Posted 06/26/2009 at 09:27:55pm

lol. Silverlight is more powerful than flash? haha you made a funny.

Posted 03/30/2009 at 08:43:05am

Flash is my thing, so yes, I'm in love with Flash.

Sounds like you are a noobish Linux user. Just linking to a site saying that someone wasn't able to get it working isn't real credible. Also a Linux user would know that if he or she couldn't run a program in Linux that the next best thing is to find an alternative. Well it just so happens that Adobe is developing a Flex Builder plugin for the Linux version of Eclipse. Adobe does take there time when developing stuff for Linux. I mean just look at Adobe AIR for linux. Adobe AIR for Linux just got out of beta last December, almost 10 months after it was initially released for Windows and Mac

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flexbuilder_linux.html

It's still in alpha but at least Adobe is more open than the alternative - Microsoft (Silverlight). Can't even develop for Silverlight on a Mac.

Now, about the "proof of concept" complaint. Basically there was nothing new, nothing game changing in those examples. They just show that Chrome can run Javascript faster than other browsers when specifically programmed for Chrome. Do you know the kinda market share that Chrome has? 4%. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

So basically you cannot create a Javascript heavy web app that is going to require that the user have chrome for the app to run decently well, and if your web app isn't so resource demanding you still wouldn't program specifically for Chrome because it would be a waste of effort. So like I said, pretty much this is just a plublicity stunt to get more people to switch to Chrome for it's Javascript rendering speed. I bet they got quite a few converts just from people wanting to see how fast it really did run in Chrome. Real winner here - not the writer, not us, not the internet, not Javascript developers, but Google.

Posted 03/30/2009 at 02:23:26am

First of all Java != Javascript you 'tard. They are two COMPLETELY different languages.

And do you even know what cloud computing is? Or do you just throw out popular keywords to get more readers? How is this at all related to cloud computing? You must be confusing general web applications with cloud computing or assuming they are one and the same. But even if you mean this development will improve future web applications you are wrong. Mostly because of this we will just be seeing more of those "OOOH THAT'S COOL!" proofs of concepts. This was all just to show off that when specifically coded for, Chrome will render Javascript code faster than other browsers and will not bring about a new kind of web application.

Also this is all pretty unimpressive. You can do so much more than this at faster speeds with Adobe Flash. Also Flash is cross platform and you do not need to optimize code for a certain browser. But, you should never write about Flash because I'm guessing you have no clue what it is besides that youtube uses it to play videos. 

Overall you are a terrible writer that does the tech industry and those interested in it a disservice by writing about a subject you don't fully understand. You need to do more reading and less writing because you are only misinforming.

Posted 02/24/2009 at 06:46:26pm

try downloading the latest linux drivers off the nvidia website. I don't think the default drivers are up to date.

Posted 02/24/2009 at 04:04:21pm

No it is definitely seeing that your game(s) won't work with Wine.

I have to say that I like Ubuntu cause it's easy to install and easy to configure (at least for me). Got mine looking BA. Two things I don't like about Ubuntu is the default color scheme and that apt-get doesn't have super up to date packages. For instance, the wine version was 1.0.1 when there current not so stable version is 1.1.15. Maybe the package manager should give you an option to install the very latest bleeding edge version of the software instead of you having to go get it yourself.