Posts by Topaq

Boffins celebrate 30th anniversary of first deep examination of Uranus

Re: Headlines

How about Mirod. Just picture a classroom scene after the following statement from the teacher:

"Although fairly distant, there are attractive forces between Uranus and Mirod"

Google flushes out users of old browsers by serving up CLUNKY, AGED version of search

Corporates lag behind, footmen suffer

Why punish punters who have no say to which browser their companies choose to install as a "safe" option. No, I don't think IE8 is that either, so please tell my Corporate IT that instead of blocking my access to modern search or email, Google (and Yahoo! as well btw). I've tried already

AMD tops processor evolution with new mobile Kaveri chippery

A "friend" in need

The word 'kaveri' means 'a friend' or 'a pal' in Finnish. The story makes a disorienting and sometimes questionable read for a Finn:

"Macri, Keller, et al. worked on the back end of Kaveri as well"

But nice to see other words than just 'sauna' to become more widely used. As long as you stay of the word 'sisu' (reserved stricly for Finns only), it's okay.

Apple ships 'completely redesigned' iTunes 11

They also killed Artist Grid View

Extremely annoying when you're used to it, and/or when you hav a large collection of artists with many albums for each. Now the only grid view is for individual albums, which makes scrolling to the end an arduous task. "The best iTunes ever"... indeed