Comment Re:Wrong Question (Score 1) 289
You're an MS troll.
Comment Re:escalators too (Score 2, Informative) 698
H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes, 1899.
His concept had multiple speeds as well, but even that was predated by the working design at the Chicago World's Fair.
Comment Re:Am I the only... (Score 2) 602
Best slashdot post evah.
And I've watched old superbowl broadcasts, and you are so fucking right.
Comment Re:age matters (Score 1) 547
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FTFY.
Comment Re:They have IE6 apps, you see it everywhere (Score 1) 416
Great post.
Too many people viewed the Web as just the latest development in client-server technologies, and this is how it is often employed within companies.
Comment Re:How long until you can buy it? (Score 1) 170
Another chip designer here
Anything that lets us make transistors faster without paying a huge cost in leakage (power consumption when not switching) is a win. It sucks to go from one process node to the next and get almost no performance benefit unless you're willing to pay a leakage penalty. SOI rocks, but not everybody has it. Therefore, I'm a bit more excited about graphene than you are.
Comment No slig tag yet? (Score 1) 820
I expected somebody to mention slig or ask if Professor Post is a Bene Tleilax.
Comment Re:It says: 256MB RAM... (Score 1) 744
Whoosh!
Comment Re:Unsurprising; but doesn't make me enthusiastic. (Score 1) 600
Thank you.
It's mimicry, not "lying".
Comment Re:So the Pre 1.0 makes me appreciate my Treo 755p (Score 1) 283
Speak it, brother.
Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169
In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."
Looking Back At the Other Kind of Virus 147
Slatterz writes "All this panic over a strain of flu got these people thinking about some of the more virulent computer pandemics that have hit in recent years. While a computer virus pales in seriousness to a human outbreak, malware attacks can still take a huge toll on businesses throughout the world. This list of the top ten worst viruses includes some interesting trivia, including ARPANET's Creeper virus in 1971, how early attempts at copy protection resulted in Brain, and MyDoom's denial of service attack on SCO."
Comment Re:Add-on idea. (Score 1) 219
I don't see how to do that in FF 3.0.7. Are you using an add-on?
Comment Re:You can already do this ... (Score 1) 474
Huh? You're pretty harsh.
AOL and the MSN part of MS were certainly rivals. The icons plastered all over the desktop were put there by the hardware vendor. I know they paid quite a few different parties to put their icons on the desktop with the software install. AOL bought Netscape primarily to keep MS honest on the browser front, IMHO. Needless to say, they cooperated when it was in the best interest of both parties.
In the "GPL or even Apache" quote, it will be obvious to most
Comment Re:Dance Monkey Boy, Dance. (Score 1) 474
Somebody needs to mod the parent up!
