Comment Error in the Summary (Score 1) 1

by MackieChan on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @03:12AM (#38199656) Attached to: Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code

That summary doesn't make sense - I thought hitting 'enter' would submit the tag, not the entire submission; I wasn't done editing. It should read: "Although Barnes & Noble receives a lot of credit from the slashdot community for standing up to Microsoft and for allowing the nook to be so easy to root, perhaps Amazon releasing the source code to the Kindle will help it gain back supporters it lost after remotely removing ebooks."

Submission + - Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code (latimes.com) 1

Submitted by

MackieChan

on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:59AM

MackieChan writes: "Although Barnes & Noble receives a lot of credit from the slashdot community for standing up to Microsoft and for allowing the nook to be so easy to root, but perhaps Amazon releasing the source code to the Kindle will help it gain back supporters it lost after remotely removing ebooks"

Comment Re:Still waiting for... (Score 1) 335

by MackieChan on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:30AM (#32961874) Attached to: Google Chrome Now Has Resource-Blocking Adblock

alright then if you wanna be a nitpicky nigra...are you an asshole if you use a DVR and fast-forward through commercials =P

You mean you don't have the ability to fast forward through web-ads? Man you need to get that extension!

Comment Re: NO (Score 1) 335

by MackieChan on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:23AM (#32961844) Attached to: Google Chrome Now Has Resource-Blocking Adblock

Almost, but not quite. There shouldn't be a comma before "and" in the first sentence. The remainder of the sentence, "may have had the ability for some time", isn't an independent clause.

I wait 2 years before my first slashdot post, proofread it multiple times, have my girlfriend proofread it, and then get an "impeccable grammar" praise.

Then you have to come along and take it all away.

Damn you I say, damn you Mr. 4 digit! ...I'm going back to my corner now...

Comment Re:It's had gestures for quite a while (Score 1) 335

by MackieChan on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:07AM (#32961746) Attached to: Google Chrome Now Has Resource-Blocking Adblock

FWI, it's had gestures for quite a while. A quick extensions search pulls up 10 results that are all related to mouse gestures. I remember using gestures unofficially almost right when it came out, and officially soon after.

Submission + - Google Chrome now has resource-blocking adblock (google.com)

Submitted by

MackieChan

on Monday July 19, 2010 @06:27PM

MackieChan writes: "It seems to have slipped under the radar, but Google Chrome now has resource-blocking abilities, and may have had the ability for some time. Using the "beforeload" event on the document, an extension can now intercept resources from loading. Adblock for Chrome has already added it, and I expect the other 'ad-blocking' extensions have as well. Before you start praising Google, however, its the WebKit team that deserves your credit; one chromium developer responded to praise by stating '... thank Apple — they added it to WebKit, we just inherited it.' Firefox vs Chrome just got a bit more exciting."

Submission + - Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1 (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @11:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has reached an important Milestone as its new JavaScript engine “JaegerMonkey” is now faster than the current “TraceMonkey” in a key benchmark. Mozilla wants JaegerMonkey to be faster than the competition and launch on September 1, which means that JaegerMonkey will make it into Firefox 4.0.

Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide 422

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 20, 2009 @09:36PM from the press-the-advantage dept.

gQuigs notes a graph up at StatCounter Global Statistics, which shows that in the last few days Firefox 3.5 became the most used browser version worldwide, edging ahead of IE7. IE8 is rising fast (along with Windows 7), but over the last few months the slope of Firefox's worldwide curve has been steeper. (In the US, IE8 has always been ahead of Firefox 3.5; in Europe Firefox has led since late summer.) The submitter suggests using the time when Firefox rules the roost, globally speaking, to put the final nail in the coffin of IE6, which still has a 14% global share (5%-7% in the US and EU; China and Korea are holding up IE6's numbers).

Submission + - MS pulls Windows 7 tool after GPL violation claims 1

Submitted by Sam on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @03:09PM

Sam writes: Ars Technica reports: Microsoft has pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store website after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU's General Public License (GPL). Whether the software giant is actually violating the GPL, a widely used (including by the Linux kernel) free software license, is not confirmed. "We are currently taking down the Windows USB/DVD Tool (WUDT) from the Microsoft Store site until our review of the tool is complete," a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. "We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience." The fact the company pulled the tool doesn't bode well, so we'll have to watch closely to see what the company puts back on its servers.