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dirtboxon Opera 10 disappeared from YUI A-Grade Browser Support Chart ?

Being a long time Opera user, I find the regularity with which Opera gets the cold shoulder highly irritating. Also a very odd move considering it'll be on the European Windows 7 alternative browser option list in a couple of weeks.

dirtboxon Vinyl record grooves under an electron microscope

I always wondered how stereo was achieved. God bless Wikipedia!

dirtboxon Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering

I think several people nailed this when the story broke, it really was a pretty superficial observation for such an apparently broad analysis.

Slightly off topic, but it just struck me that I'd like to see app icons in the task manager and windowed programs highlighted in some way. The unabridged list of processes is a little too lengthy if you're looking to quickly nip something in the bud. I know there are task manager replacements, but to me they're not as intuitive.

One for the Win8 suggestion box maybe.

dirtboxon Ask HN: got to 33 in the App Store. Now what?

Honestly? Make a sequel with more features/games ASAP and drop the price of the first to $1.99. You'll have your very own cash cow.

Assuming of course that it didn't take you a year to create the first.

dirtboxon Vinyl record grooves under an electron microscope

Shape of the grove. The needle is vibrated from side to side.

dirtboxon Google Voice, explained

I've been using it for a while, but it's nigh uselss to me. I can send and recieve SMS and get voicemail but, being in the UK, I can't do anything else. VOIP involving Google Talk would be the absolute charm.

dirtboxon Full screen, in browser, Flash 10.1 content shown running on a Nexus One

Block the element.

dirtboxon How Unique Is A Unique Visitor?

Half the "unique hits" on my old Blogger are me.

dirtboxon Full screen, in browser, Flash 10.1 content shown running on a Nexus One

Indeed, Flash has outlived it's usefulness and created a lot of lazy web development. The faster we move away, the faster there will be something better.

dirtboxon Vinyl record grooves under an electron microscope

I hue shifted the 3D one for blue/brown lenses incase anyone's interested.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2hr25go.jpg

Also, original link http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/cml/opt307/spr05/...

dirtboxon Full screen, in browser, Flash 10.1 content shown running on a Nexus One

I like this new, under pressure Adobe. It's almost as if they're trying to please people rather than save their own skins.

dirtboxon Weird Google Search Page

They seem to have pretty obvious purposes:

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=boot&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/microsoft?hl=en&q=boot&btnG=Se...

You can create custom google searches for anything, it's as simple as appending a couple of keywords and terms to the search string or limiting the search to a few URLs. I've used it a few times in the past. Stands to reason there would be a snappier URL for the more obvious and popular searches.

http://www.google.com/cse/

dirtboxon Holographic Display

I was wondering the same. I imagine the material structure is tiny, multifaceted particles that reflect a different colour / value at each angle of incidence. I'm not certain how you'd do that with a realtime display. but if each of those particles had an OLED on each facet it might work. Extraordinarily expensive, mind and even then it's a pretty big if.

dirtboxon Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android

Sure. Their entire drive recently has been to prove to Apple and the rest of the world that they're worth keeping around. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this release has been pushed forward by a few months.

dirtboxon Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android

I smell a rushed out product here so there's not a lot of hope for it having been fully optimised in the way flash has been for Windows (the video was using 8% CPU on my win7 system btw).

But at least they're actually fighting back with something other than cheap digs and made up facts and figures this time.

Maybe they fired the PR department and hired better programmers.

dirtboxon Sarcastic Font

I'm saddened that you didn't write that in bold, italic caps.

dirtboxon Google introduces Labs for Google Maps

No all that ground breaking in itself, but really hammering home the feeling that Google is pulling out the stops this year. What next, I wonder.

dirtboxon 4chan's moot takes pro-anonymity to TED 2010

There's more to 4chan than /b/.

For example http://dis.4chan.org/prog/

dirtboxon Opera Software Released Opera Dragonfly as an open source project

I really hope this is a step they mean to extend through their browsers. Opera have always struck me as the most innovative of the browser developers and I often look to them to see what will be commonplace next.

dirtboxon Ask HN: Are you over social networking? What is next?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

The next big thing might be some way to actually use the internet for something productive. Crazy talk, I know.

dirtboxon Help my startup pick a new logo

Being honest, I'm not particularly enamoured by any of those in the main link or singularly any in the second.

I'd probably go for the hat in this: http://99designs.com/designs/3702194-original Combined with the monocle and text placement in this: http://99designs.com/designs/3682895-original

Although not with those particular fonts. Something deco and 20's would be nice. Cicle or even Futura would work at the right weights.

dirtboxon Opera Mini Coming To Multiple Platforms And Handsets, Including iPhone

It's a trap!

If Apple rejects it's application, Opera will complain about a monopoly to the EU with some words about a closed system intentionally preventing competition and... Stop me if you've heard this before.

Theoretically, if they got in bed with Adobe and included flash support, Apple is going to have a real problem on it's hands.

dirtboxon Adobe: 7 million people attempt to download Flash each month

Love it or hate it, flash still counts for a lot of the entertainment sector's web functionality. Apple should admit that many of it's users miss that and will continue do so with even greater poignancy when the iPad ships.

This will rage on until HTML5 is able to replicate and improve on every function of flash.

dirtboxon Adobe: 7 million people attempt to download Flash each month

It's more likely 7 million users per month hitting a page with flash on it is somehow being translated into an attempt to download.

dirtboxon Adobe: 7 million people attempt to download Flash each month

Read the article. It's about iPhone users attempting to download it.

Assuming there's no smoke and mirrors (unlikely) it would be the best piece of leverage so far in this increasingly pathetic squabble.

dirtboxon Anonymous hacks Australian Government in response to Internet censorship

Useless. They wouldn't find anything on the kid's computer, in all likelihood he clicked a link on an anonymously created website that ran a script from his browser. Once he's released all he need do is post his story on a blog and he'll be international news within a month.

dirtboxon AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challenge Intel in laptops

ION is the integrated GPU chip, the CPU is usually an Intel Atom. ION does a remarkably good job decoding HD video if hardware acceleration is enabled within the media app.

dirtboxon Anonymous hacks Australian Government in response to Internet censorship

It wouldn't make any difference. Anonymous isn't a set group of hackers, it's quite literally anyone and everyone that wants to get involved at any moment for any cause whether for fun, such as sabotaging Time's most influential people list, to objecting en-mass to outlandish proposals such as these censorship laws.

Labelling Anonymous as terrorists is essentially labelling the general public as terrorists.

dirtboxon AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challenge Intel in laptops

Laptop graphics are always a minefield of barely adequate hardware. I really hope this, as well as Nvidia's ION chipsets see an end to these dark days.

dirtboxon Built-in hex editor used to unlock hidden Panasonic plasma TV features

Some shots of these "exciting new menus" would be nice. I'm always interested in free functionality hacks, but without any info as to what that functionality might be, the stakes are a just a little too high.