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by sid0 16y ago
I think this newsgroup post from Brendan (Eich) summarizes why that's not going to happen: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.marketing/msg/0d3ceac...
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by sid0 16y ago
The best part is that Firefox 4 is going to ship with four backends for its layers API: Direct3D 9 for XP, Direct3D 10 for Vista/7, OpenGL for Mac/Linux, and software as a fallback.
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by sid0 16y ago
That quote is out of context. Yes, GDI on XP is faster than GDI on Vista or 7, but that is irrelevant to any discussion of IE9. Direct2D is a much more expressive API than GDI (think Cairo vs XRender on Linux), so obviously it's going to be
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by sid0 16y ago
Firefox 4 will update addons automatically.
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by sid0 16y ago
> OK, it uses the GPU to render pages ? It actually doesn't -- not release versions at any rate. Are you confusing Chrome with IE9 or Firefox 4?
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by sid0 16y ago
Chrome's philosophy is self-consistent, and that's probably the only objective metric, even though this means that they produce (to me) a useless browser. (I use set image as wallpaper all the time.)
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by sid0 16y ago
> We're talking about simplicity and clarity of language's syntax? Why memory management? Both the syntax and the semantics are nicer. > btw, to whom memory management is a PITA? To anyone who tries to do it. That automatic memory
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by sid0 16y ago
> Really? Easier than C syntax Significantly easier. Think about all those pointers that simply aren't there now. > which is a more appropriate in this context This is a value judgement. The generally nicer semantics (automatic memo
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by sid0 16y ago
> Why not a plain C which is an obvious choice? Because manual memory management is a PITA. > And of course, using a VM-hosted language to describe things which are on two levels of abstraction lower is a little bit funny. Why? As l
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by sid0 16y ago
I'm a TA for an OS course that is closely following the Berkeley CS162 course, down to using Java for assignments. We've had much less trouble than with the C++ we used to use.
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by sid0 16y ago
Yeah, the only NES games I can play now are the Mario and Zelda ones (I never played Metroid 1 as a kid, and can't get into it now). SNES games I can get into much more easily.
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by sid0 16y ago
I bet it's mainly because of Google's super-aggressive pushing of Chrome on all its properties.
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by sid0 16y ago
I don't think there's an easy way to do that -- I bet you could write a fairly simple program with pywin32 to do that. But there's definitely a ton of hard-linking going on in there.
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by sid0 16y ago
No, there's a lot of hard-linking going on in there.
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by sid0 16y ago
Well, the file he's quoting is C (note the lang:c filter). OTOH he's quoting Mozilla 1.7.7, which is positively ancient (Firefox 1.0.x I think).
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by sid0 16y ago
Oh, yeah -- that was Halo too, right?
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by sid0 16y ago
> I don't feel like FPS have evolved at all since that time. Halo later brought in regenerating health, but yeah, that's all I can think of.
528.
by sid0 16y ago
The installer is what is probably writing to the unpartitioned space.
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by sid0 16y ago
The right solution is to stop acting outside the specs and have the meat of the bootloader in a (possibly separate) partition. The term "embedding area" seems to be entirely made up by the GRUB developers -- I couldn't find a single referen
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by sid0 16y ago
Not if you give the process administrator privileges.
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by sid0 16y ago
TxNTFS!
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by sid0 16y ago
Why would you think all of it is thrown away during "compilation", and when you say "compilation" which phase are you referring to?
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by sid0 16y ago
Modern versions of Windows include C# and VB compilers.
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by sid0 16y ago
dnotify wasn't sensibly designed. inotify/ReadDirectoryChangesW are. > Also comparing the two subsystems is entirely wrong. ReadDirectoryChangesW is still a polling mechanism, inotify and dnotify are kernel level events. ReadDirectoryCh
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by sid0 16y ago
> Linux in the kernel level has removed the need for file polling, replacing it with iwatch As long as we're comparing who did what first (as if that's relevant today ), ReadDirectoryChangesW came in Windows 2000. inotify came in 2005.
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by sid0 16y ago
Conflating "few" and "a few" or "little" and "a little" is a common Indian English-ism, I find. /Indian
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by sid0 16y ago
It is not a small language Guy Steele, in his famous talk at OOPSLA '98: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415 explains why "small" languages are not good.
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by sid0 16y ago
I see absolutely no benefits in getting 7 IE9 is one, isn't it? Or Firefox with Direct2D.
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by sid0 16y ago
Chrome is currently the fastest at this No it isn't. Firefox in software mode (release builds) is generally faster than Chrome when it comes to canvas. Firefox in hardware mode (pre-release, Direct2D) is around as fast as IE.
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by sid0 16y ago
Yeah, that seems to be what most of the Windows bashing comes down to: taste. Yes, while I don't particularly like Win32, GNU make is objectively horrible.

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