Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Jun 2012 21:16 UTC
This rumour has been rummaging around the web for a few days, but now that The New York Times has picked it up, it probably carries a bit more validity than it did before. Microsoft invited members of the press to a mystery event coming Monday, and supposedly, the company will launch its very own ARM tablet running Windows RT.
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by demosthenese on Sat 16th Jun 2012 13:49
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by BluenoseJake on Sat 16th Jun 2012 19:31
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by ilovebeer on Sat 16th Jun 2012 15:07
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Football is for people that is either to weak or too poor to afford hockey gear.
They call soccer "football" to make it sound more manly. But still, in reality more people are injured performing ballet than playing soccer (or rugby for that matter). The same can't be said for real football, even with the pads.
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by dylansmrjones on Sat 16th Jun 2012 18:23
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by zima on Sun 17th Jun 2012 01:48
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They call soccer "football" to make it sound more manly. [...] real football
They call handegg "real football" to make it sound more manly...
(plus http://www.kyon.pl/img/5708.html - large part of attention towards offences is exactly because without it serious injuries would be quite easy and common ...also, really, there's the aspect of what surrounds the grass, often a bit extreme ;p - seems there's a current log in the latter part of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_2012#Racism_and_hooliganism and while the mentioned BBC Panorama Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate is curiously selective, a bit - still, worth checking out)
Edited 2012-06-17 01:55 UTC
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by Soulbender on Sun 17th Jun 2012 13:42
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The call football "soccer" because they don't know any better.
The same can't be said for real football, even with the pads
Oh, you mean the kind of football that is mainly played with the hands....
Is that a manly sport? I mean, what wuss need all that protective gear and all those drugs?
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by shotsman on Sun 17th Jun 2012 15:36
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Exactly how many times are the 'Feet' used in a game of this thing that they call 'FootBall' in the USA?
Pah.
If ever a sport was misnamed that is it?
If should be called
'Two teams of idiots filling the gaps between Ad breaks.'
As a former Rugby Football No 8 who played to a pretty decent level, I know that US Footbal players are next to useless without that padding and armour. They are more likley to injure themselves by pulling out of a tackle than going through with it. They pull out when they realise that they don't have all that padding on.
WE had a couple of US Football players (din't make the draft level) come an try out for our club. They lasted a month, including several injuries before admitting that there was nt way they could take 80minutes of that pounding. oeally nice guys but to play them would have meant completely re-training them.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:33 UTC
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
Linked by Anonymous on 06/18/13 22:26 UTC
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 22:25 UTC
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:45 UTC
"I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/18/13 17:32 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)".
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:58 UTC
"The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/17/13 17:52 UTC
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 21:03 UTC
Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 20:46 UTC
"And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/14/13 17:32 UTC
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.More News »
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Football is for people that is either to weak or too poor to afford hockey gear.