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Re:Angry Birds Slammed With 1-Star Ratings After Adding Ads to Paid App on Monday March 21, 2011 @05:34AM (#2349016)

I bet when a company asks you if they can contact you with "special offers from our partners" you always say yes because they didn't call them "ads"

Re:Adobe releases Flash to HTML5 converter on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @04:22PM (#2302643)

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Wallaby#Release_Notes

"Actionscript 1,2 - Unsupported"

"Actionscript 3 - Unsupported"

Then it's not Flash. I really don't have a need to convert any animations from 2002 into the hippest standards. I've never thought to myself "Boy, All Your Base is still really funny, but if only the underlying technology that powered it was open and modern....."

Re:VP8 Codec SDK "Bali" Released on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @04:16PM (#2302623)

I'd bet every bullet point is covered by at least 3 ridiculous patents.

Re:Abusing the HTML5 History API for fun (and chaos) on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @04:11PM (#2302602)

It does for me anyway, in Chrome. It makes it nearly impossible to close the tab.

Re:Bing sets the record straight on recent accusations on Thursday February 03, 2011 @09:09AM (#2174741)

The article is titled "Setting the record straight", but it is not fair to say that "Bing sets the record straight"

Re:Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid on Thursday February 03, 2011 @08:53AM (#2174681)

OkCupid was always one big inside joke. That line is just part of it

And it may rotate now, but it didn't used to, years ago. I distinctly remember it saying Match.com and nothing else.

Re:Wikipedia Wales says Apple's App Store is a threat to openness online on Saturday January 15, 2011 @08:03PM (#2108279)

No, using a vague and loaded word like "open" at all is what is confusing and misleading. It's watered down to "Web 2.0" levels.

Re:Wikipedia Wales says Apple's App Store is a threat to openness online on Saturday January 15, 2011 @08:01PM (#2108273)

It can't be "technically" open because there's no technical definition of open. Under one side's definition, just having a lot of industry players collaborate on it in public makes it open (the definition you're using) whereas the other side says if its freedom is encumbered by patents then it's not open.

Open is a horribly diluted word and there's no way imaginable you can say anything is "technically" or "not technically" open.

Re:IE9 beta's HTML5 support isn't there yet: 3 big canvas gotchas on Saturday January 15, 2011 @07:51PM (#2108253)

FYI, that test suite is said to be about 0.1% complete. Yes, you read that right.

No browser is remotely that compliant. Microsoft already idiotically used that suite to declare themselves king of canvas

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/209787/no_html...

These tests are more involved. Last I checked, no browser gets much more than 80% (though I don't have or want Windows so I can't personally check IE9)

http://philip.html5.org/tests/canvas/suite/tests/

Re:Realtime encoding - over 150x faster on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @06:10AM (#2048467)

It's not for end-users. It's a service for developers to add to their web application. You can certainly try to coax all your users into pre-encoding their video - and understanding how to do that - if you like....

Re:EFF trendwatch: attacks on cryptography on Saturday December 25, 2010 @02:45PM (#2039324)

They give themselves too much credit for the SSL prediction. Firesheep wasn't a new attack on an SSL, it was an old one in a package so convenient that everyone finally paid attention. For a moment.

As for GSM, yeah, that's just the old "computers will keep getting cheaper and more powerful" prediction, dressed up.