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  1. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you can use those in the upcoming Scottish war of independence...

  2. Re:Can Apple be Far Behind? on Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? · · Score: 1

    Yep, if Microsoft's Surface Pro paradigm ever seriously threatened the iPad, Cupertino would be out with a hybrid OS at the next annual developer conference.

    One OS to rule them all, Windows 8.x, is a strategy MS have copped flack for. But if there's one company that could pull it off, it's Apple with their design sensibilities as viewed through the reality distortion field.

    Apple have already reskinned parts of OS X for touch - e.g. iWork and Safari, so there's enough commonality to port useful programs between platforms. The app stores are in place, what's needed is a unified API, a common subset of OS X and iOS, that deprecates any 'legacy' NextSTEP code from the 80s. They've migrated developers before with Classic and Carbon.

  3. Re:Google more restrictive than Microsoft on Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? · · Score: 1

    Running Windows apps in VM alongside Android?

  4. Re:Google more restrictive than Microsoft on Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? · · Score: 1

    arm v7 provides virtualization extensions - allowing one to host OSes via qemu or Xen.

    I haven't seen the equivalent of Virtualbox in Google Play yet though.

  5. Re:MIT on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 1

    The parent was making a distinction between Lisp-1 (e.g. Scheme) and Lisp-2 (e.g. Common Lisp).

    CLOS, obviously, has objects bolted onto it - for which, as you point out, they write books.

  6. tl;dr on How Tutankhamun's DNA Became a Battleground · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mitt Romney shares Goa'uld DNA with ancient Pharaoh.

  7. Re: Why? on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 1

    You're in luck. The Nexus S is a 'tier 2' device that Mozilla staff used as a development target:

    https://developer.mozilla.org/...

  8. Re:Why? on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 2

    Open GL ES is a core requirement of 'Gonk', the UI layer of FF OS.

    Mozilla borrows from the Android project for its device drivers, IIRC.

    Any 'developing world' SoC mass produced in 2014 for the $25 smartphone market will include a GPU capable of running it.

  9. Re:Which Android phones run on 128MB or 256MB? on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 1

    Android launched on less RAM but the bare minimum, according to wikipedia, is 340MB and recommended minimum is 512MB. That's after Google did a clean-up, specifically to make KitKat less bloated than ICS.

    Mozilla are actively working on Tarako to slim down to 128MB.

  10. Re:Why? on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 1

    Regarding megahertz, ZTE's phone has a Cortex-A5; a chip not optimised for speed.

  11. Re:Why? on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kitkat has a minimum RAM requirement of 340MB.

    Prototype developer hardware, such as the ZTE Open, has 256MB. Mozilla are investigating running FFOS with 128MB.

  12. Re:Mageia on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    It's a fork of a 15yo fork of Red Hat.

  13. Re:Concur. on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    try removing that package from your system.

    On mine, it warned about *a lot* of software that have it as an indirect dependency.

  14. Re:Trollbait article on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    It would have make a nice netbook, for those of us who prefer a small form factor.

    They'd have a hope of gaining traction against Android if only they slashed the price and went with a Silvermont Atom instead of a Tegra/Core i5.

  15. Re:Eff it..I'm Getting a Bag of Beans and a Pet Ci on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    You'd still need to roast them.

  16. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    I liken it to inkjet printers. Manufacturers realised that the money wasn't it the printer but in the ink. Then local suppliers offered 'no name' cartridges, so they put DRM on the ink cartridge. Buy a laser printer - it will cost more in the short term but over a decade of use will save you money!

    Similarly, one of those fully automated Saeco or Jura machines where you just load the beans into the top produces, IMHO, a better tasting coffee than the cheap Nespresso we had at work.

  17. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    I always buy fair-trade. The mallet workers get 4 weeks annual leave. :-)

  18. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Are those single use containers biodegradable?

    Just asking because those pods otherwise generate a lot of landfill.

    I brew loose leaf tea. teabags don't compost - I pick them out of the compost bin intact after a year of decomposition of all the organic matter.

  19. Re:Cliche on First Look At the Animals of the New Hebrides Trench · · Score: 2

    New Hebrides - I was expecting a Melanesian relative of Nessie.

  20. Re:Dick? Maybe, but not your classical patent trol on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 2

    Nevada's Supreme Court would have sufficed then. I guess some people like typing in all caps...

  21. Re:Dick? Maybe, but not your classical patent trol on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 1

    scotus, potus - again sounds like hocus pocus to me.

    But, whatever...

  22. Re:Dick? Maybe, but not your classical patent trol on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 1

    "SCOTSO", is that some Scottish demonym?

    Quit making up cutesy acronyms that not even a google search reveals.

  23. Re:In perspective on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 1

    which is why I wrote "smaller in area"

  24. In perspective on Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BBC Weather Forecast · · Score: 1

    Scotland is a tiny country smaller in area than South Carolina or French Guiana.

  25. Re:IE compatabilty on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 2

    Add wine and, where stable, ReactOS to the above list.

    Where a customer reported an obscure bug that only manifested itself on a certain version of Windows, wine saved me a couple of times when writing Java client applications (Swing). Java widgets are emulated but they do pick up theming from whatever underlying Win32 platform is running.

    Anyway, I hope that you do sanity test against other free-as-in-beer browsers such as Chrome to flush out any Firefox specificity.