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  1. Glamor acceleration on XWayland Aiming For Glamor Support, Merge Next X.Org Release · · Score: 1

    It does not yet have direct rendering or any acceleration, but those patches should come soon.

    The patch series emails have more details. The big news here is that XWayland is ditching its old DDX model for one based on Glamor. eliminating the need for any X.org drivers to be written to support X11 on Wayland:

    Glamor provides 2d acceleration using openGL.

  2. Limitations of the app stores on Open Source Licensing and the App Store Model · · Score: 1

    Isn't it a limitation of the Apple and Microsoft app stores? The Ubuntu apt store works fine with GPL software.

  3. More prior art on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    Spellbooks in games like Master of Magic, when you click in the page corner it shows a page turning animation.

    http://www.roughseas.ca/momime/screenshots/spellbook.gif

  4. Re:What if.. on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    This is not the first time that fusion reaction has been announced before.

  5. Re:Close your accounts! on How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners? · · Score: 2, Funny

    This would be funny if you posted as an Anonymous Coward.

  6. Re:This is all fine and dandy, on Firefox Lorentz Keeps Plugin Crashes Under Control · · Score: 1, Funny

    With all the rage about cloud computing they should make the plugins run on the web.

  7. Game records on Australian Judge Rules Facts Cannot Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    How about collections of game records? For example a go or chess database.

  8. Re:reasons why gmail isn't the best idea on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 1

    Your ISP also "reads" your mails. If you want to make sure nobody will read a mail save it's recipient, then use encryption. FireGPG works great on Gmail.

  9. Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! on VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works · · Score: 1

    Kdenlive is a pretty good video editor for Linux, FreeBDS and MacOS X.

  10. Re:But... on Robotic Penguins · · Score: 1

    Maybe you need this other penguin :)
    http://www.kysoh.com/tux-droid

  11. Athletes village on Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? · · Score: 1

    How about the athletes village? I will go to China in october to participate in the World Mind Sports Games. I just hope they won't charge us athletes for internet use.

  12. Use another PC on Long-Range Wireless Keyboard/Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Buy a small form factor PC (a mac mini or similar) and connect it to your home server with wifi. Then you can buy a wireless keyboard-mouse combo.

  13. Re:In line with Design guidelines? on Sun Is Porting Java To the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Not really. It should be possible to save the state of the vm, and reload it when restarted.

  14. Re:Oh, man. There is no god, let us move on. on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    * There is no evidence that proves God doesn't exist. Until that is found your stipulation has no merit. There is no evidence that proves God (or any god) exist. Until that is found the racional position is to believe it does not exist.
  15. Re:There are only two licenses I care about on Google Goes After Open Source Licensing Cruft · · Score: 1

    GPL and BSD. Do you mean GPLv2 or GPLv3? Those 2 are different licenses and are incompatible. There is a lot of software that is GPLv2 only, and can't link to GPLv3 software.
  16. Re:Annoyances on Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    You can also move the alltabs button to the left. In userChrome.css: .tabs-alltabs-stack {-moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important} .tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox {-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2 !important} .tabs-closebutton-box {-moz-box-ordinal-group: 3 !important}