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Chrome doesn't pose a threat to Firefox (for the next year atleast)

Check the hourly Chrome chart:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=21&qp...

Chrome has already eclipsed Opera and Netscape.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=1

...And the Chrome download-link is on the Google homepage.
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It's a regional and financial hub city like New York/London and that's where the money is coming from now. I don't think Dubai has had any significant oil revenue for quite some time.
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The corporate world produces much more innovation than the open source world. Most major open source efforts are attempts to clone existing commercial product lines. Linux, MySQL, KDE, OpenOffice. The only innovative open source product I can think of right now is Git.
> and here we are praising Twitter and Google's latest browser.

Speak for yourself.
does Webkit's Web Inspector allow you to view dynamically create DOM elements like Firebug's Inspect tool?
Interesting that there's already a company making wallets to block RFID signals:
http://www.rfidblockr.com/
How about the previous generations of innovations? Railroads, electricity, telephones? I understand those were mostly industry-funded, not government-funded. For a modern day example, see mobile telephony.
This definitely made my day. I assume there should be more books on the way now, along with even more screencasts.
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Very cool idea. I wonder what kind of applications this could have.
Lucca, Tuscany - starting to get a bit touristy but a nice mixture of Roman, mediaeval with intact city walls that you can walk round.
You're right, but Prague is one of the few cities where you can find great examples of every architectural style from medieval up to modern.

Try Ceske Krumlov, a small town to the south, for something more medieval.
If government money is needed to produce something than it probably shouldn't be produced at all.

Imagine a person living in a city row house. Perhaps this person would be willing to pay $1,000 a year extra to live in the suburbs. But the price of a car, gas, and tolls would add up to $1,500, so he decides at that price he'd rather spend his money on a yearly family vacation.

Now government comes in, and taxes him $750 to pay for roads. Tolls are now nearly free compared to before. Thus moving to the suburbs now would only cost an extra $750. The $750 in taxes is a sunk cost that will be spent anyway.
So under his calculations now, he decides that spending $750 to move the suburbs would make him happier than spending $1,500 on a vacation. Thus he moves.

The government's tactics has made this person worse off. This person decided for himself that moving to the suburbs was not worth the expense - he'd rather spend his money in another way. But the government overrode his decision and forced him to spend a money in a way he did not original prefer.

Typically, government spending is only justified for public goods - goods that benefit everyone but are non-excludable. Basic science falls into that category. But end products - such as planes, roads, space programs, etc., do not.
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Your recommendation is problematic since the results will only apply to people who have a build like a pig.
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFDnT_xgqJ0
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwMNlJJBVZk
+1. This would be the best time to visit Dubrovnik because there won't be as many tourists as in summer.
nice, neural nets i guess...
I like this philosophical quote:

Kant, "To be is to do"

Nietszche, "To do is to be"

Sinatra, "Do be do be do"
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And in order survive the "publish or perish" pressure, the easiest way is "more of the same," which is also inimicable to innovation.

However, the main substantial reasons for doing research in universities (that I can think of) is to get access to high powered equipment and excellent information stores (top profs, libraries, journals, other data, etc.). I don't know of another good way to have such access without being part of the system, so unless my field of research is entirely outside of the province of today's academic disciplines, or I'm quite wealthy, it seems like membership is a necessity.
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@iseff -- yeah... i think its pretty big for a search engine to offer the user a chance to use a rival engine -- and that's worth comment in line with Google's well known dont be evil mantra.

Also the article wasnt a comparison to FF or Opera... I wasn't necessarily only pointing out unique features.

And lastly, i dig that logo..

Thanks for your comments on my blog

Matt
"... I want to provide a counter point to your argument, Sometimes innovating for the sake of innovating can be an exercise in futility if current solutions are adequate. ..."

Point taken.

"... NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pressurised pen that Astronauts can use to write in space. The Russians use a pencil ..."

Love that one, as old as the hills. Fisher with the AG7's offered to replace pencils due to fire & graphite inhalation before Apollo 11. I remember back in the dim past when /. was civil in the late '90's, early 2000's. I answered this one but can't find my original post. It went something like this one ~ http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=11747662&sid=140282
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"... And mechanical pencils require gravity to feed the lead; a mechanical pencil that would work in micro-g is just as hard to develop as a ballpoint pen that will. ..."

