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Comment Re:Batteries (Score 1, Informative) 301

by ksdd on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:50PM (#42621145) Attached to: Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU

An inspection of the All Nippon Airways 787 that made an emergency landing in western Japan found that electrolytes, a flammable battery fluid, had leaked from the plane's main lithium-ion battery.

But it's what plants crave.

Comment The other side? (Score 5, Insightful) 314

by ksdd on Friday September 02, 2011 @08:35AM (#37284770) Attached to: Starz To Pull Content From Netflix

Everyone seems to be commenting on how this is bad for Netflix, but I'm kind of wondering how the Starz brass thinks leaving anywhere between $250-$300 million on the table is a good idea, or who they're going to receive better offers from. The content is OK, but I somehow doubt their stuff is as premium as they like to think it is...

Comment The tired Flash ad argument (Score 1) 468

by ksdd on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:21AM (#32127416) Attached to: Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash?

So sick of hearing Flash haters point to "annoying" ads as a major reason Flash won't be missed. Because one thing is certain: advertisers sure won't do equally annoying ads using (the loose collection of technologies currently referred to as) HTML5. No sir.

Be careful what you wish for, folks. There may not be a blocker for it.

Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws 493

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 05, 2009 @11:06AM from the more-is-better-right dept.

nandemoari writes "Mozilla may be this year's winner in the 'browser battles' as they ready the next beta version of their tour-de-force, Firefox 3.1. Mozilla is resolving eight critical vulnerabilities found in the current version of Firefox — a move sure to garner applause from devoted Firefox users. As this year's crop of new browsers emerges, enhanced features are becoming secondary to one thing: speed. Mozilla is nearly ready to release the next beta version of Firefox 3.1 to the public for testing, and insiders predict that it will outpace even Safari 4, which has been the fastest browser in wide release since its beta began last week." It looks like they also will be upping the next major release to v3.5 to better show the significance of the release.

Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic 225

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 02, 2009 @05:50PM from the also-addicts-you-to-heroin dept.

jamie pointed out an Amiga community that took a discovery of how to restore old computer plastic, super-charged it, and then opened the process to the public domain. Time to spruce up those old dusty TRS-80s in the basement. "All of the initial tests were done with a liquid and we realized that for large parts this was getting expensive, so the next stage was to make a paintable 'gel' version that could be brushed onto larger surfaces. This was tried in Arizona in the sun and the UK under a UV lamp and was found to be just as effective as the liquid. We have now released this to the public domain for anyone to use as we can't patent it and we coined the nickname 'Retr0brite' for it, as it summed up what we were actually doing with it."

The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks 445

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 13, 2008 @08:04PM from the and-they're-clever-guys dept.

Trepidity writes "In its roundup of how to choose a netbook, The Economist suggests that users 'avoid the temptation' to go for a Windows-based netbook, and in particular to treat them as mini laptops on which you'll install a range of apps. In their view, by the time you add the specs needed to run Windows and Windows apps effectively, you might as well have just bought a smallish laptop. Instead, they suggest the sweet spot is ultra-lite, Linux-based netbooks, with a focus on pre-installed software that caters to common tasks. They particularly like OpenOffice, which they rate as easier to use than MS Word and having 'no compatibility problems,' as well as various photo-management software." Besides which, does Windows offer spinning cubes for coffee-shop demos?

Comment Re:Construx (Score 2, Interesting) 785

by ksdd on Sunday November 09, 2008 @02:46PM (#25695897) Attached to: Of childhood "building" toys, my favorite is ...

Construx kits were simply amazing, and were by far my favorite as a kid. With the hinges and panels, I used to make my own Transformers - substitute a hinge there, twist some beams there, and whatever was on the box could also be something else. The dinosaur tuned into a Moon base, the helicopter turned into a tank, and so on. I'm not sure what real-world usefulness a Moon base that turned into a dinosaur would be, but nothing fired my imagination like Construx.

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