I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven if I could drop Comcast for "a 100Mbps option that costs $50 per month." from Google. If this makes Google Fiber more profitable and can expand faster I'm all for it. Verizon was supposed to expand to my area, but stopped after Comcast sold them spectrum. So many whiners here. I miss the old Slashdot.
And my "anonymous source" tells me that Google has placed an order for at least 100,000,000 leprechauns. Leprechauns are about as real as unicorns and self-driving cars. I don't know why I ever come to slashdot anymore. Such low quality here.
He poisoned our Democracy with Citizens United. And just recently undermined Obama’s ground breaking Climate Change treaty.
I can’t believe people here are concerned about "his large family left behind” If he cared about his family, he would have supported the Climate Change regulation. If he cared about the voters in this country, the wouldn’t have shit on our democracy with Citizens United
I can detect almost zero correlation between presidential candidates' campaign promises, and how they'll act once in office. The only difference between elected presidents seems to be the way in which they'll screw over law-abiding, non-1%-wealthy citizens.
While I would love to see a great distinction between to two parties, your black and white attitude bears little resemblance to reality. Do you really believe the War mongler John McCain would have passed a historic nuclear arms deal with Iran? Or any Republican for that matter pass a historic health care plan to ensure that even the poorest Americans have some form of health insurance.
You're attitude is toxic, and part of the reason we have some of the lowest voter turnout in the free world. If people got involved instead of having a cynical attitude that they’re all the same, we could get real change. Like a constitutional commandment to get corporate money out of politics, which I believe is the root cause of most of the problems in our system.
I upgraded my WRT-54GL with an ASUS RT-N66U. I couldn't be happier with the custom Merlin firmware. The router has all the of the software features of my old Linksys, gets great wired/wireless performance, no WIFI compatibility with over a dozen devices, and most importantly rock solid stable. Can't remember ever having to reboot it.
who da fuck cares? like this is something that is revolutionary? this shit is pointless. there is nothing a a graphing calculator can do that a smart phone can be made to do.
throw the fucking calculator in the garbage
This is a big deal for students. Back when I was in HS and college, they did not allow students to use phones or PDAs during math and physics exams, but TI calculators were usually allowed.
Now enter a car that catches fire as soon as it's in deep water. Now you have a WAY more serious problem, and cannot see or even breathe. This is a really bad problem to have and is something that could result in some deaths. They need more safegaurds to prevent mere immersion from destroying the car if nothing else so occupants can get out.
Wow, talk about FUD! First of all the occupants could of got out, because if you red the article, you'd know it happened AFTER the car was submerged. Secondly, SALT water is much worse for engines and batteries than fresh water.
I welcome any safety improvements that result from this, but when I buy a car, I don't expect it to perform like a submarine.
Cool, give me a real practical example. You can't. Well if you did game on linux, you'd know that this is bullshit. I still have linux games such as introversion's Uplink (2001 release) that still works fine on linux.
Just admit you have no idea what you're talking about apart from these FUD points windows users bring up whenever "linux" and "gaming" are mentioned in the same sentence.
Actually I can, because I DO dual boot Linux and windows. I can't game in Linux because my Radeon 1800 is 5 years old now so the latest proprietary drivers won't work with the newest kernels. Fortunately, MS keeps a stable graphics API and Windows 7 can use the Vista graphics drivers. But the Linux kernel devs won't expose a stable ABI for the graphics vendors, I'm stuck with these crappy open source drivers or using a old unsupported kernel with possible security exploits.
My servers all run Linux and I have an Android phone. I wish Linux could make it for gaming. But with the FOSSies in charge of the kernel, it will never be a viable alternative to Windows or OS X.
Why aren't you using the proprietary ones on Linux? I don't understand. It's not like it's more complicated than checking a checkbox in Ubuntu etc.
For exactly the reason I stated earlier. My Radeon 1800 is 5 years old now so the latest proprietary drivers won't work with the newest kernels. Fortunately, MS keeps a stable graphics API and Windows 7 can use the Vista graphics drivers. But the Linux kernel devs won't expose a stable ABI for the graphics vendors, I'm stuck with these crappy open source drivers or using a old unsupported kernel with possible security exploits.
