Although I suspect V8 is the reason for the difference, there may also be changes in webkit since then. Firefox wavered back and forth on passing Acid2 for a while because practical considerations made it hard to implement. The same thing has been happening on FF/Acid3 as well (although I don't think it has ever passed Acid3).
Passing an Acid test competes with practicality at times, and quite often changes that make a browser pass later have to be clobbered to make way for reality. Standards are a journey, not a destination:-).
I'm downloading Chrome right now to try it now, but I don't even need to see it to know how wrong-headed your comment is. Processes don't use more RAM than threads. Processes use copy-on-write semantics; even on Windows they can do this. That means that only the portions of each process which are different require new memory space. With a standard application design and good separation of responsibilities--exactly the kind of separation the Chrome comic establishes is the fundamental underpinning of Chrome--it will use the same amount of RAM as the threaded version. And the ability to eliminate a ton of locks with a cleaner design means it will probably be faster.
So what's the schedule for a release? Not a troll, I just know (because I am a release manager) that if you are talking about an imminent release, and you don't have a list of issues to fix and a schedule to go with them, then you are not going to release soon. Until I see a schedule, the comparison to DNF sticks.
Politics is a process everyone should get involved in and contribute to--but it doesn't have to be everyone's full-time job. A few will treat the problem space as important enough to them to make a job out of it, but most of the contribution eventually comes from everyone else. The real strength of the Internet masses is in their mass. Only a teeny tiny bit of it needs to be applied to make important things happen, with just enough guidance to make it non-random. See Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody. He describes a tiny surplus of effort as enough to create thousands of complete Wikipedia projects every year.
So yes, let's look at solutions that can be done as a hobby, perhaps guided by someone for whom it is a bit more than a hobby. Structure the project to encourage the masses to contribute their single raindrop, and watch the flood change the world.
Then they really ought to be encouraging gold farming. It's a more efficient market, transferring the life force production to the third world instead of here.
Check out Greenhouse Games. This is an effort by the Penny Arcade guys to reach out to indie or niche game developers and put them on a non-suck digital distribution platform. By non-suck, I mean, it's easier to buy the game from them than it is to pirate it. They only do one featured game a month, and for the two months it's been around, I have bought both games and both ran flawlessly.
And you know what? I'm a Linux user.
That's right, both of the high-quality games that have been released there have had Linux, Windows and Mac versions. When I brought this up on the forums they said, basically, "We can't do this for every game, but we are seeking out games that run on more than one platform."
I actually wrote a review online for the first game, which was Penny Arcade's own Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. In the review I touch on how great Greenhouse is. I have a lot of hope for this distributor.
"Of a more interesting nature, in my mind, is, at what point does an employer here in the States 'own' your contacts?"
At no point whatsoever. Contacts are just knowledge, and they're not secret knowledge. There is no law that covers their ownership. The reaction I'm reading to this story makes me think that people now believe, a priori, that anything an employer can do to an employee is legal, until the employee has proven otherwise in a court of law.
There is no way this would fucking stand up in the US. I'm amazed it stood up in the UK. And the reason the guy did it is completely irrelevant... didn't any of you see Jerry Maguire?? Salespeople consider their rolodex to be a perk of the job. There's no law being broken in taking your contact information with you when you leave a company. This ruling is bullshit.
it's disheartening that such a large crowd can watch (in person, and around the world) such a display and have no reason to realize they've been duped
If the Chinese can successfully fake a fireworks display in-person (with a massive hologram, I assume), then color me impressed with China's modern technology.
But I doubt it. They tried seeding the clouds to clean up the atmosphere and couldn't even do that.
To be fair, he's probably not used to them being that easy. If there's any interest rate at all, you'll need a calculator too. Almost all the ones he does all day will have interest rates.
Amendment X to the United States Constitution: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Now, reasonable people may disagree on whether drug law enforcement is a power delegated to the United States by the Constitution, but there is a pretty decent argument to be made that the government does not have this power (provided drug laws are not being broken across state lines).
