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Re:Mozilla is building an operating system on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @01:25PM (#2808445)
You sir have hit the nail on the head. The article reads as is they invented something revolutionary. I do think there is great potential in browser os market and a little competition is all that's required to pave the way for the 'next big thing'! This might just do good for the ChromeOS.
Re:Poll: Are you using the G+ circles feature when posting? on Thursday July 14, 2011 @02:41PM (#2764372)
Agree. And on the question of a vote I find the asymmetric circles not only useful but extremely cool.
So why stop the service, charge more for more data use. Or perhaps throttle your speeds. I think he means monopoly in the terms of disallowing service, I guess he should be ok if they charge him more money for more data usage. Either way I believe there is a monopoly where as locations and service providers are concerned and many a times caps such as 250GB are extremely arbitrary. I mean really whats the technical reasoning for a uniform cap of 250GB whether you are in downtown NY of Seattle? Also I would read this... Extremely thought provoking... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2709834
Re:Dropbox down? ...And now up! on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:46PM (#2352809)
Works now. That was quick.
Re:Dropbox down? ...And now up! on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:45PM (#2352801)
I think it would be good to fire an event for planned downtime, without incurring too much of an overhead.

Gates vs. Torvalds

I saw a post on HN saying Gates, Hero (read : http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/09/bill_gates_hero.html )And I wondered what HN has to say for the greater question Bill Gates vs. Linus Torvalds! My vote is with the latter :)

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