And a pretty obvious joke at that. Now who's the fanboy, altair? ...

Windows 7 does not use DirectX 11, but rather supports it for use by games and applications. Windows Vista also supports DirectX 11.EDIT: Whoops, meant to reply to Sentinel137. ...

Their 720p and 1080p videos do have those resolutions, but their bitrate it utter crap. HD doesn't stand for High Resolution, but rather High Definition - which it obviously isn't. YouTube's "HD& ...

1080p has the potential to look much better than 720p. The problem is, 720p has a 0.9 megapixel image whereas 1080p has a 2.0 megapixel image - 2.25 times the pixels, but YouTube is only allocating 1. ...

That is exactly right. Sun does control MySQL since it's the one putting the money and man-hours into developing it. If Oracle ceases all development of MySQL when it purchases Sun, then it effectivel ...

The title has been corrected. ...

They say that they want to "Grow" and "Innovate" and they're happy with their current staff ("he cites the success of Google Earth, Android, and Google Chrome"). So happy ...

If by hiring new people they meant firing old ones, then that contradicts: "This is a much different attitude from earlier this year when Google made job cuts".Also, Schmidt said, "Inno ...

Even after you change "Threat" to "Treat", it still doesn't make sense. Why would Google dangle a treat in front of its own engineers when it's trying to recruit new engineers? ...

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So what massive threat did Google dangle in front of its engineers? ...

This applies all the way back to Windows 2000. Even back then, when the computer was in a domain, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't bring up the Task Manager, but rather the Lock Workstation window since C ...

You're completely missing the point. It's not about "waiting" for the next jump in capacity of lower prices or whatever. That's short term. The article is about the long term - whether flash ...

As you said, this applies to everything, not just taskbar preview. The most problematic one is tooltips - if they appear immediately that would be quite annoying. ...

Windows 7 comes with WMP12, and with it brings native support for DivX/XviD (MPEG4) and hardware accelerated H.264 video. Unfortunately, the MPEG4 support is kind of spotty resulting in some videos pl ...

The Antiquarian was in denial of his own fanboyism and attempted to present it in a more favorable light by calling himself a "logical user" instead. ...

Heh, it seems you missed the above fan type, Will. Great article btw, one of the few which I actually waited for it to be posted online after reading it in the magazine, so I could refer people to it ...

Even more so behind the veil of internet anonymity. ...

Awww I can't believe WD cheaped-out again on a DTS license. I thought they'd get it right the second time around. Well that rules it out as a viable purchase for me. ...

Some single-serving sites that come to mind are MeatSpin and its various sister sites. But I guess those aren't the type you're talking about. ...

Those kinds of gestures are simply ridiculous for general computing. Moving your hand in that way expresses no intent for action, which means every time you hold your hand to your mouth when yawning a ...

I though "...on a regular basis" was implied there. I guess I was wrong. So let me rephrase:"There's really no reason to shut down your computer on a regular basis".And as for savi ...

There fine line between science and science fiction, technology demo and bullshitting. That line was crossed when that stupid HAL 3000 was thrown into the mix. I couldn't watch past the pre-recorded & ...

It seems, at least from the comments here, that their "tests" don't really represent the real world. My computer boots in less than 40 seconds, and hasn't changed since I installed it two m ...

The 64 bit address space will scale up to 17,179,869,184 GB of RAM. There is no reason to increase pointer register sizes other than to accommodate more addressable memory. 64 bit will also suffice fo ...