Comment Music software (Score 2, Insightful) 352
A tablet with multi touch would be the best platform for making music ever.
Submission + - WebKit introduces fastest JavaScript engine (webkit.org)
Shin-LaC writes: In a post on their official blog, WebKit developers introduced the "next generation" of their JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme, claimed to be twice as fast as its predecessor. The post lists several changes contributing to the performance improvements, including "bytecode optimization", a "polymorphic inline cache" (which sounds similar to V8's "hidden class transitions"), and a "context threaded JIT" compiler which generates native code (currently only for x86 processors) and is also applied to regular expressions. The new JavaScript engine is already available in the latest WebKit nightly builds.
According to comparative benchmarks, the new engine is around 35% faster than the V8 engine recently introduced in Google Chrome, and 55% faster than Mozilla's TraceMonkey.
According to comparative benchmarks, the new engine is around 35% faster than the V8 engine recently introduced in Google Chrome, and 55% faster than Mozilla's TraceMonkey.
Submission + - Political viewpoints linked to fear 1
Pentagram writes: Researchers, writing in Science, report that the political orientation of test subjects who have strong views is linked to how easy they are to startle. They found that subjects who were more fearful were more likely to have right wing views, such as being in favour of capital punishment and higher defence budgets. The researchers suggest that this psychological difference is why it is so difficult to change people's minds in political arguments^W discussions.
Comment Hack recipe (Score 1) 1733
Recover password. Enter date of birth and zipcode. Happy hacking.
Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed 312
darthcamaro writes "Mozilla has now come around and is taking seriously the concerns of Ubuntu and others about the Firefox EULA, which we discussed vigorously the other day. In fact Mozilla told InternetNews.com that the EULA itself is flawed and will be replaced with something else. Quoting Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker from the article: 'There is a need for something, something to explain the license[.] I'm not sure I would call it a EULA because that has a meaning to many people of adding restrictions to software and we won't be doing that. We'll be having a license agreement much as Red Hat has a license agreement that says the software is available under the GPL and don't use our trademarks et cetera. So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA.'"
