If suddenly is in say 10 years time. Then doing this research that will be much more feasible in 6 years time seems pretty smart to me. Just because the technology isnt here now doesn't mean it isnt worth preparing for its arrival

Being a student I still use Wikipedia alot of the time.

To use it successfully you just scroll to the bottom and look at all the pretty references on a subject. 90% of the time you'll find the actual journal articles.technical papers/books that you were actually after.

Wikipedia is a source of infomation. Not an information store.

I thought the whole point of cloud computing was to NOT have a single point of faliure.
So a consortium of open source advocates would be much more cloud than the SAAS of Google Amazon et. al.

I would take this as a pretty serious suggestion. This is basically what Bittorrent was made for. Transmitting large files over slow connections with a high level of reliability and a low level of re-transmition should things go wrong.

http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Opera do not even have a message saying they Pass at 100. Actually Opera seem to feel its something their browser shuld be doing anyway - not a "goal"

Although I agree its nasty marketing - Turbo is a real benefit to people on slow net connections, such as a mobile. It basically proxies through Opera's servers and compresses everything before sending it to the phone. So as much as a clog is something too big increading pressure on a limited throughput - Turbo does unclog your connection

*Sorry Karma*

Seems to be working in Opera 10 (alpha) as well. So is it news when Firefox does it - even if its last?*

What I think is news is there seem to more browsers that support the tag that websites that use it. Must be a first for a new feature of HTML.

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*Yeah yeah I'm discounting IE.

Almost all of Cern is using CentOS and Scientific Linux (a derivative of CentOS).

Yes it is true that they are using *nix on their grid but they are also using *nix on the desktops as the best way to interface with the grid.

Up to date system requires less updating than an out of date system.

ergo he remain up to date all along.

The problem is not intel selling high quality goods for a low price. The problem is intel using their size and market dominance to threaten retailers into not using competitors products. Intel have been ensuring by force that AMD are not even getting a chance to hit "shelves" with their products. That really is a bad things for everyone.

It's almost what Vista wanted to be...minus WinFS...though they have tried to bodge similar functionality into explorer...

I actually quite like it...as far as I can like windows.

Its the best version of windows so far - even including server 2000

I'm not really selling it am I :(

Not only that but Opera provide a repository for Ubuntu anyway. So not having Opera available is just poor config.

Sorry who has been screwed over here. I don't remember Sun stopping me using the code as well. Just not their changes to the code. I have lost nothing - you have lost nothing - the original author has lost nothing. We have all gained with Sun, Microsoft etc having better code.

But what has *BSD lost because of this? At the end of the day there was no theft involved. Its like the whole file-sharing and "stealing movies" argument. The original "owner" has not lost a thing. On the plus side the world has a much improved OS that has a chance of breaking a monopoly.

Yes because at 100mph I want to be looking down at the dashboard to see where the volume up button is. Using a standard tactile dash I can feel it and I can feel if I've missed it. I don't have to take my eyes off the road.

A lack of tactile interaction is not just "a little odd" when it comes to some functions. Such as on a cars dashboard; braile etc.