I think releasing earlier, faster is great -- execution is everything. I don't know if Mozilla needs to be afraid that Google is somehow getting ahead of them, though. I mean, yes, in terms of speed and simplicity, Chrome wins hands down. Considering how fast JagerMonkey is getting better, it doesn't seem that's as much of an issue to me (or at least, they're on the right track). But in terms of how much each company is churning out, I think Mozilla is keeping up just fine. Think about what they've talking about for the past year: Panorama, maybe a new privacy UI, Jetpack, application tabs, "HTML5" features -- this shows that they're actually thinking about the future of the browser. What has Google produced in the past year? Chrome jumped from v4 to v8 (and now v9, and soon v10). Extensions, HTML5 stuff, WebM, GPU-accelerated compositing, page prerendering. How much of this work was put toward Webkit, though? And why do you think they added all of this? To catch up with IE and Firefox. I just don't think it's a fair comparison.
There are two experiments involved here, one using rat neurons and one using human neurons. The article is badly written -- it first introduces the two experiments, talks about the rat-neuron experiment for a bit (that's what the video refers to) and then abruptly segues to the human-neuron experiment (which there is no video for). Only the last three paragraphs are really about the human one. Looks like it's the same setup as the rat one though.
you'd think they'd have decent demo videos. I mean for the love of the Holodeck, if you're trying to film something that looks 3D, and you want to convince us it looks 3D, maybe move the camera in a three-dimensional motion? Like walk around the TV or something? Sheesh.
It's fun to tinker with your system. It's fun to change all the settings, break the system, then have to go to recovery mode to repair it.
I don't know about you, but I get this feeling that this guy was on LSD or something. I mean, what kind of pitch for Linux is this? "Woah, man, you should try this new Linux thing, it's awesome. Dude, have you checked out the command line? Blinking cursor, white on black... pretty trippy, man.... Oh dude, check out what I did the other day -- I typed "rm -rf/" and -- get this -- I LOST EVERYTHING. Duuuuude. Is that not awesome?? I like wasted a whole week getting all my stuff back and in order, but -- aw man, IT WAS SO WORTH IT, DUDE!!"
Thanks, but I think I'll pass.
So let's try this again. The reason why I love Linux is because it costs $0, it's opensource and it gets out of my way. Being able to tinker with it is nice, but it's not the best thing since sliced bread as this druggie thinks it is, and it sure isn't #1 on my list of fun activities. For me, the real fun is accomplishing something -- Getting Things Done. And for the most part, Linux lets me do this, but it only happens -- and this will probably blow you away -- when I don't mess with the system.
BUT. Contrary to what TFA conveys, Linux actually has some pretty fugly blemishes, and this is one of them: to a certain level you have to mess with the system, you have to make kludges, even if you really don't feel like it. That's just the way things are, and I guess I've learned to live with it, but sometimes it can be pretty annoying. For instance:
Package management is great, but not when most applications I install fail to appear in the menu. Hence, there's probably a buttload of stuff I've forgotten I've installed because I can't see it anywhere, except if I feel like studying the output of `dpkg -l`.
Linux's support for wireless USB adapters and webcams sucks. My wireless works, thanks to a driver I had to compile manually and install, but barely. I've tried three older Logitech webcams with two drivers to no avail. Wasted about a month fiddling with those. Kind of frustrating.
I'd like to use Rosegarden but apparently my kernel has to be recompiled with a higher system clock resolution. Sure, there's a multitude of other music apps I could use, but some of them use JACK, and most of them don't, and of the ones that do, I'd have to figure out how to connect them all, which I don't feel like doing.
Anyway. I could go on but you get my point. Linux isn't perfect, because tinkerability isn't always good. F/OSS isn't perfect, everyone has their idea of how to solve Problem X, and so you have a bajillion and one projects that are in a questionable state, and are probably of inferior quality to their closed-source counterparts, which doesn't do any justice whatsoever to opensource.
And, of course, you have the "most people don't use Linux because it isn't supported because most people don't use Linux" paradox, which is pretty frustrating for everybody, users and developers alike.
Personally I think this whole fiasco just proves (yet again) that when people are given the chance to speak their mind, they act like total dickwads. Bloggers and Twitterers are no exception. I mean, read some of the twits. Sarah Lacy may have been a terrible interviewer, but that's no reason to throw insults at her... Jesus. You'd think that the same people that twitter are the same people that troll YouTube and shit all over the comments sections...
