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It's not possible to run executables compiled for x86 or x64 on ARM.

Impossible? I disagree. DOSBox is ported.

And what could have MS done to make a better distinction? Come up with a whole new name? Like Windows 8 vs Doors 8?

Based on how I understand other comments to this story, a different name is exactly what they want.

Enable WebRTC in Chromium (about:flags), and use https://apprtc.appspot.com/. Here's the code if they block the rendes-vouz server: http://www.webrtc.org/blog/sourcecodetoapprtcappspotcomexampleappavailable

I have some HTML5 games too: http://allbinarygames2.appspot.com/ Mine are plenty fast in the browser.

I have some HTML5 games too: http://allbinarygames2.appspot.com/ Mine are plenty fast in the browser.

For the skeptics, this website is great at showing a comparison between 30fps and 60fps: http://frames-per-second.appspot.com/

Of course the cost will go to theatre operators...who else? Who do you think paid for upgrades to 3D capability? And digital cinema? This is a very worthwhile upgrade. 24fps is juttery and looks terrible for any scene with lots of fast movement. This is amplified on bigger screens... Take a look here: http://frames-per-second.appspot.com/ Set one ball to 24fps and the other to 48fps. Swap the background to one or the other as a reference. Now sync and up the pixels per second for all of them. Watch the terrible blur at higher px/sec on the 24fps ball. It hurts my eyes. Especially on a huge screen where everything is moving quickly and that blurry. Sure you can call the blur "cinematic" but guess what, directors can still at that blur in post production when it will bring something more to the picture instead of leaving you to suffer through it on scenes where it only takes away. Unlike 3D on shitty 24fps film, this is an extremely worthwhile upgrade, and one side effect is it will actually enhance the 3D experience in movies which are 48fps and shot in 3D. Call me a troll if you want, but anyone who thinks 48fps is bad clearly doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about, end of story.

I really hate to link xkcd but they are on the money with this one.
http://xkcd.com/936/

I'm getting tired of having to have ridiculous passwords, now I'm just either ALWAYS making the first character an uppercase because it's easier, or doing quick pattern based passwords for the ultra fussy systems.
123qwe!@#QWE - that's surprisingly quick to input yet keeps those stupid systems quiet.

They can have my linked-in hash. Based on a similar pattern is should take 11945132084526 centuries to crack according to passfault.

For the lame systems that insist on bad passwords, I just generate something random in keepassX

Finding the download page for the latest binary can be tricky, although it's much easier now than it used to be. Here's a link for the lazy.

For the extremely lazy, here's how to install, assuming that you're using linux, and it went into your Downloads folder:

unzip ~/Downloads/chrome-linux.zip
sudo mv ~/Downloads/chrome-linux /usr/lib64/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/chrome-linux/chrome-wrapper /usr/bin/chromium

Would it have been SO FUCKING HARD to link to the original, instead to a site that won't even load as I'm writing this?

http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/yahoo-axis-chrome-extension-leaks-private-certificate-file

actually the chromium builds are all located here: http://chromium-build.appspot.com/p/chromium/console but i think it is too technical for average users to know how to use it and d/l stuff from there...Maybe that's what Google wants you to go back to d/l chrome instead?

Well, I, for one, support Google.

They are in the business to sell advertising. If you do not buy advertising, then you have probably never paid a dime directly to Google.

Advertising isn't all they sell.

Your premise, and thus subsequent theory, is flawed.

Try http://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/ and http://thinkcspy.appspot.com/build/index.html the latter is an interactive version of the famous "thinkpython" book. They both have structured curriculum and interactive exercises starting from ground[0].

Bad decisions were made. If you have ever had to deal with PCI DSS certification then you know what the credit card processing companies expect of their merchant customers. Now imagine the standards the credit card companies themselves try to adhere to. Some developers using BitCoin need to think about the security Big Picture before creating infrastructure for their projects/businesses. Keeping a BitCoin wallet containing thousands of BTC on a little cloud server is not wise.

Having said that, there is a solution in the pipe to help with this problem. Gavin Andresen, lead BitCoin developer, had his Bitcoin Faucet Linode server hacked. While only a few Bitcoins were lost he now is using this incident to support his proposal for Multisignature Transactions.

I'm a fan of learning JavaScript as a first language, it can be presented in a nice way. One of the best parts of js is closures, it really gets them right. I put together some interactive js lessons to teach closures a little while ago, give them a try and let me know what you think.

https://sonofatweet.appspot.com/cant-tell-if-troll.png

...and for iPhone/iPad, BASIC in a web app: http://virtual-gs.appspot.com/gsbasic/index.html

Human eye does not see in frames per second. It has a certain data transfer speed, and the way brains process the information is also not as discrete as you might want to wish.

