Comment Obama's obtained most of his wealth from his books (Score 1) 703
Is it so hard to believe that he'd frown upon piracy?
Just because freeloading is part of the "open source" ethic doesn't mean that all other creators must live by that ethic.
Comment Re:Not Trolling ... (Score 1) 703
Three jokes that have one thing in common: they are totally and utterly unelectable. Thank God.
Comment Hello? It's a presentation to developers. (Score 1) 196
Even shows the code loaded into Visual Studio. He's not talking to "consumers". And since when did Microsoft ever claim, even to consumers, that all there OSes were the same on all devices? Consumers couldn't care less about whether a phone OS is the same as a PC OS.
Comment Re:90% shared code? (Score 1) 196
C#/XNA will do just fine to create top-end mobile games, as evidenced by the ZuneHD's Project Gotham Racing game, and other 3-D games.
Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game 196
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget:
"Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."
Comment Wow. Good Find. (Score 1) 436
I wonder how many javascripts on the web are using this same flawed random sort implementation? Probably lots.
Comment Well, MS may as well change it anyway. (Score 1) 436
Simply assign each browser a random number, then sort them by each corresponding number. The current solution is over-engineered. It's till random, but lacks an even distribution of probability. They should make the very simple change to "fix" that, if for no other reason than just to be beyond reproach.
Comment Chrome actually steals some UI ideas from IE7 (Score 1) 948
such as eschewing a menubar and consolidating the commands in Page and Tool dropdown buttons.
Incidentally, Slashdotters bashed MS for doing this in IE7, but were silent about Google doing the same thing in Chrome. Which reminds me that slashdotters also bashed Microsoft for merging the Back/Forward navigation stack into a single dropdown control in IE7, but said nothing when Firefox 3 copied that idea. I only point out these things to show that slashdotters aren't the most objective analysts when it comes to judging UI.
That said, I agree with you that Chrome's UI is better than IE's, and I think Chrome's UI is the best of all browsers.
Comment The DOJ settlement forbids MS from favoring (Score 1) 464
OEMs with discounts for not bundling competing software. So the "power isn't left with them".
Comment IIRC, MS gave discounts to those that didn't (Score 1) 464
bundle competing browsers. They didn't "pull" Windows from OEMs that did bundle them.
Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 410
Looks to me like the Pirate Party has a horrible vote vs party membership ratio. It's shockingly pathetic. So what will 5000 more members mean? 10000 more votes? Big deal.
BTW, yes the Pirate Party is utterly insignificant politically. Or do you think that zero seats is significant?
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