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65816 has a 16-bit stack pointer.

Disk throwing has been a standard demo/copy party event since the dinosaurs roamed the earth (at least in Finland). I remember there being a disk throwing compo at Assembly '92.

Well yes and no.

Sure, you will take a runtime performance hit if you do a QML UI because all the QML needs to be parsed.

But then again, no it's not all javascript and no it will not suck up all of your CPU. When you write simple bindings (for example someProperty: otherPropert ? "yes.png" : "no.png") the QML engine actually detects these simple cases and doesn't invoke the javascript interpreter when it needs to evaluate the expression, but handles it internally instead. Also if you don't want to do things in javascript you really don't have to as calling QObject slots is super easy. If you stick to simple bindings and write your logic in C++, the javascript interpreter won't have much to do.

RIM's market share in 2010/Q1 according to Gartner (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/google-android-smacks-...) was 19,4% and year before that it was a little bit over 20%.

The article is misleading. The original finnish piece of news says the _use_ of unsecured wireless networks is going to be legalized. Having an unsecured home network has never been illegal.

The legislators are justifying the legalization with the relatively small harm caused by the 'lending', ease of securing the network and the difficulty of figuring out what is actgually meant to be public and what is not.

Either the writer of the article sucks at coming up with analogies or doesn't really understand what pipelining sequential logic means :)

I've had good experiences with Futurlec (http://futurlec.com/PCBService.shtml). I believe the PCBs ship from Thailand so don't expect fast delivery (unless you pay for courier service), but the quality for the price is good (and their other stuff is cheap too).

I think Symbian (S60) devices have had flash since 2004 or something and they've shipped tens of millions of devices since then. Also at least Nokia's Symbian devices are OMAP based like iPhone.

I'm not saying that Adobe's Flash has had a huge impact on the Symbian world, but just to get the facts straight.

It will be interesting to see what comes out of Symbian^4. As the 10+ year old Symbian UI framework is tossed out of the window and replaced by a Qt graphicsview based new one it requires all the app UIs to be rewritten there's a good chance to see some real improvements i.e. a real touch based UI instead of touch glued on top of dpad UI.

What comes to the developing environment Nokia has taken a huge leap (ok ok any improvement of the late atrocity is a huge improvement :)) by adopting Qt and their tools. It's hard to find people who will put Qt down.

The Firefox Mobile runs ok on N900 which has RAM- and CPUwise very similar hardware to iPhones, but 2x more pixels to render.

Why would someone want it instead of Safari? I'm sure lots of people use Firefox on their Macs too. Competition usually benefits us consumers.

Do I think we will see it on iPhone? Definitely not (I'm pretty sure both Apple and folks at Mozilla agree).

Naturally it's Adobe's job to handle the quirks when generating the output. I would be surprised, if forcing developers to edit generated code even crossed their minds. It just doesn't make any sense.

Yeah of course that's obvious, but is there or is there not a company rule that prohibits employees publicly commenting on company matters like the Adobe guy says?

Edit: I just realized that you're not allowed to comment on it if there is one :)

Of course the question everyone is interested in is are you allowed to publicly comment on / criticize issues like Apple strategy, policies and technologies. So are you?

Probably because console gaming had always been closed and the introduction of x360 didn't really make things any worse than they were.

Also the game developers who would like to see open gaming platforms are probably outnumbered by the people who are now worried about a more closed general software industry => more noise.

I've done quite a lot of uC and FPGA stuff already, but thanks for the suggestion.

Assembling from a kit and developing own firmware for something like this http://monome.org/devices might be fun. Even if not used as a MIDI controller it could be a nice toy (visual effects with human input).

Usually chimping just means checking your shots from the LCD.

Some pieces of the Running the Numbers series are currently on display in the Museum of Science in Boston (which is otherwise a joke except the probability machine in the math room which is really cool :)).

Is it totally out of the question that some people might type in bing.com or have it as their browser's start page? The 42% is MSFTs share of referring sites.

That's not the same thing. Your video shows an app rendering frames of animation back and forth using the accelerometer data. The app in the posting uses the sensor data to calculate the orientation of the device and then uses that to manipulate the 3d engine camera location and orientation to create an illusion you are peeking to a 3d world.

No easy way to host digital media without setting up a website? Are you serious?

I'm not familiar with all the Android devices out there (I'm assuming that you're referring to Android device manufacturers here), but don't most of them have keyboards and trackballs vs. iPhone's slate design? Seems like two differnet form factors to me.

The iPad's form factor is a tablet, so I'd say it's a safe bet to say that tablet manufacturers will keep on manufacturing tab... I mean copying iPads form factor ;)

Some people might remember letsbuyit.com from the late nineties and early noughties. If I remember correctly it had the exact same idea. The site seems to be still up with the same brand, but it seems to have become some sort of "shopping community" without the group buying feature. You might want to find out what happened to them.

I'm nothing more than a layman what comes to things like these, but...

What's there for Google?

- Google, Apple and Microsoft can afford the license and the fee is peanuts to them. Most likely Flash will be history no matter what codec wins. - If Mozilla decides to stick with it's values and stay free (is anything else even an option?) while the web goes h.264, I'd say a significant part of people will migrate to other browsers. And come on who's going to migrate to IE and Safari isn't that popular on PC, so that's even better for Google and it's Chrome. How could a bigger browser market share be bad? One downside though would be that some smart people who would be really valuable employees and have strong personal values might get pissed off and not join Google.

- "You owe it to the public" "if you care about free software". No matter how much it sucks, the only entities Google owes something is it's creditors and share holders. Sometimes same things benefit both the public and the share holders which is just super, but isn't it a bit naive to ask a publicly listed company not to take advantage of the situation just because it would be nice? Again though there's the possible loss of love, of which effect on the business as a whole I'm not competent to evaluate.

- Mobile hardware support is important and it's going to get even more important in years to come. I might be talking out of my ass here, but isn't the world full of hardware support for h.264? If that hardware support is something really generic like doing ICT really fast and can be applied to VP8 then this might not be that important.

(Std disclaimer: I don't approve biggotry, but...)

I might be repeating someone here, but the problem is that once you start enforcing laws against things like this you also give the other party the opportunity to slap employers with false claims of sexism/racism. Which in turn might actually lead to even rational non-biggoted employers favouring (other factors being equal) groups that are less likely to make such claims if the employee is fired. Biggots are not going to hire you in the first place, so who's winning here? Ok ok, in many cases the person who hires you is not the person who fires you, so (surprise surprise) it's not that black and white.

Maybe being a heterosexual white male I'm not feeling the problem first hand and that affects my judgement, but usually when thinking these things I come to the conclusion that laws written with good intentions to abolish all sorts of nasty things end up doing more harm than good (and no I'm not a ultra-libertarian either).

Naturally statues get the same treatment. It seems though that his private parts don't need the privacy :)

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That's a great idea. I sometimes like to tinker and build things from uCs, lcd displays, etc. Taking the final step to box it up is always the biggest hurdle to me. It would be awesome to be able to build a casing out of legos (which I used to love as a child and had tons of). Parts for creating buttons to press those small clicky pcb mounted switches would be great.