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Something ugly about the Waterfox variant of version 15. By default it wanted to install an antivirus program (AVG) including a toolbar that it said only works in 32-bit browsers (Waterfox is 64-bit), I hate bundleware, and not expecting to see it in something downloaded from Sourceforge. All versions of Firefox freeze like crazy these days to me, I hope this is better.-daddydave (September 01, 2012, 08:38 AM)
Blast from the past:
LinuxDevices.com - LG demonstrates wireless Linux Web pad at CeBIT
By Rick Lehrbaum 2001-03-23The iPad is powered by a 206Mhz Intel SA-1110 system-on-chip processor and an in-built 64 SDRAM module. It offers some expandability with a slot for Flash memory cards and PCMCIA cards. To operate the devices, users are given a stylus and the pad provides handwriting recognition for both English and Korean.
How dare you, Apple!-Mark0 (September 01, 2012, 06:37 AM)
Oh my... :facepalm:-Mark0 (August 29, 2012, 01:09 PM)
We didn't look at any singular aspect that closely...
It's just adults behaving like (poorly raised/behaved) elementary school kids.
-Renegade (August 31, 2012, 09:54 PM)
Uh-h-h-h ... ya wanna maybe make that pre-school-barney (August 31, 2012, 10:05 PM)
^ Haven't we seen this twice before in this thread? LOL ... never too much?-wraith808 (August 31, 2012, 06:46 PM)* Stephen66515 gave up caring about Apple vs Samsung, its a futile effort, so doesn't read topics, instead he just posts random things just for the hell of it-Stephen66515 (August 31, 2012, 06:52 PM)
IMHO the only piece of hardware Microsoft ever really did get right was the scroll-wheel mouse.
And the only pieces of software they ever got mostly right were Flight Simulator X...and maybe (just maybe) Word 6.0.-40hz (August 31, 2012, 12:23 PM)
At the time, laser mice weren't really all that spectacular/accurate, and I was rather disappointed. Maybe I've had good luck with MS hardware. Dunno. I'd buy MS hardware again though. The WTFPL is a rephrased BSD license, basically. I wonder why people always forget that one.-Tuxman (August 31, 2012, 10:53 AM)
If it's not GPL, MIT or Mozilla or Apache, it's going to be something fishy.-mahesh2k (August 31, 2012, 10:49 AM)
The point about linux or open source is not to replace the mainstream brands but to offer people the same experience without them having to cut leg and arm for it.-mahesh2k (August 31, 2012, 10:11 AM)
Something most people (including some notables in the Linux community) miss: Linux is not about "winning" or "dominating." It's about providing the user a better alternative than just saying: "none of the above."-40hz (August 31, 2012, 10:23 AM)
A twenties-something "genius ape" named Natasha has been found to demonstrate more intelligence than a typical U.S. high school student. The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed science journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
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According to these scientists, Natasha has demonstrated the following skills; all of which escape the dumbed-down mental capacity of a typical U.S. high school student:
• An ability to repeatedly escape the chimpanzee enclosure using planning skills.
• An ability to disable an electric fence by throwing branches on it and observing the sparks. Once the sparks stopped, Natasha knew the fence was disabled and then proceeded to climb it. (A typical U.S. high school student cannot figure out how to pull his pants up around his waist.)
• The ability to wield a special tool to avoid a trap while locating hidden food. (U.S. high school students eat toxic food chemicals every day which trap them in a lifetime of chronic disease.)
The whole walled garden thing is just painful.-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 09:43 PM)
More like it's predictable.
Heed the words of the Sage: "Never sign onto anybody's trip but your own."-40hz (August 30, 2012, 09:58 PM)
Begley is about at his wits end over the iOS version of Drones+. “I’m kind of back at the drawing board about what exactly I’m supposed to do,” Begley said. The basic idea was to see if he could get App Store denizens a bit more interested in the U.S.’ secretive, robotic wars, with information on those wars popping up on their phones the same way an Instagram comment or retweet might. Instead, Begley’s thinking about whether he’d have a better shot making the same point in the Android Market.
Yeah, when it rains, that's really bad for data in the cloud...-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:33 AM)
Renegade I just saw somewhere that 51% of Americans think rain affects data in the "Cloud" (?!)-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2012, 03:16 PM)