For example, the flicker fusion point (inability to distinguish alternating black and white images) is somewhere around 60fps and the army has done experiments on showing images for a very short time to see whether they could be identified by pilots. The shortest intervals were way less than those postulated even by the flicker fusion point. It also matters greatly how large amount the object moves in your absolute field of vision between frames for your brain to understand motion and simulate smooth movement. Your brain has interpolation algorithms that piece together information streams to form smooth motion.

This has some information, but not many references: http://www.100fps.com/
Wikipedia has more stuff and it's a starting point to look for research. Here's some by BBC on fast-moving objects in sports: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP169.pdf

Also, you can test the difference of 30 and 60 fps here: http://frames-per-second.appspot.com/
At least to me, it is blatantly evident.

You were wrong, and acted like an ass over it towards me and other posters. Will you please apologize and shut up?

You keep talking about "research", may be _you_ care to provide a research that shows "24 fps should be enough for everyone"? (hint: it's not, and it's the reason for current studies for 50p/60p/72p film and television).

Why, you can just go here http://frames-per-second.appspot.com/ and tell us "I don't see any difference". And then we'll just tell you to visit your eye doctor.

And Apple copied the Crunchpad. The reason tablets look like the Crunchpad is because that is what tablets fraking look like. http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/crunchpad-proof-obviousness-in-ipad-design

Wave.

Here is a basic overview. It not every site out there that FB has the potential to track you on which the media eludes too. It's only sites that have FB enabled within their site. Seeing as how more and more sites are doing this it is adding up to quite a few. Hopefully this helps: http://nikcub.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough

I haven't checked yet, but I'm sure someone out there is making an IDE / compiler based on html5 so we can drop what ever IDE application we use for it.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but here's some IDE's:
http://coderun.com/
http://shiftedit.net/
http://compilr.com/
http://ideone.com/
http://py-ide-online.appspot.com/

The 9 dollars is just the base fee. If I'm reading this correctly the only thing you get for that $9/month is the ability to pay additional pay-as-you-go usage fees to get more resources; the monthly fee doesn't increase your inclusive resource allocation at all. If your application is actively used most of the time, you'll apparently end up paying quite a bit more...

There are a few browsers for Fluidinfo data beginning to pop up. The most accessible is at http://explorer.fluidinfo.com/ which lets you do almost anything (make objects, add tags and values, query, change tag perms, etc) but its interface isn't crystal clear. You can also get at the data using http://shell-fish.appspot.com/ which is a browser based shell for interacting with Fluidinfo (type help). You can get visualizations of Fluidinfo objects at http://abouttag.appspot.com/ You can search Fluidinfo about tags at http://abouttag.appspot.com/search There are several other tools, but those are the main ones I'd suggest looking at to start with.

There are a few browsers for Fluidinfo data beginning to pop up. The most accessible is at http://explorer.fluidinfo.com/ which lets you do almost anything (make objects, add tags and values, query, change tag perms, etc) but its interface isn't crystal clear. You can also get at the data using http://shell-fish.appspot.com/ which is a browser based shell for interacting with Fluidinfo (type help). You can get visualizations of Fluidinfo objects at http://abouttag.appspot.com/ You can search Fluidinfo about tags at http://abouttag.appspot.com/search There are several other tools, but those are the main ones I'd suggest looking at to start with.

There are a few browsers for Fluidinfo data beginning to pop up. The most accessible is at http://explorer.fluidinfo.com/ which lets you do almost anything (make objects, add tags and values, query, change tag perms, etc) but its interface isn't crystal clear. You can also get at the data using http://shell-fish.appspot.com/ which is a browser based shell for interacting with Fluidinfo (type help). You can get visualizations of Fluidinfo objects at http://abouttag.appspot.com/ You can search Fluidinfo about tags at http://abouttag.appspot.com/search There are several other tools, but those are the main ones I'd suggest looking at to start with.

It was ahead of its time.
QR Codes are starting to pop up near everywhere. You just need a smartphone. I love them. No more having to punch in a URL when I'm reading the paper, if I'm interested in an Ad, I just take a picture of it.

You can also make your own. Put your 'business card' on the back of your business card and save people from having to type it in. Numerous other uses.

You mean something like this: http://www.blogsdna.com/10151/now-you-can-run-windows-3-1-on-android-phones.htm
and
http://androiddosbox.appspot.com/ ?

So which tablet are you getting?

Apparently anything running Android then. Here you go, although I haven't tried it myself. There's always cross-compiling qemu statically for ARM and then running it on your Android tablet.

Will this do?

Is that offer open to anyone, or just the parent?

Just to the parent, I am not that rich :-) But someone does give 0.05 BTC to whoever asks for it : https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/

I do wonder if a minor "tweak" (at least in the early days) would be to have a "tax" applied to unspent mined bitcoins?

That could be implentable in a future release. It would require every node to agree on running that new software otherwise a fork would happen. It would be doable to destroy money, which would have the same effect as redistributing it.

