Comment Re:trivial, 99% effective fix (Score 1) 207
That's no good for for those of us who put our computers to sleep instead of shutting down.
Comment Re:With this frequency, I can't keep up! (Score 2) 182
With Mozilla's frequency of spitting out new and newer versions, I just can't keep up!
No problem, just turn automatic updates on.
Comment Re:at the risk of sounding stupid.. (Score 5, Informative) 228
FTFA:
"People illegally jam GPS for a number of reasons, Curry told the audience at the conference at the National Physical Laboratory. These include evasion of company-vehicle or covert tracking, and stealing high-value vehicles."
"People illegally jam GPS for a number of reasons, Curry told the audience at the conference at the National Physical Laboratory. These include evasion of company-vehicle or covert tracking, and stealing high-value vehicles."
Comment Re:NYC Subway (Score 0, Redundant) 276
In Soviet Moscow:
boss hurries you to work
Work hurries your boss.
&
wife calls you home
Home calls your wife.
Comment Re:Finding one (Score 1) 86
You can still get a brand new Touchpad for $220-240 for the 16 GB model. That's still cheap for a tablet like this.
Comment Re:Tabs on top still broken (Score 2) 282
The only things that belong in the title bar are the close button, the dock button, and the zoom to max content size button on the left, the window title in the middle, and the toolbar button on the right.
Are you some kind of an Apple HIG fanboy? Is this a sub-cult of the Apple cult of some sort? The way Chrome does tabs halfway in the title bar makes perfect sense. This approach leaves more screen real estate for the content, while retaining the ability to grab the top of the window to move it around. Besides, Apple breaks it's own HIG quite often. iTunes, Mac App Store - those are the main culprits in the current version of OS X. And God forbid you from using the Address Book in Lion.
Comment Re:works in NYC (Score 1) 347
I'm in Europe, Poland to be exact, and Skype works fine, so no, it's not an OMG W0RdLWiDE OuTaGE (!!!!!!1!!!one!!!), as the title suggests.
Comment More like a ... (Score 1) 271
... facepalm.
Comment Re:My fox is on fire (Score 1) 378
Face the fact that the user base is too small for Microsoft to bother to port the code. Not that they didn't do it in the past - Internet Explorer for UNIX.
Submission + - Microsoft Website Promotes Upgrading From IE6 (ie6countdown.com)
Tarmas writes: "In a not very suprising move, Microsoft has launched a website intended to persuade people to upgrade their browsers from Internet Explorer 6. In Microsoft's words: "This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers". About time?"
Comment Re:Was hoping for a good alternative... (Score 1) 315
I bet he was. I'm using Opera on my Mac right now and it renders /. with no problems.
Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 241
Microsoft managed to squash Netscape, BeOS
While I agree with you to some extent, the arguments you provided are flawed.
BeOS was really never anything more than a tech demo. At that time Apple was interested in buying it and using BeOS as the base for their next OS when the Copland project failed miserably. They bought Next instead, and used NextStep. Be Inc. just couldn't compete. Too bad, because it was the most advanced operating system at that time.
Netscape was squashed by Internet Explorer, but it was not because of Microsoft's evil voodoo practices. It happened because IE was a far better product on both Windows and Mac, and to some extent even UNIX (yes, there was a UNIX port of IE 4 and 5).
Comment Re:I don't need (Score 1) 909
"Think Children" is the new "Think Different".
Comment Re:Surprising? (Score 1) 628
Yeah, like multitask?
Comment Windows ballot screen (Score 1) 143
In case you didn't know, Opera wants to have a new version ready before the Windows browser ballot screen for the EU is in effect.
