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  1. Jquery on Five AJAX Frameworks Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dojo is nice if you want widgets (month selector/accordian/...) but the documentation is rather weak. Personally I like JQuery, good docs and everything in 1 rather small file.

  2. SilverLight Adoption is Easy, Bundle with IE on Adobe Open Sources Flex SDK Under MPL · · Score: 1

    Thats all MS has to do to get wide adoption. Force it as part of IE, or make an option in the download by default. And then put it all over Microsoft.com and MSN.com and break stuff (like navigation) if you dont have it installed.

    Granted it wont be forced on people on other platforms but it would get heavy adoption rather quickly. I dont put it beyond them to do this either.

  3. I'd quit that kind of job also on Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    Anything more than 40hrs a week is unacceptable to me. Sorry I'm not a workaholic. And before WW2, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, America was thinking of making the work week to 30-35hrs a week.

  4. IE View Lite is better on Why are Websites Still Forcing People to Use IE? · · Score: 1

    IETab, isnt a good way to test in IE though, the Eolas bug wont show up in IETab and you might forget to fix that. You should test for IE in IE. I'm sure there are other little glitches that wont show up in IETab as well. Get IE View Lite which sends the URL you are on to your IE browser and launches it.

  5. Is it Flash or lots of JavaScript? on Google To Add Presentations · · Score: 1

    Or openlazlo? Powerpoint exports? Guess we'll have to wait and see.

  6. Video will now be WORTHLESS on Enforced Ads Coming to Flash Video Players · · Score: 1

    Yahoo's video site does pre-roll ads, 30sec ad before watching an video. You then get to watch 2 videos again before seeing another ad, even if you don't watch all of either one, as soon as you picked a 3rd video another 30sec ad shows. In my opinion it makes the site unusable, I will never use Yahoo's Video site again, I only tried it out to see what they did and if anything was better than YouTube. People don't go online to watch 30+min of video or 2+hrs like TV or watch the full 2minute video segments. Imagine if you had to watch a commercial every time you changed the channel more than 3 times or after every 4 minutes.

  7. They make HORRIBLE coasters on Can CDs Be Recycled? · · Score: 1

    I've tried this, the moisture they get over is just spread onto your coffee table/desk Coasters need to be cork on top of a mesh plastic thing, I drink lots of ice water and I've even had some cork and wood coasters split over time

  8. I want a AJAX tag :p on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do some web 3.0 stuff for me

    <curvedcorners>Bling Bling</curvedcorners>

    and maybe they will implement the </sarcasm> tag, no opener needed :p

  9. slashdot, digg, rss aggregator/portal on What's Your Site Rotation? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot, a rss aggregator/portal site I made just for myself that exists only on my computer, and Digg

  10. Here's how you can tell the winners on How To Tell Open-Source Winners From Losers · · Score: 1

    1) need active developer(s) that are working on it constantly
    2) good and active forums for feedback, requests, bug reports
    3) releases that aren't too far apart
    4) some promotion on slashdot/digg or the web, something that gets people interested in it

  11. What for? on Netscape 9 to Undo Netscape 8 Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    AOL bought Netscape just for their portal. They didn't want to force their users to website incompatibilities so thats why they never changed their browser from IE, that and I believe they had an agreement. Just let Netscape die already, even version 6 was nothing but Mozilla with AOL Spyware and every version after was like that as well.

  12. Help the Brim project instead for a OSS one on Netvibes May Give My Yahoo Run For Money · · Score: 1

    While netvibes, pageflakes, start.com (did M$ rip them off?), google personalized home pages are all cool, I'd prefer to have my own private version The Brim project is a long ways away from that but it has the biggest chance of becoming a OSS version for you to put on your own server.

