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Why only 50% of the ad spend? I think the article makes the case that all ad spend is moving to digital. Probably not ever reaching 100% but a lot closer to 100 than to 50.

Cool project. How long until the norm of video capture is 3D? Funny that they put the nose & mouth on it to "reduce creepiness". I found it had the opposite effect on me.

Should we be worried about this? Sounds like there's some growing pains at Github but is this really trending toward some kind of meltdown?

thanks for clarifying. i read it as "you have no idea what you are talking about" and missed your hyperbole completely. sorry about that :)

This is the most interesting story I've read in the build-up to the Super Bowl. Much more interesting than all the fluff pieces about an obscure, special teams player.

i thought MSFT was merging in Sunrise features into Outlook, which I find to be terrific on iOS for mail and calendar

one of your sentences is actually true.

HL does it great

true about black so colors might look different.

TechCrunch had a piece on this today (http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/02/ar-startup-magic-leap-raise...)

I find it interesting that the top image (of the floating robot) has the text saying "no special effects" whereas the gif of the elephant in the hands (been available online for awhile) does not. This tells me that all the videos/gifs we've seen (the elephant, the whale splashing down thru the gym floor) are "aspirational" (AKA "bullshit").

Don't get me wrong, the floating robot is cool but this is doable on HoloLens (yet to ship but coming in Q1). Definitely seems like there's a real risk here of overhyping MagicLeap.

EDIT: Fixed the link to TechCrunch...If you saw the other link we're hiring :)

Is IPFS proprietary? Have they even gotten far enough along yet to really know?

OneDrive having a web client doesn't make it open. If you think about OD as just a way to access and share files then it's probably open since the web client will run in any modern browser. However if you think of OD as a platform of sorts then I wouldn't consider it open since, to my knowledge, MSFT controls everything about it and it's not standardized.

yes was nearly impossible to buy one for me here in US

Everything you say here is 100% true. Mozilla believes in the open web and, I'm speculating, they didn't like the direction of closed mobile ecosystems so they had a go and tried a different approach.

I applaud them for trying.

Fair points. I think it's more nuanced. Native apps are great and necessary for many scenarios. However, there are a ton of native apps that could be just as functional as a responsive web site. Sure there were issues with discoverability which the app stores helped with in the beginning (now I think it's just as hard to get noticed in the store as it is on the open web).

I don't think "web apps are the future of mobile". But I do think there is a better separation of native apps and mobile/responsive web apps.

IMO the bigger reason to lament the loss of competition here is the app model: Firefox OS was pushing for "apps" to be web apps. That seemed a lot more open to me than pushing for apps to be proprietary (Android, iOS, Windows, etc.). As great as mobile devices are, their walled gardens stifle creativity, privacy, and choice.

10 PRINT "Knock, knock." 20 PRINT "Who's there?" 30 PAUSE 10000 40 PRINT "Java" 50 END

Microsoft continues to shoot itself in the foot here. Nearly two years ago at BUILD they announced universal apps for Xbox One. A year later the new term, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), was being used and another promise of opening up Xbox to app developers. Xbox has yet to really open up for app devs.

The second leg of UWP's 'write a single app and have it go everywhere' was mobile. We've all seen how that's been going.

The final (and biggest/main) leg is traditional Windows. They whiffed badly with the Windows RT devices. Now all the tablets are running the full-blown OS. That means they all run Win32 apps.

Win32 is good enough so why would a developer port their app to UWP when the first two legs are either unavailable or have a very small install base of customers?

I'm saddened by this because I am not a fan of the current state in mobile where everything is an app. I liked their idea of having 'apps' be about the open web. Sure, native apps can be great but I don't want to be locked in to anyone's proprietary platform.

Verizon has paid many billions of dollars to license spectrum over the years. It is in their business interest to charge customers $10 per GB of data while offloading the traffic onto free spectrum. Qualcomm wants to sell millions of new chips that will be required to power this new scenario.

It would be extremely unwise to let them push LTE-U thru without lots of independent testing and analysis. Even then there is a case to be made for keeping some spectrum 'open' and unlicensed lest we see it all end up owned by a handful of corporations.

Sees the world in buckyballs. Never played with an actual ball.

This is great news. Now all we need is a proper terminal in Windows that includes Python out of the box ;)

Here's a video presentation from I/O that has more background on the doodle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc&hd=1

I met Marcin at SXSW back in 2011 where he talked about this project (and other doodles). Some more info is here http://searchengineland.com/behind-the-scenes-with-googles-d.... Also invited him to come speak at Microsoft to share more about his work (some interesting internal debates about a Googler coming to talk at MSFT ;)

this reminds me of iPython. similar?

All these comments, while interesting, miss the point: how on earth does one trust Google with their router? Google makes some great products but their entire business model requires them to hoover up more & more data from customers.

That's not a company whose products I want to use anymore. Not for email. Not for search. Not for a thermostat. Not for a realtime JSON database. And not for listening in to all the data in my house.

Requires VS so you're out of luck on OSX (see the relnotes at https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/releases/view/614706)

(Speaking as someone who knows the folks behind the project) Actually, the reason this exists is because Peli, Nikolai and some other folks wanted to create a way to program your phone using only the phone (i.e. how do you make apps for your phone if that's your only device).

I google things using Bing. How can I get this to work?

Thx for sharing that. That article says nothing about SCOTUS ruling so I wonder if this will eventually be challenged at the highest court.

I can't imagine a business owner going to prison as you suggest.

(Any lawyers here who could weigh in?)

Could a company nullify gag orders if it was their policy to post ALL their correspondence on their website? For example, AcmeCo gets a request from the US Government to share information about one of AcmeCo's customers (e.g. WikiLeaks). AcmeCo scans and posts this letter (as it does for everything it receives including its electricity bill) on its website. Could they then circumvent the gag order this way? What would happen to AcmeCo?