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Comment Re:Not quite a monopoly (Score 2) 97

by AuBowser on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:37PM (#48247459) Attached to: 20 More Cities Want To Join the Fight Against Big Telecom's Broadband Monopolies

CenturyLink has announced 1GB service "soon" in Denver. Pricing is unclear but it appears they want to sell it bundled with land line phone service. I would prefer the City of Denver develop a high speed network as a public utility.

Drupal's Dries Buytaert On Drupal 7 55

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @12:57PM from the on-the-horizon dept.

itwbennett writes "The Drupal community has been working on Drupal 7 for two years, and there are 'hundreds of changes' to show for it, says Drupal creator Dries Buytaert in an interview with ITworld's Esther Schindler on the occasion of Drupal 7 going into Alpha test this week. Most notable for end users are 'some massive usability improvements,' says Buytaert, while site builders will see the greatest changes in the Drupal Content Construction Kit (CCK), which has been moved into the Drupal core. But one thing that hasn't changed is the not-so-easy upgrade path. 'The upgrade path for a Drupal site has never been really easy, to be honest,' Buytaert says. 'We do break backwards compatibility. It's a little bit painful because it requires all of the contributed modules — and there's 4,000-5,000 of them — to make changes.' But Buytaert doesn't think that's all bad. 'Innovation is key. Backwards compatibility limits innovation,' Buytaert contends. 'The rule we have is: We'll break the API if it makes a better API, and if it allows good innovation and progress to be made. Also: The second rule is that we'll never break people's data. We'll always provide an upgrade path for the data.'"

Submission + - "Pull" barcode scanning is Android's kille (ethicalspender.org)

Submitted by

Seor Jojoba

on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:16PM

Seor Jojoba writes: "The release of T-Mobile's G1 Smartphone is shifting focus away from push-based barcode scanning, where embedded URLs send you to locations of a vendor's choosing. There is now more interest in pull-scanning, where product information is retrieved from user-specified sources. It may be that QR-Codes and other 2D barcodes will have their thunder stolen by 1970's-era linear barcodes. On the iPhone, scanning a 1D barcode is slow and unreliable. But the G1's improved optics and Android's improved access to image scans has made 1D scanning quick and useful, opening the gateway for killer apps that help people make spending decisions."

Comment Re:Arthiritic? At 44? (Score 2, Informative) 529

by AuBowser on Saturday November 25, 2006 @10:52PM (#16988990) Attached to: The Last Games You'd Play?

Cod liver oil has too many pollutants. Try a pharmaceutical grade fish oil extract. Ingest the good parts after the bad stuff is filtered out.

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