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  1. Re:ppplease... on Cheap Indie Games Make Wii U a Better Value · · Score: 1

    There is something like a sequel to Rez: Child of Eden

  2. Re:Sweet! on Google Maps Gets Massive Street View Update · · Score: 1

    Just open Google Maps in the Browser and you can see all the Street View glory. Google added a pure HTML5 solution. Works like a charm in iOS6 with Safari and Chrome.

  3. Re:for starters, don't dump previous customers on What Windows Phone 8 Needs To Do To Succeed · · Score: 1

    every iteration of WinPhone has abandoned its users to no upward compatibility and no further support

    Most Android phones are also not getting a lot of longtime support without damaging the platform. To the contrary - Android is growing quite nicely.

  4. Re:Here we see the difference between Free and Sla on OS X Mountain Lion Review · · Score: 1

    The biggest feature is probably the one least talked about, and that is Gatekeeper. It's pseudo-iOS-like, because by default it only allows apps from "identified" developers to run on your system, but when you try to run an unsigned app it lets you know how to turn it off. It should be noted that "identified" does not mean App Store only, though obviously App Store developers are "identified".

    And if Gatekeeper is on it is still possible to start an unsigned app by right-clicking it and selecting "Open" from the context-menu. Doing this once will mark it as "safe".

  5. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    A professional icon designer will design his icon vector based, raster the sizes he needs and tweak the pixel images until they look great. Pure SVG will just be not as "crisp" in comparison. Just look at the different folder images for comparison.

  6. Re:battery compartment design on Botched Repair Likely Cause of Combusting iPhone After Flight · · Score: 1

    It was the display that was replaced, not the battery.

  7. Re:Apple is #1? on IBM Unseats Microsoft As Second Most Valued Tech Company · · Score: 1

    It seems to be not that easy.

  8. Re:That was quick on After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest · · Score: 1
    ... and there is more:

    Nokia has today announced the appointment of Chris Weber as President of Nokia Inc. (US), and head of Markets, North America as of February 11, 2011. Chris Weber comes to Nokia from his own consulting business focused on helping companies develop world class sales cultures. He is a Microsoft veteran, who during his 16 years with the company held several senior executive positions in sales, marketing and professional services.

  9. Re:At some point, this would make sense on Will the Apple TV Become a Gaming Platform? · · Score: 1

    And what if you had a dedicated game controller app installed?

    ... or open up the API to make it possible to use the input from the Remote-App in other Apps on the AppleTV.

  10. Re:I played Beneath a Steel Sky for the first time on The Rise and Fall of Graphic Adventure Games · · Score: 1

    You can even get it without signing up from the ScummVM project - completely legal.

  11. Re:Blind people using a touchscreen? on Microsoft Backtracks On Accessibility In Windows Phone 7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can use an iPhone with VoiceOver with the screen completely turned off and there are really blind enthusiastic users (this one was from Mozillas accessibility QA).

  12. Re:I'd like to see Apple make a move, but... on Why Apple Doesn't Market Squarely To Businesses · · Score: 1

    The truth is, Apple is a marketing based company even more than Microsoft is.

    However Microsoft spends nearly thrice the number on marketing.

  13. Re:Too much lockdown! on Google Releases Chrome OS Tablet Concept Demo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, MS is a software company... and yet, they don't lock down any of the software options within their operating systems.

    But they do. The Xbox 360 is locked down and software can only be installed if it passes certification from Xbox LIVE.

    or [Apple is] a PR company, more concerned with convincing you to buy something, than with the actual nature product.

    Apple only spends about a third of the marketing budget that MS expends.

  14. Re:It seems ironic... on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 1

    I want two or three mouse buttons.

    If you click the touchpad with two fingers instead of one, you will get the "secondary click". Thats Apple's fancy name for a right click.

  15. Re:Shifting Focus... on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    All that these so-called electric and fuel-cell vehicles do is shift the point source of the pollution and fuel consumption away from the vehicle and onto the electrical grid

    That could be a good intermediate goal. Filtering the exhaust of a big carbon-using power plant can be much more effective, than filtering the exhaust of a lot of cars.

  16. Re:Convincing one of safety of small vehicles. on VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG · · Score: 1

    In another article about this car one can read this:

    Although weight-saving construction ods have been applied throughout, safety was none the less given close attention during every phase of the 'one-litre' concept car's development. It has an anti-lock braking system, the ESP electronic stability program and a driver's airbag among its safety features. Deformable elements at the front and the space frame construction provide the same standards of impact and overturning protection as in a GT racing car.

  17. This is (very) old news ... on VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG · · Score: 1

    This car was a prestige project of the outgoing chairman of VW, Ferdinand Piëch. He wanted to show that it is possible to build a 1-liter car in the time he is at the company. Later he himself drove the prototype from Wolfsburg (where the head office of VW is located) to a shareholder meeting in Hamburg. And all this was in the year 2002!

    Since then the project had been frozen and the real news (which appeared in a German newspaper in September 2007) is, that this car, which was only a concept car, should be put on the marked in the year 2010.

    The most interesting bit from the German article answers why this project hadn't been developed any further:

    "As we introduced this car five years ago, the production-cost per car were around 35,000 euro. Today they are around 5,000 euro."

    The cause given for this by Piëch is in particular the industrial production of carbon-fibre.