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While I'm a Mac user and have used Safari every day for years, I gave it a quick try on my work Windows desktop when it first came out. Since the interface was so much slower than Firefox (probably due to all the custom drawing) I didn't bother to stick with it.

Apple has never really pushed Safari for Windows at all. The theory I've read that always made sense to me was that it was created to allow Windows developers to test pages without an iPhone (or later iPad).

But here we are a few years later and the cost of getting a Mac is lower than it was. Apple already has a ton more developers thanks to the iPhone and iPad. And if you just want to see "will my site look good on an iPhone" you can buy an iPod touch for ~$200.

I'm actually a bit surprised it took them this long. It clearly wasn't an important product for them.
I've written down my experience of tipping in Australia, as an illustration that the word "tipping" has different connotations in different cultures.

Historically, Australians don't tip. During much of the the 20th century Australia had quite a strong (relative to the US) tradition of socialism and unionism, resulting in a strong set of minimum employment conditions. There was very much a view that a decent living wage was an entitlement and a matter of dignity, not something that a worker should have to stoop to collect. People didn't tip, since the common perception was that the potential tipee was as equally entitled to a minimum wage as the potential tipper. Indeed, I'd say that people actively didn't tip as an act of homage to equality.

Tipping is probably more common today than in the past, and the above is being eroded, but I think the above is still generally true. A tip is rarely expected, or let on to be expected, as that is a sure fire way not to get a tip.

I mention the above, in the supposition that it has connotations for a site like gittip that liberally uses the word "tipping". Some cultures don't do tipping. As an Australian, I'd be more inclined if the idea of compensation was being sold on a "equity" (as in fairness) basis rather than a giving basis. I know it's semantics, but semantics does influence decisions.

I hope the above is constructive.
1gbps is not as impressive 2 years later... 100mbps broadband is already becoming affordable here in Brazil, it's a given that 1gbps will be available in large scale in 2-3 years.
That is the goal of the project.
Unfortunately, "plain English" is not sufficient to describe all physical phenomena, particularly with scales we aren't exposed to in day-to-day life.
Gamers are (I think) attracted to Steam because of it's convenience and price. Many gamers will pass up games on alternative dd platforms because they can't get the game to register on steam.

If Microsoft provides competitive pricing, fast downloads and good key management (easy key activation, no PC activation limits, DRM-free options, good online/offline story) I could see people switching away from Steam.

Amazon is actually trying quite hard in this area - their download application could use work, but they have pricing and good DRM policies in place. Plus, their community outreach is mind boggling (especially considering the other DD outlets do none at all).
IMHO, Conclusive proof that we are not in a bubble, just a boom.
Once internet of this speed is ubiquitous, bandwidth is no longer a concern. Imagine what you can do when bandwidth is out of the picture.
That's basically what Dwolla did/is doing.
Nope, they are all S-IPS displays. The reasons they're so cheap is because their panels are sourced from rejected Cinema Display and other top quality display batches.
So I'm all for getting better broadband in this country, and good on Google for trying to make it happen. But allow me to place devil's advocate for a minute. This is like AOL 2.0 right? Isn't it a really bad idea to have one of the largest sites on the internet also be your ISP?
What about Dune II? It was way ahead of its time. If I remember correctly it had unlimited unit select.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_II
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Internet speeds may improve by 10x every 2-3 years in Brazil, but that isn't how it's been going in the USA.

If it was, the USA would already have 10Gbps for bargain-basement prices.
If you really wanted to take on the payments industry you have to start with the infrastructure. Otherwise you are always at the mercy of a credit card processor just shutting you off.

Today Google Wallet is at the mercy of credit cards, but in the future... people will pay their Google Fiber bill with credit cards. I don't see where you're going.
As soon as Zynga starts offering real money poker they will become the biggest and most profitable poker room in the world.
Non-obvious/invisible click and mouseover regions are probably my single biggest beef with Win 8. Just terrible.
I have encountered more than one bug that exists in either Chrome or Safari, but not both. If you only test using Chrome on Windows, you still won't really know how it will behave in Safari.
Chuck I read very smart comment as well, although cannot point to the source now.

It basically said that you cannot look at it as "selling fake stuff", but rather look as "selling something users like". This approach, I think, made Zynga (at least initially) successful where others couldnt believe you would spend money on "buying fake stuff".

Same way you can say about many other things. Going to the cinema. Its fake. You can't eat the picture, you can't take it with you, you cannot even record it for later. You pay for the ticket and that ticket buys you pleasure and happiness for 90 minutes, hopefully. But other than that, 90 minutes later you have nothing. Once could say: this is fake.

