Riiight, because this hurts Windows.....how exactly? this just makes Mozilla look Mickey mouse, because IE comes in 64 bit and has for something like 7 years now poor lame Mozilla can't even write well enough to tell the difference between 32bit and 64bit bugs.
Have you actually used the 64-bit IE? There is a good reason it's not the default binary, and that's because it doesn't "just work" as expected. I'm speaking of IE9 on Win 7 here.
Nice rant, but it's out of date with regards to Opera.
Bringing the out-of-process plug-in architecture across to Windows and Mac also brings another advantage: the ability to run plug-ins compiled for Intel 32-bit architecture from within a 64-bit Opera process. And 64-bit Opera is the other delightful gift we're giving you at Opera Labs this Christmas!
64-bit Windows and Mac have been in the works for a while, but we didn't want to release them until we had a way of running all plug-ins that's completely transparent to the user: This is now possible with the out-of-process plug-in architecture, so here we are! The 64-bit versions of Opera offer performance improvements in some specific areas and allow Opera to have more freedom in allocating memory.
I will agree with the summary that making DDG the default search in Chrome/Chromium is not straightforward. Picking anything other than the 3 choices given (Google, Bing, Yahoo) takes a bit of work.
In FF and Opera it's quite easy to add new searches, even for other sorts of sites like the Arch Linux Wiki.
I'm surprised that RS has any momentum left. The original "Rapids" debacle was what, three years ago? Why would anyone still bother to pay for their service after all that has happened since then?
It's has already been the case for some time that you never RS links at the two web hotspots beloved of for-profit uploaders... personal blogs and forums that allow anonymous browsing. RS is apparently content to kick out all the pirates and get by with a fraction of their former traffic.
Density is profoundly affected by mass because of gravitational compression. Earth has a higher density than Mercury, despite being composed of intrinsically less dense materials, because of this compression. The effect is even larger in gas giants... that's why Jupiter's density is only 1/5 of Earth's, despite hydrogen (0.0899 g/L at STP) being its prime constituent.
Density variations between bodies are also much smaller than mass variations. While this planet is warmer than any of our gas giants, it has a lot more mass and is likely to be denser than any of ours due to its mass.. Even if we imagine it has a lower density (say 1/10 or 1/20 of Earth's), you now have to consider it has 1200 to 2100 times as much mass as Earth. That's one big gravity well.
Jobs left the US because shareholder profits came to be considered much more important than paying employees enough to afford the products they made. The concept of noblesse oblige has been entirely replaced by amoral asocial asshattery. Greed became the greatest virtue and our equitable society faded away.
Slashdotters love to fancy themselves as 1%ers (Look at me, I make 70K a year!) and are thus especially useful idiots for big business.
So true. In the 50s Americans were smart enough to look out for their own self-interest rather than shill for big business and the free trade religion.
Trickle down economics are going to be having a reckoning, and soon. Enjoy the tailend of the Reagan world order while it lasts.
I would have guessed the "Romentum" stories were just for the rubes and that the actual GOP leaders and Romney's people knew better that the odds were against them.
But the reactions to their loss put all that in doubt... seems the Party really was eating their own dogfood.
Soon they will have the TV split into a nine part grid, with the show in the centre, and ads running constantly on the other 8 equal sized portions of the screen.
And they'll still have ads on the 'show' portion of the screen half the time.
That's what the TV shown in Idiocracy looked like as I recall...
It was ten years ago that I decided to "opt out" of TV, and I've never regretted it.
We're the country with by far the most people behind bars, the country kicking in doors on behalf of media cartels, the country bombing random people in far-flung countries...
He's probably referring to the fact that Mint has been getting more pageviews on DistroWatch than Ubuntu for some time now. I'm certain Ubuntu still has more actual users.
That said, I had a friend inquire about Linux recently and I recommended Mint to them over Ubuntu because of this advertising injection. I use KDE so the Unity thing wasn't a big deal to me, but I can't excuse the ads/infomining. That's not what Linux is about.
I would love to see the remnants of the impact crater from the impact that knocked uranus into such an obscure rotation
Recent models of the solar system's evolution can't account for objects as massive and Uranus and Neptune forming so far from the Sun. The idea is the actually formed much closer and were pushed outward.
The mechanism for this event is proposed to have been a 2:1 orbital resonance between Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter moved inwards and the other large planets moved outwards, possible causing Uranus' odd axial tilt in the process. This model also proposed that Neptune was originally closer to the Sun than Uranus, but swapped places during the disruptive event. This model makes sense of why Neptune is more massive than Uranus.
An direct impact event would have to have involved something very large to affect such a massive body (14.5 earth masses) so radically. That seems unlikely.
The current rules for the Presidential debates came about as a response to Perot's success. You have do even better than he did to get your foot in the door. Even if someone managed it, they could just as easily up the requirements again...
As we say around these parts... good luck with that.
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Riiight, because this hurts Windows.....how exactly? this just makes Mozilla look Mickey mouse, because IE comes in 64 bit and has for something like 7 years now poor lame Mozilla can't even write well enough to tell the difference between 32bit and 64bit bugs.
Have you actually used the 64-bit IE? There is a good reason it's not the default binary, and that's because it doesn't "just work" as expected. I'm speaking of IE9 on Win 7 here.
Nice rant, but it's out of date with regards to Opera.
Bringing the out-of-process plug-in architecture across to Windows and Mac also brings another advantage: the ability to run plug-ins compiled for Intel 32-bit architecture from within a 64-bit Opera process. And 64-bit Opera is the other delightful gift we're giving you at Opera Labs this Christmas!
