On Slashdot Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari) but it was ahead of Safari for a few days there hitting almost 10% of our traffic.
on that note, MSNBC (co-owned by Microsoft) mistook Chrome for Safari and suggested to try Firefox instead.
This fabless company is slowly but surely making its way into the mobile processor business. It has got enough market cap, has a reputation in the chip business and is not encumbered with heavy acquisitions (yes, i'm referring to AMD). Low-power, efficient mobile chips is exactly what Qualcomm is after as well (see Snapdragon). Lastly, it's business model is also entirely based on patents which makes Transmeta a perfect fit.
Buying Transmeta would give Qualcomm the elbow room needed to jostle into the microprocessor business, and ward off hungry competitors like ST micro.
Amen to that. only TP can match up to Adams' style, and Discworld is too good to stop. In any case, at least don't make it a part of the trilogy - just use the universe that Douglas Adams created (which probably made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move at that time) and build new stories in it, with new characters and plots - don't continue the storyline. like fan fiction, only more official.
we don't want another browser, if it's more of the same.
Chrome is not.
It is developed from scratch with a completely new approach on how a browser should be. This doesn't necessarily mean that Chrome will be better than Firefox/Opera/Safari - it just means that it will be entirely different. Chrome could be a total disaster, or maybe google gets it right this time and we see Chrome being widely adopted.
Either way, i'm just plain happy that people still believe innovation is worth some effort and risk, instead of taking the easy road and photocopying.
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Massimo Troisi won the best actor in a leading role for Il Postino in 1995 posthumously. He and Peter Finch are the two actors that won posthumously for leading roles - there have been few other actors who won in other roles.
Not all countries' space programs are about war and weapons. some are less paranoid.
The 690kg CARTOSAT and the 83kg IMS-1 are both remote sensing satellites, equipped with panchromatic (B&W) and Spectral cameras to image earth at visible and infrared frequencies. Many, if not all, indian satellites are for remote sensing/meteorological - because in a country where agriculture is the primary industry, it is paramount to track the movement of rainfall, particularly the seasonal monsoons. These weather predictions are vital for farmers to ensure a good harvest. A good harvest leads to lower food prices - in effect, this launch has a very close relationship to feeding India's poor, contrary to many trolls here.
The focus of India's space program has, thankfully, been always about peaceful purposes while making money on the side by providing a cheap option for launching amateur radio/science project satellites built by students and universities (such as the other 8 in this launch). More info about the launch here.
As an interesting side note, the PSLV will also be used for Chandrayan-1, India's first mission to moon.
no wonder the budget was cut. an MMO to enhance STEM, what were they thinking?
give me an MMO where you can explore extra-sloar systems, travel to other planets and setup civilizations instead. that ould create the space awareness that NASA wants and get some buyers lining up.
Tufte makes a good point about the hidden potential of iPhone's brilliant display. But I feel the answer lies less in resolution, and more in depth. We have been exposed to much web content that is layered (for example, pop-up windows that appear on top of existing screens that fade into the dark) that we can now discern depth on a 2D picture provided it is clear, sharp and bright. There is this 3D real estate that is not exploited in iPhone (and something that it is quite capable of).
As an example, I sometimes find it a tad annoying to keep going to the Home screen on the iPhone when switching between applications (typically when I am viewing a website and quickly need to look at maps). A dock with all Home icons down the side that appears overlaid (and magnifies each icon on fingerscroll, just like on a mac) would eliminate the intermediate step of going to the Home screen. To take it a bit further, the Maps can open in a 75% window on top of the Safari, so we can get back to Safari by one fingerstroke (Tufte's idea would be to open two windows each 50%, because there's resolution). This is, as you can see, nothing new - just something that iPhone doesn't currently have but can quite possibly do.
better still - will the new macbooks have the Santa Rosa platform that is known to consume less power and generate less heat? and will the screens be LED like the Pros? multitouch is cool and all but is a very minor upgrade, as has always been the case with MacBooks. some love for Cinderella too, please!
OT, is it just me or am I seeing more Apple stuff being leaked out pre-release? whatever happened to the ultra-secret keep-it-under--wraps-until-very-last-minute Apple obsession?
