I just don't understand what Canonical has planned. They created the most user friendly distro going and things were great. Then they decided to make Ubuntu tablet-centric. Okay...but there are no tablets running Ubuntu out there. Maybe they'll get together with Gabe Newell to create a SteamBox. I just don't get the overall plan. Is it to become attractive to tablet makers as an alternative? That's about the only route left right now and it's not a bad idea. In the meantime the general community is left looking for something a little more hacker-friendly. Debian and Mint are the obvious options.

So, what the point here? Is it to make development as difficult as possible and presentation unpredictable? WHATWG's living standard is going to ensure that developers waste all sorts of time trying to figure out what feature is supported on what browser. Is feature x supported on Webkit? Gecko? IE? Oh wait, what about the various implementations of feature x?

Honestly I just want to know what's going to allow me to deliver a reliable, effective product with the highest profit. I should never ever see "Sorry, this website requires BAR browser." A living standard will require more software patches and less backwards compatibility. If someone tells me that their user-agent is fully FOO 3.4 compliant I expect it to behave like every other FOO 3.4 labelled software out there.

I wonder how this stacks up to Mirasol displays.

A large number of the security holes in Windows apps are caused by flaws in Windows libraries. Calling out others who have used your flawed library has the effect of diluting warnings about yourself. MS won't look so bad if they point their finger at others and say "see, theirs sucks too!"

That was the point. It's easier to close the security holes in open source than closed source.

Too bad I don't need those versions. Since XP came out I started migrating away from windows. Now I can do most anything I need on linux and the few things I need windows for XP does fine.

When will they start putting the current webkit builds with websocket support on these devices?

Either let me cure my colorblindness or EVERYONE has to stop using red/green LEDS for status lights.

I think you are a junior in college taking education classes and are trying to get slashdot to do your homework for you. Seriously, if you are teaching 16-18 year olds about chemistry why would you want them to spend excessive time sitting in front of a computer. Hasn't someone already taught them how to do library and internet searches for information by this point? Generally speaking chemistry should not be too much about clicking on the internet and on the computer. It is about the interactions of chemicals and what effects that has. You can use computers to collect data and analyze data but you should not be spending too much time sending your students off on "webquests" and "busywork". The computer can help them prepare reports and maybe even simulate interactions at the molecular level. So, what you really need to look for are software tools that enable experiments. Look for tools that help students do equation balancing and maybe even simulate the structurte of molecules in 3D.

I wonder what Microsoft is going to supersede .NET with and when. And which version of .NET is this?

No one ever gives rope its due as a simple machine. Without rope you cannot sail OR use a pulley. Really, what use is a pulley without the invention of rope first.

Maybe rope isn't a classical simple machine but it SHOULD be.

The rich should be taxed more because they benefit more from society. Without a society to generate the structure of industry and banking they would be homeless and uneducated. Since they benefit the most from society they should pay to support it. The way we're doing things now the rich are getting the benefits while others pay into the system.

Yeah, this should never have happened. Unfortunately too many people stood silent on similar issues for the past ten years. When war protesters and anti-Bush people were being arrested and held without reason all over this country there was no real outrage. When the Patriot act was passed to "protect" us there was no real outrage. now the groundwork for real fascism is in place and it is happening.

The more I read your post the more ironic it sounds. Bloggers have been getting arrested and raided for years. Bernie Madoff and his cronies committed real crimes, what rich people are being arrested without cause? I have not heard of any new gun legislation pending, just fear of it. The free press s becoming a thing of the past because people are no longer buying independet newspapers, not because of government interference. In fact, there has been no one with influence defending individual rights for a long time. It's not like these rights are disappearing, we lost them a long time ago.

Just had another thought, what about doing the telecine at a drive in?

1)Cant you do this by using the apparent dimensions of the screen to determine the position of the camera? Given that the screen is rectangular and x*y in size you should be able to say "In the cammed version the screen appears trapezoidal. Now we can draw an imaginary line from the center of the screen out to the wall of the theater. The screen appears z large in the image (and maybe use the focus to figure zoom level) and that gives me distance from the screen.

2)SO WHAT if you do know which seat the pirate was in. When was the last time you bought a movie ticket that had an assigned seat associated with it? I've never purchased movie tickets by seat number. Never had the chance to. It's not gonna happen. movie studios have too much invested in "first weekend sales" statistics to risk people saying "Oh, I could only get seats in the far left of the right side aisle. I'll go when I can get better seats."

NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

Though...I guess they could put nightvision cameras into the the theater, center position, just above the screen so they can go back and see who was in which seat during the movie. I kind of doubt it though. However, if anyone knows of this happening please make LOTS of noise about it. I like to know when I'm being covertly surveilled.