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0 would be equal size for everyone, so I would hope the purpose of the law is more than that. I wouldn't also take Germany as particularly good example because, for example, free speech is not a right in Germany (they may claim they have very good reason for that, but don't they always do so?).

Rights are "not absolute" only is the sense that exercising your right does not absolve you from responsibility for violating other people's rights. So, if you exercise your right to freely use your property, say, a gun, and shoot somebody - you'll go to jail. But not for using your gun - but rather for violating other's right to live unshot by your gun. Your right to use your property didn't go anywhere, but it also didn't remove your responsibility for the consequences of such use. If there's no consequences, there's no place for government to intervene (I know most governments disagree, of course they do).
The giant datacenters get you mail delivery pushed to your browser as fast as IM. You can't do that using POP and SMTP to a normal mail server.
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A much smarter plan would be to build a settlement on the Moon, build factories which build habitats, tools and mining equipment (to extract water, air, maybe food and fuel from either the Moon or Mars) and send a couple of those to Mars from the Moon, using a electromagnetic launch system before sending any humans. One could even remotely control the lunar equipment from Earth before risking astronauts there.

The idea of a one-way mission is terrible.
Well, consider this for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights#Water

Specifically:
This marks a departure from the conclusions of the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, which stated that water was a commodity to be bought and sold, not a right.[102] There are calls from many NGOs and politicians to enshrine access to water as a binding human right, and not as a commodity.

It seems to imply pretty clearly that access to water as a human right contradicts requirement for payment. The same argument is frequently heard when the healthcare is discussed. So I would say implying that it means not only ability to access but actually ability to access for all, regardless of means - is not out of the question. At least it does not contradict how many other "rights" are interpreted.
the change I'd like to see is one in which a small handful of tabs (I may easily run over 100) are considered "current and active" (foreground, pinned apps), and the rest function more as a stateful bookmark. Which, given that on crash recovery I tend to leave tabs unrefreshed until I actually open them, they largely are.

That's exactly how I use tabs: I've got 77 tabs open right now, grouped into 9 different topic groups in Firefox's "Panorama" mode. Most of them are collections of information about some particular topic or other that I don't need most of the time, but when I next switch back to working on that topic I'd hate to have to find them all again. Almost none of those tabs are currently loaded into memory. In Firefox's preferences, I have "Tabs" → "Don't load tabs until selected" ticked, which means that, well, open background tabs don't load the page in question until I switch to them the first time. I think in an upcoming version of Firefox, that option is ticked by default.
So they actually had a great fix recently where they managed to largely stop addons from causing memory leaks: http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memshrink/
I find it is much better than Chrome.

If I have more than a handful of tabs open in Chrome then Chrome starts using significantly more than a GB of RAM (in total, across all the separate Chrome processes), while I've currently got a Firefox session that has been open for more than a week, with 30+ tabs, and is using just under 1 GB.
Are they going to issue press-release on every possible form of expression? That'd take a while, but then again - generating headlines is their business, so it's a win-win.
No, it leaks endlessly without any theoretical bounds and there's no amount of memory that it's leaking won't exceed given enough time.
Nonsense, a VM is what it's defined to be. If you wanted the x86 (or ARM, or PPC, etc.) instruction set to be your bytecode, you've got it.

That article starts from the assumption that any in browser VM will resemble the JVM; which is a faulty assumption. In fact, any in browser VM would have to be very different from the JVM since Rule 0 for any such VM would be "acceptable Javascript performance".

From that article:

> Meanwhile, JVMs don't do these optimizations. Since all types are statically

> known, the compiler knows exactly how much storage they need and what

> operations they support. It can then generate appropriate tight code for those

> types. This is fast if your language is statically typed, but if you're trying to

> compile a dynamically typed language to the JVM, it won't be able to run as fast as a

> VM that can assume dynamic typing all the way down and optimize specifically

> for that.

A whole wasted paragraph. Of course a browser VM wouldn't be statically typed, that'd make compiling/running Javascript a bear. One would hope there'd be some system of type-hinting, because eliminating dynamic dispatch is really low hanging fruit in terms of optimization, but JVM/CLR-style static typing? Madness.
Rotor craft are limited by a combination of needing the advancing rotor blade stay under mach1[1], and having the retreating blade still moving fast enough[2] still be able to create lift.

