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Sorry, you would need a satellite in geosynchronous orbit to do this. And $8k satellite will get you an orbit of 192 miles above the earth. Geosynchronous orbits are over 22000 miles above the earth.

Does anyone know what "AT&T’s recently recommended formula" actually means?

Actually, the select box options are transformed into a list of divs with some javascript to make it look like a select and then the original select box is hidden.

I do understand your point about using the right tool for the right job, however Apple is arguing both sides. Either cross platform standards are a good thing, or platform specific features are a good thing.

While web applications and native applications are different domains, they are not different enough to mean different reasoning can be used. An end user doesn't really care if something is built using HTML5, flash, or compiled natively. They just care that it looks cool and does cool things.

My head started to spin when trying to reconcile points 1 and 5.

Point 1 states Adobe Flash has proprietary features and the standardized open feature sets of HTML5, CSS, and JS should be used instead.

Point 5 states 3rd party layers limits development to the standardized features and leaves out the proprietary features that makes Apple unique.

Opera -> View -> Fit to Width

I don't think they really ignore it.

Quote from article:

Merchants who handle less cash, meanwhile, bear fewer costs for counting it, calling the armored car, and theft by employees or armed bandits.

It might be machine dependent. For me on an AMD Semperon:

Opera 10.5 alpha: 700.8ms +/- 0.8%

Chrome 4.0.266.0: 840.4ms +/- 4.2%

More details from the Opera developer blog can be found here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/12/22/from-all-of-...

Username indicates this is Amy Bennett, employee over at ITWorld http://www.itworld.com/abennett

Very clever. Have you considered making the slider non-linear (the distance on the slider between Yuck and Meh is smaller than between Good and Awesome)? If most people are going to rate their tea somewhere between Good and Awesome, it allows more of the slider to be used.

Have you received enough ratings with this new interface to know if my assumption of ratings being clustered is accurate?

I've decided that "steep learning curve" doesn't have to do with mathematical graphs at all. Saying something has a steep learning curve is the same as saying there is a barrier to entry. That barrier is knowledge, and a steep path over that barrier indicates a lot of of basic knowledge is necessary to get past the barrier.

I always thought that productivity was on the X-axis and the cumulative summation of effort was the Y-axis, and the steepness of the curve was about the large size of the derivative. But now that I write it all out, that is probably too much math to attribute to a common phrase.

An alternative revenue stream is affiliate programs some of the big job boards offer. Most pay on a per applicant basis.

According to the senior VP of the crash institute, the cloud was dirt from the 50 year old car, not rust.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/more-details-abou...

Don't confuse "premature optimization" with "no optimization". As you and jrockway wrote, there certainly are more exotic data structures that are more appropriate for a text editor, but until there is enough of a text editor to do actual tests with, then choosing one of the options is premature.

From what I read, the programmer's intent was not to write the most efficient editor, but to write an editor and see how the internal program structure will evolve as it becomes more efficient and/or feature rich. That knowledge and experience is sometimes more valuable then knowing what data structure to use.

I applaud his efforts to avoid premature optimization. It's amazing how fast computers have become; storing the buffer as a string and that string gets regenerated every time a key is pressed.

Also, permanently save whatever zipcode I enter (as a cookie or something), so that I don't have to retype it when I come back to the site at a later date.

My camera test search query ended up getting good results after modifying it to "powershot -battery -cable -case -protector -charger -adapter"

Would it work to attach a "accessory word blacklist" to the end of every search query that does not explicitly have one of the accessory words in it?

They author could have just posted a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change and be done with it. This isn't exactly news.

You are correct. The theory is that if the trusted domain X is willing to embed links that point to domain Y, then the browser should be ok with it to. No additional notification passed to the browser.

When EV certificates came out (the super HTTPS verification that turns the address bar green), Opera developers and the standards body had differing opinions about this very issue. http://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2008/05/23/lowering-the-ev-ba... I bring this up to show that it is a tricky issue and even experts in the field disagree about it.

And I think you are making my point for me. Which would be a more personal website: a blog with some computer nerd's face on it, or a blog with a corporate logo on it?

If a person's profile picture on a blog doesn't reduce the readership, then why would it on the splash page of a game? If the looks of a person mattered, the only popular blogs with profile pictures would be hot girls.

Park mentions people might think piracy is "a victimless crime against rich fat cats and celebrities who don't really need the money". I wonder what would happen if instead of a fancy logo of the development company at the beginning of a game, there was an picture of the developer/development team with his/her/their names. With a picture, the faceless corporate entity becomes an actual person with a name. Has this ever been tried before? I suspect if it ever became too persuasive, then the crackers might just remove the picture, but it is a thought.

I dont know if is the same person, but a guy sells these on ebay: http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&useri... I bought one as a Christmas present for my dad a couple years ago.

"Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them." http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html

Technical details at http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-unite-developer-pri...

It is being discussed http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/devel/html/docs/pdds/draft/pdd... but not much has been documented yet: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Parrot_Virtual_Machine/HLL_Inte...

IE has the backing of Microsoft. Firefox, until Chrome came out, had the backing of Google. Safari has the backing of Apple.

Marketing and marketing budgets has a lot to do with it. Opera supports most of the extensions that are popular on Firefox http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/2006/07/04/top-150-popular-fir...

Another solution would be somthing like what arc does: only download the file once and cache the result. http://catdancer.github.com/lib.html

No need to use google cache when wikipedia keeps the history of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fravia&oldid=2...