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Sounds like Antigua is threatening the nuclear option over online gambling. I'm not clear what sort of jurisdiction (or influence) the US should have regarding gambling by American citizens in other countries, but it seems the simplest solution would simply be to legalize it in the US.

I'm curious what business lines are being trimmed, as referenced in the article. What other lines of business (the phrasing makes me think this is externally facing business, not internal departments) is VMware involved in beyond the core virtualization biz?

FTA:

1.7.1 How to read this specification

This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.

Latency to access a SSD is calculated in nanoseconds, whereas latency across networks is typically calculated in terms of milliseconds. Order of magnitude difference here.

That being said, to an end user, the difference between 100 nanoseconds and 100 milliseconds is - probably - very small.

You are making a very strong assumption that scaling a 960px fixed width site to a viewport on a device is an optimal solution. It's fantastic I can see the entire site on my device in landscape mode; it's a tragedy that I have to double tap on a text block to make it readable.

Designers should be working to eliminate unnecessary and repetitive interactions that get in the way of accessing content.

Centering a box horizontally is simple. The original comment was referring to centering an element _vertically_, which is a much greater PITA.

2 * 1 = 1 * 2

Mathematics aside, you would've hoped that they could come up with an improvement over the iMac, instead of a copy. Perhaps the port access on the side of the base counts?

Literally just transferred all of my domain names and DNS hosting away from GoDaddy last night. Should have done it after the SOPA fiasco - glad I didn't wait until today!

I've been fortunate enough to attend talks given by both Luke Wroblewski (LUKEW, http://www.lukew.com/) and Joshua Clarke (Global Moxie, http://globalmoxie.com). Both have written excellent books on design principles and UX/UI implementation (Luke on web form design, Joshua on app interfaces and design).

If you're interested in web standards and design, http://www.alistapart.com/ is also a great site to follow.

Chris - can you elaborate a bit more on this newsletter? What sort of content it covers, how you source data, etc.? Just signed up and am interested to learn more.

Thanks!

Holy shit, Apple. It is 2012. Figure out how to do a decent window manager that lets you maximize a window properly.

At discussion here are the root DNS servers, which are at a higher level in the hierarchy than any of the ccTLD or gTLD domains. We're talking about the (.) level.

e.g. www.google.com.

That trailing dot is never used in a web browser, but it most certainly does exist.

ccTLDs are a great idea, but somewhere around 60% of the top million websites in the world are run off of .com domains; there's no guarantee that a country could block an entire gTLD or ccTLD and successfully limit all questionable content.

Just to be clear, caffeine is commonly used as a legal performance enhancer for athletes. The cross-fitter who doesn't consume a cup of coffee (or three) is few and far between.

There was a article published by Microsoft where they tested BLOB storage in a database with different size files. They found that there was actually an inflection point where the relational databases performed faster than the NTFS file system.

Link to paper: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6452...

As an addendum, ICANN derives its authority to manage the domain name system from the IANA contract (which is now being RFP'd). If the contract is awarded to another entity, this could be a significant change.

After my roommates pre-ordering it for my Christmas gift back in _2010_, glad to see this thing is finally launching.

It appears that thepiratebay.org points to a server that then handles redirection. Question: Why hasn't the .org URL already been seized at the DNS level? DiG output below:

  ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @localhost thepiratebay.org A
  ; (2 servers found)
  ;; global options:  printcmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5372
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
 ;thepiratebay.org.		IN	A

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
 thepiratebay.org.	3587	IN	A	194.71.107.15

  ;; Query time: 0 msec
 ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
 ;; WHEN: Wed Feb  1 15:37:02 2012
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 50</code>

Hate to say it, but that WH petition site is just bread and circuses.

Has any petition there led to an actionable response from the WH? Curious.

This is actually quite a fascinating article. It's pretty impressive that current technology allows someone several hundred (thousand) miles away to interact with you, yet still receive your physical product a mere 15 seconds later. I'd be even more interested to see the sort of technology behind the scenes (load balancers, load switching amongst call center employees, pipes/servers/protocols being used).

Depends on context...

...and coding fail. Put the JavaScript at the bottom of the document.

I'd paint a contrasting viewpoint, that minimalists are more likely to be rich. My anecdotal evidence comes from the millionaires next door, who live well below their means, purchase quality over quantity and value experiences more than personal belongings and material wealth.

There was a really interesting panel at SXSW this year regarding the 'Future of Touch User Interface' by two guys from Microsoft (http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5984). I think trying to create a mouse interface on a touch device is almost a regression, not a step forward. I'd much rather see improved touch w/ voice integration, better multitouch, etc.

This is a poorly written article for two main reasons:

1) No source code.

2) Incomplete test results. Why showcase two webkit engine based web browsers (Safari and Chrome) but not include a screenshot from Firefox?

3) Factual inconsistencies.

FTA:"The IE team have been chanting a mantra ad nauseum : Same Markup. That means, write once and have it render the same on all browsers. Funny, but the other browsers have been doing that for years. Seems, from the images above that it’s IE that’s unable to render the same markup."

Last I checked, implementing transitions/background gradients (etc.) in CSS required a separate line for webkit, mozilla, etc.

Some very good points FTA:

1: Provide time-billing transparency 2: Give away some free time, but make it visible

#2 was a very obvious point, but one that I hadn't really thought about until reading it. Qualifying the value you're providing can definitely improve the relationship you have with your customer.

But that's the problem - most Apple consumers don't need bleeding edge performance, but the brand is known for having high quality components in their products. Perhaps AMD could find a socket in the Mac Mini, which is already positioned as a low-cost starter machine.

From a marketing perspective, you have to wonder what sort of dilution effect this would have on the Apple brand. Apple is (generally) known for producing high quality products with plenty of power underneath the hood. The introduction of cheaper, slower performing chips to create a sub-tier of macbooks, etc., doesn't really gel with the current Apple brand image.

FTA: "Twitter will offer it for free and rename it Twitter for iPhone."