XPCOM adds a lot of code for marshalling objects between different usage contexts (e.g. different languages). This leads to code bloat in XPCOM based systems. This was one of the reasons why Apple chose KHTML over the XPCOM-based Gecko rendering engine for their Web Browser.
The Gecko developers are currently trying to reduce superfluous uses of XPCOM in the Gecko layout engine. This process is commonly known as deCOMtamination. source
No one really claims FF performance beats anybody (except maybe IE, but that's just too easy). I use Firefox for compatibility and extensibility, but not for speed and performance. Chrome, Safari, and Opera have better performance than Firefox.
Likewise, there are already Webkit-based and Opera browsers for the mobile phone market. IE Mobile was written from scratch and not based on Trident, and MiniMo (based on Gecko) is still in alpha stages.
It depends on how accessible control of certain features should be.
If the UI designers crammed every about:config option into preferences it'd be information overload for most users. Presenting the most commonly used options and using about:config to modify the rest is perfectly acceptable in my opinion.
Now, whether or not the Awesome Bar should be configurable through preferences is another debate. Personally I am fine with it as is, and think most users probably wouldn't notice a difference or care. The only people I've noticed grouchy about it are die-hard FF 2.x users.
Please keep in mind that ESPN's parent company is Disney. Given their history of manipulating copyright laws to protect rights to Mickey Mouse, it's no surprise that they would try to pull a fast one like this with ESPN 360.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
And yet I've yet to see one in use in Japan. Granted I only stay a month there every year, but cash is king in Japan and Asia in general. I rarely see credit cards being used (although it has become a bit more common over the past 15 years).
In XP image viewer you could rotate by opening up the image (and it would rotate the actual image, not just the view). What's different in Vista is they took away the hotkeys and now force you to right-click to rotate which bothers me to no end.
I'm not sure where you're getting the negativity from.
Sure Ubuntu is easier to use and that's a large reason why it's gained popularity. It's not a bare bones distro that Slackware is, they are aiming for two different types of end users.
Also, I'm not sure why linux *needs* to be difficult to use. It's like saying someone isn't justified in driving their car unless they build the engine from scratch.
In Texas's case at least, illegal immigrants are a financial net positive on the state government. The number crunching was done in one my government classes so I can't reference it, but immigrants contribute more to social security and taxes than they take out in terms of Medicaid (too scared to visit) and education.
Regarding b), both in Chrome and Firefox (but not IE) you can hit ctrl+shift+tab to open up your last closed tabs. I'm not sure how far back it goes, but it's always been enough for me.
Privoxy default installation should work well enough for most people. I haven't had any need to edit configuration files for Privoxy on any of the machines I've installed it on, but it's there if you want to tweak it.
Isn't this the same case with Ad Block? Works well enough with default lists, modify them if you want to add / remove certain filters?
I know it's poor form to reply to your own posts, but I forgot another bit of information.
While removing it may increasing the pack's life span by distancing it from a heat source, if your laptop is plugged in, the laptop will prioritize running off AC instead of battery.
Most charging processes are to do a quick charge up to 75-85% of max capacity, and then trickle charge to max.
Lenovo has added a new feature in which it will only charge if battery levels drop below 90% capacity, presumably to reduce minimal charge/discharging that adds up to cell decay.
Li-ion cells lose capacity for two reasons: 1) Time.
At room temperature a Li-ion cell will lose 20% capacity / year at room temperature. The capacity loss is related to temperature, so you can increase your battery's life by sticking your laptop batteries in a freezer bag and shoving it in the freezer.
Likewise, this is why manufacturing companies and OEMs have to keep service stock as low as possible because you are losing money by having battery packs sitting on shelves in a warehouse.
2) Usage.
We have to run cycle life tests and our battery packs must maintain an x% charge over y number of cycles (a cycle being a complete discharge followed by a complete charge). If you have ever looked at the graphs, it is fairly easy to see that a heavily used battery will have less capacity than a non-used battery.
Chemically, you are transferring electrons between the cathode and anode by charging/discharging and this process decays the material.
Disclaimer: I work for a battery pack manufacturing company.
