Comment: So, if I get this correctly... (Score 5, Insightful) 366
This article compares Apple, a hardware maker, with Google and Android, who provides software to hardware makers? How is that a fair comparison?
Shortcuts to a High Tech House
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phaedrus9779 writes "I'm a recently married man about to take on the next big adventure: home ownership! I came across a great house in a great community but I need a little bit extra: a high tech house. The problem: money, I'm on a budget. I'd love to have home theaters, super high tech weather stations and iPads seamlessly installed in all the walls — but this just isn't possible. So my question to the Slashdot community is: how can I build a high tech house that will be the envy of my friends, provide lots of useful gadgets, and not break the bank?
Also, as always, the cooler the better!"
Also, as always, the cooler the better!"
Comment: Re:I like this (Score 5, Insightful) 116
Seeing how the target demographic of that package is mostly MBAs, I think it works out pretty well.
Comment: I like this (Score 2) 116
This actually looks nice for a prototype! The data is well laid out. This is probably the first app that convinced me that Metro might work out in the end.
Comment: Re:no surprise (Score 1) 381
I think this is what they may aim for, with
If I got this correctly, you could just use managed
Museum Helps Domesday Reloaded Project 70
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from the time-capsule-by-another-name dept.
from the time-capsule-by-another-name dept.
purehavnet writes "For many months the volunteers at the Centre for Computing History have been working on capturing and preserving the data from the BBC Domesday System. A complete set of data from the community disc was supplied to the BBC, who have now released the Domesday Reloaded project. This allows most of the community data from the original system to be viewed online."
Comment: Re:The numbers are wrong (wild guess) (Score 5, Informative) 486
NATO aircrafts have OTAN printed on it because the two official languages used in NATO are English and French. OTAN means Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord.
Comment: Re:Why... (Score 1) 239
Facebook would be a good example of this. In IE, rendering time allows the full page with images to be loaded before displaying it. I used to have up to 70% of my CPU eaten by IE7 trying to display the page (just to resituate, this was on an Eee PC 701). Chrome on the other hand displays the page much faster, and images are still loading after the page render. CPU utilization was also lower, hovering around 20%.
I did not time both browsers and I don't have my Eee anymore. But I think it is (or was) a good example of a Javascript heavy website.
Gmail is also a good example of a Javascript-loaded website.
Comment: How about Robogeisha? (Score 1) 277
How about Robogeisha? Is she safe?
Comment: Re:one time CC numbers (Score 1) 367
I don't know about elsewhere, but this exists in France already. It's called e-Carte Bleue. You have a program on your computer, you enter an amount of money, you press generate. It calls back your bank, asks for authorization and responds back with a one-time CC number. While it doesn't work absolutely everywhere, it's damn useful to test out stuff. It costs not much IIRC, I don't use it that much these days (I only buy from trusted sources)...
Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.
Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.