Comment Re: What is the point? (Score 1) 88
Apple phones are outside the price range of the masses in the developing world Mozilla is supposedly targetting.
Comment Re:Low power CPU meet bloated pOS (Score 1) 88
So what you're saying is Firefox, the desktop browser, is too 'heavy' for a raspberry pi?
Firefox OS has been optimised for devices of 256MB or less.
The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows 286
merbs writes: Hope you're not too attached to looking out the windows when you fly — the designers of tomorrow's airplanes seem intent on getting rid of them. A Paris design firm recently made waves when it released its concept for a sleek, solar paneled, windowless passenger jet. Before that, Airbus proposed eschewing windows and building its cabins out of transparent polymers. Now, the Center for Process Innovation has floated its own windowless plane concept, and it's attracting plenty of headlines, too.
Comment Re:is it worth the effort ? (Score 2) 268
You can probably find 2000 people that declare Kermit the Frog to be their personal savior.
As it happens, Miss Piggy and Yoda are both the puppets of Frank Oz.
Comment Re:The year (Score 1) 172
I guess you don't know any "old people", then.
My uncle, by marriage, was born in 1920. His creaky 94yo bones don't get around so well but he still remembers the 20s and 30s quite sharply.
Comment Re:Theory vs reality? (Score 1) 172
In my country dirty coal supplies most of the power, so electric cars might actually increase emissions.
Does USA electricity come from "clean" sources? I guess Monty Burns supplies much of the energy from low-emission nuke reactors...
Comment Re:Why not allow the update into the repos? (Score 2) 126
Ubuntu does have backports - does this not handle 'Universe'? If it does then the dev just needs to add their package, surely.
Comment Re:Those bastards? (Score 5, Funny) 117
Ease up, Android will be one of the few Linux distros by 2016 not using systemd.
Comment Re:Britain only (Score 1) 164
My government licenses Doctor Who through the ABC, the federally funded national broadcaster
Why addict hundreds of thousands of Australian schoolchildren to Doctor Who, such as my 13yo nephew, and then deny them access?
Comment Re:Britain only (Score 1) 164
We still have the queen - maybe I'll write an angry email to prince william!
Comment Britain only (Score 3, Informative) 164
Sorry, CBBC games and videos can only be played if you're in the UK.
Commonwealth citizenship apparently grants no privileges.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 555
bo-ku is a perfectly cromulent word.
Comment Re:One of the worst points about systemd (Score 1) 522
Seriously, what do people want? That nothing must be using Linux specific kernel features ever, because that is unfair to other OS's?
When I use gimp, pidgin, geany etc on a Windows desktop, it's because they consistently work well with a thin Gtk+ shim over Win32. That's without installing a Linux compatibility layer like cygwin.
If in future one has to install some cygwin-systemd abomination just to run Gimp, then free software will have lost a fan.
Comment Re:Step one (Score 1) 352
War of 1812?
Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday 81
schwit1 writes After twenty-two months in orbit, on its second space mission, the Air Force plans to bring the X-37B back to Earth this coming Tuesday. From the article: "The exact time and date will depend on weather and technical factors, the Air Force said in a statement released on Friday. The X-37B space plane, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, blasted off for its second mission aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 11, 2012. The 29-foot-long (9-meter) robotic spaceship, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, is an experimental vehicle that first flew in April 2010. It returned after eight months. A second vehicle blasted off in March 2011 and stayed in orbit for 15 months."
