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by rrreese 14y ago
Interesting. As I understand it Google, realising the increased importance of mobile, developed Android to ensure that phone manufacturers would not be able to lock Google's services out, or provide and encourage alternative services. By ma
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by rrreese 14y ago
Metro isn't a key brand. Its a brand targeting developers. The adds for windows phone 7, and presumable Windows 8 will never, have never mentioned Metro. Really I don't understand why you're so angry, if they'd stopped using Windows, or Mic
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by rrreese 14y ago
Air travel was seen as a maybe but the first successful powered flight has not yet happened By 1900 there had been several successful experimental airships, and in 1900 the Luftschiff Zeppelin LZ1 launched. It would be another three years
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by rrreese 14y ago
Microsoft has demonstrated again and again that they can enter a market late yet gain massive traction. They do this by being dogged and throwing money behind a project until it works. See for example I.E, XBox, and Outlook. All markets tha
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by rrreese 14y ago
I'm running Windows 8, and I'm running steam. I've had no problems with Steam or with Steam games.
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App Store opaque box(radianttap.com)
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The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance(marco.org)
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by rrreese 14y ago
Will that not change with Jelly Bean and Project butter?
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by rrreese 14y ago
Reading between the lines it sounds like they are saying: "If you are a serious developer who can make a quality app for BB, then here is a low risk way of testing the market".
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by rrreese 14y ago
Your comment is somewhat hyperbolic and misinformed. Firstly the Blackberry program outlined is not a bribe. They are clearly digging in and offering large incentives, but lets not throw "bribery" around. Secondly the $10k program is not go
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by rrreese 14y ago
Its interesting to see where MS diverts from this; WP7 and Windows 8. WP7 and Windows 8 are both responses to disruption from iOS and Android. With WP7 Microsoft jettisoned compatibility with Windows Mobile phones (which had been somewhat p
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by rrreese 14y ago
Microsoft for all its many faults is very good at listening to customer feedback. Once you consider that their main customers are enterprise and government you begin to understand how many of their decisions get made.
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by rrreese 14y ago
Regarding point one, if I understand correctly the author means that since most apps open in their own web view rather then opening safari directly the fact that chrome can't be integrated is less of a problem. The browser is not redundant,
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by rrreese 14y ago
This is dated, only applies to laptops, but it breaks down failures by manufacturer: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineering-design-pr...
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by rrreese 14y ago
While I don't disagree with your thesis, politicians and celebrities are usually unknown, or at least only known through small appearances in the media. You work with your colleagues so I would expect a fairly different dynamic when it come
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by rrreese 14y ago
WPF is used extensively in enterprise. Alternatives are Windows Forms which is pretty old,and significantly less flexible, or web apps. WPF can host Windows Forms, so for legacy its a way better option then web.
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by rrreese 14y ago
What do you mean by zigzag effect?
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by rrreese 14y ago
MMO's like EVE (or WOW or whatever) reward long term group collaboration. At the highest level of play the level of teamwork required is significant. People who want to participate in this degree of play seek each other out. When I used to
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by rrreese 14y ago
I used a WP7 for several months last year. In many ways I really liked it, the UI was pretty slick, live tiles where great, the whole thing was surprisingly polished. But I now use an iPhone. The reason is lack of quality 3rd party software
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by rrreese 14y ago
I think that as the US is a permanent member of the security council it can veto this if it wants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council...
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by rrreese 14y ago
Many people broke down and cried when looking at Rothko works. Certainly it doesn't have that effect on me (mild boredom), but you dismiss their effects to easily.
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by rrreese 14y ago
Care to expand this? A quick look at the linked page shows a bunch of under the hood improvements that will appeal to web developers, but as a user I remain ignorant of why people use Opera. To be clear I used to use Opera back when they wh
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by rrreese 14y ago
I sense a lot of misinformation in the comments, do you know of a site or book that covers the best practices that we should be using?
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by rrreese 14y ago
I think that Apple sees this as not being user hostile. If you want packages installed then you have to use the appstore and in app downloads. This has the advantage of being a consistent experience across all apps. Users do not need to fea
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by rrreese 14y ago
To be clear I am referring to tsunamifury's link above, not Peter de Vos'.
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by rrreese 14y ago
Your resume neglects to mention which City/Country you live in. You list a phone number and email so I assume you want people who don't know you to contact you, but where are you?
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by rrreese 14y ago
I tried the Gimp out in October last year in relation to photography. I found it pretty horrible. I had to download a third party RAW plugin. The plugin didn't support one of my newer cameras RAW files. With the files it did support the UI
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by rrreese 14y ago
Exactly you are paying for quality, and rarity. Not many cheap stock photo agencies have archive photos of US presidents: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=1075...
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by rrreese 14y ago
Can you explain why this is wrong? I appreciate this was never intended, but what is actually wrong here?
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by rrreese 14y ago
Looking at the colour wheel in the article it seems that they choose a set that has high contrast (colours close to each other lack contrast) while haveing a similar degree of luminosity. If they choose erratically then some products would

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