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High-def junkies rejoice! Here comes YouTube in glorious 1080p HD {Download Squad}
Nov 13th 2009 8:14PM ^^^^^^^^
What he said. I have to downscale my display to run Hulu fullscreen, regardless of what the actual *content* is encoded at (since the controls are rendered at the native display resolution). What's going to happen when Flash is flogging my poor processor with 1920*1080*24 bits of information per frame? We all know how well Flash handles (or *doesn't* handle) hardware acceleration -- HTML5 video can't get here soon enough...
New Go integrates with Chrome and Chrome OS. Native, high-speed add-ons and web apps here we come! {Download Squad}
Nov 12th 2009 11:59PM Here's the thing -- there's already a language that runs in your browser at "native" speeds; it's called Java. No, it's not as fast as C or assembler, but last benchmark I saw it's still faster than Go. What does Go get us except a big ol' Google logo on the manual pages? I love the big G as much as anybody but I have yet to see what this offers.
Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp sites from Google, institute paywall {Download Squad}
Nov 10th 2009 10:52PM Wow. This is what happens when you try to tell old people about the Internet.
1 in 5 UK gamers prefer to download their games {Download Squad}
Nov 5th 2009 12:33AM I love *some* digital download services, but the monopoly services on consoles are a real pain -- Steam has half-off sales to stay competitive, while the MS "deal of the week" is 10% off a 2-year-old game. Bottom line is my first and only metric; console digital-distribution fails by that.
Mozilla scores enterprise email win: 130,000 French government PCs switch to Thunderbird {Download Squad}
Nov 4th 2009 11:07PM I'm curious what they're using as a backend for calendars. I have yet to see a project that handles a shared calendar with automatic attendee availability, emailed events, recurrence, etc., as cleanly as Outlook does. Which kills me, because I can't convince my coworkers to make the switch to Thunderbird if I can't give them a *really good* calendar alternative.....
Boot Disk: Uprising {Big Download}
Oct 27th 2009 12:21AM Uprising was one of my favorite games of that era -- I think it was actually ahead of its time. Uprising 2 really didn't get enough visibility -- I think they did everything about as well as the original with a few new features. It was tough, but fun.
ICANN set to approve web addresses using non-Latin characters {Download Squad}
Oct 27th 2009 12:07AM This is a terrible idea. The Internet speaks English!
Netflix to introduce streaming-only service -- but not in the US {Download Squad}
Oct 24th 2009 9:29PM "Set-top boxes that stream content from the Web are still relatively hard to come by"
What was the last retail outlet you went to that *didn't* sell the Xbox 360? I assume that the Netflix service on 360 is currently only in the US, but that's probably for the good reason that Netflix has only worked out licensing for content in the US. Once Netflix goes worldwide, there's no reason the 360 service for it won't follow suit. And a Roku Netflix box (haven't used 'em but hear they're good) is only a hundred bucks -- if you have Internet enough to stream video, you probably have Internet enough to order one of those.
Edited Left 4 Dead 2 to be submitted to Australia's ratings board {Big Download}
Oct 9th 2009 12:00AM Austrailia can *also* eat a giant, giant dick.
EU approves Microsoft's browser ballot screen for 5-year stint {Download Squad}
Oct 8th 2009 11:57PM The EU can eat a giant, giant dick.
That is all.
