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In the United States, the definition of what qualifies as an electronic signature is wide and is set out in the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act ("UETA") released by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) in 1999.[8]. It was influenced by ABA committee white papers and the uniform law promulgated by NCCUSL. Under UETA, the term means "an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signatures

You can type a single letter on your keyboard or just simply click a button for a contract to be signed if there was an intent to do so.

Products that tend to be modest initially and improve and prove themselves rapidly tend to do better than products that are hyped up beyond all proportions.

Your link creation needs some work, however. I can't paste the link into a non-RTF box (this input box for HN, for example). You should reverse-engineer how Safari creates links when they're copied to clipboard and do the same.

For example, if you right click on any title on any website, and copy a link, you will notice that when you paste it to an RTF box, you get the same behavior as what you currently do but when you paste it into Terminal, you get the URL. When I paste Dropsend "URL" to Terminal, IRC or to Safari's address bar, I get nothing.

  * MobileMe 'back to Mac' integration
  * 802.11n
  * guest Wi-Fi feature
  * dual-band Wi-Fi
  * 500GB TimeCapsule
  * Wi-Fi printer hub
  = $299

* Silverlight doesn't run on PPC Macs

* lots of video quality issues: poor picture, blockiness

* lots of audio syncing issues: audio is several seconds behind on many videos

* can't revert back to the old player once you "upgrade" and most customers are saying that they were conned into "upgrading" by Netflix.

Finally, this all started in November of 2008 and comments are still pouring in and it's March of 2009.

Say what? Look like the sun? CFL or LEDs are just white light sources. Most of them are not even full spectrum and they're not mean to 'look like the sun' at all.

All this program did was cast a yellow/pink overcast over my screen. If you're doing some graphics work, this is useless.

If you're on a Mac and your eyes feel tired from a lot of light late in the evening, give this a try: http://docs.blacktree.com/nocturne/nocturne

And which app does? MS Office doesn't look native either. Neither does IE. In fact, very few MS apps actually use their guidelines and default widget sets. Office, for example, has a completely different widget set and even has a different toolbar (ribbon).... not to mention a completely different window chrome and that big round button in top left. And many other Windows apps don't follow the guidelines either.

A non-native UI that looks the same on Mac, Windows, and Linux would be the answer to such a browser OS. It would indicate that Chrome is its own product - from the codebase to the user experience - and that to the end user it shouldn't matter what OS you're on.

Except that people today do use different OSes and nativeness does matter! Inconveniencing and annoying your users with an intent to make them aware that your app is somehow different is opposite from what you should be doing: conforming to their learned patterns of how their UI works and making the transition to a new app painless and 'invisible.'

I'm in complete agreement with Goodger on this one: none of the cross platform widget sets feel native on any of the OSes. Firefox still feels awkward on OS X and has a lot of deficiencies in the way the text boxes work, keyboard navigation for assistive devices. In-browser widgets like buttons and drop-down menus are just off when you compare them with native widgets (drop-down in particular) and feel weird.

They invoke that 'the uncanny' feeling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncanny They look like the real thing but aren't and give you that uncomfortable feeling.

If you take a look at the charts of top visited web sites, you'll see that the answer to that question is quite clear and that the Web 2.0 has conquered the Web.

Now, the fact that a trademarked search term 'web 2.0' is losing its steam is O'Reilly Media's problem since that's their property. You could say that Tim O'Reilly has been pushing it so hard that he was too successful at it.

But like some other Google acquisitions, this one didn't work out that well.

But seriously, they're getting very little for this "tuition." Unless they have Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla or Marc Andreessen mentoring them, I wouldn't pay a dime.

Huh? They should be paying THEM to participate! What value-add do they actually provide? If they're mentoring, what credentials do they have? From what I can see, they interview you and tell you your idea/product sucks or rocks and either boost or crush your ego. Is that all? You can find a desk in some quiet office for less than that amount and hack something out on your own and let the market tell you if your product is any good.

They don't even say if they're taking any equity for this 'service' that they're providing... but they must be. They also don't say how exactly they'll find your project once your own funding runs out. They're throwing the $1M figure around but they're not saying that they'll be actually providing you with that amount of funding or they expect you to make $1M by then end of 2010. My guess is the latter.

Competing with Google is like competing with MS in '90s... a really hard proposition.

I'm placing my bets on JRuby, Rubinius and MagLev in the meantime.

I grabbed these two products but haven't had the time to check them yet:

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/amiphd/iphone-sdk-development

http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-bdiphone/writing-your-...

Passenger's great if you have a lot of RAM (say over 1gb). If you're on 256/512Mb slices, I'd stick with nginx+mongrel (or thins) since that combo will utilize less RAM and won't swap.

Finally, you should test and see for yourself how the app performs when you load it with httperf or something like that.

I'm thinking about adding SSL and removing IP logging to facilitate communication. Not sure yet what the best solution would be.

I have one! Recording audio and video :)