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  1. Re:You mean like webOS? on First Firefox Mobile OS Phones Announced · · Score: 1

    Who knows what HP is thinking, I think HP doesn't even know what it is doing.

  2. Re:Do we need another mobile OS? on First Firefox Mobile OS Phones Announced · · Score: 1

    Maybe, yes.

    Because HTML5-based applications (sometimes using frameworks like PhoneGap) can be fairly ported to all these platforms. The more code you can share for your applications on all these platforms, the faster you can develop, right ?

    Maybe you can even share code with your website too.

    So if people use HTML5 already. Why not build all applications, including the system applications with HTML5 so you'll get an API for all the native code so developers of HTML5-based appications are not second class citizens like on all the other platforms.

  3. Re:oh great on First Firefox Mobile OS Phones Announced · · Score: 1

    I would like to mention a few things:
    - A large part of apps on smartphones are already build with things like PhoneGap. So it isn't a big change from what people use now.

    - You don't need to create VoIP encoder, there is already a HTML5 standard for that: WebRTC: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/html5-roundup-mozilla-demos-standards-based-video-chat-in-firefox/

  4. Re:They also criticized Fedora.. on FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot · · Score: 5, Informative

    AMD commited last year for all their products to support Core Boot:

    http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/05/05/an-update-on-coreboot/

  5. Re:You probably don't do much Java, then on Leap Second Bug Causes Crashes · · Score: 2

    Looked to me like it was only 64-bit Java, not 32-bit Java

  6. Re:NO !! NEVER WERE !! on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    I don't understood why people call Mac OS X aesthetically-pleasing and well-designed UI.

    It might have been designed in the past, but it isn't anymore.

    They keep adding more and more inconsistencies and other crap that doesn't seem to fit in.

  7. Re:NO !! NEVER WERE !! on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    Unity isn't for me, but I'm on gnome-session-fallback on the same Ubuntu release. As it's an LTS, I think I'm gonna stay there for a while.

  8. Re:NO !! NEVER WERE !! on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    That isn't true, I can do a fresh install of Ubuntu for my desktop machine in a few hours which has everything I need.

    A fresh Windows install takes days to get everything where it should be and to install all the applications and settings.

  9. Re:The next step is Groovy? on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 2

    Most PHP-programmers wouldn't touch Java with a stick. Java has to many properties of what PHP programmers consider bad.

  10. Re:What about the 3rd world? on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 1

    I doubt the 3rd world will be able to afford his product, prices for his product will only go up.

  11. Re:Have you stopped driving your car yet? on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 2

    I don't drive a car, I have a bike. I life nearby my work and the shops.

    How about you ?

  12. Re:Why not just be first to market with alternativ on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 1

    10% of all oil in the US is used by the food industry.

  13. Re:typology of global warming denial on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 1

    Hanging ? That sounds like the perfect solution for the Exxom CEO ;-)

  14. Re:Standard PR on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 1

    It was you, wasn't it ?

  15. Re:This is it. on GRUB 2.00 Bootloader Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they demand UEFI for ARM and with no off switch (!)

  16. Re:Um... on The Long Death of Fat Clients · · Score: 1

    Webdevelopers that are building apps for mobile feel that it is a step backwards too.

    They know the browser environment like the back of their hand.

    So I think the problem is somewhere else.

    People should do what they are good at.

    So why are you trying to developer a JavaScript based application ? You obviously are the wrong person to do so.

  17. Re:Um... on The Long Death of Fat Clients · · Score: 1

    Sorry, wrong thread.

  18. Re:Um... on The Long Death of Fat Clients · · Score: 1

    Webdevelopers that are building apps for mobile feel that it is a step backwards too.

    So I think the problem is somewhere else.

    People should do what they are good at.

  19. Re:Um... on The Long Death of Fat Clients · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but when it is a plugin, the browser can't get at the content.

    When the player is the browser, you can use javascript to for example create snapshots or do other fancy things like make it better viewable for the visual impaired.

  20. Re:Not to get buzzwordy, but Azure...the Cloud! on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Azure had multiple 24 hour outages.

    It's cloud so that seems like a great idea !

  21. Re:If it a'int broke... on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    I assume a Point of Sale system is mostly a closed system and network right ? Why would it break ?

  22. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Why would you want 64 cores on your phone ?

    It is the same question.

  23. Re:IPv6 faster in Romania on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    I think Czech Republic was also one of the countries in the world with more than one Mobile Internet providers with IPv6 available.

  24. Re:IPv6 faster in Romania on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    I actually expected Czech Republic to do well, I know the ISPs there worked hard on it. I didn't know about Romania. Anyway...

    Maybe they have very little ISPs in comparison, but even the Vatican City State has 2 ISP networks.

    Here is the list of ISPs in Romania:

    https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/RO.html

    Romania has 37 IPv6 "prefixes":

    http://bgpmon.net/weathermap.php?inet=6&focus=eu

  25. Re:China??? on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    Ohh, yeah, I think it depends on the service pack.

    Whatever, they probably need the Carrier Grade NAT anyway because of the enormous growth grate they probably have in China.