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There are a bunch of different NUCs. The $149 one (with no ram/storage/windows license) with a Celeron 847 uses 13.8W versus the Atom in Sharks Cove at 1.63W. So almost an order of magnitude less power. The Atom in Sharks Cove is a quad core Atom running slightly faster, and best I can tell...

That board is targeted at Windows developers working on tablets and smart phones that want a board they can hardware on before they get their real hardware made. This is cheap compared to previous x86 single board computers from Kontron or the like. And it has a modern/new quad core Atom that...

I think Netflix and Verizon both agree on the problem. Netflix is sending all of their traffic to Verizon subscribers over their transit provider, Level3. Level3 has a history of peering disputes with lots of ISPs and backbone providers. They charge the least of any transit provider, then try to...

Nobody decides for a company if their patents are part of a standard and subject to FRAND. When the standards making organization is developing a standard, interested companies contribute their relevant patents if they are interested in having them involved. So if your patent gets included...

I'm not sure Apple adding phones to their list of grievances constitutes a tantrum, nor are the two events related in the least. Samsung added the iPhone 5, iPad mini, and latest iPad to some of their lawsuits. No one represented that as a tantrum based on their loss in the California court system.

I'm not sure where the tantrum stuff comes from. The author of that article links to a few other reports he appears to be using as sources, but none of them mention a tantrum or anything. Apple agreed to hand over the documents.

Apple definitely seems to be crossing the line repeatedly and trying to out lawyer the courts in the UK. What will continue to be interesting is that the UK courts are pissed off with Apple because they are continually interested in trying cases in Germany, which has jurisdiction over the...

Here's the link to the actual judgment issued. Everyone in the media who misconstrued this to mean 'apology' is woefully off the mark. http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2012/2049.html

If someone would bother to click and read a link instead of just jumping to conclusions, these forums would be a much better place. If you'd like to see what the judge actually said, here it is:

I understand the question. I'm not sure you understand his answer. Lawyer: Have you EVER been involved in a lawsuit? Juror: Yes, I was involved in a lawsuit regarding my patents and my company. There were no follow ups asking him about being involved in any other lawsuits, nor was the...

I thought they should just offer a couple cents worth of Apple account money for anyone who reports map corrections that get validated. Let people take GPS tagged pictures of a point of interest, and submit them. There are probably plenty of Apple users who would trade a few minutes here and...

As typical with Apple/Android debates, people very quickly twist things rapidly out of context. Groklaw makes the link that this guy declared bankrupcy when sued by Seagate back in the day, and Samsung is now the biggest investor in Seagate, so this guy has an axe to grind against Samsung...

I have an older 5830 running on a 955BE system overclocked to somewhere in the 3.6ghz range. Didn't have to edit any ini files and could just set PhysX to High or Medium from launcher or in game. In both cases, I seem to see all of the PhysX effects. High absolutely destroys my underpowered...

With any digital error corrected signal a certain percentage of the link bandwidth is reserved for error correction. That means they can reconstruct the original signal *exactly* as it was transmitted even if a certain percentage of the signal is lost. If too much is lost, you get nothing on the...

I guess I just don't get the Brevik fanboys. There are plenty of developers who seem to take more than their fair share of the credit then move on only to fail. (Romero) At least the guys who made Torchlight have released something mildly successful after leaving Blizzard. Brevik has just...

I also don't understand how people have been complaining about wanting refunds after logging hundreds of hours in the game, or have felt it a complete disappointment after getting weeks of entertainment. Most single player games these days give people 10-20 hours of gameplay and that's it. I...

Following the d3 forums I was amazed by how much backlash that comment caused. I don't know if it's a cultural thing where people aren't accustomed to talking trash. Or if everyone is looking back with rose colored glasses at the old Diablo games and taking his comments personally, since they...

It seems like this is just a patent on scrolling the entire screen by dragging with your finger on a touch screen. No scroll bars, no buttons to click, or wheels to turn. You just touch the content and move it. I am not aware of any touch interfaces that did this before the iPhone, but my...

Apple has done many things ahead of the curve in terms of environmentally conscious computer manufacturing. They have recently decided they need to glue in their batteries and solder on memory to shave a mm or two off the size of their laptops. This makes them hard to recycle, and fails their...