I'd have to second toddestan. Assuming you went from an idle ~300W hog to a ~40W machine running 24/7/365 at $0.10/KWh you'd only save $222.76/yr.
And to be perfectly honest, I've had a hard time hitting ~300W. That only happens when I play games or run Folding@Home using my GPU (ATI x1950). Even my home file server with 8 hdds and an Athlon XP idles around 120W.
It's also a diplomatic spat between the US and China. The US makes it extremely difficult for Chinese citizens to get visas and thus the PRC reciprocates that towards US citizens.
I have friends working in Taiwan who have to get a China visa by visiting one of their embassies in Japan or back in the US just so they can travel to China.
Likewise, I know Japanese and Taiwan citizens do not need visas to visit China.
I bought the Asus EEE 701 and tried using Xandros for 9 months, couldn't do it. Usability-wise it was fine for both my wife and I, but the package servers were ridiculous.
Since Asus customized the Xandros installation, you had to use their servers which downloaded at 10KB/s, making some updates installations painfully slow. If you used Xandros or Debian servers, you were liable to break dependencies somewhere and force a partition restore.
That simply meant more hours waiting to download updates off Asus's servers. What made it worse is their version of apt-get didn't accept the -y flag, forcing you to step through the updating process.
Joining an open source project gets repeated as a good way to get some programming experience under one's belt, but outside of Google summer of code what's the best way to start?
Browse bug lists, download the dev branch and start plugging away?
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XPCOM adds a lot of code for marshalling objects between different usage contexts (e.g. different languages). This leads to code bloat in XPCOM based systems. This was one of the reasons why Apple chose KHTML over the XPCOM-based Gecko rendering engine for their Web Browser.
The Gecko developers are currently trying to reduce superfluous uses of XPCOM in the Gecko layout engine. This process is commonly known as deCOMtamination. source
No one really claims FF performance beats anybody (except maybe IE, but that's just too easy). I use Firefox for compatibility and extensibility, but not for speed and performance. Chrome, Safari, and Opera have better performance than Firefox.
Likewise, there are already Webkit-based and Opera browsers for the mobile phone market. IE Mobile was written from scratch and not based on Trident, and MiniMo (based on Gecko) is still in alpha stages.
It depends on how accessible control of certain features should be.
If the UI designers crammed every about:config option into preferences it'd be information overload for most users. Presenting the most commonly used options and using about:config to modify the rest is perfectly acceptable in my opinion.
Now, whether or not the Awesome Bar should be configurable through preferences is another debate. Personally I am fine with it as is, and think most users probably wouldn't notice a difference or care. The only people I've noticed grouchy about it are die-hard FF 2.x users.
Whenever I use Windows, Chrome is usually my default browser.
However I don't think Firefox can support process separation simply because Gecko is too heavy to spawn multiple instances vs. Webkit.
If you're looking for Adblock for Chrome, visit www.privoxy.org (local proxy that filters out ads based on heuristics).
Try http://www.tvrss.net/shows/
They even offer RSS feeds so you can subscribe to them with your torrent client and download automatically.
Please keep in mind that ESPN's parent company is Disney. Given their history of manipulating copyright laws to protect rights to Mickey Mouse, it's no surprise that they would try to pull a fast one like this with ESPN 360.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw
And yet I've yet to see one in use in Japan. Granted I only stay a month there every year, but cash is king in Japan and Asia in general. I rarely see credit cards being used (although it has become a bit more common over the past 15 years).
Likewise, Linus also states there are multiple advantages of using git over svn. Most noticeably:
He also points out git's advantages in speed and decentralized model.
Well the opposite can also be true. I've provided support to customers on a 6+ digit support contract that still refuse to do what I ask of them.
Some people just like to complain . . .
In XP image viewer you could rotate by opening up the image (and it would rotate the actual image, not just the view). What's different in Vista is they took away the hotkeys and now force you to right-click to rotate which bothers me to no end.
I'm not sure where you're getting the negativity from.
Sure Ubuntu is easier to use and that's a large reason why it's gained popularity. It's not a bare bones distro that Slackware is, they are aiming for two different types of end users.
