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Comment Re:A new logo?? Eyeroll (Score 1) 365

No, he's right... There is a heading in Wikipedia about their past names (Pheonix, Firebird) in the "History of Firefox" article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Naming

I remember using Pheonix when it first came out. It was quite nice at the time. It felt really lightweight compared to Mozilla.

Comment Re:Retroactively? (Score 1) 279

It did not. It was added on in 1981 after ESB was released. Here is an article on Wookiepedia that explains it. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Opening_crawl

From Wookiepedia: "When originally released in 1977, the first film was simply titled Star Wars, as Lucas was not certain if he would follow the film with a sequel. Following The Empire Strikes Back, the film was re-released in 1981 with the subtitle 'Episode IV: A New Hope'. The original version, without the subtitle, was not released until the 2006 limited edition DVDs. "

Submission + - Girl Receives Synthetic Trachea Made With Her Stem Cells (singularityhub.com)

kkleiner writes: A toddler born without a trachea has received the first completely fabricated trachea that utilizes stem cells enabling her to live a normal life. Previously, related implants relied on a donor trachea that would act as a scaffold for the patient's stem cells. In this case, the scaffold is synthetic and made from nonabsorbable nanofibers, while the stem cells were harvested from the girl's bone marrow.

Comment Buried with it (Score 2) 122

Assuming I don't die an untimely, unforeseen death, I had always planned on consolidating my data, and preparing it to be buried with me. I don't want to burden my family with having to sort through things. Plus in the future, in the case that reanimation is made possible I can have my stuff again, or in the more likely event that future paleontologists dig me up, they will have lots of history/information to figure out what made us primitive humans tick.

Comment Re:Money where your mouth is (Score 1) 197

Well, shoot. I came to tell you that you were correct.... However, although Mac OS X 10.0 was introduced in 2001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X and Project Looking Glass wasn't displayed publicly till 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass , one must point out that Mac OS X didn't adopt the 3D "shelf" look until 10.5 which came out in 2007... It was a flat rectangle before that, which i had completely forgotten....
Chrome

Submission + - Has the local browser cache become useless? 1

lesincompetent writes: Think about it. In this age of high end hardware and relatively high bandwidth, storing things on a device many orders of magnitude slower than any other is something we should get rid of. Even for static content: is it really worth the disk I\O effort? How much page loading time am i saving? Not to mention the fact that browser caches are among the first causes of system littering. It's been many years now since the last time i had a browser with disk caching enabled on any of my systems (besides chrome, unfortunately, because you can't deactivate it.)
Programming

Submission + - Learn COBOL, Because It Will Outlive Us All (itworld.com) 1

jfruh writes: "Here's an old computer science joke: What's the difference between hardware and software? If you use hardware long enough, it breaks. If you use software long enough, it works. The truth behind that is the reason that so much decades-old COBOL code is out there still driving crucial applications and banks and other huge companies. Many attempts to replace COBOL applications flopped in the 1980s and '90s, and we're stuck with them for the foreseeable future — but the Baby Boomers who wrote all that code are now retiring en masse. So if you want a successful IT career, you should probably learn COBOL."

Submission + - New Mexico driver's license soon will not be valid for air travel (foxnews.com)

fintler writes: Due to the expected enforcement of the REAL ID Act on Jan. 15, 2013, New Mexico travelers will need to be prepared to have TSA approved identification to be allowed to board a commercial aircraft. New Mexico driver's licenses are not valid valid identification after the law is in effect.

Submission + - F-15 fighter lands with one wing (aviatime.com)

An anonymous reader writes: During the collision the F-15 fighter lost one of its wings. Due to the intense fumes the pilot and his navigator Yehuar had no idea that they were flying with only one wing. This is why they chose not to abandon the jet and proceeded with a crash landing. Only when the aircraft was landed and Ziv Nadivi leaned back towards his navigator for a congratulatory handshake, he realized that the aircraft wing on the right hand side was missing.

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