Comment Android (Score 0) 413

by iPaqMan on Saturday January 15, 2011 @06:37PM (#34892528) Attached to: Google To Push WebM With IE9, Safari Plugins

So are they taking H.264 out of Android? Isn't this a half hearted effort if they don't?

Also, what are the hundreds of millions of existing devices that only support h.264 supposed to do with WebM?

Comment Re:Antitrust lawsuit? (Score 1) 436

by iPaqMan on Saturday October 23, 2010 @10:36AM (#33996316) Attached to: Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation

So which OS treats Java as a first class citizen?

Comment Re:Say good buy to hope of any java app in mac sto (Score 1) 436

by iPaqMan on Saturday October 23, 2010 @10:29AM (#33996274) Attached to: Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation

I will determine if a app is purchase worthy based on its function not on someones conjecture that it is a "Good Buy".

Comment Re:Baby Steps (Score 1) 436

by iPaqMan on Saturday October 23, 2010 @10:26AM (#33996248) Attached to: Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation

Call me when Apple takes root access away. Until then don't get your tinfoil panties in a bunch.

Comment Re:What are the negative consequences? (Score 3, Insightful) 436

by iPaqMan on Saturday October 23, 2010 @10:13AM (#33996176) Attached to: Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation

Then Oracle should get right on that if they want to truly be a common platform for all OS.

Comment I'd call it... (Score 1) 253

by iPaqMan on Saturday April 12, 2008 @10:42PM (#23051146) Attached to: Name For a Community-Owned Fiber Network?

... a boondoggle. I hope all those VT citizens have a lot of money.

When will people understand that municipalities are inept and couldn't offer a economical triple play if their jobs depended on it. Oh wait, you can't fire government employees for screwing up so I guess there jobs don't depend on it. See the problem here?

Feed Mom & Pop Gold Miners Threaten New Wave Of Mercury Pollution (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Monday May 28, 2007 @11:12AM

Could tons of neurotoxic mercury now stored in the United States wind up in the hands of poverty-stricken gold miners in developing countries and eventually be released into the environment, where it could end up entering the human food chain? A new article explores that possibility in a script that reads like an environmental version of the hit film, Blood Diamond.