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"We're very conscious of how the product looks on your face. "

It looks like the peak of sophistication.

"My name is Sparkydog. You can call me Zander, all my friends do"

No they do not. That's no-friend-having-guy talk. Also that zoot-suit makes you look like a child molester.

Like this?

Dear Google,

Please indicate on the attached screenshot where I can click to drag the window around.

https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/i...

I think I can carefully click between or around the stoplight buttons -- but not too close to the borderless left edge of the first tab! Thanks for not actually putting a visible indicator there. I *love* the challenge of trying to guess clickable zones in UI I use dozens of times a day. It looks like I can also click the fingernail-sized area at the far right, and perhaps I can very carefully click the few pixels you so generously left at the top. (Careful here, too -- there's not much room for error. A pixel off means I'll activate a random tab or activate whatever is behind it.)

Also, thanks for making it so I always have to mouse over a tab to actually see the full title of a page. It's worth suffering through all this bullshit just so I can enjoy seeing another 20 whole pixels of the web page.

This is basically like trying to play whack-a-mole *and* Operation at the same time. While blindfolded. Fun fun!

Fuck you very much,
- sootman

Err the comparison is in the article.

Also the Hubble isn't a flawed instrument. It was a flawed instrument but after the optics were corrected it is very much an instrument that matches the spec that was originally supposed to be built to, and more given how the process of trying to correct the images while waiting for optics produced new breakthroughs in image processing.

I guess you would say that my eyes are as close to perfect as possible because my glasses give me 20/20 plus vision?

It's usless pedantry to say the Hubble isn't a flawed device. It was polished incorrectly, and sadly, I could have determined that fact with a Foucault tester I could make in my garage in 20 minutes. There is another mirror sitting in a warehouse in Rochester, IIRC, that is ground and polished to as close to perfection as could be done.

If that back up mirror had been the one sent to space, the Hubble would have performed on spec with no mirror tricks.

And no one would ever design a telescope with the system they ended up with in Hubble.

NASA calls it a flaw: https://www.nasa.gov/content/h...

That it was fixed is not in doubt. The fix allowed them to get good images while using the flawed mirror. But the mirror has spherical aberration. The fix was an amazing feat.

But it was still a kludge - http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com...

https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/i...

Fake or real ?

The same could be said about PC vs Mac...

That PC didn't even have a monitor.

The same could be said about PC vs Mac...

Acer Predator 21 https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/i...

The iMac I had had a small panel in the back for the end-user to perform upgrades. You could put exactly two things in it: a stick of RAM and an AirPort card (proprietary apple wireless network, for those too young to remember). I'm not sure if they went out of their way to lock you out of the rest of the hardware, like they do nowadays. But it was clear the end-user was never intended to mess with the hardware besides the slots in the expansion panel.

You do know that the access to the innards is accomplished by using suction cups to pull the screen cover, don't you? Seriously not difficult As a side-note, the disk in that iMac ended up having a head crash due to totally inadequate cooling. They thought it was ok to cram a bunch of hot hardware and a CRT into a tiny bubble with no case fans. They have a long history of overheating computers for aesthetic reasons, starting with the Apple 3 and continuing through to a couple years ago with the MacBook Air. Their design philosophy hasn't changed, so I expect this issue to keep popping up in the Apple product line perpetually. Not only do they not have case fans, the case fans that they don't have sometimes run at full speed, and need to have a memory reset to return the fans they don't hace to not return to normal not speed that the fans they don't have run right not right. Or something something.

Seriously, where did you get your Mac wisdom, because you're talking shit. My iMac's fan is sitting there idling right now. Or do you think maybe they put a speaker in it to make a sound like a fan. And if you are having temp issues, clean it once in a while.

Just as a reference, Here's a 2011 27 inch iMac all opened up: http://tr2.cbsistatic.com/hub/... Count the fans. By the way, you'll notice that after popping the screen off, you have access to some rather normal looking stuff, attached in a way most similar to the way that everyone else does.

And of course, no Windows machine has ever had a problem with heat anyhow, amirite?

