Comment Cost effective? (Score 0) 140
It would probably still be cheaper to buy pre-built stuff from China. The most expensive component they are probably shelling out for is Pringles.
Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 315
Hardly surprising; businesses like some stability in their apps.
And important security features such as popup blocking.
Comment Only just??? (Score 0) 86
It's called ActiveSync, and there are implementations (e.g. z-Push, funambol) that have worked on everything from Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones to the iPhone since primordial times, for tasks, contacts and notes. Unless I didn't read TFA and it's talking about something else...
Comment And thats why (Score 1) 185
I have a box sitting in a decomissioned nuclear bunker running OpenAFS and securely wrapped Samba.
Comment Testing (Score 1) 153
Now somebody just needs to find the buggy buffers and write a few exploits. Nothing like the 20 year-long beta to get critical OS components to a state where sudo is now in *BSD/Linux.
Comment NSA Advises Upgrades to Windows 7 (Score 1) 26
Comment On Dream Machines... (Score 1) 85
Myself, I'm waiting for an update to the visual cortex-stimulating Dream Machines of the 1960s.
There is a whole spectrum of these gadgets available, and I imagine many of them are quite good. Still, the best dream machine is the one that will lie next to you and excite some circuits you never thought existed... Shagadelic, baby!
Comment Ruff Stuff (Score 1) 89
Then again, who thought sharks were your typical Brittney Spears fans?...
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Shake a fin on me.
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Shake a fin on me.
Comment Re:You can actually play games on linux? (Score 1) 232
Unreal Tournament is the first thing to come to mind.
Comment Pad-Phone (Score 1) 44
...more than meets the eye.
Comment It's the (Score 2) 337
developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.
Submission + - KDE Ships the first beta of KDE 4.7 (kde.org)
dimethylxanthine writes: "May 25th, 2011. Today, KDE has released a first beta of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality.
The 4.7 release will bring a number of exciting improvments:
KWin, Plasma's window manager now supports OpenGL-ES 2.0, improving performance and deployability on mobile devices
Dolphin, KDE's flexible file manager has seen user interface improvements and now sports a better user experience for searching in files' metadata.
KDM, KDE's login manager now interfaces with the Grub2 bootloader
Marble, the virtual globe now supports offline address search, especially making its mobile version more useful on the road"
The 4.7 release will bring a number of exciting improvments:
KWin, Plasma's window manager now supports OpenGL-ES 2.0, improving performance and deployability on mobile devices
Dolphin, KDE's flexible file manager has seen user interface improvements and now sports a better user experience for searching in files' metadata.
KDM, KDE's login manager now interfaces with the Grub2 bootloader
Marble, the virtual globe now supports offline address search, especially making its mobile version more useful on the road"
Comment Re:LTE? (Score 2) 84
Who would ever need more than 1mbps, right?
Comment Boring (Score 1) 121
Yours sincerely has been doing it for ages now!
Comment Move along (Score 1) 131
This is not the energy you are looking for...
