Was he named Dixie Flatline?

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Clearly we should do those things first. However, those things being a better expenditure do not make this thing a bad expenditure.

I don't follow. Handouts are good. We are in a liquidity trap. We have massive unemployment and a 0% interest rate. Perhaps cloud computing isn't what we should spend money on. However, the $32 million those people get for building cloud computing will very likely be spent on what those people should spend money on. Until we can raise interest rates (due to improved employment), you are either pro-government spending on crap like this, or you are a gold bug. And if you are a gold bug, you should *still* be in support of crap like this until we are either out of our liquidity trap, or we are on a gold standard. So what's the problem?

MS requires customers to install the new WGA on a regular basis. That is also nagging.

People just aren't using it for anything more than 10-line throwaway scripts.

So when you say "in industry" you mean your industry, software development (not IT), and you mean dead for large projects (not dead).

Ben Galbraith seems like a sweetheart and everything, but his blog post was devoid of content. And so what if JWZ is an overgrown toddler. Most developers are overgrown toddlers. Their app store should work without phone calls. As per a thread in his LJ, if you've written a killer app or you are famous, obviously Palm wants your experience to be flawless. The whole point is that it should work for everyone else too. Even if Palm doesn't care about you specifically.

Is Firefox careful to make sure that they are compatible with Flash? Some information is manageable from Firefox and some information from Flash. Yes, it sucks, but it is better that rewriting all of those flash applications to work in IE.

fwiw, they've been running an investment fund and Joost, a distributed video streamer w/ content deals.

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were clearly not content to hack compelling software. Their travails sound like a Gibson novel. As far as I can tell, they made themselves the monarchs of Skype. One day, some enterprising journalist will tell us how the fuck they managed to sell Ebay an empty XBOX 360 box for billions of dollars.

While you do not have enough tabs to fill the title bar in Chrome, their non-standard window increases the size of the target for maximization.

I love Windows usability standards (I'm stuck in the XP era of fitts's law, screen real estate conservation, responsiveness) and that is the main reason I use Chrome.

This isn't like Apple shipping Safari for Winders w/ a close box in the upper right that doesn't activate when you click the top right pixel on the screen. Google has worked out the kinks here.

Just because there's nothing like it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

if the iPhone explosion rate is higher than competitive phones,

Is it? It isn't news if a freebie Nokia explodes. I'm not saying that has ever happened, but I don't think it would be international news if it did.

At a party w/ a ton of Apple engineers, I overheard a sociopathic (There was other evidence.) Apple kernel dev trying to recruit this sweetheart Sun kernel dev:

"The best thing about Apple is that we're not Google. We totally do evil. DRM, software patents, whatever."

Of course there were a ton of other, very nice Apple devs also who were nothing like that guy.

Her name was Dilemma?