  13. Dupe...Read this today taking a Dump at Google on Google Admits China Censorship Was Damaging · · Score: 2, Interesting

    :p It was on the Google Toilet Stalls

  14. Duplicate data all over the place on How Safe is Your Employment Application Data? · · Score: 1

    Why can't there be a single online application form for any state jobs? I've seen the state duplicate job forms for the University, Health Jobs, and so on. All of the jobs were State based, so they should of used the States Job site, which was done very well. But no, you have to fill out the same forms 1000 times to apply to different jobs in different organizations. The State's Health site was built with ColdFusion and was so damn buggy I gave up. One University's site was JSP and the redirect for every page drove me insane as I couldnt use the back button, I had to go through the pages in the right order, or use their special back form button. Needless to say how all corporations want to use their own online job application forms, they should just rely on the State's especially if they are going to use it to look for candidates.

  15. Less confusion on their end but more for the web on Labels Not Tags, Says Google · · Score: 1

    Using the word tag could be confusing to other web developers (html tags)

  16. It will be required with Windows Update on After 100M IE7 Downloads, Firefox Still Gaining · · Score: 1

    Just like its required to have SP2 for XP, it will be a requirement pretty soon to do Windows Updates with IE7.

  17. Looks like a Chevy Astro dipped in Chrome on Ford Airstream Electric Concept Car · · Score: 1

    The red trim around the windows really made no sense to me. Give it a decent paint job and it would actually look pretty decent. But if that ever gets to the market I doubt the windows and door will stay that shape.

  18. Do you really get to OWN the car this time? on GM Working on Feasible Electric Car · · Score: 1

    The thing about the EV-1's is that you could only lease them, no one was allowed to keep theirs, they were all shredded and destroyed. There is one in a museum but its nothing but the shell.

  19. Here is a site that has a lot of IPs on A Tour of the Google Blacklist · · Score: 5, Informative

    Banned IP Address - a lot of them are spammers or fake bots that will look around your website and fill your forms in the attempt to spam you or your forums/blog or whatever else you might have

  20. Good Start on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Nice to see at least some effort for energy efficiency, even if its Wal-Mart. I've been using CFC bulbs like this for 2yrs now and they are great. I'm guessing it will probably be about 20yrs before LED bulbs become cheap enough and powerful enough to replace 100w bulbs in our homes.

    I'd like to see the US Govt support the 1 Watt-Standby Power Initiative, the way Europe is now doing so.

    I'd also like to see any new houses/buildings required to use solar power cells or solar furnaces. Especially if you are in the Sun Belt. I know they aren't "clean" to create but we have to start somewhere, the technology is here, we can't wait for it to be perfect.

    While I'm at it, why don't we require any city with a population over 500,000 to have a mandatory recycling program.

    One thing that has also never made sense to me is why so many houses in the Western US don't have basements. Its hotter in the SouthWest than anywhere else in the Nation.

    Any government official can feel free to steal these ideas, I can't do anything with them, I have no power (pun not intended :p ).

  21. Like the user created chat rooms, never came back on Yahoo! Takes Down News Message Boards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yahoo killed those over a year ago and they haven't been brought back, even though they said they would. Yahoo has enough things to worry about, they don't see forums or user chat rooms totally useful.

  22. wood grain... on Plasma or LCD? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah... wood grain finish with rounder corners, convex screen, a 13 button knob and a UFH knob, might look into at least a 90s model :p I hear they have RCA jacks now

  23. It could burn in TV also... on Plasma or LCD? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you have CNN, Fox, NFL or a certain channel on all the time those logos, scorebars, scrolling bars are gonna burn in also.

  24. Re:OS X in VMWare. on VMware Fusion goes Beta · · Score: 1

    So its possible to get an image of OS X and run it on a Windows Box? I've been using PearPC for awhile but I'd like to try this other method out also if possible.

  25. Reminds me of roller ball mouse on Bad Web Sites Can Cause "Mouse Rage" · · Score: 1

    The only time I've gotten "mouse rage" is when I was using a mouse with a ball in it, and you know how they get dirty and wont move at times and then sometimes u cant get all the dirt off the rollers and it snags at times. I ended up smashing that mouse cuz it kept acting figity no matter how much i cleaned it.