Comment Re:Oh joy! (Score 1) 330
Didn't they say FF9 will finally get rid of the addon compatibility check?
Comment I think I know why he did it: (Score 1) 244
Man must have followed my advice here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=13319755&postcount=483
Comment Pinpoint (Score 3, Interesting) 375
This is easily reproduced in FF4 when you load a page with lots of images. The mem tends to grow proportionally to the size of the images on the page.
But this is the only scenariou where the mem usage is different from other browsers and needs looking into.
Comment Re:Nice stunt (Score 1) 295
Can you explain it? I'm afraid I'm not getting how exactly the positioning of the 3rd member could indicate what move to play.
Comment Gattaca realism (Score 1) 610
Gattaca - the most realistic sci-fi movie where a mission to Titan is a once-in-a-lifetime matter (so much so that the director of a space center murders his subordinate with a computer keyboard just to launch it).
Yeah right.
Comment Great! (Score 0, Troll) 356
Back in my day, we had a handful of FTPs in my city serving SOME illegal content to a select few users who were deemed trustworthy enough to be given access. And that was it. No torrents, no rapidshare, barely any p2p.
Today, everybody just HAS to have all the illegal content, right now. And if they don't they will take it up with the parliament or the president or whoever. Fucking entitlement brats.
Comment Re:there is a thing called Vertragszwang (Score 1) 197
You sir are making no sense. And I am european by the way.
Comment Re:there is a thing called Vertragszwang (Score 1) 197
Exactly. I am currently sueing Mercedes because the car I bought from them won't work with unleaded fuel.
Google Android — a Universe of Incompatible Devices 636
snydeq writes "Galen Gruman writes about the dark side of the recent flood of Android smartphones: versions run amok. 'That flood of options should be a good thing — but it's not. In fact, it's a self-destruction derby in action, as phones come out with different versions of the Android OS, with no clear upgrade strategy for either the operating system or the applications users have installed, and with inconsistent deployment of core features. In short, the Android platform is turning out not to be a platform at all, but merely a starting point for a universe of incompatible devices,' Gruman writes. 'This mess leaves developers and users in an unstable position, as each new Android device adds another variation and compatibility question.' In the end, Google's naive approach to open sourcing Android may in fact be precipitating this free-for-all — one that might ultimately turn off both end-users and developers alike."
As reader donberryman points out, you can even put Android onto some Windows Mobile phones, now.
Intellectual Ventures' Patent Protection Racket 152
David Gerard writes "Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures doesn't sue people over patents, because that would be patent trolling! No, instead they just threaten to sell the patent to a known litigious patent troll. So that's all right then. Timothy Lee details how using patents to crush profitable innovation works in practice, and concludes: 'In thinking about how to reform the patent system, a good yardstick would be to look for policy changes that would tend to put Myhrvold and his firm out of business.'"
Comment Re:How it works in the smart land (Score 1) 269
yeah because SMS is a secure communication medium... A lot better is the password keychain thingnies as a second phase authentication. Nothing is transmitted after you obtain the keychain. Still not completly foolproof, but way better than silly SMS mechanism
OMG the hackerz now gonna intercept my SMSses, I better wrap my phone in tinfoil!!
