The newer CurrentCost meters are not only inexpensive, but also provide a serial interface (over USB).

A friend of mine has created py-power-cost to extract this data into a DB and generate reports/graphs viewable via a web app.

Its a good read, his point seem pretty valid, or at least nothing that wasn't expected.

I wouldnt be surprised if this is misquoted and it really means the JIT translation that the other browser engines use. But doing it on another core is a nice move, I wonder how well that affects the performance. I'd honestly have expected Apple to do that first, having a good API for doing this kind of thing.

Firefox has a new javascript engine called Jagermonkey that will probably beat it, as it's in part the webkit engine.

looking at the outcome IE comes off the worst with the current algorithm, please keep it that way. Thanks from all the Web Developers.

I hope the page of contents is a list of the 21 top pages of the book.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture

Its not exactly most favored nation, if there's no advantage to being so.

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Really? Seriously?
It's not so much a joke as a snarky comment about the lack of editing (as usual) in the summary, which neither informs you about what the hell it's actually going on about, nor does it even manage to spell it's own subject matter correctly, for example as pointed out "Communincator".

You sir, completely missed the point. See, there, right there it goes *woooooosh*

The main problems with things like this are that you have to go out and buy an expensive peripheral for an 'extra' in the game, you can play the game perfectly fine without it usually its only to enhance. The reason keyboard and mouse stuck for gaming is because you have them there. I love the innovations that these kinda things do, but I'll probably never get to use it. Plus all my games are downloaded from Steam now.

You'll want to take a look at the Webkit Nightlies to check out their dev tools, eventually they'll move into chrome/safari but its worth the occasional crash for what they bring: http://blog.bogojoker.com/2009/10/improving-the-web-inspector/

I believe this is actually EU law, however -> [citation needed].

Yeah, what's probably happened is they've hooked up a quick database to store users / tweets etc Then all the front end work is just shamelessly taken and they only have to work on making a similar API for it to work with. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a Plurk client would just work with the MSN one if you change the URL. The design is also painfully similar, so I imagine they just threw on the microsoft branding on the front and uploaded some new images and colours in the CSS.

Its front-end web programming (HTML/CSS/Javascript) that was stolen, these are always open to read, they could only obfuscate that if they felt the need. Howeever the backend code would probably have to have been written themselves (especially as its more likely the startup used ruby/php than asp)