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And correct me if I'm wrong, but with dual stack, don't you generally try one addressing scheme first and then fail over to the second, if you can't reach the device? You try a DNSv6 lookup for your host, but you get a nack on that host name, so then you have to send a *second* DNS request, IPv4 this time, and wait for that response. IIRC, Vista did that by default, and people complained that Vista was a dog compared to XP until they learned to turn IPv6 off

This problem was solved in time for last year's IPv6 test day (June 8th, 2011) - http://www.conceivablytech.com/7616/products/google-preps-chrome-for-ipv6-test-day

The trick is to send an IPv4 request if you don't get a very rapid (300ms) turnround from IPv6, and then use whichever comes first. I think this logic is now applied in Firefox, etc., as well as Chrome.

Most profitable company
Record iPad sales.
Record iPhone sales.

Apple takes 52% of all smartphone profits
Apple takes 66% of all smartphone profits
Apple takes 75% of all smartphone profits

How long before they are at 100%?

LG Posts net loss
Motorola Mobility net loss
Sony Ericsson net loss

What do you think will happen to android market share when every company stops making them because they went out of business?

See article linked from: Mozilla's Nightingale: Why Firefox Still Matters: http://www.conceivablytech.com/8746/business/the-mozilla-interview-why-firefox-matters

Nightingale was very open to discuss Chrome and its impact on Firefox. He spoke very positively of it, especially that it provided an incentive for other browser makers to shape up in some areas. However, he denied that Mozilla is only copying features from chrome these days, which is an allegation we frequently hear from our readers. Firefox 4 was in development for a long, long time – more than a year and an eternity in modern browser refresh cycles. Being an open-source product, it followed the policy of being available to the public at all times.

Even before the beta phase started, companies like Google and Opera could easily get their hands on the code for Firefox and explore it for new ideas. Chrome, which has always been on a fast release cycle and Opera, which had a major as well as a few minor releases during the span of the FF4 Beta, borrowed ideas from the unreleased browser and got to implement it into their released versions long before Mozilla could. To the general public, it may appear as if Chrome has a lot of features, which Firefox just cloned. In reality some of these features were actually cloned from Firefox. Nightingale mentioned the “colored URLs” in the location bar as an example. He also noted the do-not-track feature, which was picked up by Microsoft for IE9.

However, he indicated that there is an unofficial idea sharing policy in place: “Chrome does not have a monopoly on the UI and being fast,” Nightingale said. “If there is a good idea that comes from someone else, we will take as well. We really don’t want to claim that we are the only ones who have good ideas.”

In the comments for the linked article (http://www.conceivablytech.com/8274/business/patent-troll-goes-after-notebook-cooling), someone pointed out that downclocking to prevent overheating was already used in the Socket 775 Pentium 4.

Which was on the market before the patent was even filed, and as a mass market product from the world's largest CPU vendor, its features were widely reported. So it seems likely that this particular patent troll filed the patent while knowing there was prior art.

Exactly.
But hey, if you look at Microsoft's LIS draft, you'll see that there is nothing to worry about, and/or nothing a Congress member will worry about, or understand.
(And just to quote TFA from yesterday: "A request for clarification we sent to Microsoft has remained unanswered so far.")

I am personally interested in this subject so I've done a lot of reading. There is a lot of criticism of Kurzweil, but on the whole, he's been pretty good in my view. If you're looking for a series of predictions and how close he was, check this page out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil

He's been wrong about some (perhaps some would say many) predictions, but in my view I think he's pretty damn good in determining the general trajectory of the accelerating nature of tech. If you consider exactly what the response would have been in 1990 when according to the wiki article he predicted by 2010 "PCs are capable of answering queries by accessing information wirelessly via the Internet." or in the early 2000s "Exoskeletal, robotic leg prostheses allow the paraplegic to walk." his predictions aren't that far off. The progress has been truly amazing and in 1990 would have been nearly unbelievable to most people (esp for something like Watson, I will add)

To be fair, his projection that "Telephone calls are routinely screened by intelligent answering machines that ask questions to determine the call's nature and priority." and "Most books will be read on screens rather than paper." are off... but not as much as the general direction was on, in my opinion.

How much raw computing power needs to be created before it equals a human? We are not that special and the power is literally doubling and doubling and doubling as it has for decades... http://www.conceivablytech.com/8027/products/intel-exascale-computing-arrives-in-2018

As much as I dislike uselessly high version numbers, their release plan looks rather impressive. If you didn't bother to click the article link, the development for each new version of Firefox will occur in a rather "layered" fashion. After initial development on Firefox 5 is finished in mozilla-central, work begins on the initial development for Firefox 6, and after that, 7. At the same time as 6 and 7 are being worked on in mozilla-central, Firefox 5 and 6, respectively, are moved to mozilla-experimental and worked on. While experimental work is being done on 6 and 7, Firefox is moved into "Beta" and Beta work begins on 5 and 6, respectively. It's much easier to understand if you look at the image I linked to, and it certainly looks impressive, though I am not quite sure how it will work out in the long run. Only time will tell, I guess.