California holds to this argument, and refuses to grant the United States this power. The United States raids pot farms anyway. Sooner or later, a lawsuit will get filed or an arrest will be made which will be heard before the US Supreme Court.
On that day, I hope we'll find out that the 10th amendment still has some power in this country.
This said, they may be infringing on Hasbro's trademark, since it must be said that the name is confusingly similar. I expect to hear more about that soon.
I was going to post my own reply: You can't copyright the rules of a game. Parent has it right. Here's the copyright office's own document on the subject:
First sentence is "The idea for a game is not protected by copyright." By contrast, "[...] the text matter describing the rules of the game, or the pictorial matter appearing on the gameboard or container, may be registrable."
As with other forms of copyright, you can copyright the expression of an idea, not the idea. Copyright gives you the exclusive right to make copies, not the exclusive right to an idea.
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When we sat down, before the previews had started rolling, my wife said, "He deserves a posthumous oscar." I looked at her like she was nuts - we hadn't even seen the picture yet!
After we walked out, I turned to her and said, "He deserves a posthumous oscar."
Everybody knows that if you're fighting an asymmetric war, you make your moves at the time when you can strike and minimize your losses, and you wait patiently at all other times.
Are you talking about Iraq/Afghanistan? Or are you talking about the McCain campaign? Because this move seems to be exactly an instance of what you just described.
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"pass on" is quite ambiguous here. It could mean "deliver to someone else, who will hire that person".
You don't understand programming with processes.
Although I suspect V8 is the reason for the difference, there may also be changes in webkit since then. Firefox wavered back and forth on passing Acid2 for a while because practical considerations made it hard to implement. The same thing has been happening on FF/Acid3 as well (although I don't think it has ever passed Acid3).
Passing an Acid test competes with practicality at times, and quite often changes that make a browser pass later have to be clobbered to make way for reality. Standards are a journey, not a destination :-).
It's open source, people. Just patch it out and move on with your lives. Someone will do it pretty soon here.
Feedback goes here: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/request.py?contact_type=feedback
I left this comment: "Without extension support, this is a broken browser. Addons! Addons! Addons!"
I'm downloading Chrome right now to try it now, but I don't even need to see it to know how wrong-headed your comment is. Processes don't use more RAM than threads. Processes use copy-on-write semantics; even on Windows they can do this. That means that only the portions of each process which are different require new memory space. With a standard application design and good separation of responsibilities--exactly the kind of separation the Chrome comic establishes is the fundamental underpinning of Chrome--it will use the same amount of RAM as the threaded version. And the ability to eliminate a ton of locks with a cleaner design means it will probably be faster.
So what's the schedule for a release? Not a troll, I just know (because I am a release manager) that if you are talking about an imminent release, and you don't have a list of issues to fix and a schedule to go with them, then you are not going to release soon. Until I see a schedule, the comparison to DNF sticks.
This is black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinking.
Politics is a process everyone should get involved in and contribute to--but it doesn't have to be everyone's full-time job. A few will treat the problem space as important enough to them to make a job out of it, but most of the contribution eventually comes from everyone else. The real strength of the Internet masses is in their mass. Only a teeny tiny bit of it needs to be applied to make important things happen, with just enough guidance to make it non-random. See Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody. He describes a tiny surplus of effort as enough to create thousands of complete Wikipedia projects every year.
So yes, let's look at solutions that can be done as a hobby, perhaps guided by someone for whom it is a bit more than a hobby. Structure the project to encourage the masses to contribute their single raindrop, and watch the flood change the world.
Who's to say it hasn't already been developed? Lots of those gold farmers might just be accounts set up with $gold = 10000000 by Blizzard.
Then they really ought to be encouraging gold farming. It's a more efficient market, transferring the life force production to the third world instead of here.
What exactly is the difference between an armed troop and a sniper, anyway? I'm pretty sure one is a proper subset of the other.
