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Re:Godaddy's official position on SOPA - Just Posted on Friday December 23, 2011 @08:28AM (#3385613)
Let's say are rid of foreign porn. Are our Children safe now?! What about American porn sites? *Oh right, we are gonna make another bill fixing that! I swear US is more and more like China these days.
I thought it's in Europe... California? who came up with this horrible idea?
Re:Minecraft released for android. on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @08:56AM (#2895124)
Consider Minecraft is entirely coded in Java, I'm surprised it's not been ported to Android platform sooner... But again, although game's size itself is not big, Minecraft is very resource consuming as the world expands.
Re:Firefox 6 available, version 8 to offer add-on control on Monday August 15, 2011 @09:26AM (#2886758)
Just downloaded Firefox 6. Umm... I don't have benchmark software to test internal improvements, but I don't really feel like any difference. Probably because Firefox 5 is already fast enough for me. But Xmarks addon is broken now, and I experienced some issues with trying to install some of the add-ons. Everything else is fine.
Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory on Thursday August 11, 2011 @11:43AM (#2873324)
What's wrong with subversion system for bug fixes? So, you mean they fixed so many bugs, improved so many back-end features in Firefox 4, which perfectly justifies a version jump from 4 to 7? I seem to remember old days Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 took forever...
Re:Facebook is sharing your phone number on Thursday August 11, 2011 @11:31AM (#2873273)
someone who is stupid enough to put his/her phone number on Facebook deserve to be pwned
Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory on Thursday August 11, 2011 @11:23AM (#2873238)
This version inflation thing is getting a bit out of hand...I'm using Firefox 5 right now, I don't feel any difference from Firefox 4.
Re:The Batman Equation on Saturday July 30, 2011 @08:20AM (#2825601)
once upon a time, I thought this is how computer generate graphic shapes...

Who has planned for a career before college?

I have seen many companies offer entry positions in Telecom Network Engineer, Software Engineer, etc. Their education requirement is usually just BS in CS or Computer or Electrical Engineering. But with requirements like knowing stuff that ain't taught in school. Even some basic stuff like TCP/IP programming is never taught in a formal course. Why would knowledge to maintain SONNET, or MPLS...

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Re:A very weird/creepy interactive girl, but great rendering on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @09:46AM (#2785483)
jump out from no where... scared the shit out of me... but really, pretty cool work...
Re:Hacker Poll: Is C++ the Language of the Future? on Friday July 15, 2011 @09:05AM (#2767217)
As the closest relative to C, and the cross-platform language, tech world can't really live without it. But you can, of course... is it the programming language of the future? I think the programming language of the future hasn't been created yet.
I am using it on my macbook pro. FF8 is faster compare to FF5 I was using. Schubert-it PDF plugin, Adblock, XMark, Flashgot works. Firebug, Google Dictionary, Download statusbar don't work... and there are some minor bugs with mouse hover effect.
Re:ITerm2 1.0 Released on Thursday July 07, 2011 @08:36PM (#2740844)
split pane seems to require configuration since default is "cmd+d" which is set to be shown desktop on some mac.
Re:What I learned today: Never apply for a job on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @09:07PM (#2736709)
It's like addiction actually. need adjustment! Good advice!
Re:What I learned today: Never apply for a job on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @09:05PM (#2736701)
Thanks for the URL! I will look around!
Re:What I learned today: Never apply for a job on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @12:33PM (#2734628)
I kind realized that a while ago, but it is difficult for nerd like me to leave computer and go meet people... what's to talk about? "I just found this snippet it's kinda fun!" ? :(
Re:China Is Already Blocking Google+ on Thursday June 30, 2011 @08:18AM (#2713680)
I think they've blocked Google in general... there's no reason to give exception since it's a conflict in corporation management. You know... China.
Re:Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:18PM (#2707113)
I agree. Especially Apple will try to compete heavily on HTML5 standards, since Flash is out of question for iPad, and iPhone. Since their devices only support Safari, HTML5 can certainly be optimized for it. Same thing for the rest of the world... kinda make it more complicated than Flash platform.
Re:Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @01:11PM (#2706201)
My experience of HTML5 right now doesn't really have significant performance improvement compare to Flash, even on Mac OS X. I think it still has a long way to go. But it is nice to see someone's exploring the frontier! The blurring effect doesn't seem right though...
default smoothing example uses 52% - 62% CPU at run time on my macbook pro i7 duo core 2.66GHz laptop. Bouncing ball uses 100% on average. Pretty cool script! it makes a good example what today's browser is capable of.
I can understand Argyris Zymnis got his PhD in Electrical Engineering, probably did some research in signal processing, data fusion, etc. A Physics PhD ends up become a advertisement algorithm coder? How does that academic experience help though...no idea quantum mechanics applies in this area.
Re:OS X – Safe, yet horribly insecure on Saturday June 25, 2011 @03:40PM (#2696376)
I wouldn't go so far say Mac is more secure than Linux, both are Unix-based. As for my user experience, Mac OS X is by far the best.