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by bobajeff 10y ago
With the name I thought this was going to be a browser focused on privacy and removing digital fingerprints. What a disappointing waste of good name and trademark.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I think Brave (Chromium based) has a similar feature called Partition Tabs or something.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Does anyone have an idea of what kind of technical problems this is trying to solve? It sounds like it's trying to be a RTOS for phones and modern hardware. But I know there has to be more to it than that.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I'm sure Minecraft does a lot of impressive things on a technical level. However, I remember running it just fine on an old XP machine with a 32bit, single-core pentium III and 2GB of RAM. In addition, this game has been available on s
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I agree with the question though maybe not the assumption that goes with it. I imagine professional workstations for industries such as software development, visual arts, industrial design, film production, music production etc. are large u
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by bobajeff 10y ago
How much of a percentage do gaming rigs actually constitute of CPU sales?
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by bobajeff 10y ago
But now the question is: is it still reasonable to design all CPUs for that segment of a segment of customers?
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Yeah but games the majority of people want to play don't need special hardware. I mean how much horsepower does Solitaire, Tetris, Minecraft or Angry Birds take?
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by bobajeff 10y ago
What sort of mechanism are you referring to? How are such things implemented in other technologies?
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by bobajeff 10y ago
This was pretty neat and works on my Nexus 6: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dtSWS
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Flash and Chrome(chrome.googleblog.com)
3 points by bobajeff 10y ago|0 comments
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by bobajeff 10y ago
From the article: "From a technical standpoint, Facebook is able to circumvent ad blockers relatively easily because it loads ads into its service itself. Many online publishers and media companies rely on third-party companies to help
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HTML Target for Air (WebGL / WebAssembly) (feature Request)(bugbase.adobe.com)
3 points by bobajeff 10y ago|0 comments
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Your missing a few important factors like: 1) Advertising/promotions budget Microsoft and Google can both easily outspend Mozilla in TV and online advertising as well as pay companies to bundle and promote their software. 2) Network ef
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by bobajeff 10y ago
>I wish Mozilla would've just funded or partnered with one of several existing players in that space, such as Jolla. They did. They partnered with Meego (The Intel and Nokia lead platform.). Remember Meego?
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Add asm.js-style exception handling support for wasm(reviews.llvm.org)
2 points by bobajeff 10y ago|0 comments
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by bobajeff 10y ago
>They could have been Apple. Not really. What we called apps/smartphones/tablets before the iPhone/iPad was not really the same thing.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I think the main reason is that Python is already the de facto Python.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Sure, BlackBerry and Windows Phone could've maintained Adobe's support for their platforms. But that would've been expensive, a poor user experience (like Android's version) and depend entirely on Adobe continuing to all
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by bobajeff 10y ago
(Not sure what you're talking about with codecs. H.264, AAC and MP3 are supported in all major browsers.) Well you can't rely on Flash being available anyways. It's not available at all on mobile. Nothing anyone has ever made
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Followed by "please enable ActiveX Control" and "you need Flash Player 12 or higher to view this content"
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by bobajeff 10y ago
The plugin system itself is very dangerous to the web. It prevents browser vendors from ensuring that the same content is available on all platforms. That's why it's being removed. Already, many widely used devices can't acce
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I think it should be up to Adobe to come up with a solution here. Something like an Adobe AIR for the web.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Oh, somehow I overlooked that. That's a pretty strong action they are taking.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
The thing is Flash keeps browsers from being backwards compatible without either reverse engineering the Flash Runtime or working directly with Adobe under their terms on the proprietary Flash Player codebase. This is why mobile browsers an
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I believe Firefox's plan is to only hide Flash if it's set to click-to-play. I don't think click-to-play is default behavior for Flash unless it's not the latest version.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
It sounds like you just don't like that approach. You didn't mention anything about how it's ineffective - or how Firefox's approach is more effective - at curbing the use of Flash.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I think Chrome's propsal to whitelist the top ten domains and block all the other sites by default would be more effective at curving the web's dependency on flash. Edit: Turns out Firefox is planning on blocking all sites by defa
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I wonder if this means that they own the Presto Layout engine too.
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SiFive opens up silicon access with Freedom E300 and U500(semiaccurate.com)
2 points by bobajeff 10y ago|0 comments

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