Previously we’ve told you that Firefox performance on Linux sucks, and, worse, that even Windows Firefox running on Wine is faster than Linux Firefox, so as Firefox 3.5 edges slowly (very slowly!) closer to release, we joined in the Firefox 3.5b4 testday to see how performance is coming along in these later development stages…
It promises to bring the world of literature to the ordinary book-buyer at the touch of a button. In the time it takes to brew a cappuccino, this machine can print off any book that is not in stock from a vast computer database.
Red Leader. writes “MAYA Design just released an excerpt from one of their forthcoming books as a white paper. The paper offers a different perspective on cloud computing. Their view is that cloud computing, as currently described, is not that far off from the sort of thinking that drove the economic downturn. In effect, both situations allowed radical experiments to be performed by gigantic, non-redundant entities (PDF). This is dangerous, and the paper argues that we should insist on decentralized, massively-parallel venues until we understand a domain very, very well. In the information economy, this means net equality, information liquidity, and radically distributed services (and that’s pretty much the opposite of ‘cloud computing’ as described today). While there is still hope for computing in the cloud, it’s hard not to wonder if short-term profits, a lack of architectural thinking about security and resilience, and long-term myopia aren’t leading us in the wrong direction.”
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Hillary Clinton in Iraq to Assess Rising Violence
Voice of America By VOA News US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Iraq Saturday for her first visit to the country as the top US diplomat. Clinton in Iraq amid new violence BBC News Clinton, in Iraq, Blames ‘Rejectionists' for Violence New York Times Reuters – The Associated Press – Bloomberg – Reuters UK all 2,840 news articles |
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Chrysler reaches deal with CAW
Toronto Star Chrysler and its union have broken historical pattern bargaining in the auto industry with a deal for deep worker concessions to keep the teetering company alive here. CAW and Chrysler reach tentative deal on labour concessions 680 News Canadian union strikes tentative Chrysler deal Reuters CityNews – CBC.ca – Globe and Mail – Toronto Star all 1,059 news articles Langue : Français |
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Successful talks end Taliban advances in NW Pakistan
Xinhua By Rao Bo ISLAMABAD, April 25 (Xinhua) — Taliban have started to pull out of the Buner district in northwestern Pakistan in the light of successful talks among all stakeholders, local newspaper The News reported on Saturday. Video: Reaction: Is Pakistan a "mortal threat?" UPI US Questions Pakistan's Will to Stop Taliban New York Times AFP – BBC News – Washington Post – The Associated Press all 4,228 news articles Langue : Français |
Wikipedia uses plenty of copyrighted material and trademarks under the doctrine of fair use. But a trademark infringement lawsuit against a couple of artists would put the Wikimedia Foundation on the opposite side of the fair use fight.
* Show a dialog on application crashes. * Much improved OLE copy/paste support. * Various listview improvements. * More Direct3D code cleanups. * Various bug fixes.
In 2008 a Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the ISP Tele2/Telenor to block all access to The Pirate Bay. Now a petition from the ISP against the decision has been accepted, which will see the appeal go Supreme Court.
While the cable industry told Congress that deep packet inspection technology was great for consumers, Rick Boucher (D-VA) expressed some doubts. DPI’s “privacy intrusion potential is nothing short of frightening,” he said, as consumer groups called for a full investigation into how ISPs are using the technology.
