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  1. Re:The perfect is the enemy of the good. on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 1

    Because having a poor experience results in poor engagement which results in a less than compelling reason to access all the publicly-funded PBS content. In short, because it wastes an opportunity.

    Lots of individuals and organizations can make a good mobile app.

  2. Re:It's a huge issue to app developers, not Google on Android Compatibility and Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    Reddit picked up on this thread here http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cal37/comment_on_slashdot_detailing_the_so_called/

  3. This is a joke, right? on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    April fools or something? A judge rules the invasion of privacy as "speculative"?

    This is invasion of my privacy.

    I don't want Viacom to have my YouTube history. This is awful news.

  4. Re:Really? Neato! on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Most mainstream browsers support it internally. You shouldn't have to worry about setting it up or anything.

    "it" is gzip, yet another compression algorithm. It's free and easy to incorporate into a streaming network thingy like a web-browser.

  5. Re:or they could use mod_gzip on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Ain't Optimization Fun!

    Yes, all our 1200 Mhz machines should have no problem decompressing a 50k /. page.

    One cavaet, the /. server(s) itself would likely be buried with all the compression.

    A question, does slashcode cache resources? or does it autogen everything every time? It would be nice if it cached the data (or incorporate some squid configuration and use Cache-Control?

    Nick

  6. Re:eLink from Motient (RIM 850) on Looking For Wireless Handheld E-Mail And Web? · · Score: 1

    My company, Neomar, offers a WAP browser that runs on the eLink. Call Motient to find out how to get it for the eLink. Press release.