Mozilla announced they were actively working on separating the browser into multiple processes back in Summer '09, and have already delivered some of the first fruits of that project to us in the form of of out-of-process plugins (OOPP).
If you want to keep tabs on how the overall work is progressing, I think this is the bug group you want to watch:
Some fighting or boxing game I used to play changed the actual type of attack you threw depending on how long you hit the buttons. A quick tap was a jab, holding the button for a moment launched a more devistating, slower attack.
Damn. I really wish I could remember which title that was. It really screwed up my "mash buttons" style of gameplay, too...
The problem is those freed-up bits of H and O which are now free to wander off and make new friends. Converting back into water is by FAR not the lowest possible energy state for those two elements when joined to new partners.
To borrow my post's grandparent's example, pairing with magnesium to form magnesium oxide is a sufficiently exothermic reaction that cracking water to make more oxygen is a sustainable process. This is what you call a chain reaction and it will run until the reactants run, out are separated, or magically chilled below the temperature required to initiate reaction. Add this to the hydrogen gas you are making which will happily burn back into water once it gets in contact with more oxygen and an ignition source (like the burning magnesium). The hydrogen can also move away from the site of the "cracking" before reacting with free or gaseous oxygen, for instance bubbling out of the water before being ignited by a spark from the magnesium fire below. As an aside, I don't remember at what temperature hydrogen and oxygen become molecular, so I may be wrong about needing a spark.
Conservation of energy is maintained. You just need to take into account the fact that there are going to be more elements and compounds at hand than H2, O2, and H2O.
By the way "cracking" water doesn't take "at least" as much energy as burning hydrogen with oxygen produces, it takes exactly as much energy.
I meant "Lord only knows" in the most direct sense possible. I assumed only the Almighty would be able to say what you looked like based on the available evidence. I had logged on to 127.0.0.1 and not seen any picture of you or description, though I did feel a weird sense of Zen balance.
The original (and I feel ACTUAL troll) called you both fat geeks, so I was correcting this saying one was a cute girl and the other an enigma.
All I can say is: FUCK! I used to think I was smart.
I took a bunch of AP and some college classes early, but never skipped grades (turned it down to stay with my friends), so maybe the case is that I AM smart but you beat the shit out of me in motivation...
The thing is, the order is most important to me. I want PhotoShop and iPhoto and iPhoto librarian together. If they shift position it's not a big deal as I have a pretty big target to hit.
The order of the icons is not the issue, though I understand where one could assume this is what is meant by "position".
The real issue is the actual placement on the screen of any given element of the UI, not the relative position of the element. This is something people who don't breathe UI design will often overlook. The Dock grows from the center out, meaning that as soon as its content changes your mousing targets will all shift left or right. You are therefore unable to ever count on an item being in a specific place and thus you cannot hit an item without applying some thought. No matter how fast you can think "iPhoto icon looks like ____ and is between Photoshop and iPhoto Librarian icons which look like ____ and ____" this is still slower than relying on muscle memory to move the mouse to the correct spot in the work space and requires the brain equivalent of a CPU context switch (OK, it actualy requires literally switching thought context) and thus is sub-optimal.
This is pretty much the crux of the "Trash should pick a corner" arguement. As it stands you have to pause and locate where the Trash has slid to before you can use it as a target. The corner is a great target since it is so huge (infinitely large in both axes once you hit the edges of the screen), but in reality ANY fixed position, even away from the edge, would likely be more optimal than the current shifting Dock-bound Trash.
On my Windows system I actually launch all the apps I use every day in the same order to get them all in the same spot on the task bar every day. Further, I have a series of web pages that tie to queries I need to access several times a day, and thanks to the miracle of Firebird tabs I get them all open in a set order in one of the application windows, too.
That explains why those words were neon red, underlined, blinking, and 3 sizes larget than the rest of Slashdot's comment text is.
I've hacked Firebird (Browser. The DB people can go spit.) to recognise <ObStupidConspiracyTheory> tags and then set up a custom stylesheet to make the text between them REALLY stand out. I decided I need to know right away whenever those tags are used so I can be certain to believe the whole section as rapidly as possible after loading the page.
Funny thing, though, is this is the first time I've seen it triggered...
Gotta go, 'cause my foil hat is slipping and I think the squirrels are watching me. Keep up the good work, though, Brother Cox.
The code name Coppermine had NO relationship with the metal used inside the chip. It was still an Al-on-Si chip, just like Katmai. Tualatin (last P-III core) and Northwood (second P4 core) were the first x86 Cu-on-Si chips from Intel (targeting Mobile/Server and Mainstream markets, respectively).
