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Several development sandboxes have popped up online in the last year that are well worth your time to check out. Dev sandboxes allow for bug isolation, test driving new libraries, sharing programming problems, and saving solutions for later referral. These are the top four. Play all you want. You can't break anything.
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I think Microsoft developers are feeling a bit burnt right now. Let’s not forget that WP7 was a reboot, dropping Windows Mobile 6.5. To reboot once again in such a short space of time is not good news. And as for Silverlight being dropped in Windows 8, together with other plugins, only for MS to do an about face and announce that the plugin-free IE10 browser would support Flash – that’s not good news either! Microsoft is going to have to work hard to win the support of the development community.
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Sometimes I get so down in the weeds of database technology, I forget why I think databases are so fascinating to me, why I found them so important to begin with. ACID. Latency, bandwidth, durability, performance, scalability, Bits and bytes. Virtual this, cloud that. Blah blah blah. Who cares? I care. Dear lord I care. I care so much it hurts. Think of humanity and its collective mind expanding.
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VIM Clutch is a hardware pedal for improved text editing speed for users of the magnificent VIM text editor. When the pedal is pressed down, the pedal types "i" causing VIM to go into Insert Mode. When released, it types <esc> and you are back in Normal Mode. Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down, but I've got the fastest little editor in town.
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Skepticism about these things doesn’t require knee-jerk Apple fandom. It simply requires an open set of eyeballs. The message I took away is that Microsoft has concluded that, ready or not, it needed to move now. There is no longer enough profit to be had selling software alone. The business model of expensive software on cheap hardware is not sustainable.
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Why do so many people see the fact that Microsoft is giving people a couple different options as such a bad thing? Then again, most of them seem to be Mac users, and they like Apple to decide for them...
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A 10" screen with a keyboard as the cover?
I think I have had one for 3 years.
It is a Netbook.
Oops. I forgot I have a hard drive in it. I suppose I should pay more for a "Surface" and not get a hard drive!
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Like nearly everyone else I’m excited by this. It’s the first real non-Apple innovation in the tablet space. Competition is good and this will hopefully spur Apple to fix some of the remaining parts of iOS that are lacking. That said, as many have noted, the devil is in the details. However reviews of Win8 have thus far been pretty mixed – primarily due to the dual nature of it being both Metro and Windows. Apple tends to do better in 2nd place. Can Microsoft learn that lesson, too?
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Microsoft has a history of abandoning its mobile users. It happened when the Windows Phone 7 transition occurred, with Windows Mobile users. How many times can a company abandon its users and still retain their loyalty? Microsoft may be about to find out. Third time's the charm?
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Hmmm. I fail to see that his arguments have much benefit in this case. As has been mentioned, the reason that owners of older handsets aren't getting WP8 is because it simply won't work on them because the technologies in it aren't compatible with older handsets. They haven't abandoned the platform though, because they are promising to bring what they can to the older phones, such as the new version of live tiles. The argument in his blog seems to be that MS shouldn't provide functionality that takes advantage of those features; and that would be game over for Microsoft in trying to offer a credible vision of an alternative SmartPhone platform.
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At first this might sound comical, but the ever-increasing power of our handhelds makes it a pretty legitimate option. It’s hard to come up with concrete uses off the top of our head, but we’re sure there’s value in being able to pull the phone out of your pocket and serve some content. This is a big hardware upgrade for Adam's webserver. The previous version was running from an Evalbot.
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Pocket Island is the result of an ambitious one year project here at Wooga with the original goal being to push HTML5 gaming into new territory and create one of one of the world’s most advanced HTML5 titles. One year later and it’s mission accomplished. Now, Wooga wants to see how the HTML5 community can use the lessons learned from Pocket Island and develop the technology forward to the point where it’s fit for mass market consumption. HTML5 is the future, but we’re not quite there, yet.
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Yesterday Microsoft held a surprise press conference in LA when they unveiled the Microsoft Surface Tablet, a product that they have successfully managed to keep under-wraps for a couple of years (I created on online poll, and of the 74 respondents, only 25 guessed correctly).
The new tablet comes in two flavours, both of which run Windows 8. The cheaper model, Surface RT, has an ARM processor and will only run newer Metro-style Windows 8 applications (Win8 has a rather strange split personality, it is almost two separate OSs in one), while the more expensive model, Surface Pro, is a bit bulkier and includes an Intel processor that will allow it to run both Metro and traditional desktop apps. Most significantly, the Surface Pro model will run all of your existing Windows software (Word, Excel, Visual Studio, PhotoShop, …)
So why has Microsoft made this bold move? It doesn’t have much of a reputation as a hardware manufacturer!
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Farhan Ghumra wrote:
So why has Microsoft made this bold move? It doesn’t have much of a reputation as a hardware manufacturer!
Because none of the existing pads uses Windows and the market grews will the laptop market wanes, I think.
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How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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Farhan Ghumra wrote: So why has Microsoft made this bold move? It doesn’t have much of a reputation as a hardware manufacturer!
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XBox?
Their mice and keyboards are good too.
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Farhan Ghumra wrote: Yesterday Microsoft held a surprise press conference
Who was surprised?
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(CNN) -- It's sacrilege to some Apple fanboys. It's also something none of Apple's competitors have been able to claim since that "magical" day in early 2010.
But when Microsoft unveiled the Surface tablet (actually a pair of them) Monday, the software company clearly had one ultimate goal: to make a tablet that's better than the iPad.
By most standards, Apple has crushed its tablet rivals that have tried to compete feature-for-feature. No single tablet running Google's Android system has gotten much traction (save the smaller, cheaper Kindle Fire from Amazon) and BlackBerry maker RIM's Playbook hit the market with a thud.
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The keyboard in fact is a good idea. But it's awful. The most hideous tablet I ever saw. For the creative ones it think it's not alternative.
The size otherwise is not good for me. 16:9 in computer monitores is crap. I, as a user of Indesign, Premiere and Visual Studio, like to have many tools on my screen. 16:9 for the remaining movie frame isn't possible, when you place toolbars there. I think a pad is for demonstrating. You have to use office products and pages aren't 16:9. So CNN is wrong for me.
The processor otherwise is good. I hope other manufactorers of pads will move on to more powerful machines, too.
And if cause the missing USB-port is one matter that I don't have an apple.
As a user of a Lenovo netbook there are some good attributes, because I can't relinquish a keyboard.
The new surface pad isn't ready for me yet. I would't buy something so ugly neither touch it.
But if they spend a new design I could think about buying a surface.
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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ihoecken wrote: I would't buy something so ugly neither touch it.
Tablets are all basically just rectangles. How much uglier can one rectangle be compared to another? But I've never been one to buy something based purely on appearances, if something is ugly but does what I need it to then that's what I'll buy. It doesn't matter how pretty a computer is if it gets the job done, it's a tool not a display piece.
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lewax00 wrote: f something is ugly but does what I need it to then that's what I'll buy.
yeah - i've seen your wife
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That's uncalled for. Do you know him personally?
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Him? No. His wife ? ...
Chill - joke icon and everything, dude. Jeezus!
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Joke icons do not exempt you from rudeness.
You sir, are a dingbat.
Joke icon, chill...
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Overkille_512 wrote: Joke icons do not exempt you from rudeness.
What was rude about it? nothing. Has the op complained? No. just f*** off.
Overkille_512 wrote: You sir, are a dingbat.
At least you had the honour to call me 'Sir'
Overkille_512 wrote: Joke icon, chill...
icon - stick it up your arse
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