How soon until we hit the patent abuse endgame, where all technology companies lay off everybody but the lawyers and just sue each other into oblivion?
How is WP8 going to break the web? They have something like 2% of the market, which is hardly a monopoly that can be swing around.
Also, are the IE shenanigans news to anybody? There does seem to be a contingent of fresh-faced webdevs who think Microsoft's reputation for evil is overblown. It wasn't; they certainly did a lot earn it.
Unfortunately when a website is built with the requirement to support as many people as it can, even 2% will cause things which make incompatibilities to be taken off the table.
Er, the article isn't the best, but it also certainly isn't "content-free."
Certainly a comprehensive comparison/review would be better, but spec-comparisons are at least a useful starting point when shopping... [e.g. to reject out-of-hand any product that obviously doesn't meet some criteria, so you don't have to bother researching it further]
Clever. I wonder if the illusion is broken if you actually speak Korean. I would definitely notice if someone chopped and reassembled random words in English.
I have trouble when I'm in American and I order water. I need to soften the t to a d, and drawl the word.
I almost always understand Americans, apart from a few movies where they speak rapidly with background noise.
Here's an example of what it's like: (http://youtu.be/q-cAnFbEXY0) - it's almost recognisable, but not quite.
So, mashing together sounds to create fake words can create something tantalisingly close to what I'm expecting to hear. Mashing a bunch of random words together usually doesn't work, but putting a Markov chain in the again creates something that gives the initial feeling of "this is not nonsense".
And for most songs you probably could sting random words together without so many people noticing; random sentences would probably be fine.
> I have trouble when I'm in American and I order water. I need to soften the t to a d, and drawl the word.
Where are you from? (i.e. What kind of accent do you have?) I find it strange that you'd have to enunciate less to be understood ordering water. If you pronounce "water" with a British accent (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/water#English), Americans should generally not have trouble understanding you.
It looks like the black squares always pass through to the right, which means the actual verses just play out in full. You do get into weird loops of "Oppa Gangnam Style" and "Hey Sexy Lady", but you could do the same thing with any hook.
