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Comment Favorite blah blah (Score 2) 321

by MagicM (#42400681) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012?

Submission + - Disney to buy Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, release Star Wars 7 in 2015 (go.com)

Submitted by MagicM
MagicM writes: Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind "Star Wars," from its chairman and founder, George Lucas. It's also making a seventh movie in the "Star Wars" series called "Episode 7," set for release in 2015, with plans to follow it with Episodes 8 and 9 and then one new movie every two or three years.
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A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now 687

Posted by Soulskill from the time-travel dept.
Fifteen years from now, your alarm goes off at 7:30 AM, pulling you out of a dead sleep. You roll over, grumbling a command, and the alarm obediently shuts up. You drift off again, but ten minutes later the alarm returns, more insistent. It won't be so easily pacified this time; the loose sensory netting inside your pillow will keep the noise going until it detects alpha waves in drastically higher numbers than theta waves. Or until it gets the automated password from the shower. Sighing, you roll out of bed, pull your Computing ID (CID) card from the alarm unit, and stumble out of the bedroom. Pausing briefly to drop your CID into your desktop computer, you make your way to the shower and begin washing. Your alarm triggered the shower's heating unit, so the water comes out at a pleasant 108 degrees, exactly your preference. (42 degrees, you remind yourself — the transition to metric still isn't second nature, after almost two full years.) You wash quickly to avoid exceeding your water quota, and step out refreshed, ready to meet the day. (Read on for more.)

Comment Re:Forced Upgrades? (Score 2) 665

by MagicM (#40881359) Attached to: Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It

I'm sorry but, what?

First, a dark background when most websites and images are very light is jarring.

I have yet to find a website on which the black background for standalone images opened in a new tab/window has jarred me.

Second, centering the image makes it harder to click on for actions like saving or copying.

That's like saying they should put an archery bulls-eye on the edge of the target because it will be easier to hit there. I hate repeating myself, but, what?

And third, it destroys the usability of a very common entire class of images.

If an image is supposed to have a white background, it needs to define a white background. Many image editors show a checkerboard background for transparency. If the usability of these images is destroyed, that's the image's fault and not the image viewer.

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