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  1. Re:4.0b5 on Snow Leopard on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    When viewing the demo page, I get 1 fps. I get 6 fps when running the same demo on Firefox inside a Parallels Windows XP SP3 VM. The VM is significantly faster... which boggles the mind actually. So far as I remember, this was an Apple issue not necessarily a Mozilla issue, but still disappointing.

    I also get 1 fps (Debian unstable).
    I think the current beta's start page announced hardware acceleration in Windows.

  2. Re:Huh? on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    IE 9 betas, I think.

  3. Re:I Want Advanced Blocking Capabilities on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    Or Trolling.

  4. Re:Interesting on Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search? · · Score: 1

    And as far as I can tell, https://ipv6.google.com/ doesn't work at all.

  5. Re:A proposition on They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers · · Score: 1

    She's 19 now...

  6. Re:A proposition on They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    The games may not be as visually interesting to a third party, but they're no less fun.

  7. Re:Here's MY list on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    No, just bored.

  8. Re:Here's MY list on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    by .Bruce Perens

    Someone didn't pay much attention to Ender's Game. Period belongs at the end of the name. Of course, and underscore might have been better here.

    2. Bathe periodically.

    I bathe all the time.

    5. Parents will eventually charge rent.

    So do landlords, incidentally.

    7. CTL-C, CTL-V. Took me 15 years until someone showed me that shortcut.

    This ought to blow your mind then: CTL-X

    8. The sun, it burns.

    Funny, I figured that out long before I owned a computer.

    9. As far as your family is concerned, "network admin," "programming," "database management," ... to them, it's all "computers."

    It's good practice for talking to Management later.

  9. Re:10.10? on Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    In addition to what has been said in your other replies, Ubuntu is based on Debian (testing specifically).

    No, Ubuntu pulls from unstable.

  10. Re:Impressed on 2010 May Be the First Year YouTube Turns a Profit · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, does the profitability that this announcement indicates include court expenses?

  11. Re:That's a lot of model names on NVIDIA Announces New Line of Fermi-Based Mobile Chips · · Score: 1

    I bought a laptop with GeForce GTX 480M a month ago and the performance is awesome, you can basically set full resolution and all settings to max. Definitely best you can get for laptops at the moment.

    What programs are you running at "full resolution and all settings to max"? Crysis? Starcraft 1?

  12. Re:$4,337 from a multi-billion dollar company? on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 1
    When integrating your plugin with someone else's application and you run into a bug in the parent app, you have 2 options:
    • Spend lots of time and effort working around the bug, duplicate the workaround in every plugin you make, and hope that other plugins encountering the same bug don't impact yours.
    • Get the bug fixed.
  13. Re:Version bloat on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firefox is older than Safari (OK, so it was Phoenix at the time...) and is only at 3.x or 4.0 (beta)

  14. Re:Wheel of Bug Chasers! on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mozilla also pays bug bounties.

  15. Re:tape isn't bad on Flight Data Recorders, Decades Out of Date · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And damage to tape isn't all-or-nothing.

  16. Re:A Law That Guarantees on Network Neutrality Is Law In Chile · · Score: 1

    I dunno. The US is "The United States of (the continent of?) America", not "...of the Americas" or "...of North America"

  17. Re:Freedom ain't free on Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Belt and Suspenders. . . on Pentagon Selects Companies To Build Flying Humvees · · Score: 1

    Some measure of VTOL is probably necessary if they don't want to make a runway.

  19. Re:Bad analogy is bad on A Conference For Malware Writers · · Score: 1

    Best way to make cars safer is to crash-test them.

  20. Names on .Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    MonoDroid will be a commercial product licensed in a similar fashion to our Mono for iPhone product MonoTouch.

    They really need a better naming theme.

  21. Re:Le sigh on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    The only thing that separates a nurse from anyone else is the material they chose to memorize during school.

    And the situations they encounter as part of their job.

  22. Re:Finally? on MPEG LA Announces Permanent Royalty Moratorium For H264 · · Score: 1

    Don't they make millions of dollars? I mean ... where exactly is that money going?

    Developers, advertising, servers, bandwidth, electricity, etc.
    Running a project that big ain't cheap.

    Question ... why doesn't Firefox just license the decoder?

    Wikipedia says Mozilla Corporation made $75 million dollars in 2007. There's a little download counter on the right side of the firefox.com page:

    127,200,922 Firefox 3.6 downloads

    That's a little over $0.58 per download.

  23. Pharmaceutical on Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Much of it is pharmaceutical spam.

    A very particular kind of pharmaceutical.

  24. Is it really dead? on OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself · · Score: 1, Funny

    Has Netcraft confirmed it?

  25. Re:Does Apple sell books? on Authors Guild Silent Over iBooks Text-To-Speech · · Score: 1

    Or they realize that moving against Apple would be exponentially worse publicity, to the point that the mainstream news might pick it up.