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> Programming was seen as clergy work You probably mean "clerical"?

For me the slides (also previous slides that worked before) broke after the embedded Carmack Youtube video. Must be some conflict between WebGL and Flash.

Yeah, I'm having problems too. The server seems to be overloaded, lots of HTTP requests for graphical resources (PNG files) fail. Check the Javascript console for errors. If loadin…

Ah. So your interpretation is not that the driver actually crashed, but that it simply was overwhelmed by the workload, and didn't respond properly within the timeout limit as set …

Heh. Screen went black for a while, after which: "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." Using an old NVIDIA GeForce 6200 with driver 8.17.12.7…

Earlier this year, Spotify put more restrictions on the services they offer to their non-paying users: http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2011/04/14/upcoming-cha... . For example…

Did you consider compressed JPG/PNG on disk versus uncompressed raw image data bitmap in RAM? A 1024x768 32-bit image is 1024x768x4 = 3.145.728 bytes when uncompressed.

Is this really the case the IP blocks can be sold onwards? I always thought that IP address allocations were assigned by IANA (through the local regional registries like ARIN and R…

Well, one could argue that the patent system supported innovation, namely the original innovator Philips. :) This guy just was too late, someone else beat him to it.

Yeah, true. Fortunately the MSDN subscriber downloads inventory is publicly browsable: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/defa... From there we can see the dow…