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  1. Re:That's not far fetched. on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 1

    Probably can be easily fixed, just add a minus.

  2. Re:Why do people believe that? on Venture-Backed Bitcoin Miner Startup Can't Deliver On Time, Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    OK, thanks, English isn't my first language.

    As a foreigner, bears or bare both really make no sense. :-)

  3. Re:decouple and load dynamically with minimal impa on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    In this case, the browser already had all the parts and pieces. Because of remote debugging API, the developer tools and so on. So an editor was just a small step.

    Judging by the article summary. They wanted to offer something which was easily discoverable.

    That is all there is too it. Nothing more, nothing less.

  4. Re:But is it false? on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    If you think where it is hosted makes any difference, then you would be wrong.

    The person that starts the lawsuit can basically pick any country he likes out of at least these jurisdictions and more:
    - where it is hosted
    - where the domainname was registered
    - where the domainname is hosted
    - the country of the country top level domain: .to anyone ?
    - the country of the person or company being sued
    - the country of the person or company that is suing
    - whatever ever else you can think off.

    These can all be different countries.

    And a judge makes a the decision if he will or will not take the case.

  5. Re:decouple and load dynamically with minimal impa on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    A few 100kb out of a 25MB+ download, I doubt anyone cares.

  6. Re:Why do people believe that? on Venture-Backed Bitcoin Miner Startup Can't Deliver On Time, Gets Sued · · Score: 2

    Also: the customer bares the risk of the fluctuations in the Bitcoin market.

  7. Re:How did he ever hope to make all that money bac on Venture-Backed Bitcoin Miner Startup Can't Deliver On Time, Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    Probably seemed like a nice investment in October. :-)

  8. Re:decouple and load dynamically with minimal impa on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    Well, Firebug is an addon which is also written in HTML/JS/CSS.

    This has always been mostly true in Firefox, Firefox is built in XUL which is an XML variant and Javascript.

    An addon just has different privileges than a normal webpage.

    It is just a zip-file with a different extension. Office documents like ODT and DOCX these days are also just zip-files with a different extension.

    Just have a look at the code:
    https://github.com/firebug/fir...

    When I was browsing through the files, just to make sure, I noticed Firebug also used the same codemirror editor:
    https://github.com/firebug/fir...

  9. Re:decouple and load dynamically with minimal impa on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    The IDE does not incur any loading time.

    It is just a bunch of HTML/JS/CSS files only loaded when you open the WebIDE.

  10. Re:Bloat !!!!! on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    Browsers are operating systems, didn't you know that ?

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAP...

  11. Re:RIP firefox, lean and fast on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    This does not make Firefox slower or load slower.

    The only thing this does is make the download slightly larger.

    These are in seperate files which don't get loaded on startup.

    They first all added their own remote debug protocol:
    http://remotedebug.org/specifi...

    And now people want to have a unified protocol:

    http://remotedebug.org/

    In the mean time, browser vendors like Mozilla and Chrome add the last missing piece an editor.

    Nothing fancy, just something basic.

    It's a natural progression.

  12. Re:Antitrust...? on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    They will never 'nudge' people into creating apps that only work on their own browser/OS.

    You probably missed what Mozilla is about.

  13. Re:Code on Intel To Offer Custom Xeons With Embedded FPGAs For the Data Center · · Score: 1

    It depends on what is connected to the FPGA, it could also be connected to the PCI-bus, but I guess you are right.

  14. Re:Code on Intel To Offer Custom Xeons With Embedded FPGAs For the Data Center · · Score: 1

    My guess would be this is for I/O.

    These customers have lots of I/O that, if you can do high performance optimized operations on a general CPU how useful would that be ?

    Think of something like liberouter or NetFFPGA embedded on the CPU die.

    Or maybe the FPGA is used to implement calculations like crypto and hashes like CRC32C. Instead of building them into the silicon, why not make it possible to do research by loading new versions of it.

    Maybe you just need to look around on the Internet what other companies are doing with these, it might also give you hints:
    http://www.embedded.com/electr...

  15. Re:Your wish is available now on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    1. Technically they didn't implement closed DRM, they let others build a closed part and allow it to be run from Firefox

    2. You mean Android ? the Google services are getting more closed by the day and the open source components are lagging. Samsung is creating their own replacements. This seems like a good idea to you ?

  16. Re:Your wish is available now on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    Ofcourse, but what is the alternative ?

    Multiple non-profits ?

  17. Re:Protecting the Weak from the Strong on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    The problem is, the US already has, many, many firearms in the general population so it is hard to change the policy. Because it might have the opposite affect.

    But in many countries around the world, there are very few firearm incidents. Because people don't have them.

    The problem with firearms is they are really effective and thus very deadly. Which means every time there is a problem there are a lot more deaths when firearms are involved.

    Now: if you look at the trends in these other coutries where the general population has no firearms, the number of criminals with firearms _might be_ on the rise. Not much though. These firearms usually originate from countries at war. The obvious solution is to solve that problem. :-)

  18. Re:Your wish is available now on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    It's an open source project backed by a non-profit that as it's only goal is: keeping the Internet open and accessible by anyone by improving, promoting the open web.

    Mozilla isn't perfect, but it might be the best we've got right now ?

  19. Re:Any chance at getting one? on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    "Why do ordinary users buy newer, more expensive Android phones?"

    The old one is broken.

  20. Re:Any chance at getting one? on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    But they are not smartphones, they are feature phones.

  21. Re:Any chance at getting one? on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    Do you think Dell produces it's products in the US ?

    Is Dell a US company ?

    There is your answer.

    But in Brazil they do get produced locally, because import taxes are really high.

  22. Re:What about Apps ? on Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    Webapps don't need a server.

    All you need is for it to not depend on a server (by using the HTML5 Offline cache) and add a manifest file:
      http://davidwalsh.name/firefox...

  23. Re:Is unix the last operating system? on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have a feeling when a large number of projects on github (or the new dockerhub) includes a Dockerfile and maybe a file for orchestration (like OpenStack Heat template) that will make it even easier to deploy any project things will really start to take off even more than they are now for open source and free software.

  24. Re:Now wait on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    "Amazon *IS* the market, the market should set prices."

    That is a great idea, until Amazon really is the only supplier.

    Then they will really set their prices (read: high)

  25. Re:Is unix the last operating system? on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 2

    One way is to use a Linux container.

    Also look up: Docker