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JQuery isn't designed for building applications, it's main purpose is making cross-browser interaction with the DOM easier. It has some other "utililty" type functions, like making cross-browser AJAX simpler and adding its own "each" looping construct, etc. etc. But the simple answer to your question is that this is not a replacement for jQuery.

I don't know much about Enyo, but it looks to be more of a framework for building applications, and provides things like layout management, controls, and an interesting "Component" model. I know that it was extracted from WebOS, so it may have some overlap with JQuery (i.e. by providing simpler methods of interacting with the DOM) but its goal is different.
Outside the jurisdiction of the DMCA (the US).
When I first installed Win8, I didn't have a network connection. It completely skipped logging into a Microsoft Account and walked me through creating a local account.

If you try to log on without networking, I would imagine it caches your last used login information as a local account. I haven't tried it, but this is how previous Windows versions worked when you were using a domain login.
"Twitter has sold billions of archived tweets believed to have vanished forever. A privacy row has erupted as hundreds of companies queue up to purchase users’ personal information from the new database."

Is there actually any information in this? What do they mean by believed to be vanished forever? According to the BBC new article [1] "private accounts and tweets that have been deleted will not be indexed by the site."

Historically Twitter have been pretty good about ensuring, in their licences at least, things like deleted tweets are deleted even from external archives. It's what makes compiling a database of tweets - even for research purposes - quite difficult.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17178022
See the recent case of the woman who won against Honda in small claims court for advertising inaccurate mileage: http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/02/woman-wins-honda-hyb...

Of course, Honda plans to appeal, so...
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There are already apps in the store that replicate built-in features. Windows Phone Marketplace has other browsers available. There's no reason Firefox couldn't show up in the store.
As I can see almost all of the buttons/check-boxes/etc are styled div elements, so it relies on JS definitely.
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Telefonica to launch "two-phones-in-a-phone" service powered by VMware
"Switch to" is kind of a misnomer. It's kind of like how you have to "switch to" having the start menu open or you have to "switch to" having the window minimized to see your desktop.

It's not a big ordeal to open the start menu.
I think that you would still hear yourself, because you hear the sound resonating from inside your body, that's why people dislike their recorded voice.

In general, I am not sure that the claim that this is going to prevent people from talking very effectively. Maybe it will be uncomfortable, but with a little bit of training and earplugs would not be effective for too long.
Respectfully, I believe you are wrong that the "golly gee shucks, I just didn't know" defense will be applied here. Under that statute, you see subsection a (parts i, ii, and iii). However, it goes on to explain in subsection b:

(B) does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, in a case in which the service provider has the right and ability to control such activity; and
(C) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in paragraph (3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.

Under this, the only debate is section B, which is that this individual profited explicitly off of copyright material. He can argue he profited off of the service, and it was not being serviced for the use of explicitly copyrighting material.

As for section C, obviously in the article he not only took measures himself to try to stop copyright material once reported, but he even ALLOWED companys to do it themselves.

The jury can find this more than reasonable. And it can be argued from a legal point of view, moral or immoral. The defense is based on the statues protection, not the kindness of the courts.
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If I understand correctly, you can develop locally-installable applications for iOS/Android/webOS/RIM using Enyo JS and these widgets, that will work on all of those platforms (local app, but not native) as well as working via a standard web browser. The aim is a write-once run-anywhere environment for mobile and web. There are already some proof-of-concept webOS apps that haved moved from the webOS app store into Android, iOS, RIM (Playbook), and even the Chrome app store. FlashCards for example started out as a Enyo-based webOS app:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/diejjofgldkjkhmfja...

Any webOS devs out there, please correct me if I'm wrong ;-)
I kept getting crashes when I was installing it in VBox, latest version. YMMV, some people seem to have had better luck.

I installed it in VMWare 8, just had to update VMWare before installing and it worked fine.
The Kevin Mitnick of piracy. What a shame.
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Tuning initial congestion window (aka slow-start)...

On Linux - http://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/tune-tcp-initcwnd-for-optimum-...

