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Comment Open source projects (Score 1) 3

by pastababa (#31885868) Attached to: Why Linux is not attracting young developers
If someone is interested in open source, it is very easy to create your own open source projects and to fork an orginal one with sourceforge and google code and git. There are just way too many open source projects now. And open source no longer has that image of that special cool secret underground rebel thing to do. It is now about big corporations and profit making, which people what to use open source to help make them achieve. But they don't necessarily want to give back to the community.
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Submission + - Firefox Lorentz Keeps Plugin Crashes Under Control

Submitted by pastababa
pastababa writes: A beta of the Firefox Lorentz project is now available for download and public testing.
Eming reports Firefox “Lorentz” provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in plugins. Plugins run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted.
The process-isolation feature has been in Google’s Chrome from the beginning. Chrome sandboxes individual tabs, crashes of one tab does not affect the running of the rest of Chrome browser. Firefox currently isolate only Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight, but will eventually isolate all plugins running on a page.
Mozilla encourages users to test Firefox “Lorentz” on their favorite websites. Users who install Firefox “Lorentz” will eventually be automatically updated to a future version of Firefox 3.6 in which this feature is included.

Comment New format R&D time (Score 2, Insightful) 252

by pastababa (#31744960) Attached to: Blu-ray Proposes Incompatible BD-XL and IH-BD Formats
It takes years to develop new technology and formats. Maybe back when they started developing the new format , 100GB & 128GB was "revolutionary". But other technology like Hard Drive and flash memory had caught up with them that fast, which they did not foresee. Now that you've already spend the time and money on R&D, what do you do? Throw the whole thing into the trash bin or put it out to the market while there is still a chance to recoup the R&D cost and possibly make some profits?
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Submission + - 70,000 carats of gemstones on a Honda

Submitted by pastababa
pastababa writes: A report from DigInfo (with video):

At Tokyo Auto Salon 2010, Honda Odyssey with 70,000 carats of sparkling Kyoto Opal on its entire surface is on display.

Kyoto Opal is a new material, based on the same quartz grains as natural opal. By coloring Kyoto Opal artificially, a diverse range of hues can be produced.

In addition, a variety of cuts can be achieved, overcoming the cracking and chipping that occur in natural opal. Kyoto Opal has been combined with Jewel Paint, a new coating technology in sheet metal coating and car customization.

The result is the world’s first gemstone-coated car. The Jewel Paint on the Odyssey cost about US$88,690 (not including the car itself).

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