Additionally, AMD was making Cu-on-Si chips back at the Thunderbird (first "L2 cache on core" Athlon) debut. All cores that came from Fab 30 in Dresden were Cu-on-Si while all cores from Fab 25 in Autin were Al-on-Si. Palomino (first Athlon XP core) was made entirely at Fab 30 and thus all Palomino cores were Cu-on-Si.
IBM has been producing Cu-on-Si cores since 1998 (PowerPC 740, IIRC) and producing Cu-on-SOI cores since 1999 (PowerPC 750). Where do you think AMD got their SOI technology?
Just loaded up the page. It is at 84% positive for ALL published reviews and 75% positive from the "Cream of the Crop" (New York Post, L. A. Times, Roger Ebert, etc.)
Both numbers are comparable to those for Seabiscut, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Matchstick Men, though one can certainly bet one's mummy-sucked butt that those three had more reviews than Bubba.
Um, yeah. A "Karma Whore" who can't possibly get Karma for posting this since it was posted AC. Now calling him/her/it a "Karma Thief" I could get behind!
Hey, now there's an idea!
A new class of hated Slashdot readers: evil Karma Thieves who post an article as an Anonymous Coward, thus depriving all the good, honest, hard-working Karma Whores of their cheap-ass mod points.
Anyone else hear that the Wachowski brothers called Carrie-Anne Moss back today for some hurried reshoots? The word is that they are replacing a scene where she uses an RPC vulnerability in Windows 2000 to drop copies of the ILoveYou virus into Agent Smiths' laptops.
Goddam, I love your posts. I'm like a Mr.-Darl-McBride-post-on-Slashdot addict or something. I blow mod points getting your posts slid up the ever-fickle Slashdot Scale of Funniness like some coked-out whore.
I'll end this post before I use up all my hyphens, but before I do, may I please entreat you to continue this bit of performance art at least until it is only as socially relevant as MTV?
"Pseudo-news-source filled to overflowing with factual errors, conceptual errors, and baldfaced lies, made up mostly of copy-and-paste 'articles' which are often plainly retreads of old articles" was more how I'd put it.
I mean, I love the "Fuck SCO" mentality, but with friends like Mozillaquest...
"My database does not encompass the dynamics of human peer bonding." -- T-101
I believe you will find that "human pair-bonding" is more like it, as that term refers to courtship and mating rituals.
Then again, maybe the T-101 really just doesn't know how to get Freenet talking to other nodes.
Or maybe it was "pear bonding" and he is trying to glue fruit to himself, unsuccessfully.
With that accent, who can tell for sure. You would think that a machine sent infiltrate the Resistance HQ in order to kill John Connor would at least speak with the same accent as the rest of the (former) 'mericans at the base/hole.
Wait, what were we talking about? Printers? Yay! I love printers. Stupid ADD. Oh look! A kitty!
Drill 8 holes in two rings around the barrel of the gun. Each hole in a ring should be separated by 90 degrees, and the rings should be staggered by 45 degrees. Put the first ring as far back from the tip of the barrel as the barrel is wide (caliber) and the other the same distance back from the first ring. Drill each hole at a 45 degree angle to the surface normal, angled so the inside of the hole is towards the tip of the barrel.
We had MAJOR noise issues with "Big Bertha", our 6 foot-long cannon with a 3" diameter barrel, until we decided to pseudo-silence it by allowing a small amount of gas to bleed out through such vents. Through trial and error on several of our spud guns we found that off-setting the vents seemed help a bit. We guessed it introduced turbulence in the shockwave which helped kill some of the CRACK noise. The noise became more like a heavy object being dropped and less like a rifle shot. This worked for our purposes as people don't often call the police when they think they heard a two-by-six board, but might if they hear gunfire.
Like everyone else, I'm surprised the Germans just started catching on to this. My friends and I made our first gun about 11 years ago, just in time for my oldest friend to get his driver's license. It was all downhill from there. I had actually thought about making a new gun this summer and started drawing up plans about 6 weeks ago, since I missed screwing around with all the old guns I gave away.
We never liked hairspray, decided butane was a BIT more than we were willing to deal with, and finally settled on a product called "Thrust". This stuff was nominally used to make a pull-start two-stroke engine (lawn mower or outboard motor) backfire and thus start easier when cold. "Thrust" was great because it was meant to stay an aerosol for a while and burned pretty cleanly, keeping the sparker leads clean for longer periods. WD-40 didn't stay aerosol and left a lot of residue, hairspray was nasty and burned unevenly, and carburetor cleaner stung the lungs too much.
