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Comment Re: And Slashdot goes to zero (Score 1) 390

by mystikkman (#46119361) Attached to: IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share

So no actual websites then? You do know that FF and IE also have moz- and ms- CSS tags for their specific implementations so this isn't just a Webkit (which BTW is not just Chrome) thing.

Are you intentionally being dense? That post is from Opera, a browser company that was forced to support webkit tags because developers are not putting in the normal prefix-less prefixes or Opera prefixes, but only adding webkit tags even if the standards or Opera support the feature. They finally got fed up and switched to webkit, reducing the variety in mainstream browser engines from 4 to 3.

I do know FF and IE support their own prefixes,but IIRC even FF was also forced to support some webkit tags. This is about vendors forced into support *other* tags. I can't explain it simpler than this.

http://www.techrepublic.com/bl...
http://tiffanybbrown.com/2012/...
http://www.change.org/petition...

Comment Re:And Slashdot goes to zero (Score 0) 390

by mystikkman (#46113473) Attached to: IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share

"Microsoft to abandon Windows Phone"
http://mobile.slashdot.org/sto...
(As an aside, the above story was submitted by the zealot megalomaniac symbolset).

Isn't that the same guy that credited himself for planting the lie about Kin selling only 500 devices and posted that he was better than the Microsoft marketing department? Makes sense that he would make up and submit a story about MS discontinuing Windows Phone. And he's around in this story too, with anti-MS spiel again. Sigh Slashdot. It's time to lay it to rest.

Comment Re:Death Knell For Microsoft's Monopoly? (Score 2) 511

by mystikkman (#45975557) Attached to: Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014

Investment analysts have noticed for quite some time that Apple's iphone has a "halo effect." Specifically, people who buy iphones are more likely to buy Macs (and ipads) in the future. And apple is quite good at this sort of turnover.

So the news here is not that so many iphones are sold. The news is that this may indicate the status of Mac vs. PC in the future.

Is that why Mac sales are decreasing quarter after quarter?

Submission + - Italy Approves 'Google Tax' on Internet Companies

Submitted by recoiledsnake
recoiledsnake writes: Italy’s Parliament today passed a new measure on web advertising, the so-called “Google tax,” which will require Italian companies to purchase their Internet ads from locally registered companies, instead of from units based in havens such as Ireland, Luxembourg and Bermuda. Google, for example, says that it sells nearly all its advertising in Europe from an Irish unit, leaving little taxable profits in the countries where its customers are based. That unit in turn pays royalties to a second Irish subsidiary, which says its headquarters are in Bermuda. Google last year moved nearly $12 billion to the Bermuda unit, the majority of its worldwide income, cutting more than $2 billion off its global income tax bill. Google’s Italian unit last year reported total income taxes of just 1.8 million euros, corporate filings show.

Comment Are the Android OEMs banned from shipping CM? (Score 2, Interesting) 133

I remember when Google threatened Acer with losing the Play Store and all Google app to stop Aliyun, claiming that the secret rules of the "Open" Handset Alliance prevented Acer from shipping Android forks.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/3

Anyone know if the same rules prohibit all the major OEMs from shipping CM or Jolla(which has Android app support via a third party Dalvik implementation) phones?

The major OEMs include Acer, Asus, Dell, Foxconn, Fujitsu, HTC, Huawei, Kyocera, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, NEC, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, and ZTE.

Comment Re:Slashdot bias.... (Score 1) 94

by mystikkman (#45718723) Attached to: Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect

His main motive in joining Google was apparently to get a promotion back in Microsoft and to make some money on the side by writing a book. Ridiculous microsoft politics at work

Nice way to slander someone who you don't even know, while not even being signed into Slashdot. Add the karma bonus for accusing OP of being a paid MS = +5 INTERESTING!!!!

The same old chair jokes and MS bashing in most of the posts and modding down any contrary comments and destroying their karma, guess I am not the only one getting bored with the echo chamber and the circlejerk, from the past few years Slashdot activity and readership seems to be dropping a like a rock.
Science

Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film 398

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the i'm-not-listening-i'm-not-listening dept.
sciencehabit writes "A premier science museum in North Carolina has sparked controversy by refusing to show an hour long film about climate change and rising sea levels. The museum may be in a bit of a delicate position. It is part of a state agency, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The state government has been perceived as hostile to action on climate change; last year, the legislature passed a bill forbidding the state coastal commission from defining rates of sea-level rise for regulation before 2016."

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