It's perhaps a bit confusing to mention IE8 in the subject as it was not compared to FF3.1 - IE7 was.
I.e. a more apples-to-apples
test might have been production FF3.0 versus IE7 or better yet,
beta FF3.1 versus IE8.
Having said that, the speed improvements are very impressive,
in what ChannelWeb says and other reports. And yea, FF3.1
is setting a darn high bar for IE8 - bring it on FF!
Depends on how tightly you define unique since there are numerous other web sites where (technical) stories are posted by editorial choice from user-submissions and then commented on... but yea, Slashdot certainly is the granddaddy.
I imagine that the Internet abhors a singularity like nature abhors a vacuum... stuff will rush in/pop up to fill it.
Here's a semi-unique time waster for 'ya ...
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Web Singletons?
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· Score: 0, Offtopic
Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome
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Google Chrome, Day 2
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· Score: 5, Informative
I looked at the web logs
from a general purpose, non-techy website
(Watching Grass Grow)
and Chrome accounted for 0.73% of the browser traffic yesterday...... and traffic didn't start until after the release at Noon.
The User Agent String is
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"
For comparison, IE was 53.8%, Firefox was 34.6%,
Safari was 3.5% (non-Chrome) , Opera was 0.7%, and there was even
0.05% of traffic from an iPhone.
That's an impressive bump for day one (actually, half a day) and if you (unrealistically) extrapolated that rate, Chrome would have 100% of the browser market by year end!;-)
I had to modify the Analog source code to account for the Chrome browser
(gotta like open-source) but have have other popular programs (such as Google Analytics) been updated to identify this browser?
I had the same problem - turns out that you need to download a driver (at least for Windoze XP) so that the phone is recognized... THEN it will charge.
Sounds more and more like a hardware issue with the chipset... so early adopters are may end up suffering... be interesting to see if they "quietly" roll out a Rev 2 or publicly announce it.
Here's the
letter from NOAA to the Lunar X participants that outlines how this
is pursuent to the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 - says it
may take up to 120 days to obtain the license - think about that before
you take your first picure!;-)
Interesting test - pretty amazing how FF3 basically flatlines
at around 120 MBytes for over 2 hours of usage... would have
been interesting if the same methodology could be used
with FF2 to see how much of an improvement FF3 is over that
and how well the
leaks were fixed.
Original Wall Street Journal Article
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Android Phones Delayed
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· Score: 4, Informative
While I think Gates' point about merging people with business
and engineering experience is valid, there's always an element
of luck involved - good thing for Microsoft that Gary Kildall
was out flying his airplane when IBM came by.
Per the article, he dropped his lawsuit because:
he has since changed his mind on Spector's musings - including one entry that claims: "Chuck Norris can impregnate women with only a glance. He can also do this to men."
Does this type of flattery really work with THE Chuck Norris?
The A380 is a long haul aircraft and there isn't a lot to do
up front with automated cockpits. So in the interests
of "security", the pilots will probably "monitor" the cameras...
keeping a particularly close eye on attractive females.
And how long until the first footage of the Mile High Club shows up on YouTube?
One of my all-time favorite "caught in the act" via webcam
was Duncan Grisby using the opensource motion program
to catch a burgler in his flat
- technical details of his
setup.
Your situation kinda sucks as it sounds like you are
a diligent worker who wants to help the company. But as long
as they are paying you, it's really their choice how they
want to use your services. All you can do is when your
co-workers ask for your help in passing the torch, mention
that you are hand-cuffed by the lack of access and have
them request it for you.
I wonder if there was internal discussions in the buyout about how much the domain news.com was worth as I can certainly see that being attractive to CBS.
I got the "Access Denied" problem on two machines... in both cases, there was a Registry permission issue. I was able to fix on one... but for the other, I did a clean install - just as well, since some of the registry entries were kinda fishy looking.
It is a bit scary to have it all run for a long time, get the "Access Denied" issue, have it say it is rolling back, but Windows XP may not be stable - D'OH!;-)
As noted in the article, the British Prime Minister was in line to takeoff. So one wild idea would be an electronic jammer associated with his government detail inadvertently messed with the 777 avionics.
Chance of that - pretty darn slim!
Should be very interesting to see what the 30-day report says. They recovered all of the FDR/CVR, so with all that data, I'm sure they have already re-run what happened in the simulator and could address most of the speculation. However, may be a bit more challenging to determine *why* it happened - i.e. assuming that *both* engines didn't spool up, why?
Comp Sci prediction is a bit Orwellian
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The City of the Future
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· Score: 4, Insightful
From Ken Perlin, professor of computer science at New York University
"... everyone's eyes will be implanted with tiny displays.
All the information we need about the city will be accessible to us without conscious effort: where to go, what to buy... how to hook up with friends."
And not surprisingly,
Robin Nagle from the New York City Department of Sanitation predicts
"Sanitation workers... will be heroes"
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It's perhaps a bit confusing to mention IE8 in the subject as it was not compared to FF3.1 - IE7 was. I.e. a more apples-to-apples test might have been production FF3.0 versus IE7 or better yet, beta FF3.1 versus IE8.
Having said that, the speed improvements are very impressive, in what ChannelWeb says and other reports. And yea, FF3.1 is setting a darn high bar for IE8 - bring it on FF!
