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Comment: Re:Article is wrong; no IE support on the ADMIN pa (Score 1) 66

by Lumpy (#40141523) Attached to: Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings

You would have to code like a moron to make it IE unfriendly.

Code to HTML standards and you will be fine. Not everything has to be WEB 4.0Beta with fricking blinking beeping and sliding crap everywhere. In fact most sites that are crap embrace all that garbage. Look at how much slower Slashdot became when they added in all that garbage that really was not needed.

Internet Explorer

Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings 66

Posted by timothy
from the what-about-being-platform-agnostic? dept.
darthcamaro writes "Guess what — you don't have to support Microsoft's IE web browser any more to build a successful website. In fact, you might just be able to save yourself a pile of cash if you avoid IE altogether." (Here's the story, from a few days back, in Canada's National Post, about the frugal financing of social startup Huddlers.) Evidently, no one complained about the lack of IE support either. I'd like to read more details about what $100,000 worth of IE-specific development would buy, though; not being dependent on IE sounds great, but loses some sparkle if it means requiring Chrome or Firefox.

Comment: Re:"I say kill them all..." (Score 1) 293

right, and the SEALs who stormed the compound were given orders to capture, only kill if necessary. not to "kill them all

or is it that you like giving bin laden what he wants?

think of the torture and misery for him to be paraded around as a captured criminal. don't you find that resolution superior? if so, then you agree that "kill them all" sucks as an attitude

Music

"Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online 45

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the refined-free-software-zealots dept.
rDouglass writes "MuseScore, the open source music notation editor, and pianist Kimiko Ishizaka have released a new recording and digital edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The works are released under the Creative Commons Zero license to promote the broadest possible free use of the works. The score underwent two rounds of public peer review, drawing on processes normally applied to open source software. Furthermore, the demands of Bach's notational style drove significant advancements in the MuseScore open source project. The recording was made on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial piano in the Teldex Studio of Berlin. Anne-Marie Sylvestre, a Canadian record producer, was inspired by the project and volunteered her time to edit and produce the recording. The project was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign that was featured on Slashdot in March 2011."

Comment: Re:Why would it need studies? (Score 2) 186

by SgtChaireBourne (#40140629) Attached to: TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap
Except that you haven't compared that output to the actual terrain. Someone tried to foist Bing maps off on someone I know. The guy is mister diplomacy, never a direct bad word about something ,except for the Bing maps. Both the image quality and the accuracy were shit. Had he been shown a random area he was not familiar with, the scam might have worked but in his case it only showed off how buggy and inaccurate the maps were. Needless to say things were better on Google maps and he tried to enlighed the foister. However, Bing was probably chosen on ideology so I'm not sure his admonitions had any effect.

Comment: Re:Why would it need studies? (Score 1) 186

by Lumpy (#40140535) Attached to: TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap

You never owned anything based on NavTeq maps have you.

Navteq map databases are the WORST in the world. bad data, really out of date roads, missing roads that have existed for decades.
It's why the OEM Gps systems in many cars and bikes is a complete piece of crap.

The databases used by garmin and the others is based on the US Census data. And TomTom is whiny because the open guys can use the same database.

Anyone can build a tomtom for 1/3rd the price of their over priced stuff. And honestly, they have fallen way behind, even the china knockoffs have a better UI than tomtom has now.

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