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  1. Re:Not going to work... on Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market · · Score: 1

    They're on display at CES. /. did a story about them. $79 for Android on a stick with FullHD, dual core, 512MB RAM.

  2. Looks like Wikimedia might be in the fight on Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Jimbo Wales is supporting a blackout idea, and they're rounding up the votes to make it happen. A tricky thing for Wiki to do on short notice as they typically govern by consensus.

  3. Re:Title fail then on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    These things don't run Windows, by design. They lack a PCI bridge - probably for the specific reason to help OEMs avoid secret commitments to ship only Windows on Windows capable hardware.

  4. Re:the specs and benchies are a YAWN on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    They're not selling it to just anybody yet. And it's not cheap. It was just announced in November. HP's only one of many though. ARM servers are here, and they're real. It will take time.

  5. Found a direct link on Microsoft Readying Massive Real Time Threat Intelligence Feed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Internet Storm Center. Apparently it has been up for quite a while. What bright lights of wonder Microsoft hides under their bushel! I wonder what else there is.

  6. Re:Sadly... on Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In" · · Score: 1

    The people who dismiss it are the people who don't count. Nobody's going to encounter a bunch of websites blanked out and then call their senator to express their love of PIPA. But those who are educated and care will make the call. I imagine just Reddit will do to tie up the phone lines, but if enough smaller sites like Slashdot and Digg and so on join in it may shame the big guys like Google and Facebook into participating too. And that's a big whammy.

  7. Re:And Slashdot? on Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Put me down in favor of this. These bills would shut down all comments everywhere, because there's no way the site could be sure that the comments didn't contain some copyrighted material or a clue where to find it. It means the end of the Internet as a dialogue.

    So to do without slashdot for a day, on the chance that it might help it not go away forever, that's something that should be done.

  8. You should try tablets on Doctor Warns of the Hidden Danger of Touchscreens · · Score: 5, Funny

    You wouldn't believe the RSI potentials here. Just chiseling a single line of text gives me blisters.

  9. Re:the specs and benchies are a YAWN on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    We might see ARM on servers but it would have to be specialty hardware to keep it from getting anywhere near what's considered a PC.

    It's here. Limited availability and high price as yet.

  10. Re:the specs and benchies are a YAWN on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    They don't seem to be trying very hard to avoid the implicit customer confusion either. It seems like they're yearning for the backlash. This should be fun.

  11. Re:Not too late on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 0

    Intel has more to offer mobile than just x86.

  12. Re:what kind of power draw? on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 2

    Well they claim "full buzzword compliance" and wireless display - which is a big add for me. That would be everything and something more. It should be interesting.

  13. Title fail then on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 0

    I recall an instance where third party chipsets were better, but Intel wanted to make a market for their chipsets. They priced the CPU + chipset lower than the CPU bare. OEMs just bought the pair and threw away the chipsets. Somebody correct me if my recall is flawed.

    We shall see.

  14. Not too late on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 1

    It's never too late to come out with something wonderful - to raise the bar - to redefine what people expect from their technology in ways that empower and delight and amaze. Is this it? We don't know yet. But it's not too late.

  15. You haven't entered the market on Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You haven't entered the market until the phones are available at retail. I would like to see this, but it hasn't happened yet and the announcement is premature.

    I would like to see these phones on sale in the US. It would probably be my next phone, as I'm due for one in the fall.

  16. Re:Android/Tegra 3? on Diablo 3 Coming To Consoles · · Score: 1

    The iPod 3 and iPhone 5 will be right in there. The pace of progress is brisk these days, yes. There's going to be a $249 Tegra 3 tablet this summer. Software houses should be falling all over each other to get games on.

    Yes, there are wireless game controllers for Tegra tablets and phones.

  17. Re:The ARMy of fanboys is getting repetitive. on Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market · · Score: 1

    I'm not just being mean. I really do have high hopes. I submitted the LG phone article, but it was rejected - probably for "too early".

  18. Re:The ARMy of fanboys is getting repetitive. on Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market · · Score: 1

    It matters. And the review is not to AnandTech's usual rigorous and respectable standards. Like I said, we've seen a lot of these reference designs over the years and been disappointed when they didn't come to market, or were hidden under a rock. If Intel can't get anybody to make the thing then it does not matter how good it is. Intel is not designing this stuff for their own amusement.

    I want to believe. Show me.

  19. Re:The ARMy of fanboys is getting repetitive. on Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market · · Score: 1

    I'm eagerly looking forward to these devices. I have high hopes for this platform. But we need real-world samples of a production device in independent labs please. Until then we can't compare them to the shipping devices of their era, because their era has not yet begun. Intel has promised a lot of things over the years that never came to market.

    One of the things that might prevent this from coming to market is pressure on OEMs to avoid Android on x86, if they want to get Window 8 platform development assistance. The OEMs can push back since these platforms don't run Windows, but most of them would not dare.

    It will be interesting to see if Intel can get an OEM not only to promise and to develop this, but to manufacture, aggressively price and sell it.

  20. Re:Not going to work... on Qualcomm Wants a Piece of the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Fortunately OnLive and about a thousand other people have got that covered. Just because you need Windows apps doesn't mean you have to actually have it running on your devices.

  21. Re:This is good news. on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    You let the water in and start farming shrimp, tilapia, silver salmon and algae.

  22. Re:This is good news. on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    People who live in homes that lie below sea level should teach their children how to swim.

  23. Re:This is good news. on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    The US and Mexico would have to change their grain varieties, that's all. Much grain is already grown on the equator, where it's much warmer than the US will be.

  24. Re:This is good news. on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    Because coal and nuclear are the only kinds of power there is. There is no geothermal. That's just a myth.

  25. Re:So is that good or bad? on Carbon Emissions 'Will Defer Ice Age' · · Score: 1

    Ocean algae actually. Trees typically decompose on the ground and are recycled in place - eventually releasing their CO2 into the atmosphere again. Algae, on the other hand, passes through the food chain fixing CO2 in various ways, and is eventually deposited on the seafloor where it stays.