thelukester

Yeah, that's right according to the Supreme Court, corporations now have citizenship, so they should have First Amendment rights too. Wouldn't that be ironic if that ruling actually did some good for our nation.

For you I2P users, What are you using for P2P software, I2PSnark, iMule, or I2Phex? I tried it a few years ago, but didn't have much success in finding anything. Any tips for setting up, searching, performance tweaks?

I'm stuck on a bus to BKK with only an iPhone, so I can't watch high-res or zoom. Thanks for answering my Q. Great animation.

What 3D design/animation package was that done in? It's too blurry for me to tell. Looks a little like Blender but I haven't played with it in years now.

Having dedicated hardware for sound mixing is always a good idea. This is especially noticeable when the CPU is under heavy load like when games are running.

Take a look on Windows:

Windows XP: hardware mixing

Windows 7: change to software mixing which cause serious latency problem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iujDVsg_2xY

Windows 8: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr.../br259116.aspx they realize their mistake and go back to hardware mixing again

The only way I was able to solve the cracking and latency issues on my Linux box was to replace ALSA with OSS. Recently some newer software is causing issues again and I might have to give ALSA another shot. Things would be so much better if the Linux kernel just adopted OSS4

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan needs to go back to America, Europe or whatever first world nation she came from. I've traveled the world and as 3rd world nations go, India is one of the safest for women. By contrast, Cambodia and Africa make India feel like American suburbia.

With a population of 1.3 billion, I'm not surprised you can "Pick an age — any number — and put “raped” after it in a Google search and see results from India."

Google "Vatican City + raped" You'll find a 9 yr old was raped in the smallest city in the world! The Vatican no less!

Rape happens all over the world. I'd love to see how long this woman lasts on 110 and Broadway in NYC without her "modesty scarf"

My girlfriend is from LA and never stops dressing like it, even when traveling throughout India. From large cities like New Delhi to a little town called Ichhawar, we never had any issues with all these supposed rapists. I'm guessing the reason why is my g/f has perspective and a handle on reality, where Meenakshi probably needs a b/f more than her bottle of pepper spay.

Throughout its history, HTML has always been a disaster when it comes to cross browser interoperability. Apps have always been desinged for the vogue browser, which has changed from Netscape to IE to webkit now.

The more you abstract, the more functionality you lose and the more generic your mobile apps will look. Facebook learned this lesson the hard way when they tried to make their mobile App in HTML5.

CSS, javascript, and DOM are just kudge piled upon kludge. HTML5 trying to shoehorn poorly thought out technologies created for hyperlinked static text documents into dynamic applications.

Until some disruptive technology completely replaces that massive HTML5 spec you speak of, the natives apps will always rule the mobile space and performance critical spaces.

Anyone who has read up on Adria Richards' past, knows she's an attentions starved cry-baby. Can we please stop feeding her ego, and stop upvoting these posts about her. She failed miserably at her job of developer relations and has no more business in Technology. Lets move on and stop talking about her.

WRONG on both counts. Firefox OS only allows apps to run under its javascript VM engine. Under no way shape or form can you compare the performance of a native app to those running under a javascript VM.

Since Firefox OS limits you to running HTML5 apps, the best you can do is create a new skin for Mozilla's browser. The same limitation that iOS imposes on its users.

Brilliant! How do you guys always manage to find the relevant ones? There's hundreds of them, and I tried a few google searches using site:xkcd.com and some related terms and couldn't pull up this one.

WRONG. You can run any browser you want on Darwin. iOS uses the Darwin kernel, but you CANNOT run any browser engine under iOS.

>"If you want another browser, you just have to write it up in HTML + JS"

So basically, with Firefox OS, you're limited to using the Mozilla browser. Sounds like Firefox is trying to lock you into their standards, exactly what they're accusing Apple of doing with the webkit engine in iOS.

Android and Ubuntu Mobile look to be the only solutions that give me the flexibility I want in a phone OS.

> Try removing some of your Chrome extensions down and you'll be back in the 50MB range. Thanks, but I'm a extremely tech savvy user. When I first noticed Chrome getting slow on my netbook, I created a fresh profile and removed all my extensions.

It's clear from my own experience, posts here, and benchmarks that Chrome has strayed from it's original design goals of being a lightweight browser. My reference to this iPhone was just to point out that I think it's a issue with Chrome itself, and not the underlining webkit browser.

>Totally orthogonal issues.

http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2011/11/20/electrolysis-proj... Add-on were one of the major issues blocking Multi-process Firefox.

>Not to mention Firefox ate memory like a pig until recently, despite not having sandboxing.

Agreed. Sandboxed Chrome was like a gift from the IT gods back in the bloated FF3 days.

>Now it's somewhat better with post 16 stuff, but still it's slow. Chrome is much more responsive and fast.

Responsive and fast until it starts thrashing when your physical RAM gets all used up.

Agreed. On my 2GB netbook, Chrome was one of the first apps I installed. At the time, it was a lean and lightweight browser. But recently Chrome's memory bloat has gotten so bad, I had to switch to Firefox. One killer is the GPU process often taking 200+MB.

Before giving up, and switching to FF, I tried the --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer switches to disable the GPU process but that prevented videos from playing at full speed. Some people here mentioned Chrome runs great on their rigs with 16GB of RAM. But for the rest of the world, Google should force their devs to use Chrome on a machine with a mere 2GB.

How is it that sites like anandtech and investing.com run fine on my old iPhone 3GS, yet take up 256+ MB in Chrome, more RAM than the phone has? Somehow the 3 year old phone loads and displays the sites smooth as butter. Apple is doing something right or Google is doing something terribly wrong to webkit.

On my 2GB netbook, chrome has gone from my preferred browser to unusable due to the high memory footprint of recent builds. One killer is the GPU process often taking 200+MB.

Before giving up, and switching to FF, I tried the --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer switches to disable the GPU process but that prevented videos from playing at full speed.

"not open-source in the sense of being a community project." Android is no less a community project than FF OS. And it does have a great community of outside developers around it, XDA. Check out the forums.

If you want to contribute back, Google has been good about accepting patches into its AOSP project. For patches they won't accept, there's always CyanogenMod.

"JS engines are pretty fast" Good enough for simple text based apps and casual games, yes. Modern 3D games, not by a long shot. Native code, NDK, or Java under HotSpot are the only decent options creating for modern responsive 3D games.

Mozilla has lost their way with Firefox, and are becoming like MS. They have a slow, bloated browser that runs terribly on Android. Instead of trying to make the best browser for the platform, they created FF OS, locking the user into their platform and API standards, just like MS tried to do when it bundled IE in Windows.

I had a WebOS phone and despite loving the beautiful UI and it being ahead of iOS in many ways like notifications and task switching, I dumped it. HTML5 killed the user experience. I need fast, responsive apps that only Android and iOS can deliver.

There's no way I'd ever go back to generic, laggy, HTML5 Apps.