Or why IE centric designers better learn to love the bombshell:
1 out of every 4 users use another browser
Most designers spend a lot of time getting their design right so that it works in all browsers (although getting it to look the exact same in all browsers may not be possible). If [...]
I think when it comes to KDE openSUSE 10.3 is my favorite distribution. Certainly it’s the one that I keep coming back to. I went through a spate of trying all the different distributions and yet here I am back at openSUSE. Of course, a Linux master might prefer something like slackware which is fast [...]
This is a video that is a must watch, regarding the danger of the existing legal framework to the way we and our children are able to use content, to remix it, to say something new. Our parents are passive watchers, members of read only society… whereas we cannot passively watch, it is against our [...]
According to the BBC: “UK net firms are resisting government suggestions that they should do more to monitor what customers do online. The industry association for net providers said legal and technical barriers prohibit them from being anything other than a ‘mere conduit’. The declaration comes as the government floats the idea of persistent pirates [...]
Why am I always warning people about DRM? It’s because DRM is one of the great threats to our society of recent times. I can give a list of reasons, but nothing more clearly demonstrates everything that is wrong with DRM than the fiasco that occured with Google Video. I seem to have missed it [...]
The ExoMars project is set to be renamed. The concept has changed so much since the project was first envisioned and its costs first set that the new ExoMars is really an entirely different creature from the 2005 version. Jean Jacques Dordain will ask ministers in November for a near doubling of the 650 million [...]
In the future clothes could feature nanotech fibers that generate electricity from the movements of the wearer. A Nanogenerator has been made by Z.L. Wang and Jinhui Song of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“Our goal is to make self-powered nanotechnology,” Professor Zhong Lin Wang told BBC News. “Airflows, vibrations - all these are mechanical energy [...]
I thought I would try out Freespire, since it looks quite interesting, and I quite like the whole idea of CRN package management. CRN is “Click N’ Run” and is a one click solution. Nice idea. So I downloaded a Live CD and thought I would take a look at Freespire. Last night I slapped [...]
Once you understand that that tiny little stump on the right hand side of this thing, is the camera, then you begin to realize the kinds of scales involved with this thing, it’s f****** huge! Indeed it’s so big it can take pictures of objects 18 - 32 miles away. Of course it’s not a [...]
I’ve just noticed that the ASUS Eepc now comes in black! (The colours are as follows: Pure White, Galaxy Black, Blush Pink, Lush Green and Sky Blue) While at first I took exception to the price they were flogging it in Europe (350 UK pounds which is 680.15 U.S. dollars for a machine that was [...]
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