For the record, we never fired any of the guns we made at people or property, with the exception of brick walls and large wooden signs. Also for the record, my friends and I won every Physics competition that we participated in at our high school. Sadly none of these competitions involved potatoes, but I can hold a tennis ball 9 feet off the ground using only 100 drinking straws and thumb tacks...
I've seen a bunch of people point out that GPS is a transmit-only system (think of a foghorn blowing in a pattern of blasts) and doesn't take in any communications itself. I haven't seen anyone smack the original poster around for the "Profit" part.
The DoD never bought GPS, and GPS was NOT created to make a profit. Its signal was even originally encoded in such a way that non-US military receivers could not use it in an effective manner to maintain its original purpose: giving the US military a vast edge in determining exactly where its units were in 3D space. Land and sea units suddenly knew exactly where they were on the map at any time, speeding up navigation or even making effective navigation possible in places like the Iraqi deserts.
It wasn't until civilian GPS receivers had been using a neat hack-ish bit of logic (have a fixed receiver in a known place take in the encoded signals from GPS to figure out how to correct for their signal skewing, then transmit this) for a while that the DoD opened the GPS system to official civilian use and stopped screwing with the signal timings on the satelites.
For GPS I have updated the list:
Put GPS satellites in orbit.
Use superior navigation abilities to drive at maximum speed through a featureless desert and flank the Iraqis who had been told you could never drive through this desert because you would lose track of your units.
Kick ass.
By the way, how the fuck would someone make a profit from the GPS sats? The only thing you can make money on is a one-time sale price of a receiver unit. You certainly can't charge per-use fees...
I'm guessing the "Your Browser Is Retarded" post was deleted? Either that or I have NO idea what you guys are all referencing and I seriously missed a joke.
May God love the browser-abusers out there, though, 'cause I sure don't...
"Shaken, not stirred" = drinkPreference("James Bond")
There ya go, blindingly obvious geek movie trivia, now hurry up and gimme some karma!
And you are complaining because... ?
If it is the "Score: 5" bit, I'll wholeheartedly agree with you. I feel that Slashdot moderators are far too eager to slap a "me-too" vote on already up-modded posts which leads to a glut of +5 posts, all supposedly the "Cream of the Crop".
If it was the "Informative" part, then let me just point out that not everybody has seen Sneakers and thus would have no idea what "Setec Astronomy" meant.
I have little doubt, though, that te "Informative" was your issue. My best guess is that the "Score: 5" did you in. Then again, your intent would be clearer if you had just said "Score: 5???" and gone from there.
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And the trolly troll is trolling.
Unless you regularly compile optimized builds of Chrome, Opera, Safari, or IE, kindly STFU.
I'm guessing it's either North and South America or else Europe and Asia.
Then you don't recall correctly.
Mozilla announced they were actively working on separating the browser into multiple processes back in Summer '09, and have already delivered some of the first fruits of that project to us in the form of of out-of-process plugins (OOPP).
If you want to keep tabs on how the overall work is progressing, I think this is the bug group you want to watch:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=516518&hide_resolved=1
Jigga, what?
They do indeed. It is a full download right now, not a binary diff.
Thanks to the number pad, my keyboard has 3 nipples, just like its owner...
Damn. I really wish I could remember which title that was. It really screwed up my "mash buttons" style of gameplay, too...
To borrow my post's grandparent's example, pairing with magnesium to form magnesium oxide is a sufficiently exothermic reaction that cracking water to make more oxygen is a sustainable process. This is what you call a chain reaction and it will run until the reactants run, out are separated, or magically chilled below the temperature required to initiate reaction. Add this to the hydrogen gas you are making which will happily burn back into water once it gets in contact with more oxygen and an ignition source (like the burning magnesium). The hydrogen can also move away from the site of the "cracking" before reacting with free or gaseous oxygen, for instance bubbling out of the water before being ignited by a spark from the magnesium fire below. As an aside, I don't remember at what temperature hydrogen and oxygen become molecular, so I may be wrong about needing a spark.
Conservation of energy is maintained. You just need to take into account the fact that there are going to be more elements and compounds at hand than H2, O2, and H2O.
By the way "cracking" water doesn't take "at least" as much energy as burning hydrogen with oxygen produces, it takes exactly as much energy.
The original (and I feel ACTUAL troll) called you both fat geeks, so I was correcting this saying one was a cute girl and the other an enigma.
