OpenMIKE

>Web application development is made orders of magnitude easier with cloud computing.

Just curious: what exactly do you mean by this? i.e. - how does cloud computing help with web app development?

Oops, totally misread it. Reading skills -15 for the day.

Nay, according to his linkedIn profile, he's already left google.

I'm wondering why they seem to have gone relatively light on the Honda FCX, but denigrated the Telsa with what looked to be willful misrepresentations (the whole '13-hour charge' thing)?

>Why do you care how fast your browser is?

JavaScript runs outside of the browser as well (I'm using it for my current project). So, yeah, I care about the accuracy of the performance tests.

Someone recently regifted a 32GB flash drive to me. I could not care less that it wasn't in the original packaging.

Nothing wrong with that at all - that actually sounds really reasonable. Is anybody doing this? I'm getting to the point where I'd pay for most of the stuff that I'm getting for free now - if I had some sort of contract that would give me some recourse in case things go awry.

I've been thinking about this lately - about giving all of your data to a third party and hoping they don't go out of business or erase your account (for whatever reason).

Issues of software freedom aside, I think the key to making people trust the cloud is to make the data contained in the services more transitive. Essentially, creating a standard Import/Export for the web. i.e. - If I decide to switch to vimeo for my web video needs, I'd like to be able to import all of my videos from youtube without much fuss (or make a local backup). That's not a great example, but it's the general idea.

Hmmm...after I think about it, this pretty much boils down to: "let me get at my data in a format that I can read."

Not for me. This 'trick' stopped working for me about a month ago, so now I have to use the cache links.