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Agreed. For me, NoScript is much more than an adblocking concern, it's must-have privacy and security. Browsing without NoScript is like flying blind.
No. The competition will be good for all though. I'm anticipating a similar performance boost in Firefox.
"And so a designer has to learn yet another language for layout?"

I've pretty much had to do that already to work with Flash. That's been a pretty limiting sandbox - we've been hearing "next year is the year Flash finally goes big on mobile and desktop" for a few years now, even from my buddy at Adobe on the Flash Light team - so I'm much more motivated to pick up a parallel set of skills for something that would be actually useful in the present day for something other than web development.
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Could someone try "about:%" and let me know what happens? I would, but I'm on a linux box.
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I almost didn't give yellowing a second thought on old devices, since I saw the same effect on all types of old paper (especially newspapers).
What game changing does a $98 laptop do? (Apart from the OLPC mission.)

Why do you need more than the OLPC mission? That's a pretty damned audacious thing. Getting network-capable computers into the hands of an entire class of people that couldn't have owned one is huge. For the folks who are choosing between a white MacBook or a black one, this changes nothing. For folks who could never afford a MacBook, this is the difference between being connected and not being connected.

For example, does anyone think that laptop price is holding back mobile phone business models for laptops (free with broadband)?

I have no idea what this question means in relation to this laptop. Given that the iPhone is a $600+ device being sold for $200 with contract, and that $600 laptops exist today and have existed for a few years, I'd say the broadband companies, in general, don't find the "give away a computer in exchange for a longterm contract" model appealing, or they would already be doing it. It was tried in the past with free desktop machines, and everybody saw that the deal was a bad one for consumers, and so those ISPs went out of business or changed to a different model. I think it has to be a business that looks more like mobile for this kind of monetization to work--people are accustomed to getting "free" phones, and they're also accustomed to long terms. Mobile is a historically abusive industry, so no one complains about the abuse. Of course, since the shake out in ISPs a few years ago, and consolidation down to just a few carriers, the level of abusive contracts and terms is getting higher...so maybe there will be a subsidized laptop deal soon, once AT&T and the cable companies have finished consolidating and shutting down the last of the real competition in the space.

Anyway, I think your question has nothing to do with what changes when a WiFi-capable laptop is available for $98. You're thinking way too much about your habits and expenditures. This device is not for you, or any of the folks you hang out with.
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Nice N-Queens is one of my favorite problems to play around with. I often solve it when learning a new language.
I agree. I don't think Google cares much about the browser market itself. They just want to be able to create really great web apps and they're frustrated by how slow the industry has progressed. Every web company will benefit if Chrome accelerates the pace.

I think they'd be perfectly okay with a version of Chrome they don't control becoming the most popular browser. As long as it continued to advance the state of web apps they will have succeeded.

I believe Microsoft has (mostly intentionally) slowed progress in web browser technology so they have time to figure out what the hell to do. Google is trying to break the stalemate. They're probably the only company powerful enough to have a real chance at forcing Microsoft to get off its ass. Firefox has mostly failed at this.

If they do a good job with Chrome it will be the healthiest thing to happen to the internet in many years.
I can't say that I understand the subtleties, but I imagine the case would need to be built on Google's monopoly in the search engine market, not the browser market.
I have switched to Chrome mostly.
The XO has a hard time with Flash, but can sort of almost play YouTube low quality videos. It's got a 400MHz CPU. So, I'd say a 900MHz equivalent will definitely play most low-bandwidth Flash content.

And, I'm not sure I agree that not having it makes the system useless...I lived without video on the web for the first two years or so that I was on the net (using an Amiga--Real video was the format du jour back then, and they obviously did not have an Amiga player). It was still a seriously useful part of my life. While I think it'll have to have video for US buyers, since YouTube is such a core part of the online experience now, it wouldn't for folks in places where real broadband is not yet available. Without broadband video isn't useful option, anyway.
Betting against SMS would be like betting against email. I don't think either is going anywhere anytime soon.

