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Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by KeithMajhor »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #59
mseebach wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. People get stupid when they're this opposed to something. His argument had absolutely no value and your characterization of it was spot on.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by waqf »

KeithMajhor wrote: post #81
mike-cardwell wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. People get stupid when they're this opposed to something. His argument had absolutely no value and your characterization of it was spot on.

I don't think mike-cardwell deserves downvoting either, but I don't think your (and his) characterization was quite fair.

mseebach didn't intend to make a convincing anti-SOPA argument, he was commenting under the assumption that his audience was already opposed to SOPA. He may have been wrong — that's a danger on the internet — but I don't think that makes him stupid.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by KeithMajhor »

waqf wrote: post #82
KeithMajhor wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. People get stupid when they're this opposed to something. His argument had absolutely no value and your characterization of it was spot on.

I don't think mike-cardwell deserves downvoting either, but I don't think your (and his) characterization was quite fair. mseebach didn't intend to make a convincing anti-SOPA argument, he was commenting under the assumption that his audience was already opposed to SOPA. He may have been wrong — that's a danger on the internet — but I don't think that makes him stupid.

Lets break it down.

mseebach: "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..."

parody: "My opinion is right because I say it is."

mseebach: "Google is on the right side and good people are either uninformed or on the right side."

parody: "Anyone who doesn't hold the same opinion is either bad, or needs educating."

mseebach: "It's not unreasonable to wish for Google to employ some of their considerable clout in evangelising the right side."

I was wrong. This part has value. The "right side" part of it is overreaching though. In my opinion.

Also, I didn't call him stupid, I called the downvoters stupid. I meant it in the way people usually do: I don't like it. The people who can downvote are supposed to be the pillars of our community. Yet they seem more interested in policing opinions than quality. More interested in SOPA than HN. Then they turn around and complain that it's all going to shit. Come on... lets promote the strongest arguments and promptly refute the lousy ones.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by nostrademons »

holman wrote: post #58

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.

You can also draw doodles in the fog and then send them around to your friends or post them on websites:

https://www.google.com/search?q=let+it+snow&frostwriting...

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by bzbarsky »

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

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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?

You pretty much have to implement it that way. Not only because the canvas can later be shown, as halter73 points out, but also because of the getImageData API, which allows one to extract the pixel data from a canvas that's not being shown any time you feel like it.

Also, a hidden canvas can be drawn to other canvases via drawImage, can be serialized to a data: URI at any time and so forth.

So you really do need to be able to produce the right pixel data on demand. That means either doing the drawing when told to draw or buffering up the drawing commands (which can get pretty complicated, because some of them depend on the style of the canvas at the time the draw happened, so you either have to cache a bunch of style information or flush the drawing command buffer when style information changes or ... something). And as halter73 points out, it's very easy to end up with an effective memory leak when doing this sort of buffering.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by zobzu »

ticks wrote: post #33
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's homepage shouldn't have anything to do with politics IMO. Leave it to the organisations that specialise in those sorts of issues.

so it should just have ads for google master plan's products? :)

I would sure like anti SOPA messages from Google. Would give me a warm feeling and a hope for a better future too.

Re: Google: Let it snow

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Post by zobzu »

melling wrote: post #27
est wrote: post #19

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Funny, half year back the same bunch of people said the same thing to Flash. Now imagine a world where every banner or sidebar is full of HTML5 canvas animation ads.

Firefox takes one core, while Chrome seems to split it across two cores, with a lower combined CPU utilization. I'm using the Nightly's for both browsers. With open source technology we get multiple implementations and a lot more people working to improve the technology.

That's odd, I use current Aurora and Chromium dev channel. Well, on Linux.

Both use only one core for the browser, and Xorg uses "another core".

Firefox uses 10% more CPU and the animation is butter smooth. Chromium uses 10% less CPU and the animation is a little choppy. It looks like Chromium is throttling or something.

None of them use more than 40% CPU on the core used.

Video driver is intel i915, acceleration works.

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