Comment Re:Surely none (Score 1) 372
I second this! I also wrote the comic though so my opinion is BIASED.
Comment nice guy (Score 1) 199
I used to work with/under Norm (he was my boss) and he's a great guy! When I worked with him he wasn't a Keeper of the Key but he was still pretty cool
Comment Re:Measuring speed from *where* exactly? (Score 1) 230
The Google Webmaster Tools has a page speed metric. It is measured from people who have the Google toolbar installed and have flipped a switch somewhere. Your speed it measured on an average of these folks. There is a measure of accuracy (low, medium or high) depending on the number of points of data it has collected.
There is also the time the crawler spent downloading pages in milliseconds.
Who know which one of these they use (or combination there of.
There is also the time the crawler spent downloading pages in milliseconds.
Who know which one of these they use (or combination there of.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 700
Can I have my $300 back then?
Comment hey! (Score 5, Funny) 1049
Hey, I've actually done a comic on this subject! I'm firmly in the "I'd rather you have a cool email address then a suck-up one" camp.
Comment Re:Intel branding considered harmful (Score 1) 235
I have that exact processor. Only found out about the VT thing after I got it home. I was not happy. The booklet even says that it doesn't have the VT extensions.
Virt-Manager and Virtual Box say otherwise though.
Comment Re:Fonts (Score 1) 378
RE: Images
Licensing? Nightmare.
Bandwidth? Eek.
Security? Whoa!
Compatibility? Doesn't downgrade nicely (that page looks horrible in a "stable" browser of today and is almost unreadable)
Gains? Geocities-like webpages that use every image they can just for the sake of it. Seven million websites with pictures of cats. And only the sensible browsers will come with options to turn the damn thing off (and thus look even worse).
Stupid idea, stupid execution (having to DOWNLOAD every image mentioned on a page?)
I think when you have to cite Geocities as an example, we aren't talking about web design...
Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 226
That is the best description for a bad comic I've seen in a while. Nice!
Comment Re:$380... (Score 1) 247
Yes, you are wrong.
It's the GPU it doesn't have access to. It has access to most of the SPUs and only 256Mb RAM though.
Court Reinstates Proof-of-Age Requirement For Nude Ads 267
arbitraryaardvark writes "An Ohio swinger's magazine objects to keeping proof on file that its advertisers are over 18. I reported here in 2007 that the 6th circuit struck down U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257 as a First Amendment violation. The full 6th circuit has now overturned that ruling. The case might continue to the Supreme Court. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports."
Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office 233
KentuckyFC writes "While preparing for the job of US Secretary of Energy in the incoming Obama administration (and being director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize winner to boot), Steven Chu has somehow found time to make a major breakthrough in the world of atom interferometry. One measure of an interferometer's sensitivity is the area that its arms enclose. Chu and colleagues have found a way to increase this area by a factor of 2,500 by canceling out the noise introduced by lasers, which work as beam splitters sending atoms down different arms (abstract). One thing this makes possible is the use of different types of atoms in the same interferometer, allowing a new generation of tests of the equivalence principle. (This is the assumption that the m in F=ma and the m's in F= Gm1.m2/r^2 are the same thing). Let's hope he's got equally impressive breakthroughs planned for his encore as US Secretary of Energy."
Google Challenging Proposition 8 1475
theodp writes "Coming the day after it announced layoffs and office closures, Google's California Supreme Court filing arguing for the overturn of Proposition 8, which asks the Court not to harm its ability to recruit and retain employees, certainly could have been better timed. Google's support of same-sex marriage puts it on the same page with Dan'l Lewin, Microsoft's man in Silicon-Valley, who joined other tech leaders last October to denounce Prop 8 in a full-page newspaper ad. But oddly, Microsoft HR Chief Mike Murray cited religious beliefs for his decision to contribute $100,000 to 'Yes On 8', surprising coming from the guy who had been charged with diversity and sensitivity training during his ten-year Microsoft stint. "
Comment Re:Full text searching engines (Score 1) 348
Ultrasphinx gives you a limited view of the capabilities too. Playing with the real API is much more powerful.
Comment but-you-have-actual-competition (Score 1) 279
but-you-have-actual-competition
Not really. Mostly you still go through BT. Many exchanges don't have other ISPs in them. Mine has 1 other ISP in it and that is Sky
I'm physically 200 meters from the exchange. Somehow the line is over 2000 meters long...
Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off 491
tjstork writes "Tesla Motors, the darling of technorati for its high performance electric car, may be about to go belly up. Venture capital is cut off, layoffs are under way, and construction plans are being stretched out. Elon Musk has ousted the CEO and taken the reins, blaming the global credit crunch."
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