It is a jarring experience when you lose adblock. Was dicking around with chromium and managed to break my plugins a few months ago. It had literally been years since I had seen the unfiltered net... yuk :)

I am not sure that follows. Even if every android app used google's mobile ad platform, which isn't even close to being reality, the conversion quality matters. In fact it matters a lot. Even CPM contracts are highly non linear with quality. At least they were when I was around the business in 2002ish.

PS: Looks like google currently has around 1/4 of the mobile ad space;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-12/google-millennial-media-take-ad-share-away-from-apple-idc-says.html

Is it possible to do the same thing with built in data manager in ICS? I know it can be configured per app so I guess the real question is, can it be set to zero?

I got this:

[*] Detected addon: AdBlock (gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom)
[*] Detected addon: TinEye Reverse Image Search (haebnnbpedcbhciplfhjjkbafijpncjl)
[*] Detected addon: Scientific Calculator (npoipmeppdioagbkigdlnpmjphnolaog)
[*] Detected addon: Personal Blocklist (by Google) (nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef)
[*] Detected addon: YoWindow Weather (fanogbnclpilemkifpjeglokomebpnef)

It missed Backspace As Back for linux, Kill Flash and Keep my Opt-Outs. Oddly, I don't feel violated. I had always, incorrectly it seems, assumed that a web app could request a list of available plugins.

state machines are for cowards :p

Except it is about the size of Jupiter. The Mayans were way to lazy to build something like that, hell they couldn't even finish their calendar.

Speak for yourself..

Thanks, not sure how I missed that.

BTW, I would swap ballot and soap so that they are in order of effort.

As far as I know there have been exactly zero details about WP8 released. Although it is certainly reasonable to believe that MS wants to consolidate their markets it isn't clear that enough can be stripped from Win7/8 to make it work on phone hardware. And, it is a near certainty that no force on earth can push win7/8 down to the new 256MB ram devices that were just announced for the "tango" version of wp7.

It also begs the question what will happen to the existing silverlight based wp7 apps. Win8 "metro" apps are, as far as I know. written against the new WinRT APIs. Even if the migration is quite easy it isn't clear that an app written for the desktop will work on the very limited resources of existing WP7 devices.

Nothing will. This has been the case forever it seems.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2855744/google-play-in-app-payments-wallet

That's pretty amazing since the original iPhone didn't have apps at all. The apple app store its self didn't exist until mid 2008.

Nerds! You made me unmod :(

A shock absorber is a piston in a fluid column. It's force is dependent on the velocity through the working fluid.
A spring on the other hand produces a force proportional to its displacement not its velocity.

Confusion could arise because modern cars don't use separate units but instead use a strut assembly which is a shock + spring.

While you are probably correct that the DRM & Linux people have little to do with it you are way off base as to what is the real problem at Sony. Sony finds themselves on the wrong side of pretty much every quickly evolving high tech consumer device.

They were very slow to move away from CRT production which they were very strong in. The ramped up their LCD production just as the bottom fell out of LCD pricing. They are now attempting to catch up in the OLED space which ironically wouldn't exist in its current state without Sony R&D.

They were slow to move from tape to CD to digital music and lost the entire market.

Their once dominant position in the console market is gone. They are actually being out innovated by Microsoft. This isn't even the Microsoft of 15 years ago that was trying. They are losing to the Vista Microsoft.. it boggles the mind.

tldr; They are losing tons of money because they have become really slow in the fastest moving consumer markets.

Because Microsoft believes, and correctly so, that no matter what they do to their OS PC manufacturers will still preload it on all of their hardware. This will lead to more developers targeting metro apps which, in time, will lead to a more robust ecosystem for their phone platform.

No, I don't. I was responding to the assertion that the 10% of people that do use Office are the "productive" part of a company. This has not been my experience. In fact I would go as far as saying that the use of Office is negatively correlated with productivity.