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Comment Re:On The Other Hand, Could It Be... (Score 1) 272

It's Webkit based, and that's about where the similarities end (so is Safari and a lot of minor browsers). You could say the same about Chrome for Android too really, there's nothing particularly "Chrome" about it besides the branding. Not sure what sync feature you're referring to, but I think it's probably more of a Google account thing rather than a Chrome browser thing, there were definitely things like that before Chrome was released for Android.

The User Agent doesn't specify it as Chrome anyway, and I believe that they count mobile browsers seperately. Even if it is included, Android browsing only accounts for about 2% of the total (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#StatCounter_.28July_2008_to_present.29), so it's not really significant enough to sway things.

Facebook

Submission + - Facebook's Revenue Forcasts cut in the middle of IPO Roadsow (yahoo.com)

FBeans writes: "Reuters' Alistair Barr is reporting that Facebook's lead underwriters, Morgan Stanley (MS), JP Morgan (JPM), and Goldman Sachs (GS) all cut their earnings forecasts for the company in the middle of the IPO roadshow."

"If there was any communication at all between Facebook and its underwriters regarding the analysts' estimates, Facebook will likely be on the hook for this, too."

United Kingdom

Submission + - Everything Everywhere begin campaign to speed up the UK 4G roll-out (bbc.co.uk)

FBeans writes: "The firm is urging business leaders and consumer champions to join 4GBritain — a campaign calling on the government "to do whatever is necessary to move forward" with the roll-out."

Olaf Swantee, chief executive of EE since September, told the BBC that he was surprised how far behind the UK was.

"The UK had struck me as a place where mobile technology is deployed first and yet the infrastructure is behind Germany, Scandinavia and the US. I want to do something about this issue," he told the BBC.

Should the UK be keeping up with other countries around the world — probably. Unfortunately, with so many companies wanting to get in on the new tech first, and many lawyers being called into action for various reasons, it seems this campaign won't speed thing up too much...

DRM

Submission + - Sci-Fi publisher Tor ditches DRM. A positive step towards the removal of DRM? (bbc.co.uk)

FBeans writes: "Science fiction publisher Tor UK is dropping digital rights management from its e-books alongside a similar move by its US partners."

"Tor UK, Tor Books and Forge are divisions of Pan Macmillan, which said it viewed the move as an "experiment"." s

With experiments, come results. Now users can finally read their books across multiple devices such as Amazon's Kindle, Sony Reader, Kobo eReader and Apple's iBooks. Perhaps we will see the *increase* of sales, because of the new unrestricted format, outweighs the decrease caused by piracy!? Time will tell...

Comment Re:Version number MADNESS (Score 1) 271

Sort of. The actual version number of java is still 1.6, 1.7, etc, but it's always referred to (by Oracle officially and by people generally) as Java 6, Java 7, etc. I'm not entirely sure when they did that, but the guy sat at the desk next to me has a "Java 2" book. I guess they got to 1.2 and wanted to make it sound big, but didn't want to change the version number?

Who knows what they'll do when they hit version 2.0.

Comment Re:Popcorn loaded, commence fanatical BS... (Score 1) 271

That's really anything to do with the file system anyway. Recycle Bin isn't a feature of NTFS/FAT, it's a feature of Windows, and there's plenty of things available in Linux that do the same thing for EXT3/4 and I assume work fine for any natively supported FS. It's not like it's magically "undeleting" files, it just moves them to some other location, which the OS may choose to handle differently to normal directories.

Even after you remove it from there, the data's still on the disk, until that part of the disk gets written over. I guess you could have some sort of filesystem level backup of deleted files, but it's still just a lower level abstraction of "moving the file somewhere you can't see it" rather than "removing" it.

In the end, if you're deleting files because you're need the disk space for something else, you're probably going to want to write over those bits at some point. I can't see much benefit of a filesystem level version of 'undelete' besides working across OSs, and that'd actually require the OSs to support it. I guess it'd be a 'catch all' for different desktop environments/UIs/command lines.

Android

Submission + - Google Maps is going indoors (blogspot.com)

ProbablyJoe writes: Google have blogged about a new feature for their Maps app on Android — indoors mapping.

The feature is designed to replace the "you are here" maps found in shopping malls and department stores. It will automatically zoom into an indoors map if you enter a mapped building, and should also change maps as you move between different floors

Currently the maps are only available in certain airports, shopping malls, and department stores in the USA and Japan, but Google say they'll be adding more worldwide locations soon.

Science

Submission + - Physicists: Walking Through Walls Might Be Possibl (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: If you've ever tried the experiment, you know you can't walk through a wall. But subatomic particles can pull off similar feats through a weird process called quantum tunneling. Now, a team of physicists says that it might just be possible to observe such tunneling with a larger, humanmade object, though others say the proposal faces major challenges.

Submission + - Gaming History and the People Who Made It (thomasaknight.com)

Synchis writes: "It's not very often that the world changes in a significant way. Often change is rejected, feared, and denied. That's just part of human nature. But some people throughout history defied this nature — innovators in an established industry, and pioneers of entirely new ones. Steve Jobs was one such visionary, whose contributions to the computing and entertainment industry were nothing short of monumental. Others have shared his place at this prestigious level of human accomplishment, though not all of them have been celebrated as widely as Jobs has.

So here is a list of six people who changed the gaming world. A celebration, if you will, of human accomplishment:"

Education

Submission + - Coding - the new Latin (bbc.co.uk) 3

FBeans writes: The BBC Reports: "The campaign to boost the teaching of computer skills — particularly coding — in schools is gathering force.

Today the likes of Google, Microsoft and other leading technology names will lend their support to the case made to the government earlier this year in a report called Next Gen. It argued that the UK could be a global hub for the video games and special effects industries — but only if its education system got its act together."

The report says that the 16,500 students studying a computer science degree in 2003 fell to just 10,600 by 2007. "although it's recovered a little to 13,600 last year, that's at a time in major growth in overall applications, so the percentage of students looking to study the subject has fallen from 5% to 3%."

Personally, I don't see how the "Latin" analogy this story uses works. Although the point is clear:

Computer Science is becoming niche and "un-cool" and is not taught well enough in schools. This needs to change and it seems the cogs are starting to turn.

Mars

Submission + - NASA (MSL) Rover "Curiosity" set for Launch (nasa.gov)

arcite writes: "The latest and greatest Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover Curiosity, an SUV sized rover packed to the gills with the latest scientific instruments and innovative landing system is set to launch sometime today. As the heaviest and largest Mars Rover yet, if it is successful in touching down on the red planet, will be the best bet yet for NASA to find signs of life. Stuffed with turkey and burned out on holiday shopping, Geeks everywhere will be watching the skies above (or the livestream here) and wishing NASA’s Curiosity GODSPEED!"

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