And? A lot of Americans come to Canada for medical care because it's cheaper to pay cash here than to pay their insurance co-pays, etc, in the US.

Go back and read the original part of this subthread. The point was that when flash was originally ported those API's were undocumented / secret, and it was only after awhile they became available, at which point Adobe started using them.

It's more likely to be a legal concern. Big corps like Adobe have teams of uptight lawyers that stop them from doing anything even remotely legally questionable.

Calling undocumented API's "just because some dudes on an open source project do it" is not a legally defensible position.

Flash ran like shit on Mac's, for sure. Ran great on Windows, generally. I have no idea what Linux users were/are forced to endure.

This isn't exactly true, though, a lot of people keep repeating it.

Fact is, there are well written flash apps and poorly written ones. The same can be said of javascript, I have gone to some "cutting edge" HTML5 pages and had them bog my browser down as well. Writing shitty code isn't limited to flash developers!

I'm not saying flash is great, I'm just saying this particular argument is kind of bullshit and no-one really thinks it through.

In a way I kind of like that flash is around still because advertisers still use it so if you block flash you block all that nonsense. Once advertisers catch on and switch to all HTML5 ads will be more tricky to block.

Every once in awhile these Thinkpad stories come up, and I generally read all of them. This is possibly the best comment I've read on the subject.

Someone at the top of the Thinkpad product division should read it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think my Thinkpads look better than Macbooks. It's a matter of taste.

That they are also built like tanks is also nice.

He's not real bright.

You can pretty much use Windows 8 just like Windows 7, just the "start menu" is now fullscreen. Press the windows key, start typing what you want, bingo.

While this is a fair point, I chose to compare IE to FF because Microsoft is a massive corporation with nearly unlimited funds to solve this problem, and Mozilla is not.

With their resources they should be able to match or even outdo a browser like Chrome (another browser with a boatload of dough behind it). There's really no excuse at this point.

I ran the test with IE10 on Windows 8 Pro (release version). I'm not sure how much more "final" it can be?

The real question is, how does IE10 still score so poorly on html5test.com...a sad 320 (+6 bonus) vs. Firefox's 372 (+10 bonus).

It seems insane to me that MS is still this far behind.

Not really, at that point the cost of serving will be built into the advertising contract.

Not only that, but we already do this for clients who want to serve ads that are larger/heavier than our standard ad units. It's a pretty standard business practice - you'll get x impressions of your ad unit, which can be no larger than y KB, etc.

How do they think this will work in a world where we're all getting dinged for bandwidth? If connections were still unlimited, great, but otherwise this is a bit of a non-starter.

Newpapers use targeted ads, just not to the degree as online. There are ads for rich guys in the business papers and ads for blue collar dudes in the papers with the "sunshine girls" on page 2.

Oh man, only $350? I'd pay that filing fee!

You have just described a Slingbox. While they are great they address a different need.