No, mechanical pencils with springs have no problems. All sorts of pencils/pens where used in the space program but the Fisher AG7 and patent # 3,285,228 ~ http://spacepen.com/about-us.aspx proved to be a good solution to the problems of FOD (foreign object damage), cost, availability, usability and fire. Fisher also invented the "Universal refill" for pens.
True, but in all those industries public money was heavily used to remove risk from the market, by either buying unproven technology (electricity, railroads) or by creating a "protected" (i. e.: regulated) space for private companies to operate.

In mobile, take Nokia for example: Until the 80s Nokia's major activity was rubber-related products (seriously). That changed when they bought a state-owned telecom company, and that's when Nokia really focused on mobile telephony and made it popular. In other words, the government invested in the technology and removed the risk, enough so a private company could take it to the next level.
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Any good business will always keeps it doors open for the customers to approach them easily. They wouldn't make the customers to pay for approaching them because it will discourage them from contacting you. It would be as good as delivering your customers on a platter to your competitors.
Italy is littered with them, as I suspect you may already know. What size towns are you looking for? The weather i n Italy in September/October is often still pretty nice, too, compared with the more northerly portions of Europe.

- Lucca is a good one, as someone mentioned below.

- Verona has a great mix of stuff, from the Roman Arena (which is very impressive) to the Scaligeri castle, to other things dating from the Venetian era.

- In the Veneto, Monselice and Montagnana are smaller towns that are worth about half a day each. You could combine those with some touring around the Colli Euganei. Arqua Petrarca is a cute little town famous for being the final resting place of Petrarch, and a pleasant place in its own right. In terms of history, Monselice had its high point when it was the local center of power for the Lombards - Padova fell along with the Roman empire. Montagnana, along with Cittadella to the north of Padova, was an outpost against neighboring city states. To this day, the province of Padova includes Montagnana and Cittadella, whereas Treviso's own outpost, Castelfranco, delimits the edge of that province.

http://www.welton.it/photos/monselice/

http://www.welton.it/photos/colli_euganei/

- Central Italy is filling up with tourists: Umbria and Le Marche are a bit more off the beaten path. Perugia is a wonderful town where I have good memories, Urbino is good too, although it's kind of small. San Marino is someplace I've never visited, but it has been pretty much by definition left alone over the years (thus its independence). The whole area has been 'passed over', s you're quite likely to discover your own favorite, off the beaten places by renting a car and exploring, if that's your idea of a good time.

- I don't know southern Italy quite so well, but I had a great time visiting my friend Salvatore in Ragusa - the old part of that city is impressive.

http://www.welton.it/photos/ragusa/

Let's see... I don't know so much about Austria, but Innsbruck is ok for a day (much more if you like outdoor sports like hiking), and Salzburg has a lot to see and is relatively well preserved. Hall in Tirol is worth an afternoon, and in the middle ages was more important than Innsbruck. They minted coins from the nearby silver mine there until the whole enterprise collapsed as 'cheap' silver from the new world put them and the mine out of business.

I could probably write a book about Italy, email me know if you have any more questions. Depending on my availability, I'd be happy to show you, or anyone else from this site, around the Padova area, where my wife's family is from, or at the very least put you in contact with friends down there. Of course, should anyone stop by Innsbruck, I'm always happy to meet hacker/startup types... I'm pretty lonely here from that point of view.

Edit: Damn... now I miss Italy...
You mentioned that in the previous posting of this article, but I wasn't around to reply back then :-)

I agree that demonstrated performance is the ideal, but there are two problems with it:

1) it's slow and expensive. Who do you ask to demonstrate performance? You need some initial filter to cut out most of the crud, otherwise you'll spend all your seed money getting people to demonstrate performance. These indicators allow you to perform some sort of preselection, at least. Also, if you're interviewing, you'll find that most good people get snapped up before you have a chance of seeing their performance, so you'll miss out on 90+% of good hires.

