Posts by Samuel deHuszar Allen

Smartphones are ludicrously under-used, so steal their brains

People keep talking about Microsoft starting this whole run desktop apps across tablet and phone, but wasn't Ubuntu on the map first?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3PUYoa1c9M

Acoustic trauma: How wind farms make you sick

Dude, seriously?

I know there are no perfect solutions and it never hurts to improve models, but tinitus and mild sleep disruption vs black lung, ground water contamination, heavy metal poisoning, super-fund levels of radioactive goodness, etc, etc.? If that's their argument, I wouldn't have guessed they were against wind farms versuses other energy production strategies.

Those scientists should go camping by the Columbia River in Washington Statae down by the old Hanford nuclear reactor and then make a determination about how 'critical' the noise is from wind farms.

Microsoft's IE 8 beta adds 'special' list

+1 for fixing IE6

I have to agree with upgrading IE6. I don't know about FORCING IE6 upgrades, but at least allow a patch, or an ActiveX application, or something that goes through and reinterprets the box model. That way, IE8 is leaner, and Web Developers can put a little piece of code in their sites that says, "Oh oh, you need to 'install this object' | 'have javascript enabled' | etc., to view this site properly. Then the onus is off of developers to make further complicate their designs to work with IE's bad design, and users to make sense of it's results.

Does Microsoft actually TRY and hire good conceptual designers?