Oddly, there wasn't so much fuss over Opera's compression service, which is opt-in for Opera Mobile and always on for Opera Mini.

The keyemphasis is opt-in. Amazon's Silk browser you are forced in whether you want to be or not and cannot opt-out.

however it is incompatible with most HTC devices and some newer Samsung devices due to the need of specific Bluetooth protocol

That's true if you are using a sense based rom, however if you are rooted, there's a good chance you are using an AOSP (android open source project) ROM, such as Cyanogenmod 7 that does have the bluetooth support needed.

Also wanted to note that controller support for android isn't exactly a new concept. The wiimote has been able to be used for quite a while. However support for a playstation controller is new to me :)

orly? that's why it's on their page you troll

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php

Note:. This didn't even work in Chromium. CHROMIUM!!! I had to get 'Google Chrome' for it to work.

Sure it does. I used SRWare Iron 12, which is built off the chromium source and it worked just fine. Perhaps you are using an older version of chromium.

Pray tell me where I can get the intelligent (or at least semi-intelligent) discussions we used to have on slashdot in the olden days?

I suggest hacker news

if you want a decent site to read similar to slashdot with a lot less trolling and shitty articles, try out hacker news on ycombinator. Sure there's still some, but it no where near as bad as slashdot and gets ignored and the few obvious troll articles are quickly pointed out. The news is more or less the same, but they generally get into political news less. Slashdot is generally a day or two behind them in posting news as well I noticed.

The subtracts, unfortunately, will not be supported.

Don't even ask about division.

Division is worrisome, but I'm more worried about how it will integrate

Considering LTE is a direct upgrade for ATT (since it's the next generation of GSM) and verizon uses CDMA, I would say ATT will have far less problems. Verizon basically uses a bridging technology called eHRPD to hand off connections between LTE (GSMv4) and EVDO (CDMA). Their network problems with LTE were from a failure in eHRPD. Since ATT wont need this, they wont have that problem. LTE handoffs are a bit laggy on Verizon as well from my experience with having the HTC Thunderbolt since March. Generally when you switch from a CDMA area to LTE, it takes 10-20 seconds for the handoff to occur.

From wiki:

3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that produced the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies.[1][2] It is a project of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), operating under a name trademarked by one of the associations within the partnership, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_Advanced (what will come after initial LTE we have now and be the true 4g before standards revisions) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Mobile_Broadband (att's current network) article on what eHRPD is

Verizon has decided to use eHRPD as their upgrade path to 4G, which allows them to update their existing HRPD packet core using SAE/EPC architecture. The primary benefit that eHRPD offers is the handoff between cellular towers - you maintain the same private IP when you move from location to location. With this new protocol operators will be able to optimize cellular handovers, which should reduce dropped sessions and decrease the handover latency.

Apparently you have never googled for javascript testing There's quite a few organized testing and unit frameworks for javascript out there and there are even IDEs that have support for them, such as Intelij IDE and its primarily php/web cousin, PHP Storm. I've use both of them on a regular basis and they both support NodeJS and have have built in javascript debugging/unit testing.

Just in my experience and opinion, you would be better off asking that on ycombinator that deals with tech startups and has many from that community, not on slashdot.

I'm sure android users will find a workaround as already mentioned. However, it's not that useful when netflix is already on android en masse. Although the netflix app was already pulled from the market (and only "made" for a handful of phones), it has been integrated into nearly every android phone able to run gingerbread roms as root. If you're an android user and want it, go over to the xda developer forums and find your phone and take a look. I added it to my phone the other day and it works perfectly.

It has one of the most intuitive user interfaces ever. So much that even the noobiest of tech/computer users can figure it out. Perhaps if they can't understand how the amazingly easy to use the iphone UI is, they need a dummies book or one of these

Couldn't be anymore obvious you're trolling, but others might like to know it does have transactions, and it's ACID compliant. It wont officially replace MySQL ever because so much software depends on the actual name MySQL for linking to and Oracle would probably have a problem with a distribution keeping folders linked to the name even if it isn't using the Oracle Maintained MySQL. However, most of the main distros (debian, ubuntu, gentoo, etc) will or already do have it in their official repositories and MariaDB also has their own signed repositories for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and more listed on their downloads page.

Mickos Says MySQL Code Better Than Ever Under Oracle

I think the founder of MySQL would disagree, since he forked MySQL and started MariaDB. MySQL 5.5 was a long time coming and added quite a bit, but much of what it added was already in the stable MariaDB by the time it came out. Some of the linux distros such as debian are looking to add or switch to mariadb. I switched to MariaDB a while ago and development in MySQL looked like it was starting to stagnate. Not to go dragging out things, but look into Maria, it has quite a few bug patches, performance enhancements, features and such that MySQL lacks and may never have if Oracle splits off community development features from the "enterprise" version.

Exactly. If the browser can handle that many tabs without performance degradation and over consumption of memory, why bother having to micro manage your tab usage every time you open another? Back when I used Mozilla/Sea Monkey (before Firefox) I used to have to worry about all that and it might seem crazy for anyone who doesn't use opera to have that many tabs open. However, most opera users I know (yes, there's shockingly more than 3 of them in the world) use quite a few more tabs than any other browser on average. If I were using chrome/firefox (which I do when I test and develop since I prefer their tools for those things over dragonfly in opera), I would never open that many tabs (though obviously I cant since they consume way more memory :) ).