And Android is like the linux for phone OSes (which is a weird thing to say since it actually is linux..), consumers want a unified, polished experience, not an ad-hoc one.
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This has been posted before. Twice.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79713

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84297
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The game change is the in the developing, not necessarily the US/Japan/Europe market. The First World market is rapidly becoming saturated with computers. Where the potential for growth is, is in countries like India, Brazil, Mexico and China. When a person only makes $2-3000 a year, the price difference between a $500 laptop and a $100 laptop is the difference between a months salary and a little over a weeks salary.

And, while it may not seem too profitable or beneficial to have poor people from the third world visit your website, realize that there are billions of people in the third world that make purchasing decisions. If they have discretionary income to purchase a $100 laptop, they have discretionary income to make other purchases, too. That's a huge market that can be advertised to.

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Sigh. Anyone else feeling like we're all screwing around writing web frameworks when we should be focusing on things that are sort of more important?
>>> assert "cat" in "bag"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AssertionError

(reposted because the other thread went bye-bye?)
This approach (both tech and social aspects) has huge potential if done well. It's the pragmatic approach to the problem openID and the like are trying to solve -- just forget about authentication all together.
sorry - first time I saw it
Encryption anytime soon?
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>probably a common dns lookup result cache

Uhh, from the OS they get that for free.
Nope, not yet at least. I don't honestly find FF "fat" and requiring slimming/speeding up. Of course, faster JS is a good thing, maybe I'll switch when some app more or less needs the performance to be usable.

It's also too obsessed with tabs, which I find dumb (I already have a taskbar in my OS, thanks), and a few UI bugs are stopping me.

I'd prefer to have Flashblock/Adblock Plus too.

[edit] Oh, and from a tech point of view separate "process" pages I find interesting, but I'm not sure that it's solving a problem I currently have.
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Let me summarize [every neuroscience article ever]:

- the brain is very complicated

- the feeling of control over one's thoughts is largely an illusion

- through clever experiments we can make small steps in understanding
Spot on. Chrome makes some interesting architectural choices, but there's nothing so innovative about it to justify all the froth. If Google's name wasn't attached to it, Chrome wouldn't receive half the attention it's getting.
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Why do you need more than the OLPC mission? That's a pretty damned audacious thing.

I didn't mean to imply anything about the benefits of availability in low-income countries or the OLPC mission. My question intention was more along the lines of: 'apart from the obvious.'
Naturally, affordability for the remaining (majority) of the world that cannot afford a laptop is the important consequence of decreasing costs.

What I meant was as the cost of a usable, connected laptop or laptop-like machines approaches zero, what changes (if any) can we expect in the behaviour of existing laptop users. Any new uses, products and such that might come out of this?
At the risk of downmods I'm going to complain that the first three letters of any product's name should not be HiV. Especially since at a glance it looks like the i is capital.
>If you believe it will continue, and that clock speeds won't increase, then you get exponentially increasing #'s of cores (or some other use of silicon estate).

Only if you believe the wiring connecting the cores wouldn't explode with the number of cores.
I use alt-d too, but I didn't notice any weirdness. A "default beep" you mean by "boop"? Control Panel -> Sounds -> Scheme: No Sounds. :)

I filed irritation bugs via the "Page menu"->Report bug or broken website..., but I don't know if they go anywhere useful.
Of course, but the answer should be based on your marketing plan, not technology platforms.
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Some bait:
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Gait recognition is fascinating. I've often had the experience of spotting someone I know from a great distance, wondering how the hell I knew who it was.
Yah, as a first time user though, I wasn't sure how to get stuff back after I hid it unfortunately.

I got used to it after awhile though, so I guess it was okay.
Because parsing isn't free. In addition, one interesting optimization it opens up is something akin to the JVM where performance improves as profiling of code is done. Imagine if every site that used a Javascript library served to improve the performance of that library for all future invocations. That would be nifty.
My honest response is I don't know what the current state of the world is like in 64bit land.

My one experience was deeply frightening (what do you mean I can't listen to music without having to maintain a 32bit userland?)
yeah definitely, the question is how to apply our technical ability to meet some of these challenges. I been asking myself this question for awhile. However I also look at guys like sergey and larry and see how there innovations in the web have enabled them to move into other fields that have a direct impact on climate change.
I think the wires would just be a single bus.

