For a 20% savings, more than 50% cable and satellite subscribers are likely to jump ship to save money. But Telco TV (services like AT&T U-verse ) have a much, much more loyal following. Anecdotally, would you agree
February 9, 2010 - 12:17 am
Tags: been-attributed, black hawk safety net, china, china hacking, hackers, left-image500, official, official-site, online-hacker, posts-tagged, safety, three-operators
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Black Hawk Safety Net , an online hacker training resource with 12,000 paying members and another 170,000 free members, was brought down recently by Chinese authorities. Only three operators of the site were arrested, while the official site itself, 3800hk.com, was put out of commission when the company’s 9 servers were seized.
February 9, 2010 - 12:00 am
Tags: Ads, commercials, computer-world, content-on-its, displays, gizmodo remainders, illusions, infocus, netflix, nintendo, parisian-love, super-bowl, superbowl, wireless
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In today’s Remainders: tricks of all sorts. Wisair cuts some cords with their wireless display adapters; Netflix warns the FCC of potential loopholes in the Comcast/NBC merger; the inimitable BrussPup plays with our heads (and ping pong balls); and more. Air Ball I’m all for eliminating cords and wires whenever possible, so I was excited to hear that Wisair’s wireless display adapters were coming to Macs by the end of March in products from at least four OEMs
February 8, 2010 - 11:46 pm
Tags: because-nothing, bird home, birdbox, birdhome, clips, cuckoo, iphone, matching-free, nesting-birds, posts-tagged
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I love little birds. They are so cute
February 8, 2010 - 11:40 pm
Tags: diy, inconvenience, inconveniences, inside-the-fake, left-image500, once-it-detects, player-starts, rfid record player, the-information, user, vinyl
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I like this idea by Matt Brown: He tags 45rpm vinyl records with RFID stickers to play songs in a turntable that doesn’t turn at all. Inside the fake player he placed an RFID reader, which gets the information from the RFID-tagged record. Once it detects it—and the user moves the tonearm into position—the record player starts reproducing a playlists.
February 8, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: architecture, famous, fill-the-open, frank-lloyd, funniest, guggenheim museum, interventions, left-image500, museum, new york, people, posts-tagged, the-funniest
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JDS Architects thought that this trampoline net spiral—which would allow people to bounce from the top floor to the bottom of the Guggenheim Museum rotunda—could be the funniest thing ever.
February 8, 2010 - 10:29 pm
Tags: blu-ray, clear-if-some, exactly-the-new, info-on-which, long-as-people, netflix, netflix 1080p, power, PS3, silverlight, streaming, vod, Wii, xbox, Xbox 360
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Oh hey there, mixed messaging! As Netflix makes the case to Wii owners that they really aren’t missing anything by not streaming HD, word from CNET is that Netflix instant streaming is making the jump to 1080p, with 5.1 audio. CNET doesn’t have any info on which devices will support the upgrade, how much of their video library will be encoded in 1080p (only about six percent of their current catalog stream at 720p), or when exactly the new content will be available, though they can offer a vague “later this year.” What we do know is that Xbox already streams 1080p over Silverlight, the same tech that Netflix uses, though its Zune store, and that it looks pretty great.
Ross Berens’ gorgeous planetary posters feature incredible artwork and real-deal factoids on all eight of our planets, plus our old friend Pluto. Space aficionados, you’ll want to check these out. [ Cargo Collective via Kottke ]
February 8, 2010 - 10:09 pm
Tags: 278-million, all-appearances, customized-chip, graphics-core, guts, ipad, posts-tagged, power, promos-might, rumor, true-talent
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A curious tidbit from VentureBeat: The A4 chip that Apple’s pimping hardcore in iPad promos might not’ve been done by their PA Semi team (which Apple acquired for $278 million). Their source says it was designed by Apple’s existing VLSI team, who made custom chips like northbridges for the old G5 Macs. Sounds possible, since there likely isn’t a whole lot “custom” going in the A4’s actual design, which by all appearances is an ARM Cortex A9 wrapped up with a PowerVR graphics core and some other parts in a custom SoC
February 8, 2010 - 10:09 pm
Tags: 278-million, all-appearances, apple, curious-tidbit, custom-chips, designing-chips, graphics-core, guts, ipad, pa semi, posts-tagged, power, source-says, true-talent
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A curious tidbit from VentureBeat: The A4 chip that Apple’s pimping hardcore in iPad promos might not’ve been done by their PA Semi team (which Apple acquired for $278 million). Their source says it was designed by Apple’s existing VLSI team, who made custom chips like northbridges for the old G5 Macs. Sounds possible, since there likely isn’t a whole lot “custom” going in the A4’s actual design, which by all appearances is an ARM Cortex A9 wrapped up with a PowerVR graphics core and some other parts in a custom SoC.
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In yesterday’s earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed that streaming would soon arrive on a mystery device with a “material installed base.” Hey, Reed, could you do me a favor? Please make it the PS3.![Netflix Streaming Coming to Another Mystery Device Soon [NetFlix]](http://www.hirdyman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/226ac3e48d.gif?eui=2226 "Netflix Streaming Coming to Another Mystery Device Soon [NetFlix]")
