Comment Re:Comparisons like this don't mean squat... (Score 3, Interesting) 702
Compatibility is the goal of Wine. They spend most of their time fixing bugs caused by the "undocumented features" in the Windows APIs.
Comment Re:Pull out the paper / power? (Score 1) 397
HP prioritizing their print jobs over yours.
Comment Re:You know the drill... (Score 0, Offtopic) 346
Hey! You butchered my second-most-loved meme, you insensitive clod!
Don't complain about meme mutations, that's how new ones are created.
Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words 239
Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.
Submission + - The physics of beer bubbles
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Yesterday, I told you about virtual beer. Today, let's follow two North America researchers who are studying the physics of real beer bubbles. 'Singly scattered waves form the basis of many imaging techniques such as radar or seismic exploration.' But pouring beer in a mug involves multiply scattered acoustic waves. They are more complex to study, but they can be used to look at various phenomena, such as predicting volcanic eruptions or understanding the movement of particles in fluids like beer. They also could be used to monitor the structural health of bridges and buildings or the stability of food products over time. Read more for additional references and a photo showing how the researchers monitor beer bubbles."
