grimboy

Well, roughly and someone may have a better answer. Data is collected in a structured, systematic way, and the sample is carefully chosen. Anecdotes are not structured or collected in a systematic way, but worst of all the sample you've taken is the people who've chosen to speak up.

Drifitng off topic, but the Paralympics are already sponsored by ATOS, the company the UK government has put in charge of taking social security from the genuinely disabled.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/may/21/paralympic-games...

As far as I can tell, it's referring to the sandboxed iframe.

Not that this sort of thing should really be encouraged, but this type of verbose/laboured parody/troll/nonsense would probably be more appreciated by /prog/.

The fact that you're not using it yet is almost a necessary condition for it being groundbreaking. The basic technology for the iPad has been around for ages, but the real innovation of the iPad is getting everything working smoothly and cohesively in a way that previous devices didn't. You may well be using AR of some variety at some point in the future but it will be some refined version with the kinks ironed out.

On the upside caffeine can reduce your appetite so it may be an overall win.

It's interesting to note that history shows that in general the cheap and nasty, simpler, consumer level technology often wins over more seemingly more appropriate technology. In hardware for example, see Ethernet winning over other stuff around at the time and commodity PCs beating "big iron" for servers.

I like FPGAs too though and am definitely egging them on, but winning may involve somehow smuggling them into something mass produced, which may be a problem since mass produced hardware will usually prefer an ASIC. We will see.

It's fine as long as you don't name any political party by name I think.

Yes. If it really were able to deal with arbitrary Javascript sites this would imply that Google had solved the halting problem.

I'm pretty sure Google crawls with a client that looks like a real browser to check you're not doing thus type of thing.

What I'd like is something like this that would also try and gather up stuff from info and /usr/share/doc/PROGRAM/ or whereever it is on the current system and possibly even online docs and try to present them in a reasonably consistent fashion, or at least have it all accessible in one place. But that's a little more ambitious. Also it'd have a terminal program that was a shortcut to remote open a tab in your browser and focus it. The latter would be nice for this.

Nobody can change the past. Pictures of faces are good in articles about people and events since humans are wired to respond to faces so I don't see that it didn't add anything. Therefore I'm not sure that it was out of line. But it's possible that I'm just tone deaf to to the polite/compassionate thing here.

If you want to stay within the law my understanding is that you need to distribute patches against decompiled Skype rather than decompiled Skype with patches applied, otherwise you're distributing a derivative work. This may still be a legal grey area though. IANAL, you ANAL, we all ANAL and that.

Your password is 1password too?

He's not getting in bed with them. I'm sure if he finds he can no longer say what he wants to say he will stop. It's a purely pragmatic decision afaics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore#VideoCore_ICs are comparible chips. Presumably there Broadcom will sell versions of the beefier ones with the 3G turned off.

Yes. It is however important to express outrage to make sure Kickstarter know we find this situation, if true, to be not acceptable.

Being invented more recently isn't sufficient to make something better, it must also have compelling advantages.

Yes. You can leave it open somewhere all the time and check up on it like idling on irc. Pointless? Perhaps, but people like it anyway.