All I can say is: FUCK! I used to think I was smart.
I took a bunch of AP and some college classes early, but never skipped grades (turned it down to stay with my friends), so maybe the case is that I AM smart but you beat the shit out of me in motivation...
Kudos to you, though.
It's a match made in fucking heaven. Please don't cyber-reproduce, we have enough overweight uglies in the world as it is.
Correction: Cute, 20-year old from Wisconsin meets lord only knows what (Chalybeous has no homepage linked).
musingmelpomene, welcome to the 20's. In my experience they tend to suck less than the teens.
The order of the icons is not the issue, though I understand where one could assume this is what is meant by "position".
The real issue is the actual placement on the screen of any given element of the UI, not the relative position of the element. This is something people who don't breathe UI design will often overlook. The Dock grows from the center out, meaning that as soon as its content changes your mousing targets will all shift left or right. You are therefore unable to ever count on an item being in a specific place and thus you cannot hit an item without applying some thought. No matter how fast you can think "iPhoto icon looks like ____ and is between Photoshop and iPhoto Librarian icons which look like ____ and ____" this is still slower than relying on muscle memory to move the mouse to the correct spot in the work space and requires the brain equivalent of a CPU context switch (OK, it actualy requires literally switching thought context) and thus is sub-optimal.
This is pretty much the crux of the "Trash should pick a corner" arguement. As it stands you have to pause and locate where the Trash has slid to before you can use it as a target. The corner is a great target since it is so huge (infinitely large in both axes once you hit the edges of the screen), but in reality ANY fixed position, even away from the edge, would likely be more optimal than the current shifting Dock-bound Trash.
On my Windows system I actually launch all the apps I use every day in the same order to get them all in the same spot on the task bar every day. Further, I have a series of web pages that tie to queries I need to access several times a day, and thanks to the miracle of Firebird tabs I get them all open in a set order in one of the application windows, too.
I've hacked Firebird (Browser. The DB people can go spit.) to recognise <ObStupidConspiracyTheory> tags and then set up a custom stylesheet to make the text between them REALLY stand out. I decided I need to know right away whenever those tags are used so I can be certain to believe the whole section as rapidly as possible after loading the page.
Funny thing, though, is this is the first time I've seen it triggered...
Gotta go, 'cause my foil hat is slipping and I think the squirrels are watching me. Keep up the good work, though, Brother Cox.
The code name Coppermine had NO relationship with the metal used inside the chip. It was still an Al-on-Si chip, just like Katmai. Tualatin (last P-III core) and Northwood (second P4 core) were the first x86 Cu-on-Si chips from Intel (targeting Mobile/Server and Mainstream markets, respectively).
Additionally, AMD was making Cu-on-Si chips back at the Thunderbird (first "L2 cache on core" Athlon) debut. All cores that came from Fab 30 in Dresden were Cu-on-Si while all cores from Fab 25 in Autin were Al-on-Si. Palomino (first Athlon XP core) was made entirely at Fab 30 and thus all Palomino cores were Cu-on-Si.
IBM has been producing Cu-on-Si cores since 1998 (PowerPC 740, IIRC) and producing Cu-on-SOI cores since 1999 (PowerPC 750). Where do you think AMD got their SOI technology?
Both numbers are comparable to those for Seabiscut, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Matchstick Men, though one can certainly bet one's mummy-sucked butt that those three had more reviews than Bubba.
Hey, now there's an idea!
A new class of hated Slashdot readers: evil Karma Thieves who post an article as an Anonymous Coward, thus depriving all the good, honest, hard-working Karma Whores of their cheap-ass mod points.
I wonder what they will be using instead...
I'll end this post before I use up all my hyphens, but before I do, may I please entreat you to continue this bit of performance art at least until it is only as socially relevant as MTV?
This was Posted on Friday.
"Pseudo-news-source filled to overflowing with factual errors, conceptual errors, and baldfaced lies, made up mostly of copy-and-paste 'articles' which are often plainly retreads of old articles" was more how I'd put it.
I mean, I love the "Fuck SCO" mentality, but with friends like Mozillaquest...
The parent's Sig at the time I write this:
"My database does not encompass the dynamics of human peer bonding." -- T-101
I believe you will find that "human pair-bonding" is more like it, as that term refers to courtship and mating rituals.
Then again, maybe the T-101 really just doesn't know how to get Freenet talking to other nodes.
Or maybe it was "pear bonding" and he is trying to glue fruit to himself, unsuccessfully.
