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end-consumers.

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DRM will be obsolete, because there's no consumer demand for it.

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So what reasons are there to use flash over HTML5, I ask myself and the HN crowd?

  -Video. (Mwoah, only non-WebM video, can't really count this one)
  -Webcam
  (thanks garethsprice)
  -Simultaneous sounds (thanks AndyJPartridge)
  -Cross-browser support (browsers interpreting HTML5 differently) 
  -???

Non competitive advantages:

  -Games (see Angry Birds)
  -3D hardware acceleration (both have the same security issues exposing shaders)

Competitive advantages HTML5 over flash:

  -2D Hardware acceleration
  -Open
  -Cross-browser support (flash has it's update/versioning problems)

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Genesis 6:3

3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

AFAIK, all people in recent history (<3000 years) claiming to be aged over 120 years are either questionable or not verified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment If this is true, [i]Men[/i] still did not exceed 120 years by 128,99 days. Interpreting the bible is hard, determining as literal and figure of speech is the hard part.

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> Presenting LULZIERhunter.php, taking what Jester wrote in 60 lines and turning it into 3 lines:

Epic failure, implicating LOC is a measurement for code quality. Hint: it's not.

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Android and Chrome will revive the netbook. They are free (as in beer) OSes, and run with very minimal hardware. As such, devices having one of both OSes will be the OLPC replacement. As the third world has either very old or no computer, those cheap devices will flood the market. Netbook formfactor will be part of them, as desktop work will still be needed.

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Handy. So I only need to make a pic of the key, and then send it to an online service, wait a day, and go wild in someone's house/company. Which by the way, won't be covered by insurance because there are no signs of burglary.

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These are no icons whatsoever. These are high resolution images with way too much detail to be ever used as icons.

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Is there an html version?

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Even in the 'normal way' theft is not the same as taking something or copying something. Maybe a lot of interpretations of taking/copying are labelled theft; it does not mean the term theft is used correctly. In this case, I would argue that theft is pretty much equivalent to the legal definition.

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Thanks. I thought I was the only one with this experience.

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Theft means you take something away. You don't take something away when you copy the execution. As such, it cannot be theft. The counterargument that you take away revenue is hypothetical at best, and still not taking something physical directly away from the owner.

You contradict yourself when stating innovation is improving current executions of ideas. Too much of this, and suddenly it's something called theft?

If you merely copy the execution of the competition 1:1, you won't win over your competitor. You need to offer a key advantage. That's where the innovation takes place: the small step differentiating your execution from the original. In doing so, you don't steal, but add something. Adding something can never be stealing.

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One of the reasons why I have not visited Facebook since about a year now. I do not want to hand over control of my life to some company feeling fit to do with my data what they want at any time.

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Every new web technology will be littered with security vulnerabilities. That's inherent to new technologies. The article does not make it clear for me what _inherent_ problems exist with regarding to security and WebGL.

Web workers can be silently used for data crunching. WebSockets can be used for DDoS attacks. CSS visited links could be used to know what history you have. But as the web progresses, these problems will be smoothed out. As such, the security problems with WebGL probably will be solved too.

Is it very far fetched to think Microsoft sees WebGL as a big threat to their Xbox/PC gaming/DirectX/Silverlight establishment?

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It gets better:

"To get started, you will need to begin reading one or more of the Lojban Books"

Seriously. A Book.

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Every number is special. Every number has something on where you can apply rules to, and thus makes it special. Is there a database containing all the numbers and a list of atributes that make them special?

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It seems killing Volta brings back the electricity at Microsoft.

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What a complete nonsense. The industry moves in certain directions, and everyone is inspired by everyone else. Because there is a thriving legal industry, they call iit "stealing ideas" and "copying". There is no such thing as original design, every design is based on previous designs and adds small new things.

The only group really benefitting are the lawyers and their surrounding workers. Not our innovating tech industry.

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I hate infinite scroll. It delutes the hints of m scrollbar height to know how much info is given.

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This is why Inconsolata beats every font. Because there's a 'mistake' in it, and it can be fixed because of the licensing. This stuff gets me very excited.

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