That pretty much precludes the use of anything but Typescript/Javascript. Also it isn't a rewrite in the traditional sense, since they're clean-room implementing wordpress features on an existing framework.

Due to Astro being a fairly large framework already, I'm curious to see what exactly emdash brings to the table; is it just a couple extra integrations, or did they have to change a bunch of baseline astro code as well...

"and the offending developer account had been banned."

So make a new developer account and resubmit the same app to the store? Why would they need to rewrite it?

Sorry Balmer, that still isn't far enough.

Nuke him from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

I know it might sound weird, but I like where things are at in Windows 8.1. Boots into desktop after login, transition to start screen is much less jaring when using the same background, configure the immediate left of the start screen with all your most used apps. It's very similar to the osx launchpad.

If they remove it in win9, I may just configure it back the way it was in 8.1.

Hitting those XP users with the carrot.

This summary reads like a Fringe episode synopsis. Are there any former Boston Dynamics co-founders currently in a mental institution, claiming they crossed universes after ingesting some homemade lsd?

Moving away from the first & second generation light water reactor designs is definitely something we should be doing, but simply going to smaller plants is a dubious plan.

From TFA:

> Dr. Jaczko cited a well-known characteristic of nuclear reactor fuel to continue to generate copious amounts of heat after a chain reaction is shut down. That “decay heat” is what led to the Fukushima meltdowns. The solution, he said, was probably smaller reactors in which the heat could not push the temperature to the fuel’s melting point.

Actually innovating, bringing something like the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor to reality, is more along the lines of what we should be doing.

Also, it was the tsunami that actually caused the meltdowns. Fukushima had appropriate backups for cooling the reactor, and were well under way when the reactors were shut down after the quake, they just didn't design for the eventually of a tsunami to come and categorically knock them all out.

$0.02

Mod this up, please. There are an endless supply of examples where short-term perspectives & thinking have polluted American Life.

The idea that our society is incapable of handling violent videogames or media, but infallible with regard to possessing and handling professional military weapons is beyond absurd.

It matters because Windows 8 is intended to target low end ARM hardware as well as high end Intel/AMD. At //build/ Microsoft kindof made a big deal about the wide range of hardware they want to run on, and when someone buys a low end slate for $300 instead of getting an ipad, Microsoft wants that experience to be as good as it can be.

Totally agree with the file system gripes, though.

Yes, someone cares.

Other useful answers include:
Yes, someone still builds (good) products in C#.
Yes, .net on mobile is actually useful.
Yes, this thing has legs.

Which you can do with Skype. A subscription offers you very reasonable rates for making call and an online number (which he mentions) where normal people can call you and if you're offline either get voicemail or forwarded to another normal number.

There are still quality concerns, as I mention here: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2031828&cid=35448288

I've had some success doing the same. The iPod touch 4 is a good device, but the service of Skype over wifi for making and receiving calls isn't as good as plain old cellular voice. When it's good, it's better than celluar, when it's bad, it introduces jarring audio artifacts or plain drops calls (really bad).

I totally agree.

The ipad puts alot of design constraints on apps. Most games turn part of the touch screen into a controller input that plays similar to a portable console (think gameboy). Doesn't work for a game like WoW, or Blizzard would've ported it to consoles long ago.

-ds

Perhaps you should click on the "Learn what these numbers mean" link. Here, I'll do it for you:

The number of searches in google has no objective relation to the number of deployments, for either flash or silverlight.

Farnsworth: "Bunk! Bunk, I say! Bring me a bag of Bigfoot's droppings, or shut up!"