Comment Re:University IT thinks it's 1994 (Score 3, Insightful) 439
Or maybe email should just work like a normal person would expect it to work?
Comment Re:Gmail also occasionally goes down (Score 1) 439
A state-of-the-art interface is a modern IMAP mail client.
Let me guess, Pine?
Comment Re:Why not "cyberlocker" sites? (Score 1) 76
Because Newzbin have set up their business such that the easier it is for their users to pirate stuff the more they get paid.
Comment Re:Not fast (Score 1) 246
Where does the notion that a crappy business app is acceptable come from? If you bought a crappy game then you have a problem. If you have to use a crappy business application then not only do you have a problem, your employer has a problem too.
Comment Re:What about firefox (ogg video)? (Score 1) 265
That may be, but how much is there still to go and how long is it going to take to catch-up to where h264 is today?
Comment Re:Olders users know more people? (Score 1) 174
Hahah, so the young one was fast becoming as stupid as his old man!
Comment Re:GNOME Shell == Clusterfuck (Score 1) 419
Explorer doesn't even have a split-pane mode that I can find
Just Control-Doubleclick a folder and it opens in a new Explorer window. From a little demonstration video that I saw, I can say that two Explorer windows are better than one split view Dolphin window.
Comment Re:Do We Really Need Cookies? (Score 1) 447
No, it would piss me off and make me leave the service. Not a bad thing if the service was geared for the nerd niche.
Comment Re:Do We Really Need Cookies? (Score 2, Insightful) 447
Ask yourself; what can be accomplished with a cookie that can't be accomplished using alternative mechanisms.
Let's use URL rewriting. My friend shares a photo from their private album with me, I post a link to it on Twitter and the next thing I know half the world has my session id.
Comment Re:TFA is bullshit (Score 1) 381
Unless I'm tragically mistaken, your link refers to Amazon starting to offer hosted MySQL servers. It doesn't mean that Amazon runs their own business on MySQL or that their MySQL offering scales from a simple website to Google levels automatically. It's just single MySQL servers that you can rent.
Comment Re:hmm (Score 2, Insightful) 381
What if you ARE dealing with massive data AND complex relationships?
Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 381
Isn't that the point, though? Drop all the features of SQL databases that hinder scalability and you end up with NoSQL.
X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions 542
An anonymous reader writes "In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled 'Why is Linux Chrome so fast?,' a developer speculates that it is due to the use of X11 capabilities: 'On X-windows [sic], the renderer backingstores are managed by the X server, and the transport DIBs are also managed by the X server. So, we avoid a lot of memcpy costs incurred on Windows due to keeping the backingstores in main memory there.' Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"
Comment Re:Didn't think App Store piracy was that big (Score 1) 762
Why do you feel entitled to information someone else has decided to fund, information that you've already said you don't want?
Comment Re:Didn't think App Store piracy was that big (Score 1) 762
Oh, so now the rest of the world should bow down to your whims just so YOU are not FORCED to pirate stuff.