My servers all run Linux and I have an Android phone. I wish Linux could make it for gaming. But with the FOSSies in charge of the kernel, it will never be a viable alternative to Windows or OS X.
Uh, Linux hasn't been bad at sound for at least like 3 years now. I haven't even had any problems with high-end creative cards
Yes, for watching Movies or Listing to music, the Linux audio system is fine. Want to develop something that requires low latency like professional music software or hmmm GAMES maybe? Good luck with that under Linux's current ALSA and PulseAudio subsystems. Read about the nightmare the WINE dev's are having with PulseAudio's massive latency: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyODM
A perfect example how the pragmatists who supported OSSv4, were right all along, but still lost out to the the pony tail hippies in charge of the kernel. But we, the Linux gamers, are the real losers.
I can't believe someone modded this as Flamebait. This is exact what's wrong with Linux. A "Stable driver abstraction" layer would solve all everyone's complains about graphics drivers under Linux.
You forgot DX 6, and 7 on the list.... Oh but wait. Win98 DX6 games still run 13 years later under Win7 64bit. I fired up DX6 3Dmark 99 the other day. Ran like a champ on my Windows 7 PC. That same PC can dual boot Linux. But I never game under Linux because the open source drivers are slow as ass. MS keeps a stable graphics API, something Linux never figured out how to do.
I actually do care about real world problems in politics and technology which is why I love slashdot so much. Unfortunately this article doesn't make the cut.Excuse me for pointing it out.
Wow! Front page of slashdot! I love these first world problems.
If you're stupid/rich enough to upgrade from 12->13 without reading a single review, you deserve what you get. Otherwise, I'm sure it's a fine game. Move on!
As someone who switched from a browser based OS, WebOS, to iPhone 3GS, and now to Android, I can tell you I will never go back to another laggy HTML based OS. If anything, I'd like to see Android move away from its VM based apps to something like Apple's native apps. Many apps ran better on my 3GS than they do on my much more powerful S3. Mozilla is going the wrong direction on this one. Native > Java > JavaScript
The whole idea of using HTML, CCS, and JavaScript as the back end technology for a low-end smartphone is nuts. Even the best HTML rendering engines are CPU and memory hogs. CSS was never designed for and is nearly impossible to hardware accelerate, and JavaScript is notoriously difficult to optimize and even the best VMs like V8 run orders of magnitude slower then Native code, while the VM itself takes up a massive amount of memory.
I get that Mozilla wants to put Firefox on a phone. Fine, but first, focus one building a competitive browser. At the end of the day, I want a responsive fast phone, like the iPhone or Galaxy S3, not some dog slow HTML monstrosity.
Mozilla please just invest your limited resources on making a lean browser that can compete with Chrome!
IMHO, the best thing about this is you get a nice OS without the Google or Apple lock-in
How do these inane comments get modded up? My Samsung Galaxy S3 is using the Amazon App Store and my phone's contacts are synced to Yahoo mail. Please explain how Google has "locked me in"? And NO, my phone is not rooted.
As someone who switched from a browser based Mobile OS, WebOS, to 3GS, and then now Android, I can tell you I will never go back to another laggy HTML based OS. If anything, I'd like to see Android move away from its VM based apps to something like Apple's native apps. Many apps ran better on my 3GS than they do on my much more powerful S3. Mozilla is going the wrong direction on this one. Native > Java > JavaScript
Why doesn't Mozilla invest their limited resources on making a lean browser that can compete with Chrome instead of a laggy OS that no-one will want.
How is this different in architecture from HP's WebOS?
In Principle they are the same idea, except WebOS uses the lean webkit engine to render the desktop, while Firefox OS, uses the resource hogging Geko engine.
As a former Palm Pre Plus and Firefox user, I am a poster child as to why this is a terrible idea. I switched from Firefox to the webkit based Chrome because it was the was so much leaner and faster. I also had to leave my webkit based Pre, for a NATIVE powered iPhone. And while I dearly miss WebOS's beautiful and intuitive UI, I do not miss the dog slow performance one bit.
Why doesn't Mozilla invest their limited resources on making a lean browser that can compete with Chrome?
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I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven if I could drop Comcast for "a 100Mbps option that costs $50 per month." from Google. If this makes Google Fiber more profitable and can expand faster I'm all for it. Verizon was supposed to expand to my area, but stopped after Comcast sold them spectrum. So many whiners here. I miss the old Slashdot.
