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Submission + - Alan Cox On Fedora 18: "The Worst Red Hat Distro", Switches To Ubuntu (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Linux kernel developer veteran Alan Cox has lashed out at Red Hat's recent release of Fedora 18. Cox posted comments to his Google+ page saying "Fedora 18 seems to be the worst Red Hat distro I've ever seen." He encountered numerous problems with Fedora 18 and then decided to switch to Ubuntu.
Cellphones

Devs Bet Big On Android Over Apple's iOS 328

Posted by Soulskill from the striding-toward-peak-apps dept.
CWmike writes "A majority of mobile app developers see Android as the smart bet over the long run even as they vote for Apple's iOS in the short term, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC. The survey polled more than 2,300 developers who use Appcelerator's Titanium cross-platform compiler to produce iOS and Android native apps. Of the 2,300 polled, 59% said that Android had the 'best long-term outlook,' compared with just 35% who pegged Apple's iOS with that label. But three out of four said that iOS offers the best 'near-term' outlook, with 76% tagging Apple's operating system as the best revenue opportunity."
Image

HTML5: Up and Running 31

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
eldavojohn writes "As you're probably aware, HTML is in a transition period, lost somewhere in the mire between versions 4 and 5. That doesn't stop us from using the latest and greatest, but it does create a requirement for gracefully falling back when a user does not have native support for features like canvas, video, audio, local storage, web workers and geolocation. HTML5: Up and Running is a great resource for someone tasked with bringing HTML4 webpages up to HTML5 standards, but it's mediocre-to-poor in illustrating advanced usage. For example, author Mark Pilgrim invests around thirty pages on video, while putting at most half a page toward web workers. Some of this is not his fault, due to support (or lack thereof), but the book felt skimpy at a couple hundred pages. For me, this book had value if only for the many wrapper scripts and workarounds like Modernizr, complete with code snippets. This book is for the beginner to intermediate developer and also for developers tasked with implementing HTML5 immediately. I received my copy for review from O'Reilly, but you can also find a draft of it under CC-BY-3.0 license. And the sample code is available online, so you can follow along." Read on for the rest of eldavojohn's review.
Firefox

Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 279

Posted by timothy from the some-big-hype-to-live-up-to dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has published the first Firefox 4 build that integrates a new JavaScript engine that aims to match the performance in IE9 and reduces the gap to Safari, Opera and Chrome. This is really the big news we have been waiting for all along with Firefox 4 and it appears that the JavaScript performance is pretty dramatic and seems to beat IE9 at least as far as ConceivablyTech shows. Good to see Mozilla back in the game." The Mozilla blog gives a good overview of the improvements this brings; Tom's Hardware also covers the release.

Comment QA makes me sleepy... (Score 1) 1

by ilitorat (#33515572) Attached to: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The
It seems like the only QA or Beta testing they did was for the "site is having problems" logo. In the video, Kevin is talking about having serious issues right up to the launch. Also, isn't it normal practice to have a backout plan if they hit a snafu? Maybe that is the reason for his departure; implementing a buggy solution, and not having any rollback abilities. Either way, the database move seems logical (MySQL????), but it seems they pushed way too much through at once... Maybe the good news is most users aren't around anymore to experience these downtimes.
Biotech

Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish 82

Posted by samzenpus from the cnidaria-power dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Swedish researchers have devised a way to turn bioluminescent jellyfish into solar cells. It works like this: the green fluorescent protein (GFP) that makes the Aequorea victoria glow is simply dripped onto a silicon dioxide substrate between two electrodes. The protein works itself into strands between the electrodes. When ultraviolet light is shined on the circuit, voila, the GFP absorbs photons and emits electrons, generating a current. The GFP-powered cells work like dye-sensitized solar cells, but don't require expensive materials such as titanium dioxide."
Advertising

Anti-Product Placement For Negative Branding 130

Posted by samzenpus from the touch-of-death dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Product placement to promote your brand just isn't enough any more. These days, apparently, some companies are resorting to anti-product placement in order to get competitors' products in the hands of 'anti-stars.' The key example being Snooki from Jersey Shore, who supposedly is being sent handbags by companies... but the bags being sent are of competitors' handbags as a way to avoid Snooki carrying their own handbag, and thus potentially damaging their brand."
Google

Google Instant Announced 408

Posted by CmdrTaco from the thats-faster-than-before-then-right dept.
GCPSoft writes with this quote from a Google announcement: "Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type."
Power

Submission + - Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Swedish researchers have devised a way to turn bioluminescent jellyfish into solar cells. It works like this: the green fluorescent protein (GFP) that makes the Aequorea victoria glow is simply dripped onto a silicon dioxide substrate between two electrodes. The protein works itself into strands between the electrodes. When ultraviolet light is shined on the circuit, voila, the GFP absorbs photons and emits electrons, generating a current. The GFP-powered cells work like dye-sensitized solar cells, but don’t require expensive materials such as titanium dioxide.
Google

Submission + - Google Instant (google.com)

Submitted by GCPSoft
GCPSoft writes: Google have done it again... Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

Comment Re:Happens the other way too (Score 1) 447

by ilitorat (#12626612) Attached to: Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation
Don't project your experiences on other people, just because you never had a problem with driver issues doesn't mean such a thing doesn't exist. I'll never understand why people reply to threads where someone explains an issue they have and people feel the need to say it didn't happen to them so it must not be an issue... Just cause it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it isn't occuring. I've never has XP crash but that doesn't mean they write perfect software...

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