As long as you have a decently accurate clock, you can get a lot closer than that without any externally-dependent navigational system.

Ouch, man. Ouch.

But warranted.

If you're a web site developer, it's probably best to host both, and have your pages detect what the browser supports.

And right there is why the HTML5 video tag will never defeat Flash video in its current form. With Flash, you need only one encoding.

That's actually really interesting to consider -- You could think of Netflix popularity as a band pass of the full spectrum of movie popularity. Imagine a few graphs for other channels that signify different levels of investment: theatrical viewing and DVD purchase above rental, cable viewing below it, and torrenting at the bottom. Now imagine these distributions overlaid on top of each other. I wonder what that graph would look like...

I knew this girl who had a USB one that synced with this interactive video player for Windows.

She got Conficker.

I think this could have happened earlier in the Internet revolution, but today it may very well be too late for such a crackdown. It's as if we went from the Model T to 1970s levels of car ownership in a decade. Legislation was able to kill a few freedoms here and there (particularly the DMCA in the US and sister legislation elsewhere) but overall, expansion of state powers couldn't keep up with the pace of technological progress. The inertia of the installed base is too great to make a sweeping change now.

Actually, going back to the car analogy, perhaps this is kind of what happened in India, and look at the wild west that is their motorways. Try regulating that explosion! The good thing is that you can't hit pedestrians with the Internet. You can do a lot of damage if someone's unprotected, but unlike navigating a crowded Delhi highway, anyone can take a few steps to greatly reduce their risks.

Yes, but at least three more people are using IPv6. We've come a long way!

1024 by 600? Why not 1024 by 768?

WSVGA. The width of XGA (minimum native for most web sites) in a smaller package.

If the future Internet is developed in an apolitical, academic context like the current one was, we'll be fine. If corporate interests and security-obsessed regimes are able to lobby for certain "features," though, distorting the process, then we're in for some major problems.

They should look to the US, where we haven't even the slightest trace of multigenerational political dynasties.

A common current among these formerly great brands is the hiring out of the nameplate. When anyone can pay to slap a Westinghouse, Bell & Howell, or Polaroid name on their product, both licensor and licensee tend to lose credibility.

Or how about Hyades1. Once the recipient of such moderations as "+5. Insightful" and "+5, Informative" the brand is now associated with failing to RTFA.

I've thought about doing this for way too long and never actually acted on it.

It's crazy to think just how stark a difference you have the potential of making. One at-risk kid who could easily end up wasting a life of promise on gangs and drugs -- a good mentor can give this kid the strength he needs to go against the flow and make a better future for himself.

The appropriate way to ink this deal would have been to simply make Bing the default instead of actually removing the competitors. It would have been worth less money to Verizon, but far more in terms of customer loyalty.

I'm not sure what GP is trying to say, but if he has broken an iPhone every other month for the past half year, the Pre (and any other smartphone cased entirely in plastic) would probably have lasted him about a week each. Perhaps he tried a Pre in the Sprint store and before he could even give WebOS a chance, he accidentally crushed the device with his bare hands.