Comment Re:complete whats new and opinions (Score 2, Informative) 274
It's faster, according to Lifehacker.
Comment SYNC is awesome (Score 1) 196
SYNC works really well and is a huge reason I would consider a Ford vehicle (Fusion or Mustang) over competitors. Of course kdawson will find negatives about it since it's a Microsoft product.
Comment Re:IE6 comes with XP, IE8 with Win7 (Score 1) 422
IE8 isn't garbage - it's Javascript performance is pretty awful, but it does bring a few decent features to the table. Accelerators are simple, but effective; web slices might be glorified RSS feeds, but they work and Yahoo mail supports them; and the best part is that each tab gets its own thread. IE8 and Chrome are the only browsers that do this (to my knowledge) and it's really handy - broken websites don't hork up your entire browsing session like they do in Firefox and Opera.
FWIW, I use Opera as my primary, and IE8 as my backup in Vista/7 and FF3.5 as my backup in XP. For whatever reason, IE8 feels faster than FF in Vista/7, whereas FF3.5 feels faster in XP.
Comment Re:So... in short. (Score 1) 496
No, the article is pretty crappy and is definitely troll bait, but the website is good in general.
Comment Re:So... in short. (Score 1) 496
Bit-Tech is actually a really good website - kind of like the British version of AnandTech. It's also Custom PC magazine's website, I believe.
Comment Re:PayPal is a scam (Score 1) 80
Google's Checkout is a failure, much like most every other Google product other than search. Now that Google Checkout is the same price (or in some cases, more expensive) than PayPal, yet less feature rich, I assume it will just disappear in time like every other PayPal challenger.
Submission + - Mozilla exec suggests Firefox users move to Bing (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: A Mozilla executive suggested Firefox users use Microsoft Bing as the browser's search engine after Google's CEO downplayed consumers' privacy concerns. Citing a clip from a CNBC broadcast last Friday during which Google chief executive Eric Schmidt discussed online privacy, Mozilla's Asa Dotzler provided a link to the Firefox extension that adds Bing to Firefox's search engine list. "Here's how you can easily switch Firefox's search from Google to Bing," said Dotzler in an entry on his personal blog on Thursday. The link he included leads to the Bing search add-on. During the interview, Schmidt was asked: "People are treating Google like their most trusted friend...should they be?" Schmidt answered: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," he told CNBC. "If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities," added Schmidt. The CNBC clip with Schmidt's comments can be viewed on YouTube, ironically a Google-owned property.
Comment Re:Damage Mechanism (Score 5, Funny) 193
Ever see those people that drown in icy water, only to be revived after hours without oxygen, somewhat intact?
No sir, I have never watched a person drown in icy water and then revived hours later. Is this a common thing to see?
Comment Re:In Smaller Markets, Kijiji Dominates (Score 1) 129
I think Kijiji is more popular outside the US than inside in general.
Comment Re:Now to get rid of noncompetes (Score 1) 214
Amen to that - no contract on either my T-Mobile to go phone or my Dish Network. After doing this for a couple years, friends and family have taken note and are now doing the same.
Comment Re:Article conclusion - summary (Score 2, Insightful) 103
I love how their review of Fennec makes brief mention that they had no problems crashing it, yet they still give it a favorable review in the summary.
Comment Re:Seems largely pointless. (Score 1) 175
eBay doesn't own the protocol, so you'll have to go to Joltid if you want that portion open sourced.
Comment How many times does IBM have to get beaten by MS? (Score 3, Interesting) 863
MS-DOS beat PC-DOS
NT3.5 beat OS/2
Heck, you can argue that MS SQL Server is beating DB2
If I were choosing a side in this fight, I'd stick with Microsoft...
Comment Re:Nvidia facing obsolescence (Score 2, Insightful) 317
AMD's high end graphics (the 5870) far surpass the offerings from nVidia.
Comment Re:The Real Problem is ... (Score 1) 145
Mine is:
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