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Definitely used it alot when travelling around Europe. We still have inflated fees for date roaming here, so having offline maps comes in handy for visiting cities abroad.

This put a smile on my face. There's something nice and simple about it.

While reading it you may have also noticed the fact this person is Polish, meaning English is not their first language.

People actually watch Glenn Beck!? That would explain alot!

Why is this a subscription pricing model?.. if all the data is stored on peers Space Monkeys, then the only ongoing cost of keeping it running is electricity for the unit and bandwidth for the connection.

Unless it's a way to draw out more money over time from the user?

The huge market may keep Windows in the game longer than anticipated is the often-overlooked monopoly they have with DirectX, and graphic drivers that work (reference to my recent experience using Ubuntu for a while with nVidia hardware)

Can we organise 1 day where nobody tests any web application in IE6... just to see if there's actually anybody left using it IRL? :-)

Could you possibly take some time to tell us how the switch from Linode went and how you feel about it now? (I'm a Linode customer)

What is to stop a malicious person standing next to you saying

"Ok Glass... rm -rf /" ?

I'm a web developer that implementes designs given to me. Most often in modern times they include custom fonts. I always just ignore this and go with the closest system-available equivalent font.

Reasons: - Delayed rendering of text (as per OP's link) - adds a considerable extra payload to download before the page is rendered. - UX and responsiveness on a site is way more important than the first impression of a nice font IMO. Yes, I agree fonts can help readability, but the standard fonts are not that bad.

Ack! I wish designers would not always augment their designs with good looking people smiling, it only slants the emotional reaction in the designs favour when the real content in practice will rarely be as pretty/optimistic.

I think all designs should use unfavourable photos so as not to influence the overall design... e.g - http://i.qkme.me/3sfkf8.jpg :-)

Otherwise it's a vast improvement over the current FB

'Redmond is (still) evil' it seems :-)

Curl is great to have, but remembering all the options flags is a pain. Nowadays I use:

Chrome: "Postman" extension

Firefox: "REST Client" addon

...both great utilities for creating and saving any HTTP request you need.

They are going to be patenting sandwiches next!

Wow, I use Chrome on my HP Touchpad running ICS and I think it's great. I was surprised as I had previously always been happy with the stock browser.

I think the BBC 'Origins of us' series covered this in an episode also. They conclude that where humans evolved from in Africa changed from being lush forest to grassy plains at one time. We as a result had to evolve to catch prey and as there was nowhere to hide, we had to out-run the prey, hence no hair and sweating.

I currently just backup my digital photos (~20Gb) to S3 via replication from my QNAP NAS... works out about $3 per month... I'll probably use the option they mention here to auto move content to Glacier from S3 coming soon...

"In the coming months, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) plans to introduce an option that will allow you to seamlessly move data between Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier using data lifecycle policies."

Like the "Video playing" checkbox on the left? ;-)

If you are willing to use HTML5 'magic', could you not stream the JS down via a web socket and then execute it? That would prevent most of the conventional HTTP intercepts from having access to the code.

They are perfect because they charge $70 for gigabit fiber. period. :-D

Does the local Tesco have those price-checker barcode scanners in the aisle's... That's a good place to check if the fake barcodes work.

This is crazy!

Looks like the same thing but just in Chrome... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

Brilliant, I have a use case for this, nice timing :-)

Ahhhh, now I get it :-)

Would be interested to see a demo or screenshots also!

Doesn't currently support Internet Explorer?! That's a deal-breaker still unfortunately.

He uses Flight Simulator 2002 via networked machines for each screen!... I'm surprised he couldn't get one rig to run all the screens now. Really impressive setup.

Anybody tried one of these? the imWatch? http://www.imwatch.it/ie-en/

I'm curious to hear what they are like...

disclaimer: I too succumbed to the Pebble deal on Kickstarter... Moooaaar gadgets!!