A single bus works fine for moving data to/from one of many memory locations. Another method of using just one bus is TCP-IP packet-style communication. Of course, there's limited bandwidth, so you want most of your computation done within a processor, not between them.
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Guys: we need a better test-case than "Pull My Finger."
Hey, I didn't mean it would be useless, just a killer for mainstream success. I gravely agree that more internet --> less productivity. :-(
It's nonsensical, unfunny, and just lame. Sorry Microsoft, but you will never be able to catch up with Apple culturally.
You can almost hear the money being flushed down the tubes.
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Why is anyone surprised by this?
It was remarkably clear from the beginning that Apple wants full control over what gets sold in the App Store.

I'm surprised that they've even allowed as many apps as they have.
"Ellesmere Island was once entirely ringed by a single enormous ice shelf that broke up in the early 1900s."

Ummm... wouldn't this possibly indicate that there is some long-term warming going on?

If you actually read the whole article, there are some facts, followed in each case by suppositions that are unproven.
I'm curious as to why you (and other people) hate ads so much.
Is it just the obnoxious flashing popup 'you won a contest' ads or even text ads in general?

I use an adblocker because I find the flashing images annoying. But text ads don't really offend me in any way.

I actually like some of the ads we get in the papers\magazines\television.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I liked the ad. One purpose of media is to get people talking, and there is plenty of buzz about this advertisement.

Jer
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Have you guys watched the Seinfeld tv series? Its really the same kind of humor. lol. I found it funny

As much as we may hate to think it, in the end, I think Microsoft wins again because we DID watch the ad didn't we?

Jerry and his comedy is the bait.

We now know microsoft is up to something "delicious." whoopie.
No, because my strengths are in web software development and one of my weaknesses happens to be predicting and extrapolating the effects of insanely large and complex systems over several decades (like the Earth and its weather).

Web software dev - urgent and important

Glacier moving at 1" per year - sorry, I'm filing this one under important but not urgent.
I think Microsoft wins again because we DID watch the ad didn't we?

The problem with your statement, is that watches mean nothing if they do not sell the item. Selling the item means nothing if people don't view the ad.

One does not work without the other. In this case its getting views but its not selling, educating or performing anything to those views. This ad is nothing but empty views.
for those that didn't get it:

the ad shows a normal conversation between two people. it wants to show that pcs are for normal people. this is achieved because it makes you think: hey look here are two famous people discussing something normal...

that's the thought that runs in your subconsious and thats what microsoft wants, where instead the message of Apple ads is hey "we use mac, we are better than you" bullshit...which apple's message is annoyingly imprinted in their users mind, reproduced in an annoying way by most of them.
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Credits should go to whatusername, who suggested someone post this, but was worried it was not hacker newsworthy. I disagree because it is of interest to hackers.
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I guess they feel the first step towards humanizing Microsoft is humanizing Bill Gates.
Normally when I get downmodded, I don't gripe, I just take it in stride, par for the course on a discussion board, but I have to reply back that this time it is simply spiteful and petty. If you don't like my counterpoint, reply back, Say why my point is invalid, what about it it irrelevant to the discussion or factually wrong.
try understanding the ad. it's actually a very smart ad
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Actually, it's more like a compiler than an interpreter. I think people use the term "VM" out of ignorance -- they think VM is a fancy term for "thing that runs javascript".

But anyway, if you want to run your $NEW_LANGUAGE on V8, just compile your language to JavaScript. That is the "IR".
Honestly, I think no matter what we do we are doomed to be consumed by microsoft. I love linux. I have some friends who are staunch Mac users and others who eat, sleep, and pee linux. All of them have microsoft products on their computers. Schools, offices, homes, microsoft is everywhere all over the world.

The sad fact is that pc's are cheap and most people (general population) are lazy or uninterested in installing (or even learning about) other operating systems.

The product is sort of forced upon us. All we can really do is cope.