Except there wasn't any scientific evidence back then to know whether the Earth really was flat or not. It's been a fact of science for quite a while now that that the only way for time to slow down is to travel faster than the speed of light. Why should we expect that by trying something as simple as dropping people from 150 feet and measuring what they perceive can prove anything otherwise?
"Now the time has come with Spore delays that people equate it to Duke Nukem Forever. For one, Will Wright is a perfectionist. He wont let trash get released."
It's one thing to want to polish your game. That's a good thing -- game developers don't do that enough IMO. But it's quite another to show everyone how great, how innovative, how new and exciting and complex your game is......... and yet polish and improve and polish and improve and test and polish and test and improve and polish the thing until you think it's perfect. I mean, the demos look pretty functional to me -- what else is there to add/test? (Granted, I haven't seen half of the new demos, so I don't know if there *are* any new features, but I've seen enough of the old ones to know how to play the game and what all it can do.) Sure, it's a different kind of game, and it deserves more development time than any normal one, but when a well known game architect has been working on something for 7 years I think it's alright to get kind of suspicious. (Then again, I believe the Sims was in development for 5 years before it was released, so I guess it's normal for Will Wright.)
ZOMG, being able to play Sonic will be so awesome! Will they add Tails too???!1
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Exactly. You have to think about what tags are most useful for: categorizing articles so it's easy to find other articles related to them. The problem with tags on Slashdot is that they're being used as just another form of comments. Tagging an article with "yes"/"no", "elmerfudd", "linuxsucks", or "pleasetakeitwearebeggingyou" may be amusing, but it's not helpful from a search standpoint. No one will think to use the tag "elmerfudd" if they want to search for FUD, and no one will think to use "pleasetakeitwearebeggingyou"... in fact they won't think to use that at all, since I can't think of any other article it could apply to than the one it was applied to, and even if it did, would whoever added the tag in this case remember to use it again? No, I don't think so -- it isn't MEMORABLE, which is kind of what tags are supposed to be in order to work right.
So, to recap, leave your comments about an article in... wait for it... the COMMENTS SECTION. And make your tags memorable. Got that? Awwwwwesome.
Exactly! If they want they could just add a basic player profile where you have to indicate your real body's gender
They might as well add a checkbox that says "by checking this I affirm that I am not lying about my real gender and age"...
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Chocolate Aperture Science Companion Cube... "You ate your companion cube faster than any other test subject on record."
Is that like the Aperture Science Bring Your Daughter to Work Day? 'Cause we all know how that turned out.
I think releasing earlier, faster is great -- execution is everything. I don't know if Mozilla needs to be afraid that Google is somehow getting ahead of them, though. I mean, yes, in terms of speed and simplicity, Chrome wins hands down. Considering how fast JagerMonkey is getting better, it doesn't seem that's as much of an issue to me (or at least, they're on the right track). But in terms of how much each company is churning out, I think Mozilla is keeping up just fine. Think about what they've talking about for the past year: Panorama, maybe a new privacy UI, Jetpack, application tabs, "HTML5" features -- this shows that they're actually thinking about the future of the browser. What has Google produced in the past year? Chrome jumped from v4 to v8 (and now v9, and soon v10). Extensions, HTML5 stuff, WebM, GPU-accelerated compositing, page prerendering. How much of this work was put toward Webkit, though? And why do you think they added all of this? To catch up with IE and Firefox. I just don't think it's a fair comparison.
There are two experiments involved here, one using rat neurons and one using human neurons. The article is badly written -- it first introduces the two experiments, talks about the rat-neuron experiment for a bit (that's what the video refers to) and then abruptly segues to the human-neuron experiment (which there is no video for). Only the last three paragraphs are really about the human one. Looks like it's the same setup as the rat one though.
Does it run Linux?
That's what I think. Why waste money on re-inventing the incandescent when we already have a solution that beats incandescents *and* CFLs?
you'd think they'd have decent demo videos. I mean for the love of the Holodeck, if you're trying to film something that looks 3D, and you want to convince us it looks 3D, maybe move the camera in a three-dimensional motion? Like walk around the TV or something? Sheesh.
Oh, so that's how much it costs...
I like how the guy publicly posts his girlfriend's GTalk handle. Has he never been on the internet before?!?!
you could have one hell of a lasercat
From TFA:
I don't know about you, but I get this feeling that this guy was on LSD or something. I mean, what kind of pitch for Linux is this? "Woah, man, you should try this new Linux thing, it's awesome. Dude, have you checked out the command line? Blinking cursor, white on black... pretty trippy, man.... Oh dude, check out what I did the other day -- I typed "rm -rf /" and -- get this -- I LOST EVERYTHING. Duuuuude. Is that not awesome?? I like wasted a whole week getting all my stuff back and in order, but -- aw man, IT WAS SO WORTH IT, DUDE!!"
