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Comment Re:OK, and what is new? (Score 1) 154

Does anyone really uses HTML in emails? I mean seriously?

Certainly. Hopefully every email I send and receive is rich text aside from mailing lists and notifications.

Welcome to the new millennium where we don't *have* to use plain text for everything.

Comment One format to rule them all (Score 2) 262

I want a new image format.

I want alpha, I want CMYK or whatever colourspace. I want exif or whatever metadata.

But more than anything I want it to support both lossy and lossless algorithms so we can finally see an end to people using jpg for everything, including hard contrast logos.

It would just take a checkbox on the save dialog with some wording to encourage lossless where appropriate.

Comment and illogical date formats, and... (Score 1) 2288

driving side choice, and coke formula.

The coke formula thing is my favorite. The rest of the world went - ok whatever, a new taste coke. They shrugged and moved on.

In the US, there was outrage, and the subsequent re-introduction of the old formula as coke classic.

Units, date formats, coke, etc will never change because changing stuff is clearly anti-american.

Comment Activate Libel Retort? (Score 2) 184

Britain also horrendous libel laws.

Given that warning letters without significant supporting evidence can be considered damaging to the reputation of an individual, it would seem appropriate that if you are on the receiving end of a warning letter, you should sue the sender for libel.

If this happens enough, then it might results in changes to one of the DEA laws or libel laws, so it would be a win win type deal.

Comment Re:A security and functionality oriented fork (Score 1) 453

Nobody asked for the "awesome bar" or whatever the hell that is. If it improves productivity then fine

The address bar does auto complete from a number of sources such as history and bookmarks with a fall through to search if it isn't found. So yes they called it "awesome" making a gross error of naming judgement, but of course it improves productivity over the alternative of having four different searches.

We /did/ ask for this feature - at least implicitly - we just didn't need the dumbass name.

Comment Re:Of course they want a Linux Mobile OS (Score 1) 117

The goal for both Meego and Android should be to get their kernel customisations back into mainline.

They benefit everyone then, provided they are not customisations that only benefit the android stack.

As for using Dalvik.. doubtful. QT is the strategy and it goes beyond Meego, and is native.

"Stealing" is an odd term to use for open source. Sharing it is the point.

We don't need to worry too much about Nokia's involvement in MeeGo either - you can take your hat off. It is an open source linux distribution, and the more people / businesses that get involved, the lesser is Nokia's influence. My hope that this goes the way of other distributions, where corporations contribute but the distribution has its own life. Once MeeGo has reached a usability milestone we'll see xda port it to everything they can get their hands on, then demand will increase for handset manufacturers will be pressured in to providing open source (or at least blobs) drivers for their hardware. Then the tables will be reversed, asking not what handset/OS shall I buy, but what handset shall I buy, and which OS shall I install on it.

And it will go the way of the PC

Comment Re:Of course they want a Linux Mobile OS (Score 1) 117

Android isn't anything like MeeGo or a linux distribution. It has its own stack - the commonality ends at the kernel (if they have even merged the custom kernel changes back in to mainline yet) The kernel is only a part of the equation - significant but a part.

If they want their CPU platform to only be thought of as useful for running Android java apps, then ok that is a possible decision. If I was AMD I would prefer something that has a bit more potential - which is what Meego provides. I am not surprised at their decision to want a proper gnu/linux stack, hence my post.

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