Comment Isn't this what Google does? (Score 1) 342
How does this differ than what Google does with the Android OS? Or Apple with WebKit?
Comment Re:Business as usual (Score 1) 149
If the icon is pinned to the taskbar in Windows 7, you just right click and select "Start InPrivate Browsing"
Comment Re:But you'll still only be able to find southwest (Score 2, Interesting) 72
I have a daughter with a peanut allergy you insensitive clod!
But seriously, since Southwest doesn't clean up between flights (only once in the morning), we can no longer take Southwest anymore. Even if they ban peanuts on our flight, there is too much old peanuts on the seats, floor, and air. Last time my daughter started getting a bad reaction and we had to douse her with medicine to keep it from getting life-threatening.
People don't realize that just a little bit of peanuts around can cause those with allegeries to stop breathing.
Comment Re:XP is the 90's? (Score 1) 1213
There are reasons the progress bar dialogs don't show all the work being done. Reporting takes time. Would you rather have more information over having it complete quicker?
Comment Re:My take as an old time firefox user ... (Score 1) 646
Opera has a plugin system called "widgets" that is quite capable, and the UI is very customizable, such as choosing what you want on which tool bar/area, keyboard shortcuts, customize address bar search and others.
What do you want for "real gui modification?" (I mean that as a real question, not rhetoric)
Comment Re:Certainly not light (Score 1) 646
On this newer (but not nearly top of the line) system running Ubuntu, FF 3.6.3 gets a 300 and Chrome 5.0.375.38 beta gets a 2152. This is from the page at http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v3/run.html
Comment Re:Google vs Microsoft (Score 1, Informative) 178
This isn't only OOXML documentation. This is the current versions used by Office 2007, and also documents the older binary versions.
Comment Re:Google vs Microsoft (Score 2, Informative) 178
Microsoft has documented all the binary and XML file formats used by office: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118(office.12).aspx
Comment Re:XNA is not perfect (Score 1) 65
It only rules out RPGs where the authors "documented" the language so that it could be translated. Most fantasy languages aren't fully fleshed out like the one in "Lord of the Rings" or "Star Trek".
Comment Re:XNA is not perfect (Score 2, Informative) 65
That's only partially, true, and the sound is issue is being resolved:
- Version 4 allows custom sound: http://creators.xna.com/en-US/news/gdc2010
- According to this, only "made up languages that are documented (e.g. Klingon/elvish)" are failed.
Submission + - Gun with Wireless Arming Signal Goes on Sale Soon (wired.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Armatix has built a pistol that will disarm itself when it is taken away from a watch that sends it a wireless arming signal. The 22 caliber guns will go on sale in the US within months, and the initial price is 7,000 euro. Higher caliber models will follow. To activate the gun, users must enter a pin code on the wristwatch, and then keep it within roughly 20cm of the gun. If the person is disarmed, the gun can't be used against them. Also coming soon this year, civilians will also be able to buy three-shot Tasers, rubber bullets, as well as Heckler and Koch black rifles.
Submission + - Obama Plan Privatizes Astronaut Launchings (nytimes.com)
couchslug writes: President Obama will end NASA’s return mission to the moon and turn to private companies to launch astronauts into space when he unveils his budget request to Congress next week, an administration official said Thursday.The shift would “put NASA on a more sustainable and ambitious path to the future,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But the changes have angered some members of Congress, particularly from Texas, the location of the Johnson Space Center, and Florida, the location of the Kennedy Space Center.
“My biggest fear is that this amounts to a slow death of our nation’s human space flight program,” Representative Bill Posey, Republican of Florida, said in a statement.
“My biggest fear is that this amounts to a slow death of our nation’s human space flight program,” Representative Bill Posey, Republican of Florida, said in a statement.
Submission + - Chrome Apes IE8, Adds Clickjacking, XSS Defenses (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: Google has announced that it added several new security features to Chrome 4, including two security measures first popularized (sone later shot down as having 'zero impact') by rival Microsoft's IE8 last year. The newest "stable" build of Chrome includes five security additions that target Web developers who want to build more secure sites, said Adam Barth, a software engineer on the Chrome team. The two aped from IE include "X-Frame-Options," a security feature that helps sites defend against "clickjacking" attacks, and cross-site scripting protection. "In Google Chrome 4, we've added an experimental feature to help mitigate one form of XSS [cross-site scripting], reflective XSS," Barth said. "The XSS filter checks whether a script that's about to run on a Web page is also present in the request that fetched that Web page. If the script is present in the request, that's a strong indication that the Web server might have been tricked into reflecting the script."
Whatever Happened To Second Life? 209
Barence writes "It's desolate, dirty, and sex is outcast to a separate island. In this article, PC Pro's Barry Collins returns to Second Life to find out what went wrong, and why it's raking in more cash than ever before. It's a follow-up to a feature written three years ago, in which Collins spent a week living inside Second Life to see what the huge fuss at the time was all about. The difference three years can make is eye-opening."
Comment Re:I wonder (Score 1) 315
Here is the official press release with the answer: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-15statement.mspx
