whughes

8 ms·

1.
by whughes 16y ago
The answer is yes . Hulu has regularly blocked Flash-enabled devices through various (often circumventable, but still) means. It's just that you never hear about them.
2.
by whughes 16y ago
I feel like Google is constantly launching Facebook killers and waiting to see what will stick. They have so many different social networks and feed mechanisms that it's hard to discern a coherent strategy from them.
3.
by whughes 16y ago
Please, no . This is terrifying. Let us browse without JavaScript and in peace. Please.
4.
by whughes 16y ago
HTC has been building giant-touchscreen-type phones for years. Windows Mobile is not some kind of cheap Blackberry ripoff; it's a Palm ripoff, a lot closer to the iPhone when it came out than anything else. Moreover, the first Android phone
5.
by whughes 16y ago
There's a conference call scene in this (relevant, interesting, funny) video which I think applies to this topic: http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourc... I think that it could become a liability to do this at some
6.
by whughes 16y ago
The points you make are disturbing. As far as I can tell, the reason why people shy away from SEO is not that it doesn't work. Indeed, it seems like people shy away from SEO because it works too well . At least for me, there's a perception
7.
by whughes 16y ago
It's a textbook. Flash doesn't matter. The content needs to be there. I've read textbooks on my iPad before; for the most part, it works OK. There doesn't appear to be any big advantage to the Kno that couldn't be matched in a specialized i
8.
by whughes 16y ago
They lacked metallurgy, banking, agricultural technology... The Industrial Revolution was built on hundreds of years of slow progress and access to tons of natural resources. The Aeliopile was a toy that opened doors; it wasn't going to pow
9.
by whughes 16y ago
So far, technology has solved all problems. What else is there?
10.
The coming crisis in education (1999)(dqd.com)
2 points by whughes 16y ago|0 comments
11.
by whughes 16y ago
Palm?
12.
by whughes 16y ago
Extra cloaking for malicious links? Bit.ly can't exactly check the original site to see if it's OK if it's hidden behind a funky redirection layer. I think that bit.ly was reasonable to have an interstitial, although maybe they should be mo
13.
by whughes 16y ago
Well - you basically made the exact reply he was expecting. I think that letting serial killers out of jail is a bad idea, yes. The reason why we should keep serial killers in jail, though, is not that they're serial killers - it's that, in
14.
by whughes 17y ago
wine also works considerably better on OpenGL, as I understand it. A movement toward OpenGL usage would bring immediate benefits to Linux gamers.
15.
by whughes 17y ago
Embedding Google Maps in one's own site would probably be a better solution. It also helps if you have a bunch of reference points concentrated in the UK or in some other small region (you could have one world map and one UK map). That woul
16.
by whughes 17y ago
It's come to the point where I actively avoid SEO-optimized sites on Google. If I see my search terms in the URL ("how-to-become-a-travel-agent") of a result, I'll just skip over it. Even moreso when there is generic, cut-and-paste content
17.
by whughes 17y ago
He went on to say that they were so focused on revenues in the early days of Zynga that they did some things he didn't like. He then mentioned the Zwinky toolbar and said he installed it on his machine and couldn't get it off. And then wen
18.
by whughes 17y ago
Those are device developer programs, though. XNA for PC is free, and pretty much all major desktop PC development tracks are free. iPhone/XBox/etc are a different story (and my understanding is that $99 is cheap for such a program).
19.
by whughes 17y ago
If people are complaining about their articles getting cut, doesn't that mean that they care about those articles and would maintain them? Wikipedia is actively spurning volunteers and reducing that "finite number" with deletionism.
20.
by whughes 17y ago
Note: This is a PlayStation game! It's a key fact which you have to keep in mind when reading this article and considering it for use on PCs. Console copy protection is today important, but not critical as PC copy protection is. Chances a
21.
by whughes 17y ago
Isn't this mainly an aesthetic thing, though? Consumer text-to-speech is certainly adequate for vocalizing almost any conversation. One could just use that to carry out "covert voice communication."
22.
by whughes 17y ago
Tree-style tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 Still not matched anywhere else. The bogging-down from ridiculous numbers of Firefox tabs may soon force me to switch, however. I also like some of the highlight plugins
23.
by whughes 17y ago
Yes, it was (how else do you use Flash, anyway?). It worked in IE mobile and I believe there were tricks to get it to work in other browsers (Opera). There was Flash Lite and a normal Flash plugin -- the whole thing was pretty confusing, I
24.
by whughes 17y ago
Bizarrely, Flash Player has been available for Windows Mobile for years and nobody has noticed. Windows Mobile also has a YouTube app and most of the other major apps, but they're all terribly neglected and have virtually no users. Microsof
25.
by whughes 17y ago
Android? Chromium? These are not exactly traditional desktop OSes. Ubuntu I'll concede, but if they're putting Android on it by default it will be a lot closer to the iPad than to your Windows/Mac desktop. I think this was something you bru
26.
by whughes 17y ago
Yes. Have you missed the past few weeks of discussion on whether the iPad has a niche? The Kindle already has one. I don't have an iPhone, and I don't want yet another multipurpose device, but bigger. I have a Kindle because I want the e-in
27.
by whughes 17y ago
History texts for what? Past histories will remain in print form, and new revisions to them will still be published in journals and such. History from now on is going to be radically changed by the giant primary source called the Internet a
28.
by whughes 17y ago
That's a given, though. I don't know what kind of fun you're after, but everything I can think of won't put much of a dent into a large sum of money.
29.
by whughes 17y ago
The problem with these kinds of scenarios is that they rarely pan out. Most of the time you just don't have access to 3 iPhones/iPod Touches and an iPad. It's too rare and usually not well-known enough to be worth implementing as a major fe
30.
by whughes 17y ago
It doesn't matter how open HTML5 itself is. Going "to the cloud" is still a step backward for openness. I'd much rather be stuck with .doc files than have everything stored on Google Docs and transmitted using open Web standards. Openness i

More ›