And if I had finished reading the summary, I would have caught your joke... Oops..

When I read the article the other day in the New York Times, it mentioned the founder was "Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who led iPod and iPhone."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/technology/at-nest-labs-ex-apple-leaders-remake-the-thermostat.html

I have a rhapsody account a girl friend and I share and use on our iPhones. Occasionally I will be streaming music and it will pop up and say my account is in use on another device do I want to kick the other person off or stop listening. Rhapsody will let you have 5 devices registered I think it is, but only 1 concurrent stream.

On AT&T you can just txt *MIN# to get your voice minutes and *DATA# to get your data usage, I have them saved as contacts on my phone for easy access.

No nullable primitive types.

They have them for primitive types, actually, and had for ages - java.lang.Integer for int etc.

No, that's not the same thing. Integer (and Long, etc) are objects, not primitives. The GP's point was that in Java you can't say e.g.

int i = null;

I've not tried that (and don't have a JDK installed on this machine) but I would expect a compile-time error. (I've not tried it in C# either for that matter)

It’s really quite funny that you want to publicize this spat.

Any sane person could see from this thread that you are clearly batshit insane. And you apparently want people to read it? Why... are you so delusional that you think they’ll agree with you?

>> Won't this just make people buy new cars less often?
> and this is a bad thing... how?

Considering that cars are one of the few products that are still manufactured in the US, I'd say it could be a bad thing. A country that thinks that it can survive on imports without making anything itself is going to get exactly what it deserves: bankrupcy.

Works for the DS

Yea, except the general public can actually do something with PDFs, where as film negatives are really a pain in the ass to deal with for this purpose.

True, old idea, new implementation, but its definitely an improvement over the last one.

I don't know why some knee-jerks tagged this article as "Java". It's not running on Java. It uses JavaScript. It doesn't use Flash either. It's pure browser code.

Also read this part of the developers' blog post:

What this means for the Web

For years, people have assumed the browser was a poor platform for this kind of thing, and that you'd need something like Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX, or native code. While it is true that you should not expect the browser to rival triple-A titles like Far Cry or Call of Duty in the browser, there is no reason why lots of casual games that used to be implemented in Flash, or are now implemented in Objective-C on the iPhone/iPad can't be done using similar techniques we've used.

In other words, goodbye Flash and Java applets. And die already.

Stealing?... Careful...

Although it didn't seem like anything great from the summary, I went ahead and went to the article and watched the videos.

I found it very creepy. The way it handled the towels and turned them while 'looking' for the next step. It was reminiscent of what I felt was a child learning to fold towels (although, I'm fairly certain the robot wasn't doing any learning). For whatever reason, and despite it's appearance, this robot seems more human than any other robot I've seen previously.

Yeah... the iPad is designed exactly for the puposes you listed. That's exactly what everyone needs to do on their book reader / internet tablet.

Grumbel is right, I had been putting off the firmware upgrade for awhile since I don't usually use the online features of the PS3 all that much. However, I picked up a BluRay copy the other day of some new release (I think it was Zombieland..) and the PS3 wouldn't let me watch the damn movie - it said I had to upgrade the firmware in order to watch the movie. So an hour later my PS3 now has the new firmware with some sparkly glitter like default theme and I can watch my movie. I have Ubuntu installed with the otherOS feature, and while I don't use it too often it does come in handy sometimes. However if I want to keep using my PS3 as a BluRay player does that mean I'll lose my other OS? *sigh...*

For convenience I had wanted to test XP Mode in Windows 7 on a quick install running on top of VMWare's ESX.. but I couldn't because it required the hardware virtualization. I just installed the patch and it worked, I can now test XP mode on my virtual Win7, nice.

I got the udpate from here:
For 32-bit host operating systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=837f12aa-1d37-464e-ae59-20c9ecbebaf6
For 64-bit host operating systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e70dd043-e262-43c0-a002-446567f1e2b4

(Via: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/18/windows-virtual-pc-no-hardware-virtualization-update-now-available-for-download.aspx)