Raising the specter of last-generation browser battles, Mozilla launches a publicity campaign to seek a place for browsers besides IE on Windows devices using ARM chips
Oh for christs sake Microsoft, what are you doing? Over 10 years and you still have not realised you can’t make browsers? Why dont you just buy Mozilla? God damnit.
It has now come to this, Microsoft has decided to ban third party browsers on windows tablets using ARM chips. Why? To give good old Internet Explorer a last chance..
“They’re trying to make a new version of their operating system which denies their users choice, competition, and innovation,” said Harvey Anderson, Mozilla’s general counsel. “Making IE the only browser on that platform is a complete return to the digital dark ages when there was only one browser on the Windows platform.”
That, of course, is what happened during the first browser war of the 1990s and beyond, on personal computers. Today, Mozilla’s top lawyer warned that Microsoft’s behavior threatens a repeat of history, because it’s telling Mozilla that it’s barring Firefox from forthcoming Windows 8 machines that use ARM processors.
Now Mozilla, the creators of Firefox have launched a campaign against IE. Or rather against monopoly for a shitty browser. A while ago microsoft had to offer the choice of alternative browser on windows 7 in Europe, apparently they didnt get the hint..
Wicked lasers, the makers of the worlds strongest handheld laser, they now made an actual lightsaber. This does not mean you can go around slicing people up with it but it means that you can have a lser powered toy wich looks incredibly awesome. So check out the video!
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If you are impressed by the Burj Dubai or Burj Khalifa in Dubai then this will blow your mind! A luxury hotel with 21 stories underwater. Imagine waking up in a hotel room, and instead of getting a view of a city skyline, or beach, or maybe a parking lot, you are greeted by underwater wildlife 200 feet below the surface.
It will be called the “Water Discus Hotel”, and would anchor half of the hotel 21 stories underwater, with the other half peeking out above the water. But whether or not this thing is actually built is a whole other story. As inhabitat points out, there had previously been plans for another underwater hotel in Dubai before that idea faded out, and until construction begins, nothing is ever set in stone. I can also imagine environmentalists are not pleased by the idea of something like this.
What you are looking at is a stylus for ipad or iphone, and a preter clever one aswell! It’s so small, it goes right into the headphone jack that most smartphones have, doubling as a dust cap. Machined from aircraft grade aluminum, its small capacitive tip adds much needed precision. You won’t be able to produce a Van Gogh with it, but you wouldn’t be able to do that anyway even with fancier instruments, so don’t be so picky.


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