Any language can do that. You're just impressed that javascript has come so far.

The only reason to "get used to it" is that web browsers still aren't supporting other languages.

Open and mature client technologies have always been a threat to MS's core business.

That's only true for the miniscule amounts they'd actually consider. Companies exist to pay employees less than they're actually worth.

Corruption at the top has made meaningful salaries impossible. So yes most people would rather enjoy their job. Start talking real extra money and they'll quickly change their tune.

Baboom users can install a little plugin that replaces the ads you'd normally see on the internet with ones that we control through our ad network. Just as advertisers go to AdWords to buy ads from Google for certain search terms, they'll be able to come to us and buy these ads at half the price and still have ads shown against the same keywords.

When the corporate masters hear about this it's going to get dicey.

If you read the article they're not really examining best sellers at all. A site like Gutenberg has no correlation with modern best sellers.

Film, TV and Internet have all had drastic effects on the market as well. Thus old books aren't really representative.

The GPL doesn't have anything to do with it. RMS won't even allow simple command line features that could be "used" by a proprietary IDE for instance.

It's an understandable stance but the result is inferior software.

It's only ambiguous to a scientist "twice as cold" is "double the negative distance from 72".

The magic bullet for eye tracking is using it for adaptive HDR. Monitors for good reason can't show bright lights. This makes it difficult to fit all the luminance information on the screen at once.

By tracking the eye we can adjust luminance information locally. This can have a huge impact on image quality.

The commission recommended that the phone companies or a third party take over responsibility for storing the data.

They're just trying to shuffle things. In the process it will most likely become worse.

No clear benefits at all? There's always going to be some pros and cons on this. Such a blatant over generalization is worthless.

It has nothing to do with TPM or Secure Boot. This OS is specifically for new hardware. They have no reason to support legacy stuff.

It's not a "little fiefdom" when they alone can force every graphics vendor to finally release drivers for Linux.

The end result is going to be the exact opposite of your whining.

Ron Paul isn't an honest politician? He votes AGAINST spending measures that would benefit his own constituents.

Nobody claimed he wasn't republican.

This is stripped down and intended to run Steam in Big Picture mode all the time. No desktop at all.

Do you have a source on this? Steam sells apps so this sounds unlikely.

For the average user that does not use noscript, this isn't a big difference. They're already essentially trusting every site they visit.