Chromebook is perfectly positioned to beat Windows 3.1

Or that's what I read.

You are skipping an important step: prizes.

Free->prizes->paid.

Also things like free food, better internet, lab space are all great motivators. The message there is I can't afford to pay you what you're worth but I'll do what I can.

WinPhone7 has a great community in London and I know a lot of people who are starting to express interest because MS is giving out xboxes and free phones and buying beer.

$7/hr could have bought a lot of xboxes.

So he brought up sealed classes and didn't think that was a point in itself?

Only problem I typically have is libraries that overuse sealed and final keywords.

Umm.. Live tiles are a huge part of windows phone dev environment. Not sure you could change much on the home screen.

Maybe rounded corners? But why bother?

You are not playing optimally. Monopoly is far from perfect, but there is some more depth than that.

Here's two questions: - How many houses is optimal for most sets? - Would you rather have both utilities or two railroads?

That's the point though; you don't have to play optimally, doing so doesn't really make the game any more interesting.

IE9 on win7 is slick, lightning fast graphics. Look for their fishie demo.

By having a browser on one platform they can use hardware acceleration on the browser making a win for both and keeping their hold on both.

That's the theory anyway. They'll probably screw it up bit that's the theory.

Umm... that's great for printed materials but how are you going to make that work on a white(black)board or for that matter with a pencil?

Not sure I've done many directed graphs in print but I've done quite a few with a marker/pencil/chalk.

Not sure this is relevant progress but 18 march bing for "HG download" gave no mercurial results (hg was assumed to be a mistyping of HD), by 24 march it was giving all mercurial results. I twittered about both.

That is at least anecdotal evidence that things are progressing in some way or another.

That's not necessarily a change in the codebase, that could be the system learning from associations in queries and results it gets over time (something I know Google does and has for years, at least).

Returning meaningful results is progress.

Why would you want a predictably wrong answer, you must be a manager.

Actually, you've plotted two data points here. That doesn't tell you much.

How do you know it doesn't go back to showing irrelevant results on the 28th?