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by 51Cards 15y ago
lol "Those were the days"
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I have to agree with other comments here. The tablet form factor is not "winning" per say, just showing that technology has progressed to a point where alternate form factors are now viable for different situations. Tablets are selling li
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by 51Cards 15y ago
<raises hand> Don't remember any file-system problems though I believe I got into the betas mid cycle. I do however remember well the "What the heck is a Start menu and where did Program Manager go?" Edit: I'm also starting to fe
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Wanted to do more than just up vote the above comment; Nirvana hit it on the head. The best I can do, as another 29 year developer here, is say "What he said". Take it to heart, then take it to heart again..
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by 51Cards 15y ago
He gave the (former) police officer's name and phone number to the newspaper... so he got it somehow?
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Interesting that I'm not seeing this on Are We Fast Yet? I thought that was always the bleeding edge JaegerMonkey specs.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Not I. I have debated starting up a blog a few times but lack of time is one issue, and I'm also not sure anyone really cares to hear what I have to say :)
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I'm not laughing, I run several sites on a similar stack and it all runs very well. I do run Railo though just because it runs circles around the native CF server (and I don't use any of the "high level" stuff Railo doesn't include), and I
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by 51Cards 15y ago
That would be the problem then, that you haven't used CFML in a decade. I would cringe at using 2001 CFML too, just like I would cringe at using 2001 PHP. It's a whole different beast now.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I understand what you're saying, and despite the content of my above post I've never been an Apple guy, always a Windows one. Every time I went over to the Apple OS I felt I had one hand tied behind my back by lack of options. I also try t
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Yes but people don't WANT to learn things like this. My mother doesn't want to remember what mouse button to click or that CTRL or ALT is a modifier on this command. I would argue that THIS is what made Apple's OS hang on all those years i
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by 51Cards 15y ago
If I may wander off topic for a sec on the specifics of this particular article, I have to say that I really love IBM. Often when they hit the tech news for something it's not just an upgrade or an iteration, but frequently it has them att
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. The ALT-up-keyboard opens the parent folder, yes... but I was referring to the fact that CTRL-click a folder would open a New Explorer Window leaving the current one untouched. The CTRL-{up_toolbar_icon} used to open t
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I was cringing right through this whole article until I hit the Quick Access Toolbar. In short I hate the Windows Ribbon UI for reasons others have mentioned. But this entire redesign was saved in my eyes by the quick access bar and the f
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Gradual silent upgrading is poised to be a huge problem for users and yet another reason I stay away from Chrome. You should never impose an upgrade on a user, at most just strongly suggest they install and make it easy if they choose to d
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I have to add a comment that personally I dislike Apple's aluminum slab design. I have friends with MacBooks who's legs are red from the heat transfer after it's been on their (insert irony here...) lap. Also I have never had a problem wi
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I would definitely consider buying one. Why do people think that high priced, high design PC's can't sell when Apple has been selling exactly this with great success? The PC crowd has been lulled into cheap hardware but not everyone wants
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Agreed, in fact I suspect that the 'chairman' position may also just be something to keep the stock from nose-diving and that it may not last long. I just have a feeling that Jobs wouldn't step back until he really really had to, and that
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by 51Cards 15y ago
You may want to see this one for comparison as well: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/maps/on_toronto/cao...
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by 51Cards 15y ago
She? :)
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I too would like to see a whole line of Nexus devices. Pure Android with instant updates from all the manufacturers.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I agree, much of the early stuff will have expired, but Motorola being in the mobile biz so long probably means their waters still run pretty deep as far as core mobile functionality.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
One further thought on the patent portfolio. Don't forget that Motorola is widely considered to have "invented" the first practical cell phone. Their patent portfolio isn't just going to be stuff like "Using shades of gray in a UI". It's
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by 51Cards 15y ago
If there is one company I trust to not screw this up it's Google and I think they have a good shot at getting this right. I'm sure their partner companies are going to be a bit ansy to start but they all compete on hardware / price anyhow
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I think what you're seeing is not written by the same person, (Google couldn't be caught impersonating the owners of their partner companies) but probably a set of statements written by PR assistants all on the same "Please give us a statem
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Apparently these are their early comments. Of course how much thought has gone into these yet is another question. http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I mostly agree but I also think it has been done. You couldn't give me an Air for free and get me to give up my Sony VAIO Z. I also have a VAIO TZ here which was way ahead of the Air in its time. To me Sony is one of the few companies bu
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Seems to be a lot of serious comments about this when I believe the content was created with tongue planted firmly in cheek. That said, a valid moron captcha would be a wonderful thing in some places. It comes down to the old saying: "Pro
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by 51Cards 15y ago
To me this smells of a couple possibilities. This is the first tablet to my knowledge that Apple has gone after in this way, though it seems the scope is wide enough they could have used it against several others in the market. Makes me w
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I was really hoping the list of questions would include more background on the 1996 Election puzzle. That one fascinates me to no end. http://i.imgur.com/CTYHM.gif

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