Comment Re:Let's start digging then... (Score 2, Funny) 175
In Earth it wouldn't, but it's a different matter in space. The dust wont be falling down but just flow all around the rover, since theres no gravity.
In Earth it wouldn't, but it's a different matter in space. The dust wont be falling down but just flow all around the rover, since theres no gravity.
It's the sound of all the slashdotters coming on the idea of not having to use a mouse when porn surfing. Just move your, eh, muscle to the direction.
I don't see how planes would be falling tho, most likely the integer just swaps around back to zero, but it's not like planes have some code like if (date() 1980) crash();
And why exactly would be that?
The reason for Y2K bugs is pretty ridiculous tho, someone had to see it coming. It's not even like the amount of available IPv4 addresses, it would had required some imagination back then to understand there would be so many internet connected machines today. But years you just saw coming.
And you can apply the same kind of "censorship" in the US and elsewhere too. Apple wont let you release apps to the app store that break laws, just the same way they wouldn't let you release some app praising Hitler in Germany.
There are no principles involved - it's a company making money for its shareholders for gods sake. They wont fight the impossible-to-win fight against China government, instead they just do like any other company working in any country would do - play by the rules.
I'm not saying that, the courts are. Sure you can always go the "but we are like google" route, but I think its perfectly clear what The Pirate Bay's purpose is.
I agree you on the Google information feeding part. But firefox's UI responsivess is still a deal breaker for me, after using Opera for 10+ years.
It's not even about censorship. What The Pirate Bay and others supporting "swedish piracy" fail to see is that your purpose will count in court. No matter the stupid
Yeah that I can second, it's not an awful language by itself. But a programming language is only as good as what can run it. We have all hated Java for that. Some even hate Flash (tho I dont really see a reason). Some javascript is perfect for its job, even while there are quirks with it.
But something as a beginner language? No. It would be better to get his interest in programming with something you can do games and such with.
Yep, I agree Linux can run for a lot more. But that wasn't the point - point was that rebooting your desktop computer every couple of months isn't really that big of a deal.
I do have a linux server sitting in my closet too and it almost never requires reboot, but frankly it does a lot less than my desktop windows pc too.
Since Open Office is there, why would anyone go for this?
Speed
If you look for a fast web browser, Google Chrome is the answer to you. The start-up speed is amazing comparing to Firefox. The Google developers did a very well job in this regard. the reason behind its speed is that Google Chrome does not use a cross-platform framework unlike Firefox which uses XUL. Google Chrome in GUN/Linux uses GTK+ directly without any layer in between. It uses also a different GUI library for each operating system it supports.
While I dont myself use Chrome, I have to agree here. UI responsiveness in such things like a browser is REALLY important. I have asked firefox developers and users many times why the UI isn't more responsive, and the sum answer of that is XUL. I love Opera's UI responsiveness. I love Chrome's UI responsivess. But Firefox's and IE's is just shit. It's really something Mozilla should work with, because until it's on those twos level I wont be using Firefox. What is the real reason to use it then? Many people say its easily extensible. sure, XML like language probably is. But you could even try to optimize it. Convert it to byte or machine in run time, or something. Firefox is really lacking behind on this aspect and I'd really like to see them improve it.
But why are both Opera and Chrome better in UI responsiveness than Firefox, IE and other problems? Is it because they see the advantage on it, or is it really that hard? What could be done for it?
I could use some of that. Lets say I forgot what mother always told me about washing white and red clothes, and that I'll be wearing pink for a while.
Reminds me pretty much of everything from that time. Prince of Bel Air intro is quite similar in style with the DOS 5.0 commercial too.
.. or people would had understood them even less. Now there at least was a known character and he fit in to the style.
"I am, therefore I am." -- Akira