siamore

>They made it quite hard to find in the search provider list

yeah it's not as easy as in firefox, this was how it looked

http://cdn.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/image318...

but now google has bubbled up to the top

http://www.iegallery.com/en-us/addons?callback=true&featuret...

I find the term "Microsoft Account" to be disingenuous as it can be any email ID (my friends use their GMail) and that is a really nice touch since you can login to all their services with just your old gmail or whatever ID.

No, according to an interview with the president of Xbox Live only internet specific features like smartGlass will need a connection, some games that use such features may optionally require a connection[1]

[1] http://www.wpcentral.com/xbox-one-no-bc-not-always-online

I don't think so, not for just flagging but there does seem to be a way HN can find this type of behaviour and ignore the actions of users that abuse the voting system. read this for some more info http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

No one can down-vote posts, but posts that require attention (moderator related?) can be flagged to indicate that the link is to something that is outright bad (spam, inflamatory content, false information etc) and if it gets flagged by a lot of people it falls down the front page.

There's probably something else I don't know about the ranking algorithm though.

But they were only required to incorporate support for ODF in office[1], and it seems like they have complied[2]. is there any relationship between ODF and DOC?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/05/22/us-eu-microsoft-id...

[2] http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsof...

The article says that having the syntax is not a bad thing but doesn't really say what it has over LISP's simple syntax, expressiveness? easy to read for people unfamiliar with the language? AFAIK the one thing it definitely allows is to be able to write a program and common tasks in just a few characters, which is great and all but not the strength of perl and definitely not needed in all situations.

LISP syntax OTOH is as he said easy to pick up and parse while still allowing all the expressiveness any other language can have (even without more syntax like the lambda character).

But there is a similarity between the two, the outstanding syntax. I don't know about others but I'd attribute it to C's popularity more than anything else and with most other languages following it (JS, C++...) it seems like it should be standard or something, I've seen far too many people avoid learning languages due to syntax without realizing something much more important: They might be turning down a language that can save them tons of trouble later if they just get past the one time step of learning the syntax, so listen to the author, perl is a great CGI language, and if that's what you need just learn it. other languages may be easier to learn, may be what's hip now but I'd bet perl is still better.

Who forced them? I can't find it on wikipedia, in a google search or microsoft's site all I found was

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

I even checked the references, the MS page adds nothing to wikipedia's info in this matter

http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/o...

I use firefox with a lot of tabs too, a few things I do are

* if you haven't used it yet look at the barTab lite x addon,

* I also try to use RSS readers for sites I regularly visit

* I use Clearly (I don't know if it's as good as readability but it also allows me to clip to evernote)

Mostly, when submitting a post I refrain from changing the original title but I thought "How zsh is more useful than bash" would be better than the original. BTW I'd probably feel the same way too but the deck seems to be well received

I had just switched to zsh and found your deck when searching for something like "zsh features", I thought "hey this is great for starting out with zsh and maybe a good post for HN". Thank you for releasing it for everyone to see.

Well after seeing this [0] and this post [1] from the other guy, I think that while he might have done nothing wrong, he did get a lot of attention, just the wrong kind [2].

[0]http://i.imgur.com/Na2Xkh0.png

[1]https://twitter.com/manveerheir/status/320064992080691200

[2]theVerge http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/5/4185938/adam-orth-speaks-on..., Neowin etc,

EDIT: removed wrong info about Sony's CEO responding to the original tweet, thanks @maximilianburke

Yeah you're right, The dell XT with capacitive touch was released in december of 2007 with a capacitive screen, the iPhone was released on june of 2007, I thought the op meant the iPad.

>Tablet PCs didn't even get capacitive touch until after iOS devices came out.

That's not true, I own a HP Tx2 which was released before the iPad and it has a capacitive touch screen it works great and before it there was the dell XT2 too.

Isn't representation of resources what the semantic web is supposed to be about? if I wanted to make someone understand the semantic web I would say something like this,

ontologies are data with corresponding metadata about everything on a domain or site.

These ontologies allow the data to be parsed automatically, i.e sites like amazon could just make their data available as ontologies and third party sites could "read through the sites for us". These third party sites serve as a portal from where we could ask for what we want and they would in turn look through the sites available (eBay, amazon etc) using the ontologies and get the best deal for us.

Actually you're right, multiple downloads is working fine now, it might have been V19 or maybe the site was updated anyway its now fixed, thanks for the heads up!

I just tried the YouTube plugin, it's really great! but it couldn't force 240p (I have a slow internet connection so i need to have this low quality option) and there is a keepaas plugin for chrome too [1] it even has a version for Firefox! but from what I read in its description, keeFox is the better addon.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromeipass/ompiai...

Thanks for the suggestion, I already use DownThemAll but it could not even grab the download. It may be the site's fault, once I click on the download link it opens a new tab and the download starts, on chrome I can start another download but it gets stuck on Firefox, it may be that the page was made with chrome in mind idk.

I too have switched Firefox as my main browser, so far I like the better addons,

* ad block is much better

* addons work in private mode by default,

* an addon to use keepaas as my password manager

* many addons that allow me to customize youtube which i could not do in chrome (force 240p etc..),

* I missed Instant search but Firefox already searches bookmarks better and with the instantFox addon i can also search any site ala google instant and ddg

Better in chrome

* Addons by HNers (HN in chrome is great with a few addons like tldr.io, HNbox)

* Firefox seems unable to do multiple downloads as well as chrome (I'm unable to download multiple videos at once from coursera when using firefox)

* some chrome store apps

* Developer tools (which I don't really need)

I don't see much of a performance difference (maybe Firefox is better now or it may be hardware accelerated as I'm using Windows)

Does google glass not use the wearer's smartphone?

Regardless of whether the computation is done locally or not, he has been working on "augmented reality" using glasses, a great asset for google he may even prove to be.

Other CU-RTC-WEB aspects like the ones which focus on providing more customization as to how the network transport is handled could be integrated with WebRTC, this would allow more control over how the media is handled in transport, CU-RTC-WEB doesn't specify which codec to use so the final standard might as well just choose webM and opus.

From what i read on Ars, [0] IE seems to have something else called CU-RTC-Web a competitor that doesn't require SDP like webRTC does, an IE to chrome demoing it was given recently [1], from what Ars said it may be that WebRTC could run on CU-RTC-Web, hopefully that or we have two "standards"

[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/micros...

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2013/01/17/...

> You mean except the most important review of them all - the Windows 8 review, which got an 8.8 score, and was written by a guy who used to write Microsoft-related articles?

yes that would be one, but that does not refute what i said.

>> It makes me really think twice about any articles on The Verge regarding Microsoft.

I was asserting that The Verge do not seem to be partial to MS and i think i'm justified in saying that.

>The Lumia and Surface RT reviews which were written by Joshua himself were far more objective and fair

True but it's just not the norm.

I used to read The Verge and i don't think I've ever seen many articles or reviews related to Microsoft shown in good light, for example even when most other sites reported Gmail active sync support being dropped as a bad move, The Verge reported that as Microsoft not supporting open standards (which was true) and in the review of the Nokia Lumia 920 the camera was rated the same as an iPad camera with the reasoning that the quality was not needed and cameras like the iPhone's were what customers really wanted

tl;dr they never jump on MS bandwagons

your'e right, the top answer provides great insight. I was actually surprised it wasn't already posted here.

could i have one? my email id is siamoreslr@gmail.com

> If I am doing a desktop search for local files

Even if the search is remote the user must first be consented if his data is being sent anywhere else for any reason, like how IE doesn't send search terms for suggestons by default until the user clicks "Turn on suggestions (send keystrokes to bing)"