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  1. Re:Developer Changelog on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 1

    Ug... <main> element support
    and <input type="time"> improvements.

  2. Developer Changelog on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 2

    As usual, most of the important changes are only listed in the Developer changelog: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/21

    Highlights include:
      element support
    scoped attribute support for (allows a stylesheet to only apply to a particular element and it's children)
    No more E4X
      improvements

  3. Re:Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 2

    Ug. Your lead developer could die or quit at anytime, they also get vacation time even in the US. Redundancy is critical to running a business, and if you have too narrow of margins to support it then your business deserves to go under.

  4. Re:hum on AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's · · Score: 1

    Well the last question is answered easily enough. Intel doesn't compete for features or performance in the GPU market, just price per unit and to some extent energy efficiency. They have no secrets that open drivers would reveal.

  5. Re:Finally! on Linux 3.9 Released · · Score: 2

    That android developers can run Goldfish with a native kernel to simulate a virtual Android device and thus write apps a little bit easier?

  6. Re:My HOSTS file protects me from copyright strike on In Defense of Six Strikes · · Score: 1

    I appreciate the time cube reference, and how you tied it into the story. Well done.

  7. Re:There always is the alternative... on In Defense of Six Strikes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the best way to not support that business model is to buy alternatives and boycott protected media. Stealing Argo doesn't make a statement, it's a way of justifying obtaining something you want enough to download but not enough to pay the asking price for.

    May I recommend Libraries (many, including the one in my city are partnered with digital distributors offering free music and e-books) , NetFlix, Rdio, as new business model alternatives that aren't illegal.

  8. Re:I feel pathetic on Crysis 3 Review: Amazing Graphics, Still a Benchmark Buster, Boring Gameplay · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing, screenshot of bald guy looks good, but bald guys have looked good for awhile. Hair and fabric still looks wrong like they have for years. Obviously there's a ways to go yet, and I don't have the sense or education to notice the progress. Maybe if there were side by side images and/or someone was pointing out what I should be looking at.

  9. Re:You're Right on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Then pay someone to fix your problems. When I'm not at work, I'll write whatever code I want no matter how useless the rest of the world thinks it is; and it's certainly no more a waste than watching TV or getting drunk at tropical destination X.

  10. Re:Cause and Effect on When Google Got Flu Wrong · · Score: 1

    You don't get free flu shots in the US? I'd be curious to see a cost/benefit analysis - but then I suppose when hospital rooms cost the patient money there's little motivation for the government to try to keep you out of them.

  11. Re:Oglaf.com on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012? · · Score: 1

    I personally really enjoy and frequently link people to Fountain of Doubt: http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-doubt/

  12. Re:Queue the slashdot Nokia/MSFT hating. on Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds · · Score: 1

    I refute your claim that NS was trying to support standards any more than IE was, and assert that they were trying harder to deviate from standards.

    Netscape tried to push their own tag which was needed for overlapping elements in that browser (nothing else worked with z-index), a small violation of the HTML spec, and a huge violation of the CSS spec. They also didn't support any units except px, and sometimes %. Stylesheets wouldn't render at all if you turned off javascript. As others have said, it's an ugly horrible mess of a browser.

    IE 5/6 were the best browsers at the time. The problem is when they ran out of competition they quit spending money, disbanded the IE team, and left things to stagnate for years - but without competition why would a company innovate? They are not a hacker group making the internet better for fun, they're a publicly traded company vying for the most market share.

  13. Re:NOW I'm moving to Canada on Canadian Copyright Reform Takes Effect · · Score: 3

    No, I don't think I'd want to live there. I'm fine with my home in Canada though.

  14. No no, lets hear him out.

    See ... um ... poor people are addicted to TV and can't just go cold turkey on it. Pay-per-view television doesn't have advertisements (I've never actually seen pay-per-view , so that's an assumption), and advertising convinces people to spend money. So poor people need pay-per-view television content to satisfy their addiction and not get the overwhelming need to spend money on magic bullets.

