his decision. All dollar figures are in AUD.

BusinessWeek Advocates Microsoft Piracy 181

Posted by Zonk from the not-like-they-have-anything-to-lose dept.
xzvf writes "In a lengthy editorial, BusinessWeek advocates allowing users in China and India to pirate Microsoft software so that it can obtain the same level of market share there as it has in the US and Europe. From the piece: 'If Microsoft succeeds in discouraging piracy of Windows in China and India, it is far more likely to drive the user of the pirated software into the Linux camp than it is to steer them into the land of paid-up Windows users. Microsoft's IP management strategy in China and India should instead focus on securing the victory of Windows on the desktops of all PC users. That may require deliberately lax enforcement efforts against pirated copies of Windows for the short and medium term. Only after the Linux threat lessens might Microsoft have the luxury of tightening up piracy protections, as it is now doing in the West. Microsoft can afford to be patient.'"
Music

Canada's Copyright Cops Give Go-Ahead For iPod Tax 230

Posted by Zonk from the pay-for-your-piper dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that the Canada's Copyright Board has given the go-ahead for a new copyright tax on iPods, despite an earlier court decision blocking the fee. The Board apparently ruled that not including iPods would make criminals of millions of Canadians and that the levy could conceivably be applied to cellphones and personal computers. 'If we're going to make P2P legal through a levy system, the system must (1) address both downloading and uploading; (2) consider addressing non-commercial use of content; (3) cover audio and video; and (4) more closely link the copying to those paying the levy. The government has yet to play its hand on this issue, but with the prospect of an unpopular levy and mounting pressure for a Canadian fair use provision, it will have to take a stand sometime soon.'"

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