Comment Re: Firefox vs. Opera (Score 1) 211
In Firefox you can right click on a search text box and select 'Add a Keyword for this search' to do it. No add-ons required.
Submission + - AMD snatching defeat from jaws of victory (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "Last week, AMD’s Rick Bergman announced his departure as the head of the company’s Products Group. Bergman first joined AMD in 2006, after the ATI acquisition, and had risen to his former position in the aftermath of Hector Ruiz’s resignation in 2009. AMD has said nothing about the reasons for Bergman’s departure. In January, AMD’s Board of Directors canned Dirk Meyer over alleged disagreements on the company’s future mobile products. The move was controversial; Meyer is generally credited with putting the company back on track and successfully executing the Brazos/Llano/Bulldozer roadmap that’s helping AMD return to competitive standing vis-à-vis Intel. In February, Bob Rivet (executive VP, chief operations and strategic officer) and Marty Seyer (senior VP of corporate strategy) were both fired. Bergman was the last remnant of AMD’s old guard and the last executive drawn from within the company’s own ranks. Chekib Akrout and Nigel Dessau are more-or-less tied for the record of longest-serving AMD executive — both joined the company in 2008. The point here is not to cast aspersions on any of AMD’s current executives, but to acknowledge the end of an era and a potentially disastrous change in company focus.
AMD’s current crop of executives are drawn from mobile companies or were focused on mobile product within other companies, nearly without exception. It’s possible that this will turn out to be a tremendous long-term strength. “Possible,” however, is not a synonym for “likely.” AMD’s increasingly visible mobile focus may be timely, but the company is in no shape to go charging off in a new direction."
AMD’s current crop of executives are drawn from mobile companies or were focused on mobile product within other companies, nearly without exception. It’s possible that this will turn out to be a tremendous long-term strength. “Possible,” however, is not a synonym for “likely.” AMD’s increasingly visible mobile focus may be timely, but the company is in no shape to go charging off in a new direction."
Submission + - Can Newegg Survive The Post-PC Future? (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "Upgrading your desktop PC's video card was once a rite of passage for many Slashdot readers — and could also be a gateway to building your own computer from the motherboard up. And more often than not, you bought the components from Newegg. But the tablets and ultrathin laptops that are today's hot sellers don't let you so much as swap in more RAM. What's a component retailer to do in world without user-serviceable components?"
Submission + - Returning power from electric cars to grid? (delawareonline.com)
icensnow writes: NRG is patenting a means of returning electric power from charged but inactive electric cars to the grid, essentially turning parked electric cars into an energy storage system for the grid. I'm having a hard time deciding if this is genius or silly.
Submission + - A Comic about the crisis. New kind of journalism? (clarin.com)
JoeZ99 writes: Argentinian economic paper Ieco has released a comic-strip to explain greek credit crisis. This comic strip also have some input from Tyler Cowen
According to the comic writer, this is a start of a series of comics devoted to talk about the crisis and who knows? maybe a new kind of journalism...
According to the comic writer, this is a start of a series of comics devoted to talk about the crisis and who knows? maybe a new kind of journalism...
Submission + - Linus Torvalds speaks about kernel fun, gadgets .. (linux-bg.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds speaks about the fun in developing the Linux kernel, his gadgets, his interest in starting a desktop project and finally making "the next year" the year of the Linux Desktop. Not to miss also his "eerie resemblance" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
These and more can be found in the new interview that he gave for Linux-BG.org
These and more can be found in the new interview that he gave for Linux-BG.org
Submission + - Gnome creator: Linux has only 10 good desktop apps (pcpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: "Gnome co-creator Miguel de Icaza has said Linux is struggling on the desktop because fragmentation makes creating apps too difficult, with incompatibilities between distributions — and even between different versions of the same one. "When you count how many great desktop apps there are on Linux, you can probably name 10," de Icaza said, according to a post on Tim Anderson's IT Writing blog. "You work really hard, you can probably name 20. We’ve managed to p*** off developers every step of the way, breaking APIs all the time.""
Submission + - Why debian/Icecat should take over Firefox (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: When you combine the release-policy of Chrome with Firefox, you gain not a single advantage, but the extension-system no longer works reliably, because when Firefox gets updated from a major revision to the next, all extensions have to be retested and released anew. Therefore a lot of things break even when Firefox-management refuses to admit it.
