sample032 commented on Marc Andreessen blesses Google's browser

""He'd long ago envisioned a future where instead of running applications from a desktop operating system, computer users would get everything from servers on a network." Didn't take too much imagination when everyone was using Telnet, RSH, and X."

sample032 commented on Marc Andreessen blesses Google's browser

""If JavaScript gets any faster, then developers will question if they should develop in Flash or Silverlight." No, they won't."

sample032 commented on How does Google compare to Microsoft after ten years?

"A Google Bat Mitzvah?"

sample032 commented on Shipping, wages make China less attractive to electronics manufacturers

"My new laptop was assembled in China/Hong Kong and flown to Alaska, then Richmond, all in less than 24 hours."

sample032 commented on Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates star in nonsensical new ad campaign

"@LordieLordie: A combination of the future, an American Express card with points you can actually use, and Bill Gates as a human. @Figaro: I dunno."

sample032 commented on Fake a phone number for your online hookups

"I thought internet sex workers like seeing real phone numbers, but I guess it has more to do with guys from payphones breaking appointments than law enforcement."

sample032 commented on Intel says screw it, we're going for six cores

"You gotta do something with all the transistors that Moore's Law keeps churning out. @Paul Boutin: the whole unified cache thing gets harder and harder to pull off as the core count gets bigger, or as the cache gets bigger."

sample032 commented on Google Street View steers clear of Obama's neighborhood

"Street View drove through the EPA and the CPT, and I find it hard to believe that the midwest could out-ghetto Cali, so there must be another explanation. I don't have it; I'm just saying."

sample032 commented on With Engadget nemesis gone, Gizmodo editor soft-retires

"@Alaska Miller: Noah?"

sample032 commented on Watch RNC delegates trying to ignore Meg Whitman's speech

"@sggrf: Yup."

sample032 commented on skyscraper143

"Among other things."

sample032 commented on Uh oh, the b-tards got their hands on Google's Chrome comic

"But props for actually using comic sans correctly."

sample032 commented on Uh oh, the b-tards got their hands on Google's Chrome comic

"Wouldn't that be a Van Dyck, not a goatee? Yeah, I like to kill jokes."

sample032 commented on Apple to add Genius song-selling feature to iTunes

"Not quite; it's geared to selling you more songs to make you switch to the 16gb iPhone."

sample032 commented on iPhone glitch makes for fun art

"Apple: Our bugs are prettier than yours."

sample032 commented on The stupidest demo mistake people make

""If you have limited time-and that is the case 99% of the time-I suggest just showing the product doing its thing." But YouTube's product is so much better."

sample032 commented on Valley grunts may not get unemployment checks in the next bust

""Those same evil corporate taxes that Schwarzenegger Republicans want slashed while asking state employees to work for minimum wage." It's not the missing verb that's confusing me, it's that the only mention of taxes before that was "anti-tax zealots," which didn't really make sense, itself. Is one of the editors asleep at the keyboard, today?"

sample032 commented on Google cofounder on no Chrome for Macs: "It's embarrassing"

"If I was a big company, I'd sure be embarrassed if I my 0.1% market share product only had the potential to reach 95%."