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Romans didn't have a number zero.

Games like L4D are designed to run on Xbox which uses DirectX

Whenever I look at screenshots I always try and click the close button in the picture. Every time.

Free healthcare and dentistry

If either side is compromised it is difficult to reissue (e.g. if they are undercover in another country). The beauty of public keys is that they can be revoked and the other side can use your new key without you having to transport/transmit a private key in peril.

Some of The Muppets videos went viral on YouTube in the past few years.

Other short form work also tends to go viral, YouTube is often credited with rejuvenating SNL, despite NBCs insistence on taking down every clip

People are brands too. I almost only watch talk show interviews in clip form.

That would take 25% of the per unit price for a start. Then there's the lack of control.

Awesome Window Manager is great for dual monitors. Once you master it you can switch focus between them without leaving the keyboard.

Much more expensive per episode though

Yes this is why Sony just announced big loses. All Japanese exports are getting more expensive in dollars http://www.google.co.uk//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds...

True, but Larry said in the call that Moto will have to bid to become the halo device each year on an equal footing

Hard to believe that was the same year as Pulp Fiction. 1994 doesn't seem that long ago.

Fascinating snapshot in time.

I think we can forgive him some buzzwords as he is addressing a marketing audience.

Here is a 60min DOOM post-mortem by John Romero from the Game Developers' Conference.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014627/Classic_Game_Postmortem...

If you look around the free section of the GDC site there are a lot videos about other classic games too

Bananas ARE berries, so are watermelons and tomatoes. But strawberries and raspberries are not berries.

Berries have seeds on the inside; a strawberry's seeds are on the outside, and raspberries are little clusters they are called something else. It's a famous quiz question in the UK :)

It's not that unlikely, we have Darwin on the back of the £10 http://www.csuchico.edu/~curbanowicz/Images/DarwinTenPoundNo...

They'd probably do a special coin for 1 year though, the notes don't change very often

Vic Gundotra said that the APIs are coming but they are still deciding on features while in closed beta

That's the whole point of OAuth; so that you can sign in without giving them your password. You can revoke the permissions of any 3rd party in your twitter settings page.

I think most of the world's debt is privately held. For instance the UK is the third largest owner of US debt after China and Japan, but we ourselves have a massive public debt.

How long does it take the data to reach us?

Instant On really benefits from the fast sequential times and random cache hits from the low latency/high IOPS. I would imagine there is a lot of paging on a low memory machine.

The first generation macbook air users said that the SSD made up for the weak CPU in day to day use.

Git is a polite way of saying bastard before 9pm on TV in the UK, e.g. You lucky git. They also use it in Ireland and down under.

For a companies that sells big iron servers the Dell, IBM and HP websites don't inspire confidence.

Yes encrypted.google.com is really fast, it even has google instant, but I had to turn it off as my default choice in chrome because it won't let you search images. Video and news work but not images.

The release announcement says that Gtk3 has switched to Cairo to draw the toolkit behind the scenes:

Cairo drawing throughout. GDK no longer wraps the antiquated X11 drawing API; we've made a clean break and exclusively rely on cairo for all our drawing needs now.

As for Clutter, the OpenGL based canvas, Gnome-Shell (aka the Gnome 3 desktop UI) uses cluttter throughout. The new window manager is called Mutter which is a fork of Metacity to use Clutter for hardware acceleration and all the panels and other desktop UI are also rendered this way.

ChromeDeck is pretty great. It's an HTML5 TweetDeck app in the Chrome Web Store that feels almost native. Multicolumn layout for your lists, inline video / photos, and desktop notifications with sound. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hbdpomandigafcibbm...

They've been working on the important features first such as gopherfs

Cheap hard disks have grown faster than the last mile of internet connections over the years, creating a bottleneck. I think people's expectations are tied to the large disks and the files that they hold.

He has a self-deprecating charm. An everyman; like Homer Simpson. He's also like that snake-bite guy form Australia with a hundred scars who says 'give it here lads, I'll see if it's poisonous'

Occasionally you will see him get worked up and stand his ground but he's so enthusiastic about everything new and shiny that it becomes infectious. A little naive perhaps, but his optimism for technology and the future is a light in dark places.

If it wasn't for TWiT I'd have never of heard of Mahalo.

I like the overlapping row of tab thumbnails at the top