Recent content by jdlobb

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    Wallpaper Screens Are Real: LG's Millimeter-Thick OLED

    because LG was the only company with the vision to keep pursuing it even when they were hemorrhaging money to the technology.
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    Ready? Google's Self-Driving Cars Going Public This Summer

    you really think that your reaction speed and decision making is faster than a computer? Because it's not. Maybe years ago, but a computer sufficiently powerful for driving a car will process information like that and react to it faster than a human being by orders of magnitude. And a...
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    Microsoft AR Glasses Could Challenge Oculus, Morpheus

    this would be a really cool idea for moving all of the HUD information from a game onto the glasses.
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    'Minecraft' Developer Halts Oculus Rift Plans

    What an incredibly shallow and shortsighted reason to stop development. Notch seems to have no issue raking in millions from the XBox version of Minecraft, I wonder why he seems to be so ok with one soulless tech giant while disdainful of another.
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    Why You Might Want a $200 PS3

    Why does nobody ever mention that the PS3 plays 3D BluRays, making it one of the least expensive 3D BluRay players on the market and an EXCEPTIONAL value for anybody with a 3D tv?
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    Stores Tracking Shoppers Using Phone Wi-Fi Signals

    "needless to say"? Tin foil hat much? Why on earth would you have such an issue with a company trying to make your shopping experience better? Would you rather they just guess at what you want?
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    Report: BlackBerry CEO and Board Open to Going Private

    RIM's mistake was in trying to cater to the iPhone crowd at all. They should be an enterprise focused organization in all aspects, with only a minor consumer element. They should be modeling themself after Oracle or Cisco, not Apple or Samsung.
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    Google's "Babel Fish Mobile" Universal Translator Still Alive

    Grammer would definitely be a troublesom point with realtime translation, as different languages structure the relationship between nouns, verbs, and adjectives differently. That being said, I think that is a severely minor issue. Most people are able to decifer the meaning of phrases in their...
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    Google's "Babel Fish Mobile" Universal Translator Still Alive

    Grammer would definitely be a troublesom point with realtime translation, as different languages structure the relationship between nouns, verbs, and adjectives differently. That being said, I think that is a severely minor issue. Most people are able to decifer the meaning of phrases in their...
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    FBI May Be Behind Tor Browser Focused Malware

    the "Right to Privacy" is an artificial construct imagined up by libertarians, hackers, and tin-foil hats. The constitution extends you a right to do a number of things, it doesn't exend the right not to have somebody monitoring you while you do it. If you want to do something illegal that you...
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    FBI May Be Behind Tor Browser Focused Malware

    @Oleg Looking for bad guys is exactly what they're doing. If you were just looking up legal porn it's unlikely you'd have any reason to use something like Tor, and if the FBI or NSA sees you spend all day on Tube8 they're not going to care at all. The the bad guys, like people who distribute...
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    Blizzard Working on In-Game Store for World of Warcraft

    "Blizzard just became too greedy. I just wanted to play game to enjoy - but maybe not Blizzard games anymore. " If greedy means trying to run a successful business, then sure. Blizzard is just trying to maintain a proven business model. The fact is that $15 a month isn't really that steep...
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    Apple Patents: Mobile Fingerprint Scanner

    I think this is clearly a ploy by Apple to try and prove their legitimacy as an enterprise solution more than anything. Conspiracy theories about them feeding data to NSA or trolling for patents somebody else might use are a little over the top, even if they do have a track record of such...