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Or... maybe the reason behind the acquisition has more to do with Beats' subscription streaming service than hardware.

Is there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That's frustrating.

Fill this out - let's kick this off.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T0FtpC7RfGJGC57ewRUZ6iTjix9...

I've been sketching up ideas for this for years. Want to chat?

Any chance of getting MLS in there?

I was way excited for this, but was a little disappointed as I went through the signup process.

I'm not terribly fashion-savvy, and I don't know how to pair things. If there were an 'outfit' option where you could receive a pair of pants / shorts and a fitting top for about $150 / month, I would sign up, and many of my friends would too.

That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by Angular and Backbone don't play nice with WinJS unless you tell them to.

All of those are good points. None of them are in the article.

It's easy to forget what the iPad looked like when it first came out.

It was roundly mocked for merely being a larger iPod touch, and the same criticism that is the thesis of this post was levied against it. Industry experts claimed it had no place, and posited that Apple was inventing a need simply to push a product into.

Over time, people found and invented new uses for their iPads, and they came to realize that they can serve legitimate needs and desires.

This article is as myopic as those experts once were. Perhaps the Surface will be complete failure. Perhaps it will catch on, and people will invent new uses that make them compelling. Reading tea leaves and slamming Microsoft are fun to do, but this is hardly convincing.

Lady Gaga's entire career has been an A/B test. She started out as a singer and songwriter who actually poured some meaning into her music, and had no success. Then she seized the common pop chords, added a heavy back beat, stripped her songs of any meaning, and started wearing meat dresses. I'd say that B worked for her.

Looks like it's coming from Syria:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hXpzxDWlS...

For $275? No way.

This is extortion.

There might be a way to fight them through this, if you claim that the poster didn't have the right to grant them the license:

6. Proprietary Rights/Grant of Exclusive Rights

By posting information or content to any public area of POTENTIALPREDATORS.COM, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to POTENTIALPREDATORS.COM an irrevocable, perpetual, fully-paid, worldwide exclusive license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

So.. there's no way to try it without dropping $60?

It looks nice, but I don't even buy operating systems without trying them first, let alone subscription services.

Sally Ride comes out as a lesbian in her obituary: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/first-female-us-astrona...

Wow, you're right. I've been saying it wrong for some time, then!

"your own copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon"

Oops! Accidentally a word, there.

Use this: http://sandbox.self.li/bookmarklet-to-extension/

The bang (!) sign would make more sense to me. It's already used in css to express priority (!important), so it's not much of a logical jump.

Did anyone else notice that font smoothing was significantly better in the Win7 screenshots than Win8?

The Arabic in the header image is backwards, and the letters aren't connected (they should be).

I'm guessing Photoshop was used to make the image - PS doesn't have Arabic support unless you buy the Middle Eastern edition, which I consider a massive oversight.

It should look like this: http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/essalamoualeikoum-peacebeuntoy...

Does anyone know where they got that awesome debug panel?

The Kinect might make a game unplayable to someone who can't move their body, but it opens up a world of gaming to people who don't have hands. Why do these able-handed people want games to continue to discriminate against the handless?

http://www.caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=chrome+...

No thanks.

Here's a handy map:

http://www.spatialsituation.com/sopa-map/

...why doesn't standard jQuery have pushState?

Yes =)

Indeed. Technically two chords (ethernet too!), though.

^ Garrett

I finished my contract at Valve a couple of months ago. I'm still fairly early in my design career, and work with a contracting agency in Seattle. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not quite well-rounded and seasoned enough to be a true Valve hire, but I also think I was there to fulfill a short-term need.

Still, it was a great experience. I learned more in that contract than any other, by far. Just thought I'd share some of it!

I wonder how they're now going to prevent fraud.