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Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 453

They go live in the sense that anybody can view them, but visitors will have to go through extra effort - the new revision gets hidden in the history unless visitors know to look for them. That means that any editor who hasn't been blessed by The Powers That Be will need to wait before the vast majority of the public will see their contribution.

And, since new editors who want to contribute in a positive way are continuously finding their changes reverted by the wikelite, they will have even less incentive to stick around long enough to have the privilege of unfettered editing bestowed upon them.

Comment Re:I think you're doing it wrong.. (Score 1) 389

I guess I've also wondered why can't python, perl, php... have a modified language fork, so that they can be precompiled?

I can't speak for Python and Perl (don't use them often enough), but PHP has a number of extensions that support bytecode caching, such as eAccelerator and APC. It's not pre-compiled, but it does mean that a given script only has to be compiled the first time.

Comment Re:And yet... (Score 1) 509

The Macintosh platform is essentially completely open to application developers, yet the number of viruses and spamware that have been found on the platform in the last decade can be counted on two hands.

Since Apple can do it with their desktop, they should be able to do it with their mobile platform - especially since they have more people working on the latter.

Comment Re:Who or what is the target for WebOS? (Score 5, Informative) 300

Apple's so-called "API" consisted of a keynote where they recommend making web pages that looked like native iPhone apps, but ran over the Internet in Mobile Safari. Palm's API is web-based, but the HTML/CSS/JavaScript will be stored and executed on the device, and JavaScript will be extended with hooks into phone-specific functionality. The difference is apples (no pun intended) to oranges.

Comment Watch the video (Score 5, Interesting) 261

I already knew in pretty significant detail how all this works, but there was a lot of additional information in the video that never made it to the PR-sanitized behind-the-scenes descriptions of the technology.

Plus, you get to see the ugly UI that appears to have been built as an afterthought - just like the UI of all the other industrial television software I've operated.

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