- Bing can search Tweets. Why would you want to?
- Ballmer re-announced Bing at the D7 conference. Ha.
- The geneticists cannot predict mental illness.
- Satellite phonecos want to make hybrid phones. Will still be too pricey.
- iPhones are overheating.
- RIAA beats Usenet in court.
- More Steve Jobs back at work stories.
- HP doing a 12-core workstation.
- Firefox 3.5 very fast they say. We’ll see.
Right click here and select ‘Save Link As…’ to download the mp3 file.
As a developer, these cores are a good thing, for business processing.
I love maxing out the SAN box and have the hardware guys scratching their heads when I complain it’s slow. I prefer DAS with SSD’s, but no, higher ups complain about budget dollars.
Another example is running VMWare, the free version allows 2 computers of 2 cores each.
Dunno about “251% Faster than the previous Firefox version,” but it’s quick enough for all of us until someone else introduces a “must have” Web widget that sucks away all the speed. It’s happened before…
What’s the deal with multiple cores? I have two cores and they seem to split the tasks fairly equally. (I have a cpu monitor.) It’s a slower CPU in MHZ than my old one but runs MUCH faster. I don’t see why the CPU can’t split the tasks itself.
251% faster then what? On my system a bit faster then IE8, I use both.
On my Win7 system IE8 is the fastest to load. Firefox does have a lot more plug-ins.
3.5.0 is faster than 3.0.11 but not 251% faster.
I agree with hhopper. It’s faster. I still want all of my plug-ins back though. BB Code is still missing among some others. The tiny url plug in I downloaded (different plug-in than the old one) seems better than the old. The new mouse gestures plug-in, also by a different name now, so different software, seems fine.
I don’t know about the percentage, but it runs exceptionally on my Netbook!
#3
The problem with multiple cores is that, no matter how good an OS is at load balancing, a lot of computer usage is in large, single threaded applications. There is no way to “split” a single thread between two cores. A thread has to run sequentially; you could move it between processors, but it still was to run in order. So there is no advantage to trying to “split” a single thread.
Most applications are single-threaded. Since a single thread is limited to the power of one core, most programs have the same limit. Applications that specifically require tons of processing power (and can perform tasks in parallel) tend to be the first to become multi-threaded. For instance, Blender is an open source 3D modeling/animation program. I think the program runs most stuff as a single thread. However, when rendering, you can tell it to use as many threads as you like.
Just installed it FF3.5 today, it is faster, so it’s worth the download.
#8 – ahtnos
A friend of mine sent me this link. Their product will allow programmers to optimize their old code to run more efficiently on multi-core systems.
2# Agreed. It is faster, which is nice. But then again, the add ons which is one of the things I like about FF tends to start slowing things way down. lol
FF is really quick! I like it.
Most things that would benefit from multi-threading already do… Even discount cut rate video editors, and 3d rendering programs.
3.5
On my Vista Laptop it loads slower than it did before. Once loaded it is faster.
Go figure.
It’s significantly faster — but watch out on bookmarks. When I restarted it actually pulled the bookmarks from an old profile (2006) as my default.
Scared the living shit out of me, since I have a LOT of updated bookmarks and I keep a lot un-organized since I can search them now.
However, lucky for them they have that bookmark backup feature and I restored from last night. Buyer beware.
Its faster but it screwed the drag and drop on an Ajax based security appliance gui I need to use frequently. Got me to install Chrome , though 😉
with my dual sli 7800 gtxs i’m going into epileptic shock
well, almost.. the (for now) incompatibilities with some of the old apps will be a fun game to watch.
Who came up with Firefox 3.5 being 25XXX times faster? I have downloaded it and I dont even see any friggin speed which Firefox talks about. I would rather stick with Google Chrome for speed and simplicity and IE8 for common web standards web browsing.
Exactly, Zorkor. I’ve tried using Firefox 3.5 and can’t see the difference. I think I’ll stick with Chrome. I like it’s simplicity too.
http://boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/recent_scenes_from_the_iss.html
Cool, Firefox 3.5 loads a page with large images way faster, like 251x faster. No more pauses when you scroll.
DUH, Firefox 3.5 kills many add-ons, like TinyURL.
Firefox 3.5 is actually faster on my G5. I don’t know about 251% faster, but it is a noticeable difference. I primarily use Safari, but randomly use Firefox for a change of pace and for sites that don’t load that well in Safari.
When I test drove Firefox on my G5, it ran very well…. Probably, the best Firefox release to date (for OS X, anyway).
FF 3.5 sure feels faster to me.
#18 – zorkor – I would rather stick with … IE8 for common web standards web browsing.
LMAO
#19 – Dora kredyt hipoteczny kalkulator – I think I’ll stick with Chrome. I like it’s simplicity too.
You enjoy big brother a little bit too much.
*pretends to be an Apple fanboi* Safari outperforms Firefox just because Apple made it!
#24
What do you mean by enoying big brother too much? I say Google Chrome and IE8 can beat the crap out of FF anytime. Just what is FF other than lots and lots of crappy plugin built by starving programmers to pass their time.
I need simplicity, speed and non-intrusive browsing, Chrome does the job well while if something goes wrong, I have my IE8 handy. FF seems like an odd one out, like the ugly duckling. Ha!
Did the RIAA just stop Usenet from carrying music, and not the newsgroups themselves? They’ll have to go after every newsgroup provider that channels binaries, to stop free music. I guess Leo isn’t gonna be getting any that way, now.
Ya know, a long time ago I figured we’d all be working for the government someday, as it grew out of all proportions. But now I’ll thinking that someday we’ll all be working for the RIAA and MPAA. Cause they’ll need tons of people to find and the leaks of their music and movies. Kind of like a “big brother” spy network, only for corporate protection of its property. Millions of people, making sure that billions of the world’s people, don’t get to hear or see anything for free.