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Windows 8 HTML5 apps are designed completely differently from on-the-Web HTML5 apps and Native Client apps. the carryover is significant but you don't get a Windows 8 port for free…

> The Xbox 360 also does constant updates that need a reboot. however, unlike the PS3, 360 updates tend to take 30 seconds to a minute, except for big things like the NXE and the w…

"This is easy to say as someone who has never managed a product, but I feel silent self-update is table stakes for consumer-facing products at this point." yes, but no. saying that…

not to ruin it for you, but IE 6 usage is so high in China because China has a bunch of pirated XP SP0/SP1 installs; IE 7/8 is XPSP2+ only, and IE 9 is Vista+ only. this same pirac…

the added value of a Windows 8 tablet over a Windows Phone device is that a heavily-encouraged subset of applications will run across those devices and a traditional desktop. Windo…

this is either hilarious (if he's just kidding around for PR's sake, and in reality he read the thing and took it to heart) or tragic (if he's really as dismissive as he suggests.)…

Roboto may be clumsy, but it's far from a patchwork of existing pieces. (if you look, really look , at those comparison charts, you'll notice that even the "frankensteined" source …

inclusive of that, the best term is probably "machine state" or similar.

to some extent, though, this devalues lytro pictures as "photograph-as-artistic-statement" in favor of the much more contemporary "photograph-as-infallible-chronicler-of-the-coffee…

as someone who's tried to use Mono.Cecil, it kind of sucks if you're not already developing on the Mono toolchain (among other things, there's no interoperability between System.Re…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 use PBKDF2 (plus a SHA-family hash function.) use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. us…

if you consider SMTP+IMAP/POP3 to be APIs, then this is a simple corollary to Zawinski's Law. the reduction is left as an exercise to the reader.

how do you know that this isn't due to the (small, even if we're being charitable) size of the community rather than a G+ design choice? if it's the former rather than the latter, …

this link is some tech blogger's recapitulation of a Forbes tech blogger's expose of a Daily Mail article announcing Chitika's press release. how is it any more trustworthy? at lea…

http://insights.chitika.com/2011/failure-to-launch-google-gr... is the source article. the 1200% number came from "Reportedly, Google+ saw a surge in traffic of over 1200% due to t…

it's not as clear-cut as that -- it's mostly a combination of a traditional "you should work on these things and get better at having X, Y, and Z desirable qualities" conversations…

it's not "nostalgia" in the sense of old/classic things, or at least that's what I get from his thesis. it's nostalgia in the sense of doing things because, gosh darn it, that's th…

no, obviously they went to the trouble for the licensing fees. but they did, as a side effect to the licensing fees, agree to make their invention freely-practicable -- as opposed …

a) nice "taxation is theft" dig in there. b) the entire purpose of the patent system is that ideas can be entered into a register and time-limited monopolies granted by the governm…

among other things, Intellectual Ventures filed an amici curiae brief in Microsoft v. I4I , another piece of patent litigation. on behalf of the respondents. http://www.jdsupra.com…

or, if you look at it from their perspective, they came up with the idea, went to the trouble of formally describing it and filing paperwork so that it could be released to the pub…

(AND DISABLE AUTORUN!) on the topic of disabling autorun, there was a patch earlier this year to disable autorun on non-shiny media by default in XP and Vista (it's already turned …

yup. "Microsoft thanks the following companies for working with us and for providing details of limited, targeted attacks against customers of Internet Explorer 6 : Google Inc. and…