The point isn't to fix up IE - very few people who are uncomfortable downloading chrome are going to download chrome frame. You have to opt in to use the chrome stuff anyway, so I suspect the vast majority of the devs opting will be at google itself.
The real point is to embarass microsoft for having such a crappy browser, a move which will increase adoption of firefox, opera, and chrome. And maybe even help keep IE quality up.
I would LOVE to be proven wrong, but I for one do not expect to see ff4 in a little over a year. At least, not in a form that resembles the various things that have been suggested for ff4 over the years (multi process browsing ftw)...
I've seen so much hype about this lately. The fact of the matter is, the bigger a discovery you make is, the longer it takes for people to adapt to and integrate with the core technologies. What were the big technological breakthroughs for 100 years after the Gutenberg press? Nothing to write home about. It's a cycle. I don't find a time when you are filling in the details to be all that less exciting than a time when society realizes "thanks to this new breakthrough, holy crap we can sort of do X!"
Actually the geode used in olpc is not a scaled down thunderbird. The Geode LX series is based on old cyrix chips (although the Geode NX is a scaled down athlon).
I liked the setup we had at my last job - we used a stripped down openbsd (actually 2 for reliability) machine with one incoming port open to receive RPC requests from machines on our backend. Recurring charges were done via outgoing connections from the openbsd box on port 443 to a service provider. Every other port, in or out, was blocked. No credit card data was stored anywhere else, period. It's amazing to me how little respect some folks have for their customers financial information (let alone privacy).
Don't forget about google admanager, which is perfectly happy to serve third party ads that are flash, popups, etc. Google's text ads are not its only source of revenue.
Interesting - it works fine on my D820. Only difference is a little more ram and jaunty. 64 bit, with nvidia drivers. Are you sure your graphics card isn't overheating? That happens pretty regularly on mine...
Congress's reaction is predictable and hilarious, but to be fair, they are only talking about banning P2P use on government computers. I don't have a problem with that. If you are working on government contracts, you should probably have a seperate computer from where you keep your music, porn, etc.
Scheme isn't remotely write-only - instead it changes how one thinks about programming for the better. If you really want to see write-only, let me introduce you to my good friend perl without strictures.
Actually its not. Android doesn't use libc, and I suspect this won't either (nor will it use X). I suspect few gnu tools will actually be used. Linux will be used because it supports a good chunk of devices and is a "good enough" kernel. gcc and other compiler tools will probably be used too. Maybe the standard binutils and/or findutils (if you can figure out how to get a command prompt open on the thing) - but I doubt there will be much GPL code beyond that.
1 - Make a graph of SunSpider scores for 3.5 and 3 other browsers. 2 - Hmm, that seems a bit thin. 3 - Add some stuff cribbed from the release notes. 4 - Still a bit thin, hrmmm... 5 - Acid3 results!!! 6 - Meh, 798 is almost 1000 words. Publish it! 6 - ??? 7 - Profit!
Re: 1 and 2, Where did you get the idea I was talking about a graphics card? Take a look at the products hauppauge (for example) makes which offload video compression/decompression from the CPU. Re: 3, I typoed decoding for encoding. I have no idea how you interpreted my post, but it sounds like it took the both of us to make something truly batshit crazy.
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My god... You're one of THEM!!!!
IE tab was not developed by Mozilla itself, so it's not really a fair comparison.
The point isn't to fix up IE - very few people who are uncomfortable downloading chrome are going to download chrome frame. You have to opt in to use the chrome stuff anyway, so I suspect the vast majority of the devs opting will be at google itself.
The real point is to embarass microsoft for having such a crappy browser, a move which will increase adoption of firefox, opera, and chrome. And maybe even help keep IE quality up.
I really hope this means they are going to pursue Rock aggressively. Knockin' on wood over here...
I would LOVE to be proven wrong, but I for one do not expect to see ff4 in a little over a year. At least, not in a form that resembles the various things that have been suggested for ff4 over the years (multi process browsing ftw)...
I've seen so much hype about this lately. The fact of the matter is, the bigger a discovery you make is, the longer it takes for people to adapt to and integrate with the core technologies. What were the big technological breakthroughs for 100 years after the Gutenberg press? Nothing to write home about. It's a cycle. I don't find a time when you are filling in the details to be all that less exciting than a time when society realizes "thanks to this new breakthrough, holy crap we can sort of do X!"
Actually the geode used in olpc is not a scaled down thunderbird. The Geode LX series is based on old cyrix chips (although the Geode NX is a scaled down athlon).
I love how AMD is touting the lack of DDR3 support on a new chip as a "feature".
I had the same thought - has anyone bothered to enable Rosetta and see if anything changes?
of course intel showed "plans" for this. they have investors who don't understand the limits of miniaturization to snow.
I liked the setup we had at my last job - we used a stripped down openbsd (actually 2 for reliability) machine with one incoming port open to receive RPC requests from machines on our backend. Recurring charges were done via outgoing connections from the openbsd box on port 443 to a service provider. Every other port, in or out, was blocked. No credit card data was stored anywhere else, period. It's amazing to me how little respect some folks have for their customers financial information (let alone privacy).
A netbook and a cheap desktop with a few extra graphics cards in it is waaaaaaay cheaper. Do you really need disconnected operation?
Don't forget about google admanager, which is perfectly happy to serve third party ads that are flash, popups, etc. Google's text ads are not its only source of revenue.
Interesting - it works fine on my D820. Only difference is a little more ram and jaunty. 64 bit, with nvidia drivers. Are you sure your graphics card isn't overheating? That happens pretty regularly on mine...
... but btrfs is GPL. Therefore Apple can't use it, unless perhaps they are able to work out licensing from Oracle.
Congress's reaction is predictable and hilarious, but to be fair, they are only talking about banning P2P use on government computers. I don't have a problem with that. If you are working on government contracts, you should probably have a seperate computer from where you keep your music, porn, etc.
Scheme isn't remotely write-only - instead it changes how one thinks about programming for the better. If you really want to see write-only, let me introduce you to my good friend perl without strictures.
FAIL for not using some variant of LISP to define the != symbol.
Did you miss the bit about upgrading to ext4? It's painless.
Let me guess, you are running on ff on ext3? Upgrade to ext4 (or run windows or mac) and the problem is not there.
Not to mention they needed composite style effects way before anyone even thought of putting them in X.
Actually its not. Android doesn't use libc, and I suspect this won't either (nor will it use X). I suspect few gnu tools will actually be used. Linux will be used because it supports a good chunk of devices and is a "good enough" kernel. gcc and other compiler tools will probably be used too. Maybe the standard binutils and/or findutils (if you can figure out how to get a command prompt open on the thing) - but I doubt there will be much GPL code beyond that.
1 - Make a graph of SunSpider scores for 3.5 and 3 other browsers.
2 - Hmm, that seems a bit thin.
3 - Add some stuff cribbed from the release notes.
4 - Still a bit thin, hrmmm...
5 - Acid3 results!!!
6 - Meh, 798 is almost 1000 words. Publish it!
6 - ???
7 - Profit!
Sheesh.
Java? Yes, absolutely. Not sure about .net tho.
Re: 1 and 2, Where did you get the idea I was talking about a graphics card? Take a look at the products hauppauge (for example) makes which offload video compression/decompression from the CPU.
Re: 3, I typoed decoding for encoding. I have no idea how you interpreted my post, but it sounds like it took the both of us to make something truly batshit crazy.