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  1. Re:Open Office, the scarlet A? on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Firefox is trash compared to Mozilla

  2. Re:Eh, good riddance on Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats · · Score: 1

    with weave, you can set up your own server, but even if you don't, your data is gpg encrypted on the mozilla server

  3. Re:Delicious on Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats · · Score: 1

    >2. Have different profiles (not syncing the NSFW bookmark-subtree to your work machine)
    It's called "having a different profile in Firefox"

  4. Re:Overkill? on Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats · · Score: 1

    the conversion from places to html is lossy

  5. Re:Those who complain about PDF w/scripts on Security a Concern As HTML5 Advances · · Score: 1

    Video tag (and audio) is blockable with NS, just like Flash. No option for canvas yet, but I also haven't run across canvas in the wild yet (actually, I think that arcade fire thing had some canvas. but that's it), while I have seen a fair bit of video.

  6. Re:second generation core? on Intel Unveils 'Sandy Bridge' Architecture · · Score: 1

    "Core" chips where part of the "Pentium-M microarchitecture". "Core 2" was the first "Core microarchitecture". Penryn (still sold as Core 2) was the second in the "Core" microarch line (die shrink). Core i7 et al is not Core, it is the "Nehalem microarchitecture". Sandy-Bridge is, well, the "Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture". So who know what they really mean by that.

  7. Re:Are We Fast Yet? on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    8GB

  8. Re:Kinda Sad on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    It used to beat the pants off of Opera in JS. Back then Opera was generally faster in perceived page load speed.

  9. Re:The Slashdot Firefox Paradox on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    D2 is far superior to classic, and Mozilla on Linux never seems to have speed problems (at least as long as adblock, the good contributor ad removal bonus, or the subscription ad removal is in effect).

  10. Re:Speed times Quantity? on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    AMD was still a threat when Intel dropped netburst (and thus had to give up on MHz, since P-M/Core was much, much slower in pure MHz).

  11. Re:Speed times Quantity? on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    The cpu called "Core" or "Core 1" was indeed a die shrink and tweak of the Pentium M (the first "tick" (retroactively)).

    But the "Core microarchitecture" was the cpu line called "Core 2" (the first "tock"). Theoretically, the Core 2 is as different from the Core 1 as Nehalem (i7/i5/i3) is from Core 2.

  12. Re:25x more dense, not 5x more dense... on New Silicon-Based Memory 5X Denser Than NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    Math is easy, it's English that's tricky.

  13. Re:Hold Me, I'm Scared on Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office? · · Score: 1

    Like Dave McAllister of Adobe(!) said, "the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or so"

  14. Re:WTF how is this offtopic? on It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >it will fool the people they told to never buy ATI.
    who would be so irresponsible as to tell someone that?

  15. Re:Great news on It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand · · Score: 1

    exactly

  16. Re:Back to the future on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    >hardware acceleration of web browsers like we did in the 1990s

    proof or it never happened

  17. Re:Why not just use bookmarks? on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    You can't complain in any case (but sometimes you still do)

    And 944MB res and 1788MB virt on a 4BG system is very reasonable for over 100 tabs

  18. Re:Let me see if I've got this right... on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    The 64 bit Linux version is the best version of Flash I have ever used.

  19. Re:Let me see if I've got this right... on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    >flashblock or noscript which cripples your browsing experience

    No they don't

  20. Re:Let me see if I've got this right... on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Flash doesn't crash that often (unless you are using some poorly coded applet from the 90s), but it still causes more crashes than JS. JS causes more slow downs, though.

  21. Re:Tabs on the left make sense on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Thumb trackball > finger trackball

  22. Re:Does that make sense ? on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 1

    At my community college, we did some ASM programming on a simulated 8-bit microcontroller...

  23. Re:Richest? on Richest Planetary System Discovered With 7 Planets · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, they are dwarf planet *candidates*, whereas the others are recognized dwarf planets, although Haumea and Makemake are on shaky ground pending more information.

  24. Re:GTFO on Richest Planetary System Discovered With 7 Planets · · Score: 1

    A solar system is any system around any star, and whatever star you are orbiting is the Sun (at least if you speak English). There is one particular star called Sol, and its solar system is called the Sol system, just like you might say "the Vega system" or "the Polaris system".

  25. Re:Richest? on Richest Planetary System Discovered With 7 Planets · · Score: 1

    The way I count, we have 11 to 13 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea (presumed), Makemake (presumed), Eris. There could even be more, depending on what we learn about other candidate objects.

    In any case, we need a new mnemonic. MVEMCJSUNPHME...