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  1. Re:TFS on Return of the Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I see flocks of them every day

  2. Re:Well deserved on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 1

    I'll take a look, thanks

  3. Re:Superior browser on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 1

    Well said, sir!

  4. Re:Well deserved on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 0

    >The fact is Chrome's a good browser,

    If by "good" you mean "terrible" then yes, it is.

    Now webkit is a pretty good engine, it is a pity no one has yet hooked it up to a descent frontend.

  5. Re:Useless anyway on Mozilla Leaves Out Linux For Initial Web App Support · · Score: 1

    >Seriously, what does a "web app marketplace" have to offer that isn't already done better through one of the above resources?

    If it isn't a "web app marketplace", it can't dynamically leverage the synergies of Web 3.0 nosql clouds!

  6. Re:Turnabout is fair play on Mozilla Leaves Out Linux For Initial Web App Support · · Score: 1

    I love SeaMonkey, it is my main browser, but this:
    > If you're the kind of person (like me) that was seething with every release of new "features" in Firefox (awesomebar, et al.), give SeaMonkey a try.
    is just silly.

    SM is thankfully immune to FF UI silliness (tabs on top, disappearing status bar, etc), but it (thankfully) has feature parity with FF, including the Awesomebar. It also seems more stable and better about memory than FF, but I am on Linux and even FF itself is better there (despite FF devs not caring much about the platform).

  7. Re:Fork it, then on Mozilla Leaves Out Linux For Initial Web App Support · · Score: 1

    Icecat is GNU's thing, I don't personally know of anyone using it. I do know a number of people (including myself) using SeaMonkey which is merely the new name of the classic Mozilla Suite. I also know of people using Iceweasel, which is a DFSG-free version of Firefox, with some additional patches.

    Flock is dead for several years, AFAIK so is Swiftfox (which again was hardly a fork, just some speed patches and config tweaks).

    Webkit is an engine, equivalent to Gecko, not Firefox. It is true there are many forks of it, though (all called Webkit!). At least the Gecko browsers pretty much all use the same Gecko (different versions numbers maybe, but not fully forked like webkit)

  8. Re:Fork it, then on Mozilla Leaves Out Linux For Initial Web App Support · · Score: 1

    That isn't exactly accurate.

    SeaMonkey is a renaming of the Mozilla Suit, not a fork. The Mozilla Foundation/Corporation abandoned the Suite, but with the rename, didn't have a problem with the SeaMonkey Project existing. And of course AOL had zero to do with MoCo or the SeaMonkey Project by then.

  9. Re:Fork it, then on Mozilla Leaves Out Linux For Initial Web App Support · · Score: 1

    It is doing quite well, in fact. I use FF for this and that but Mozilla, er, SeaMonkey alpha builds are my primary browser. Really fantastic for someone that isn't afraid of a more featureful UI (and none of the Chrome-like nonsense) and more options. The latest stable release (2.9) is the same codebase as FF 12 or possibly 11.

  10. Re:Good point on Did a Genome Copying Mistake Lead To Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    >at the population level, not at the individual level.

    Maybe, maybe not. Some argue the opposite - that all selection takes place at the gene level, never the individual or population level.

  11. Re:This Gamemakerlessness is an eyesore! on Ubuntu Will Soon Ship On 5% of New PCs · · Score: 2

    Sounds like a bunch of 12-year-olds have invaded from 4chan or similar...

  12. Re:Can you still get a DUI with a self-driving car on Google Gets Driverless License For Nevada Roads · · Score: 2

    Generally, an emergency would be that last time you should take over. A production quality auto-driving car is going to be better at handling an emergency than 90% of people. And many emergencies can happen to fast for a human to change focus like that.

  13. Re:Completely irrelevent to me on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 1

    >GTK-based installers such as
    >have to upgrade

    Why the hell are you "upgrading" Debian-based distros with an installer?

  14. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    >virtualbox Windows taking up space on my drive.

    Try the online version? I use it for that exact reason (well, I use online for that reason - I use TaxAct since years ago, I went to H&R Block online, only to find my data and account from the past two years had vanished. No problems like that with TaxAct so far.)

  15. Re:Not to be pendantic, but... on Nearby Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    >Exoplanets are not a subset of planets, they are a different class of objects altogether.

    Troll harder

  16. Re:only Solar System can have planets on Nearby Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    Welp, there goes former planet Jupiter... (see: Trojans)

  17. Re:But... but.... on Nearby Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    We also have Ceres, Eris, Makemake and whatever the other one is called, Haumea or something. And maybe Charon, if you roll that way.

  18. Re:mass? on Nearby Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    The anti-Plutites are absurd, even as they deny it is a planet, they simultaneously admit it is, by calling a dwarf planet. A dwarf mammoth is still a mammoth, after all.

  19. Re:Then we must attack! on Nearby Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    No plant gap, the Sol system has 13 planets, this other one seems to only have 9

  20. Re:Who uses Mutt? on Mutt Fork Adds Features From Notmuch · · Score: 1

    Fund it!

  21. Re:Club of Rome Study 2 on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Gold is not any more "real" than any other currency or good

  22. Re:they can continue for now... on Blackboard Buys Moodlerooms and Netspot · · Score: 1

    If they love it, they are idiots

  23. Re:Solution.. buy hard drives! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1
  24. Re:This has been known on Scientists Discover Link Between Trees and Electricity · · Score: 2

    Trees produce pollution! And pollution is good, without it we wouldn't have the Smoky Mountains! /Reagan

  25. Re:Learn from the Experts, ye tax-boggled folks! on Disaster Strikes Norwegian Government Web Portal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because most places know that a flat tax is horribly regressive. Anyway, it isn't the stepped rates that make the tax code complicated, it is all the loopholes, exceptions and deductions.