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  1. Re:Lynx? on The Seven Hidden Browsers In the Windows Ballot · · Score: 1

    I tend to stick with ELinks, since it has tabbed browsing support. Links Hacked was pretty good back when it was maintained.

  2. Re:Running Very Lean Re:Same old snake oil on 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just watched The Core a few nights ago, so one of the eight people who got that reference.

    Unobtainium isn't specific to The Core.

  3. Re:Same old snake oil on 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think we all know how a Diesel engine works.

  4. Re:UVC Webcam? on PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, both NetBSD and OpenBSD have UVC kernel drivers, while FreeBSD is able to make use of Linux's UVC drivers by running them in userspace.

  5. Re:In a nutshell on Is Mozilla Ubiquity Dead? · · Score: 1

    I generally have 60+ tabs open...

    Why?

  6. Re:Have you ever travelled on 520? on Gates and MS Don't See Eye-To-Eye On CO2 · · Score: 1

    You forget that a light rail line is to connect downtown Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond (eventually Overlake/Microsoft) via I-90. Linking those areas together will generate significant ridership. Just look at Sound Transit's 545 and 550, both of which are among the highest ridership ST routes and are packed during rush hour. It's easier to move more people if the vehicles move faster and otherwise without delays from ambient traffic.

  7. Re:Woohoo GOOGLE! on Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy · · Score: 2, Informative

    And if you have a "preferred" card or related form of unique identification, they can track your purchases. Most grocery stores around here have that as a way to get better prices.

  8. Re:This isn't news... on 64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha · · Score: 1

    Too bad all browsers don't equally support the same features of HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Flash also isn't completely there yet, but it's closer on the platforms it does support.

  9. Re:This isn't news... on 64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought, too. I've been using it for quite some time, as it's in the 'testing' repository of my distribution.

  10. Re:The Book. on It's 2010; What's the Best E-Reader? · · Score: 1

    Search feature?

    I can riffle through a real book to find the section I'm looking for in a minute. There's also a handy section at the front called the "table of contents". For a finer-grained search, books that need them have something called an "index".

    You can't grep dead trees.

  11. Re:The Sony on It's 2010; What's the Best E-Reader? · · Score: 1

    Then why will there be an ebook store for it?

  12. Re:Can't they make a 'smarter' GPU? on NVIDIA Shows Off "Optimus" Switchable Graphics For Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a new style of docking station with a high-end GPU built-in would be a good direction to go in.

  13. Re:what happened to good hardware design? on NVIDIA Shows Off "Optimus" Switchable Graphics For Notebooks · · Score: 1

    This is like putting two processor like the most power hungry Intel chip and an Intel Atom, and build software to switch from them when needed...

    Shh, don't give them any new ideas.

  14. Re:Wait, I don't undersand this... on Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can't run 16-bit applications on 64-bit Windows 7, at least according to Wikipedia:

    16-bit Windows (Win16) and DOS applications will not run on x86-64 versions of Windows due to removal of Virtual DOS Machine subsystem (NTVDM).

  15. Re:nginx on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1

    I think GP was asking how HipHop, with its built-in PHP webserver, compares to nginx with FastCGI/PHP when it comes to serving up PHP pages.

  16. Re:Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles? on Amazon Surrenders To Macmillan On eBook Pricing · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, OpenCola is as close as they've gotten to that.

  17. Re:Useless commentary on Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X · · Score: 1

    That's why you look it up elsewhere.

  18. Re:Cloud Computing needs to go. on The Future of Portable Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    Cloud computing will make more sense as Internet access improves further. That means when the broadband providers and mobile phone services stop dragging their feet.

  19. Re:speed on Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG) · · Score: 1

    For some reason, all of them cause the "Aw, snap" message in Chrome (4.0.249.64) whenever I hover the mouse over them and move it around a little.

  20. Re:HDMI is not fine though on Displayport V1.2 To Take Giant Leap Over HDMI · · Score: 1

    You may want to know that HDCP support was added in DisplayPort 1.1. I'm not sure why everyone here is assuming that HDCP is not supported at all.

  21. Re:Could never happen with computers... on THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player · · Score: 2, Informative

    I like your post but there is a minor error. OS X is not open source. It's derived from NeXT which is a closed-source OS from the 1980s that was ported to the PowerPC platform, and is still closed source today.

    You may want to read this:

    Darwin is an open source POSIX-compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects.

    Darwin forms the core set of components upon which Mac OS X, Apple TV, and iPhone OS are based. It is compatible with the Single UNIX Specification version 3 (SUSv3) and POSIX UNIX applications and utilities.

    Darwin's heritage began with NeXT's NeXTSTEP operating system (later known as OPENSTEP), first released in 1989. After Apple bought NeXT in 1997, it announced it would base its next operating system on OPENSTEP. This was developed into Rhapsody in 1997 and the Rhapsody-based Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999. In 2000, Rhapsody was forked into Darwin and released as open-source software under the Apple Public Source License (APSL), and components from Darwin are present in Mac OS X today.

    Darwin version 10.2 corresponds to Mac OS X 10.6.2.

  22. Re:Multithreading on Firefox 3.7 Dropped In Favor of Feature Updates · · Score: 2, Informative
  23. Re:DDRROOIIDD on Nexus One Owners Report Spotty 3G Signals On T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    Tethering costs extra on Verizon, anyway.

  24. Re:On Hybrid Vehicles on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that Seattle's King County Metro has around 267 diesel-electric hybrid buses (in addition to its around 159 trolleybuses).

  25. Re:On Hybrid Vehicles on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about these two vehicles:

    • Ford Ranger EV: It was possible to outright purchase them.
    • Chevrolet S-10 EV: It was also possible to outright purchase them. In fact, I know a guy who has two of them running currently.