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Submission + - Google to pay JavaScript frameworks to implement performance-first code (zdnet.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, 2018 @12:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google will be launching a fund of $200,000 to sponsor the development and implementation of performance-related features in third-party JavaScript frameworks. The fund's launch was announced earlier this week at the Chrome Dev Summit 2018, Google's annual web dev conference.

Frameworks with original ideas to improve performance and those which ship "on by default" performance-boosting features will be favored in the funds allocation process.

Comment Not a Google Docs Competitor (Score 5, Informative) 26

by Rataerix on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:22PM (#53768517) Attached to: Dropbox Finally Brings Its Google Docs Competitor Out of Beta

Paper would be more of a note taking application similar to onenote or evernote. I would not call this a Google Docs competitor.

Submission + - Microsoft releases CentOS-based 'Linux Data Science Virtual Machine' for Azure (betanews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Today, Microsoft announces a CentOS-based VM image for Azure called 'Linux Data Science Virtual Machine'. The VM has pre-installed tools such as Anaconda Python Distribution, Computational Network Toolkit, and Microsoft R Open. It focuses on machine learning and analytics, making it a great choice for data scientists.

Comment Fork bombs (Score 1) 103

by Rataerix on Friday October 30, 2015 @04:54PM (#50835409) Attached to: Twitch Viewers Will Try To Collaboratively Install Arch Linux

My moneys on it ending with a fork bomb

Submission + - Windows 10: A Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse (vortex.com)

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:08PM

Lauren Weinstein writes: I had originally been considering accepting Microsoft's offer of a free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. After all, reports have suggested that it's a much more usable system than Windows 8/8.1 — but of course in keeping with the "every other MS release of Windows is a dog" history, that's a pretty low bar.

However, it appears that MS has significantly botched their deployment of Windows 10. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, even though hope springs eternal.

Since there are so many issues involved, and MS is very aggressively pushing this upgrade, I'm going to run through key points here quickly, and reference other sites' pages that can give you more information right now.

But here's my executive summary: You may want to think twice, or three times, or many more times, about whether or not you wish to accept the Windows 10 free upgrade on your existing Windows 7 or 8/8.1 system.

Submission + - KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile (itworld.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Saturday July 25, 2015 @09:09AM

sfcrazy writes: Today, during the Akademy event, the KDE Community announced Plasma Mobile project. It's a Free (as in Freedom and beer), user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile claims to be developed in an open process, and considering the community behind it, I don't doubt it.

Comment Metro (Score 2, Insightful) 1009

by Rataerix on Monday January 13, 2014 @01:51PM (#45941283) Attached to: Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes.

As long as Windows 9 has metro is won't a hit. Microsoft doesn't seem willing to change any major issues people have with 8/8.1, Windows 9 will probably turn out to be is a bunch of little fixs, basically 8.2, but with a huge price tag.

Comment Re:Genesis (Score 1) 1293

by Rataerix on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:43PM (#44908189) Attached to: Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design?

Do you believe Adam was really person? The problem with saying that the creation story is just an analogy is that the creation story fits right in with the rest of the events of Genesis, we can easily track the genealogy from Adam to Jesus. The creation story is currently not written like it was intended to be taken literally.

Comment Re:Genesis (Score 1) 1293

by Rataerix on Friday September 20, 2013 @09:04AM (#44901787) Attached to: Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design?

You saying that God, lied to Moses when he told him about creation?

Comment 4 years ago (Score 3, Insightful) 410

by Rataerix on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @08:16AM (#44871687) Attached to: The last time I used a dial-up modem was...

It's seems so crazy that only 4 years ago I had dial-up, and now my 5 Mbps is considered slow by many.

Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town 63

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 29, 2013 @03:02AM from the new-fallout-map dept.

mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."

Comment Red Alert 2 (Score 1) 99

by Rataerix on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:03PM (#43160267) Attached to: Ukrainian Attack Dolphins Are On the Loose

It's coming true, next up mind controlled squids.

Comment It's called pop (Score 1) 283

by Rataerix on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:04PM (#42896899) Attached to: I Get Most of My Caffeine Through

Stupid Americans!

Submission + - Symbian officially dead. (techcrunch.com) 1

Submitted by Snirt on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:12PM

Snirt writes: Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company’s earnings announcement that came out a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView, released last year, was the very last device that the company would make on the Symbian platform: “During our transition to Windows
Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian,” the company wrote. “The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the
last Symbian device from
Nokia."

Submission + - UK Anonymous Hacktivists Get Jail Time (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

twoheadedboy

on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:24PM

twoheadedboy writes: "Two members of the Anonymous hacking collective have been handed a total of 25 months in prison. Christopher Weatherhead, a 22-year-old who went under the pseudonym Nerdo, received the most severe punishment — 18 months in prison. Another member, Ashley Rhodes, was handed seven months, whilst Peter Gibson was given a six-month suspended sentence. They were convicted for hitting a variety of websites, including those belonging to PayPal and MasterCard."

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