Posted 11/19/2009 at 02:43:19pm

Hm, this all sounds very Apple. It'll be a cute fad, but a completely crippled OS does not a good idea make.

This is the direction that Android should have gone, since we have a much more limited number of hardware options, and if all mobile apps were webapps they could be completely universal. As it stands now, you can run a larger variety of software on your phone than your netobook using Chrome OS.

Posted 11/04/2009 at 01:50:11pm

I have owned a set of ProMedia 4.1 speakers since the year after they were introduced, and they still sound fantastic and work wonderfully. They've survived three separate moves in that period, with almost no wear to show.

If Klipsch can match the quality of the originals, I highly recommend their speakers.

Posted 09/16/2009 at 02:41:09pm

Make sure you check out the cyanogenmod G1/Hero ROMs - Donut has been running on these devices for weeks now.

Posted 09/06/2009 at 10:40:16am

If Blizzard sets the game so that your outbound packets point to their IP, then the case is as you've described it. There's no way around that, but as I mentioned I don't think it's feasible for them to route all game traffic through their servers.

What would probably happen is that after handshaking with Blizzard, your packets would be sent directly to the IP of whoever you are playing with. If that's on the same LAN, it will be pointing to your same external IP. Once that packet hits your router, it should turn right back around and never leave your LAN.

I'm sure it does depend on networking equipment, but my 5 year old Linksys router sends a ping to from my computer to my external IP back in 2 hops (me -> router, router -> me).

Posted 09/06/2009 at 10:30:45am

I'm wondering how they can restore your annotations, unless the book was never actually removed from your Kindle in the first place. Are your notes backed up to the cloud?

Posted 08/26/2009 at 09:44:43pm

I know the guy who built his website! He had no idea the guy planned to use it for a scam.

Posted 08/25/2009 at 02:15:38pm

Err, if you have a halfway decent router you don't need anything for "LAN mode" - the destination IP will be resolved to a local network address and the packet will take the shortest route possible. That is, unless Blizzard was routing every game packet through their servers, but that's just absurd.

Posted 08/20/2009 at 05:35:49pm

Twitter clearly has the first established use of tweet in the microblogging sense - if it's denied now and they really want to go after it, there's no doubt they could win it back in court...I think.

Posted 08/20/2009 at 05:33:46pm

This is interesting, especially for me as a software developer. It echos the debate ranging among photographers over microstock.

Posted 08/18/2009 at 01:12:36pm

Sorry, but I don't buy the "LAN will be a great footnote in our history" line. I understand phasing out technologies if it would take extra effort (ie. development time) to retain them, but in the case of LAN support, it takes more work to disable it.

The online component will surely use TCP/IP, so "enabling" LAN support is a trivial matter of allowing you to specify a local server IP.