I've installed the "official" version, but I still can't quite see what the reason for an "average" user is to use bc. They will have to convert their local currency to bc, buy/sell/trade using bc, and then convert back to their local currency to pay taxes or buy things that are only offered in the "official" currency.

The idea is that if there are things to sell for BTCs, there are things to buy too. I think it is an ideal currency for dematerialized goods : web assistance, software development, artistic creation, etc... An economy that we would like to see appear and that we stopped believing that it could come from the major "IP" law firms.

The other problem is if a large company (Google, a bank, government etc) decides to use bitcoin, but with a different chain - this could make the current chain pretty useless.

I think it will probably happen. But tell me, is slashdot useless since Digg and reddit appeared ? Is Gentoo unusable since the success of Ubuntu ? Several crypto-currencies can coexist.

There is also the problem that I've seen mentioned about "illegal" content that might get embedded in the chain - potentially then everyone running a client would then be in possession of this material.

The chain is made of numbers and informations. The last time a chain of numbers was declared illegal, hilarity ensued. But actually, that exactly with this kind of events that bitcoin was designed : you cannot shut it down easily as long as you authorize private encrypted networks in a country.

According to the PDF on this site, the blackouts go from ~7AM to 9PM. http://teidenjapan.appspot.com/en.html#tepco

Except then that would not be really official as it would pretty soon be filled by people looking for Somyang Gie. Or some other equivalent.

But besides that, and the fact that it would take time and other resources to set up such a database, the people remain the main factor that would slow down gathering of such information.
Most would not be aware of the database's existence.
Others wouldn't be able to use it due to the lack of resources or understanding of computers.

Take a look at Google's Person Finder.
Even today, more that 48 hours later it counts about 61100 records. Checked it yesterday, it wasn't even half that.
And that is not the number of people missing - but the number of entries for both missing and found, many of them probably repeated several times by different people.

BBC imagined up that 88000 number in less than 24 hours.

I live in Chile and experienced the massive comms breakdown after the earthquake. Best advice is NOT to use telephone at all, you are just making it harder for everyone, including emergency services. Best way to get information is using http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en, email, sms, facebook and other types of asynchronous communication. Be sure to post contact info of people you are searching for on a place they or their friends can see. Rest assured that odds are they are OK, but just incommunicated. Also sending emails to Police/Firefighter stations in Tochigi with info about the people you look for is a good idea. Just once though. My thoughts go with you and your familiy.

I have family in Tochigi prefecture whom I can't get in touch with. The phone lines are down, and I assume my brother's lost his Internet.

I've used the Google finder at: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/, but perhaps some folks on Slashdot might be able to offer advice on how to proceed in getting in touch.

http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/ As we all might have guessed the phone lines and cellphone systems are disabled still. But the internet is a very persistent entity. Simple and effective. Hope this gets more records.

I think I made it pretty clear that I don't think it's appropriate to take credit away from the people of Tunisia. But just because you give credit to one source, doesn't mean there weren't any other contributing factors. All I'm saying is that Wikileaks contributed to the revolution, and that it might not have happened without it. At the very least, you have to admit that it had some effect.

A lot of news articles mention protesters citing wikileaks during their protests, though I can't find and direct quotes (except in blogs, which you say aren't credible). Here is one such article from the New Yorker (I don't know if you will consider it credible or not). Here is what it says:

Some demonstrators also cited the evidence of cables from the United States Embassy in Tunisia that were released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks providing vividly detailed accounts of the first family’s self-enrichment and opulent lifestyle.

Admittedly, that is supposedly cited from an article from the New York Times, but when you check the source article, it seems to have since been edited, and says instead:

The protesters, led at first by unemployed college graduates like Mr. Bouazizi and later joined by workers and young professionals, found grist for the complaints in leaked cables from the United States Embassy in Tunisia, released by WikiLeaks, that detailed the self-dealing and excess of the president’s family.

Still, the meaning is the same. The leaks added credibility to the protesters complaints. Without them the protests may not have found the popular support they needed to succeed.

Here is a Tunisian website that translated and distributed the leaks prior to the revolution. If the leaks weren't important, why would Tunisian activists risk doing something like that?

what CC info? you just send cash to some address, or use bitcoin escrow service if you want be more secure.

FYI, there's a case-sensitive search engine (really just a simple filter on top of Google) over at http://case-sensitive-search.appspot.com/ .

Lombari BluePrint - purchased by IBM I think so they changed the name. http://blueworkslive.com/

Also: http://gwtgallery.appspot.com/

Finally keep in mind a large user of GWT Apps is finiancial services / corporate internal applications, so there are many non-public GWT apps out there..

You are right that it might not cover your electricity bill to generate a few bitcoins (unless you are generating on a high-end graphics card), but that's how it should be. If it was easy to generate bitcoins, they would be worth nothing.

