Comment Fox Comet! (Score 3, Funny) 134
Space Kitsune!
Off to earn it's last three tails.
Comment Ewww! (Score 1) 1191
What's wirth the G+ style 'magic bar that comes and goes at the top as you tr and scroll' thing? That's damned annoying..
The pretty graphics, I can put up with.. Heck, I can even put up with the pictures..
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But most of all, I hate that the text now takes up about a third of the screen, the rest either being blank or with HUGE sidebars full of stuff I don't care about..
Everyone who isn't on a phone has a fairly wide screen.. Some very wide indeed..
If your on a tablet, it tends to be quite wide too..
So what's with all this blank space, big text and graphics over text?
Seems alright for a mobile site.. But not for your main one! I really hope the new design will allow users to use the full width of their screen...
Comment Re:Meh-and-a-half. (Score 5, Insightful) 109
The current version is all but unusable on a 1.6ghz Atom netbook and grinds my current also Atom desktop machine.. It's go so many bars that vanish and show up, uses so much CPU that typing pegs the system and uses so much realestate that there's less than a quarter of the whole screen for content.. And so much clicking to access things(When things are not automaticly popping up because my cursor strayed somewere).
Their search engine is great, but G+.. well.. Just because it now mattches the Android/iOS App
Go back to your sleek, efficent, neat ways, Google! That's why we loved you!
Comment Aussie (Score 1) 558
Australia...
High speed, bussness, ADSL2+ connection, just a long way from slashdot servers.
~$ ping www.slashdot.org
PING www.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from star.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48): icmp_req=1 ttl=238 time=245 ms
64 bytes from star.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48): icmp_req=2 ttl=238 time=245 ms
64 bytes from star.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48): icmp_req=3 ttl=238 time=241 ms
64 bytes from star.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48): icmp_req=4 ttl=238 time=243 ms
64 bytes from star.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48): icmp_req=5 ttl=238 time=261 ms
64 bytes from star.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48): icmp_req=7 ttl=238 time=247 ms
^C
--- www.slashdot.org ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 6 received, 14% packet loss, time 6012ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 241.057/247.447/261.304/6.576 ms
Comment Nokia 5140i (Score 1) 422
About two weeks ago I realized my 4th hand Nokia 5140i(Semi-ruggerized tradie phone) was missing, after a long search I found it outside in a 10cm deep puddle were it fell out of the ute while getting out in the rain. Having been there for a bit over two days.
Picked it up, shook the water from it and hitting the power button brought it immediately back to life where it registerd with the network and got an SMS..
Left it drying, case and battery out an CRT TV for a few days and it's been perfect ever since.
This same phone has survived being thrown across the room(and smashing hard against the far wall, once hard enough to leave a dint in the pine skirting board) half a dozen times while changing the bed(flicked the sheet and sent it flying) as well as drops off two story roofs and even falling out of my pocket on the motorbike at 60kmh and going bouncing and sliding down the road..
I'm not upgrading to a smart phone unless it can always handle this kind of day-to-day abuse. I don't want to spend $400 or more on a phone that can't handle being dropped off a roof without first being encased in so much rubber it can't fit in my pocket anymore. I have three of these phones, all given to me when others have upgraded. And I haven't even broken the first one.
Submission + - Amazon to offer DRM-free music downloads
squidfood writes: The Guardian is announcing that Amazon.com will begin offering music downloads DRM-free in MP3 format, including the EMI catalog, according to their press release. I'm liking Bezos a little more than Jobs today... a welcome competition- bringing DRM-free entry with such substantial clout and infrastructure.
Submission + - Russia accused of DDoSing Estonia
bignickel writes: The Guardian is reporting on a 3-week wave of massive cyberattacks on government, media, and financial sites in Estonia. From TFA, "NATO has dispatched some of its top cyber-terrorism experts to Tallinn to investigate and to help the Estonians beef up their electronic defences." "The cyber-attacks are from Russia. There is no question. It's political," said Merit Kopli, editor of Postimees, one of the two main newspapers in Estonia, whose website has been targeted and has been inaccessible to international visitors for a week." This comes on the heels of the recent controversial relocation of a Soviet WWII memorial from the centre of Talinn.
Submission + - Intel's PowerTOP extends Linux laptop battery life
DuracellFan writes: Intel recently released its PowerTOP utility, which builds on work done by kernel developers to make the Linux kernel power-efficient. PowerTOP gives a snapshot of what apps are consuming the most power. The PowerTOP website also hosts patches for several Linux apps and the kernel. In the article, which also details PowerTOP, lead-developer, Arjan van de Ven of Intel, says that PowerTOP could soon show which applications keep the disk busy.
Submission + - Walmart picks CA and HI for Solar
mdsolar writes: "Walmart has picked three companies: BP Solar, SunEdison, and PowerLight from its RFP to install solar power on some of its stores. In this pilot project, 22 store roofs will produce
20 GWH per year (2.3 MW) in California and Hawaii. According to BP Solar, Walmart will save on electricity costs with installations that can cover up to 30% of a store's power use. This news comes at a time when
a new concentrator design for roof top solar is being touted as costing half as much (88% less silicon) as the panels used by these three companies in the MIT Technology Review, with deliveries for this kind of application expected this year. Is is coincidence, or does Walmart always fire the starting gun for a race to the bottom on price?"
Submission + - LG.Philips Develops World's First Color E-Paper
An anonymous reader writes: LG.Philips LCD developed the world's first 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper display, equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper.
The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.
The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.
Submission + - Intel's AMD-ATI-Fusion killer: Nehalem
melaheN writes: "So what it AMD-ATI plans to release the Fusion project in the future, just release the same thing earlier! Seems that Intel's planning to do that with the next core architecture called Nehalem or perhaps even earlier with the Penryn core architecture. There have been reports from IDF Beijing stating such possibility but the latest source here pretty much confirms such a project from Intel. Interesting to see how AMD responds next."
Submission + - First map of an extrasolar planet
jiawen writes: "Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has been used by researchers to make the first-ever map of an extrasolar planet. It's a weather map, more precisely, showing temperature variations over the surface of a Hot Jupiter, HD 189733 b (more, more). It really is hot: even the coldest regions are about 1200 degrees F."