The good news is that Firefox is free software, which means that Firefox management does not own the codebase, but only the name "Firefox" (plus artwork, etc.). For example the "IceCat" browser from the debian project (which is a Linux-distribution) is a rebranded version of Firefox with some minor changes which could grow into a real fork, if the IceCat-developers want (and also put out a version for Windows).
The good news is that Firefox is free software, which means that Firefox management does not own the codebase, but only the name "Firefox" (plus artwork, etc.). For example the "IceCat" browser from the debian project (which is a Linux-distribution) is a rebranded version of Firefox with some minor changes which could grow into a real fork, if the IceCat-developers want (and also put out a version for Windows).
Comment Re:Well, it looks different at least. (Score 1) 69
If there is throttling here it is not nationwide, neither is it covering all ISPs. VIVA for example currently averages around 15kbps on a 21mbps package. I heard that the main ISP (Batelco) also had some slowdowns related to upgrades and changes in their network. Yet my Menatelecom connection is working exactly as it was before the demonstrations.
Someone I know reported that while he had slowdowns during net surfing his download speed when torrenting was still fast.
Comment Re:Ahh Limewire! That takes me back... (Score 1) 277
Newzbin is still alive.
Comment Re:holy shit REALLY? (Score 2, Insightful) 202
Over here it is next month!
Submission + - Stickybot, gecko inspired robot climbs walls. (stanford.edu)
telomerewhythere writes: Stanford mechanical engineer Mark Cutkosky is using the biology of a gecko's sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a wall of slick glass, the Stickybot can climb smooth surfaces with feet modeled on the intricate design of gecko toes.
The team's new project involves scaling up the material for humans. A technology called Z-Man, which would allow humans to climb with gecko adhesive, is in the works.
The team's new project involves scaling up the material for humans. A technology called Z-Man, which would allow humans to climb with gecko adhesive, is in the works.
Submission + - What went wrong at Yahoo? Paul Graham opines (paulgraham.com)
kjh1 writes: Paul Graham writes about what he felt went wrong at Yahoo. He has first-hand experience — his company, Viaweb, was bought by Yahoo and he worked there for a while.
In a nutshell, he felt that Yahoo was too conflicted about whether they were a technology company or a media company. This in part led to hiring bad programmers, or at least not going single-mindedly after the very best ones. They also lacked the 'hacker' culture that Google and Facebook still seem to have, and that is found in many startup tech companies.
In a nutshell, he felt that Yahoo was too conflicted about whether they were a technology company or a media company. This in part led to hiring bad programmers, or at least not going single-mindedly after the very best ones. They also lacked the 'hacker' culture that Google and Facebook still seem to have, and that is found in many startup tech companies.
Submission + - Like Windows, Is Android Headed For a Fall? (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: By most measures, Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices has been a raging success. Since it was introduced in late 2007, Android has climbed (quickly), replacing Research in Motion’s BlackBerry as the top-ranked mobile phone operating system in the U.S. when measured by market share. But growing user adoption has brought the attention of security researchers and malicious hackers, as well – and what they’ve found gives security professionals reason for concern.
“I feel like its 1998 all over again. Back Orifice has just arrived and we’re trying to figure out what to do with it,” said Chris Wysopal, CTO of application security testing firm Veracode, referring to the infamous remote administration software that highlighted the security failings of Microsoft’s Windows 98 operating system. Security experts warn that Android’s rapid adoption by mobile carriers, open platform and the competitive push to build a robust application ecosystem are the ingredients for a security melt down.
“I feel like its 1998 all over again. Back Orifice has just arrived and we’re trying to figure out what to do with it,” said Chris Wysopal, CTO of application security testing firm Veracode, referring to the infamous remote administration software that highlighted the security failings of Microsoft’s Windows 98 operating system. Security experts warn that Android’s rapid adoption by mobile carriers, open platform and the competitive push to build a robust application ecosystem are the ingredients for a security melt down.
Submission + - Google CEO forecasts end of anonymity on Internet (readwriteweb.com)
e065c8515d206cb0e190 writes: In yet another scary statement on privacy, Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains the amount of information that is out there can successfully identify individuals.
From the article:
"If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence," Schmidt said, "we can predict where you are going to go."
"Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You've got Facebook photos! People will find it's very useful to have devices that remember what you want to do, because you forgot...But society isn't ready for questions that will be raised as result of user-generated content."
From the article:
"If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence," Schmidt said, "we can predict where you are going to go."
"Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You've got Facebook photos! People will find it's very useful to have devices that remember what you want to do, because you forgot...But society isn't ready for questions that will be raised as result of user-generated content."