It seems like a lot of people upgrade their windows operating system when a new one comes out (except with vista because of all of the bad reviews).
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I love vimperator too, as well as Firebug and the delicious plugin. Until they have a Linux version, switching isn't an issue for me. I did try it on the Win box though and love it. I loaded pages with lots of JavaScript and it didn't blink.

Chrome offers nothing new right now aside from potential performance gains.

Still. The Webkit-based JavaScript engine performance gain IS something new.
the Wii has a protective coat over the white plastic (not to the extend of a DS though) that hopefully will protect it.
The reason the ad makes no sense is that it is about nothing.
Interesting, I like building tools, but when it comes to a startup, I would be more cautious if a team came to me with their own framework...

Was all the time spent building the framework worth it because they have new capabilities or was it NIH syndrome?
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If that's the way they're doing it, then it sounds bad.

Why? Because the "working quite well" is only really valid for single threads with no shared data structures. In other words, when you pretend a thread is a process.

As soon as you have more than one high load thread, the OS will want to split them across multiple processors, which means that you're now trying to share the same chunk of memory between processes. If the OS tries to keep them on the same core, though, then you've got 2 processes competing for CPU time and leaving another core free.

Then again, even turning them into processes on a modern OS wouldn't distribute the memory contention all the time; memory is usually copy on write across forked processes, which means that unless you've written the memory, reads are still contending for the same bus.
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"urgent and important": Really? I think the urgency is largely self-imposed, and important to whom?

I don't think we should all spend our time modeling global warming, but we could at least be solving hard software problems for, say, http://www.betterplace.com/ or http://www.teslamotors.com/.
seinfeld humor. "Its a show about nothing." (like everyday life nothing).
Oh, man, we've got enough indefinite imprisonment without charges going on as it is. Please don't encourage it.

Well, assuming our society is radical enough to discard identity, I think we can fix the prison system. The first step is to rethink what "crimes" are. Smoking marijuanna is not a crime. Selling it is not a crime. We should reserve prison for people that have proven they can't be in the "normal society" anymore. That basically means murders, rapists, "real criminals".

The next step is to make prisons centers for removal from society, not a place where we throw "undesirables" and let them rot (like the current system). We should give people in prison freedom to have a job, freedom to buy things, etc. We shouldn't force someone to live in a 16 square foot concrete box with 3 other people for 25 years. That's torture, not rehabilitation. (Other countries do a much better job than the US in this respect -- so this isn't just pie-in-the-sky. It could work.)

So anyway, I'm idealizing, not suggesting a policy. If someone is a danger to society, it doesn't benefit society to give them an identity document. Unless they are completely stupid, they are just going to fake the document to get what they want. (Example in real life: college students. It's illegal for them to buy alcohol, but they want it anyway. So they just get a fake ID. Problem solved. But why make them criminals for this? Why not just let them buy the beer legally?)
Maybe Google should have hired a porpoise...
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Great article, I just posted it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295560.
yeah. and I don't feel like I would be any worse at doing climate change stuff than programming...
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Kudos to whatusername for the link.

For the record, I think it is Hacker News. I'm a hacker, I find it interesting, I think other hackers will find it interesting. Hacker News.
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He left out the most efficient solution. Using bits to store the positions instead of an array then you can check if the queens conflict with a couple bitwise &&'s instead of looping.
I don't know what you all are talking about: clearly this is just a teaser ad for Microsoft's new Edible PC. It comes in three editions: moist ($100), chewy ($150), and moist and chewy ($350).
I don't see how they have a monopoly on the search engine market. It is definitely the most popular and probably the best search engine, but there is definitely no limit on other adequate alternatives. A monopoly occurs when a company controls a product or service significantly enough to significantly control the terms people must follow access it. Google hardly does this. Most people might choose them, but they don't need to in order to access a search engine. For example, if tomorrow Google decided to start charging a buck a search, 99.9% of their users would instantly switch search engines with very little ill effects.
The problem with your statement, is that watches mean nothing if they do not sell the item.

Ads aren't just for selling stuff directly. This ad doesn't sell anything, it changes brand image.
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Also known as "the suits catch on to what RMS has been saying since the 70's".
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