F = m * a

Look it's right there, force equals *mass* times acceleration. On earth, Scarecrow is 342kg * 1g when stationary. On mars Curiosity is 900kg * 1mars-g *when stationary*. Sure the vertical force on the tires is the same when standing still, but what about the force required to stop 342kg vs 900kg of inertia if you hit a large pointy rock at 1m/s?. In this case, with the same initial velocity, the acceleration would be the same but the force experienced by Curiosity's tires would be ~3x larger (ignoring any shock absorption).

But this trend is mostly *because* of the current console lifetimes. Most games are written to be ported to or from the main consoles.

Do you think that trend will change when PS4's and XBOX One's are becoming common?

If your customers are complaining about bugs, and those conditions are covered by your spec, then you are at fault for not catching it before giving it to the customer. You must verify that the delivered code matches your spec.

Either write automated tests based on your spec yourself, or get a developer to write them and review them yourself. Otherwise you will have to test everything manually, every time they deliver you new code.

But even then, your customer may encounter issues that you didn't test for.

From reading the MemShrink blog, firefox will now discard uncompressed images you can't see. Not sure when that will hit a release version though.

Web pages without scripting are really fast when they don't show you anything at all.

Now when you get a replacement console due to the next "red ring of death" hardware issue, all your saved games will be there! Or they will be once they finish downloading.

Probably wouldn't work. If the XBOX is controlling the TV, it would be using some form of acoustic echo cancellation to ignore the sound.

Bingo. Why does a system tray notification require admin rights? Every other software installer I've ever downloaded tells you what it's going to install and only asks for admin rights when the installation process itself starts.

My dad lost both hands and most of his forearms as a child. He has always preferred to use his own stumps as-is, rather than mucking about with prosthetics. But then he learnt to use his arms at an early age, and he was determined to do everything he could.

He can do practically everything you or I could do, except for things he simply can't reach or that require juggling to many things too rapidly. He has the neatest "handwriting" of anyone I know, he types by holding a pen, he can drive a car, develop software, and he's built a house extension. As an adult he's always been a productive member of society.

While you may develop the dexterity to use a prothethic. Don't discount the potential usefulness of your remaining limbs just as they are.

I'd say there's a non-zero risk of an IPv6 connection failing. When something breaks in IPv4, everyone notices and fixes it. But for IPv6, since hardly anyone is using it and applications should fail over, there's a good chance that a failure will go unnoticed.

This recent(ish) talk (video) has some interesting statistics on IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 take up.

If browsers tried both IPv4 & IPv6 connections at the same time, there would be almost no risk to turning on IPv6. But right now, there can be a delay of up to 21 *seconds* before falling back to an IPv4 connection, that's if it does fail over at all.

Which ISP & web host would turn on IPv6 support by default with that kind of end user delay?

I've also seen a number of devices for sale with Windows 7 installed and a Windows 8 license.

Can they put metro apps in one or more windows? That seems like the logical solution for mixing application types on a full sized desktop.

FYI, they're transferring file blocks based on their hash. They aren't doing delta comparisons as this would require you to cache the previous version of the file. So if you insert a byte at the start of your file, expect the whole thing to be re-transferred.

The traditional corporate response would be to blame a rogue programmer and fire them, then claim that they are improving their standards and processes to ensure nothing like it ever happens again. Perhaps the next manager or two up the food chain would also be in the firing line.