It gets interesting after the coins are generated, and they start being traded for goods and services.

Bear in mind that the difficulty of generating new bitcoins rises in proportion to the total CPU power in the network, so most people will need to get their bitcoins by trading rather than by generating.

If you just want to play with Bitcoin, you can install the software then get 0.05 free bitcoins (5 bit "cents") from the Bitcoin Faucet. There's no catch.

On Linux, processes are very lightweight, especially since it uses COW. And on the web, inter-process communication is less important, which means you don't incur in marshaling overhead.
"green threads" won't help you scale over cores, but within each core, they can be faster than normal threads.

Also,
http://distractable.net/coding/google-appengine-java-vs-python-performance-comparison/
http://gaejava.appspot.com/

Unladen Swallow is also basically a dead project.

But it showed Google commitment on Python.

You just shouted a bunch of things without anything to back them up.

Chrome 7 is most certainly no longer in beta.

See here: http://omahaproxy.appspot.com

The "Beta channel" and "stable channel" point to the same release because Chrome 8 isn't quite ready yet for beta consumption.

As "aDosBox".. http://androiddosbox.appspot.com/

Except for all the people still on XP, which has no native IPv6 support... http://www.techi.com/2010/10/windows-xp-still-the-most-widespread-windows-os/ and the fact that MacOS still doesn't work quite right with it... http://openradar.appspot.com/7333104

> Add the fact that this is, you know, Epic. The guys who fled the PC because they only had one rehash of the same game to offer again and again until it tanked. And they blamed it on the imminent demise of the PC market and piracy and whatever, when similar games sold several times the number of copies in the same period.

I would [mostly] agree with this. The latter UTs weren't as "good" as the earlier ones. The "fps community" moved onto new & better games ... Battlefield Bad Company 2, Call of Duty MW, etc ...

> Then they did ok on the XBox as long as basically they were almost the only FPS game in town.

Again, agreed. Thankfully (love it or hate it) Halo on the XBox re-vitalized the FPS market (along with Call of Duty/MW.) Some sort of recharging shield + skill tree / perks seems to be resultant merger of FPS+RPGs these days.

> Now they're pretty much the only major game dev excited about Apple's walled garden enforced with an iron fist. I wonder why ;)

Have you had a chance to check out the "Epic Citadel" demo on the iPhone. Looks like your first point "more money for Epic." is spot on.
http://app-store.appspot.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fepic-citadel%2Fid388888815%3Fmt%3D8

There are a few other game companies that seem to deliver good iPhone games -- Gameloft for example with "Dungeon Hunter"
http://app-store.appspot.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fdungeon-hunter%2Fid329899071%3Fmt%3D8%26ign-impt%3DclickRef%253DSoftware%252520Page-US-Dungeon%252520Hunter-329899071-Lockup

Cheers

> Add the fact that this is, you know, Epic. The guys who fled the PC because they only had one rehash of the same game to offer again and again until it tanked. And they blamed it on the imminent demise of the PC market and piracy and whatever, when similar games sold several times the number of copies in the same period.

I would [mostly] agree with this. The latter UTs weren't as "good" as the earlier ones. The "fps community" moved onto new & better games ... Battlefield Bad Company 2, Call of Duty MW, etc ...

> Then they did ok on the XBox as long as basically they were almost the only FPS game in town.

Again, agreed. Thankfully (love it or hate it) Halo on the XBox re-vitalized the FPS market (along with Call of Duty/MW.) Some sort of recharging shield + skill tree / perks seems to be resultant merger of FPS+RPGs these days.

> Now they're pretty much the only major game dev excited about Apple's walled garden enforced with an iron fist. I wonder why ;)

Have you had a chance to check out the "Epic Citadel" demo on the iPhone. Looks like your first point "more money for Epic." is spot on.
http://app-store.appspot.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fepic-citadel%2Fid388888815%3Fmt%3D8

There are a few other game companies that seem to deliver good iPhone games -- Gameloft for example with "Dungeon Hunter"
http://app-store.appspot.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fdungeon-hunter%2Fid329899071%3Fmt%3D8%26ign-impt%3DclickRef%253DSoftware%252520Page-US-Dungeon%252520Hunter-329899071-Lockup

Cheers

Is there a good Android app out there I can basically hit "start" on and it will track my movement on a map, my speed, and maybe other things that I can then pimp out to a social networking site afterwards? I like to post my bike rides for my friends, since I have an extra bike and I would like to bring them along. Think advertising. I've got an app that does everything but the map and location meant to track workouts, but I want the map dangit!

Yes, My Tracks, free from Google and now open source.

http://www.spy.appspot.com/ a "search" site for social media
Might be fun to note who is using in in ~ realtime.

I guess i'll give a shot and try to get people to use my soon-to-be-totally-dead web based wave client.