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HTML5 Mythbusting
Authored by: kuroshima on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 04:46 PM EST

Obligatory linky

Personally, I originally was a Netscape user, then Netscape 4 happened. I persevered, and used Opera, until Mozilla came. I used Mozilla until both Firefox AND thunderbird were mature enough (I always found that Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird suited me as email programs). Now, I use Chromium and Thunderbird still. Mozilla also gets some use, for when I need two simultaneous independent accounts in some web service, and for accessing government web forms (they are slowly leaving IE6 land, thank goodness, but they still don't support non-mozilla non Microsoft browsers, and do so by actually sniffing the user agent and if it doesn't match what they like, they redirect you to a "please use IE6+ or Firefox 2+" page. That is, when the servers aren't choking and the sites don't barf on you due to Java or JavaScript errors).

That being said, I find that Mozilla is making a gross generalization here. Android apps are easy to made into resolution independent and DPI independet pieces of work. The Android class library helps you here, because unlike other platforms, you will find multiple resolutions, pixel densities, aspect ratios, etc etc, and the app must work on all of them. Tablet apps? just use the right elements, and the app will adapt, without greatly increased weight. iOS has issues here, but don't conflate iOS and Android. Mind you, if you want (and I'm looking at you Square Enix), you can have apps that scale badly and/or run letterboxed.

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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 08:13 PM EST
Siri doesn't work Macs has nothing to do with CPU architecture :p. If Apple
wanted to, they could make it work in no time (that's assuming they don't
already have it working). The main advantage of switching to ARM for Apple is
more control on the hardware. Intel doesn't always produce the most suitable
chipset combination for Apple.

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  • Same for MS - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 12:33 PM EST
    • Same for MS - Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 05:01 PM EST
The electronic voting machine problem, again
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 11:18 PM EST
How about this for a plan? It seems to me that it would really cut down on the
possibilities of fraud:

1. There is electronic balloting, using a machine. Then the quick count can be
done. But as a safeguard:

2. The machine prints two copies of the ballot, with an accompanying serial
number printed on them, too, which matches the ballot. This is done immediately,
while the voter is standing right there. The voter then can look at the paper
ballots, inspect whether the paper ballot matches the vote just cast, and hit a
reset button if the paper ballot does not match the cast ballot. Assuming the
voter is satisfied:

3. The voter deposits one of the two duplicate paper ballots in an old-fashioned
ballot box and takes the other copy home. The voter can not put both of them in
the box because if any recount were to occur one of the two with matching serial
numbers will be invalidated.

4. In case of any challenge to the ballot, the paper ballots have to be counted
in addition to re-inspecting the machine tallies. The possibility of any wide
divergence between the paper record and the electronic record might then serve
as a strong deterrent to fudging the electronic record.

It seems to me that this kind of redundancy really might help. Cheating on the
vote count was already invented when we had nothing but paper ballots. It did
not suddenly become possible or fashionable with the advent of electronic voting
machines. But something like this might help with the very real problem that
with nothing but an electronic vote counting machine the real vote can disappear
without a trace and the actual totals can then never be actually known or
recovered.

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Apple is about to bite the Apple
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 12:33 AM EST
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/11/05/is-apples-tablet-dominance-coming-to-an-e
nd/

Wall Street Jornal:

"In the third quarter through September, Apple’s share of the tablet market
dropped sharply to 50.4% from 65.4% in the previous quarter, according to
research firm IDC."

"By trying to maintain its profit margins on its devices, Apple could end
up targeting a narrower segment of the fast-growing tablet market."

"IDC said that the iPad Mini’s “relatively high $329 starting price leaves
plenty of room for Android (tablet) vendors to build upon the success they
achieved in the third quarter."

The beginning? <pant pant pant>


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Hewlett-Packard Plunks Down $500,000 To Help Linux
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 02:32 AM EST
Business Insider .

Parallel to this is a story on arstechnica, not usually a Redmond lackey, saying that Windows 8 is not a green flag for Linux on the desktop, and that people forced to upgrade from XP will go to Win7.

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