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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 Re:similar story with Fedora and hard drives (Score 1) 272

by slo (#31079736) Attached to: Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries

Let's face it here, if a person is running Windows, they aren't going to believe that there's a problem until they can't work 'cause Windows gives alert after alert after alert and how can you know which ones to believe unless you're a "techie"? Sure if, you're reading here, you'll know, but 98% of people just don't.

If you're reading here there's a good chance your aren't running Windows and just came for the Schadenfreude.
Open Source

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Re:Venus (Score 1) 435

by slo (#27524815) Attached to: Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop
I assume you are referring to climate scientists. I still have quite a bit of respect for academic science. I think the peer review process has a strong track record of sorting out fraudulent science. Scientists have a much cleaner record than business leaders and politicians, so I'm more inclined to trust them than naysayers which are often from the latter two groups.

Comment Re:Venus (Score 1) 435

by slo (#27521229) Attached to: Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop
According to the National Geographic piece, most climate scientists are skeptical about extraterrestrial warming. http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-other-planets-solar-system.htm Most of the the zealotism seems to be among the global warming deniers. They'll jump on anything that appears to refute anthropogenic warming without doing any investigation. Seems like more an excuse to further their own beliefs and behaviours than true skepticism.

Comment Re:What about a big ball of fire in the sky? (Score 1) 656

by slo (#26164725) Attached to: Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming
I don't know how this gets modded interesting, but this has been studied ad nauseum, and no, recent warming is NOT caused by solar variability. It's amazing how many global warming deniers will jump on any alternate explanation and leave their much vaunted scepticism trailing in the dust. Any explanation is as good as another so let's choose the one that is most convenient.
Science

Harvesting Energy in the Sky 261

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the pie-in-the-sky dept.
withoutfeathers writes "The Economist magazine has an article on Flying wind farms. Mind you, we're not talking about ordinary, terrestrial windmills here. We're talking about actual airborne — up to 10km in the sky — wind farms intended to harvest the immense supply of energy in the jet stream. On the surface, the idea seems a little eccentric but, in fact, San Diego (California, US) based Sky WindPower has, apparently, thought their concept through pretty thoroughly and believes they can not only make this work, but do so profitably. The article discusses several other ideas for high-flying wind farming including a Dutch proposal to use pairs of kites to drive a generator."

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