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Comment Re:Instantly fired. (Score -1) 824

by cb88 (#46598019) Attached to: Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down
Actually you are right... he killed off most of the opportunity for integrating other language engines. He had a strong hand in steering the web down the road of madness that it is currently on. Sure there is alot of cool stuff it brings us but there are also giant flaws that are tied directly to javascript and basically being stuck with it.

There are quite a few alternatives now that might actually be better.. Lua for instance has one of the fastest and smallest jit engines around. You have to admit it would be nice to have other options for writing client side code in...

Comment Re:OpenBSD and Wi-Fi (Score -1) 290

by cb88 (#46415485) Attached to: Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will
Not just the other Unixlike BSDs .. for instance Haiku OS has a quite mature port of the FreeBSD drivers even WPA support and it works on my fairly new laptop (Its a common Intel card.... but the fact that it works is great).

The code is here:  http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/libs/compat

Comment Re:SpaceX (Score -1) 73

by cb88 (#46330733) Attached to: SpaceX Testing Landing Legs On Next Falcon9 Rocket
If their goal was to just land in the water that would make alot of sense... except they eventually intend to land on the ground which might possibly be cheaper since no retrieval from the ocean would be required and they don't have to worry about salt water corrosion.

I'm not sure why you get the impression that that soft touchdown in saltwater is the goal... it isn't it is just a safety precaution at this point.

Comment Re:Proprietary Software built on Open Standards (Score -1) 1098

by cb88 (#46135073) Attached to: FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback'
Do you eve know what a false dichotomy is?! Because you are doing it...  It is about black and white thinking which is exactly what Open Source/OpenStandardsin Software vs Proprietary Software is... that sort of thinking excludes the thinking that leads to BSD and MIT like licenses.

You imply that there are only two choices ... Good Libre software and bad Non-Libre software... the fact is maximum efficiency in production of software requires some minor risks. Also you'll find that "developers" that get dragged into the legal issues of GPL and friends cease to be developers and become full time prosecutors. Taking GPL fully to heart.. is a major risk on it's own... you risk excluding yourself from development entirely to become a pure political element.

Comment It is impressive... but (Score -1) 177

by cb88 (#45401935) Attached to: Linux Kernel Running In JavaScript Emulator With Graphics and Network Support
it is not "fast, sandboxed VMs running in your users' browsers" it is just barely fast enough to be able to drag a window around and almost isn't fast enought to run a terminal. Performance bounces somewhere between 5-80Mhz equivalent depending on what you are running. I would imagine large chunks of contiguous code run reasonaly well but once it gets branchy performance plummets... its interesting to see how the varios demos perform.

Comment Re:Not really an Open Source development (Score -1) 108

by cb88 (#45087871) Attached to: Kickstarter For Open Source GPU
But once it is published.. it is then an open source project like any other.

And of course it isn't open source yet... they haven't gotten paid yet ;-)

all in all I think its a great idea... and might actually lead to some open source traction in this area. Everything else has failed so a project based on designs once implemented in ASICs is a pretty good head start.

Comment Re:Who wants this? (Score -1) 108

by cb88 (#45087781) Attached to: Kickstarter For Open Source GPU
Therein lies the problem... Its far too big to share an FPGA unless the FPGA is massive.

from what they say it will fit on a 100-120k LUT Xilnux device... those run around 100-150 USD. Also any bigger than those devices and you must have a licensed version of the tools (costs 5-10K USD). I think the same applies to other FPGA vendors but I'd love to be wrong.

Comment Re:I don't know if Obama planned it this way... (Score -1) 668

by cb88 (#45043709) Attached to: Are Shuttered Gov't Sites Actually Saving Money?
You have a point. However all those things have been abused as well... And they don't exist because of the federal government they exist because good people in the government acutally cared about other people. Do you really thing anyone in the current crop cares one bit about anyone but themselves?

There are a few I personally think might... but in all reality its probable they don't care either. They're just riding on the other side of arguments because it is a comfortable niche for them.

Comment Re:Maybe on the PC.... (Score -1) 148

by cb88 (#44882309) Attached to: Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too
Indeed... my SparcStation ZX still runs happily. Sadly I was not the first owner when it cost 20k USD.

Sun made alot of interesting cards... one of them even has a java ByteCode processor.

Lots of interesting tidbits on Michael Deering's site http://www.michaelfrankdeering.com/ He had a hand in most of Sun's custom cards.

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