Not the usual home/work car but the weight of today's hybrid Formula 1 cars is 702 kg, driver included, fuel excluded. They must race with at most 100 kg of fuel. Ten years ago (v8 engines) the minimum weight was 595 kg. It's a 18% increase. Most of it is because of the batteries, electric engines and turbo gradually introduced in the last years. The result is the cars are a little slower than they used to be, with the exception of a couple of tracks where the hybrids broke the old lap record. The first thing you usually do to make a car faster is to make it lighter. They're spending more money per year than they did in the past only to be technologically relevant, not to race better. The last two years were a fight between two Mercedes drivers and this year there could be no fight at all.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/201...

I went to peanut.ga with Firefox 45 and it worked. I'm using Let's Encrypt certificates for my web sites and I browse them with Firefox all the times. LE always worked with Firefox. Are you sure you didn't remove LE's CA certificate from your Firefox?

It's only me seeing this as the Embrace phase of Embrace Extend Extinguish?

My take on the likely roadmap:

1) MS will add some extra functionality for the good or the bad
2) Ubuntu for Windows will be modified to use it but Ubuntu for Linux won't, and
3) people will start using Ubuntu Windows on servers too, and
4) it turns out that most of desktop Ubuntus, if not also servers, run on Windows, and
5) MS starts doing all it's Ubuntu development in house?

Et voilà, all Ubuntu users on Windows, nice license fees for MS and Canonical is extinguished.

The only thing that can save Canonical is the cost of the licenses for Windows Servers (step 4) but Ubuntu desktop will be dead because it usually runs on former Windows machines. Maybe it's Canonical's way to tell us that it's leaving the desktop and focusing on the server.

Hey Mark, how about paying a data connection to everybody and let everybody access any site they like? Then I'll believe you.

The movie has been released yesterday in Italy. You can go to news.google.it and with a little help from Google Translate you can get all the spoilers you want :-)

The Nokia 5100 from 2003 wasn't heavy. Check the specs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's 104 grams.

Comparison:
2007 iPhone: 135 g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2011 Samsung Galaxy S2 116 g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2011 iPhone 4S 140 g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2015 Samsung Galaxy S6 138 g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2015 iPhone 6S 143 g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Phones got bigger and heavier, which is not a surprise also considering all the new stuff that got packed inside vs the feature phones era.

Amazon sells TVs with USB plugs. You can play any kind of pirated content from there. I expect Amazon to retire those TVs from their shop soon.

A social push for metric units? I can't see it coming. The best chance for metric in the USA is China becoming the dominant economic and military power (if it ever happens.) Then the USA must sell metric based stuff and services to them because they won't accept imperial units. There won't be any changes until the USA is the number one country. Scientists and some engineers will keep being "bilingual" (metric at work and imperial at home) and that's it.

http://mrpogson.com/2015/03/02...

How are chimps, gorillas and Co faring against those ape superintelligences called humans? Still alive, but some in zoos, others in labs, all of them progressively stripped out of vital space due to the exigences of their more intelligent cousins. I won't like to go the way of chimps so it's ok to develop some special purpose AI (vision, driving, etc), but I'd be very wary of connecting all the pieces together. It won't behave as a servant no more than we are servant to cats, no matter if cats actually believe all that infrastructures we built are for letting us be better caregivers to them

I have a small 32 GB SSD on this laptop (I keep the OS there) plus a 750 GB spinning disk (data). The swap space would have been on the HD (I think swapping to SSD is bad because of write amplification) so I could have made it as big as I wished. However I decided to go without swap and see what happened. After more than one year I didn't have any problem. Even if I didn't hit max memory once I'm pretty sure the OS would have swapped out some programs sometimes because it makes sense to move out inactive programs to make space for buffer cache (it's Linux and I saw it happen in the past) but with so much RAM I don't care about 1 GB less of buffer cache. I prefer to have programs respond quickly after a couple of days I don't use them. I was constantly hitting swap to some degree on the old 4 GB laptop and it wasn't pretty. Obviously I didn't leave programs around much. Firefox, Thunderbird, emacs, terminal always open, the other programs on demand.

Sorry, I must have seen Firefox in the top post of the thread and misunderstood the point.

Multi process, not multi threaded unless you refer to the two threads inside each process https://www.chromium.org/devel... (2011) but if that's the case then Firefox is multi threaded too, just single process https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s... (2007)

I had that kind of problem until February 2014 (old Core Duo with 4 GB RAM) then I bought a new laptop with 16 GB upgradeable to 32 GB. No swap space configured. I keep leaving all sort of applications open (4 virtual desktops) and sometimes I got down to 3 GB free and started thinking about the extra 16 GB. Well, not until I'll really have to work with some VMs open all the time.
4 GB are not necessarily too little nowadays, but one should expect to be careful with the programs he runs. Like Android phones with half a GB of RAM.

Not on my Firefox 38 on Ubuntu. I copied the URL of this page, mid clicked on the new tab button and got an empty tab. I checked the preferences and I didn't find anything relevant (but I noticed that they are web pages now, not a dialog anymore - big surprise!). Maybe it's browser.newtablurl set to about:blank in about:config? No, it isn't that one because I don't get that behaviour with the default value too.