Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:WHAT ABOUT MEMORY USAGE!!! (Score 2) 137

I do use AdBlock, in fact, I would say that today's internet is literally unusable without AdBlock. Go to a page like cnn or nbcnews without AdBlock and about 500,000 adware, crapware loading scripts are running killing you with this taboola revcontent garbage. Ads have become so incredibly obtrusive that browsing without an adblocker is next to impossible, especially on a tablet with limited memory and processor power.

Comment Re:WHAT ABOUT MEMORY USAGE!!! (Score 1) 137

Huge memory usage brings with it a range of problems. Instead of the browser itself choking on a page (rarely happens), now the entire operating system chokes because the browser gobbles up all the available memory. I have a bad habit of keeping lots of tabs open, and over time, each of them consumes more memory. I've fairly regularly have a 8GB 2015 iMac completely lock up because the browser used up all the available memory.

Its just plain sloppy careless coding. If you're not paying attention to how much memory a systems level component (like browsers are becoming), then you have no business writing systems software.

So, I say, lets have a memory usage shootout, and try it on different operating systems.

Comment WHAT ABOUT MEMORY USAGE!!! (Score 1, Troll) 137

All browsers are fast, OK we get it. Now what about the real issue, MEMORY USAGE!!!

Memory consumption is the big problem with modern browsers, how inefficient are they, how much memory do they consume over time, how often do you need to restart them because they consume all the memory on your machines. I don't use Windows, but I can say on OS X, Chrome is probably about the absolute worst with memory usage, it will typically hog about 200-500 MB per freaking web page. Yes, half a freaking gig just for a damned web page, thats utterly ridiculous.

When you start comparing efficiency, let me know.

Comment Re:worse yet (Score 1) 136

Nitro is cool, you run at crazy high stoichiometric ratios. But it's EXPENSIVE, and nitro engines don't last long. Nitro produces nitric acid as part of combustion, this would rapidly eat away engine components. That's why nitro is pretty much only used in drag racing where an engine only needs to last a few seconds.

For longevity, reliability and power, E85 is a really the best way to go.

Comment Re:worse yet (Score 1) 136

What are you talking about, E85 is awesome. I have a boosted S2000, with an AEM ecu, and ethanol sensor. On E85, it cranks the stoichiometric ratio up 30%, and it know E85 has about a 115 octane rating. That means I can safely run at 30 lbs of boost, and I've put down over 500hp at the wheels out of a 2 liter engine. E85 also caries significant amount of heat away, so your heads and valves run much cooler.

Comment WebP is an image file format! (Score 5, Informative) 105

This is an extremely poorly written abstract and so completely full of buzzwords.

WebP is a freaking image file format, its that freaking simple. I mean 500 words of bullshit about "technology from Google that allows developers to create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.",
Literally all they had to say was WebP is like JPG except it compresses more. Thats it, no need to say anything else.

Comment systemd works perfect on 1020 node Cray XE6 (Score 4, Interesting) 293

We run SUSE SLES 12 with systemd on our 1020 node Cray XE6 and it works just perfectly. What a joke, "veteran unix administrators", it doesn't get much more complex than a 1020 node, 21,824 processor Cray XE6 with Nvidia Tesla on each compute node. Node management and integration with the job scheduler is significantly simpler than older versions. The older system was a mess of shell scripts, perl scripts, and who knows what else, the new system is all streamlined in a simple config file and few modules.

Comment Re: Hipsters can ruin UIs like nobody else. (Score 1) 176

Excellent analysis of the hipster type However a few points I believe are wrong. 1: All hipsters do is spend their parents money, hipsters generally never do anything to actually earn money themselves -- hipsters don't have jobs Because they don't work, you can't have hipsters working as UI designers.

Comment Re: Meh (Score 2) 276

You have to replace these parts anyway when building an engine. Because US emissions were specifically designed to choke small cars, the US versions only made 130 HP, but the euro ones made close to 200. I've had a few PRVs apart, it's actually a good basic design -- free flowing heads, hemi comb chambers, decent bottom end. All they need is to use the euro cam, and modern high comp pistons and exhaust. The euro ones never had an issue with power, just use euro spec bits and you're good

Comment Re: Meh (Score 1) 276

The PRV is actually a rather well designed engine, it just castrated to death by US emissions regulations (these were created by big3 lobbyists to kill high efficiency small foreign cars and choke them to death with NOx restrictions, which are no problem for super low compression, gas guzlng V8s, but very hard on high efficient, high compression foreign 4 cylinders). Anyway, it's trivial to get a good 200-250 HP out of a PRV V6: Just crank the compression back up to 10:1, put a decent cam with some overlap, and use a modern magna flow catalytic converter. No need for any engine swap, just fix the PRV V6

Comment Re:All settings moved to gconf-editor. (Score 1) 151

Its a normal standard thing to change the color, why should we thing everybody like the same color, especially with such a horrid default theme.

Windows let you change color and font since I think Windows 1.0, which was what 1990? How come Microsoft could figure out how to let users change color 25 years ago, but Gnome still can't figure it out.

What is so insanely hard about making a standard control panel pane to do this. Why does it have to be a separate download. What kind of impression do you think this gives users? Think about it, somebody's been using Windows for a while, and they try Linux/Gnome, and they want to do something insanely trivial like change a wallpaper or font, and they then need to try to figure out how to use a package manager for that???

No wonder nobody uses desktop Linux.

I'm sorry if this sounds like a rant, I'm a Gnome user, have been for a long time, I just want them to provide some basic features that users expect without having to download 3rd party add ons.

Comment Re:Will settings app actually let you change theme (Score 1) 151

Then why is there ZERO integration with it? Why is it some python scripted separate app instead of being a normal control panel pane, like changing color is in every other operating system on the planet. Why do you have do a separate download. Thats it just utterly crazy that it does not have the ability built in to change color.

Slashdot Top Deals

"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll

Working...