Comment: Low End Box (Score 1) 2
lowendbox.com has hundred of such cheap VPS with customers comments. Pick your poison.
Comment: KDE under windows IS available (Score 1) 2
Install KDE's KMail on your toy operating system.
Comment: unpaper (Score 1) 1
Comment: Re:FAIL + FAIL = FAIL (Score 1) 121
Netscape failed. Then we got Firefox out of that failing project.
Chrome could get a noticeable part of the market-share and mind-share when there was too many web browsers already (MSIE, Firefox-and-XUL-brothers, Safari-and-KHTML-brothers, Opera).
It's not impossible that Tizen finds a niche large enough to become the libre software platform we all want; Android future doesn't seem promising, freedom-wise.
Comment: Re:Nerds have no clue (Score 2) 69
It's not as if there aren't words in the language which are related to calendar, from which to make a descriptive product name. How about "Mozailla Calendar"?
Yeah, much better in the proprietary world. As if Acrobat, Distiller, Excel, Skype, DreamWeaver, Outlook, Cubase, Visio, Shazam, Symphony were so out-of-this-world that they could not find any english words related to their functionality to name them.
People know that a Honda Civic is a car (and not toothpaste nor cooking oil nor guitar amplifier) even though the name has no relationship whatsoever with transportation.
Google Releases WebP->
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An anonymous reader writes "Google has released WebP, a lossy image format based on the image encoding used by VP8 (the video codec used in Google's WebM video format) to compress keyframes. According to the FAQ, WebP achieves an average 39% more compression than JPEG and JPEG 2000. A gallery on the WebP homepage has a selection of images which compare the original JPEG image with the WebP encoded image shown as a PNG. There's no information available yet on which browsers will support the WebP image format but I imagine it will be all the browsers which currently have native WebM support — Firefox, Chrome, and Opera."
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100/1 Odds On "First Contact" Within a Year->
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astroengine writes "After all the kerfuffle of "Ambassadorgate" — when the UK media went nuts over the rumored promotion of Mazlan Othman to become the UN's first choice as mankind's alien point of contact — it would appear that gamblers saw this as a tip that an alien landing was imminent."
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New Approach for the Factorization of Integers->
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rift321 writes "Looks like a clever guy at Moscow University found another way to factor integers using polynomial expansion and Fourier coefficients. Anyone have a take on whether this is more or less efficient than the methods already used?"
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Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-sort Barrier-> 2
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An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently open sourced an algorithm capable of sorting at a rate of one billion (integer) keys per second using a GPU. Although GPUs are often assumed to be poorly suited for algorithms like sorting, their results are several times faster than the best known CPU-based sorting implementations."
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Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound 118
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from the bloop-bleep-bloop dept.
from the bloop-bleep-bloop dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Anyone who's ever taken a programming course or tried to learn how to code out of a book will have come across sorting algorithms. Bubble, heap, merge — there's a long list of methods for sorting data. The subject matter is fairly dry. Thankfully, someone has found a way to not only make sorting more interesting, but easier to remember and understand, too."