They were doing the dongle thing back then as well. I had to buy a separate floppy drive, which in 1998 was essential. 2 years down the road it quit receiving OS updates... They called the omission of a removable media drive forward-thinking, yet the computer was planned into obsolescence before next-gen USB media were even a mature technology.

Oh my fscking gawd - 1998?

I'll bet you think that Apple still only has the one button mouse too.

Okay, since you've set the playing field up, let's talk about what a damn piece of shit Windows 1 is, and how time is frozen. Seriously weak arguments there, muchacho. In the meantime Windows 3.1 is a great upgrade - I reccomend it wholeheartedly.

Yeah, I see their "edge-to-edge" better now when I look at the renders/pictures. Not what I think of with that wording. I guess it's better than saying "we removed the home button."

My 3GS comment was more about the look of the phone, not the materials behind it:

https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/i...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w....

I see what you're saying about the materials, where the back is glass and the metal wraps around the phone like the iPhone 4. I just happen to think the overly rounded, chrome-polished edges make it look like a giant 3GS.

That led me to this ad. It reminds me of a time (up until around OSX 10.6) when every single release was faster, more efficient, and clearly an improvement over the previous system.

That is no longer true.

Woah, is this the menu people see?

https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/i...

I don't get a menu like that at all, when I click my portrait in the top/right I see youtube red and a list of my other youtube channels to switch to. No menu like that :( god, damn it.

Only about half of large organizations allow BYOD. See the graph here.

In case you are wondering, here it is: https://cnet1.cbsistatic.com/i...

There's not much point in texture-mapping this to look like texture this, otherwise...

All this angst! I remind you that 95% of the congress that keeps this little game running is about to be reelected in just over six months. FBI is just following orders, ours...

And yes, with today's infrastructure issues, you don't want any careless hangings

On the contrary! If I were in the business, I would hire her in a New York Second. She definitely left a mark..

By comparison, North Korea stories can be posted in the Idle section. For some reason, I suspect they won't have a successful launch any time soon.

I'm a tech enthusiast.

I got a gaming PC with two screen, LG G3 cellphone (for 200 bucks on the second hand market from a mom whose son wanted a iPhone, best value for money imo), a roku, a Nest thermostat and a lot of tech stuff, you get the picture.

Still, I couldn't smell any of those Smartwatch because of a simple point, it fail at what it's supposed to be : "a watch".

I mean, a watch that you need to "wake up" to see the time? Something that you need to plug in every night? And worst, something that look like a gadget and shout "Look at me, I'm a nerds"? No thanks.

Still, my GF, thinking I wanted one, bought me a smartwatch for my anniversary I never heard of, a Pebble Steel. And I must say, she got it right.

Still, it's not perfect. It lack all of the little sensor the competition have and the black & white low resolution make most watchfaces look bad, but it's probably the only "SmartWatch" I won't mind taking to an interview in a suit.

For now it does the job, but call me back when they make a good looking watch that stay open all the time and doesn't need to be connected on a USB port every night (Yeah, unless there's a major improvement in OLED screen energy use, it won't be anytime.soon).

Price per GB has resumed dropping since the effect of the Thailand flooding and HDD consolidation in 2011-2012. Quite frankly, that price adjustment upwards was needed, as the HDD industry had some of the slimmest margins in the electronics industry (around 1%-3%, vs 5%-10% for electronics overall). Slim margins = less money companies are able to devote to R&D = slower rate of capacity improvement.

And don't fret about the rate of price drops slowing down since 2009 in the graph. The y-axis on that chart needs to be on a log scale to draw that sort of conclusion.

... but you will have to put up with this: http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com...

Well the Apple line wasn't really intended for home use

Oh really ? Please tell me more !

Really? Or do you want to ignore the fact of the low murder rate in easy to legally get a gun Plano, Texas (.4 per 100,000) and the highest murder rate in the hard to legally get a gun city of Detroit (54.6 per 100,000)? The numbers are striking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... [wikipedia.org]

Really?

Cell phones smoke?

Yes

Android accounts for about 80% of China's mobile

But TFA is about internet usage market share, not sales. See this image for an internet market share graph.

2006? Both Linux and windows had widgets implementations in the 1990s.

And Apple had them on the Mac as "Desk Accessories" in 1984, and even a primitive form on the Lisa in 1983, bitch.

