Terrifying event, but the video was quite beautiful and surreal.

Here's the correct link BTW: [www.blaze.io]

Browser speed is insignificant in comparison with network speed however.

@SacredByte: Hm, ad hominem attacks. My opinions are mine and mine only. I don't believe in any utopian ideologies or universal truth regarding how the state should be governed. Hence my comment about a black and white world.

@rnoyfb: Yeah, and how do you think that restrictions on a free market are enforced (rhetoric question) ? By laws of course. But the example is there simply to show the absurdity of an only black and white world, the argument is part of the answer to another individual.

@deciBels: Things aren't necessarily only black or white you know. How about letting BP go, for what they did in the gulf? It's a free market and a company can do what ever they please, right? This is almost a religion to some people.

@kinkiac: It was a rhetoric question. They sure don't add fees on top of what we pay at a store as a charge for using cash.

@CaptainJack: How much do they charge for cash purchases?

Stupid banks, surely it must be more expensive to handle cash than an electronic transaction.

If a data structure from an API is highly optimized, from a practical and performance standpoint you might be better of using the API, than implementing your own.

Probably more API's and OS.

As long as it thinks Toronto is a city in USA, I pass.

Him working on a Sun box there, kind of sends conflicting messages about how tech-savvy he was. :D

Like it. But too many colors. Only 8 or 16 at the most should be allowed.

@kagekiri: "but the end users don't get anything out of it but higher prices and/or less in-app convenience"

@Zanzan42: Totally agree. Then there are some benefits in this for customers as well, like being garanteed to pay the same price as elsewhere the content is available. And, no annoying pop-ups or redirects to websites.

The first bullet point seems like a good thing for customers.

Well, only according to your crystal ball, and maybe conventional wisdom. What is needed is not conventional wisdom however. Nokia is already a large handset manufacturer, becoming a new Dell is not necessarily a recipe for success.

I'm not arguing about that, just your conclusion that this means more competitors. Then there's RIM...

Definitely, but this means less competitors not more, as Symbian or Meego were alternatives for Nokia.