Recent content by shoelessinsight

I get what they're going for here, and I'm all in favor of any push to get PC manufacturers to install less crapware on their computers. However, it is an odd comparison, as the study assumes the PC users aren't tech savvy enough to install Windows fresh, but that the Mac users are. Given that...

This sales rep may have been biased against the iPhone. But the way I read it, he didn't want the guy taking the free phone (probably because he wouldn't get commission on it). They don't mention whether the customer would have had to pay for the Galaxy S3. Either way, his behavior was...

el33tWhat? Isn't bootable linux USBs capable of all those features mentioned something old? Why is this news? It doesn't sound like they're doing anything that hasn't been doable for the last decade. But for anyone that's not tech savvy enough to set up their own bootable Linux USB drive...

leeashtonactually they have shown that neutinos are faster tyhan light, they found this out also in the US in a nuclearn particle accelerator, but they dismissed it because it was within the likits or error, but the experiment has shown 2 times that nutrinos are faster than light The experiments...

A few points about this: First of all, the universe is expanding in such a way that points very distant from each other are being separated from each other at a rate greater than c (the speed of light in a vacuum). The speed limit of c applies in a local sense, not a cosmological one...

apache_livesVista and 7 are 99% the sameBEFORE you vote me down blindly -- you tell me what the real difference are besides vista's more aggressive caching and colour scheme. There are some fairly significant differences between Vista and 7 underneath the hood, particularly in matters of memory...

Cats_PawWell... I dont really like apple, but the only thing this does is waste time and money from the court. Assigning fines and punishment is a waste of the court's time? Yes, this whole suit from beginning to end was a waste of time to begin with, but it was Apple that picked the fight, not...

I missed a lot of school due to illness growing up, somewhere between 1/4-1/3 of my days. Something like this could have been really useful to help me keep up with my classes. I would have hated it, of course, since I didn't care for school any more than most kids, but it would have been good...

walter87Thunderbolt combines the PCIe standard with DisplayPort, so it is PCIe.Eventually the thunderbolt technology will take advantage of optics (its original codename was Lightpeak) and will allow bandwidth limits beyond the current 10GB/s limitation of copper wire.Thunderbolt will eventually...

It's unfortunate that this is being implemented on Thunderbolt, rather than with an open external PCIe solution. But it's good to see external graphics on something besides USB. I wonder if there are any latency drawbacks with an external graphics card that one wouldn't see with an internal...

Clouds are nice for things that you specifically intend to share with others or with other computers you own, and they can be a cheap offsite backup for data that wouldn't destroy your life or business if it somehow got released in the open. But this recent trend to put everything in the cloud...

Active cables are more likely to have defects or break down over time. This, plus their high expense, is not going to go over well with most people.

LordConradNo mention of Zork???I know I'm showing my age, but Zork I & II were the first RPGs I ever played. Zork I, II and III weren't actually role playing games, they were text adventure games. Beyond Zork, however, was a true RPG through and through. I love that game a lot, but I wouldn't...

I like the average power charts, but an idle power benchmark would be handy too. A lot of people leave their computer sitting idle for hours, rather than putting them to sleep. It would be nice to know what to expect for them. Great article. I have several friends pressing me for information...

Being exposed to computers at home and at school doesn't necessarily help you learn anything more than how to use a computer. In computer-driven societies, this is an extremely beneficial, but it may not be so much in a developing country. Of course, these countries will inevitably move into...