Therefore, people that buy "fake" pigs and harvest "fake" fields, would still pay real money for doing so, because Zynga made it look and feel so great that the result (pleasure) is worth paying real money.

The true reason why Zynga is falling through cracks, I believe, is because having fake farms that you pay with real money was a fashionable moment; something cool to do, but at some point, people got tired and it stopped being popular/trendy. That's it. Now its up to Zynga to figure whether they can keep users busy some other ways (and spend money), or they won't until they get delisted from Nasdaq and subsequently file for Chapter 11.

I believe in the latter.
Being prevalent, which it no doubt was, and being pervasive are two different things.

IP has a way of worming itself into every little thing. IPX never really escaped from the desktop network environment.
I don't know, but Xbox Live has 40m users and Steam has 10m (numbers from google search). Microsoft has a shot at this if they do it right, since it opens doors for apps too. We'll see. Best thing Microsoft could have done was to buy steam outright or venture with Valve. Something tells me that ship has sailed.
To include your outgoing messages in threads, just set up a hook that adds an Fcc: +inbox header. I used to copy all outgoing messages to a separate +sent folder, but that didn't turn out to be very useful.
> It’s surprising now to think what might have happened had Blizzard not controlled the intellectual property rights for the Warcraft universe — it’s highly unlikely Blizzard would be such a dominant player in the game industry today.

This seems a very important observation. Its interesting how most of the major pre-computer fantasy universes with big fan-bases (Battletech, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, Star Wars etc.) never managed to really transition seriously into computer games (a few hits but lots of misses and certainly no dominant series like warcraft and starcraft). I think the licencers of these worlds have been guilty of being far too greedy over the years as a general rule, and hurt their own pockets through doing so...

Also - great article. I loved playing Warcraft 1, and despite the fact that the 'RTS race' soon exploded and left it in the rear-vision mirror, it was still incredibly important in defining the genre... (as a side note, most of the other Blizzard games around this time were great too - must have been a great team).
Apple's network effect or market position clearly doesn't make other phones and devices a non-starter. Craiglist's network effect and market position clearly makes other housing listing sites a non-starter.

Big difference.
This may be a case where in theory openness and competition are better but in practice well-executed vertical integration is better.
I think Newell has misjudged why Linux hasn't taken off as a personal computing platform. Sure, the lack of games doesn't help, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.
You are far more optimistic than I. I expect developers will quickly find ways to write software which consumes an entire 1Gbps link.
I read that World of Warcraft was born when playtesting prototypes of Warcraft III, the first 3D version in the Warcraft series. People were having so much fun just running around with their 3D heroes that the concept grew. This is a great example of letting the product lead you.
Blame the game not the player.

Campaign against the patent system. Don't expect public companies not to use the rules as they exist to their best interest. I don't even see anything unethical in wanting to keep some exclusive features (although 20 years seems too long).

I do also think that Samsung probably did cross the line between taking inspiration and wholesale copying and attempting to look like Apple.
Continue worrying about latency? :P

(This speed isn't going to be ubiquitous for a long time, at least in North America. Too many rural and cell phone users.)
Fields Medal winner Terence Tao gives a public lecture on this material:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ne0GArfeMs
You are correct app stores are becoming standard OS components. I feel like Steam on linux is one step away from a SteamLinuxOS. Which opens up console ideas comprable to the Ouya Andriod powered console that was just buzzing on kickstarter.
Developers: We are no longer Apple's target market
This link gives an alternative hiring perspective that eschews unnecessary loops.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/07/overfocus-on-tech-skills-co...

Check out the hackernews discussion on the subject:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4275140
Thanks. I'm curious why more processors aren't using an EV certificate for all their pages such as what WEPAY appears to be doing.
'we decided to allow players to select only four units at a time based on the idea that users would be required to pay attention to their tactical deployments rather than simply gathering a mob and sending them into the fray all at once.'

Damnation! Sometimes I would just build huge mobs for the fun of it, but trying to get them to attack at the same time was a pain.

Great game though, artistically I enjoyed it more than Warcraft II.
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Thanks for the context, the page itself was quite devoid of information.

I would love to see how this service compares to the roll out of fibre we are seeing in Australia at the moment. There is a lot of resistance from the opposition as the government is largely funding our new network.

In particular, many commentators claim that rolling out wireless technology is more financially viable then fibre to the home. In Australia we do have a sparse consumer distribution, so the context is a little different, however if google's model is viable (as you would assume) it might make a strong case study for our situation.

Looking forward to seeing how it all progresses.

