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Or you could add the Captcha in this case.

If he works with a team, he already has git as a backup. In the event of a drive failure, the others won't have the changes he didn't push but Dropbox probably does.

I seriously think they write long texts explaining outages so that people won't read it.

Good luck not reading things thoroughly.

Maybe it's just me, but the CSS3 rendering uses more of my CPU than the image scrolling.

I don't agree with Like. It's good for socializing, but not for this.

I've never heard anybody say they 'like' an article from Wikipedia, but they might find it interesting, so they'd +1 it.

If you use XP Mode, it still works only on XP.

That is not a native solution, it's just a workaround.

Ending support is only going to make it worse.

Google and Mozilla are committed to security. Microsoft is too, and that is why they postponed the ending of support. It will be a chaotic world if Microsoft stops releasing security fixes to XP when it still has a big market share and allows malwares, botnets, etc. to be installed and propagated easily.

> Benchmarks aren't real world applications. I don't care if it takes 1s rather than 0.5s to run 1,000,000 operations, if all I ever need to do is run 5 of them.

You are clearly forgetting where the web in general is going to. Browsers today serve as a wrapper to applications and NEED to be fast. Not a single web application today uses only 5 or 10 or 50 operations.

> IE has made a small impact in the speed of development of web sites.

IE has made BIG impact in the speed of development. The fact that it has not kept up with other browsers only made that worse.

Even IE8 rendering and its javascript engine have problems. Those are not present on modern browsers and it obviously impacts development because IE needs to have specific testing and specific coding (mostly workarounds).

Did you expect other browsers to be like IE, so that we could have a "standard" on not having standards?

I agree with you. Microsoft itself said (some time ago) that many of Windows' crashes were caused by third-party software or drivers, and I believe that. Even so, they reduced the number of crashes that occur, and greatly improved crash-recovery (you rarely see a BSOD happening these days).

My PC has never had a crash with Windows 7, but then, I chose the hardware by hand.

On what was "Startup time" benchmarked?

I've never seen a PC take 2 min to start Windows 7. Unix would be seconds.

64-bit build for Windows?

Can you please provide a link to that, I'd like to test/use it.

So many apps and sites lack this "feature". Because of that, now I need to call it what it isn't.

What about youraddress+something@gmail.com? It's pretty useful, but still people can know your real address.

I can seriously see this happening.

   > if music recommendation is not what you want

Grooveshark is not very good at that. You should know what you want to hear before you go there.

Sharing or receiving? I'm Brazilian and even though I don't have much to share, I'm here to grab some knowledge.

I believe it only shows up once. I've seen it the first time I went to TechCrunch today and now it isn't displaying anymore.

Also, it appears to show only while the page is loading.

Except it won't absorb anything if the snow reflects all of the light.

It makes sense to absorb heat when there is little or no snow, but it doesn't at all when snow covers all of the surface.

I won't believe in those findings until I see a correlation of beauty/IQ and family income.

I've never seen a person that grew in a rich family be downright ugly.

I believe people here know better, but that should be the advice to anyone who uses Facebook.

Is that a rounding?

  1337 * pi/100 = 42.00309...

[] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1337+*+pi%2F100

I know this is slightly out of topic, but since the author mentioned it, after seeing his presentation [1] on VP8 vs H264, I can't really agree with his conclusions.

WebM clearly outruns H264 on HD video. It doesn't lose color information and some image details due to compression, that can be seen quite easily on the HD video comparisons: the first one shows very different lighting, which can also be seen on the second, that is not to mention the "airbrushed" neck of the guy (and face, but not so noticeable).

[1] http://www.streamingmedia.com/conferences/west2010/presentat...

Probably because the Google Crawler registered all "google beatbox" links leading to that page.

People have used this feature before to "fake" results, although this time it is clearly legit. It's a shame Google doesn't register hash (#) locations.

> - It's the electronic equivalent of a clean desk. It makes a clean impression when other people look on it.

I don't think they are equivalent. Your desk is just there for people to see it, but email is much more personal. I wouldn't want people messing on my e-mail, as I don't want them messing in my drawers . There is nothing to hide, but they are not an open book.

Teflon is not removed with water.

My bet is they will only change that when they lose their 1st place on market share.