Comment Re:Good (Score 2) 245
Doesn't Chrome support Firefox-compatible plugins?
I would have sworn it did.
Comment Gmail is top result for me (Score 1) 257
I am not sure what country you are in. I am in the US.
Gmail is the top result for me. Hotmail is placed 3rd following Yahoo mail.
Comment Re:The bigger question is: (Score 1) 591
Most clients already include web seeding as defined by
http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html
Comment Windows 7 scales to 256 cores (Score 1) 462
Windows 7 supposedly scales upto 256 cores.
See http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Mark-Russinovich-Inside-Windows-7/
Comment Also XBox / Windows Media Center in fray (Score 1) 226
I used Media Center to stream to my TV for quite some time before the novelty wore off.
MCE is great because you can stream any media (some with additional addins).
My TV watching hours have gone down to zero.
Nowadays I just use XBMC whenever I need the 10-foot experience.
Comment Slashdot users are smart (Score 1) 12
This only means that Slashdot users are smart enough to prevent Woopra from tracking them.
I have been using Slashdot for over a decade and I check Slashdot very it regularly.
I have seen several colleagues use Slashdot regularly but some deny that they do so!
Submission + - MIT Cloth that can emit and receive sounds (mit.edu)
La Gris writes: "In the August issue of Nature Materials, Fink and his collaborators announce a new milestone on the path to functional fibers: fibers that can detect and produce sound. Applications could include clothes that are themselves sensitive microphones, for capturing speech or monitoring bodily functions, and tiny filaments that could measure blood flow in capillaries or pressure in the brain. The paper, whose authors also include Shunji Egusa, a former postdoc in Fink's lab, and current lab members Noémie Chocat and Zheng Wang, appeared on Nature Materials' website on July 11, and the work it describes was supported by MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency."
Submission + - 16 Years Jail For Videotaping Police? (mclu.org)
krou writes: The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who potentially faces sixteen years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. ... Once [the Maryland State Police] learned of the video on YouTube, Graber's parents house was raided, searched, and four of his computers were confiscated. Graber was arrested, booked and jailed. Their actions are a calculated method of intimidation. Another person has since been similarly charged under the same statute. The wiretap law being used to charge Anthony Graber is intended to protect private communication between two parties. According to David Rocah, the ACLU attorney handling Mr. Graber's case, "To charge Graber with violating the law, you would have to conclude that a police officer on a public road, wearing a badge and a uniform, performing his official duty, pulling someone over, somehow has a right to privacy when it comes to the conversation he has with the motorist."
Comment New layout is bad. It sucks (Score 1) 1
The response the new layout has been largely negative.
Gone are the two column layouts, the ability to personalize layout and the ability to delete unnecessary sections. Instead users are forced with single column layout with a fixed recent news box, local box and a bunch of news links on the right I don't care about.
With alternatives being equally abysmal, looks like readers are forced to live with the new update.
Gone are the two column layouts, the ability to personalize layout and the ability to delete unnecessary sections. Instead users are forced with single column layout with a fixed recent news box, local box and a bunch of news links on the right I don't care about.
With alternatives being equally abysmal, looks like readers are forced to live with the new update.
Submission + - Google News Page Makeover? 1
An anonymous reader writes: On the morning of July 1, I found the Google News page http://news.google.com/ had been completely redone. Settings for the "old" Google News front page had apparently been discarded, with no way to customize the new page other than by logging in. After logging in I found I could ask for more or less coverage from different news sources, but that's all. No way to eliminate "Popular" feeds. No way to eliminate "Sports" or "Entertainment". And this has been put forth as an IMPROVEMENT for users to customize their experience?? Looking for some collective wisdom, I accidentally went to /. and found an as-yet unscored article on the topic in the Firehose box. But alas, no collective wisdom there. Oh well, later. Later came, I returned to /. and found — nothing about the Google News page makeover. Gentle scorers: WTF? Or the the Google Gods simply make the nascent discussion go away? My reaction to the Google News change: http://news.yahoo.com./ If I'm going to be fed tripe and pabulum, why not get it at a differen restaurant for a change? Thanks for some good years, Google. Time to move on.
Comment Re:Um, Nothing new here.. (Score 4, Informative) 210
There is a even a firefox addon for Readability.
Safari has apparently taken the code from Readability (it says so in the credits).
Comment Support IEX9 on XP (Score 5, Insightful) 458
If IE9 is supposed to destroy the previous versions of IE then they better support IE9 on XP.
XP is still a solid operating system and currently has the highest market share.
No one is going to upgrade their OS just because there is a new browser from Microsoft.
Comment Why use sorenson squeeze instead of x264 (Score 1) 337
The comparison seems to use sorenson squeeze (based on MainConcept if I am not mistaken).
I don't believe it can mach x264's capabilities and speed.
Using x264 for comparison would be much fairer.
Comment Re:Yeah (Score 2, Funny) 348
Mac and Open together in a sentence is a Oxymoron.
Comment 2 year old technology (Score 4, Informative) 225
Robotics studio was made a paid product 2 years ago.
Looks like they did not get enough buyers and its being offered for free now!
And looks like it hasn't been updated in last few years.
Regarding CCR,
I don't see how much relevant CCR will be given the release of Task Parallel Library (TPL) for
