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  1. Uhm, no, they come up with exactly the same design by Kartu · · Score: 1 · on How To Avoid Infringing On Apple's Patents

    Uhm, no, they come up with exactly the same design, shown in Kubrik's "Odissey":
    Motorola Xoom:
    http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2168/xoomtabletinterfacescre.jpg

    Asus Prime:
    http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5830/asustransformerprimetf2.jpg

    Kindle Fire:
    http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/classifications/Tablets/amazon/Kindle%20Fire%20(home%20angle%201)s-420-90.jpg

    Oh, and, interestingly, Samsung's on Photo Frame, that came before ipads:
    http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg

    "Community design" that caused Samsung's ban in Germany depicts generic tablet:
    http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6268/00018160700011source.jpg

  2. Do it the other way by Richard+Fairhurst · · Score: 2, Informative · on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies?

    Wow - a CPC question on /. The best years of my life were spent hacking on a CPC - I worked as freelance technical editor for Amstrad Action magazine (on which the mighty Future Publishing was founded), coded a DTP system, a load of demos, a route-planner (you know, "I want to get from London to Edinburgh, what's the quickest way?"), and so on.

    I used to get a handful of letters to AA's technical Qs+As column ("Techy Forum") every month asking "how do I transfer my files to a PC?". Lots of posters have mentioned the easiest ways to do it, which would probably be the ways I'd have recommended at the time: data transfer bureaux, hooking up a drive to a PC and copying across, etc. etc.

    Here's a more involved solution, which is the best long-term one for the serious CPC hacker, and is how I do it. I'm not seriously recommending you do this.

    Get a CPC with second drive interface (i.e. anything except an unexpanded 464), and connect a 3.5in drive - any standard Shugart 3.5in drive - to it. Theoretically you need a separate power supply for the 3.5in drive, but you can actually hotwire this to the monitor power supply.

    Then use WriteDSK on the CPC to transfer CPC discs into .DSK images on a DOS-formatted 720k disc. (The CPC's FDC can't cope with 1.44Mb discs.) Getting WriteDSK onto your CPC in the first place is left as an exercise for the reader. :)

    Put that in a USB floppy drive, copy across to your Mac and run in WinAPE under Parallels - far and away the best CPC emulator there is.

    For general CPC information, have a look at CPCwiki. It's a goldmine in itself, but best of all is the scan archive of Amstrad Action, Amstrad Computer User etc. etc.

  3. Re:What about Portal? by Chabil+Ha' · · Score: 2, Funny · on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping

    What? This one from TFA????

  4. C'mon guys by dogbowl · · Score: 5, Interesting · on What Magazines Do You Read?
    All of the magazines listed so far seem pointless to even mention.
    Maxim? Wired? gee, maybe I should check them out next time I pick up my new American Idol CD at the walmart.

    Here's what I like, when I can find them:
  5. Fixed? Bah. by ChrisJones · · Score: 1 · on Are Linux Reviews Fixed?

    I am a freelance journalist, having written Linux related articles/workshops/reviews for Future Publishing's titles PCPlus and Linux Format and I can say, hand on heart, that I have never given a favorable review to a product that didn't deserve it. I have given some bad reviews to what I believed to be bad software and I have never been co-erced by anyone to alter the outcome of a review.
    Journalistic integrity is obviously of the utmost importance, but we are just people and it is more than likely that you may not agree with our opinions. In the world of free software that's ok because you can still evaluate the software we are reviewing to see if you like it and not have to worry about feature limited demos, timeout, nag requesters, etc.
    In my opinion, reviews of free software should be taken as a guide to what is available - it's then down to each user to determine if they agree or not.
    To reviewers, if you are co-erced by companies to give good reviews then it seems almost certain that they are not confident in their products and probably don't deserve good reviews. There is no point encouraging people to use/buy crap software - the world has enough crap software already.