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Comment Re:They are NOT "toys"! (Score 1) 479

So, a car is a toy? A stove is a toy? A band saw is a toy?

That's very possible:

toy |toi|
noun
1 an object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something : [as adj. ] a toy car.
  an object, esp. a gadget or machine, regarded as providing amusement for an adult : in 1914 the car was still a rich man's toy.

Toy and tool do not exclude each other. My laptop is more a toy at home, but a tool at work. (not that I don't like the work, but I rather keep a more serious pose there) I'm not sure where the EXACT difference lies, but I prefer to know the context before I judge. I've seen stoves I'd love to play with, I've seen cars (Ford Falcon!) that would serve me no more purpose than fun (heck, anyone with more than 2 cars could be considered to keep cars as toys), I wouldn't call a band saw a toy but someone else might: to each his own, I guess?

Comment Re:Neither was about race (Score 1) 25

Zimmerman got away with murder, plain and simple.

Not what the jury said.

While I don't have a problem agreeing with you that neither case had to do with race, the staggering asymmetry of how one case is blown into a month-long occupation of a state capitol, while another receives orders of magnitude less attention. In particular, my local news, which couldn't get either Zimmerman's or Martin's face off the screen, wasn't showing any pictures of the Oklahoma suspects. Why. Might. That. Be?

I hope my son isn't interested in Journalism, because I don't think it an honorable profession.

Because not every race responds equally in the same way. Some kid stole my sons lunch, "you can't complain because that's racist.". Yup., 12 years old and already pulling the racist card.

Comment Re:terrible UI (Score 1) 193

7 years and the UI is still shit.

UI is confusing, to say the least. But that's not my issue with it, it's UNBELIEVABLY slow to click around. *click* *wait* oops wrong option *click again* *wait* *find the right option* et cetera.

But it's very capable of what it ought to do. It's immensely big though and I prefer smaller apps for smaller tasks.

Submission + - Firefox 23 finally kills "blink" tag (pcpro.co.uk)

nk497 writes: The "blink" tag in HTML has at last been laid to rest, with Mozilla removing support for the much-maligned text style in the latest version of the Firefox browser. The blink tag was never officially supported in Internet Explorer or Chrome, but Firefox inherited it from Netscape Navigator. Opera previously supported it as well, though that ended when the Norwegian browser firm flipped from its own Presto engine to, ironically, Chrome's Blink engine. Google has admitted that the Blink engine was named partially after the flashy element, but has promised that its own browser "will never support the blink tag".

Submission + - Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, And Network Monitor

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 23 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Improvements include the addition of a share button, mixed content blocker, and network monitor on the desktop side. The new desktop version was available on the organization's FTP servers last night, but that was just the initial release of the installers. Firefox 23 has now officially been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play.

Submission + - Sol: the $300 solar-powered laptop 1

nk497 writes: A $300 laptop that charges in two hours in the sun has been created by a Canadian company, to give African businesses and students a computer that will keep working through blackouts. The Sol laptop runs Ubuntu on an Atom CPU, and features four fold-out solar panels. In direct sun, the panels charge the laptop in about two hours, offering up to ten hours of battery life — handy for parts of the world with unstable electricity.

Submission + - Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip (nasa.gov)

Freddybear writes: According to measurements from NASA solar observatories, the sun's magnetic field is about to reverse polarity. The event is predicted to occur within the next three to four months and will have effects throughout the solar system. These magnetic reversals happen regularly about every eleven years as part of the solar cycle.

Comment Re:Just wait 'til companies catch on (Score 1) 322

End the war on work!
http://goo.gl/Nz128

I saw that Ted Talk, one of the few that made sense, was honest, was based on facts and experience and should address the whole world. Yet half my acquaintances were convinced that Mike Rowe was blabbering. They rather heard someone talking about success than about life's realities.

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