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Have you guys managed to avoid the sluggishness issues similar to the ones Mozilla team encountered years ago when the decided to also build the chrome via XUL (HTML/JS/CSS)?
Re:Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @03:30PM (#4414316)
For slightly more amusing attacks on printers, there is an android app available - HP Printer Fun.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.angryhacke...

Re:How to Make It on Craigslist on Thursday January 26, 2012 @06:29PM (#3516466)
I disagree. Letting the kid get away with this teaches that there won't be any consequences to questionable actions.
TIL that pcAnywhere still exists. Last time I used it, 56k modem was the state of the art.
Re:RIM CEOs to Give Up Top Posts in Shuffle on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:23AM (#3499561)
Can someone enlighten me as to what advantage BES holds over the way iOS and Android communicate?

I agree that several years ago, when phone having an IP address was unheard of, BES made all the sense in the world. It's kind of pointless now.

I am surprised they haven't evaluated the office apps that are associated with the suits. As a long time Google Docs user, I was stunned by how superior the online version of Excel is to Google's offering.
Re:Why is Windows so slow? on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @02:04AM (#3372594)
> MSBuild does suck in that there is little implicit parallelism

/m enables parallelism on the .NET side. Perhaps the same thing exists for the native compiler?

Re:IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real. on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @01:55AM (#3372581)
So their 5 year prediction from 2006 fell completely on its face.
Re:Gates back on stand in Utah in $1B antitrust trial on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:56PM (#3271194)
F3 was Reveal Codes, iirc.
Re:Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team on Monday November 21, 2011 @01:25AM (#3260223)
What is her accent? It really is fascinating.
Re:Richard Stallman’s rider on Thursday October 27, 2011 @12:44AM (#3161676)
You are so right. When I visited Egypt years ago, the amount of "helping" was so over the top. It really does get in the way.
Re:HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @04:29PM (#853592)