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I haven't tested WP8 devices but the default browser on WP7.5 didn't support pinch gestures so google just displayed a page saying "Your device is not supported".

Why are we still using english language? It's such an old tool that I think we should transcend from it to a new level.

It took quite long for personal computers to catch up with super-computers of 50s and 60s. Many tools and concepts might have been conceived 60 years ago but they have become easily accessible much more recently. In late 80s and early 90s most people still had to pay a lot of money for tools like C-compiler and UNIX-like systems. Internet became easily accessible only in 90s.

There are some old techs that are just now becoming easily available like transactional memory. We used to need specialized hardware for that, but now many languages have libraries for software trasactional memory. Some are even implementing it as a language feature. This development is likely due to rise of consumer multi-core devices.

I would be more concerned about battery usage than data costs.

To me it seems that taxing unwanted effects is far better than subsidizing good techs. With the taxing scheme you are not endorsing a single technology but are attacking the root cause of your problem.

For example, would coal powered power plants be a problem if they didn't produce greenhouse gases?

Nuclear waste is the problem? Put tax on nuclear waste and raise it until the tech is either abandoned or the problem is solved.

We've come a long way: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9414611/dune-II.jpg

No sound effects :(

In the DOS version you could also use 'm' on the keyboard

Have you seen how people use gif animations? Video is completely different format than animated images in today's internet. If video formats were preferable, things would have already changed.

Animated images have several advantages:

-Almost all places that support images support also animated image

-Can be downloaded and reposted (as opposed to canvas)

-No worry about audio, there is no audio

-Seamless looping

-Auto play everywhere

-Variable frame rate

These features could be achieved in a video format, but how would you convince websites that support images to support video with these characteristics?

For example, I would never let people upload autoplaying, looping videos as their avatars or as part of their comment unless I could be 100% sure that there will be no audio. I would have to inspect the video for audio and I would need different handling for images and videos.

Can be used in places that only support images. Can be used in places that don't want audio. Variable frame rate. Auto play enabled by default. Designed to loop continuously.

Have you seen how people use gif animations?

Already discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4809176

It's sad that Mozilla has not included WEBP. I cannot understand why since it seems to be a wonderful format.

Maybe they are waiting for all the promised features to deliver. So far I haven't seen working animations or lossy + alpha in Chrome so they probably aren't ready yet.

I'm enthusiastic about animation support. It's mind-boggling that we are still using an image format from 80s with crappy compression and limitation to 256 colors.

You should disable images in mails by default (the way gmail does it) or at least add an option for disabling them. Images are usually used to track if and how many times you read the mail.

You're also missing the chat.

As for your question. I would not consider switching from gmail or paying money for an email client.

tl;dr Corporations are used to email and see no reason to change it, email (Outlook) just gets more plugins as new things emerge.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I see no point in trying to replace email. It is an app just like everything else and any serious application should have some form of email integration.

Don't nested child views get garbage collected when the root view is removed?

Give, and you shall receive.

Using AMD/ATI would be a setback in terms of component quality and TDP.

The real problem with Amazon-lense is that it provides lots of irrelevant search results. I cannot remember the last time I paid for single album. It's all about subscription services now.

I do like that they are experimenting with integrating the desktop to internet services. The only thing that keeps me from disabling web services is the integration with google docs and ability to open them from Dash. The sad part is that there is no obvious way to only disable Amazon, you also lose the docs.

Attacking Apple with technical specifications?

See how well Nokia is doing with that...

Show me the code.

I think the main argument for remote X is that it is so easy to use between 2 true X11 environments. You just `ssh -X` to your target and start running programs.

On Windows or OSX though... If you were going to install X11 why not skip it and just install VNC?

It doesn't honor aspect ratios: http://dynameme.com/embed/v1/?image=abedgun.gif&topHeadl...

It doesn't check if the letters get really tall: http://dynameme.com/embed/v1/?image=abedgun.gif&topHeadl...

The text doesn't get burned on the image so I cannot use the images as standalones.

>3. You have competitive companies that export products to other nations.

Author seems to forget that these companies don't need to be of finnish origin. It's completly ok strategy to just educate lots of engineers and let IBM or other large company hire them (and pay income taxes to Finland). Educated workforce does create value even if there isn't silicon valley of start-ups in Finland.

I wonder how many of non-adopters use jailbroken devices.

They're going alphabetically if you haven't noticed.

The images switch quite rapidly. I prefer the rate they have at http://filtermusic.net/ One per song could also work.

I think you should use some transition effect for images.

Controls clip at the bottom with Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9414611/turnchannel.png

Hudson -> Jenkins

OpenSolaris -> OpenIndiana

OpenOffice -> Apache OpenOffice

MySQL -> MariaDB?

VirtualBox -> ?

The number 1 reason is the practice of letting you click all the way to "ship to address" screen before telling you that they cannot ship the selected item to your location.

This is extremely frustrating! Why are they advertising products they are not willing to sell? (This problem is rampant in Finland, probably not applicable to USA)

Sell it through Cydia to jailbroken ios devices

There are also people who seem to systematically copy ideas from english-language-only or US-only web services and make a localized copies of them to some EU-countries.

Of course they might just come up with the same idea and find that there isn't a version in their first language, who knows.

Anyway, you can make an almost carbon copy me-too product to a new market and be successful.