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  1. Re:I use two on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    Same here. iCloud.com - consider Apple's strong stance on privacy. It's been a flawless experience for me.

  2. Re:Why Local storage? on Elon Musk's SolarCity Offering To Build Cities, Businesses Their Own Grids · · Score: 1

    Because some communities have no grid access, especially in e.g. India the utilities never found it profitable to build power lines out to outlying communities. Now those communities can have their own reliable (and clean!) power source, no grid connection required. With distributed generation the main grid can go away in many places.

  3. Safari: four tiers on Microsoft's JavaScript Engine Gets Two-Tiered Compilation · · Score: 2

    Safari offers *four* tiers with their FTL (Fourth Tier LLVM). Lots of detail here: https://www.webkit.org/blog/33....

  4. Re:Size on Historic Pairing: Shuttle Docked To the ISS · · Score: 1

    Shuttle is large. It's meant to haul a huge amount of cargo, plus seven people. Definitely jaw-droppingly worth doing is visiting an Apollo rocket, say the one at NASA Houston. Now that's big. Then think about the size of the cargo area (3 humans) compared to the rest of the rocket. Jaw hits floor!

  5. New notebook required for large screens? on Displayport V1.2 To Take Giant Leap Over HDMI · · Score: 1

    For those of us with DisplayPort notebooks... Does this require a hardware upgrade or is it a protocol/software-only upgrade?

  6. Let someone else deal with the outdating tech on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    Put the files in gmail, Amazon S3, me.com, and a few other equivalents. Put the userids & passwords to these accounts in your underground box (written on acid-free paper.) With luck one of these services will still be around in 25 years.

  7. Foam uses XMLEncoder on Resource-Based GUIs Vs. Code Generators In Java · · Score: 1

    Foam used XMLEncoder waaay back when Java 1.4 first came out. http://www.computersinmotion.com/ they have some example videos. It sure is nice to have your panels created in one line of code :-)

  8. Re:OS/2 Warp on Making Operating Systems Faster · · Score: 1

    That's absolute rubbish. Warp sped up in all sorts of ways. The target system was a 4MB box where OS/2 had previously required more. Many, many changes from the kernel up to the Workplace Shell were implemented to save memory and cut down on paging, as well as improved algorithms for speed. Just the screen I/O? Nonsense. That was never a focus. RAM was. All the changes in Warp SPED UP performance in general! One big change was Presentation Manager (the windowing engine) going from 16 to 32-bits. Suddenly all your 32 bit apps run faster since there was no need to go through a "thunk" layer converting everything to the old 16-bit API.

  9. Wimbledon in Paris? on Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey, Banned Words for 2004 · · Score: 1
    It's hard to believe that Google thinks that:
    "The annual Wimbledon tennis tournament takes place at Roland Garros in Paris each spring."

    England hosts the Wimbledon tournament (at... Wimbledon of all places)!