And by the way, I’m not just talking about Windows XP and Vista. I’m having the same problem with
Windows 7, though, to be fair, the new operating system is still in beta so it’s possible that Microsoft could amaze and delight me by fixing this in the final version.
I can understand why it [...]
eBay has pulled the plug on Media Marketplace, a controversial pilot program designed to buy and sell radio and TV advertising on the Internet. The Internet auction house confirmed the closure of the program after one year with the brief message: “We have ended our pilot program in this market.”
The system got off to [...]
This is a chip for ultraportable notebooks, loosely defined as notebooks weighing 3 pounds or less. Those kinds of notebooks aren’t for everyone, but they tend to appeal to the frequent business travelers that might already be Lenovo ThinkPad customers. Fujitsu might not be a household name in this country when it comes to [...]
Update on February 22, 2008, at 3:20 p.m PST: This blog has been updated to include a response from American Express.
An extreme example can be found in Spain. Laurie said a public beach there encourages visitors to have RFID tags injected into their bodies. The point? Merchants along the beach scan your wrist to obtain [...]
(Credit:
Randall Munroe)
I used to read like this all the time when I was a kid, by holding the book sideways in my hands, and I’m glad to know I’m not the only one. Munroe recently purchased a Kindle 2 and tried to do the same thing, but it wasn’t quite perfect because the Kindle [...]
But that was a mistake, according to the EFF (and a lot of copyright specialists who have since weighed in on the verdict.) Again, from the EFF submission:
The headline here should be: EFF to court: Jammie Thomas judge was a dolt. At the time, the instructions the jury heard posited the following:
Already, [...]
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We went out Saturday night to help me recuperate from a difficult (but successful) end of Alfresco’s quarter. Riding at dusk, the air at 70 degrees Farenheit…perfection.
I’m going to be organizing a mountain biking tour of Utah. If you like to bike, let me know. Maybe we’ll let Sam Ramji school us on the Porcupine [...]
A number of us at CNET News noticed that Facebook was having some outage issues on Monday afternoon, delivering “connection to the server was reset while the page was loading” messages to members of our editorial staff in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.
The off-and-on outages would make the social network available to some while [...]
If all goes well, Fincke, Lonchakov, and Simonyi will say farewell to Padalka, Barratt, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata the evening of April 7, sealing hatches between the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft and the downward-facing port of the Russian Zarya module around 8:45 p.m.
With a handshake, Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke, right, transfers command to Expedition [...]
Not now. Farkie is a Web site that offers the ability to rip the audio from YouTube videos into a variety of file types, including WAV, AVI, and MP3, as well as save entire videos as QuickTime (MOV), Windows Media (WMV), or Flash Video (FLV) files. It’s a little clunky: you have to enter the [...]