Hello Limor, I like what you made as ladyada and now at adafruit. what was the trigger so that you made of your hobby a business and a job from which you could make a living ? 2 questions in fact : what difficulties did you have to overcome when you started your bussiness ? Cheers, Fred

Though I very rarely use Octave, Gnuplot is one of my favorite tools, I like it a lot, it is very powerful. This a very good decision to port them on Android, because associated with ADK it can enable easy custom applications for data acquisition and analysis on the field.

To echo the lame comments please let me just say that IMHO Inkscape is one of the best open source tool out there.

Thank you to the Inkscape devs (and thank you for this book review for spreading info about it).

I agree with you on that. Plus it should be a feature Wikipedia benefits from. They should receive a fee for any redirect or any book sold that way. But to be fair Wikipedia should offer an API to any booksellers to do this. A feature that would help customers choosing their bookseller.

1) a person browses Wikipedia (the portal of knowledge)
2) she finds an interesting book referred from Wikipedia
3) chooses her bookseller to buy the book (the deposit of knowledge)
4) ???
5) profit ! ;-)

I don't get your point, you should develop a little further.

The Python installer for windows is rather painless, launch setup.exe and it's done.

Plus though the cmd.exe console is rather minimalistic a few Python scripts would offer you a minimum of the command line expressiveness.

At my workplace we are stuck by microsoft lock-in, I bless the possibility I've had to develop a bunch of Python scripts over the years for to ease the burden of having to work in a windows environment.

As long as H.264 has patent issues it does not suit to be part of html. html is an open standards, not a patented format.

I use Facebook frequently, both in FF 3.5 (work) and FF 3.6 (home). In both cases I'm running on a Vista x64 box with AdBlock, Flashblock, NoScript, ChatZilla and Greasemonkey, with Acrobat, Flash, Silverlight and Java plugins. Firefox hasn't crashed on me in months, if not years, even when running for weeks at a time, with dozens of tabs open (admittedly, I usually trigger a save session and restart every week or two to reduce memory fragmentation, but it won't crash if I don't, it just has the short freezes every few hours). Worst I've had is some short term freezes in FF when my machine is at 90+% memory usage and some complex AJAX is operating. Perhaps you need to prune your extensions, update your plugins or some combination of the two?

The only legs Adobe may have to stand on is if they were lead to believe that their platform was to be accepted (written contract or verbal) and then at the 11th hour to be shafted? Well then maybe they have a case.

And a fairly limited case, at that. Development tools for the iPhone OS probably don't generate large profits. The costs to add iPhone capabilities to the Flash IDE were probably rather modest. Loss of good will from developers who get caught in the middle of this is hard to quantify. So even if Adobe prevails, the court is likely to decide that the damages done to Adobe are quite modest. And while IANAL, it seems unlikely to me that the court would do more than require Apple to reimburse Adobe; I certainly don't see the court forcing Apple to retract this restriction on developers.

And to add to the confusion, when speaking to a Chinese person, referring to Taiwan as distinct from China will make the Chinese angry! That's why I was careful to make the two sound the same when speaking to the first Taiwanese person I met - but that only served to annoy them. Oh well!

If you can afford to run 10Gbps to your off-site backup location it's either not far enough away to be useful or you're so rich that the shipping costs of tape vs. disk are irrelevant.

So you don't offer hardware acceleration on XP. Or you implement your hardware acceleration differently. Everybody is still releasing brand new software for XP, with hardware acceleration and everything, so why can't Microsoft?

It's especially weird since Microsoft designed both XP and IE9, so surely they could have figured out a way to make them compatible. But they didn't. Not because they aren't able to, but because they don't want to. It's as simple as that.

Now they hide behind an excuse that IE9 isn't compatible with something in XP, but that's only true because they made it that way themselves.

If the inventor wanted everyone to have it. He/She would put the "patent" in the public domain. But what the inventor really wants is that everyone *pay* the licenses fees he/she decided its was worth.

Some of the ISP's in the list are huge hosting companies, namely ThePlanet, Layered Tech, Leaseweb, OVH.. You have no idea how big they are unless you've visited one of their data centers. They host millions of servers. How would they check it all? For that matter, who wants their data center staff snooping around in your server?

Being one of the largest hosting companies in the planet obviously brings in bad guys too.