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by rhplus 15y ago
FWIW, Silverlight does run on OS X[1]. The demo link above was for WPF. The Silverlight version is here: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/ [1] http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/...
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by rhplus 15y ago
The article mentioned "graceful degradation" but what is really described should coming from the the other direction as "progressive enhancement". As the author mentions, only enable each version of scripts and styles to browsers that suppo
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by rhplus 15y ago
Instant short-links is a nice idea, especially if you're aiming for the Twitter market. Progressive enhancement would be good: the background doesn't render correctly in IE9 making the main text impossible to read. That applies to the homep
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by rhplus 15y ago
Perhaps there's a distribution deal or popular website in South America that requires Chrome to function best (Orkut?). Or perhaps, as you said, it's just a network effect.
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by rhplus 15y ago
The bias in the user population for a site that teaches web development is going to be huge. The link you provide states: "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using al
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by rhplus 15y ago
The worldwide mobile browser market share chart is iffy. They're suggesting that Safari Mobile (i.e. iPhone + iPod + iPad) accounts for 62% of the market. The numbers are based on web-page visits to sites that are part of the 'net applica
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by rhplus 15y ago
I think the key phrase here is "employee owned Macs". They don't say what the equivalent results are for "employee owned Windows PCs", but I'd bet they're in the same ballpark. And when they say "owned" they really mean "administrated", mea
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by rhplus 15y ago
I'd like to see a live comparison of content available on Amazon Prime (free streaming) versus Netflix, Hulu and any other subscription services. Has anyone built such an interface? Am I just describing something that Boxee/XBMC arleady doe
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by rhplus 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if the password is being checked on a remote system, then the variance in network transfer time is going to far, far (by many orders of magnitude) outstrip the difference in time a CPU takes to compare
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by rhplus 15y ago
The blog is still up, and has some great stories: http://childsownstudio.blogspot.com/
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by rhplus 15y ago
There was a This American Life episode a little while back that had a counter example to this anecdote: sometimes there is something in your process that makes your product special but you don't even know it until it disappears. Audio here[
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by rhplus 15y ago
Does "fiancee" even have any legal defintion in the US? Nobody signs anything when they propose and I'm pretty sure that states don't recognise it as a legal status, at least not until various common-law cohabitation conditions comes into p
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by rhplus 15y ago
Abstinence _education_ was the point of my comment. South Africa, the origin of this product, has been subjected to various abstinence-only education programs from outside sources and these are known to have negligible results[1]. Anything
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by rhplus 15y ago
There are two huge problems with this service: trust and privacy. Trust: a one page website is asking for access to my Gmail account. As far as I can tell, this means it gets access to everything 24/7. EVERYTHING. Holy crap. Because of the
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by rhplus 15y ago
Silly video. Everyone knows that abstinence education has been working flawlessly to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancy.
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by rhplus 15y ago
SkyDrive coupled with webdav and your favorite sync tool will get you 25GB free: http://www.google.com/search?q=skydrive+webdav+25GB And for completeness, here's a bunch of other file-syncing services: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar
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by rhplus 15y ago
The plane was diverted. Perhaps it just went out of range of a GOGO ("AirCell") tower? After all, it did end up in Denver on its way from NYC to LAX, so it's feasible that instead of following a popular route with good AirCell reception, it
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by rhplus 15y ago
I always associated Microsoft with a medium-dark blue, perhaps because of the favicon? http://www.microsoft.com/favicon.ico
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by rhplus 15y ago
Guessing the brands here is quite difficult, because the color samples have come from many different sectors. I don't think many people would be able to differentiate between the blues for LinkedIn and AT&T, or the magentas for Flickr a
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by rhplus 15y ago
$225 gas/electic bill on day 6. Do they charge for utilities in advance and without a grace period in Durham?
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by rhplus 15y ago
I tried multiple browsers before realizing that you need to mouse over the text for the effect to appear. I didn't see that mentioned anywhere else.
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by rhplus 15y ago
That's exactly the problem with this service: nothing really fits any of your current projects. If none of them fit now, what are the chances they'll have something that fits in a week? A month? Looking at the list of domains on offer, half
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by rhplus 15y ago
According to Energy Star, electronic devices (TVs, computers, etc) only account for about 4% of home energy consumption, so I'd doubt that device usage patterns is much of a driving factor here. Almost three quarters of our home energy is s
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by rhplus 15y ago
Given that the mean length of a year is 365.2425 days, Office 365 only needs to maintain 99.93% uptime to stay true to its name.
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by rhplus 15y ago
Sure, I read the article and I get that, but those are user expectations based on existing Windows PC behavior. In a 'post-PC' world, computer devices don't behave like that. Users will come to expect instant 'on' and only one possible 'off
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by rhplus 15y ago
No. The right response is to have two modes: on or off. A user shouldn't have to understand the difference between blank screen, sleep, hibernate and shut down. The iPad can do it, smartphones can do it. A user just wants to turn it 'off' w
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by rhplus 15y ago
Boot/sleep/hibernate performance will be one of the features that makes or breaks Windows 8. It's all about the tablets and laptops. A laptop and - more importantly - a tablet needs instant on/off like an iPad or a smartphone. That means ul
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by rhplus 15y ago
Here's a flashback to a similar post in 2008 about the fundamentals work done for Windows 7 boot performance: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/08/29/boot-performan...
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by rhplus 15y ago
My comment above links to the ghost-town that is *.KIDS.US, which - with Congressional support - tried to do exactly that. It failed then, and would fail now. http://www.kids.us
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by rhplus 15y ago
This is what the KIDS.US domain was supposed to be. Their directory lists fewer than 10 sites that successfully signed up. All of the content is dead or stale. Just how do you police any sort of dynamic, interesting, ever changing content?

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