And my "anonymous source" tells me that Google has placed an order for at least 100,000,000 leprechauns. Leprechauns are about as real as unicorns and self-driving cars. I don't know why I ever come to slashdot anymore. Such low quality here.
He poisoned our Democracy with Citizens United. And just recently undermined Obama’s ground breaking Climate Change treaty.
I can’t believe people here are concerned about "his large family left behind” If he cared about his family, he would have supported the Climate Change regulation. If he cared about the voters in this country, the wouldn’t have shit on our democracy with Citizens United
I can detect almost zero correlation between presidential candidates' campaign promises, and how they'll act once in office. The only difference between elected presidents seems to be the way in which they'll screw over law-abiding, non-1%-wealthy citizens.
While I would love to see a great distinction between to two parties, your black and white attitude bears little resemblance to reality. Do you really believe the War mongler John McCain would have passed a historic nuclear arms deal with Iran? Or any Republican for that matter pass a historic health care plan to ensure that even the poorest Americans have some form of health insurance.
You're attitude is toxic, and part of the reason we have some of the lowest voter turnout in the free world. If people got involved instead of having a cynical attitude that they’re all the same, we could get real change. Like a constitutional commandment to get corporate money out of politics, which I believe is the root cause of most of the problems in our system.
Why was this posted? It's not good art and has no real life applications.
I upgraded my WRT-54GL with an ASUS RT-N66U. I couldn't be happier with the custom Merlin firmware. The router has all the of the software features of my old Linksys, gets great wired/wireless performance, no WIFI compatibility with over a dozen devices, and most importantly rock solid stable. Can't remember ever having to reboot it.
who da fuck cares? like this is something that is revolutionary? this shit is pointless.
there is nothing a a graphing calculator can do that a smart phone can be made to do.
throw the fucking calculator in the garbage
This is a big deal for students. Back when I was in HS and college, they did not allow students to use phones or PDAs during math and physics exams, but TI calculators were usually allowed.
Now enter a car that catches fire as soon as it's in deep water. Now you have a WAY more serious problem, and cannot see or even breathe. This is a really bad problem to have and is something that could result in some deaths. They need more safegaurds to prevent mere immersion from destroying the car if nothing else so occupants can get out.
Wow, talk about FUD! First of all the occupants could of got out, because if you red the article, you'd know it happened AFTER the car was submerged. Secondly, SALT water is much worse for engines and batteries than fresh water.
I welcome any safety improvements that result from this, but when I buy a car, I don't expect it to perform like a submarine.
When I watch top predators like spiders, wolves, and sharks in the hunt, I find myself in awe of their prowess and grace. Nothing but respect here.
A self-driving car doesn't have to pay much attention to the fragility of the human form when it doesn't have any on board.
Accelerate at 50g?
We're talking about cars here, not fighter jets. We'll probably have warp drive technology by the time cars are capable of pulling 50g's.
Cool, give me a real practical example. You can't. Well if you did game on linux, you'd know that this is bullshit. I still have linux games such as introversion's Uplink (2001 release) that still works fine on linux.
Just admit you have no idea what you're talking about apart from these FUD points windows users bring up whenever "linux" and "gaming" are mentioned in the same sentence.
Actually I can, because I DO dual boot Linux and windows. I can't game in Linux because my Radeon 1800 is 5 years old now so the latest proprietary drivers won't work with the newest kernels. Fortunately, MS keeps a stable graphics API and Windows 7 can use the Vista graphics drivers. But the Linux kernel devs won't expose a stable ABI for the graphics vendors, I'm stuck with these crappy open source drivers or using a old unsupported kernel with possible security exploits.
My servers all run Linux and I have an Android phone. I wish Linux could make it for gaming. But with the FOSSies in charge of the kernel, it will never be a viable alternative to Windows or OS X.
Why aren't you using the proprietary ones on Linux? I don't understand. It's not like it's more complicated than checking a checkbox in Ubuntu etc.
For exactly the reason I stated earlier. My Radeon 1800 is 5 years old now so the latest proprietary drivers won't work with the newest kernels. Fortunately, MS keeps a stable graphics API and Windows 7 can use the Vista graphics drivers. But the Linux kernel devs won't expose a stable ABI for the graphics vendors, I'm stuck with these crappy open source drivers or using a old unsupported kernel with possible security exploits.
