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Comment Re:What else? (Score 1) 589

Besides the lack of many useful extensions, as already cited, there is the absolute lack of flexibility in configuration.

They got rid of the "extension bar" where I kept all extension buttons at the bottom of the screen. Now they just throw all those buttons along the address and search bar, squeezing everything. Not happy with this they inserted some undesirable icons (like save to pocket and other trash) that we are not able to get rid of. It looks like the developers all uses 4K display, despising completely the comfort of notebook users.

I do notice an increase of speed, but the uncomfortable feel increased orders of magnitude more.

It makes me desire to give a try to other browsers, perhaps there is some that I can make comfortable to use.

Comment Re:Isn't water vapor... (Score 1) 403

Excess carbon dioxide, on the other hand, can remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. That's why burning fossil fuels has the effect of increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, leading to warming.

And it produces beautiful trees, wich seems to be a nice way to get it out of atmosphere.

Comment Re:What could (Score 1) 403

You can make Global Warming worse by adding water vapor to the air, but if enough sunlight gets reflected back out through cloud formation, it's a good deal. The cost of putting enough water into the air though.... is a different matter. Not sure if that's a cost-effective way of going about it.

AFAIK, no machine is 100% efficient, that is all of them dissipates heat. Using them to make clouds that will reflect heat back seems be a nice trap for the so produced heat.

By the other side, all those salt coming down with rain and crystallizing on the floor will increase the albedo making earth colder.... Ok, it will be sterile too, but much colder. =)

GNU is Not Unix

The Battle Between Purists and Pragmatists 213

Glyn Moody has a thoughtful piece taking a long look at the never-ending battle between pragmatists and purists in free and open software. "While debates rage around whether Mono is good or bad for free software, and about 'fauxpen source' and 'Faux FLOSS Fundamentalists,' people are overlooking the fact that these are just the latest in a series of such arguments about whether the end justifies the means. There was the same discussion when KDE was launched using the Qt toolkit, which was proprietary at the time, and when GNOME was set up as a completely free alternative. But could it be that this battle between the 'purists' and the 'pragmatists' is actually good for free software — a sign that people care passionately about this stuff — and a major reason for its success?"
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Unusual physics engine game ported to Linux (blogspot.com)

christian.einfeldt writes: "Halloween has come early for Linux-loving gamers in the form of the scary Penumbra game trilogy, which has just recently been ported natively to GNU-Linux by the manufacturer, Frictional Games. The Penumbra games, named Overture, Black Plague, and Requiem, respectively, are first person survival horror and physics puzzle games which challenge the player to survive in a mine in Greenland which has been taken over by a monstrous infection/demon/cthulhu-esque thing. The graphics, sounds, and plot are all admirable in a scary sort of way. The protagonist is an ordinary human with no particular powers at all, who fumbles around in the dark mine fighting zombified dogs or fleeing from infected humans. But the game is remarkable for its physics engine — rather than just bump and acquire, the player must use the mouse to physically turn knobs and open doors; and the player can grab and throw pretty much anything in the environment. The physics engine drives objects to fly and fall exactly as one would expect. The porting of a game with such a deft physics engine natively to Linux might be one of the most noteworthy events for GNU-Linux gamers since the 'World of Goo' Linux port."

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