After doing a quick Google search...

Yes, yes you will.

Yes but the picture is what pros would call a bad picture: to give a relative idea of the height / width of the thing, they should have included a man for instance into he picture..

A processor is designed using a programming language like Verilog or VHDL. These languages provide standard logic cell libraries that support floating-point, integer arithmetic and multiplication.

Whatever you can implement in C/C++ software, you can implement in hardware, with various optimizations like parallel processing, pipelining.
At the same time as the processor is being designed, verification tests are written to test every logic block. Tape-out is that special time at the end of the project when the complete system has been designed and all the verification tests pass. Then the designers don't have anything else to do. They just have to wait until the first chip dies are baked, packaged into resin and heatsinks, and mounted on test boards.

In the past, the whole directory system would be tarballed onto a tape drive and the package sent over by courier to the chip fab where the files would be compiled into silicon via a set of lithographic masks used in order to etch each layer of the chip.

>> 'many people in line are not fluent in English and are either Asian immigrants or visitors.'

Right, because New Yorkers are naturally a compassionate people, without the usual morons (e.g., http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/11/02/madison1_610x407.jpg) found elsewhere in America.

>> While some private homes and businesses in electrified areas have set out power strips for strangers to charge their phones, it's hard to imagine a crowd of New Yorkers standing idly by while someone spends a significant amount of time charging a new tablet.

You do realize that the power is on at the Apple store, and all around it, right? From TFA: "The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, like most of upper Manhattan, did not suffer any flooding or power outages due to Hurricane Sandy."

Not sure what version of windows had this last, but I remember being bale to tile all open windows, and they would take up all available screen real-estate. It wasn't a horizontal tile, wasn't a vertical tile, and wasn't a cascade. It may have been arrange, but I remember doing it once with 10 excel windows open on like 640x480, and they each took up so little space you could only see the control bars.

I don't think MS is going to have a problem with this: http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/10/31/SurfCast_patent_application_610x587.png

Surfcast patent includes remote information. I don't think what you were doing in Excel back then pulled information from other sources on the internet and presented it in a tile. Microsoft needs to be careful in how they argue to invalidate the patent claim so as not to invalidate their own patent. The only thing for sure about this case is that some attorneys are going to make a lot of money.

Not sure what version of windows had this last, but I remember being bale to tile all open windows, and they would take up all available screen real-estate. It wasn't a horizontal tile, wasn't a vertical tile, and wasn't a cascade. It may have been arrange, but I remember doing it once with 10 excel windows open on like 640x480, and they each took up so little space you could only see the control bars.

I don't think MS is going to have a problem with this: http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/10/31/SurfCast_patent_application_610x587.png

So is the average user going to think that the logo is the app for the game Simon?

No, you're thinking of the first logo for Google Chrome.

That they are trying to block the galaxy s3 here also hasn't made them very many friends either.

Let's examine this statement, shall we?

Why would Apple want to block sales of such a blatent knock off of their own product?

If anything can be learned from this story, its that Australian consumers aren't exactly discrimating when it comes to spending money on technology. It's not too far a stretch that consumers might purchase the Samsung believing it is an Apple product, and then suing Apple and fining them when they determine that it sucks. So Apple has interest in preventing that.

Pay no attention to the Sony Vaio X505 behind the curtain!

Which is cited as prior art in this design patent.

Which means, in order to infringe on this design patent you have to make something which looks much more like a MacBook Air than a Sony Vaio X505. It says nothing at all about building something which works the same as an Air let alone weighs the same.

Which is clearly a limitation on freedom of expression; one which is nowhere as onerous as a normal patent and which isn't that much of a big deal. Let's worry about the fact that poor people in medium income countries are dying because of drugs patents first please. And before that let's worry about the fact that random independent software companies can get destroyed by patents they never even knew existed, let alone benefitted from in their software development process. Design patents are a very minor issue.

Pay no attention to the Sony Vaio X505 behind the curtain!

Before the iPhone, smartphones looked like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/20090403/IMG_4858_540x360.jpg

You mean like this

Before the iPhone, smartphones looked like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/20090403/IMG_4858_540x360.jpg