That android developers can run Goldfish with a native kernel to simulate a virtual Android device and thus write apps a little bit easier?

Lost part of my paste:

    9 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 208.174.226.209
  10 20 ms 21 ms 19 ms hr1-te-9-0-0.elkgrovech3.savvis.net [204.70.196.14]
  11 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms das5-v3032.ch3.savvis.net [64.37.207.158]
  12 18 ms 18 ms 30 ms 64.27.160.194
  13 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms slashdot.org [216.34.181.45]

18ms from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. State and national borders mean very little for latency.

    1 9 ms 1 ms 1 ms gwnetgear.ermscorp.local [10.1.0.50]
    2 19 ms 1 ms 1 ms unassigned-129.175.14.72.net.blink.ca [72.14.175.129]
    3 3 ms 1 ms 2 ms BLINK-COMMU.edge1.Toronto2.Level3.net [4.59.183.150]
    4 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms ae4-128.edge1.Toronto2.Level3.net [4.59.183.149]
    5 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 4.69.200.233
    6 17 ms 17 ms 22 ms ae-9-9.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.151.110]
    7 24 ms 23 ms 31 ms ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.140.190]
    8 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms ae-1-51.edge4.Chicago3.Level3.net [4.69.138.134]
    9 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 208.174.226.209

I appreciate the time cube reference, and how you tied it into the story. Well done.

And the best way to not support that business model is to buy alternatives and boycott protected media. Stealing Argo doesn't make a statement, it's a way of justifying obtaining something you want enough to download but not enough to pay the asking price for.

May I recommend Libraries (many, including the one in my city are partnered with digital distributors offering free music and e-books) , NetFlix, Rdio, as new business model alternatives that aren't illegal.

I was thinking the same thing, screenshot of bald guy looks good, but bald guys have looked good for awhile. Hair and fabric still looks wrong like they have for years. Obviously there's a ways to go yet, and I don't have the sense or education to notice the progress. Maybe if there were side by side images and/or someone was pointing out what I should be looking at.

Then pay someone to fix your problems. When I'm not at work, I'll write whatever code I want no matter how useless the rest of the world thinks it is; and it's certainly no more a waste than watching TV or getting drunk at tropical destination X.

You don't get free flu shots in the US? I'd be curious to see a cost/benefit analysis - but then I suppose when hospital rooms cost the patient money there's little motivation for the government to try to keep you out of them.

I personally really enjoy and frequently link people to Fountain of Doubt: http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-doubt/

I refute your claim that NS was trying to support standards any more than IE was, and assert that they were trying harder to deviate from standards.

Netscape tried to push their own tag which was needed for overlapping elements in that browser (nothing else worked with z-index), a small violation of the HTML spec, and a huge violation of the CSS spec. They also didn't support any units except px, and sometimes %. Stylesheets wouldn't render at all if you turned off javascript. As others have said, it's an ugly horrible mess of a browser.

IE 5/6 were the best browsers at the time. The problem is when they ran out of competition they quit spending money, disbanded the IE team, and left things to stagnate for years - but without competition why would a company innovate? They are not a hacker group making the internet better for fun, they're a publicly traded company vying for the most market share.

No, I don't think I'd want to live there. I'm fine with my home in Canada though.

No no, lets hear him out.

See ... um ... poor people are addicted to TV and can't just go cold turkey on it. Pay-per-view television doesn't have advertisements (I've never actually seen pay-per-view , so that's an assumption), and advertising convinces people to spend money. So poor people need pay-per-view television content to satisfy their addiction and not get the overwhelming need to spend money on magic bullets.

The main advantage, as far as I'm aware, of to having a network transparent display server over a client like RDP is that you can send raw drawing commands over the wire instead of bitmaps, but that advantage is lost when the display server is drawing images.

The secondary advantage that is sometimes touted is that the application itself can be drawn on the remote server rather than the entire desktop, but there are workarounds for this that don't involve network transparency at the display server level. (Recent versions of the RDP protocol support this, though Windows doesn't ship with a client that uses it.)

That said I believe my actual comment was simply suggesting that RDP/VNC are not as different from network transparency in the display server as it might otherwise be when the display server is copying images (because that's what VNC does as well, just at another layer.)

Until you consider that virtually all applications these days use pixmaps so sending the X11 draw commands over the network has no advantage.

Yeah, I started on Corel as well. On a computer without internet, didn't stick with it for too long, though my mom liked the mahjong game that came with it.

So
1. Corel Linux in 2001.
No linux 2002 until 2005
2. Debian ( 1 year)
3. Ubuntu ( 1 year)
4. Gentoo (2006-2010)
5. Fedora ( 1 year)
6. Arch Linux (current)