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Their browser still gets 70 on acid3 test No other browser (even a 2 year old firefox scores 86) scores that low. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Their browser still gets 70 on acid3 test.
No other browser (even a 2 year old firefox scores 86) scores that low.
They should be ashamed of themselves.

You know they are smart at being assholes. Look, their ODF implementation in Office actually meets the word of the standard, yet can't open any file created by OO

Look, IE9 still gets 70 on Acid3....
No other browser scores that low.
They should be ashamed of themselves.

Yeah, looking back, I wouldn't have had one till 1986, two years after the Mac launched and by then you already had the Fat Mac at 512K.

  Here's the InfoWorld review of it at the time: http://tinyurl.com/3wgx76z

I must have been thinking of the Mac Plus, which finally upgraded the Macs to a megabyte.

But can it detect pirates automaticly?

And no I am not a zealot. I own an iPhone and I hate jailbraking it. It actually is harder and harder

It was somewhat a joke, but in theory such keyboard could do all these actions. And yes I didn't use window for suck long time.... For example some barcode scanners work this way Was fun playing with one...

Now to create an input device that would type 'format C://" every time one logs in... It won't work in Linux so.... Seriously, look a full tcp-ip stack in 8052. I wrote it

To hack USB one has to buy boards, smoards..... Because it is not symmetric. With firewire any PC with firewire port can act as any firewire device....

http://tinyurl.com/preview.php -- you can turn on previewing for tinyurl, so at least you know where the first hop leads to...

Like in The Abyss

If they were a bit more open, they would have much more customers. It was proved many times

He also said that current closed Apple stategy harms Apple

Well he worked for Microsoft for a while.... So just like Nokia CEO?

If they open the device, I am their fanboy instantly. They do make great hardware and software but the locks they impose aren't humane. And their app policy? Just frustration... I did some development for iPhone. Will never do that again.... unless they open things up

After all, it is one big graph of logical gates... And maybe that will help with reverse-enginerring of hardware chips... That is essential to fight the hardware based DRM

As the primary author of Kermit 95, I can tell you that there are no conspiracies here. There are three reasons that Kermit 95 cannot be open sourced: First, Columbia University is not the exclusive rights owner to significant portions of the code. Some of which was licensed from commercial entities that no longer exist. Other portions are licensed from parties that do exist but have not given their permission for the code to be released. Second, Kermit 95 is licensed for export by the U.S. government. It is not an open source product unlike C-Kermit and once classified it would need to be reclassified before it could be freely distributed. I doubt Columbia U. is willing to pay for the additional legal work to make the classification change. Finally, Kermit 95 is a publication not of Columbia University but of Manning Press, http://tinyurl.com/3bm486c, and I suspect that Columbia U. would have to compensate Manning Press for loss of future revenues and agree to purchase any stock still in inventory. Jeffrey Altman

The point isn't randomness, the point is unwanted harmonics in pseudo-random patterns. These unwanted harmonics cause regular repetitions in the pattern that make it seem predictable and non-random. Prime numbers are the basis by which a simple PRNG (pseudo-random number generator) generates seemingly-random data that doesn't repeat in any predictable manner. By overlapping two or more sequences with prime lengths, the length of the harmonic is maximized. That means the sequence goes longer before repeating itself. Sequences with non-prime lengths short-circuit the cycle.

For instance, overlapping three sequences of length 7, 11, and 13 forms the following pattern:
http://tinyurl.com/3wserj7

At a glance, the pattern looks fairly random and non-repeating; however if you look more closely you see that the vertical bands of color are repeating very regularly within the pattern. But, since their periodicity is prime, the pattern as a whole doesn't appear to repeat itself. Using alpha and larger 2-dimensional tiles you can create even more complex and random-seeming patterns.

The life cycle of cicadas is similar in that the overlapping cycles tend to cause a seemingly-random pattern of years with lots of cicadas and few cicadas, such that the life cycle of their predators is less likely to hit a bunch of good cicada years in a row and seriously harm the population of them.

Here's your Porsche. What? you wanted a new one? Oh, that's gonna cost quite a bit more.

I believe this is the answer. It's the only good explanation that would also allow the universe to fall within the bounds of religious context.

According to leaks these CPUs will support DDR4, so they need new interface (You know that ram controller is built-in in these CPUs...)

Here: click here

Why the sudden coordinated campaign for Goatse?

Is someone making money off this?

Acandemic note: The site of choice used to be the French one - now it's the Russian one.

My current list of Russian Goatse links:

http://tinyurl.com/63avlna
http://tiny.cc/jg2wh
http://goo.gl/zjJOI
http://bologgingaway.blog.com/2011/03/29/post/

Back then InformationWeek predicted that Zune will outsell iPad...

This has been the most vexing issue for those interested in this subject from over a quarter century now - http://tinyurl.com/5vgj7lp. It is something that EVERY amateur astronomer is aware of and can't escape (death, taxes, light pollution).

Amateur astronomy is a subtle art, for both photography and observation of planetary and deep sky objects. Lots of people spend Thousands of dollars and invest countless hours trying to see the slightest smudge of light in distant galaxies or expansive dark nebular lanes through Sagittarius, all of which are increasingly untenable.

If you are like me and grew up beyond the suburbs and still couldn't see the milkyway like you read about it in Burnham's Celestial Guide you know what a waste of energy so much of our night time lighting is. I personally spent three years grinding and polishing a 12.5" mirror and the only time I get to see much more than the planets through it is when I drive to the Outer Banks.

