jsonscripter

Odd, Chrome downloads a .mov file when I visit that page.

What was wrong with Java, may I ask? It's what's been on phones since 2000, and it's what Android is throwing it's weight behind.

Interestingly, Celtx (http://celtx.com/) is a screenplay editor built out of Firefox.

And now we have the code! Woo!

There should be much rejoicing.

And here in Canada we pay 30$/MB for over-the-air data, and a 5Mb (that's mega-bit, not byte) internet connection is almost 50$ per month. That's also pretty much the fastest you can get even in the capital (Ottawa). God I feel like I'm living in a third-world country.

And here I am on Hacker News.

Homepage? I don't even have a homepage, just whatever tabs I had open last time.

So, one concludes that that Vista 7 has more hype than Vista had? Is that what should I be getting from this?

What happens when the outsource work isn't to your quality standards? You've wasted a lot of time already, and now you have to dispute it and waste some more time.

If you build it, they will come.

There's no such barriers in Japan, where it is common for one to pay for items using your cellphone. They can also order things on their phone by taking pictures of a standardized 2D barcode on a flyer or poster.

The hardware has caught up, it's the telecoms that have not.

Yes, there were cutbacks, but they are continuing to support the neo.

Sounds fine to me. They aren't locking you into anything. All their technologies are open and free, it's just that no other companies can offer Google's quality and breadth.

They're talking about if you took samples from colonies hundreds of kilometres apart, the ants would consider each other family and part of the same colony. This is astonishing, since usually ants fight anything that is hostile to their colony.

Well actually I think I made a valid point, I just put in that quip at the end because I thought it was relevant commentary. I basically said there are less expensive alternatives that I believe are better, and yes I do realize my zealotry is slightly naive and/or ridiculous out of context but is entirely relevant in regard to pricing of said operating system.

Still more expensive than my operating system.

Backflips on to a motorcycle, screeches tires and zooms away

This sounds like feature bloat to me. Next thing you'll want is a friend and foe system, and all other reddit features...

I was once typing in my password on a box I forgot I had converted to Dvorak. I was almost panicking because I was so sure I was entering the password correctly.

This sounds like something that should be handled by the user agent on the user's request.

The authors of this article were one of the first to challenge the early claims about the effects of file sharing. Years later, many other economists have followed suit (including the study funded by Industry Canada). This latest paper does a nice job of expanding the discussion, by using the data to examine incentives for creativity and the effects on aggregate creator and industry income.

They should have an encoding standard for characters that are not in the standard character set. I've see base64 encoded images in CSS for a long time. Sure, it takes up a lot of space, but isn't this the best of both worlds? Of course, the images could be SVG or a sort of typeface definition. It doesn't matter because it's base64 encoded.

Of course, I'm not trivializing the problems with internationalization. I'm simply pointing out that there are simple solutions to some of the problems, such as this one. I think the biggest problem with character encoding is getting people to agree on a standard.

It's sooo slow. Best to wait a few days I think.

HTML5 needs an IDE. Hrm, there's a problem that needs a solution...

I would love to! The other day I was trying to figure out why a particular bit of code was added to libpoppler, but the author had compressed all his commits into one massive 800 line commit. Totally useless to me.

If I did, I probably wouldn't...

Nifty. Not at all what I want to use Git for, but nifty nonetheless. I like seeing my mistakes and reasons for doing things.

I would just like to add that monopolies do not deserve the same rights as ordinary businesses.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/

It would be nice if there was a dialog that lists a number of browsers that can be downloaded and installed automatically.

Using google wave, no less!