MartinodF

Well, if you stop paying for the "cloud" storage you're using, I don't know what else you could expect...

I use "Merge Windows"! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/merge-windows/adja...

You didn't get my point, probably because of my terrible english :) The browser has no way of knowing in advance if a script doesn't depend on any of the previous ones, so it cannot optimize this specific case and parse/execute the script before the other ones have been executed. You can manually tell the browser to load the scripts and execute them as soon as they're ready, in no particular order, via the async attribute. If you don't, the browser is going to assume that the order is important and load them one by one.

AFAIK the scripts cannot be parsed and executed in parallel since they're not explicitly async. The browser doesn't know if any of the following scripts may depend on the previous ones (think jQuery), so it just downloads them and then waits to parse and execute them in order, blocking rendering.

It's true that delivering them in parallel may in some cases reduce the actual download time, but given the small file sizes Apple is serving, the connection overhead (TCP handshake, HTTP headers, slow start, ...) just makes it worse. Most browsers (especially mobile ones) aren't even going to download more than 4-6 files at a time, since they're not using domain sharding.

It seems the President lives up to its meme: "if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!"

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...

FYI, the link to raining.fm at the bottom of the page doesn't work :)

"Pinning" to the taskbar also allows you to launch the first 9 (i think) programs by pressing Win+{1,9}

And they're charging 200$ for an 8GB upgrade, not the whole 16GB!

AirDroid is a pretty good start: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdr.... It lets you manage most of the phone functionality from your desktop.

Thanks for digging that up, it's indeed a very strong example in favor of good comments.

We have tons of NFC-enabled terminals in Italy, at least in the bigger cities. They're already used by Mastercard PayPass and Visa PayWave. If I could use my Italian credit card with Google Wallet (or even recharge the Google prepaid card) I would be doing half of my purchases via NFC.

Happy 4/1!

No, it's not. I'm just pointing out the 4 electric motors because they're not directly visible in the video, and their use makes the whole flying thing a bit more plausible.

You can see a pic of said motors here: http://www.humanbirdwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Tim...

I believe this could be real, but the wings are powered by 4 electric motors. He uses an HTC Android phone and a WiiMote to read the movements of his arms, and that readings are used to control the wings.

There are many more details on his blog http://www.humanbirdwings.net/project-timeline/

Edit: JoeCortopassi raised some good points in his comment. I'm not so sure this is plausible, even with the 4 motors.

Also, the title is misleading for another reason. iOS doesn't "know when you walk into an Apple Store", you have to manually open the app, which removes most of the "wow" factor IMHO.

Thanks! I looked for other entries but couldn't find them. Interesting discussion