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  1. Re:Feedly looks ok on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Mobile website or whatever is nice, however the key is to keep the same data available across all the devices I use. So my tablet, phone, laptop, desktop and work PC can all access the same aggregated information and I don't have to re-scan already viewed info.

  2. Re:Feedly looks ok on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    I now realise that feedly requires a browser plugin to work. This doesn't work for so many people who can;t install plugins on work machines, public access machines, etc.

  3. Re:Feedly looks ok on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I need something that is cross machine compatible, linking my read/unread to a single machine isn't fun

  4. Re:Not the first time I've had to switch RSS on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 2

    Assuming the same content is available via twitter or facebook, it's a lot easier to miss critical information there with a constant stream. In reader I know how many updates each blog, comic or whatever has had and can easily keep up at my leisure. Instead of intermixed with all my friends on whatever social interface.

  5. Feedly looks ok on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    Feedly looks OK so far, http://theoldreader.com/ maybe?

    Twitter is no replacement!

  6. Re:Ummm... on Are Gaming Studios the Most Innovative Tech Companies Out There? · · Score: 1

    So you can't even get the definition right between two posts you made. What is it? By definition something new is invented. Because it didn't exist before.

  7. Re:Ummm... on Are Gaming Studios the Most Innovative Tech Companies Out There? · · Score: 0

    iteration
      [ ìtt ráysh'n ]

            repetition: an instance or the act of doing something again
            step-by-step process: a process of achieving a desired result by repeating a sequence of steps and successively getting closer to that result
            repetition of steps: the repetition of a sequence of instructions in a computer program until a result is achieved

    Iteration by definition is not innovation.

  8. Ummm... on Are Gaming Studios the Most Innovative Tech Companies Out There? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No. At least not the big boys. Unless you call invasive DRM, sequel after sequel and shooter after shooter innovative.

  9. Why not just say up to 100%? on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 3, Informative

    is 100% too sensational a number? Up to doesn't mean squat

  10. Re:Can you replace your whole system for that pric on Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math · · Score: 2

    add in file sharing and the slower response of a VPS solution just takes it completely out of the running.

  11. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Let's see, upgrade the tape drive to a 1541 floppy to a 1581 floppy drive. Add hard drive, the CPU can be upgraded with a simple plugin unit. RAM is upgradeable with a simple plugin unit.
    The mouse works just fine with GEOS.

  12. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    How about my Sony Dash? Is that a PC?

  13. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Mine too. The Sony Dash...

  14. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Your iPad 2 passes every test, except for half the tests.

  15. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Are smart phones PCs too?

  16. Re:GSM is a requirement for me now on As 4G Seeps In, Verizon Offers Cheap(er) No-Contract 3G Plans · · Score: 1

    My verizon phones have been syncing my numbers to verizon for years now. Even pre-smartphone. They are not a third party, they even know who I call, when I call and for how long I call.

  17. Re:GSM is a requirement for me now on As 4G Seeps In, Verizon Offers Cheap(er) No-Contract 3G Plans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Address book on a SIM is irrelevant in the day of cloud syncing

  18. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Legal name Mohammad Beary, goes by the name Farooq

  19. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Yes they can, I have run into MANY examples of this.

  20. Re:fname.lname.incrementer on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Funny, my university email IS a gmail account for schools.

    it's a username I was able to pick from several suggestions when I initially enrolled for computer account access at that university.

  21. Re:Middle Initial on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with using usernames? It's worked that way just fine for millions of hotmail, yahoomail, gmail users.
    It's worked just fine for millions of University staff and students for decades.

  22. Re:Middle Initial on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    That should read first.last[randomnumber]@gmail.com

  23. Re:Middle Initial on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    I registered first.last@gmail.com. I often get emails from other first.last@gmail.com family members and even spouses.

  24. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Just by having two middle initials I confuse many systems.

  25. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Indians can have very weird names, and then call themselves something else entirely.

    It's almost as if Bob Smith was known to everyone as William.