2) What if you don't know how to tell good performance from bad? You can't reply that "a non-technical guy has no business hiring a technical guy". This article is aimed at business guys, and they have the very real problem of needing to basically boot-strap their business's technical expertise starting from nothing. This article can help recognise a good cofounder too. At that point "demonstrated performance" is fairly irrelevant, since as a business guy you wouldn't be able to tell good performance from bad - however, you can still tell passion from lack of it, or hidden experience from purely on-the-job experience.
It seems to me that most here actually did not watch the link to the original blog with Judy Estrin's video interview:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=301

Her point is that too much focus on short-term / "this quarter" type of mentality, associated with the declining of education and the lack of national leadership is killing innovation in Silicon Valley.

This is not the first time that I hear this argument. The author of "Silicon Dragon" says that the Valley is in a state of denial:

http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/03/silicon-valley-if-we-ignor...
Umm, html, apache, perl, hell, even arc. All open source, massively innovative, and allowing this conversation to happen. :)

Innovation can have roots in corporations as well as outside, but many corporations do as much to stifle innovation as to further it. Also, in the case of things like Linux and MySQL, don't confuse "clone" with "another path to the same goal" which can be highly innovative and often clears a roadblock to innovation forced by a monopoly.
That is a preposterous claim! Perhaps you meant that good programmers are often introverts?

I think programmers in general are often relatively introverted, however my anecdotal experience is that good programmers are not on average more introverted than bad programmers. So introversion is a really bad indicator.
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Interesting and unfortunate. I wish the Mythbusters didn't face this sort of pressure. Maybe they can still do the segment and then put it on their website. That is less predominate than their TV show.

With information like the defcon slides already readily available I'm surprised to see such pressure. I guess a segment on a cable TV show is more public than MIT student newspaper.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=271920
I guess the real question is... Has fisher innovated the technology behind the universal refill and the spacepen even further, or has it stayed pretty much where it is?

This is a serious question by the way, I'd be keen to know what the answer is.
Add Lier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lier,_Belgium) to that. It's a bit like Brughes, but way smaller.

(disclosure: I practically live there)
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The problem with todays innovations is that they are not visible yet. I can imagine someone lamenting in similar sentiment 15 years ago not noticing that this Internet is really such a great innovation.
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Seems from the comments that what entrepreneurs want most is speedy responses.
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Hi, I recommend that you visit Montblanc, in Tarragona (Spain), near Barcelona: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montblanc,_Tarragona

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The biggest influence on Google's actions is probably public opinion.

If they start large scale assaults on their users' IP because of a dodgy EULA, they'd lose all that goodwill (which for Google is worth a lot). I can't see them doing it.
Great news. I really do think Django surpasses Rails in core areas...
Because firebug enables firefox debug mode which is very slow.
Ever heard the phrase 'comparing apples and oranges'?
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Missed one thing in memory usage: how far down does it go when you close the tabs. Or if you close them, then reopen some new ones.
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What if it was a browser plugin instead?
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Chrome is not trying to be the operating system, it's trying to get out of its way. By using a shared-nothing separate process for each tab and plugin, it's letting the Kernel and libc do the job they were designed to do.

Most modern browsers (especially FF3) are trying to do an operating system's job — scheduling logically independent processes, micro-managing memory allocations, mapping virtual memory, providing an internal windowing system, providing an internal GUI scripting system.

Chrome does none of these things. It parries them off to the real operating system, where they belong.
NO, it is not a scheduler, it is not a kernel.

That is exactly what Chrome is not. It's not a monolithic process, with a large pool of green threads being scheduled to run on native threads using runtime trickery.

Instead it's just a bunch of shared-nothing exec-ed processes that are scheduled by the OS kernel, have their mallocs handled directly by the OS libc, and have their address space mapped and reclaimed by the OS kernel's VMM.
Not to produce sour grapes here, but the Twisted framework has had async db adapters for quite a while now.

Still, good for Rails. I will be much less annoyed by Ruby/Rails adoption when (1) Rails performs better and (2) the Ruby interpreter doesn't suck.
Thats some impressive PR!
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Tournai, Belgium. The inner town is almost entirely medieval (and on the Unesco list). Somewhat less spectacular but still fine is nearby Kortrijk.
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Of course the EULA should be written by a lawyer. Who else would you want writing it?

