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  1. Google TV on Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version · · Score: 1

    The competition from Google TV must be particularly stiff: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/11/1822240/logitech-calls-google-tv-a-big-mistake

  2. Maybe that's a silly question to ask but... on Average Web Page Approaches 1MB · · Score: 1

    ... I have not upgraded my home page since 1999. Will its size have stayed the same?

  3. Out of money on Out of Sight, Out of Mind · · Score: 1

    How unfortunate that EU is running out of money and might no longer be able to fund such truly brilliant research.

  4. Re:Climate change ... is nothing new on Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather · · Score: 1

    So if the temperature increases, maybe Sahara will be green again? There is no rain there because there is a cold current flowing alongside the banks of the Mediterranean.

  5. How dum you have to be to believe this? on Syrian Protesters Roll Out New iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    > rebels are fighting back on their iPhones

    Translated: the government have created an app so that they can better track and manipulate the citizens

    Or maybe this is saying that they are throwing iPhones instead of stones?

  6. Why brag about it? on Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA · · Score: 1

    What a stupid thing to brag about. If they caught him, they could try to make use of his skills an knowledge.

  7. Re:WebOS on HP Keeping Their PC Business · · Score: 1

    > Does this mean that they will be reviving the TouchPad?

    And not licensing the WebOS to vacuum-cleaner manufactures?

  8. Re:Subsidies inflate pricing. on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    You should really check (and comment on) this: How government programs drive up college tuitions

    Really good stuff starts around 3.00 when he starts discussing Yale tuitions starting from the 19-th century, and compares them to gold, blue-collar wages etc.

  9. Re:Goodbye WebOS on HP Begins Laying Off WebOS Developers, Potentially Firing CEO · · Score: 1

    If it's not a thin-layer above the core OS (Linux) how is that possible that it's been hacked to run on Android?

    I watched a longish video discussing how webOS was developed and, well, I found it disappointing. Compare the man-months that went to webOS development to the 1.2$ bln HP paid. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

  10. Re:Goodbye WebOS on HP Begins Laying Off WebOS Developers, Potentially Firing CEO · · Score: 1

    In the first place -- what was this WebOS thing that HP paid 1.2 bln $ for?

    Do I miss something when I say that it is just a thin JavaScript layer on top of Linux, possibly not more complicated than an average JavaScript framework?

  11. Why insist on calling this thing (WebOS) an OS ? on HTC Considering Buying Own OS · · Score: 1

    Why everybody insists on calling WebOS an operating system? I thought HP blew $1.2 bln to buy a JavaScript library (similar to YUI, JQuery, etc.). The underlying OS (Linux) exposed some API through that framework? -- oh my -- big deal.

  12. Re:Hmm, I might consider it on After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale · · Score: 0

    > Clinton, Obama, and the Housing Crisis; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64#t=2m10s

    I didn't know you could link to a certain time point in a YT movie (#t=2m10s).
    Now, mod this up as informative.

  13. Have they re-introduced frames? on First Look At Chrome 10 · · Score: 2

    Last time I checked I could not use Chrome for browsing documentation loaded from the local disk. This is the most innocent HTML application imaginable - just a frameset with the navigation panel on the left (TOC, Index, etc.) and the actual contents on the right. And Chrome will not allow one frame (e.g. the TOC) to load a page in another frame because it is a security risk. Duh...

  14. Chrome is completely broken for me on Google Quietly Posts Big JavaScript Engine Update · · Score: 1

    How sad I cannot use Chrome until they fix this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47416 The most innocent applications (framesets with documentation, TOC/Search on the left, actual content on the right) do not work in Chrome if loaded from a local hard-drive (or chrome is started with some weird, undocumented switch). Those framesets worked fine even in Netscape 4 and ancient versions of KHTML.

  15. Chrome is unusable for viewing framesets on Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 · · Score: 1

    Frameset have long been unfashionable but, hey, they do have legitimate uses. Think a documentation bundle with a navigation panel on the left and the actual content in the right frame. Such framesets have worked fine even in ancient versions of Netscape and Konqueror/KHTML. So, you'd expect they will work in Chrome, right? Well, if you load a frameset from a local drive, they don't: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47416 Because some moron thought this would make the browser more secure.