* Posts by goron59

3 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Sep 2010

Google rolls out offline Gmail (for Chrome only)

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Webmail is mostly useless to me

Because it doesn't work everywhere.

Yahoo Mail, GMail, Apple web mail, etc are all blocked at just about every company I've ever worked for.

Gmail itself is a deeply unpleasant thing to use anyway. Yahoo mail is nicer.

Apple threatens Java with death on the Mac

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Desktop Java is my day job...

... but I'm not bothered by this. I'll either carry on using the existing Java 6 on the Mac, or use a VM.

Java on the desktop is rapidly dying anyway, and Android will disappear as fast as it arrived.

Over The Air: Losing drones and forging bus tickets

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FAIL

FAIL FAIL

I see you've never used an oyster card - they usually stay in your wallet, and besides, the driver is usually looking out the window, mirrors, etc.

The pic of an oyster card is not meant to pretend to be a real card.