On Windows - http://www.andysnotebook.com/2011/11/increasing-the-tcp-init...
Not to mention future damages. I think even if Megaupload is brought back up the chances of it reclaiming it's past glory anytime soon will take quite a while. Who's going to trust the site to store their files now?
It doesn't pay to be too clever when writing code
Google doesn't use the OSM data now, and probably never will due to license reasons. Just their own data will be enough, no need for OSM.
Has anyone used a crowdfunding site for an open source project?
I've been considering using Kickstarter to try to fund a free software project of my own and it seems to me that it should be a natural fit.

If a developer posts a proposal for a project (and these proposals would be pretty thorough, with video demos of the final product), and the can raise enough money to work on the project full time, it could be a win for everyone. More free software is created, which is good on its own, and giving the project a developer's undivided attention should result in higher quality, more complete solutions, and faster completion.

Has anyone tried this, or thought about trying this?
... and most people don't realize that knowing that correct calculation is only half the battle. Once you know it, you can successfully navigate the Gregorian calendar. But what happens when you need to work with dates prior to the start of the Gregorian calendar? Does your Gregorian start happen in 1582 when the first countries adopted it, or in 1752 when the British adopted it? Most people simply apply Gregorian rules indefinitely into the past, which is not always correct for every situation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar
So you don't like tablet-oriented user interfaces, so your solution is to switch to Unity or Gnome3?
who would buy an option on an underlying sold by the same people that control the price of the underlying? if continental sets the price of the seats and then sells you calls or puts on those prices; why would anyone buy those options?
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Impressive: Video and voice calls in your browser without a plugin in sight
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It could potentially kill all UGC. There is no foolproof way to determine the copyright status of a given piece of content, unless it happens to be a piece that you can demonstrate was published long enough ago that copyright must have expired.

E.g. if website owners are made liable for the copyright of uploaded content, a successful (illegal) attack on any site hosting copyrighted content would be for two parties secretly cooperating (secretly, because conspiring like this would almost certainly in itself be illegal):

One party operates an offline (to prevent it from showing up in Google searches or otherwise being easy for the copyright owners to identify as possibly infringing) newsletter that publishes assorted essays that might for example include responses suitable for the forum of a specific UGC site. They might be written specifically for that purpose...

The other party uploads a copy of said content to the site.

The first party sues the website.

You could do this without someone cooperating with you to write custom-written content, but it'd be easier to spot that something was off, and since you wouldn't hold the copyright on the content you wouldn't have standing to sue so you'd be dependent on making third parties pissed off. Since you'd be infringing on copyright in the first place, it might be easier to just use an accomplice.

All it takes is someone who dislikes you strongly enough, and you're potentially out of business if you depend on UGC in this kind of scenario...
I would be curious about the details of such "unpacking". The apparent volume ratio of the born insect over its egg's is quite stunning.
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Ah ok. That makes sense. As an American, I take it as my god-given right to jump to conclusions based on American conditions ;)

I also had the thought that at many American schools/libraraies I bet you could find a sympathetic IT guy to give ya some old parts that are on their way to the scrap yard. And I know of at least one computer non-profit recycler in my city that would hook kids up.

Point is, the peripherals of computers, including monitors to a certain extent, are abundant. Tiny, relatively fast computers capable of putting out 1080p are not.... Or I guess I should say weren't!
The author touches upon the evolution of the industry and then makes strong claims towards stagnation. Perhaps it's the ebb and flow of innovation and commoditization rather than exclusively the latter? This cyclical occurrence is common across almost all industries -- a trend will eventually reach a saturation point until something new comes along, breeding a culture of forward-thinkers and followers.
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Congrats on launching! Your passion for this project shines through the prose of your article; I predict success in your future.
This isn't a new idea, it's just a "portable" version of the anti-vulgar-speech system you see at many sporting stadiums that play back delayed recordings of crowd noise when vulgar chants (i.e. "bullshit! bullshit!" after a bad call) start.
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After sleeping on my answer, I think it is important to think about the potential issues which can arise when:

1. An investor is also responsible for coding the core product. Multiple roles mean conflicting interests - e.g. protecting invested assets versus the risks associated with high growth.

