Comment: Re:Or you never visualized them in the first place (Score 1) 845
Did it exactly the same way without really even thinking about it.
Work on Acid 4 Beginning Soon?->
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Dak RIT writes "Shortly after the Acid 3 test was released in 2008, Ian Hickson stated that "work on Acid4 will begin when three of the four top rendering engines have builds that pass the test, and will be finished and announced after four of the top four rendering engines have announced that they have fixed all the bugs found by Acid3." Today, with the release of Firefox 7, 3 of the top 4 engines now pass the Acid3 test (WebKit and Presto have passed it since 2008), although this reference to a start date has quietly been removed. Even Trident (IE) has now quietly managed to muster a 100/100 score on Acid3. So, is it time to start work on Acid4?"
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Comment: Acid 4 (Score 1) 452
It looks like Firefox 7 just about passes the Acid 3 test now (it scores 100/100, although I'm seeing a rendering error). Does that mean we should now expect to see work on Acid 4 begin in the near future?
Hickson had previously stated that work would begin when 3 of the 4 major rendering engines passed the Acid 3 test. WebKit and Presto already passed, so Mozilla should make that 3/4. Heck, even Trident is scoring 100/100 now.
AMD Fusion APU a good fit for desktop replacements->
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crookedvulture writes "AMD's hopes for the consumer market are pinned heavily on its latest A-series APUs. Otherwise known as Llano, these CPU/GPU hybrids have started popping up in the larger, budget notebooks that are whittling away at desktop market share. A closer inspection of Asus' 15.6" entry into this market reveals a system with potent CPU and gaming performance, built-in USB 3.0 support, but only mediocre battery life. That's not a bad trade-off for only $600. However, just as Intel has some catching up to do on the graphics front, Llano's relatively high power consumption remains a concern for notebooks."
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Google Drops Cloud Lawsuit Against US Gov't->
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jfruhlinger writes "A year ago, Google sued the U.S. government because the government's request for proposals for a cloud project mandated Microsoft Office; Google felt, for obvious reasons, that this was discriminatory. Google has now withdrawn the suit, claiming that the Feds promised to update their policies to allow Google to compete. The only problem is that the government claims it did no such thing."
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Comment: Re:Cold war turns hot (Score 1) 342
"Apple has 50% of profit share from smartphone makers, can’t hear the haters behind huge wall of cash"
Apple crowned No. 1 with biggest market cap
I wish I could fail as well as Apple does.
KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt 196
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from the merge-ahead dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A proposal has been brought up with KDE developers by Cornelius Schumacher to merge the KDE libraries with the upstream Qt project. This could potentially lead to KDE5 coming about sooner than anticipated, but there's very mixed views on whether merging kdelibs with Qt would actually be beneficial to the KDE project, which has already led to two lengthy mailing list talks (the first and second threads). What do you think?"
Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player 139
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from the our-very-own-kitchen-sink dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Webmonkey has an interesting tidbit about Adobe's release of its own HTML5 video player: 'Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash. Using Adobe's new player, these devices can show videos in web pages without the Flash plug-in.'"
Comment: Re:Original article??? (Score 1) 319
The 5th paragraph (of black text) in the article clearly states: "Regarding price, Apple's" stuff is not cheap, a lot of its stuff is comparatively expensive, and there's many additional aspects of owning the device you have to pay for that are not cheap. For example, you can't install pirated software, download [free] music, you have to pay to watch movies, etc."
Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword 188
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from the x4-crit-modifier dept.
jamie writes "Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett says he was so excited after being knighted by the Queen that he decided to make his own sword to equip himself for his new status... the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it in the grounds of his house, using a makeshift kiln built from clay and hay and fueled with damp sheep manure."