Thanks, but I think I'll pass.
So let's try this again. The reason why I love Linux is because it costs $0, it's opensource and it gets out of my way. Being able to tinker with it is nice, but it's not the best thing since sliced bread as this druggie thinks it is, and it sure isn't #1 on my list of fun activities. For me, the real fun is accomplishing something -- Getting Things Done. And for the most part, Linux lets me do this, but it only happens -- and this will probably blow you away -- when I don't mess with the system.
BUT. Contrary to what TFA conveys, Linux actually has some pretty fugly blemishes, and this is one of them: to a certain level you have to mess with the system, you have to make kludges, even if you really don't feel like it. That's just the way things are, and I guess I've learned to live with it, but sometimes it can be pretty annoying. For instance:
Anyway. I could go on but you get my point. Linux isn't perfect, because tinkerability isn't always good. F/OSS isn't perfect, everyone has their idea of how to solve Problem X, and so you have a bajillion and one projects that are in a questionable state, and are probably of inferior quality to their closed-source counterparts, which doesn't do any justice whatsoever to opensource.
And, of course, you have the "most people don't use Linux because it isn't supported because most people don't use Linux" paradox, which is pretty frustrating for everybody, users and developers alike.
I don't think you could call these things "fun".
Just telling it like it is...
Personally I think this whole fiasco just proves (yet again) that when people are given the chance to speak their mind, they act like total dickwads. Bloggers and Twitterers are no exception. I mean, read some of the twits. Sarah Lacy may have been a terrible interviewer, but that's no reason to throw insults at her... Jesus. You'd think that the same people that twitter are the same people that troll YouTube and shit all over the comments sections...
And the sky is blue. Just in case you didn't know.
Okay, but what happens when somebody at Mozilla think it's such a dumb idea that he doesn't want it implemented in future versions of Firefox?
Except there wasn't any scientific evidence back then to know whether the Earth really was flat or not. It's been a fact of science for quite a while now that that the only way for time to slow down is to travel faster than the speed of light. Why should we expect that by trying something as simple as dropping people from 150 feet and measuring what they perceive can prove anything otherwise?
(thanks folks, I'll be here all night)
"Now the time has come with Spore delays that people equate it to Duke Nukem Forever. For one, Will Wright is a perfectionist. He wont let trash get released."
It's one thing to want to polish your game. That's a good thing -- game developers don't do that enough IMO. But it's quite another to show everyone how great, how innovative, how new and exciting and complex your game is......... and yet polish and improve and polish and improve and test and polish and test and improve and polish the thing until you think it's perfect. I mean, the demos look pretty functional to me -- what else is there to add/test? (Granted, I haven't seen half of the new demos, so I don't know if there *are* any new features, but I've seen enough of the old ones to know how to play the game and what all it can do.) Sure, it's a different kind of game, and it deserves more development time than any normal one, but when a well known game architect has been working on something for 7 years I think it's alright to get kind of suspicious. (Then again, I believe the Sims was in development for 5 years before it was released, so I guess it's normal for Will Wright.)
Or one hand doing something else...
ZOMG, being able to play Sonic will be so awesome! Will they add Tails too???!1
Exactly. You have to think about what tags are most useful for: categorizing articles so it's easy to find other articles related to them. The problem with tags on Slashdot is that they're being used as just another form of comments. Tagging an article with "yes"/"no", "elmerfudd", "linuxsucks", or "pleasetakeitwearebeggingyou" may be amusing, but it's not helpful from a search standpoint. No one will think to use the tag "elmerfudd" if they want to search for FUD, and no one will think to use "pleasetakeitwearebeggingyou"... in fact they won't think to use that at all, since I can't think of any other article it could apply to than the one it was applied to, and even if it did, would whoever added the tag in this case remember to use it again? No, I don't think so -- it isn't MEMORABLE, which is kind of what tags are supposed to be in order to work right.
... wait for it... the COMMENTS SECTION. And make your tags memorable. Got that? Awwwwwesome.
So, to recap, leave your comments about an article in
"In fact, several people I know still prefer to use them."
Yeah, Amish those days.
Exactly! If they want they could just add a basic player profile where you have to indicate your real body's gender They might as well add a checkbox that says "by checking this I affirm that I am not lying about my real gender and age"...
You missed a semicolon. It should read "Of coarse this hinges on weather; open source really is the best way." Sorry, couldn't resist. :)