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Actually Andy promised to fix the problem that forced games to be downloaded in two stages. It was in an interview on The Verge. If I can find it I'll post it.

The cloud is using ECC memory. Your server is not. However, if you shop around you can find cheaper, faster, and better specced servers with ECC memory.

Use forums like webhostingtalk.com to your advantage.

Which at 100mbps will take about 1 second.

Web data usage != slow software

The web will be a better place once everyone has 100mbps and servers have 10gbps. Sites like the verge can load in one second without caching.

I linked to The Verge instead of PopSci mag since the PopSci article is not accessible from Australia.

I've gone through the same experience and Microsoft has galp sold me Windows 8.

Having watched their keynote at MWC I am quiet impress at what has been done behind the scenes for Windows 8. Some influence from Plan 9/linux can be seen with the new hard drive space management. The new process management seems exciting if it works properly.

Microsoft seems to have put some serious engineers behind Windows 8. For that I tip them my hat.

I can't wait till I can get the Lenovo Yoga. I'm after a laptop with an IPS screen and I'm after a 13" tablet. I think my setup for next year will be desktop/server + Lenovo Yoga + 8" tablet + 4"+ phone.

IIRC this only works in IE. If someone sniffs their network traffic they could confirm what is going on.

It was successful for Asus. Which is another Taiwanese brand.

Tegra 5 was announced last year. Intel announced their plans till 2014 today. There are two forms of announcements. Announcement of plans which is what you are referring to. And announcement of a ready product which is what I was referring to.

One of obsolete's definition is out of date. I used it in this sense.

We will remember this day as we tell over to our children about innovation in this peirod. The latest and greatest technology becomes obsolete the same day it is announced.

To further prove my point. Yesterday, HTC announced a phone running the latest and greatest Tegra 3. Later that afternoon S4 was announced.

Then it is 0.89 per TB and that's for UK customers. French customers and customers who sign up through ovh.com get a completely different bandwidth structure. They get "unbilled" bandwidth but only get a few hundred mbps dedicated with each peer. Google it. It's due to competition from online.net in france.

10gbps makes sense if you also have 1gbps servers in their network.

BTW Sonic.net is $70/m. The article was mistaken.

Most of the verge commenters seem disappointed at the news. Most of hacker news commenters seem delighted at the news.

Seems like consumers trust Google a lot more than hackers.

The collapse of Megavideo added attracted an additional 200 gbps to their network alone.

OVH is expanding into Canada too. Makes me quiet scared. They are like the walmart of the data industry.

Shame free's online.net is not competing outside of France.

OVH in Europe has 1tbps in combined IP peering/transit. They are renting servers with 10gbps ports for about $200. Just yesterday they added 80gbps to Paris. http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showpost.php?p=41454&postcount=33

Hope Sonic builds a powerful network.

There is also an American version of the story. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Kasherin...

I quiet like the feel of opening an Israeli bottle and drinking the first cup. Sad to say I have not found a similar Coca-Cola experience anywhere else in the world.

In Jerusalem it is possible to get Coca-Cola from two different plants. One is the Israeli plant near Tel Aviv. The other is a Palestinian plant near Ramallah. I can tell the difference in between the two.

The Israeli plant adds aromas to their Coca-Cola as it is common for Israeli drinks to add them. The also use very high concentration of carbon. So much that the lid can shoots off like champagne.

The Palestinian one is a lot cheaper and far better than American one IMO. So what I use to do was buy the Palestinian glass bottles and the Israeli large bottles. heh.

Maybe he was one of the two? lol Cool story. Always heard parts of it growing up never actually saw it recorded.

There are some good UI ideas. Wish the Linux desktop designers would implement some of them.

Here is a list of everyone who was affected http://bgp.he.net/AS1221#_peers

Dodo! Dodo, internet that dies. Local internet was being routed via the US. I was visiting Australia as it happened. My connection had to route to the USA get to the ISP's own DNS servers!

I hope the work on the issues before Windows 8 comes out. With Chrome being ported to Android I wonder if they will merge Chrome OS and Android. Provide a more Chrome OS app management system when dock or attached to a monitor.

Flash has been given some life on mobile via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623319

Interesting. So there will be another 3 version with the following features:

Keyboard input support in full-screen mode

Improved audio support for working with low-latency audio

Ability to progressively stream textures for Stage 3D content

LZMA compression support for ByteArray

Frame label events

ActionScript workers (enables concurrent ActionScript execution on separate threads)

Support for advanced profiling

Support for more hardware-accelerated video cards (from 2005/2006) in order to expand availability of hardware accelerated content

Improved ActionScript performance when targeting Apple iOS (What the??? iOS???)

Performance index API to inform about performance capabilities of current environment

Release outside mouse event API

Refactoring and modernizing the current core Flash runtime code base

Work on the ActionScript Virtual Machine

Updates to the ActionScript language

Doesn't seem like there will be anything new that can not be currently albeit less efficiently.

Interesting. So there will be another 3 version with the following features:

Keyboard input support in full-screen mode

Improved audio support for working with low-latency audio

Ability to progressively stream textures for Stage 3D content

LZMA compression support for ByteArray

Frame label events

ActionScript workers (enables concurrent ActionScript execution on separate threads)

Support for advanced profiling

Support for more hardware-accelerated video cards (from 2005/2006) in order to expand availability of hardware accelerated content

Improved ActionScript performance when targeting Apple iOS (What the??? iOS???)

Performance index API to inform about performance capabilities of current environment

Release outside mouse event API

Refactoring and modernizing the current core Flash runtime code base

Work on the ActionScript Virtual Machine

Updates to the ActionScript language

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Doesn't seem like there will be anything new that can not be currently albeit less efficiently.

Its more like among {NPAPI/Firefox/Windows, NPAPI/Firefox/Linux, NPAPI/IE/Windows, PPAPI/ALL, etc}, NPAPI/Firefox/Linux provides the least value.

From the press release it seems NPAPI is OS dependent while Pepper is less so.

This all assume there is actually going to be something more than security updates after 11.2 for other platforms. And that it is going to be something we would want on Linux.

They are basically saying due to Pepper there is no or little work in getting flash to work in Chrome on Linux... so there will be continued support.

The real question is if this is true, why are they dropping flash for android?

Adobe is dropping linux support after 11.2. With the except of Chrome due to a new API that "aims to provide a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations."

Given that linux really hasn't been a priority for them and they are dropping flash all together; this isn't really news.

The press release says Adobe worked with Google on Pepper. So for them to have a bias towards it isn't groundbreaking.