Comment Re:Shocking (Score 1) 479
A friend of mine interned at Nokia's Bangalore offices two years ago, and the general concensus in Nokia then was that Symbian's future was bleak. This isn't exactly a surprise.
Comment Can they guarantee encryption? (Score 1) 84
Else this will be another Haystack. People's lives are potentially at stake here.
Submission + - Google, Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? (benstrong.com) 1
kdawson writes: Software developer and blogger Ben Strong did a little exploring to find out how Google achieves its admirably fast load times. What he discovered is that Google, and to a much greater extent Microsoft, are cheating on the 'slow-start' requirement of RFC-3390. His research indicates that discussion of this practice on the Net is at an early, and somewhat theoretical, stage.Strong concludes with this question: 'What should I do in my app (and what should you do in yours)? Join the arms race or sit on the sidelines and let Google have all the page-load glory?'
Comment Re:Congratulations... (Score 1) 60
The Michigan team won $750K! You call that nowhere close to meeting development costs?!
http://ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=8127
Even if the prize was $5K or something, that is absolutely no reason not to participate! Else hundreds of universities all over the world would not be participating in Formula SAE style events.
