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Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft’s internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing. But here’s the catch: The software giant blames the slow start on lackluster PC maker designs and availability, further justifying its new Surface strategy. But Windows 8’s market acceptance can be blamed on many factors. Windows 8 is no Vista, in many ways. Until it is.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Windows 8 is no Vista, in many ways. Until it is.
No, it's more like Windows ME.
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I don’t want to teach anyone how to cover their illicit tracks better, or how to have a more clandestine affair, but let’s take a look at where Petraeus and Broadwell went wrong so you can understand how to cover your tracks better in general, and how to secure your email and protect your privacy online. The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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Black Ops 2 Makes $500 Million in 24 Hours[^]
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
modified 17-Nov-12 10:39am.
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Just wait for GTA5 to break the record.
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LOL '24 hours'. I wonder how many hours and people it took to make the game itself...
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Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.
We are leaping into the future!
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Nice idea, but you'll be totally cramped after using it for an hour or so.
Wout
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Looks like an inferior touchscreen attempt to me.
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Source:[^]
How can they be granted a patent filed in 2010 for something that existed long before that. It should be binned as "prior art". #PatentSystemBroke
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WTF, Apple!? In 2006, Bob Hartman published this[^] article at a website I sometimes frequent.
/ravi
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Cary Bran, Senior Director of Advanced Software and Architecture at Plantronics.
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In Java, you can use the command Runtime.getRuntime().exec to execute shell commands, or any external system command. Here's a handy example. Bash has your back.
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One of the worst things that can happen to you is your code being a failure, and in extension, causing damage to a bigger picture as in: delaying (or breaking down) the project and the business, pulling down the sales, or generating any money/time/or hardware loss. It could happen in the worst of the moments, and in the least expected scenarios. What is a coder to do when his program goes wrong and every finger is pointing on him? Success usually has many parents, failure remains an orphan until they figure out a way to put it on you.
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Why so paranoid? Simple. Because I care about my work, photos and data and I would be sad if I lost it. Think about all the times you've heard about a friend who has lost everything. A decade of photos. Years of email. It hurts- just like exercise - because it's good for you. Try restoring from a backup to practice. Backups always succeed. It's restores that fail.
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Performance is only one of many points we consider when we review tablets, but performance affects your overall impression of the tablet—how zippy and responsive it is when you use apps, navigate the operating system, and surf the Web. On top of that, if your tablet's battery fails to deliver long life, you'll find yourself tethered to an outlet more often than you'd like. Tegra 3 leads the way.
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If you build websites for a living, you'll undoubtedly use the obvious web design tools - Firebug, Browsershots, plus the various font embedding services and page speed analysers. So this article isn't about them. Instead we thought we take a look at the more underrated tools that can help you improve client-side browser development and rigorously test everything that you build. Plus 4 alternative tools if these don't quite meet your needs.
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Although the design looks remarkably similar, much has changed below the surface. Where each page previously requested at least 14 assets weighing a total of 385kB, now only 9 requests are needed, and with an unprimed cache, these total just over 100kB. I thought it would be interesting to detail the changes I’ve made, and this time, I’ve got graphs! If you watch the bits, the bits watch the bytes.
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Because of the low mass, if iPhones and iPads were substituted for larger, NASA-designed computer systems, NASA could save on development time and money (rocket fuel ain’t cheap, you know). Astronauts also get the benefits of an intuitive, well-designed user interface and more modern technology, versus the computers the astronauts now use, which are generally five to 10 years behind the latest consumer tech. This is all about a lot more than simply playing Angry Birds Space in space.
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Still have to write the software, and if Apple products are used, then have to use the crappy developement environments Apple is so pleased to provide their developers. At least they should recommend using Windows based products since most of the apps are custom, and Windows has the development environment. Also there are issues with radiation that do not have to be delt with on Earth. I know I have had problems with consumer phones in just a little dampness, and consumer computers and componants also do not do well with water. Would not like to have to depend on them in a life threatening situation.
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It looks like some users who have Gmail on their Windows Phone 8 devices are experiencing syncing issues that eventually cause the email app to crash. The problem seems independent of hardware (so 8X and 920 users are affected) and is tied to Gmail specifically. The problem occurs with the People Hub and linked contacts constantly syncing. Likewise, when people head to their Gmail inbox, it too is stuck on a constant sync and may even crash when one attempts to scroll the message list. Optimized for Outlook?
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With more than 400 million Firefox users, Mozilla doesn't have a problem with relevance. And with today's disclosure that organization's revenue grew 33 percent to $163.5 million in 2011, the nonprofit organization doesn't have a problem with money. But it does have a problem with mobile. There's an app for that... but it's not Mozilla's app.
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