  15. Re:Application and Screen on Different Machines on Wayland 1.0 Released, Not Yet Ready To Replace X11 · · Score: 1

    The main advantage, as far as I'm aware, of to having a network transparent display server over a client like RDP is that you can send raw drawing commands over the wire instead of bitmaps, but that advantage is lost when the display server is drawing images.

    The secondary advantage that is sometimes touted is that the application itself can be drawn on the remote server rather than the entire desktop, but there are workarounds for this that don't involve network transparency at the display server level. (Recent versions of the RDP protocol support this, though Windows doesn't ship with a client that uses it.)

    That said I believe my actual comment was simply suggesting that RDP/VNC are not as different from network transparency in the display server as it might otherwise be when the display server is copying images (because that's what VNC does as well, just at another layer.)

  16. Re:Application and Screen on Different Machines on Wayland 1.0 Released, Not Yet Ready To Replace X11 · · Score: 1

    Until you consider that virtually all applications these days use pixmaps so sending the X11 draw commands over the network has no advantage.

  17. Re:The SW analogy was some insulting geek panderin on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I started on Corel as well. On a computer without internet, didn't stick with it for too long, though my mom liked the mahjong game that came with it.

    So
    1. Corel Linux in 2001.
    No linux 2002 until 2005
    2. Debian ( 1 year)
    3. Ubuntu ( 1 year)
    4. Gentoo (2006-2010)
    5. Fedora ( 1 year)
    6. Arch Linux (current)

  18. Re:And why? on Mesa Finally An OpenGL Implementation (On Intel Hardware) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mesa is the OpenGL state tracker for Gallium3D. Why throw out what you can still use?

  19. Re:Not Hasbro's Game of Life on A New Glider Found For Conway's Game of Life · · Score: 1

    I think that was it. Memory is a bit fuzzy but that's pretty close to what I was thinking.

  20. Re:I got one! on With $8.6M In Kickstarter Funds, Ouya Opens Console Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    What does an Atom and an Intel IGP have to do with the Wii? IBM made the processor and AMD made the GPU on the Wii.

  21. Re:Not Hasbro's Game of Life on A New Glider Found For Conway's Game of Life · · Score: 1

    I don't know, as a child I had a competitive multiplayer version of Conway's Game of Life that was pretty fun.

    Actually I wish I remembered what it was called. Each player could place a number of cells, then a configurable number of rounds pass and you can place again. The goal being to wipe out all the other players cells. Different colored cells would participate with each other for suffocation, and iirc for replication it would match the majority of the neighbors.

  22. Re:Unintended Consequences? Unfortunately - Not! on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hmm...

    Youtube Founded: February 14th 2005.
    DMCA effective: October 28th 1998.

    I think there may be a problem with your argument.

  23. Re:Its Carmack! on John Carmack: Kudos To Valve, But Linux Is Still Not a Viable Gaming Market · · Score: 2

    Carmack didn't add a third dimension to the world, he came up with a way of making it run fast enough for a twitch shooter on early 90s computers, but Ultima Underworlds was earlier and more 3D than Wolfenstein (it had up and down, and jumping - but was kinda slow and clunky on the hardware of the day.) And there was the 80s turn based 3d that was popular in Wizardry etc.

  24. Re:Game Nostalgia Thread on Commodore 64 turns 30 · · Score: 1

    I think my favourite was Sid Meier's Pirates!, played that game all night on several occasions.

    Someone else in this thread mentioned Archon. That was one original creative board game. I also liked the sequel Archon 2: Adept, though it lost a bit of the simplicity that made the original brilliant.

    Jumpman I felt was overrated, but I really liked a similar platformer called Ultimate Wizard, which included a level editor and some neat tricks.

  25. Re:Its just basic! on Commodore 64 turns 30 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    11 REM LETS ADD SOME COLOR
    12 A=X
    13 IF A > 15 THEN A = A - 15
    15 POKE 646, A