Thanks for checking the page out buddy!

Microsoft made licenses for their OS's free for anything under 9 inches.

Not sure it applies to this, since it doesn't have a screen. Windows is used in a lot of embedded applications, and I think we still charge for that (disclaimer: unknowledgeable Microsoft employee).

They'll go great lengths to prevent Linux from getting any more exposure than Windows on any format. A zero or negative-cost license is to be expected.

For embedded applications? Those aren't exactly visible; as a consumer, you can't really tell if it is running windows or not. Anyways, I'm not sure.

I thought that was for devices with screens under 9 inches, e.g phones and some tablets. Is there still no charge if it doesn't have a screen?

You'd think not because desktop PCs, ultra compact PCs (NUC, Brix) by definition don't come with a screen either - screens are add ons. I think the 9" rule basically applied to mobile devices only, i.e. tablets and smartphones.

Is that for OEMs or for end users? I thought it was just for OEMs.

I haven't used Typescript yet, but I'm very keen on it. How fast is the compiler currently for you? (eg. seconds or minutes?, and how big is your codebase? (eg. 10k or 100k?)

I have a Typescript project with over 200k loc and over 200 ts files. The current compiler takes a while to build the whole project, but still under 10 seconds. However, you can also set it up to compile when you save a single ts file, which is much faster. So in practice its not any slower than what I was doing with Javascript, which was hit ctrl-S to save my changes then quickly hit refresh in Chrome to test and debug.

On a 7kloc codebase it was around 3 seconds before the new compiler, seems to be about 1 second after.

I haven't tried the new compiler yet, but note that a lot of the compiler's slowdown comes from parsing lib.d.ts each time it's invoked. So the time taken for compiling X lines of code doesn't scale in a linear fashion - a helloworld will probably take a long time for you to compile too, but remove the dependency on lib.d.ts and the same helloworld will compile very much faster.

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I'll be honest with you guys. Since G+ integration, I've found the comments left on YouTube videos to be far more intelligent and appealing to read.

I haven't been able to leave a comment since the switch (my browser just keeps refreshing).

Wait, is your point and mine related?

Are you using IE6?

No, Chrome. But I do have Ghostery installed. I wonder if it's preventing me from leaving comments. When I click on the comment box and then accept the new tidbits about G+ comments, the page just refreshes.

Can't the merchant just treat it like an online payment. Take the Card number, expiry date and security code?

No, most retailers can't accept online payments (or "like an online payment") - if they want to, that's a different kind of agreement with different (higher) fees and more liability for fraudulent transactions.

If they want to book it as 'card present' transaction, then they have to follow the 'card present' guidelines - which, by coincidence, would require them to see the actual card, not just it's magstripe data in some fancy device.

Not sure what you mean by that, but thanks for checking it out :D

Real-time is definitely the future of development, but disappointed to see no mention of real-time client side technologies like the one I'm working on (http://playir.com). That allows you to update client-side source code across mobile web & native platforms.

Here's the full progress update: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920406198/playir-drag-an...

I loved it back when it was using a fixed Wednesday deadline and saved bandwidth by linking to private YouTube videos, (rather than hosting nReduce copies).

If you bring it back, make sure you let me know.