The privacy problems, performance deficiencies and the baroque API will haunt us for decades.
The beauty of doing this is that these standards can be implemented many ways. We are currently in a browser war where various companies are competing to see who can implement these standards more efficiently. I fail to to see how this will cause performance deficiencies or privacy problems. The presence of one of these issues in any browser will cause the user base to switch to another.
Currently, we're all using Flash, because that's the only show in town. How many privacy problems, and performance deficiencies exist with that? When companies compete, the consumer wins!
On the day Microsoft releases IE 8 -- the most popular web browser in the world -- Slashdot doesn't mention it, but posts a trivial article about Google Chrome benchmarks.
So, there may be no IE 8 story, but this one is hardly trivial. The things Google did in these benchmarks were previously only done in Flash. This is a major breakthrough in developing an alternative to Flash.
...Apple is hoping will make the lack of flash on the iPhone a moot point.
This certainly does make Flash obsolete. What we really need now is an open source program that makes creating such content as simple as it is in Flash.
You don't need Chrome to make these experiments work. This is more of a demonstration of what web standards compliance can do than what Chrome can do. The coolest part is that it pretty much makes most Flash related content obsolete.
In other words, the First Amendment question simply didn't come up. The sole question was what Massachusetts law was, not whether that law was consistent with the Constitution.
In other words, the defense attorney wasn't doing his or her job.
They can't return anything from an FOIA request if they don't have anything on you.
While it is true that there are likely many people requesting their own FBI file, only to discover that it doesn't exist, why didn't the FBI use that as an excuse? Instead, the article notes:
The FBI's explanation, according to the NSA, is that 'files are indexed only by reference terms that have to be manually applied by individual agents,' and even then, 'agents don't always index all relevant terms.'
You know, I'll own up to not knowing that it was exactly 47% of the earth that was covered with water. I actually thought it was a lot closer to 70%, and, apparently, so does Google [google.com], so its a common misconception. I wonder if one of us isn't counting ice?
Why is this insightful, I thought it was supposed to be funny. The article was about how 47% of people know that the earth is 70% covered by water. Not how many people know that 47% of the earth is covered by water.
I'm curious to know how many adults fail basic statistical literacy.
sounds like the need to buy one of those Google search appliances...
Yeah, but then they would have to hire someone to censor all of the search results manually, and would no longer have a good reason to deny FOIA requests.
Meaning it would be more cost effective to sell the oil and buy the electricity rather than use the oil to generate my own electricity.
I doubt it, this technology has three major advantages over selling the oil and buying the electricity.
1) No transmission loss from the power plant to the customer.
2) No waste heat from the power generation, as it is used to heat the restaurant's water.
3) No fuel is burned in transporting the soon-to-be fuel.
In theory, the markets sort out the most efficient use of resources. If this technology is truly more efficient, it will thrive.
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... get where this one is going?
HR is full of morons? Seriously, on the corporate intelligence scale, people in HR rank only slightly above the people that sweep the floor.
The privacy problems, performance deficiencies and the baroque API will haunt us for decades.
The beauty of doing this is that these standards can be implemented many ways. We are currently in a browser war where various companies are competing to see who can implement these standards more efficiently. I fail to to see how this will cause performance deficiencies or privacy problems. The presence of one of these issues in any browser will cause the user base to switch to another.
Currently, we're all using Flash, because that's the only show in town. How many privacy problems, and performance deficiencies exist with that? When companies compete, the consumer wins!
On the day Microsoft releases IE 8 -- the most popular web browser in the world -- Slashdot doesn't mention it, but posts a trivial article about Google Chrome benchmarks.
So, there may be no IE 8 story, but this one is hardly trivial. The things Google did in these benchmarks were previously only done in Flash. This is a major breakthrough in developing an alternative to Flash.
Yep. I guess most video sites will move swiftly to javascript-decoding and rendering their flvs and mp4s.
HTML 5 has <audio> and <video> tags, the actual decoding and rendering is handled by the browser.
I don't know if I would call it a dupe. That was a side note to another story. It deserves to be a story all by itself.
If anything, I think making it a side note in the first place was a bad decision.
it will run at 100 degrees Fahrenheit and not crash, but for how long?
...Apple is hoping will make the lack of flash on the iPhone a moot point.
This certainly does make Flash obsolete. What we really need now is an open source program that makes creating such content as simple as it is in Flash.
You don't need Chrome to make these experiments work. This is more of a demonstration of what web standards compliance can do than what Chrome can do. The coolest part is that it pretty much makes most Flash related content obsolete.
Yeah, the gravity thing seems to work on Firefox 3 as well. Most of these things should work with a browser that is relatively standards compliant.
What a coincidence! That's when most people graduate from college!
It makes me wonder if the same thing holds true for people who pursue advanced degrees. Would doctors peak at 26 and begin do decline at 31?
What a coincidence! That's when most people graduate from college!
why couldn't someone write an update telling conficker to cease operation and uninstall itself?
How do you expect to make any money doing that?
why couldn't someone write an update telling conficker to cease operation and uninstall itself?
Because that would be illegal.
Next time you bring up your opponent's questionable past, you could be sued for a form of defamation.
I bit this will happen exactly once, and this obscure law will be rewritten.
In other words, the First Amendment question simply didn't come up. The sole question was what Massachusetts law was, not whether that law was consistent with the Constitution.
In other words, the defense attorney wasn't doing his or her job.
They can't return anything from an FOIA request if they don't have anything on you.
While it is true that there are likely many people requesting their own FBI file, only to discover that it doesn't exist, why didn't the FBI use that as an excuse? Instead, the article notes:
So, the author uses statistics to explain basic science literacy among adults.
What's the basic statistical literacy among authors?
You know, I'll own up to not knowing that it was exactly 47% of the earth that was covered with water. I actually thought it was a lot closer to 70%, and, apparently, so does Google [google.com], so its a common misconception. I wonder if one of us isn't counting ice?
Why is this insightful, I thought it was supposed to be funny. The article was about how 47% of people know that the earth is 70% covered by water. Not how many people know that 47% of the earth is covered by water.
I'm curious to know how many adults fail basic statistical literacy.
sounds like the need to buy one of those Google search appliances...
Yeah, but then they would have to hire someone to censor all of the search results manually, and would no longer have a good reason to deny FOIA requests.
On a side note, this explains how so much intel falls through the cracks of our nation's intelligence agencies, only to be discovered after something tragic occurs.
the FBI can't find anything, because their agents didn't tag their reports.
Please read my post again, you completely missed my point.
Now if they could only harness the methane from all those cows
Welcome to the wonderful world of anaerobic digestion.
Meaning it would be more cost effective to sell the oil and buy the electricity rather than use the oil to generate my own electricity.
I doubt it, this technology has three major advantages over selling the oil and buying the electricity.
1) No transmission loss from the power plant to the customer.
2) No waste heat from the power generation, as it is used to heat the restaurant's water.
3) No fuel is burned in transporting the soon-to-be fuel.
In theory, the markets sort out the most efficient use of resources. If this technology is truly more efficient, it will thrive.
You might want to rethink trying to hit it with a golf club.
Yeah, a hockey stick would work much better.
Happy Gilmore, is that you?
How do they ever expect to catch Riddler?