Check out Greenhouse Games. This is an effort by the Penny Arcade guys to reach out to indie or niche game developers and put them on a non-suck digital distribution platform. By non-suck, I mean, it's easier to buy the game from them than it is to pirate it. They only do one featured game a month, and for the two months it's been around, I have bought both games and both ran flawlessly.
And you know what? I'm a Linux user.
That's right, both of the high-quality games that have been released there have had Linux, Windows and Mac versions. When I brought this up on the forums they said, basically, "We can't do this for every game, but we are seeking out games that run on more than one platform."
I actually wrote a review online for the first game, which was Penny Arcade's own Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. In the review I touch on how great Greenhouse is. I have a lot of hope for this distributor.
"Of a more interesting nature, in my mind, is, at what point does an employer here in the States 'own' your contacts?"
At no point whatsoever. Contacts are just knowledge, and they're not secret knowledge. There is no law that covers their ownership. The reaction I'm reading to this story makes me think that people now believe, a priori, that anything an employer can do to an employee is legal, until the employee has proven otherwise in a court of law.
There is no way this would fucking stand up in the US. I'm amazed it stood up in the UK. And the reason the guy did it is completely irrelevant... didn't any of you see Jerry Maguire?? Salespeople consider their rolodex to be a perk of the job. There's no law being broken in taking your contact information with you when you leave a company. This ruling is bullshit.
it's disheartening that such a large crowd can watch (in person, and around the world) such a display and have no reason to realize they've been duped
If the Chinese can successfully fake a fireworks display in-person (with a massive hologram, I assume), then color me impressed with China's modern technology.
But I doubt it. They tried seeding the clouds to clean up the atmosphere and couldn't even do that.
How about if they just didn't fake it?
Point me to these free CA's that have root certificates that are actually installed in browsers.
The only one I know of is CACert.org, which isn't a root certificate in browsers by default.
This reads like an apology for Apple. Apple and AT&T should both go to hell for stifling innovation.
Give me my android phone. I'll wait as long as it takes.
To be fair, he's probably not used to them being that easy. If there's any interest rate at all, you'll need a calculator too. Almost all the ones he does all day will have interest rates.
Lefties are not a minority.
Not a minute too soon. I was getting extremely frustrated with the flaky quality and constant upgrade issues.
I am compiling the new driver right now for my Santa Rosa Macbook Pro. I'll post again to let you all know how it went.
Amendment X to the United States Constitution: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Now, reasonable people may disagree on whether drug law enforcement is a power delegated to the United States by the Constitution, but there is a pretty decent argument to be made that the government does not have this power (provided drug laws are not being broken across state lines).
California holds to this argument, and refuses to grant the United States this power. The United States raids pot farms anyway. Sooner or later, a lawsuit will get filed or an arrest will be made which will be heard before the US Supreme Court.
On that day, I hope we'll find out that the 10th amendment still has some power in this country.
This said, they may be infringing on Hasbro's trademark, since it must be said that the name is confusingly similar. I expect to hear more about that soon.
I was going to post my own reply: You can't copyright the rules of a game. Parent has it right. Here's the copyright office's own document on the subject:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html
First sentence is "The idea for a game is not protected by copyright." By contrast, "[...] the text matter describing the rules of the game, or the pictorial matter appearing on the gameboard or container, may be registrable."
As with other forms of copyright, you can copyright the expression of an idea, not the idea. Copyright gives you the exclusive right to make copies, not the exclusive right to an idea.
When we sat down, before the previews had started rolling, my wife said, "He deserves a posthumous oscar." I looked at her like she was nuts - we hadn't even seen the picture yet!
After we walked out, I turned to her and said, "He deserves a posthumous oscar."
Everybody knows that if you're fighting an asymmetric war, you make your moves at the time when you can strike and minimize your losses, and you wait patiently at all other times.
Are you talking about Iraq/Afghanistan? Or are you talking about the McCain campaign? Because this move seems to be exactly an instance of what you just described.