It sounds like they're testing lots of features, a few of which are horrendously slow, and fixing the slowest ones each time. So you could see a continuous string of 30-70% improvements in speed, until all of the features run at the same speed.
Interesting. I find myself doing a lot more hunting for stuff in Chrome. Firefox functionality seems to be just there where I need it. At least, after I configure a couple of buttons back into play, and turn off a toolbar or so.
Except the status bar. They're freaking me out with making it go away, then bringing it back only it's broken, etc. But there's a 3rd-party status-bar plugin that makes it behave the old way. I forget the name or I'd plug it here.
Android development is not what you'd call license-centric. Stuff gets plugged together and shipped. I'd bet 99% of devs haven't so much as read a license that came with a library they had to go hunting for to get their buttons and spinners to work.
It's about time the FOSS clowns stopped whining about licensing so hard. Their hypocrisy is showing.
Run your search, count how many places you find your code, and brag about it. Otherwise, stop being a goit.
When your only criteria are size and distance, you're not doing much to prove "likeness" to the Earth. In fact, you're doing less than 2 parameters/N parameters, since size and distance may have nothing to do with how habitable the planet may be to humans or any life forms.
Stoichiometry and temperature are far more significant. The existence of stabilizing processes in the atmospheric and geological systems are also more significant.
And then there's the little matter of the precise history of Earth, which went through several specific, major eras of development before it had these stabilizing systemic features and could support the formation of the first structures of life and their evolution into the first cellular beings.
And then it went through several more specific, major eras of development to result in large, complex, multicellular plant and animal forms of life, interacting as a (somewhat) stable ecosystem, capable of surviving events that nonetheless mass-extincted whole swathes of species.
The part about guessing wrong about which star the planet is orbiting is just bad astronomy, and is way past where they should be shutting up about its being "Earthlike."
Well, we already know how to control rockets that go into outer space, and we already know how to make things go fast on the ground.
So I'm not sure who's really going to benefit from putting those two things together.
We already know that going fast on the ground is nowhere near as fast as we can go by not being on the ground. A nice cruise missile would kick this thing's ass in a drag race.
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It sounds like they're testing lots of features, a few of which are horrendously slow, and fixing the slowest ones each time. So you could see a continuous string of 30-70% improvements in speed, until all of the features run at the same speed.
In another two years, is it going to be at version 20?
"Google Chrome Vista."
Interesting. I find myself doing a lot more hunting for stuff in Chrome. Firefox functionality seems to be just there where I need it. At least, after I configure a couple of buttons back into play, and turn off a toolbar or so.
Except the status bar. They're freaking me out with making it go away, then bringing it back only it's broken, etc. But there's a 3rd-party status-bar plugin that makes it behave the old way. I forget the name or I'd plug it here.
FWIW, it's actually Firefox 4.0b12
For what reason would you not want to go from a 9.x to a 10.x?
Do you have webpages that aren't forward-compatible? Are they locked into a system that can't be updated itself?
That's a you problem. Not a them problem.
Why is it when I think of Flash being sandboxed I expect an actual box with actual sand has to be involved to get it to run...
Software is almost never stable.
BIBO-stable, yes. For beta-tested values of BI.
Android development is not what you'd call license-centric. Stuff gets plugged together and shipped. I'd bet 99% of devs haven't so much as read a license that came with a library they had to go hunting for to get their buttons and spinners to work.
It's about time the FOSS clowns stopped whining about licensing so hard. Their hypocrisy is showing.
Run your search, count how many places you find your code, and brag about it. Otherwise, stop being a goit.
No, what I sound like is "stop padding your report with what doesn't matter in order to sound like you're important and report what matters."
Or do you want your computer to scroll every value in its registers up the screen while you're loading a page from the web?
Don't count yourself down over that. I can't tell that's supposed to be "surprise", either. Looks more like a combination of bewildered and amused.
But, a small experiment. What do these mean to you?
I expect my computer to do as I say, not run and hide when I guess wrong about how some feeb programmed it.
The feeb, on the other hand...
They shouldn't even mention size and distance if they have temperature.
Take it out and shake it.
When your only criteria are size and distance, you're not doing much to prove "likeness" to the Earth. In fact, you're doing less than 2 parameters/N parameters, since size and distance may have nothing to do with how habitable the planet may be to humans or any life forms.
Stoichiometry and temperature are far more significant. The existence of stabilizing processes in the atmospheric and geological systems are also more significant.
And then there's the little matter of the precise history of Earth, which went through several specific, major eras of development before it had these stabilizing systemic features and could support the formation of the first structures of life and their evolution into the first cellular beings.
And then it went through several more specific, major eras of development to result in large, complex, multicellular plant and animal forms of life, interacting as a (somewhat) stable ecosystem, capable of surviving events that nonetheless mass-extincted whole swathes of species.
The part about guessing wrong about which star the planet is orbiting is just bad astronomy, and is way past where they should be shutting up about its being "Earthlike."
You have that backwards.
People who engage in domination sex are confusing their penises for weapons.
You mean they makers of the Wii are never going to have a game that makes me shout out their console's name?
I assure you, there's no shortage of casual and shallow sex here in the US.
p<<0.5 for that hypothesis on /.
Depends how far it coasts when the juice runs out and it stops accelerating.
Actually. I have a big problem with this concept.
The drive is not going through the wheels at all, but is based on thrust from the rear of the vehicle.
This really isn't a car. It has no transmission. It really is a jet/rocket with a low trajectory.
I call shenanigans on this and the Thrust vehicles.
Well, we already know how to control rockets that go into outer space, and we already know how to make things go fast on the ground.
So I'm not sure who's really going to benefit from putting those two things together.
We already know that going fast on the ground is nowhere near as fast as we can go by not being on the ground. A nice cruise missile would kick this thing's ass in a drag race.
Gasoline is $0.50/lb. Hardly what I'd call "precious".
At those speeds if you hit a bump it's a crapshoot as to which parts of you will be airborne and which will remain on the ground.
If you're not doing it while posting to /. you're not efficient at all.
Poker skills consist of not miscalculating the odds and manipulating players psychologically.
Computers never miscalculate the odds and have no psychology.
Even the best players do.
Yes, it's "entertainment". So why am I paying tax dollars for a stadium?