Flying much faster then 200kmh usually needs tricks like going to more than 2 blades, and exceeding 500knh (where the advancing blade needs to exceed mach1 if the retreating blade isn't moving backwards through the air) required very expensive blades (and becomes outrageously noisy)

[1] 'cause breaking the sound barrier along parts but not all of the advancing blade makes things complicated and expensive.
[2] and keep in mind this is backwards, relative to the body of the helicopter.autogyro
I disagree, restricting humans is exactly what needs to happen for personal air travel to ever to be safe. The humans are the rogues, they're ones that are going to cause problems, not follow standard procedures, drink and fly, check their cellphones while flying etc. Imagine how much uncertainty and risk could be eliminated if you know that 100% of the vehicles in the air are all computer controlled, and use a common communication/navigation protocol. It would simplify everything.
Well, maybe I'll give it a try soon again. I did about a year ago and was re-disappointed.
You can create a new account with your new domain. Switching among google accounts is pretty easy now, it's just a dropdown in the upper right. You can load Google Docs or email or whatever just by picking an account from a menu.
Strange, as I've got used to my Wacom Bamboo in less than half a day without much drawing experience.
It's smart to launch supplies in low-energy orbits so as to increase the mass you can get to Mars for the same fuel budget. Humans have to transit quickly between the planets, but supplies can handle a much longer trip on a much less comfortable spacecraft and, to be there for the humans, they'll have to launch much earlier.

And yes, no sane human being would consider launching to Mars before a return vehicle is already settled at the destination and ready to take off. The return vehicle and its backup. And the habitats, supplies and everything else.
Oh please, those clowns aren't actually going to fly anyone to Mars. They aren't even remotely close to solving the genuinely hard engineering problems involved. So worrying about ethics is rather premature.

If someone announces his intention to build a time machine I wouldn't get too worked about the ethical concerns of changing history.
True, but the roadable airplane is still more convenient, especially if you have a lot of luggage. It's a luxury item, obviously, but there are people who don't want any hassle, and can afford not to have it.
I used to have a culture of paramecia and noticed I could see a paramecium with the naked eye.
So how do this and "3 strikes" rules (when your ISP kills your internet connection because you got caught pirating 3 times) get along?
5-8 are clearly extra constitutional and the constitution is so vague as to make 1-4 more or less unanswerable. The constitution is not a set of unit tests.
Linux & Thunderbird are much better for local email than MS Exchange. Exchange sells MS server 200x licenses.

Web stuff is for groupware, but not MILSPEC.

Yesterday's Thunderbird is superior to today's Outlook as an email client.

I got tired at the end of my last reply.
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Here are the two major problems that I see in Mozilla's "rapid updates" process:

1) Interruption of user work process

Firefox freezes for a few seconds at startup to see if there are any updates to the core or plugins. If this were handled in the background in a separate thread that did not freeze the browser, no one would care about it except for privacy advocates who don't want their version number being leaked.

Then there are the popups and request to reboot that also interrupt the user's work process, given that the user has probably been trying to get work done while the download was going on.

2) Stupid versioning

For as long as software version numbers have existed, most vendors have used the major.minor.patch pattern. A change in the major version number usually means a break in the public API, so software vendors provide a different API library for every major version that they release, and they allow plugins to decide what API version to use.

Mozilla decided to increase their _major_ version number for every _patch_. Firefox's latest version 420 or however high they are now should probably be something like 4.2.20.
The stupid numbering will only annoy users who expect Mozilla to follow best software development practices, but it shouldn't affect plugins. If Firefox is doing their updates correctly, they will be exposing a separate API library for every major version update that they've done in their rapid major version update schedule.

Of course, they're doing it wrong. Plugins built for version 4 or version 5 no longer work because FF is only providing the latest API version 420, and only until next week when 421 comes out. Mozilla's solution is for all plugin vendors to update their plugins after every FF update, and for users to wait until the plugin vendors have done this.

There would be no plugin breakage if Mozilla had updated the patch and minor version numbers for non-breaking updates. I've said this on /. but the Moz devs argued that their choice was between rapid major version updates or no updates at all. I find that hard to believe. Something is wrong with their toolkit if they cannot support minor version number updates.
What’s so bad about clarifying that that includes the internet?

