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Opera browser is much faster than a potato
- ryandvm 16y agoCute. Incidentally, this was already my exact mental image of the average Opera user.
- jrnkntl 16y agoWhich, of course, is a -not so subtle- parody on the Chrome video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI
- othermaciej 16y agoDoes Chrome really render Web pages from bottom to top, as appears to happen on allrecipes.com? Or was that just done for dramatic effect?
- Arve 16y agoNo. If you read the description of the chrome video, you'll see that they turned the LCD upside down to remove a shadow, and used software rotation in Windows to turn the display back around. The exact quote: Chrome actually paints the page from top to bottom, but to eliminate a shadow from the driver board, we had to flip the monitor upside down and set the system preferences in Windows to rotate everything 180 degrees, resulting in the page appearing to render from bottom to top.
- robgough 16y agoThat explanation never made sense to me. If windows has rotated everything, then chrome is now the right way round again and should appear to render properly. The only reason it does that I can think of, is that chrome loaded when the screen was half way through a refresh - so we saw the now rendered bottom appear before it went back round and refreshed the top of the screen.
- boredguy8 16y agoWindows doesn't change the hardware of the monitor. It just changes the orientation of what's on the screen.
- Arve 16y agoThe point here is that the rotation is done by the OS, in software, so the screen is still painting from the physical left-to-right and top-to-bottom. This is something you'll never notice with the naked eye, but their camera uses a staggering 2700fps. This means that a full repaint of the screen - assuming 60Hz refresh happens in 45 frames. Those 45 frames, played back at 30 fps means that the full repaint takes a second and a half, leaving you with the ability to see the individual lines being (re)painted.
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- sapphirecat 16y agoThe display always paints from its own top to bottom. Since it has been turned upside down, when you watch really quickly, you can see it painting bottom-to-top from your point of view. This would be true whether the display has Windows rotation or not, and regardless of how apps are writing into the framebuffer. Windows rotation makes the graphics driver output the framebuffer in reverse, so that the bottom lines of the image appear on the bottom lines of the display from your point of view. This makes the displayed image upright again. To avoid flicker, Chrome may render offscreen and then copy the result top-to-bottom into the framebuffer. Hence Google's statement that Chrome renders top-to-bottom, and that the screen is displaying bottom-to-top due to rotation. OK, I think that's enough pedantry for one comment ;)
- gjm11 16y agoSame as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1386224 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1386224 except that that one links to Engadget's comments on the video rather than directly to the video itself.
- melling 16y agoThe Chrome video was cool. I watched the "Making of" video and got bored pretty quickly and didn't finish watching it.
- gardarh 16y agoThis is such a beautiful slap in the face for the Chrome video. Which was pretty cool by the way :)
- electromagnetic 16y agoYes, but I still watched it through Chrome and it didn't instil a sudden urge to switch browsers.
- mjsergey 16y agoDoes anyone else think they are calling the Chrome videos a 'red herring' or is this reading too much into it?
- lhorie 16y agoWell, he does read a book called "Famous Herring Parties" while waiting for the potato to cook, and then proceed to simulate a sword fight with herrings.
- bartl 16y agoI assumed it was a reference to something the Norwegian people might worldwide be famous for, that is: herring. Just an impression.
- nostrademons 16y agoI figured it was a Monty Python reference, to the part in Holy Grail where he systematically dismembers the black knight, and then faces the Knights Who Say Ni, who ask him to chop down the tallest tree in the forest with a herring.
- Timmy_C 16y agoI feel like the average viewer is going to take this video at face value since they may not see the subtle reference to the Google Chrome speed tests video. Saying that you're faster than a cooked potato in hot water isn't saying much. I do like the crack censorship though. It was funny and unexpected.
- scott_s 16y agoThe "average viewer" won't know what Opera is in the first place.
- yalurker 16y agoI have to think you're taking too negative a view of the intelligence of average. There is nothing subtle about this parody. I could be wrong, but I'd be shocked that any competent person who had seen the chrome advertisements wouldn't recognize and understand this parody.
- Timmy_C 16y agoYou're right, if someone had seen the Chrome speed tests video then they would likely see the direct reference. However, anecdotally, I did see the Chrome video and I didn't see the direct parody until I read the comments here on Hacker News.
- yigit 16y agoIt is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
- raintrees 16y agoDon't pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Quick! Just pass it on, pass it on, pass it on... Thanks again, Douglas.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoTotally unfair comparison. If you chop up the potatoes and put a lid on the pot, they'll cook a lot faster.
- Periodic 16y agoYou can actually do pretty good potatoes in a microwave for about a minute per potato (or something there about).
- electromagnetic 16y agoIncidentally, just like when BBQ make sure you pierce the potato with a fork. Otherwise, yes you'll have cooked potato in <1 minute, however you'll still have to clean the microwave so it would be more like a time-shifting step rather than a time-saving step in the cooking process.
- phugoid 16y agoPutting a lid on the pot won't speed things along, as long as the water was boiling anyway. Boiling water is around 100 C, with or without lid. Chopping them smaller make a bit of difference, but not that much - again most of the flesh will be at 100 C for the duration of the cooking. I've tried these things.
- justinph 16y agoThey should have used the potatoes as a battery to power the laptop.
- ratsbane 16y agoThat was great... but WTF (What Turbo Fan)
- losethos 16y agoshrinks... Go make yourselves useful you worthless scum. God says... joking look_buddy You_know sess_me smart threads maybe_I_didnt_make_it_clear how_goes_it hey_thats_right Ill_ask_nicely the high_mucky_muck bug not_a_chance_in_hell well_I_never unsung_hero caution voodoo Give_me_praise im_good_you_good manufacturing NASA piety au_revoir crazy_fuckers dignity
- thomasfl 16y agoThey are så fæntæstic! Heia Norge.
- vrode 16y agoWhat actually is Opera Software making profit of? Of not being funny? But seriously.