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Comment Re:Windows 3.0 (Score 1) 387

by jones_supa on Saturday May 23, 2015 @10:05AM (#49758227) Attached to: 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0

Win 3.0 and 3.1 both supported the 286 processor, so they could not have real multitasking. Both could be crashed by the apps. It's true though that 3.1 was even more reliable than 3.0.

Comment Re:No real-time shadows? (Score 1) 35

by jones_supa on Saturday May 23, 2015 @04:53AM (#49757397) Attached to: Epic's VR Demo Scene For the GTX 980 Now Runs On Morpheus PS4 Headset At 60 FPS

The PS3 version of GTA IV was extremely choppy down to being unplayable.

Comment Re:Sure, very significant (Score 1, Troll) 387

by jones_supa on Saturday May 23, 2015 @04:42AM (#49757377) Attached to: 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0

Rubbish. Linux is far too quirky to be usable. I have to be constantly applying tweaks and changing components to keep the damn thing running properly. It's a fun hobbyist/prototype OS, but that's about it. Windows is the way to go if you want a stable and fast desktop.

Comment Re:Big deal for MS, shit for the rest of the world (Score 1) 387

by jones_supa on Saturday May 23, 2015 @04:25AM (#49757341) Attached to: 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0

But Windows is full of crap, and full of "If you can't make it work right, make it look good - Bill Gates" that it basically caused IT to be shit.

Hehheh. With Windows 10 they seem to have flipped that around: "If you can't make it look good, make it work right."

Comment Re:Windows 3.0 (Score 1) 387

by jones_supa on Saturday May 23, 2015 @04:22AM (#49757331) Attached to: 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0

Hands down, the most unstable operating system ever to achieve mass commercial adoption.

Wait, what? Windows 3.0 was not unstable. Sure, any application could crash the OS, which is a technical deficiency, but I don't remember any kind of unstability in general.

Submission + - Chrome for Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source

Submitted by jones_supa on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:55PM

jones_supa writes: After lots of work by Chrome for Android team and a huge change, Chrome for Android is now almost entirely open source, a Google engineer announced in Reddit. Over 100,000 lines of code, including the Chrome’s entire user interface layer, has been made public, allowing anyone with the inclination to do so to look at, modify, and build the browser from source. Licensing restrictions prevent certain media codecs, plugins and Google service features form being included, hence the "almost". This is on par with the open source Chromium browser that is available on the desktop.

Comment Re:Easy to turn off (Score 1) 531

by jones_supa on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:49AM (#49751001) Attached to: Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users

Certainly agree with that point. A good application always checks with the user before enabling datamining or advertising features, or simply has them turned off by default.

Comment Re:bye (Score 1) 531

by jones_supa on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:08AM (#49750601) Attached to: Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users

No vertical tabs 10 years after widescreen displays started spreading widely?

It's coming. Well, at some point. Bug #51084.

Comment Easy to turn off (Score 0) 531

by jones_supa on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:56AM (#49750451) Attached to: Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users

Ok, I see some commentators in nerd rage already. Relax. If you don't want to see top sites when you make a new tab, Mozilla provides instructions to disable them. It's just a couple of mouse clicks.

Comment Re:Respecting Privacy??? (Score 1) 531

by jones_supa on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:51AM (#49750381) Attached to: Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users

That's the most interesting question actually. Mozilla is doing just fine, so why the need for advertisements, which generally are annoying?

Comment Re:Android. The "PC" of mobile devices (Score 5, Interesting) 92

by jones_supa on Friday May 22, 2015 @08:12AM (#49749713) Attached to: Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage

I know exactly what you mean, but I actually like the wild west of PC and Android. Lots of interesting devices to pick from, and low prices. It's more fun.

Comment Oh man (Score 1) 94

by jones_supa on Friday May 22, 2015 @08:02AM (#49749683) Attached to: NSA Planned To Hijack Google App Store To Hack Smartphones

The report on the surveillance project, dubbed "IRRITANT HORN,"

Hehheh... the gay names of various NSA projects are always great humor.

Comment Two issues in play? (Score 1) 226

by jones_supa on Thursday May 21, 2015 @09:39AM (#49743021) Attached to: Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned

There seems to be a fix in RAID code and a fix in Ext4 code.

The latter was incorporated in Linux 4.0.3 (changelog), and according to the Phoronix article the RAID bug is still unfixed.

Submission + - Jobless Claims In United States Hit 15-Year Low (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by jones_supa on Thursday May 21, 2015 @08:40AM

jones_supa writes: The average number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits over the past four weeks dropped to a 15-year low, a sign the labor market continues to strengthen. In the period that ended May 16, four-week average for jobless claims decreased from 271,750 to 266,250. The figure corresponds to the week the government surveys employers to calculate the monthly payroll data: on a weekly basis, applications rose by 10,000 to 274,000. Such a limited pace of dismissals indicates companies are anticipating a pickup in demand for their goods and services in the coming months. More job security that sparks bigger wage gains would help propel consumer confidence and make households feel more comfortable spending. A positive feedback loop is getting stronger in the U.S. economy.

Comment Re:Piracy - Yea right. (Score 1) 95

by jones_supa on Thursday May 21, 2015 @05:42AM (#49742213) Attached to: Grand Theft Auto V Keeps Raking In Money

You can't pirate PS4 and XBOne games though. The copy protection has not been cracked.

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