Comment Re:Just seems like a well thought out list (Score 1) 373
Stooges.
Comment Re:Mozilla may not want Google (Score 1) 182
Ummm... maybe someone could mod parent up?
Submission + - Google location tracking can invade privacy, hacke (theregister.co.uk)
Submission + - Could you pass Harvard's entrance exam from 1869? (nytimes.com) 3
erfnet writes: "The New York Times remembers back to when "college was a buyer's bazaar" and digs up 19th-century classified ads from Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and others. In competitive efforts to attract students from the limited pool of qualified candidates, applications were taken as late as September for an October freshman class. Vassar offered lush room accommodations. The expectations were high: Latin, Greek, Virgil, Caesar's Commentaries; Harvard's entrance exam from 1869 is posted (PDF): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf. Could any of us pass the exam today?"
Comment Mr. Hands (Score 5, Funny) 222
Irony.
Comment Re:This is why I have given up on Adobe (Score 2) 272
Th
If you're a small company, just starting out, and you're not locked into Photoshop for some reason, there's no reason to start producing files in that format. I
But when you want to hire employees or freelancers or accept files from clients or send files to a printer or basically do anything beyond doodling in your bedroom you are locked into the Photoshop/Indesign/Illustrator/PDF/EPS Adobe ecosystem because it's the defacto standard in the creative market.
Which is a main point of TFA.
Comment Re:Why? Rupert likes to keep money moving around (Score 5, Informative) 305
Great theory but Newscorp does not own the New York Times, it owns the New York Post.
Comment The sign... (Score 1) 120
...was a little underwhelming, looks like it was done a pen plotter although it does convey a certain 70's scientific vibe.
Also, where are the iceweasel/icedove/firefox/icewm jokes?
Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave 397
"This week's film blogs have been left aghast as Mike Judge's grotesque fictional energy drink Brawndo from the movie Idiocracy became a reality. To recap: Fox wouldn't support a film about Brawndo, the energy drink that destroys plants, debases the human race, and makes those who drink it 'win at yelling' but they are now putting wholehearted support behind the actual drink?" And if you haven't seen Idiocracy, you are missing out. It is the smartest stupid movie I've seen. Whoever did production design on that thing deserves an Oscar.
Pepper Pad, an Open Alternative to MS Origami 188
SilentBob4 writes to tell us that MadPenguin has a look at an open alternative to Microsoft's Origami, the Pepper Pad. From the article: "The Pepper Pad, like Origami, is a mid-point form factor PC that is bigger and more powerful than a PDA, but smaller and less optimized for traditional desktop PC tasks than a notebook computer or a desktop PC. The Pepper Pad is a good buy for people who would like to have a light-weight, dirt-simple, point-and-click open source device for watching videos, listening to music, reading e-books, and doing simple web surfing with a view screen that is actually easy to read. If you want do more than that, you are really better off getting a small Linux notebook, unless you are willing to get under the hood (which you can do with the Pepper Pad!) and start compiling for yourself."
