I don't know if comparable is really accurate in my experience. Most of my coworkers use XP or Vista, I use Ubuntu. They may not have to reboot as frequently as they did in the old days, but I'm the only one seeing the "It has been 192 days since your last reboot" message when I reset my computer.
Consumer grade Linux probably gets 3-4 9s, Consumer grade windows maybe gets 1. Both are good, but one is several orders of magnitude better.
What is going on? Why aren't there any april fools posts? From omgponies to this? Is something broken or is the joke on me? I didn't see some obvious ones so I submitted them, yet still not posted. I'm sooo confused.....
I agree. The reason it hasn't killed professional ground based astronomy is that it is quite easy to subtract the very focused wavelength of sodium vapor streetlights from an image, as sodium vapor lamps are almost completely monochromatic. If we switched to these full spectrum lamps that would be much more difficult, probably meaning we would only be able to do astronomy in very remote areas or with orbiting observatories.
That said, even as strong a proponent of astronomy as I am, the increased efficiency of these lights would probably make it worthwhile...
Did the poster add comments to the webkit code he posted? I noticed this comment...lol,
seems like it helps settle the issue.// This method uses the secret method _scrollTo on NSClipView.// It does that because it needs to know definitively whether scrolling was// done or not to help implement the "scroll parent if we are at the limit" feature.// In the presence of smooth scrolling, there's no easy way to tell if the method// did any scrolling or not with the public API.
I got this from:
http://www.koders.com/noncode/fidDD6DE07ED9010D40683E1F1C73DEBB67143E40B8.aspx#L293
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I don't know if comparable is really accurate in my experience. Most of my coworkers use XP or Vista, I use Ubuntu. They may not have to reboot as frequently as they did in the old days, but I'm the only one seeing the "It has been 192 days since your last reboot" message when I reset my computer. Consumer grade Linux probably gets 3-4 9s, Consumer grade windows maybe gets 1. Both are good, but one is several orders of magnitude better.
What is going on? Why aren't there any april fools posts? From omgponies to this? Is something broken or is the joke on me? I didn't see some obvious ones so I submitted them, yet still not posted. I'm sooo confused.....
I agree. The reason it hasn't killed professional ground based astronomy is that it is quite easy to subtract the very focused wavelength of sodium vapor streetlights from an image, as sodium vapor lamps are almost completely monochromatic. If we switched to these full spectrum lamps that would be much more difficult, probably meaning we would only be able to do astronomy in very remote areas or with orbiting observatories. That said, even as strong a proponent of astronomy as I am, the increased efficiency of these lights would probably make it worthwhile...
Did the poster add comments to the webkit code he posted? I noticed this comment...lol, seems like it helps settle the issue. // This method uses the secret method _scrollTo on NSClipView. // It does that because it needs to know definitively whether scrolling was // done or not to help implement the "scroll parent if we are at the limit" feature. // In the presence of smooth scrolling, there's no easy way to tell if the method // did any scrolling or not with the public API.
I got this from:
http://www.koders.com/noncode/fidDD6DE07ED9010D40683E1F1C73DEBB67143E40B8.aspx#L293