This link provides an excellent overview of different lighting technologies, including incandescent, CFL and LED.
I completely agree with the author; CFLs have enough issues (low power factor, limited working temperature range, built with hazardous materials, etc.) not to merit banning incandescent bulbs altogether. Each technology has its place.
Opera 11 does something similar - the URL bar shows, by default, only the main part of the URL and HTTPS statuses with color cues. As soon as you click on it the URL expands fully.
It's really unobtrusive and works great. This is one of my favorite perks of Opera 11, among with tab stacking.
you're joking, right? Fixing a infinite loop caused by normalization of certain values should have the highest priority, that's a broken math library in the planet's platform for doing enterprise math. The ten year old bug report not only gave the range of numbers but the follow up to it even included the fix. Too bad slashdot's lameness filter doesn't allow reproducing it here
Ditto. The fact that Oracle shelved this bug for *A DECADE* is incredible, specially considering the exposure Java has as a platform and that the original poster actually bothered to include a one-line patch solving the issue entirely.
If it's the same problem PHP had, then it requires an x86 FPU.
It is not. Both bugs are similar in the sense that they're triggered by some border cases of floating-point values, but are otherwise completely unrelated.
It was given to Henry Kissinger as well, but then again, some worthy individuals like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela received it too. I think they really dropped the ball when they didn't award it to Mahatma Gandhi though.
In fact, this would be the first stable release of the EFL libraries. I've been following the development of Enna, and the main branch would regularly break due to changes on the EFL API.
Do we have anything even close to laws regarding explotation of Moon resources? This could be a major issue in the future; once someone starts mining the moon i guess others would follow...
MPEG LA is geared for licensing production and distribution of H.264 video on a commercial scale. They don't give a damn about your wedding videos until you become a national franchise. ...for now, which is the whole point. You can't depend on the good will of the H.264 patent holders to push what will become a defacto standard on the web.
Good overview of the issue, thank you. I was wondering what the deal was with the volatile declaration on the patch submitted yesterday. I imagined it was something of the sort, though i couldn't fully grasp it.
The patch works but it's a hack, basically. Someone needs to fix their FP parser.
I was sick and tired of my TVs/Monitors deciding by themselves what they would and wouldn't show. I'd like to think maybe this time manufactures will get a clue - i don't see it happening any time soon though.
uses deliberately broken code to see how the browser handles it.
Which the current standards specify exactly how it needs to be handled. Acid3 is a very valid test in that regard, specially in a world where most pages still don't pass basic validation tests.
Much agreed. I like the book a lot better than the movie (the characterizations are superb), but its perhaps one of the best big screen adaptations i've seen, and a gripping sci-fi movie for people who usually don't enjoy sci-fi.
Have you seen Avatar? 3D added a lot to that movie.
It didnt "add a lot", it made the movie. Try watching it on DVD or any other 2d medium and you see that below all the glitz it's another shallow (and even boring) blockbuster.
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David Braben? Of Elite fame? This was cool enough already!
Much, much, MUCH agreed. Mod parent up.
And what do you think QT (thus KDE) and Windows 8 use ? Again webtechnologies like HTML/CSS/JS.
Which explains quite a bit regarding KDEs performance lately...
I just want a browser that is efficient and does lots of cool things that make the browsing experience more productive.
IMHO, Opera seems to be the only browser nowadays walking the fine line between features and bloat without falling to either side.
First was Gnome 3 using JS for scripting and now this. Wasn't this a bad idea when it was known as Active Desktop?
Someone mod this wise DBA +1 Insightful!
Why "troll"? He's got a great point. The only way to send a message to huge corporations like Sony is to vote with your wallet.
This link provides an excellent overview of different lighting technologies, including incandescent, CFL and LED.
I completely agree with the author; CFLs have enough issues (low power factor, limited working temperature range, built with hazardous materials, etc.) not to merit banning incandescent bulbs altogether. Each technology has its place.
Opera 11 does something similar - the URL bar shows, by default, only the main part of the URL and HTTPS statuses with color cues. As soon as you click on it the URL expands fully.
It's really unobtrusive and works great. This is one of my favorite perks of Opera 11, among with tab stacking.
Damn. Take care of yourself, hope you recover soon!
you're joking, right? Fixing a infinite loop caused by normalization of certain values should have the highest priority, that's a broken math library in the planet's platform for doing enterprise math. The ten year old bug report not only gave the range of numbers but the follow up to it even included the fix. Too bad slashdot's lameness filter doesn't allow reproducing it here
Ditto. The fact that Oracle shelved this bug for *A DECADE* is incredible, specially considering the exposure Java has as a platform and that the original poster actually bothered to include a one-line patch solving the issue entirely.
If it's the same problem PHP had, then it requires an x86 FPU.
It is not. Both bugs are similar in the sense that they're triggered by some border cases of floating-point values, but are otherwise completely unrelated.
It was given to Henry Kissinger as well, but then again, some worthy individuals like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela received it too. I think they really dropped the ball when they didn't award it to Mahatma Gandhi though.
Ditto. Thanks a bunch for your work on the EFL Raster! :)
In fact, this would be the first stable release of the EFL libraries. I've been following the development of Enna, and the main branch would regularly break due to changes on the EFL API.
Do we have anything even close to laws regarding explotation of Moon resources? This could be a major issue in the future; once someone starts mining the moon i guess others would follow...
MPEG LA is geared for licensing production and distribution of H.264 video on a commercial scale. They don't give a damn about your wedding videos until you become a national franchise.
...for now, which is the whole point. You can't depend on the good will of the H.264 patent holders to push what will become a defacto standard on the web.
Good overview of the issue, thank you. I was wondering what the deal was with the volatile declaration on the patch submitted yesterday. I imagined it was something of the sort, though i couldn't fully grasp it.
The patch works but it's a hack, basically. Someone needs to fix their FP parser.
Have you seen the patch?
php/php-src/trunk/Zend/zend_strtod.c
- double aadj, aadj1, adj;
+volatile double aadj, aadj1, adj;
They're declaring a couple of variables volatile so they're not optimized. In fact, you can also "patch" your Zend by compiling it with -O0.
It's a quick response, yes, but it's a hack. Someone needs to fix their FP number parser.
I was sick and tired of my TVs/Monitors deciding by themselves what they would and wouldn't show. I'd like to think maybe this time manufactures will get a clue - i don't see it happening any time soon though.
Why would someone want to raytrace a game which is 18 years old?
uses deliberately broken code to see how the browser handles it.
Which the current standards specify exactly how it needs to be handled. Acid3 is a very valid test in that regard, specially in a world where most pages still don't pass basic validation tests.
Much agreed. I like the book a lot better than the movie (the characterizations are superb), but its perhaps one of the best big screen adaptations i've seen, and a gripping sci-fi movie for people who usually don't enjoy sci-fi.
Have you seen Avatar? 3D added a lot to that movie.
It didnt "add a lot", it made the movie. Try watching it on DVD or any other 2d medium and you see that below all the glitz it's another shallow (and even boring) blockbuster.
Don't forget performance. I love how a single web ad can hose a modern dual core CPU.