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  1. Re:do not want on Mozilla Combines Social API and WebRTC · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand your choice and I've heared this before. The code base of Chrome is a lot larger and Chrome actually uses more memory (partly because of it's multi process model). So it really does not make a lot of sense.

  2. Re:Why not use old drive? on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: 1

    What I don't get is, he can do it now with an old drive.

    But when he's done with this large number of cds he has, he'll have his collection in digital form.

    Why does he worry about not having this old drive in a couple of years ?

    By that time if he gets an new CD he only has one or very few CDs to do, so the time it takes to do is (almost) irrelevant, right ?

    So let's stop talking about the time here.

    The DRM issue is a real issue. How do you do that in a couple of years, when your old drive has died. Will you still be able to rip it so you can have a backup copy ?

  3. Re:Finally! on Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode · · Score: 3, Informative

    2013-04-02 to precise.

    But you can probably download the daily build right now, the pre-Beta/Aurora in the week of 2013-01-06 or the beta on 2013-02-19.

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

  4. Re:Is Microsoft the Great Satan? Betteridge says on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1

    A thousand times sounds like a lot, so how did things improve for the free software and open source communities who don't have to deal with the Windows platform ?

    Or did things only improve for people already tied to the Windows platform, that doesn't sounds like an improvement than.

    I'm kinda tired right now and I can't think of anything which improved.

  5. Re:So it'll actually be respectable on Facebook? on Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine · · Score: 1

    So which software, or pretty much any software really became more efficient ?

    Yes, many things get optimised in software, but the total "product" usually supports more hardware or software combinations and has more features and thus becomes slightly more bulky when you look at them year over year.

  6. Re:So it'll actually be respectable on Facebook? on Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine · · Score: 1

    Totally agree on that one, I have the same experience. Well, I never switches to Chrome, but everytime I try it out that the above conclusion is mine too.

  7. Re:ClickToPlay sounded good; then I read the summa on Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks · · Score: 2

    It supports both, the behaviour is configurable.

  8. Re:Privacy issue: DNA dragnets on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    That was hardly voluntary.

    This is a small community where a lot of people know each other and knew who did go to collection point.

    This probably falls in the category of peerpressure.

    The police also had a list of people and people who didn't volunteer would be visited or called by the police to ask why.

  9. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think this site is pretty clear about when you can start to use a certain property:

    http://caniuse.com/#search=border-radius

    It lists in what browsers it is supported, if you need to use a prefix and what market share these browsers have in total.

  10. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 2

    When other browsers start to support -webkit-prefixes, then we are doing it wrong. That way we can never get rid of them every again.

    What a stupid idea.

  11. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Why is the post I'm replying to modded Score 3, Funny ?

    The comment is actually right on the money.

  12. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    I think the parent means the document provided by the WHATWG, basically the WHATWG version of what they considered to be HTML5.

  13. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I don't think Microsoft choose not to use clues.

    Not using clues was the way everyone did things at the time, for example no one had even suggested to use vendor prefixes yet.

    For example Netscape did the same thing.

  14. Re:Corporate use on IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview · · Score: 1

    Now have an other look on mobile, where the new IE is all the different forks of Webkit that do not get updates. Replacement rate of mobiles was about ones every 2 years, with smartphones (because they are more expensive) this is going to be higher.

    And webdevelopers already use webkit only features. Or are using it in a way which make it webkit only (-webkit *). Even though it already is a standard and other browsers support it.

    * http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/the-webkit-prefix-will-ruin-the-mobile-web/669

  15. Re:Works better in Firefox on Visualizing 100,000 Stars In Chrome · · Score: 1

    Yes, these graphics things, like WebGL always work really well for me in Firefox on Linux at home. Strange enough, even better than on Windows at work.

  16. Re:This is cool on Visualizing 100,000 Stars In Chrome · · Score: 2

    The good thing about Google is, it attracted many people from academia and other really smart people which try to do real research.

    The bad thing is obviously: privacy.

  17. Re:Seinfeld on Ask Slashdot: Developer Or Software Engineer? Can It Influence Your Work? · · Score: 1

    > are not that concerned with her job.

    When the woman makes more money than the guy, that attitude sometimes changes.

  18. Re:On target for 1.0 in 3010 on Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 · · Score: 1

    My guess is 2013.

  19. Re:Users choose a pretty icon? :) on Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads · · Score: 0

    That is why Windows 8 is gonna be interresting to watch...?

  20. Re:Still dont get it on Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads · · Score: 2

    I are badly informed, they crack down on EU companies too, no problem.

    If you do business in the EU market and abuse your power as a business, you will be smacked.

  21. Re:truly this must be on Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 · · Score: 1

    Now that I think about it, I think some company even created a fridge with Internet which uses E17-libraries (called EFL) to provide the GUI/browser experience.

  22. Re:truly this must be on Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 · · Score: 1

    E17 runs fine on mobile too, look at Tizen.

    Hell, it already ran on the old HP IPaq.

  23. Re:On target for 1.0 in 3010 on Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 · · Score: 1

    They've been releasing new versions of their libraries regularly for the past few years.

    So yes, they will release it soon enough.

  24. [OT] Internet Backbone and Colocation Provider on 26 Nuclear Power Plants In Hurricane Sandy's Path · · Score: 1

    I always wondered where the name of the provider Hurricane Electric came from, might as well ask it on this thread ;-)

  25. Re:Data centers look archaic to me now on Open Compute Hardware Adapted For Colo Centers · · Score: 1

    If HP, Dell, Supermicro and others come up with a "standard" which puts all the connectors and indicators of servers on the front, then maybe we could all benefit the same way.