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  1. Re: All for mobile on Chrome To Deprecate PNaCl, Embrace New WebAssembly Standard (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Web applications are not just for mobile. We've abandoned several applications because the browser no longer supports Java applets. Perhaps Webassembly will fill the gap.

  2. Re: wish they'd hurry up on Google Starts Using HTML5 By Default Instead of Flash For Some Chrome Users (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Does negative time not exist?

  3. Re: wish they'd hurry up on Google Starts Using HTML5 By Default Instead of Flash For Some Chrome Users (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    After, or before, February 2016?

  4. Re:NIH on Google Upgrades WebP To Challenge PNG Image Format · · Score: 1

    JPEG 2000 is used as an alternative to WSQ to store fingerprint images. Therefore, nobody doesn't use JPEG 2000 anyway.

  5. Re:"Fixes" the issue? on Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data · · Score: 1

    Advice taken. But my gazillion bookmarks are gone...opera mini.

  6. Re:D'OH! nobody here understands, either. on SCO Files To Amend Claims To IBM Case, Again · · Score: 1
    it is customary in filing lawsuits to have information supporting your case, even here.
    Not if the evidence is in a briefcase, and teh case disappears somewhere in Europe.
  7. Re:Summary is somewhat misleading. on SCO Asks Court To Reconsider IBM's Dismissal · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...he affirmed Magistrate Judge Wells' order that threw out the claims that SCO couldn't or wouldn't substantiate.

    This is quite confusing, but I understand that evidence, not claims, was thrown out. (?)

  8. better late than never, on SCO Asks Court To Reconsider IBM's Dismissal · · Score: 5, Informative

    as news for nerds that is one week old is still news...

  9. s/major/mayor on Munich Finally Starts to Embrace Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    After staying in Germany, people seem to get y's and j's all mixed up...

  10. What we use on Best Setup for Mapping in Undeveloped Countries? · · Score: 1

    The GIS unit in the Cameroon (in West Africa, for the geography-challenged) office of an international development organisation that I work for. We use the following to map out villages (water supplies etc):

    • GPS receivers: Garmin eTrex summit (has in-built altimeter!); Garmin GPS 76; and Garmin eTrex personal.
    • Software: MapSource (we get the CD with each batch of receivers that we buy from Garmin); ArcView (or, as of now, ArcGIS -- if you can afford it).
    • Altimeter: pocket altimeters from Thommen.

    The Garmin GPS 76 is currently my favourite; large screen and easy to use-- unfortunately it has no altimeter (I hear it uses triangulation or some such to get altitude).There're lots of other things but they're not strictly necessary at the beginning.

    I have never been able to get GRASS to compile on Linux, so all the software above is for Windows.

    /fotang

  11. Re:Haha! on SCO Missing 16,209 Files? · · Score: 1
    Well, looks like The Blepp finally emptied his elusive briefcase.

    It's going to be tough, figuring out on which Airport he did it.

  12. Re:Are you a "tinker" or "ankle biter"? on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Ms Didiot has "known McBride and SCOsource licensing chief Chris Sontag for 15 years - since their days at Novell under the tutelage of then Novell CEO Ray Noorda" (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35112.htm). No doubt she talks like a PR agent for ... nevermind.