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From: Mike Easter on 12 May 2010 12:46 Mike Easter wrote: > Re 'Amodeus' - the wikipedia article^1 has a lot of interesting info on > the middle name Mozart adopted for himself - since he wasn't baptized > with today's popularly used Amadeus nor did he use that name himself. He > used Amadeo and Amdade. s/Amdade/Amade/ He used Amadeo and Amade. Whose law is it that sez that if you correct some error such as spelling, that your correction will contain the same or a similar error? Is that Muphry's Law or some other? -- Mike Easter
From: nospam on 12 May 2010 12:47 In article <d75bcdc0-6517-4800-81ef-277fde0811d5(a)42g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, <"miso(a)sushi.com"> wrote: > Google can code. There is no question about it. RIM had to buy a > company to get (hopefully) a decent browser. Apple had to hack KDE to > make Safari. Google can get a blank sheet and create very good first > effort code. These guys (Google) are good. that must be why google uses apple's kde hack, because they're so good. > I'm a RIM user myself, but Google is the one to watch. Apple is > strictly for the fanbois that will buy anything with fruit stamped on > it. except that half of the people buying macs and even ipads are windows users, buying their first apple product. > If google sets up a server network for their phones similar to > RIM, it's all over for Apple. You've probably noticed Google has > server code to make complicated web pages easier to read, much like > RIM does with BIS. [Hey, why not copy a good idea!] Apple chooses to > use that gesture gui to help the user read the complicated web page, > but that is not efficient from a power standpoint. It is better to > send carefully crafted data in the first place that is appropriate for > the phone. google's server that translates pages for mobile devices does not work very well. i've used it. it basically strips out everything except text.
From: News on 12 May 2010 13:31 Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Father Guido Sarducci wrote: >> In message news:0q0ku5h9cj83s2prrgq9ggmk9u9d0k65r3(a)navasgroup.com, John >> Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> said: >> >> NEWS: Lady Gaga outsells Mozart >> >> >> Well that settles it - Lady Gaga's music is better than Mozart's. > > Wolfgang Amodeus Mozart is an old, old friend! > > But who is "Lady Gaga"???? > > Never mind! I have this feeling that I do not wish to know her! Chances are, it's mutual.
From: Larry on 12 May 2010 14:28 "miso(a)sushi.com" <miso(a)sushi.com> wrote in news:d75bcdc0-6517-4800-81ef- 277fde0811d5(a)42g2000prb.googlegroups.com: > Apple chooses to > use that gesture gui to help the user read the complicated web page, > but that is not efficient from a power standpoint. It is better to > send carefully crafted data in the first place that is appropriate for > the phone. > Firefox for Mobile is a new browser we Nokia Maemo tablet (N800/N810) users are beta testing for them. It's a totally different concept and it's just great! The browser is always web-page-full-screen. There is no task bar or other bars in the way of the content. The bars are just offscreen to the left, right and top of each webpage. The top is the URL bar to enter or paste the next webpage you want. It's also a google search engine input if you don't put in what passes as a piece of URL. It's very intuitive. To the left of the webpage is the "tabs" of all the webpages running, even the ones in background. If your radio station playing on the speakers is put in background, it continues to play just like on Firefox. At the bottom are controls for the Bookmarks beast. On the right are the other controls for the browser, the regular task bar buttons. Just swipe in the directions to get to them at any time, no matter where you are in a webpage, except the URL bar at the top which rides up when you move down the webpage. It rides on top of it. Very cool. As it's Beta, they have no embedded Flash, yet, but will in the end product so you can run everything. As it's an 800 pixel wide display, the text on a complex webpages like news.google.com or a news website in several columns is too small to read. Doubletap on the text you want to full screen and the browser autozooms so that column or frame fills the screen. Double tap again and it returns to the whole webpage for another selection. All browsers should have this! It's just so much better than having to zoom yourself to the proper size. It zooms in on content as well as text. If a news item is in two columns across, when you zoom in, the browser is so smart it puts the two columns into one continuously scrollable column for easy finger scrolling. There's no need for scroll bars. Just drag it anywhere you like. Very well thought out. Can't wait for the final version with Flash and the embedded toys Firefox is famous for. This browser will be downloadable to any phone that supports a browser in the near future, not just Linux. Not sure if they're gonna hobble it up so Apple will approve, though. -- Creationism is to science what storks are to obstetrics. Larry
From: Larry on 12 May 2010 14:29
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in news:120520101247273852% nospam(a)nospam.invalid: > except that half of the people buying macs and even ipads are windows > users, buying their first apple product. > > You must live on another planet, not just New Zealand. Maybe your statement is true in New Zealand where you live but certainly not America where I live.....or was your admission you live in New Zealand just another of your lies? -- Creationism is to science what storks are to obstetrics. Larry |