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Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed 140

Posted by kdawson from the want-to-see-it-again dept.
eldavojohn writes "Recent betas of Google's Chrome browser are getting seriously fast. Couple that with better hardware, on average, and it's getting down to speeds that are difficult to demonstrate in a way users can appreciate. Which is why Google felt that some Rube Goldberg-ish demonstrations with slo-mo are in order. Gone are the days of boring millisecond response time metrics."

Comment my two cents (Score 1) 178

by vacarul (#32063156) Attached to: Robust Timing Over the Internet
You can "solve" the time problem by not using the time. I worked with a system (up to 100 servers) in which a bad clock could do some serious damage. What I realized was that the clock was not really necessary; all we needed was a system that will provide order numbers. It could work like a dedicated server that other servers could ask for the next unused number and you would use that instead.
Software

Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux 121

Posted by timothy from the everything-is-amazing-no-one-is-happy dept.
tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware is continuing its coverage of easy-to-install Linux applications for new users coming from Windows with the latest installment, Office Apps. This segment covers office suites, word processors, spreadsheet apps, presentation software, simple database titles, desktop publishing, project management, financial software, and more. All of these applications are available in the Ubuntu, Fedora, or openSUSE repos or as .deb or .rpm packages. All of the links to download these applications are provided — even Windows .exe and Mac OS X .dmg files when available."
Moon

Japanese Consortium Projects a Humanoid Robot On the Moon By 2015 151

Posted by timothy from the why-can't-they-send-them-all? dept.
JoshuaInNippon writes "A Japanese manufacturing cooperative named Astro-Technology SOHLA announced on April 27th that they are planning to create and send a two-legged humanoid robot to the moon, have it draw the Japanese flag on the surface, and hopefully then get it to return to the Earth, all by the year 2015. The group wants to inspire people, particularly in Japan, about space and generate confidence among SMEs to create low-cost space technology. While the idea may seem far-fetched to some, SOHLA had success in building a small low-cost satellite named Maido-1, which was launched into space aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket in early 2009. The group also commented that they want to have their future humanoid robot hitch a ride to the moon with a surveying rover that JAXA is building."
Security

India, China Try Import Regulations As Security Tools 108

Posted by timothy from the you-can't-enter-our-theme-park dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports that the Chinese government is forcing vendors to cough up the source code to their encryption alogrithms before they can sell their equipment to the Chinese government. The EU doesn't seem to like it, but if I were in their position I'd want the same thing." China's biggest neighbor goes further; another anonymous reader writes "Telco equipment from China could have spyware that gives access to telcom networks in India. The Indian government has officially told mobile operators not to import any equipment manufactured by Chinese vendors, including Huawei and ZTE. The ban order follows concerns raised by the Home Ministry that telecom equipment from some countries could have spyware or malware that gives intelligence agencies across the border access to telecom networks in India. The biggest gainers from the move could be Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, which have been losing market share to aggressive Chinese equipment-makers in India."

Comment I just don't get it (Score 1) 473

by vacarul (#31987160) Attached to: House Proposes Legalizing, Taxing Online Gambling
this is what I understood:
1. gambling in US is legal in casino. They have systems that guarantee that you will loose money.
2. gambling online was made illegal so that casinos will not loose money (from gambling, drinks, hotels etc). They also have systems that guarantee that you will loose money.
3. nobody cares what the citizen wants if some corporation wants something else.

Where is the democracy? - (dmokratía) "rule of the people" [wikipedia]

Comment Re:Joomla is ... (Score 2, Informative) 36

by vacarul (#31929576) Attached to: Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia
from my own experience this is how you can use Joomla:
-don't used it
-live happily
or
-install it for unsuspecting clients
-profit over and over again (hey thanks for the little modification you did but I noticed something else...)

In case you didn't understood, this is a piece of crap; the creators should be jailed!
-you enable "pretty urls", they work for menu and articles but they don't for breadcrumbs; now you have 2 urls going to the same content. So you decide to:
-install 3rd party extension to handle "pretty urls". It redirects all urls to the pretty one but you still have 2 different urls!
-generic error messages - error message example: "could not move file". Yay! no mention of what file, directory or actual reason why the operation failed(most of the time file rights). They could just say "we f***ed you!"
-more urls for the same content: with &flypage=, without... etc.
-much more I can't just remember right now..

aaand the forums are filled with garbage; rarely you will find people who specify what version of Joomla they are talking about.

Comment Re:War (Score 1) 164

by vacarul (#31668958) Attached to: Open Source, Open Standards Under Attack In Europe
loooooooooooool. Dude that vision it's equivalent to "marketing talk". It's one thing to have a vision and another thing to implement a system that will actually deliver what you promised even after you die. From personal experience I can tell you that the communist vision was great! But it had nothing to do with the reality.

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