2. A person with a minimal equity stake is responsible for coding the core product. It is easier for a person with only a few percentage points of equity to find a better opportunity or hedge their investment. 5% of a $10,000,000 sale is nice, but it's not going to allow a person to retire.
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Then he should have been sued. Megaupload was never brought to court by the copywhiners. They went straight to use of force for a non-violent issue.

It's barbaric.
The way airline seat pricing works is say you have 200 seats on a plane, you might pick 4 prices and sell the first 50 for the lowest, the next 50 for the 3rd lowest and so on. This is why seats seem to get more expensive closer to the date of the flight, tho' it is not really based on time but demand. To make this valuable, the price difference of the next band up must be more than the option - but I agree that this is a gamble unless you know the inventory well.
Except for the article's steps 3 & 4:

3. You enter some code and hit proceed
4. The app continues like nothing happened

A short (<3min) video demoing the same: http://vimeo.com/27850933
With this I wonder if we will see Bobcat variants which do not have the GPU cores but instead have more CPU cores.
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That is amazing. I'm glad they were found.
Seeing all those videos that came out when he was first arrested gave the impression that he was a 'bad' person who deserved to be in jail. Hearing him speak gives a completely different impression, obviously he'd have to be smart to have the success he has, but this video goes to show he's articulate, convincing and well versed in the industry that he is a part of. Clearly the early propaganda served a purposes, but this video shows reality.
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This is an emacs lisp-only convention, most likely stemming from the fact that elisp allows multiple else forms (most other lisps don't, which at least for me also solves the problem of visually parsing ifs).
I'd assume the island's ecology would already have adapted to these insects though considering they probably previously have existed for a long time on it. It is possible that something other than the rats being introduced has changed in the ecology in the last 80 years, but I think the chance of a disaster is less than 50%.
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An ever green subject: An Inalienable Right to Privacy
Agreed. I use twitter as my public micro-blogging/rating/raving platform, and for them to sell data that I assumed was already being pulled by anyone via the API is a non issue to me.
Mostly because we have to have these collections inside the compiler. So it's a bit hard to write collections in a language that has no compiler. Chicken/egg issue..
Unless you opted to have a private profile. I wonder how if those private tweets are included in the bundle.

I agree, however: if you want to keep your thoughts private, don't post them on the Internet. When do you do that, they don't belong to you anymore.
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People forget, because it's seen as "hip" to hate on it now, but when IE6 was released, it really was a better browser than the competition.

What killed Netscape was that version 3.0 of their server products were terrible. At the time I was working for a company that had spent millions on version 2. It was easier to jump platforms than to try to get 3 stable for us...
As long as they don't sell DM's or private account tweets, I don't really see the big issue.. By saying that, I mean I'm comfortable with companies having what was already public in the first place.
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I agree - "might" does not cut it for me either, but these are political games being played, not technical.

Could MU have prevented "piracy" by blocking uploads of copyrighted material? Again, I'm inclined to agree with you and say "DMCA", there are too many privacy issues involved for sites to go jack-booting their way through everyones files (which again, Kim D-C mentioned in the video), especially when he's holding out an olive branch to the content companies by allowing them to delete millions of "illegal" files without any due-process.
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Agreed. I had a very powerful sword, then switched back to an intro axe. Could you have the level of the powerup carry over across types?
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There are many side effects of having an entire strata of impoverished people. A minimum wage is actually one of the mechanisms that is available to the state which it can use to re-internalize many of the social cost (i.e. externalities) of a below-sustenance level job.

From a personal perspective, I am actually quite wary of the idea of a minimum wage since that is usually set by the government but for a different reason. If the government is really pro-business, I wouldn't trust them to set the minimum wage high enough for sustenance.

What I would prefer a system as described by marcusf where employers and employees are required by law to periodically negotiate with each other to set a salary floor in each of their localities where they do business.

Like what unions are supposed to do. Before they got demonized and destroyed in the Age of Neo-Liberalism.

And yes, the article is horse manure.
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Windows 95 crashed after 49.7 days (2^32 ms) for similar reasons: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-222391.html
Kind of annoying how this guy is becoming a media darling.