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Comment Re:terrible UI (Score 1) 193

7 years and the UI is still shit.

UI is confusing, to say the least. But that's not my issue with it, it's UNBELIEVABLY slow to click around. *click* *wait* oops wrong option *click again* *wait* *find the right option* et cetera.

But it's very capable of what it ought to do. It's immensely big though and I prefer smaller apps for smaller tasks.

Submission + - Firefox 23 finally kills "blink" tag (pcpro.co.uk)

nk497 writes: The "blink" tag in HTML has at last been laid to rest, with Mozilla removing support for the much-maligned text style in the latest version of the Firefox browser. The blink tag was never officially supported in Internet Explorer or Chrome, but Firefox inherited it from Netscape Navigator. Opera previously supported it as well, though that ended when the Norwegian browser firm flipped from its own Presto engine to, ironically, Chrome's Blink engine. Google has admitted that the Blink engine was named partially after the flashy element, but has promised that its own browser "will never support the blink tag".

Submission + - Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, And Network Monitor

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 23 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Improvements include the addition of a share button, mixed content blocker, and network monitor on the desktop side. The new desktop version was available on the organization's FTP servers last night, but that was just the initial release of the installers. Firefox 23 has now officially been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play.

Submission + - Sol: the $300 solar-powered laptop 1

nk497 writes: A $300 laptop that charges in two hours in the sun has been created by a Canadian company, to give African businesses and students a computer that will keep working through blackouts. The Sol laptop runs Ubuntu on an Atom CPU, and features four fold-out solar panels. In direct sun, the panels charge the laptop in about two hours, offering up to ten hours of battery life — handy for parts of the world with unstable electricity.

Submission + - Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip (nasa.gov)

Freddybear writes: According to measurements from NASA solar observatories, the sun's magnetic field is about to reverse polarity. The event is predicted to occur within the next three to four months and will have effects throughout the solar system. These magnetic reversals happen regularly about every eleven years as part of the solar cycle.

Comment Re:Just wait 'til companies catch on (Score 1) 322

End the war on work!
http://goo.gl/Nz128

I saw that Ted Talk, one of the few that made sense, was honest, was based on facts and experience and should address the whole world. Yet half my acquaintances were convinced that Mike Rowe was blabbering. They rather heard someone talking about success than about life's realities.

Comment Re:not a geometry proof (Score 1) 1737

Was Zimmerman's life in danger?

If you answer 'yes' or 'a reasonable person might think so' then you're still looking at it with half of your brain.

Given the circumstances which were well reported, no matter who was 'on top' or had weed in their system or was a 'racist'...Zimmerman's life was **not in danger**

His head was banged repeatedly against concrete. I'd call that life threatening. Oh wait, let me use your argument enhancing technique:

"I'd call that **life threatening**"

Comment Re:Guess the military can save millions then. (Score 1) 113

Of course real violence desensitizes people. No question in that.

But we are talking about virtual violence. That is completely different.
Virtual violence, like video games, do not desensitizes people to real violence. Because that one is virtual and the other is real.

A horror movie will not desensitize you. A plane crash movie will not traumatize you.

And yet the videos of the planes crashing into the World Trade Towers on 9/11 that were played over and over again, did indeed traumatize many. So evidently, some plane crash movies do traumatize people.

I fail to see how the planes crashing into the World Trade Towers is virtual violence.

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