It is the Apple Mobile Device Driver that appears to be incompatible with 64-bit Windows, not iTunes per se.
Though Apple mentions iTunes doesn't work in 64-bit, all it means is that there is no 64-bit version of iTunes - However, you don't necessarily need a 64-bit version of iTunes (I run iTunes 7.3 - the latest version that was released after iPhone - on 64-bit Vista). Windows 64-bit (both XP and Vista) have the WoW64 emulator, kind of like the 32-bit chroot in linux, that installs and runs 32-bit apps under 64-bit OS and runs them without a hitch. In fact if you have a 64-bit windows OS, there will be two folders of "Program Files", one with the "x86" extension - this is the 32-bit apps directory and this is where you will find most of your installed programs today because very few apps are currently written in 64-bit.
To all the 64-bit haters out there - yes there may not be enough apps written in 64-bit out there, but that is not a dealkiller. Their 32-bit versions run just as fine - it is the hardware, for which drivers are not being written in 64-bit yet that sometimes causes problems (such as these).
so wait - the inkjets report that cartridge needs replacement and people just do it? whatever happened to visual inspection?! We have a Dell color printer (laser, not inkjet but same argument) which starts giving out the "replace cartridge soon" message about ~1000 pages in advance. So we buy the cartridge, keep it on hand, and only replace it when we actually see that the print quality is considerably degraded. I can understand the problem if the inkjet stops printing anything at all based on its preemptive warning messages (like a software lockdown), but if it continues to work irrespective of the amount of ink then just look at the output and make your decision.
In fact, I would rather have the machine give the warning earlier than later so I can have one ordered and ready to replace when the need comes, instead of waiting for all the ink to dry out and the printer goes out of service until the cartridges arrive.
Exactly what I was thinking, but in a different context. The (#6 on the list) exoplanet Upsilon Andromeda B is tidally locked with its sun - so, one side is burning hot while the other is freezing cold. There must exist a ring zone that is temperate, since the temperature gradient cannot be discretely sharp. Couple that with unlimited supply of geothermal energy, and we got one cheap earth.
I find some of the most cryptic captchas on the ticketmaster site. granted that the site deserves a stringent bot control given the risk of scalpers but some of their patterns border on the ridiculous. TFA mentions someone who achieved 25% success in deciphering those ticketmaster ones and I am thinking, "how does he do that?!"
Either the user's fingers are too fat, or the UMPC keyboard appears painfully small. Hard to blame Gigabyte though - personally I think the UMPCs are in a most uncomfortable market segment (between cell phone/PDAs and laptops), making it very hard to choose what features to sacrifice and what to optimize, if not started out with a definitive design goal.
On a different note, is that FIC phone the one with Java Mobile FX (nee savaje) that was introduced at the java one dev. conf a few months ago as the 'java iPhone'?
How can you design a 2nd generation model when there is zero consumer feedback to base it on?! Apple has always partially relied on consumers' criticism to initiate a design iteration, and justly so. Especially for a market that Apple is newly entering - does the phone capture good signal in different environments, is the price point good, do batteries blow up, is there something blatantly simple that they missed - these only come out after widespread usage (not intra-company circulation). It could be that the first design had flaws that Apple already noticed but are going ahead with it in order to keep the June date - that doesn't undermine the logic of waiting for feedback of customers as well before placing an order with Quanta.
This is most definitely not a II gen iPhone. I would go with this being either a European/3G version or a widescreen iPod, assuming that news is true and not another fake email.
He once used a Vancouver post office box for domain-related mail -- until the day he opened a package that contained a note reading "You are a piece of s**t," accompanied by an actual piece of it.
For those that can afford it, the FPGamerunner looks like a cool idea, not for exercising (nothing beats a good solid 3-5 miles of outdoor running) but for enjoying the game itself more. Oddly, the Gamerunner site quotes the price as only $495 and not $1299 as quoted in the article.
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Bill Gates turned 40 in 1995. Guess what came out of Microsoft in '95.
Like how mini-me would say, 'eee!' i always thought it was kind of an Asus' in-joke, to name their mini PC after a popular mini character.
