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One positive change I noticed is when I'm searching for something related to C#, Google now retains the # symbol in the search suggestions rather than changing my search to C. For …

Well summer is December to February, so April is a fair way off... Perhaps they could do away with the stupid idea altogether and say 2nd quarter 2013 if they can't be more specifi…

I'm generally pretty optimistic but I feel that I should push back against the crowd a little here. Plenty of people say "I'd use it", but who will say "I'll pay for it"? If you're…

Why the down vote? The education bubble is not a global phenomenon, and there are plenty of great working educational models in other countries that the US could look to (even if i…

I think you need to qualify your point a little.. American middle class parents. Middle class parents don't have any problem doing so in plenty of other countries.

I live in Australia, I'm in my late 20's, I've got a pretty good software dev job and I pay about 25% income tax (which includes 37% above $80k). I don't know what the real tax rat…

The big question is: would you pay for it?

Slightly further afield, communist Australia has major skills shortages. I doubt engineers would have serious visa problems.

Yes, mainly to reduce bandwidth and download quota usage. Given that I haven't bought anything through browser ads over my ten or so years of web surfing without adblock, I don't f…

I'm not sure how many people living outside of the US would actually consider it to be the 'greatest country on Earth'. I certainly don't want to live there... Not sure if this is …

It'd be one extra byte for 64k etc assuming you scrap the one byte magic marker.

If this technology is legit without problems with animation and lighting etc, what will it mean for the costs of game content creation? You still need artists to create the models,…

As an Australian living in one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world with socialised health care, education etc, all I can say is that I love my very high standard of li…

Does anyone know if there is any code available for this algorithm? I'd love to get my hands on it.