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egNuKe writes:
According to DailyTech, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC is criticizing Intel for offering The Classmate laptop at a competitive price.
Negroponte even accused Intel of trying to "drive him out of market". He claimed that Intel is doing so because OLPC uses AMD processors.
Negroponte also accused Intel of exposing the OLPC's shortcomings when they compare it to their Classmte in their presentations.
So in a nutshell, OLPC creator has the nerve to ask for a product removed just because it is a viable competitor to his (charity?) product.
70948
submission
egNuKe writes:
Like most SlashDotters , i use Firefox and adblock.
i blocked the ads that yahoo put in my inbox , but the next time i opened it , i found other ads.
i blocked them too.
this happened for several times.
i figured out that yahoo have some script that checks if the ad is displayed , if it is not, it displays another one.
No big problem there , i just needed to add several rules to adblock to block the several ad sources they use.
but here is the problem :
when adblock is running and effectively stopping yahoo mail ads, Firefox would freeze (all open windows and tabs) for about 15 seconds.
then the page opens and there is no ads.
turning off adblock solves the freezing problem.
did anybody else notice that ? can anybody find a cure for that ? the script must be on client side , since the client's browser freezes.
