Mmm... and who is the No 2 manufacturer for Apple, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, HP, Sony and Microsoft ?

Capable of scaling up to 200% when the need arises.

Just in case -- a factory burns down or something; riots break out in a country, a government gets nasty, or the place gets hit by an earthquake?

The minimalist verses skeuomorphism assertion has been made a few times already. Its quite easy to prove right or wrong.

Simply design a calender or contact app that follows your new "modern" design methodology.

If it beats the crap out of Apple's existing app because its so much better that people download it in droves to use it you have won, and you are rich(er).

The law in the Netherlands is that you have to inform users that you are going to put a cookie on their computer.

EXCEPT if the cookie is required for the core functionality of your website. So your shopping cart can put its 1st party cookie, and you are not in hot water.

Most websites use Google Analytics. That is where you have to start putting up the "Smoking Cookies Kills" banners that will likely hurt your websites traffic significantly. The best thing is to avoid the banner altogether and stay still within the law.

Sot its time to drop Google Analytics; its cool, its nice and now a drag on business.

I have already found one alternative that looks half decent and doesn't require me to put up any cookies at all: PiWik (http://piwik.org/)

Somewhere a divine being is smiling wickedly and realizes all is well -- Javascript is pretty much on its way to become the most frequently used programming language on the planet, ever.

It surely is the best available ; nearly every computer on the planet has a debugger for it available.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/why-the-campaign-to-stop-america-s-obesity-crisis-keeps-failing.html

According to this its a change of diet (as in the promoted healthy diet is anything but) in the 1970's and way too many sugars.

Since I am looking for a new thermostat this sounded like a cool thing. But this review by a fellow European warned me off trying this :

http://www.bjornsblog.nl/post/20583667249/using-the-nest-smart-thermostat-in-europe-not

Seems the DOJ has gotten tons of their internal e-mails... they make for fascinating reading in the indignment from around page 40.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204616504577171180266957116.html

You sir, are on to something. This researcher is showing a clear lack of imagination.

"Open" API's are the new include files to proprietary libraries.

At least in the good old bad days the library (usually) didn't stop working after the you compiled & distributed your program.

These days.. no such guarantees.

New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006, directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory with an Earth-relative velocity of about 16.26 km/s (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) after its last engine shut down. Thus, the spacecraft left Earth at the greatest ever launch speed for a man-made object. It flew by Jupiter on February 28, 2007, the orbit of Saturn on June 8, 2008; and the orbit of Uranus on March 18, 2011. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nice!

> The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a speeding ticket,

Speeding ticket information is hard to get for the USA as a whole, but in 2011 the NYPD alone has issued:

As for individual Boroughs, Brooklyn saw the most traffic tickets issued (141,971), followed by Queens (128,098), Manhattan (115,428), Bronx (71,786), and Staten Island (27,388). (source

So the chances of an analyst checking this particular drivers information are.... close to zero probably. Another useless system.

You only need very few pixels to make a working digital clock.

So first application: digital eye watch.

>> which are often confiscated by troops in war zones

Translation: confiscated by the IRS when visiting your office.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.

Can be found on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/American-Atlas-Expanded-5th/dp/0935127380

Note the various negative comments on the Atlas regarding this case, maybe mod those up a little.