SirPulse

A little tangential question - but is there a time at which art becomes public domain? 50 years after its creation? Longer?

edit: Here's more details https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

I know many such cases as well. Unfortunately it's hard to prove discrimination and the laws are not in favor of the employee in most states. So apart from a news coverage like this article, I doubt much comes out of these lawsuits. Seems futile to pursue.

The CTO probably had a lions share in that. Not surprised how it went. :(

During regular working hours? No way! 545 is awesome and takes ~30 minutes to Seattle. So an hour is more realistic. Even carpool is not bad with much better HOV coverage.

One big problem with cycling is riding in rain or cold weather. If only there was a canopy that I could put on my bike in a few minutes and then go out for ride, that'd be so awesome! Even something permanent would be good but then you start turning it into a car and now human power is not enough to drive this vehicle. A covered single seat vehicle that is mostly human powered with some electric assist when needed and gyro stabilization would be my dream commute vehicle

Yes. It does.

Amazon recently announced PostgreSQL support for Aurora. That should give you what you are looking for.

Round is a significant advantage? How so?

I'd love for recipe sites to have this feature where I can plan a meal for the week at office on a weekday during break time and the groceries required for the meal show up at my doorstep every week. The site can then track the nutrients based on the recipe and integrate with my health tracking apps to ensure that me and my family is getting the right nutrients and exercise... I wish...

What a teaser of an article. I wish it included more details about how Facebook and Google went about reimagining the server architecture and design.

What is a large Excel file here? hundreds of Megs? For most files that I encounter, my old Surface RT works great.

Wonder what Andy Rubin thinks about how this fits into the definition of open https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429

Not just that, Google is devoting its energy to develop the closed platform rather than developing android. The example you give are relatively minor updates with major new functionality now being developed outside of core android as the author points out.

Should be useful when playing family feud. ;)

Whoa, this discussion looks like an ad for Surface Pro! All you who are griping for a tablet not being productive, should seriously give Pro a shot

Get a surface Pro. You should be able to do both the things, work and play without having to worry about switching devices.

Does this not create a webkit monoculture? Find a security flaw in website and suddenly two thirds of browsers are vulnerable.

Regarding the programmable part, have you tried the new JavaScript based office applications in office 2013? I haven't but heard good things about it

Interesting, What part of it?

Fortunately there are options to android itself :)

Try out Surface.

Microsoft's browser doesn't get much love here but browsing is a lot of fun on Surface. First its a full desktop class browser with flash support (albeit only on some sites) the second is the full screen dedicated to browser as opposed to space eaten up chrome around the client area. It matters when your screen is small. And finally buttery smooth scrolling as good if not better than iPad.

Regarding your "touch what daddy is touching" comment, why is that not true for a keyboard or touch pad?

What do you mean " it won't compete in the desktop/high end laptop segment, it's just not capable enough" ?

What is it not capable of?

Completely misunderstood the product. Its a mistake to compare the Surface pro with iPad. The right device to compare with is the MacBook air. both of them have the same capability and are in the same class.

Expected better from you Anand

It was more fun when it was in the middle of the room with the kids playing either setback joyride or fruit ninja. Its stable on stand but only as much fun as any other desktop. (not much for the kids)

That is because the underlying hardware was never powerful enough to support the emulation or the emulation code was not efficient enough. With the current virtualization technology and powerful hardware, I doubt why this would not be effective.

We have the Sony and its a blast with the kids. Got it just in time for the holidays and with 4 kids playing on it together was fun. The apps were limited on win8 though. With android apps, I can imagine it will be even more fun!

Besides developing office on Linux means commiting resources to support that platform. In this case its a website and Google actually spent resources to break a site that was working previously.

Are you saying that is the reason of the redirect?

Well if EU can be influenced by lobbying as FTC can be then EU will clear them as well