I don't mean to get pedantic in saying this, but it is a serious problem for a lotta folks, a lot of it is waste, and there is no tenable solution except to keep driving further and further away from the sprawl.

AMD recently announced they aren't going to cut prices on last series of CPUs due to this

From what information is available it appears that the Fukushima plant changed to Mox (partial plutonium, "as a way to get rid of "surplus" weapons grade Pu) rods last year( and according to the EE times it was amidst protests from locals including the Mayor.. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4214120/Plutonium--fuel-rod-reactions-stoke-nuclear-tensions?pageNumber=0 ), I am curious if anyone here knows if the plant was sufficiently upgraded to handle the higher neutron absorption and lower thermal conductivity of using plutonium in a reactor that was designed for uranium. At the least one would figure that it would need more control rods. Given the massive plume of Xe-133 ( a neutron absorber ) released 3-20/21-2011( http://tinyurl.com/4s4z6uz , go the bottom of the page) one has to wonder if part of the problem stemmed from all the cascading disasters and then a dearth of control rods ... It may explain why the boric acid had utility at teh beginning Perhaps simply not putting "surplus" weapons grade plutoniun mox into older reactor cores located on fault lines and then crossing ones fingers is something that could be considered forward thinking technology

I worked with a dumbass manager many times, and I know friends that do (That happens like in 90% of cases). Just look at this blog entry A poor guy was fired because of irresponsible demands of his boss. 'nuff said...

I use TinyURL, they have a 'Preview' feature that lets you see the actual URL before visiting the destination site - requires cookies.

Go here - http://tinyurl.com/preview.php - and click the link that says "Click here to enable previews."

Really amazing. Read more on the hacker blog on how he did it.

That remains me of a PDP-1 emulator implemented in javascript and let you play asteroids Just think about what computers can do...

Like a submission about a crazy hacker that wrote a game(direct link) to be played in url bar!.
I did just look at firehouse, and there are much better articles,

Apple just boots everything they want,and apply double standards everywhere.
I for example wrote small application that allows you to create a list of items you are going to buy,
see how much money you will need, search the web for cheaper alternatives, and many more features.
You can see it on my blog.
I didn't even got a reason why it was removed.

Yes, you hear me right, I am not trolling. Here is the blog entry about it

I completely agree that juries have been effectively neutered. It takes no better example than the way that the jury selection process in the P2P file sharing trials managed to remove every juror who might have even the slightest disagreement with the ridiculousness of the laws in question, leading to what any objective observer can recognize as monstrous damage awards.

But don't concentrate so much on the word "jury" -- the judicial system is admittedly and beyond the shadow of a doubt stacked against anyone without competent legal representation, but if you get two sides who each have good lawyers, the ultimate outcomes are pretty reasonable most of the time. Heck, look at all the courts throwing sand in the gears of the various P2P settlement scams.

And if your concern will be that not everyone can afford a good lawyer, your response is this.

Click here to find out!

I recently have seen an article about a bacteria that can harvest sunlight and thus turn slowly any fluid into biofuel. Image lakes of it? Or maybe even oceans? Of course that’s just a research, so probably just another non working idea.

To grow enough fuel to make New York drive on biofuel for a month, we will need to a full year of production
of a field twice the size of Texas.
Its nice, yea, but really, the only way to save our butt from peak oil/global warming is to decrease energy consumption dramaticaly.

Like live next to work, use bicycles, etc...

Remember these Pentium 4D 150 W heaters?

Unfortunately that fuel, destroys in long run the car engine even faster that ethanol.

And sure as shit, nobody here gets that it's a joke.

Crikes.

When I wrote that, I was going to write "I'm behind 7 Boxxies!" but I figured it was too obscure and everyone was going to have to google the phrase and thus the joke would be ruined.

But no, people like you have to make me /explain/ the joke and kill it myself. You turned me into *that guy,* the guy that explains all the jokes.

Gah.

--
BMO

For the lazy: http://tinyurl.com/6272za7

I disagree. I was running a pair of 4850's in crossfire for almost 2 years. There was a bug that would make the mouse cursor icon go all corrupted that they never bothered to fix despite knowing it was there. I switched to a pair of nvidia 460 GTX's in SLI and haven't had a problem since.

These devs are amazing.
Benchmark here
It was tested with nexuiz game.

A link to the video of driving in traffic here

Once Microsoft and RedHat teamed up against a patent troll

Linux conf: http://tinyurl.com/4jfae7f

From wikipedia:

Linuxconf is a configurator for the Linux operating system. It features different user interfaces: a text interface, a web interface and a GTK interface. Currently, most Linux distributions consider it deprecated compared to other tools such as Webmin, the system-config-* tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora, drakconf on Mandriva, YaST on openSUSE and so on. Linuxconf was deprecated from Red Hat Linux in version 7.1 in April 2001.

But Archos will release this summer a 10' tablet with the Ubuntu MID pre-installed and unlocked on it. That will be my computer.

There is full x86 emulatior written in Java. Don't belive? Run a linux distro in your browser. click here

Its known that BSA actually uses open-source quite heavily. About a year ago, there was an article about a switch of about 1000 computers in their offices to open source software (however, I think they didn't install Linux, but only started using OO/Firefox/....).

Like for this guy