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Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by artursapek »

GuiA wrote: post #11
city41 wrote: post #3

I was hopeful the "defrost" button would simulate someone running their hand over the screen.

I blew in my microphone half-hoping mist would form on top of the window.

Hahah I would be worried if they were using my microphone without my permission

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by mseebach »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #46
ticks wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google's homepage shouldn't have anything to do with politics IMO. Leave it to the organisations that specialise in those sorts of issues.

Exactly. Why do people want yet another hugely rich corporation using their money to interfere in politics? What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? America needs to learn to govern it's self without the intervention of corporations. America doesn't need more of them getting involved.

> What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page?

You're writing that as if SOPA was one side of an argument where good people could reasonably be on either one side or the other, and HN and Google just happens to be on the same.

But it's not, SOPA has a right and a wrong side. We're on the right side, Google is on the right side and good people are either uninformed or on the right side. It's not unreasonable to wish for Google to employ some of their considerable clout in evangelising the right side.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by eurohacker »

ck2 wrote: post #12

Hey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?

google cooperates with secret services , they passed illegally european users data to US government for example,

and their main patents belong to stanford university, may be thats why ..

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by holman »

If you didn't notice, this also ties into an orientation sensor if you've got one. On my MacBook Pro, for example, just tilt your laptop left or right and the snow will fall that direction.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by mike-cardwell »

mseebach wrote: post #55
mike-cardwell wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Why do people want yet another hugely rich corporation using their money to interfere in politics? What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? America needs to learn to govern it's self without the intervention of corporations. America doesn't need more of them getting involved.

> What if Google was pro SOPA? Would you be happy with them advertising for it on their front page? You're writing that as if SOPA was one side of an argument where good people could reasonably be on either one side or the other, and HN and Google just happens to be on the same. But it's not, SOPA has a right and a wrong side. We're on the right side, Google is on the right side and good people are either uninformed…

"My opinion is right because I say it is. Anyone who doesn't hold the same opinion is either bad, or needs educating"

Well, that's me convinced.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by halter73 »

ugh wrote: post #49
bzbarsky wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't help that much, almost certainly. It prevents having to recomposite the canvas to the page, but the drawing to the canvas still has to happen....

I would very much hope that browsers don't implement canvas that way. Surely no one can be that stupid?

What if the following line is executed after the hidden canvas's context has been modified?

canvasElement.setAttribute('style', 'display:inline !important');

According to you, non-stupid browsers should have ignored the previous updates to the canvas to save CPU time. Maybe the browser could keep a record of all of the calls made to the canvas API while the canvas is hidden and then execute them when the canvas element becomes unhidden, but that seems clever to me. I certainly wouldn't call implementors of the canvas API that don't do this stupid.

In fact, there are probably good reasons not to do this. For example, if a web app makes frequent updates to a small hidden canvas, keeping a record of all the calls instead of simply executing them could end up using way too much memory.

If a browser simply ignores updates to the hidden canvas, it would be breaking standards.

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