Last time I checked, WebOS was really snappy and smooth, and provided a great user experience. Maybe games were hard to code, but the apps I tried out when the first WebOS phone came out felt MUCH smoother than my Android phone.

There are probably many reasons why WebOS failed, but I am very confused by this statement given how well WebOS felt (And I have read the same from many many users in the Internet). The complaints about WebOS were never that it felt like a web app, too limited or that it felt too sluggish, but rather the lack of apps and devices.

Am I missing something here?

Techradar wants to talk and judge usability of the all-time favourite linux desktops, and yet their own website looks like THIS: http://i.imgur.com/IOyKu.png

I know other browsers render it centered, but that's not the (only) point, it's that their web looks awful: about 1/4 is margins, which is OK, and of those 3/4 1/4 is the content, which is split into 7 tiny sections (just give me the whole article and don't make me page every 3 paragraphs, it's almost 2012, for christ sakes!), tiny text, tiny images, and 3/4 of crap (related content, ads, menus, more related content, more related content).

It's not like they can't provide a very valid examination of linux desktops, but their site does not inspire very much credibility when they themselves get it so wrong, IMHO.

What makes you think Amazon will not be suing others for ridiculous and non-innovative technology such as buying items with 1 click? Oh wait, they already did AFAIK :)

Still, I feel Apple is more of a patent troll and more of a control freak, so I kinda still agree that they are worse, but that doesn't mean its good, and comparing to Apple would be pointless.

"When you visit, it automatically checks and lets you know if your Internet address is in the database."

Except most people don't have a fixed IP reserved for them. Does that mean I'm going to get the "warning" because someone else on my ISP downloaded content? (Yes.)

Nevertheless, it's an interesting tool, but this information is probably useless since you still need to contact the ISP in order to know who actually was using that IP in that given time frame.
Also, keep in mind that this site currently only displays a time frame accurate to a MONTH (e.g. Dec, 2011) as far as I can see.

If they were trying to scare pirates off, well: Avast, thar! I be not scared!

You missed the point, this is not about getting a new update nor not, which is another matter entirely (although not any less important).

This is about why it takes so long for updates that *are* happening to reach users. Keep in mind that even though ICS was just released, there are phones that are only now getting Gingerbread, the last major Android version. It is sad and it is a rather difficult problem to solve.

Absolutely. I doubt they can't find a model with such a body; sure they can. It's about making the process much shorter and cheaper.

I don't see anyone complaining for the mannequins not being human beings and being too idealistic. Also, keep in mind that this was done for both women and men, and yet protests are raised only for the aesthetic demands placed on female bodies.

I'm afraid I can't let you patent rectangular shapes, Apple

That would be true if you didn't have to add an important "feature" to the list:

4) Pages easily break under Opera

I have found myself trying really hard to use Opera as my daily driver. Time and again, I encountered a web page that would not work properly. From pages that would not load at all, to content disappearing when viewed with opera, to buttons and javascript not working, and a long list of etcetera. And by the way, identifying as something else other than Opera did not solve anything, so this wasn't web pages being hostile towards Opera. It was simply Opera not working right.

I tried to use it because if you ignore the serious problem of some web pages not rendering properly or not working at all, it would have been the fastest, more lightweight, speedy, agile and innovative browser by FAR.

Firefox was of course much more bloated and lacked behind Opera in many ways, so when Chrome came along and started what many would consider the best of both worlds, many of those naturally jumped ship. And then people spread the word when they find that it really satisfies their needs, and that is most likely (and grossly) what happened for chrome being so popular nowadays, and not Opera. iMHO.

On top of running debian and being fully open source (well, maybe not the hardware and all the firmware) it seemed fully functional and had great hardware. I still preferred Android because in spite of being less open, it allowed for easier development and I found it more exciting.

It's a shame maemo (or whatever they call it these days) is not going to take off, because it actually looked pretty good, had very good performance, and was very hacker-friendly. Really sad :(

OpenMoko has the flaw (and benefit) of being fully open source to the hardware. Thing is, if they are not going to produce millions, cost is going to be very high. Maybe if they focused on porting maemo and did sell millions.. but I'm not sure millions of people would see the benefit of running open source hardware, for the same reason most don't care if the software is free or proprietary. I think nokia with the n900 and Android with the nexus phones have done a great job of providing a nice trade-off between openness, usability, and popularity (who would have thought the year of the linux smartphone was so nigh! ;) )

I honestly would like to see how much console games sell vs PC games. Saying how much of that is due to piracy, I'm afraid, is impossible unless you come up with a model which is better than the download=lost sale model, which is absurdly broken.

I know vgchartz isn't a very reliable source, but according to that site, the super-top-selling game franchise CoD sells 20M. This is a non-trivial delta.
Now, maybe Steam accounts for most downloads and those don't show up in vgchartz. I honestly don't know. As I said, I would like to see some real data about sales of PC vs console. But given the a-priori data I am seeing, I would not be surprised to see that the PC has, in fact, become a very different gamer audience.

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I honestly would like to see how much console games sell vs PC games. Saying how much of that is due to piracy, I'm afraid, is impossible unless you come up with a model which is better than the download=lost sale model, which is absurdly broken. I know vgchartz isn't a very reliable source, but according to that site, the super-top-selling game franchise CoD sells 20M. This is a non-trivial delta. Now, maybe Steam accounts for most downloads and those don't show up in vgchartz. I honestly don't know. As I said, I would like to see some real data about sales of PC vs console. But given the a-priori data I am seeing, I would not be surprised to see that the PC has, in fact, become a very different gamer audience.

The fact that many games (including this one) does not sell well among PC gamers is no secret. I don't like Ubisoft because they do lots of bad ports and put very aggressive DRM on some of their games, but right now I can't blame them for being realistic. This is no WoW, no StarCraft, no Minecraft, its one of those games that can sell tons on consoles but almost nothing on PCs. It's not like this is something new, the data is there, it's not an opinion. They know it isn't going to sell well in the PC platform and I don't think you can blame them for not throwing money at a risky move right away.

I'm thinking that maybe this isn't a typo, and its intended to just avoid reading. But how would you prevent it from being overwritten, thus producing a new, rebuilt, forged but apparently cryptographically correct hashed logfile?

"journal all entries are cryptographically hashed along with the hash of the previous entry in the file. This results in a chain of entries, where each entry authenticates all previous ones. If the top-most hash is regularly saved to a secure write-only location, the full chain is authenticated by it." (emphasis mine)

Nice security, erm, feature..?

This is the first thing I thought too. But if I'm going to have many piped commands, why not add one more that cats the thing in text format? I can't think of a reason to why that would be inconvenient. My rotated syslog is gzipped and I can just zcat it, or even cat | gunzip - | whatever it. So the slight inconvenience *might* well be outweighed by the new benefits.