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You still be able to use flash 11.2 and receive security updates for another 5 years. Unless there is going to be massive progress for flash (which we already know there isn't) this isn't really news. They are basically saying if there ever is a flash 12 it will not be supported on linux.

Near the end of the show the reporter asks a Foxconn executive whether they would be happy to let Apple pay each employee double what the currently received. He responds positively and says this is good for the Chinese economy. One must understand that Foxconn is competing against products that could only be produced in an advance economy such as the US. It gained it's status through low wages and now has won the market.

Most manufacturing businesses owned by the Chinese middle class are competing against other undeveloped Asian economies that have lower wages than China. Most of these manufacturers are against wage hikes because it runs them out of business. This is a very hot political issue in China as the Government has said in the current 5 year plan that it will be moving parts of the country away from cheap labour manufacturing. The Government's plan is to ban migration of labour to developed cities like Shenzhen and Wenzhou.

I wish some of this context was explained in the show.

The way things are going desktops are getting TOO powerful.

That a CDN can't solve?

Competitive providers exist in the US. I just don't think anyone is as advance as OVH in terms of price efficiency so I'm no expert on them.

If I was you I'd just rent a server from ovh.co.uk / kimsufi.co.uk / hetzner.de/en and use a CDN. I am basing on your performance requirements that this is not a local gaming service. The advantage you have is you can upgrade to new hardware every year and the hardware is not your problem.

OVH is building one of the most advance networks with over 1tbps. Their 10gbps servers can actually push 10gbps which just gets me really excited.

So, it makes sense that he actually quit and then distorted the story to make himself look more special.

Don't forget to spend some of the money to lower your costs and then lower the fees. This field needs competition to make the old players uncompetitive and run them out of business.

What is he entitled to?

Wasn't he fired?

Of interest, the FBI could not find his birth records.

He was being considered to an appointment to the export council. Lots of testimonies about his out of wedlock child, drug use, and dishonesty. For and against. The FBI concludes in support of Jobs.

Also, in 1985 he received blackmail for one million dollars or 4 bombs. It's right at the end.

Nothing post 2000.

The power of these phone does not stop to cease me. The tegra roadmap is just amazing: http://blog.gsmarena.com/28nm-nvidia-tegra-4-details-surface...

It was Rob Pike from the slashdot interview. http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pi...

The real shame is that inferno never became android. It was around early enough. Had the right feature set. I guess it was not in Google's backyard (America) and had lost it's backbone a little to early.

I guess when Google was shopping for mobile OS they were also looking for a talent grab. With Inferno by 2005 most had already left.

Unlike Raspberry Pi, this already has commercial success in China. Many Chinese brand name tablets are using the A10. Allwinner has already reduced the price to $5. The A10 is very successful in China because it offers the best performance and power optimisations in this price range.

At $25 Raspberry Pi is a joke. If it actually sees a decent amount of sales, you will be sure to see actual companies that specialise in this field competing at lower prices and better performance. Raspberry Pi has realised something that everyone in the industry knows: computing is cheap. It will not take long for the competition to crush Raspberry Pi if there is a large enough market for what they are doing. As for now they are chasing after the tablet market and IMHO are going to do well.

Actually, you can access the servers that host the youtube flash videos. For example, using a VPN start loading a youtube video. Then disable the VPN. It will continue loading.

Like what Apple does?

Guess some of the Chinese iPhone copycats using Android are following this model to some extent.

I'm on Chrome 16 and it happens in other browsers.

I wish they gave an option to turn this off or at least they would disable it in China.

Google has a lot of connectivity issues to China. Having the link be redirected makes using Google a lot more unbearable as the connection hangs like 50% of the time.

You do get an incoming number that would cost a lot more with localphone. You see localphone is a business and needs to make money. OVH thinks it's a charity just like Google. Maybe a little more generous. I absolutely love their kimsufi.co.uk servers.

If you are in the UK, I would recommend to check out ovh.co.uk 's voip package. Should work out a lot better than localphone.com

I'm a localphone customer here as I am not in the UK. :/

Yep, the first phototypes of Android devices were very blackberry like.

No real need for me to bring in China and socks. The same would be true photos, business cards, and books.

If the theory behind this article was true then tube socks would be made in your local store as opposed to some factory in China. If the socks business can't leave the factory, why do people think 3D printed good will leave?

All this progress will lead to is Chinese factories having smaller workforces. I visited a sock factory with a work force of a few thousand people producing few million socks per day. When you get to such scales your biggest cost is management oversight, which is why manufacturing is going to stay in large factories.

Interesting. :)

Any rulers out there want a calendar named after them?

That is because most the Chinese are hard working and do not work on a 7 day work week. Most Chinese get X days off per month or X days per 10 days if more than 3 days off per month. Not X days per week.

I believe most Ayis get 1 day off per month. Factory workers 1 day off per 10 days. Office workers 1 day off per week.

Actually, with the bigger factories their workers are getting 1 day off per week (e.g. established textile factories, foxconn, etc.).

Instead of DST, we will be starting work and school one hour later for half of the year. We have universal time. It's GMT.

There are many people who don't care what time it is in another country (domestic jobs and the unemployed). There is no real incentive to have everyone relearn what time they get up and go to sleep.

So in a matter of a few thousand years we have gone from Emperors (Caesar) dictating calendars to scientists proposing new ones. :)

These type of reforms were quiet popular in the beginning of the 20th century. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Calendar

Had this proposal been suggested a century ago. I would have a good feeling it would have been made a reality since it doesn't interfere with a 7 day work weak.

Today with computers, it isn't really necessary. Anyone is able to check when July 1st will be in 2500 without calculating. So it is not likely to gain to much interest except in by theorists.

This proposal introduces an artificial calendar that is neither solar or lunar but realigns every few years. It is quiet a novel idea.

The Jews did similar engineering in their calendar system. The rabbis did not want some holidays to fall out on certain days of the week because of varied reasons. So they engineered rules for the leap years and new months to happen in a pattern to prevent this.

The Jewish calendar is lunar but realigns itself with the solar calendar. It need to be certain Jewish holidays always accure in the same season.

I rarely use Godaddy but I did recently. The reason was unlike name.com their website is not full of bugs. And unlike namecheap.com they take AMEX.

Really would have preferred not to use them but I did end up using their $1.18 coupon. So lets say I ended up abusing them.

You can transfer them using the next cheapest transfer coupon to another provider.