Also, I'm not sure why linux *needs* to be difficult to use. It's like saying someone isn't justified in driving their car unless they build the engine from scratch.
In Texas's case at least, illegal immigrants are a financial net positive on the state government. The number crunching was done in one my government classes so I can't reference it, but immigrants contribute more to social security and taxes than they take out in terms of Medicaid (too scared to visit) and education.
Regarding b), both in Chrome and Firefox (but not IE) you can hit ctrl+shift+tab to open up your last closed tabs. I'm not sure how far back it goes, but it's always been enough for me.
Privoxy default installation should work well enough for most people. I haven't had any need to edit configuration files for Privoxy on any of the machines I've installed it on, but it's there if you want to tweak it.
Isn't this the same case with Ad Block? Works well enough with default lists, modify them if you want to add / remove certain filters?
Let's not forget the 12-year-old McDonald's burger that looks as good as new.
I know it's poor form to reply to your own posts, but I forgot another bit of information.
While removing it may increasing the pack's life span by distancing it from a heat source, if your laptop is plugged in, the laptop will prioritize running off AC instead of battery.
Most charging processes are to do a quick charge up to 75-85% of max capacity, and then trickle charge to max.
Lenovo has added a new feature in which it will only charge if battery levels drop below 90% capacity, presumably to reduce minimal charge/discharging that adds up to cell decay.
I'm going to have to call BS on this claim.
Li-ion cells lose capacity for two reasons:
1) Time.
At room temperature a Li-ion cell will lose 20% capacity / year at room temperature. The capacity loss is related to temperature, so you can increase your battery's life by sticking your laptop batteries in a freezer bag and shoving it in the freezer.
Likewise, this is why manufacturing companies and OEMs have to keep service stock as low as possible because you are losing money by having battery packs sitting on shelves in a warehouse.
2) Usage.
We have to run cycle life tests and our battery packs must maintain an x% charge over y number of cycles (a cycle being a complete discharge followed by a complete charge). If you have ever looked at the graphs, it is fairly easy to see that a heavily used battery will have less capacity than a non-used battery.
Chemically, you are transferring electrons between the cathode and anode by charging/discharging and this process decays the material.
Disclaimer: I work for a battery pack manufacturing company.
Fox & Friends complaining about Palin photos NOT being retouched.
Fox & Friends purposely retouching photos of NY Times columnists to make them look worse.
I'd have to second toddestan. Assuming you went from an idle ~300W hog to a ~40W machine running 24/7/365 at $0.10/KWh you'd only save $222.76/yr.
And to be perfectly honest, I've had a hard time hitting ~300W. That only happens when I play games or run Folding@Home using my GPU (ATI x1950). Even my home file server with 8 hdds and an Athlon XP idles around 120W.
It's also a diplomatic spat between the US and China. The US makes it extremely difficult for Chinese citizens to get visas and thus the PRC reciprocates that towards US citizens.
I have friends working in Taiwan who have to get a China visa by visiting one of their embassies in Japan or back in the US just so they can travel to China.
Likewise, I know Japanese and Taiwan citizens do not need visas to visit China.
I bought the Asus EEE 701 and tried using Xandros for 9 months, couldn't do it. Usability-wise it was fine for both my wife and I, but the package servers were ridiculous.
Since Asus customized the Xandros installation, you had to use their servers which downloaded at 10KB/s, making some updates installations painfully slow. If you used Xandros or Debian servers, you were liable to break dependencies somewhere and force a partition restore.
That simply meant more hours waiting to download updates off Asus's servers. What made it worse is their version of apt-get didn't accept the -y flag, forcing you to step through the updating process.
Have the editors not been to Japan? Even though toilet sinks are not in public bathrooms, they're a common installation in home bathrooms.
Even with my non-existent plumbing skills, it's not that difficult of a hack. Maybe this is a job for Joe . . .
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Joining an open source project gets repeated as a good way to get some programming experience under one's belt, but outside of Google summer of code what's the best way to start?
Browse bug lists, download the dev branch and start plugging away?
There is a browser and OS agnostic ad-blocking proxy called Privoxy.