I mean, there are politicians in democratic states who believe that protections afforded to the press on the basis of rights don’t apply to, for example bloggers. It’s not altogether obvious why freedom of expression or speech should automatically include the internet.
Maybe they were brought here on micro-comets ;-)

(reference to "Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationism" by Fred Hoyle)
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You've written a very elaborate reply that still fails to point out why astine's simpler explanation (i.e. standard supply-and-demand) doesn't apply. After all, other things being equal, at a fixed price there will more supply for service X as the cost of providing X decreases.
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Not me, I think it's great. For once you can run firefox, as opposed to some specific version you downloaded eons ago - the 90's model of software.
Almost all of the empirical work done by political scientists and economists is on aggregate human behavior. Yes, the predictive power of the social sciences is often very weak, but social systems are incredibly complex, and in many ways vastly more difficult to understand than physical systems.
How much of Windows is either bugs or bug-compatibility shims these days?
Correct but not exactly relevant to what we're talking about (i.e. a company going evil, at which point quid quo pro ceases to have much meaning).

We're not talking about what's good for the developer here, we're talking about what's good for the user.
Instagram infrastructure engineer here. Our infrastructure is far from simple. However, I confirm that it does, indeed, handle a fairly large workload.
What kind of nonsense is this? As a pilot (of both land and air vehicles) your sentiments seem completely irrational. Define "flying car"! There are tons of entrants in this category, and many that are fully functional. I can't say that I find them practical, or myself a potential early customer-- but not because of some misplaced sense that we need computers to handle the piloting for us.

And what of Eric's quote? Sounds like someone who's busy building a self-driving car-- not someone who loves the beauty of being a pilot!

Are we to cede all functions that we used to master to computers? Really?

Give me a break.
Highly recommend this and one reason I'd be super upset if Thunderbird ever vanishes:

http://extensions.hesslow.se/extension/4/Quicktext/

Allows you to do all sorts of templating within emails. A huge time saver. Great for customer service any any type of standard replies.

(Anyone know of any other way to do this should TB ever vanish? Can you write extensions for other email clients?)
I see a lot of differences:

* Internal combustion engines work in Antarctica.

* The atmosphere is breathable.

* The atmosphere is livable if heated first.

* The gravity is the same as Earth.

* (I'm guessing) more sunlight falls on a given area of Antarctica per year than Mars.

* There's no communication delay with Earth.

* Earth-orbit communications satellites are reachable from Antarctica.

* The ground is covered in water, if you heat it first (I don't know how useful this is, but it's probably more useful than Mars soil)

and finally:

You can come home from Antarctica.
Who writes these articles? The author quotes from the 40-word facebook update which is right above the text...
"Technically you can have Thunderbird across a lot of computers by using IMAP instead of POP3 but that slows down and cancels out a lot of your speed benefits."

??? You want to explain this a little further? IMAP is fast you only download headers.
We've already seen private enterprise solutions to the long-haul network problem: CompuServe and AOL, each of which was a heavily-censored and ludicrously expensive walled garden, soundly rejected by anyone with access to the Internet. Well-run private enterprises avoid creating public goods because they don't pay off, so they aren't going to happen unless you solve the free rider problem (i.e., taxation) or you have so many selfless donors who don't object to free riders that you can ignore the problem.
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At first I thought "wow cool, a reality show on mars sounds like an awesome idea". Then I thought about it further and wondered "What would they actually do on mars that would make people want to watch?"

Diary Day 662: "Today we explored another crater, the dirt was quite similar to the last 83 days. John is still with Dianne and I haven't had sex in nearly 2 years. I've read the Harry Potter series 97 times now, maybe I'll make it to 100 by the end of the year."

I can imagine it lasting a few months or maybe even a year, but what happens after then when viewers stop tuning in?

I guess by then they're hoping they'll have set up a mining expedition or maybe other tourist flights and can raise money that way.
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They won the appeal in precisely the same way that they "lost" the case. It was a preliminary injunction, decided before trial. The federal circuit said no, that it wasn't an appropriate status quo and lifted it preliminarily until they can come up with a firmer decision.
Well, I agree that there are specific program architectures that can cause problems, but I haven't had the experience where "toss and rebuild" is the bottleneck.

One of the other responses nailed what is a more common problem IME -- network activity and UI activity on the same single-threaded event loop. Firefox and Chrome both have this problem (or what amounts to it essentially). For example, in Chrome:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113389

This bug has gone unfixed for YEARS (older ones were marked dupes of later ones).

