doodyhead

Acid3 seems to be the ultimate pipe dream. It could be 5-10 years before the majority of Internet users are using browsers that pass it.

Maybe the version of IE released with Windows 7 will pass (IE 9?), but there are still people using IE 6 on Windows 2000, 7 years after IE 6's release (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Version_6) and 8 years after Windows 2000's release (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000#History).

I have yet to see free, client-side charting/graphing that works as well as commercial alternatives. We recently started using Flash-based charts called FusionCharts. They're a little expensive, but are well worth it if graphing is a central part of your web app.

I wouldn't call it unreasonable; just biased.

I guess it's hard to be objective, given the pervasiveness of operating systems. I'm sure if I ever succumb to Alzheimer's disease, my grandchildrens' names will be forgotten long before I forget how to use Windows ;-)

He seems awfully biased towards Apple icons. Admittedly, some of their icons use better visual metaphors, but I can't help but wonder if his preferences have developed from his day-to-day use of Apple software, as opposed to objective evaluation of the designs.

Cubic Telecom were not acquired. It would have been big news here in Ireland if they had been. You can see from the founder's blog that they actually just partnered with Global Roaming: http://patphelan.net/cubic-telecom-and-global-roaming-allign...

If anything, it seems like they have completely lost focus on their original, supposedly revolutionary offering and instead fallen back on roaming SIM cards (not so exciting).

Their Crunchbase profile incorrectly states they were acquired (how convenient) and the ostensible acquisition value is oddly similar to the total amount of capital they've raised: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cubictelecom