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they could have found out that it's an IPS panel by simply reading 
apple's product description, no :) ?

Have you seen Apple's name for the new iPhone OS:  "iOS" !!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2440

This looks nice - http://www.onilabs.com


I've never heard of Stratified JavaScript, but it sound quite good 
from reading the blog at:

http://www.croczilla.com/blog

AdrianS, looks cool...
So many cool technologies coming out its hard to keep up.

It required JS to make functional programming "mainstream"... :)

better late than never

yep, the above is pretty nice  :-)

Microsoft kill the Kin. Rumors are that only around 500 devices were 
sold.

Kin was not so kind ;-)

Today is the day that Marty McFly arrived in the future, after hitting 
88mph in the immense Delorean back in 1985.

What? That was 2015, as far as I know

http://925rebellion.com/today-is-the-day-marty-mcfly-went-back-to-the-future/

That's not right, the correct year is 2015

(october 21)

Hmm... well, than we need to watch the movie and check the scene.

I did, twice (some time ago, though). All the years end in 5, no 
0.

{7303}{7418}And this is the year 2015?|- October 21, 2015. (subtitles)

{6676}{6746}We're descending toward|Hill Valley, California...
{6762}{6801}{y:i}...at 4:29 p.m...
{6803}{6885}{y:i}...on Wednesday, October 21, 2015.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#Future_date_hoax

Good, we have 5 more years to make hover boards :)

They do exist - just not yet anywhere near the movie's standards 
 ;)

Genesi is ready with their Efika MX Smartbook ... I think the design 
is rather nice, I like the keyboard. Reminds me of ZX Spectrum 48K 
:-)  (press image to enlarge it)


http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=1755+2020297306215527660

$249 for smart client

What do you mean by "smart client"? Efika is not only a terminal. 
It can have full OS you can install. It is just that they use something 
like VNC/Citrix aproach, to get you SW you don't have installed physically 
on the machine itself ...

That's what they call it.  Their name.

I was thinking that it sounds expensive .. but perhaps it is not.

Well, many ppl will ask for AmigaOs/MorphOS option. But all they 
get is various Linuxes ... hmm, maybe AROS, who knows ...

I presume they call it client because it is supposed to run google 
apps ...with a years subscription

https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/details/5

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/3896841/Guilty-of-5-3m-technology-fraud

I've been waiting to see this trend pick up speed, for years now 
(looks a lot like Scratch): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/technology/12google.html?scp=1&sq=googleapp inventor&st=cse

Looks like everyone needs their own systems programming language 
- this one, from Mozilla, is called Rust. Seems to have some interesting 
features. 

http://wiki.github.com/graydon/rust/language-faq

Epic fail: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/france-launches-multi-lingual-tourist-website-it-goes-down-and-stays-down/

(can't find the Humour group anymore)

strange is a private group.

but yeah... this is very good press   especially since its a tourist 
site   :-)

Max: btw, the site development costed 800k€ to french administration 
;-)

so there where 5 programers, one sysadmin, and 25 management in the 
group?   ;-)

well, probably :-P

DocKimbel, if only the IT problems were that small for the Danish 
government...

Doc: it was much worse in Italy. costed like 2x that, when they opened 
it it was basically empty, and then they realized it was the most 
useless thing.

Jolicloud  - netbook UI based on Ubuntu + HTML 5 .... nice looking 
design ....


http://digitizor.com/2010/07/17/jolicloud-1-0-brings-a-new-html5-interface/

I looked at that, including a demo. The interface doesn't have an 
obvious way to switch between running applications or tell which 
applications are running. And it *does* have multiple running applications. 
It looks semi-pretty (with the exception of the WinXP Luna colors) 
but not very usable.

wow a nice XP skin for the ipad, running web applications.... 

yes I'm being ironic  ;-)

it even has loads of "spy on my friends" apps  yay!     not!  :-0

for the ipad
 - it's not very touch-friendly either; better use a mouse.

Now this is cool: http://www.flipboard.com/

http://scobleizer.com/2010/07/20/exclusive-first-look-at-revolutionary-social-news-ipad-app-flipboard/

Yes, now I see why geeks hate the iPad. They didn't think of this 
app. :-)

Finally something usefull for typing on touch based devices :-) http://www.blindtype.com/

whatabout us touch typists??