On Slashdot Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari) but it was ahead of Safari for a few days there hitting almost 10% of our traffic.
on that note, MSNBC (co-owned by Microsoft) mistook Chrome for Safari and suggested to try Firefox instead.
This fabless company is slowly but surely making its way into the mobile processor business. It has got enough market cap, has a reputation in the chip business and is not encumbered with heavy acquisitions (yes, i'm referring to AMD). Low-power, efficient mobile chips is exactly what Qualcomm is after as well (see Snapdragon). Lastly, it's business model is also entirely based on patents which makes Transmeta a perfect fit.
Buying Transmeta would give Qualcomm the elbow room needed to jostle into the microprocessor business, and ward off hungry competitors like ST micro.
Amen to that. only TP can match up to Adams' style, and Discworld is too good to stop. In any case, at least don't make it a part of the trilogy - just use the universe that Douglas Adams created (which probably made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move at that time) and build new stories in it, with new characters and plots - don't continue the storyline. like fan fiction, only more official.
are these going to be stationed more than 12 nautical miles away from the coast? 'cause, you know, then they wouldn't be under US jurisdiction.
This behavior is repeatable, and Chrome prompts to restore previous session.
Other thoughts:
we don't want another browser, if it's more of the same.
Chrome is not.
It is developed from scratch with a completely new approach on how a browser should be. This doesn't necessarily mean that Chrome will be better than Firefox/Opera/Safari - it just means that it will be entirely different. Chrome could be a total disaster, or maybe google gets it right this time and we see Chrome being widely adopted.
Either way, i'm just plain happy that people still believe innovation is worth some effort and risk, instead of taking the easy road and photocopying.
Massimo Troisi won the best actor in a leading role for Il Postino in 1995 posthumously. He and Peter Finch are the two actors that won posthumously for leading roles - there have been few other actors who won in other roles.
The 690kg CARTOSAT and the 83kg IMS-1 are both remote sensing satellites, equipped with panchromatic (B&W) and Spectral cameras to image earth at visible and infrared frequencies. Many, if not all, indian satellites are for remote sensing/meteorological - because in a country where agriculture is the primary industry, it is paramount to track the movement of rainfall, particularly the seasonal monsoons. These weather predictions are vital for farmers to ensure a good harvest. A good harvest leads to lower food prices - in effect, this launch has a very close relationship to feeding India's poor, contrary to many trolls here.
As an interesting side note, the PSLV will also be used for Chandrayan-1, India's first mission to moon.The focus of India's space program has, thankfully, been always about peaceful purposes while making money on the side by providing a cheap option for launching amateur radio/science project satellites built by students and universities (such as the other 8 in this launch). More info about the launch here.
no wonder the budget was cut. an MMO to enhance STEM, what were they thinking? give me an MMO where you can explore extra-sloar systems, travel to other planets and setup civilizations instead. that ould create the space awareness that NASA wants and get some buyers lining up.
Tufte makes a good point about the hidden potential of iPhone's brilliant display. But I feel the answer lies less in resolution, and more in depth. We have been exposed to much web content that is layered (for example, pop-up windows that appear on top of existing screens that fade into the dark) that we can now discern depth on a 2D picture provided it is clear, sharp and bright. There is this 3D real estate that is not exploited in iPhone (and something that it is quite capable of).
As an example, I sometimes find it a tad annoying to keep going to the Home screen on the iPhone when switching between applications (typically when I am viewing a website and quickly need to look at maps). A dock with all Home icons down the side that appears overlaid (and magnifies each icon on fingerscroll, just like on a mac) would eliminate the intermediate step of going to the Home screen. To take it a bit further, the Maps can open in a 75% window on top of the Safari, so we can get back to Safari by one fingerstroke (Tufte's idea would be to open two windows each 50%, because there's resolution). This is, as you can see, nothing new - just something that iPhone doesn't currently have but can quite possibly do.
who does the black hole think he is? Dick Cheney?
freedom to block? now that's a textbook oxymoron. How about freedom to let people use their plug-in the way they want?
better still - will the new macbooks have the Santa Rosa platform that is known to consume less power and generate less heat? and will the screens be LED like the Pros? multitouch is cool and all but is a very minor upgrade, as has always been the case with MacBooks. some love for Cinderella too, please!