EDIT: spelling
Win-Mac integration annoyances mean it's not a Win-Win

I laughed
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A cross-platform store is something that appeals to the consumer rather than the game developer I would think?
It cannot be FRAND to insist on cross licence as the impact discriminates against those with patents. The ND part.

It would imply that if I can get one essential patent into an important spec I can force you to licence hundreds of completely unrelated patents. That just can't be right.
I understand that you may think that $2k/year is very little, but to many people it's a small fortune. Anyway, why do you think it's necessary to deflect attention from their working conditions? Warehouses aren't the most comfortable working environments in any case, that should not be surprising. Not everything can be a nice air conditioned office.
With all this recent talk of paid vs defense of free vs freemium, at the end of the day, certain basic principles apply. Revenues still matter, a lot.
As Zynga copies games with some success, why has it been able to copy the Japanese model of social gaming? Gree and DeNA have been able to make money for several years now and it appears are growing sustainably.

Gree's most recent quarterly results:
http://v3.eir-parts.net/EIR/View.aspx?template=ir_material&#...
I thought Craigslist is suing 3taps because they scrape their site directly?
I think the problem is that the Microsoft store will be the only way to get software on Windows 8 Rt. Microsoft is essentially pulling an Apple and there is no way that is a net benefit for Valve or the community in general.

There are other problems with Windows 8, but I think the closed ARM version is a really big one.
The article mentions that. Apparantly it was playing Dune II at lunch that inspired Warcraft, and the unit selection was put in since Dune II only allowed you to select one unit at once.

It was apparently Command & Conquer that added unlimited unit selection.
There are a lot of guys out there that do this - are they lacking in some way that could be improved?
After the Vista Candy shop its toy blocks now...

- haven't looked under the hood of W8 yet but if MS wants to limit me what I can install on my computer / take over boot / BIOS control this one will certainly find no home on any of my computers.

Call me old fashioned but if I go to a shop and buy a computer (or have it send to my place) I actually want to own it and not find a clause on line 432'678 of the license agreement that it's now completely legal that a Seattle Corp has pwned my computer.
Our current payment infrastructure is based around private leased lines. If you really wanted to take on the payments industry you have to start with the infrastructure. Otherwise you are always at the mercy of a credit card processor just shutting you off.

Umm..

Credit card processors have other, more obvious ways of shutting you off that taking away a leased line.

The leased lines used for credit card processing are such a minor factor that you can pretty much ignore it. Yes, it is a weird way to do it, and no, if you were building a replacement you wouldn't use leased lines, but that isn't what is holding back payment technologies.
sure, most of my friends are CS majors, but if they aren't linux users already, the reason they always cite is the lack of support for games.
What else is there for an end user?
Wasn't the original point of Safari for Windows that all iOS apps were going to be in‐browser since Apple didn't want to allow the level of access for apps, so it was to allow more people to develop for the iPhone?

And then they went and made the app store and all that went out the window.

I'm surprised they didn't kill it a couple years back.
West Coast Functionalism gave birth to various continuations that are still practiced fervently at various universities (including UCSB, as a specific example I can point to that I have personal experience with).
please santa, please oh please oh please.
meh, the last mile buried fiber is a 'natural monopoly' - personally, I think that fiber to the home should be a municipal service, like power, and fiber to the business in santa clara. I mean, the majority of the value there is the public right of way; private companies simply can't do it without subsidies (in the form of right of ways granted by the municipality)

But, see, that only gets you from your house to the CO. I think that going from the CO to the internet could be an active and healthy free market.

Paul Vixie has advocated something similar...

http://public.freemuni.net/sf-news/paul-vixie/Page-4
did you actually read the article where he gave props to dune 2? and also said multi-unit select was one of the things they noticed was missing and would benefit the genre?
I would not go that far.
I think bandwidth will continue to be a problem, no matter how big the pipe gets.

The domain of bandwidth restricted problems may shift, but it will almost certainly still be an issue. Historically we seem to be really good at using whatever bandwidth is available.

The main thing that might prove this sentiment wrong is the other choke points in the system: it's no use pumping data down the line if our hard drives can't store it quickly enough, or we can't render it as fast as we get it.
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I did not know that pervasive was synonym for 'took off'.
Even if they have relevant patents they would be looking for money rather than legal costs and injunctions. I think it is likely that Apple would just pay some reasonable fees and move on.

They might even view the development as positive if it cost Android manufacturers as much per unit as they typically have less margin so may have to raise their prices making the Apple products relatively more attractive.
I expect that Google already has plenty of ways to consume an entire gigabit link; eg, Google Play music/movies/tv, Google Drive, etc. I'm sure they'd be more than happy for all of your data to be stored in the cloud, and have all of your access streamed to you in realtime over that gigabit link.