People know that the original dock connector had to be designed to support FireWire and USB. And receive power from each at different voltages. And support audio in and audio out, allowing for simple dock connector based audio players. And supports pins for signaling the capabilities of the...

The original article and some others that came out at the time mentioned that the cost of assembling devices in America wouldn't be prohibitive, and Apple could fit it into their profit margins easily. There are plenty of problems to just assembling things in America (finding a few hundred...

Yeah, the issue with the Motorola patents is that they are deemed necessary for implementing an accepted standard. In general when a standard is agreed upon for communications, video compression, whatever, all companies involved disclose what patents they have which would need to be licensed...

It does seem like the room and board is often covered, so the expenses for a lot of those workers are very low. Of course they have little free time to spend their money. This is much better than working on a railroad or coal mine in the US, only getting paid in company currency, and barely...

Someone really should get out in front of these things and set up a booth outside. "Put your money, or your phone, where your mouth is" Collect phones to sell, or cash, and ship it all to Foxconn. Though in this day, with a proliferation of organic food, there may be a market for...

I've got one of these lying around that I no longer need if anyone in the DFW area is looking for one.

PS3 allows two player full screen gaming using 3D Tvs. They heavily advertise it with their 24" $499 3d monitor.

When you configure an iPhone 4S to be locked, it asks you on the same screen whether or not you want to keep Siri enabled on the lock screen. This isn't buried in an Android settings menu where you have to scroll forever to find what you're looking for. I can provide a screen shot if it's...

Does any smart phone come with a pass code lock by default? Not that I'm aware of. On the same screen you set up the pass code lock, there's a toggle for whether Siri is enabled or not on the lock screen. You don't have to do any additional digging, it's right out in front.

I would think part of the plan is to scare some of the 13 year olds who don't understand the consequences of what they're doing. It also sounds like they got some people that were more heavily involved as well. And I like that, as best I can tell, the LOIC software makes no attempts to...

I'm not a lawyer, but I thought there was some legal precedent where you had to defend your trademarks as part of continuing to own and use them. Like if Apple turned a blind eye to some comparatively small potatoes, they would have less of a legal leg to stand on against a Microsoft or Google...

For what it's worth, if you've read how Hotz managed to crack the hypervisor, it was in fact through Linux. Hotz was able to write custom software that could take advantage of his ability to physically manipulate address lines of the processor. This meant he could start executing code that an...

I do think it's funny to see some people on the side of these dedicated hacking organizations. People who at the same time are frustrated by being asked to help their families out when their computer gets hit by malware and viruses. As best I can tell, many of Anonymous and LulzSec DDOS...

I didn't think there were any confirmed instances of fraud related to any of this yet. I've seen a couple of websites with claims from a handful of folks that say they had credit cards they only used on PSN, but I would think there would be more of a clamor if 2.2million people were affected...

FYI, Wired is reporting now that someone left an Anonymous calling card on the SOE servers. Not the PSN servers, but the other hack. Of course it could be an anonymous person framing an Anonymous person.

It seems like if they weren't adequately prepared for the Denial of Service (which its clear they weren't) they may not have had all of their logging configured to easily distinguish between your run of the mill DOS traffic and more purposeful port scans/network intrusion attempts. I assume an...

Most of that patent has nothing to do with sending data to a server. The phone is certainly logging bits and pieces of data you could use to cobble together where you've been. All of that data is local to your phone, and can be used by applications and APIs *on your phone*. So you could...

Every reputable source I've seen has come to the conclusion that Apple isn't storing your location, but the location of cell towers and wifi signals near you. That's why a standalone GPS will take minutes to find a strong signal if you fly somewhere else, but an iPhone (or anything using...

For those saying the PS3 is doing poorly, it's the best selling console this year according to VGChartz, with 2.8 million units sold. It's second in software sales to the Wii for the year. So... Anyone purchasing a PS3 and expecting OtherOS right now, isn't very bright. You should know your...

The people that are suing and complaining are doing so because OtherOS was taken away. If you don't have a PS3, you don't have a case against Sony, because nothing was taken away from you. Unless you want to sue Microsoft for not providing OtherOS as well. And the fact that it would be...

Err... you do have an option to just run Linux... You get a PS3 Phat (or you should already have one if you've ever run OtherOS) and then when the nice PS3 asks you if you want to update the firmware, because in doing so it will kill OtherOS, you answer "NO". You just can't run any recent...