OT, is it just me or am I seeing more Apple stuff being leaked out pre-release? whatever happened to the ultra-secret keep-it-under--wraps-until-very-last-minute Apple obsession?
It is the Apple Mobile Device Driver that appears to be incompatible with 64-bit Windows, not iTunes per se.
Though Apple mentions iTunes doesn't work in 64-bit, all it means is that there is no 64-bit version of iTunes - However, you don't necessarily need a 64-bit version of iTunes (I run iTunes 7.3 - the latest version that was released after iPhone - on 64-bit Vista). Windows 64-bit (both XP and Vista) have the WoW64 emulator, kind of like the 32-bit chroot in linux, that installs and runs 32-bit apps under 64-bit OS and runs them without a hitch. In fact if you have a 64-bit windows OS, there will be two folders of "Program Files", one with the "x86" extension - this is the 32-bit apps directory and this is where you will find most of your installed programs today because very few apps are currently written in 64-bit.
To all the 64-bit haters out there - yes there may not be enough apps written in 64-bit out there, but that is not a dealkiller. Their 32-bit versions run just as fine - it is the hardware, for which drivers are not being written in 64-bit yet that sometimes causes problems (such as these).
so wait - the inkjets report that cartridge needs replacement and people just do it? whatever happened to visual inspection?! We have a Dell color printer (laser, not inkjet but same argument) which starts giving out the "replace cartridge soon" message about ~1000 pages in advance. So we buy the cartridge, keep it on hand, and only replace it when we actually see that the print quality is considerably degraded. I can understand the problem if the inkjet stops printing anything at all based on its preemptive warning messages (like a software lockdown), but if it continues to work irrespective of the amount of ink then just look at the output and make your decision.
In fact, I would rather have the machine give the warning earlier than later so I can have one ordered and ready to replace when the need comes, instead of waiting for all the ink to dry out and the printer goes out of service until the cartridges arrive.
can't help but draw a parallel here between Leopard dropping ZFS and Vista dropping WinFS, and see how the fanbois respond.
Exactly what I was thinking, but in a different context. The (#6 on the list) exoplanet Upsilon Andromeda B is tidally locked with its sun - so, one side is burning hot while the other is freezing cold. There must exist a ring zone that is temperate, since the temperature gradient cannot be discretely sharp. Couple that with unlimited supply of geothermal energy, and we got one cheap earth.
I find some of the most cryptic captchas on the ticketmaster site. granted that the site deserves a stringent bot control given the risk of scalpers but some of their patterns border on the ridiculous. TFA mentions someone who achieved 25% success in deciphering those ticketmaster ones and I am thinking, "how does he do that?!"
I have a little proposition to make. The unconditional and immediate surrender of the United States of America to the Loveless Alliance!
Either the user's fingers are too fat, or the UMPC keyboard appears painfully small. Hard to blame Gigabyte though - personally I think the UMPCs are in a most uncomfortable market segment (between cell phone/PDAs and laptops), making it very hard to choose what features to sacrifice and what to optimize, if not started out with a definitive design goal.
On a different note, is that FIC phone the one with Java Mobile FX (nee savaje) that was introduced at the java one dev. conf a few months ago as the 'java iPhone'?
How can you design a 2nd generation model when there is zero consumer feedback to base it on?! Apple has always partially relied on consumers' criticism to initiate a design iteration, and justly so. Especially for a market that Apple is newly entering - does the phone capture good signal in different environments, is the price point good, do batteries blow up, is there something blatantly simple that they missed - these only come out after widespread usage (not intra-company circulation). It could be that the first design had flaws that Apple already noticed but are going ahead with it in order to keep the June date - that doesn't undermine the logic of waiting for feedback of customers as well before placing an order with Quanta.
This is most definitely not a II gen iPhone. I would go with this being either a European/3G version or a widescreen iPod, assuming that news is true and not another fake email.
For those that can afford it, the FPGamerunner looks like a cool idea, not for exercising (nothing beats a good solid 3-5 miles of outdoor running) but for enjoying the game itself more. Oddly, the Gamerunner site quotes the price as only $495 and not $1299 as quoted in the article.