With that accent, who can tell for sure. You would think that a machine sent infiltrate the Resistance HQ in order to kill John Connor would at least speak with the same accent as the rest of the (former) 'mericans at the base/hole.
Wait, what were we talking about? Printers? Yay! I love printers. Stupid ADD. Oh look! A kitty!
Drill 8 holes in two rings around the barrel of the gun. Each hole in a ring should be separated by 90 degrees, and the rings should be staggered by 45 degrees. Put the first ring as far back from the tip of the barrel as the barrel is wide (caliber) and the other the same distance back from the first ring. Drill each hole at a 45 degree angle to the surface normal, angled so the inside of the hole is towards the tip of the barrel.
We had MAJOR noise issues with "Big Bertha", our 6 foot-long cannon with a 3" diameter barrel, until we decided to pseudo-silence it by allowing a small amount of gas to bleed out through such vents. Through trial and error on several of our spud guns we found that off-setting the vents seemed help a bit. We guessed it introduced turbulence in the shockwave which helped kill some of the CRACK noise. The noise became more like a heavy object being dropped and less like a rifle shot. This worked for our purposes as people don't often call the police when they think they heard a two-by-six board, but might if they hear gunfire.
Like everyone else, I'm surprised the Germans just started catching on to this. My friends and I made our first gun about 11 years ago, just in time for my oldest friend to get his driver's license. It was all downhill from there. I had actually thought about making a new gun this summer and started drawing up plans about 6 weeks ago, since I missed screwing around with all the old guns I gave away.
We never liked hairspray, decided butane was a BIT more than we were willing to deal with, and finally settled on a product called "Thrust". This stuff was nominally used to make a pull-start two-stroke engine (lawn mower or outboard motor) backfire and thus start easier when cold. "Thrust" was great because it was meant to stay an aerosol for a while and burned pretty cleanly, keeping the sparker leads clean for longer periods. WD-40 didn't stay aerosol and left a lot of residue, hairspray was nasty and burned unevenly, and carburetor cleaner stung the lungs too much.
For the record, we never fired any of the guns we made at people or property, with the exception of brick walls and large wooden signs. Also for the record, my friends and I won every Physics competition that we participated in at our high school. Sadly none of these competitions involved potatoes, but I can hold a tennis ball 9 feet off the ground using only 100 drinking straws and thumb tacks...
I've seen a bunch of people point out that GPS is a transmit-only system (think of a foghorn blowing in a pattern of blasts) and doesn't take in any communications itself. I haven't seen anyone smack the original poster around for the "Profit" part.
The DoD never bought GPS, and GPS was NOT created to make a profit. Its signal was even originally encoded in such a way that non-US military receivers could not use it in an effective manner to maintain its original purpose: giving the US military a vast edge in determining exactly where its units were in 3D space. Land and sea units suddenly knew exactly where they were on the map at any time, speeding up navigation or even making effective navigation possible in places like the Iraqi deserts.
It wasn't until civilian GPS receivers had been using a neat hack-ish bit of logic (have a fixed receiver in a known place take in the encoded signals from GPS to figure out how to correct for their signal skewing, then transmit this) for a while that the DoD opened the GPS system to official civilian use and stopped screwing with the signal timings on the satelites.
For GPS I have updated the list:
By the way, how the fuck would someone make a profit from the GPS sats? The only thing you can make money on is a one-time sale price of a receiver unit. You certainly can't charge per-use fees...
I'm guessing the "Your Browser Is Retarded" post was deleted? Either that or I have NO idea what you guys are all referencing and I seriously missed a joke.
May God love the browser-abusers out there, though, 'cause I sure don't...
You've got to be kidding! Score: 5 Informative???
Oooh, wait, my turn...
"Light saber" = weapon("Jedi Knight")
or how about...
"Shaken, not stirred" = drinkPreference("James Bond")
There ya go, blindingly obvious geek movie trivia, now hurry up and gimme some karma!
And you are complaining because... ?
If it is the "Score: 5" bit, I'll wholeheartedly agree with you. I feel that Slashdot moderators are far too eager to slap a "me-too" vote on already up-modded posts which leads to a glut of +5 posts, all supposedly the "Cream of the Crop".
If it was the "Informative" part, then let me just point out that not everybody has seen Sneakers and thus would have no idea what "Setec Astronomy" meant.
I have little doubt, though, that te "Informative" was your issue. My best guess is that the "Score: 5" did you in. Then again, your intent would be clearer if you had just said "Score: 5???" and gone from there.