Lots of bitterness here. Come on, it's christmas time, that's just a little fun for normal people.
Google: Let it snow
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#42Eats one cpu core for me and makes the fan blow loudly. Which is why I never like these things.
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.
canvas { display: none !important; }
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#43Pretty cool. I want to see that on twitter.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> multiple implementations
Remember Android fragmentation? Talk about open source as golden hammer to solve problems.
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#46Hey 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.
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.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
canvas { display: none !important; }
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....
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If you click and drag across the screen, then it will have the effect of doing this with your finger :)
I think that part of the effect only works on chrome. Actually I can't get any of it work work on IE9 on Win7, it just shows regular serach results. Edit: oh I see, you have to wait for the "Defrost" button to show up before you can "wipe" the frost off. Still doesn't work in IE though :)
Wiping off the condensation works on Safari 5.1.2, too.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
canvas { display: none !important; }
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?
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#50Earlier 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.
That's very idealistic but isn't really a really good perspective of the situation facing us.
Whatever resistance to SOPA that exists in the federal government exists because of some technology companies making very loud noises. Simply saying, "well, corporations shouldn't have a privileged voice in government at all, so we should condemn corporations even when they're arguing on the right side of an issue" is stabbing your allies in the back. Curtailing Google's political activism won't teach America to govern itself without corporations. It will just give the bad guys even less resistance to their agenda.
Google maybe shouldn't care about politics. But politics cares about Google. And, moreover, the rest of us. We can start telling Google to GTFO of politics once there are other democratic institutions to take its place. Until then, unilateral disarmament is not an option. The best we can do is remind people that Google is a temporary tactical ally, not some angelic being that does no evil.