64-bit Windows and Mac have been in the works for a while, but we didn't want to release them until we had a way of running all plug-ins that's completely transparent to the user: This is now possible with the out-of-process plug-in architecture, so here we are! The 64-bit versions of Opera offer performance improvements in some specific areas and allow Opera to have more freedom in allocating memory.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/64-bit-opera-and-out-of-process-plug-ins/
I will agree with the summary that making DDG the default search in Chrome/Chromium is not straightforward. Picking anything other than the 3 choices given (Google, Bing, Yahoo) takes a bit of work.
In FF and Opera it's quite easy to add new searches, even for other sorts of sites like the Arch Linux Wiki.
Oops, messed up my link:
He's referring to this
He's referring to this. It's from last year, but Mint is still ahead of Ubuntu in those metrics.
I still expect Ubuntu has more users total, but that's not going to last forever.
I'm surprised that RS has any momentum left. The original "Rapids" debacle was what, three years ago? Why would anyone still bother to pay for their service after all that has happened since then?
It's has already been the case for some time that you never RS links at the two web hotspots beloved of for-profit uploaders... personal blogs and forums that allow anonymous browsing. RS is apparently content to kick out all the pirates and get by with a fraction of their former traffic.
You forgot the "purified" and "anally administered" parts.
Now if you posted a nice rack on a "internet culture" area like 4chan or maybe a link here on /., that would more or less work.
More or less? I'll opt for "more".
It's heat from the planet's formation. It's estimated to require about 12 Jovian masses to start ignition, and this is only 4-7 Jovian masses.
Density is profoundly affected by mass because of gravitational compression. Earth has a higher density than Mercury, despite being composed of intrinsically less dense materials, because of this compression. The effect is even larger in gas giants... that's why Jupiter's density is only 1/5 of Earth's, despite hydrogen (0.0899 g/L at STP) being its prime constituent.
Density variations between bodies are also much smaller than mass variations. While this planet is warmer than any of our gas giants, it has a lot more mass and is likely to be denser than any of ours due to its mass.. Even if we imagine it has a lower density (say 1/10 or 1/20 of Earth's), you now have to consider it has 1200 to 2100 times as much mass as Earth. That's one big gravity well.
Sarcasm detector calibration required.
This is the time for compromise.
Obama is willing to compromise, as long as he gets everything he wants.
Ah, projection... What Republicans do to others, they imagine is being done to them.
The Republicans should have taken the offer they got out of Obama last year, now they'll have to settle for something they like less.
Even worse, Newegg actually returns results for 320GB 3.5" drives...
So much for progress.
Jobs left the US because shareholder profits came to be considered much more important than paying employees enough to afford the products they made. The concept of noblesse oblige has been entirely replaced by amoral asocial asshattery. Greed became the greatest virtue and our equitable society faded away.
Slashdotters love to fancy themselves as 1%ers (Look at me, I make 70K a year!) and are thus especially useful idiots for big business.
This isn't the 1950s.
So true. In the 50s Americans were smart enough to look out for their own self-interest rather than shill for big business and the free trade religion.
Trickle down economics are going to be having a reckoning, and soon. Enjoy the tailend of the Reagan world order while it lasts.
I would have guessed the "Romentum" stories were just for the rubes and that the actual GOP leaders and Romney's people knew better that the odds were against them.
But the reactions to their loss put all that in doubt... seems the Party really was eating their own dogfood.
Soon they will have the TV split into a nine part grid, with the show in the centre, and ads running constantly on the other 8 equal sized portions of the screen.
And they'll still have ads on the 'show' portion of the screen half the time.
That's what the TV shown in Idiocracy looked like as I recall...
It was ten years ago that I decided to "opt out" of TV, and I've never regretted it.
We're the country with by far the most people behind bars, the country kicking in doors on behalf of media cartels, the country bombing random people in far-flung countries...
and our problem is really enforcement underreach?
I disagree.
That the "dweeb" at the phone store would (gasp!) behave professionally and not invade a customer's privacy?
More professional pay might encourage more professional behavior.
But everything is about racing to the bottom and squeezing blood from turnips these days.
I figured Dice would jettison that part of Slashdot since it seems to overlap with their own website.
Free your hands from the illogical tyranny of Remington's terrible legacy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
He's probably referring to the fact that Mint has been getting more pageviews on DistroWatch than Ubuntu for some time now. I'm certain Ubuntu still has more actual users.
That said, I had a friend inquire about Linux recently and I recommended Mint to them over Ubuntu because of this advertising injection. I use KDE so the Unity thing wasn't a big deal to me, but I can't excuse the ads/infomining. That's not what Linux is about.
BBCode doesn't work on Slashdot... they are going to be able to see that post! O_o
I would love to see the remnants of the impact crater from the impact that knocked uranus into such an obscure rotation
Recent models of the solar system's evolution can't account for objects as massive and Uranus and Neptune forming so far from the Sun. The idea is the actually formed much closer and were pushed outward.
The mechanism for this event is proposed to have been a 2:1 orbital resonance between Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter moved inwards and the other large planets moved outwards, possible causing Uranus' odd axial tilt in the process. This model also proposed that Neptune was originally closer to the Sun than Uranus, but swapped places during the disruptive event. This model makes sense of why Neptune is more massive than Uranus.
An direct impact event would have to have involved something very large to affect such a massive body (14.5 earth masses) so radically. That seems unlikely.
The current rules for the Presidential debates came about as a response to Perot's success. You have do even better than he did to get your foot in the door. Even if someone managed it, they could just as easily up the requirements again...
As we say around these parts... good luck with that.