Depends on how tightly you define unique since there are numerous other web sites where (technical) stories are posted by editorial choice from user-submissions and then commented on ... but yea, Slashdot certainly is the granddaddy.
... stuff will rush in/pop up to fill it.
I imagine that the Internet abhors a singularity like nature abhors a vacuum
Watching and turning a bunch of halloween decorations on & off ... ;-)
Assuming 8.5 hour trading day (0700-1530) and 250 trading days/year. Maybe a squirrel caused the problem ... ;-)
I looked at the web logs from a general purpose, non-techy website (Watching Grass Grow) and Chrome accounted for 0.73% of the browser traffic yesterday ... ... and traffic didn't start until after the release at Noon.
The User Agent String is
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"
For comparison, IE was 53.8%, Firefox was 34.6%,
Safari was 3.5% (non-Chrome) , Opera was 0.7%, and there was even
0.05% of traffic from an iPhone.
;-)
That's an impressive bump for day one (actually, half a day) and if you (unrealistically) extrapolated that rate, Chrome would have 100% of the browser market by year end!
I had to modify the Analog source code to account for the Chrome browser (gotta like open-source) but have have other popular programs (such as Google Analytics) been updated to identify this browser?
I had the same problem - turns out that you need to download a driver (at least for Windoze XP) so that the phone is recognized ... THEN it will charge.
Sounds more and more like a hardware issue with the chipset ... so early adopters are may end up suffering ... be interesting to see if they "quietly" roll out a Rev 2 or publicly announce it.
Here's the letter from NOAA to the Lunar X participants that outlines how this is pursuent to the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 - says it may take up to 120 days to obtain the license - think about that before you take your first picure! ;-)
In the meantime, you can use existing satellite photos to image your house and here's a cool way to get a nifty Earth view.
... that runs Windows ...
LOL - mod parent +99 ... ;-)
Interesting test - pretty amazing how FF3 basically flatlines at around 120 MBytes for over 2 hours of usage ... would have
been interesting if the same methodology could be used
with FF2 to see how much of an improvement FF3 is over that
and how well the
leaks were fixed.
Here's the WSJ article that is the source for the PC world writeup ...
While I think Gates' point about merging people with business and engineering experience is valid, there's always an element of luck involved - good thing for Microsoft that Gary Kildall was out flying his airplane when IBM came by.
Per the article, he dropped his lawsuit because:
he has since changed his mind on Spector's musings - including one entry that claims: "Chuck Norris can impregnate women with only a glance. He can also do this to men."
Does this type of flattery really work with THE Chuck Norris?
The A380 is a long haul aircraft and there isn't a lot to do up front with automated cockpits. So in the interests of "security", the pilots will probably "monitor" the cameras ...
keeping a particularly close eye on attractive females.
And how long until the first footage of the Mile High Club shows up on YouTube?
One of my all-time favorite "caught in the act" via webcam was Duncan Grisby using the opensource motion program to catch a burgler in his flat - technical details of his setup.
Speaking of cams, here is a nifty BirdCam of House Finches - look for baby chicks.
Here's the assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - "Boundary failure when parsing SMB responses can result in a buffer overrun"
Your situation kinda sucks as it sounds like you are a diligent worker who wants to help the company. But as long as they are paying you, it's really their choice how they want to use your services. All you can do is when your co-workers ask for your help in passing the torch, mention that you are hand-cuffed by the lack of access and have them request it for you.
P.S. Some activities to pass the time would include Watching Grass Grow and/or Watching Paint Dry.
I wonder if there was internal discussions in the buyout about how much the domain news.com was worth as I can certainly see that being attractive to CBS.
I got the "Access Denied" problem on two machines ... in both cases, there was a Registry permission issue. I was able to fix on one ... but for the other, I did a clean install - just as well, since some of the registry entries were kinda fishy looking.
It is a bit scary to have it all run for a long time, get the "Access Denied" issue, have it say it is rolling back, but Windows XP may not be stable - D'OH! ;-)
Wikipedia has more info on Black Holes in Networking ... and for grins, here is a
Green Hole ;-)
Then you certainly haven't used /usr/ucb/mail, which trumps Lotus Notes, Citadel, Exchange, and Gmail combined!
Chance of that - pretty darn slim!
Should be very interesting to see what the 30-day report says. They recovered all of the FDR/CVR, so with all that data, I'm sure they have already re-run what happened in the simulator and could address most of the speculation. However, may be a bit more challenging to determine *why* it happened - i.e. assuming that *both* engines didn't spool up, why?
From Ken Perlin, professor of computer science at New York University "... everyone's eyes will be implanted with tiny displays. All the information we need about the city will be accessible to us without conscious effort: where to go, what to buy ... how to hook up with friends."
... will be heroes"
;-)
And not surprisingly, Robin Nagle from the New York City Department of Sanitation predicts "Sanitation workers
On a lighter note for the holiday season, here are the Christmas Lights of the Future!
Thanks for the video link ... although my son almost cried when he saw Bumble-Bee go into the blender.
There are several webcams monitoring this Christmas Lights Display - maybe we'll have to look for MAV's next year ... along with Santa ... ;-)