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Opera has announced a new power-saving mode for the developer version of its web browser, with the company making the ambitious claim that it can increase a Windows laptop's battery life by up to 50 percent, compared to Google's Chrome. Now I might start thinking about possibly considering downloading it
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I can tell from your comment that you don't quite understand the principal. It's one that MicroSloth worked out years ago:
You make the browser so annoying that the user shuts down the system and walks away in disgust. As this technology advances, batteries may never even need to be recharged.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: user shuts down the system and walks away in disgust
Great summary!
When you find something funny, search it for the hidden truth. ~G B Shaw
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I have better plans, I would use NoWeb browser and it helps me increase the battery timing by over 75%.
 The browser that takes 10 seconds in just starting, and has no sense of "not showing a title message over other applications" is going to increase my battery timing? Good sense of humor, by the way. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The same lawyer who successfully sued Gawker Media over Hulk Hogan’s sex tape has now sued the online publisher again, this time representing the Massachusetts man who claims that he invented e-mail in 1978 at the age of 14. Because that's how you prove you invented something
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Kent Sharkey wrote: claims that he invented e-mail in 1978 at the age of 14
Everyone knows Charles Babbage[^] invented email in 1824. The first email he sent said, "Lady Ada, come here. I want to see you."
Babbage called his email system, Lotus Notes.
True story.
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I thought the Egyptians invented Notes? Isn't that the reason for the hieroglyphics in the login screen? 
TTFN - Kent
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That guy and the lawyer are pieces of bovine excrement.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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One day, air testing over a theater audience could be used to review new movies. Or eat. Don't forget about that.
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That research smells funny.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The security manifesto builds on the original Agile Manifesto for software development, but adds four principles designed to promote security. Because it worked so well for development
You can take that as sarcasm - or not - depending on whichever side of that fence you live on.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can take that as sarcasm - or not - depending on whichever side of that fence you live on.
Those are 4 very important security principles, but they are nothing new at least they shouldn't be for architects and team leads.
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As written I have to dispute one of them. The first should be:
Quote: Relying on developers and testers for security instead of in addition to security specialists
If Joe Codemonkey doesn't think about security in his day to day coding you're probably elephanted. At the same time there're a million ways to elephant up the details of security critical code that aren't obvious to casual inspection; so you need to have a pro in the loop. If you're drinking DevOps along with Agile, that goes 10x for the production deployment/configuration.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand today in the second Oracle v. Google trial, testifying about the Java language and APIs, including how they were used in the market. That should put a bit of a bump in the road for Oracle
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Oracle is a bunch of wankers wanting to destroy all competition. All of them need to die a fiery death, preferably by being launched into the sun. That should give the sun enough hot gas to add a few billion years onto its lifespan. Oracle's lawyer should go as well. He alone would add about a billion years.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Sooooooo...... I'll put you down as "undecided" then?
+1 
TTFN - Kent
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Facebook has today announced that it’s open-sourcing its Capture the Flag (CTF) platform to encourage students and developers to learn about online security and bugs. If we fix their bugs, do we get a flag?
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Out in the Nevada desert today, the world got a good look at the first public test of the Hyperloop — a concept that could someday become a new mode of transportation. One small step for a rocket sled...
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You tease, you.
My interest was piqued at Nevada desert, Hyperloop had me eager to see and rocket-sled had me clicking as fast as I could, only to see a linear (electric) motor like the one I built in high-school decades ago.
Cheers for the link though. Made me remember this little gem: HOW IT WORKS: NASA's Mach 8 Rocket Railroad (720p) - YouTube[^]
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For the last two years, Electron has helped developers build cross platform desktop apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If it's good enough for the web, it's good enough for your desktop?
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Ok, so that what a pretty committed answer!
Have you taken it for a spin? If yes, How does it compare to Visual Code, Sublime, or any other common editors?
spin, see what I did there..... 
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Some days you really quark me up.
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This is very light humour, but I still get a charge out of it.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The fun and flexibility of a new Greenfield project also comes with the unparalleled responsibility of making hard, up front, technical decisions. Is it purple?
Yeah. I've got nothing here.
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