I'd appreciate an invite; joseph.dunnigan (gmail) Thank you!

They removed Gears from this release. I have an app that has a full offline mode and relies on Gears; as a band-aid fix yesterday I had to downgrade a user to Chrome 11 that had automatically updated. I know, I need to get with the times and port my code to HTML 5. Even more so, as Gears only supports Firefox up to 3.6, and IE up to 8.

Hulu's service detects bandwidth and will auto-adjust the video quality while a video is playing. I've seen it go from 720p to 288p, then to 480p, as the poor connection I was on fluctuated. It was a seamless experience. The absence of Silverlight is the exact reason I opened this story. Unfortunately, I don't have the option to use Silverlight on my devices. I'd be a Netflix subscriber if I could. I've seen plenty of comments above (especially the per movie rental cost) that are good reasons to not sign up for this, but not using Silverlight is definitely not one of them, in my opinion.

You just helped me realize, I think it's funny that someone creates an app for an online publication, when a website would do just as well. The web is a fine publishing platform. I've yet to get caught up in the whole 'app' fad, though. The most used apps on my phone are the ones it came with (mail, calendar, web, navigation, etc).

The Unigine tech demos look excellent, and have been used to showcase just what Linux gaming can look like.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/01/lars-rasmussen-why-i-quit_n_776807.html
http://gizmodo.com/5690405/facebook-email
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/rasmussen-facebook-google/
http://www.google.com/

Like you almost said in the end.. research some managed service providers (MSPs) and outsource your IT staffing/infrastructure/planning needs to them :)

Apple has a substantial lead?

(Note: the title of the first article is misleading; according to the article, Apple as a single hardware vendor is in the lead, but Android as an OS has twice the market share as iOS)

I think some of those phones still on 1.6 don't have the hardware features to support 2.0; navigation is a good example. Apps that rely on those hardware features would be useless anyways. Maybe not the only reason, but it is one as far as I know.

As one example, I can still install UT2004 on Ubuntu 10.04 by simply running the provided installer executable.

Why squeezed down to 640x480? And what's the trick here? I bought a 37" TV two years ago that has VGA, HDMI, and DVI inputs, and it cost 400USD. It does 1360x768 native. Cheaper now for something bigger; much cheaper for something smaller.

I mean, come on, my laptop and netbook have HDMI and VGA out; hell, even my phone does! This is easier than hooking up a VCR. In my case.. we've had a $400 PC hooked up to the TV for ~5 years. Only reason it cost that much is because we play games on it. WoW, Starcraft2, Portal, .. Zelda64 :) etc etc. We don't have cable, just Hulu and the greater 'net. It's our DVD player, and we end up ripping most of the kids' DVDs to xvid anyways so we don't have to worry about scratches. Then there's Boxee, MythTV, XBMC, take your pick. Remote control, wireless game controllers, yada yada. Oh yea.. all on Ubuntu, and the wife uses it?

It's no secret...

Did I mention I'm typing this post on the TV.

I'm probably not taking all the above numbers into account accordingly, but I think there are plenty of factors to consider. Businesses continue to upgrade from Server 2003 to 2008 in the past year; this should contribute to growth of Win Server sales. I'm seeing plenty of our 2003 systems finally look to upgrades as hardware comes up on renew. We're still moving clients off Exchange 2k3. The second point, and always a point I think for Linux - we'll purchase a blank server, toss a hypervisor on it, then proceed to install numerous VMs with varying flavors of Linux with varying function. None of those installs or OS sales are recorded in the above figures. Not to mention that the hypervisors are Linux, be it VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc. And of course the move to x86 hardware continues as virtualization penetrates the datacenter and clusters of commodity hardware replace big iron.

What you're suggesting would certainly end up having some relation to GWT

I used to drink a lot a have a great time with the night life. Now I have three kids and a more-than-full-time job. I'm lucky if I can get down two beers in a night.

Sigh!

Way off-topic, but I think you have the lowest UUID I've seen yet in comments :)