My servers all run Linux and I have an Android phone. I wish Linux could make it for gaming. But with the FOSSies in charge of the kernel, it will never be a viable alternative to Windows or OS X.
Uh, Linux hasn't been bad at sound for at least like 3 years now. I haven't even had any problems with high-end creative cards
Yes, for watching Movies or Listing to music, the Linux audio system is fine. Want to develop something that requires low latency like professional music software or hmmm GAMES maybe? Good luck with that under Linux's current ALSA and PulseAudio subsystems.
Read about the nightmare the WINE dev's are having with PulseAudio's massive latency:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyODM
A perfect example how the pragmatists who supported OSSv4, were right all along, but still lost out to the the pony tail hippies in charge of the kernel. But we, the Linux gamers, are the real losers.
I can't believe someone modded this as Flamebait. This is exact what's wrong with Linux. A "Stable driver abstraction" layer would solve all everyone's complains about graphics drivers under Linux.
You forgot DX 6, and 7 on the list.... Oh but wait. Win98 DX6 games still run 13 years later under Win7 64bit. I fired up DX6 3Dmark 99 the other day. Ran like a champ on my Windows 7 PC. That same PC can dual boot Linux. But I never game under Linux because the open source drivers are slow as ass. MS keeps a stable graphics API, something Linux never figured out how to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
I actually do care about real world problems in politics and technology which is why I love slashdot so much. Unfortunately this article doesn't make the cut.Excuse me for pointing it out.
Wow! Front page of slashdot! I love these first world problems.
If you're stupid/rich enough to upgrade from 12->13 without reading a single review, you deserve what you get. Otherwise, I'm sure it's a fine game. Move on!
As someone who switched from a browser based OS, WebOS, to iPhone 3GS, and now to Android, I can tell you I will never go back to another laggy HTML based OS. If anything, I'd like to see Android move away from its VM based apps to something like Apple's native apps. Many apps ran better on my 3GS than they do on my much more powerful S3. Mozilla is going the wrong direction on this one. Native > Java > JavaScript
The whole idea of using HTML, CCS, and JavaScript as the back end technology for a low-end smartphone is nuts. Even the best HTML rendering engines are CPU and memory hogs. CSS was never designed for and is nearly impossible to hardware accelerate, and JavaScript is notoriously difficult to optimize and even the best VMs like V8 run orders of magnitude slower then Native code, while the VM itself takes up a massive amount of memory.
I get that Mozilla wants to put Firefox on a phone. Fine, but first, focus one building a competitive browser. At the end of the day, I want a responsive fast phone, like the iPhone or Galaxy S3, not some dog slow HTML monstrosity.
Mozilla please just invest your limited resources on making a lean browser that can compete with Chrome!
IMHO, the best thing about this is you get a nice OS without the Google or Apple lock-in
How do these inane comments get modded up? My Samsung Galaxy S3 is using the Amazon App Store and my phone's contacts are synced to Yahoo mail. Please explain how Google has "locked me in"? And NO, my phone is not rooted.
As someone who switched from a browser based Mobile OS, WebOS, to 3GS, and then now Android, I can tell you I will never go back to another laggy HTML based OS. If anything, I'd like to see Android move away from its VM based apps to something like Apple's native apps. Many apps ran better on my 3GS than they do on my much more powerful S3. Mozilla is going the wrong direction on this one. Native > Java > JavaScript
Why doesn't Mozilla invest their limited resources on making a lean browser that can compete with Chrome instead of a laggy OS that no-one will want.
How is this different in architecture from HP's WebOS?
In Principle they are the same idea, except WebOS uses the lean webkit engine to render the desktop, while Firefox OS, uses the resource hogging Geko engine.
As a former Palm Pre Plus and Firefox user, I am a poster child as to why this is a terrible idea. I switched from Firefox to the webkit based Chrome because it was the was so much leaner and faster. I also had to leave my webkit based Pre, for a NATIVE powered iPhone. And while I dearly miss WebOS's beautiful and intuitive UI, I do not miss the dog slow performance one bit.
Why doesn't Mozilla invest their limited resources on making a lean browser that can compete with Chrome?