The real message is: communicate with your lawyer. Make sure s/he understands what you want, and make sure you understand what s/he writes.
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Incredible! Hope they show it online soon. Would become an instant hit...
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Sounds like a pretty good idea. You should go for it.
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a programmer that doesn't have them is almost certainly not good

Maybe that is true if your bag is Web 2.0 AJAX Rails etc etc. But I'll bet the people writing "serious" software (for example, safety-critical embedded systems) are treating it exactly the same as say Civil Engineers treat their jobs. I'd be very reluctant to call them "not good", how reliable is their work compared to the average website?
That is why there is the notion of league tables for colleges. My friends with MBAs say quite plainly that unless an MBA is from a "top 25" school, it simply isn't worth doing or having.
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At this rate, Chrome would achieve 20% market-share in (20-1.48)/(1.57-1.48) = 206 days.
any competitors in this space?
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> If the idea [of good tasting sports food/bar things] was an epiphany for him, I'm just glad I never ate at his bakery.

I can completely empathize with choking down powerbars. My mountain bike team was sponsored by them one year. Towards the end of the year, I got ill just looking at the things, and to this day have not consumed another one. I do have to admit that they may, however, be useful as emergency patches to blown out tires.
Tell that to the boys over at Dealbreaker. They've been waiting for a Bloomberg killer for eons now.

But i don't think it'll be easy to build a Bloomberg killer because the main reason why Bloomberg is so popular in the financial circles is that it provides breaking news and lots of historical financial data that you won't find elsewhere.

So it is not much of a technology edge than a content edge.

As for the Digg-like site, you are right in saying there would not be enough people who would use it. I would think most online investors are those who thrash talk on Yahoo Finance boards. A site like yours would require input from intelligent investors, which unfortunately form a small subset of the online investing community. Hence the lack of scale may render this idea ineffective.
"... Has fisher innovated the technology behind the universal refill and the spacepen even further, or has it stayed pretty much where it is? ..."

From what I can tell from reading through fisher pens the only further innovation is styling not the basic design ~ http://spacepen.com/about-us.aspx The Space race really kicked innovation along for lots of things even the simple pen. The engineering is pretty extreme. Imagine building a pen that will work in high PT environments from -35 to 120 degrees C and life of about 100yrs for USD$6. ~ http://history.nasa.gov/spacepen.html & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen This is the kind of advances great challenges produce. It's still happening now in the US and the one area I know basic research and innovation can be seen is the X-Prize. Think Bert Rutan ~ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3676312.stm and Carmac ~ http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?ne...
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This would only work if your product gives the subscriber an edge over their competitors. They wouldn't pay for a product like Google Finance because it doesn't give them an edge.

Your plan would work for Monitor110 if the product actually worked.
This moderation system sucks.

There was _nothing_ in the parent comment that made it any better or worse than any other comment. It was on-topic; it expanded the conversation; it didn't really make some big attack. It was just an honest observation.

Go ahead -- down mod me for this one too. But when you downmod, you should be required to explain yourself.
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"Double-blind placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials" are a TOTAL REQUIREMENT to assess the effectiveness of incremental drugs, i.e. drugs that claim to be better than some other existing drug. In the case of the parachute, there is no such other: apply common sense. If any society has managed to enforce by law the Double-blind ... etc assay, then that society will rightly get what it deserves for its bureaucratically administered shortsightedness.
Any response yet from the scribd folks?
I used to work for Bloomberg's biggest rival, and I know exactly why they are so popular: they understand their end users. RivalCorp doesn't really get it at all. R (as we'll call them) tries to sell to a bank's IT department, and Bloomberg tries to end-run IT and sell to the traders (guess who has the most power in an investment bank). R spent years and hundreds of millions retrofitting TCP/IP onto everything (which traders simply don't care about), Bloomberg spent that time and money setting up deals with tailors and wine merchants (I'm not kidding) for users of its terminals. They made their users feel like insiders, a privileged elite, which is something all bankers crave. Plus, Bloomberg terminals are sexy. They look like something out of Star Trek. R terminals looked like beige-box PCs.

Sure there are technological reasons too, but Bloomberg's success is cultural first and foremost.
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Well then I guess that proves my initial first point of

Sometimes innovating for the sake of innovating can be an exercise in futility if current solutions are adequate.

It's a shame that I can't get those pen's shipped to Australia.. I'd be keen to get my hands on a couple. Must find another supplier.