Come to think of it, I would be more than happy for all of my data to be held securely in the cloud so that I would never need to worry about backups or syncing my data between multiple machines. Assuming reasonable privacy and security practices, of course.
I use the term 'fake' here in the context of a product made entirely out of information, and your cinema example is a good one. The experience is the sale, not the asset. That said, the other company I'm watching in this space is Blizzard which recently opened up their real money 'auctions' for items in Diablo III. This legitimizes what has been an underground industry for years and recognizes that there is some business value in trading "products" made out of bits instead of materials. Unlike Zynga the Blizzard scheme has users selling to users and Blizzard just takes a percentage. If the model generates any serious revenue at all for Blizzard I would expect Zynga to follow suit, allowing Farmville users whose cow births a gold medal calf or something to trade that for Zyngian currency or even real money. These businesses have to be careful not to create an actual currency because the government will shut that down, but trading virtual goods has so far passed muster on that score.[1]

That said, the analysis I've seen on Zynga games relates the pleasure not from the virtual farming, so much as the chance to get more out than you put in (the gambling rush as it is known in Las Vegas). You plant your farm and you get a golden bean or something that is now 'valuable' as opposed to all those other times you planted and got regular beans. Its a powerful tool, wielded well by Zynga and others.

[1] You will know you are trouble when your customer wants to pay you with rare gear from Diablo or extra egg laying chickens or something.
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MGM or LVS are better equipped to take advantage of a loosening of the internet gaming acts
I use a Mac as my main computer, but keep a PC just for games. I would love to use Linux on it and not have to pay for Windows. Is there another category of software that is as exclusive to windows as games? I can get everything else I need via web apps or OSX.
In particular, many commenters claim that rolling out wireless technology is more financially viable then fibre to the home.

I don't think anyone claims that wireless isn't cheaper than fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). Some commentators claim it offers similar performance to fibre

(They are wrong: at scale, with a large number of geographically concentrated users wireless doesn't offer anything near fibre performance. Comparing the best wireless case performance - where there is a single client on an uncongested network, against the cheapest available - bandwidth capped - fibre plans is clearly an invalid comparison)
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Looking back, I really wished warcraft2 would've allowed you to bind groups of 9 to numbers.
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I expect developers will quickly find ways to write software
which consumes an entire 1Gbps link.

You say that like it is a bad thing!
>[...] other choke points in the system: it's no use pumping data down the line if our hard drives can't store it quickly enough, or we can't render it as fast as we get it.

Or have the resolution to display it.

Displays have been lagging capture technology for a while, and I don't think it's entirely delivery constrained.
In your blog entry that you linked here - the one titled "Who's the Dick?" - you called John Gruber a scumbag, presuming that he dug for dirt instead of maybe following conversations where someone pointed info out, and then insisted that the music and artwork was both trivial and substantially transformative enough to, in your opinion, suck.

If you want to write about being decent online, you need to write more clearly and less muddled. And if you feel like something you've previously written is relevant, link it, but don't contort too hard for a connection, because non sequitur reasons - like the one about Apple fawning over him - read like spam rather than someone trying to be part of the conversation.
It seems like sbierwagen's linked article makes this a bit clearer than the op.

I think that the fear he has of Windows 8 is not that Valve will have competition or that steam will lose market share. it already is fighting similar offerings from a few different angles. He seems concerned that windows 8 represents a step back from the open platform model of windows. That it signals an attempt from Microsoft to build their own walled garden to counteract Apple's. This would inevitably be bad for third parties who make their living in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Linux then solves the problem because the platform is open. Not in terms of cost but of access
Gittip is well suited to use bitcoin (I even saw it mentioned a few times in issues https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/search?q=bi... ), bitcoiners can even fund that feature.
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"Your sound card works perfectly."
"Your sound card works perfectly."
"Your sound card works perfectly."
"Enjoying yourself?"
"Your sound card works perfectly."
"Your sound card works perfectly."
"Your sound card works perfectly."
"It doesn't get any better than this!"
Throttled game updates? For as long as I've had my present Internet connection, I download updates from Steam with a median speed of 6 MB/s.
> owning the pipe is always a good move especially in the face of net neutrality

... so that Google can achieve further market domination in the search and search advertising space?
I spent my youth playing Dune 2 (and then Warcraft, etc).

This brings back so many memories. I had to find some Dune 2 gameplay on youtube... Hoping some people here will enjoy it too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiJLOjeyDxs

Being a fan of Starcraft 2, I can't believe how painful it was to have to select each unit individually... Glad the mechanics of RTSes have evolved.