You claim that smartphones need to be more functional like netbooks before they're widely accepted? Like NETBOOKS?? Worldwide, 302 million smartphones were shipped in 2010. In comparison, Gartner's high estimate of Netbook sales in 2010 was only about 42 million, although I think when all was said and done the total was even lower, blunted by the iPad. Heck, total PC shipments of all types in 2010 were only about 376 million, with smartphones sure to surpass that total either this year or next. Regardless, smartphones are certainly closer to "dominating" the American phone market than netbooks are to dominating the PC market.

That's not to say that netbooks are not useful; I agree they are. But it's simply wrong to categorize smartphones as mere toys. True, they can't easily do spreadsheets, but OTOH how many netbooks serve as a primary phone, a primary camera, a primary music device, a gps device, and are carried around every single day by their owners? And factor in competiton from the tablet form factor and devices like the Motorola Atrix and HP's Pre3 with the so-called "touch-to-share" feature, it can be argued that in fact it's the netbook which needs to learn to be more useful.

You're right, in a sense, about the price though. Dumbphones dominate because they're cheaper and the battery lasts MUCH longer. That's basically it. But do smartphones need to "dominate" the phone market in the first place, and is their lack of doing so a failure? Does the Volvo S80 need to dominate the global car market, maybe become more Honda Civic-y?

What is interesting from the version transition graphs is that you can clearly see the different development cycles of the three top browser organizations.

Microsoft: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser4.jpg

Mozilla: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser5.jpg

Google: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser6.jpg

I suspect the auto-updates on chrome are actually helping to increase the user base.

What is interesting from the version transition graphs is that you can clearly see the different development cycles of the three top browser organizations.

Microsoft: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser4.jpg

Mozilla: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser5.jpg

Google: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser6.jpg

I suspect the auto-updates on chrome are actually helping to increase the user base.

What is interesting from the version transition graphs is that you can clearly see the different development cycles of the three top browser organizations.

Microsoft: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser4.jpg

Mozilla: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser5.jpg

Google: http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser6.jpg

I suspect the auto-updates on chrome are actually helping to increase the user base.

Your analysis seems messed-up to me. I assume you are referring to this chart http://www.conceivablytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/browser2.jpg Chrome's rate of growth might have slowed a bit, but it still grew by what looks like 10%. IE has had negative growth pretty consistently. Safari's growth rate seems to be much lower than Chrome's. Since your understanding of the data seems so far off the mark, I doubt your conclusions are accurate.

Firefox and Opera are NOT supporting h264 in the video tag.

Mozilla’s Robert O’Callahan wrote a big “Thanks Google!” on his blog and said that he is “surprised” and “delighted” that Google has made that decisions. “Incidentally, it’s also a good day for us at Mozilla: the pressure that was building on us to support H.264 should ease off considerably,” he wrote

http://www.conceivablytech.com/5155/business/mozilla-celebrates-google-webm-delays-firefox-4-beta-9/

Also Opera's support for h264 has nothing to do with money.

Thomas Ford, Senior Communications Manager, Opera, told Muktware, "Actually, Opera has never supported H.264. We have always chosen to support open formats like Ogg Theora and WebM.

http://www.muktware.com/n/12/2011/661

There also this source:
http://www.conceivablytech.com/2784/products/mozilla-firefox-4-is-twice-as-fast-chrome-7/
But, honestly, most of the pages that I go to do not have tons of javascript all over them, especially with noscript. Firefox 4, Chrome 7, Chromium 8, Opera 11, and heck, even IE 9 all render my pages in an instant. I have the "exact" same addons on both firefox on chrome (as close as I could get). However, on certain websites, chrome takes a bit to load all of the pages, and it is because some of the addons that I use are poorly implemented in Chrome (without addons, it loads instantly). I have all of the browsers on, but right now I'm sticking to firefox 4 (the UI is customizable and slimmer. I'm only on either 1440x900 or 1024x600--I need to treasure my vertical pixels).

I'd be much more interested to see it being done with the builds of FF 4 that have jaegermonkey enabled. Though that should be merged into the main branch fairly soon with any luck.

http://www.conceivablytech.com/2673/products/first-look-firefox-4-jaegermonkey/

I also note they completely ignore the two largest smartphone platforms - Symbian and RIM

Wrong. That would be Android and RIM in the US (where Vonage is based), or Symbian and Android worldwide.

There are some who believe the iPad idea was stolen from Alan Kay, so I guess anything is possible.

Considering that Alan Kay worked for Apple for a while, I'm not sure "stolen" is at all the right word.

There are some who believe the iPad idea was stolen from Alan Kay, so I guess anything is possible.