The way we write software now is just too difficult to get right. Once you have 1M lines of C++ code there are going to be crazy performance bugs that nobody can fix. Chrome has some of the best engineers on the planet and they're not immune to this by any means.

I guess I would amend my original answer to say that "software size" is the problem. Everybody thinks they know how to write performant software. But that's only when you can fit everything in your head.

I would say that "toss and rebuild" isn't the #1 culprit because the web browser is the ultimate "toss and rebuild" architecture -- that is, every request and response stand alone. Yes web pages can be ungodly slow and unresponsive. But it's possible to make them responsive if you really simplify -- i.e. Google or craigslist.

In theory we could have a stateful web and make it faster. But I think our collective programming skill and our languages/tools just aren't up to the task. I think the web exists as it is, and is as popular as it is, because lots of people with "domain knowledge" could write dirty PHP scripts and such. They aren't fast but they get the job that users want done.
1B hours / 30 days / 24 hours = 1.4m viewers per hour all day and night for a month. I wonder how they compare to Comcast, Verizon, Dish, DirectTV, and other TV providers.
Seems a lot like the TerraFugia, albeit with very different style: http://www.terrafugia.com/
I think from the perspective of a patent hater like myself it's a good thing (edit to be clear: a good thing on balance). The tablet injunction was based on a very narrow criteria in a design patent (basically that the Galaxy Tab looked just like an iPad). The "search from multiple sources" patent was absolute nonsense, and hugely dangerous to a functioning market.
That's not really an answer. What _about_ their way of doing things do you consider to be wrong and why?
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I 100% agree. If this is allowed to continue HN's front page will soon look like /r/TIL
I've done quite a lot more than simply eat more salt. However, no one really cares. And I'm just a tad more stressed than usual tonight. My health site is listed in my profile if you are curious.

Take care.
> Are we to cede all functions that we used to master to computers? Really?

People bake bread in their homes every day. Nothing is stopping anyone from doing it. But most people let a machine do it for them.

So will go piloting.
It did fine for me on Chrome 20, Arch 64bit. Also a dual core, but nVidia graphics. Maybe the intel graphics drivers are being weird?
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Thank you for your kind words, but I am too healthy to qualify for disability. I am mostly out of options at this point. I would cuss god out one more time but he/she/it clearly doesn't give a flying fuck. I have done the impossible. Is the world interested? Nope. Is there any money in it? Nope.

Have a good evening.
Eh, I wouldn't necessarily call such a thing rare...

Anyway, I'm starting to get to the point where I don't trust a piece of proprietary software to not try stealing my data, so that's a non-starter for me.
I've always thought a flying car should be simple not this thing and not the screaming Moller four-engined.

My idea was a van-like vehicle that was neutrally buoyant with bladders to control the buoyancy sort of a lifting-body dirigible with wheels

Then I see SkyCat it's huge but pretty much the idea I had.

I'm 0 for 2 this week for ideas, my subwoofer siren idea apparently has been made too.
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Mozilla kept me from Firefox for years. The idiotic "view source" that actually re-fetched the page made it utterly worthless for development and when the bugs were filed, they were promptly ignored.

That said, with the except of one FF push on OSX that broke Netflix for a few days I've been pleased with the changes. Safari's constant memory leaks drove me nuts, FF leaking memory wasn't as bad but certainly annoyed. They've solved that problem for my usage and having suffered with Chrome "dev tools" I continue to use FF and Firebug for front-end work when need be.
I think we really need to consider what patents are for - because "somebody worked a year on" is waaaay to broad. This is about helping society right? Working a year isn't a big investment for a company - so if it's such a great invention they'd easily be able to recoupe their costs.

This goes the other way too - Edison's Lab developed the first phonograph supposedly in months - yet that's far more on the "deserving" side of patents.

Time isn't the best measure, but we have to consider what an actual good one would be. Giving at patents with relatively little oversight leads to a ton of prevented inventions, but how could we possibly inspect patents to a degree that we'd be able to. I haven't seen a plausible explanation that this search problem is even tractable.
But, as Greenfield points out, Netflix is a seasonal business that tends to benefit during the summer and winter, traditional offseasons for TV.

Why's winter 'offseason' for TV in the US? Here in the UK it's when you get all the best programmes because, I always assumed, people stay in on evenings and so watch TV.