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Malcolm 
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,10:30 |
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Yep, totally not being evil.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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Leisher
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,10:41 |
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I swear Google and Apple are in a war to see who is the bigger dick.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,10:53 |
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Apple wins until Google starts rolling out proprietary hardware. Â They will, inevitably, ramp us the douchebag factor as the smartphone war continues. Â This is giving me pause to consider a Winblows phone instead of anything that fucking runs Droid. Â If only Windows mobile didn't have that looming potential disaster in Windows 8. Â MS seems to fuck up every other Windows release with almost clockwork regularity, and Windows 7 was at least competent. Â This means 8 is going to suck on Millennium levels.
Edited by Malcolm on Oct. 29 2012,10:53
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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Leisher
Top 3%, yo.
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,12:17 |
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Windows 8 is getting a good head start. Remember, it's being built on top of Windows 7...
I'm purchasing a few W8 licenses this week, a W8 phone, and a few Surfaces. We're going to be putting them through their paces in the new few months. If anyone is curious, I'll post my findings then.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,12:31 |
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I really don't want to put off buying a smartphone, but damned if Google isn't pissing me off right as I was about to buy products built on their software.
EDIT: I've seen the RC or Beta or whatever Windows 8 has out. I was not encouraged by what I saw. I'm already anticipating the "you're not using it the way we intended" bullshit they kept trumpeting every time Vista's UI worked in a bizarre fashion.
Edited by Malcolm on Oct. 29 2012,12:32
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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Leisher
Top 3%, yo.
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,13:03 |
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Microsoft's problem has always been that they design operating systems for their own engineers and not the consumer.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,13:15 |
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You can add "developer tools" to that list as well. Â Entity Framework 4 is finally starting to be what EF1 should have been.
EDIT: I won't even get into the the artificially difficult bullshit that is Windows systems programming. *nix might be open source, but the process/memory management is ten millions times better. If only the UI and compatibility for that OS family weren't centuries behind MS.
Edited by Malcolm on Oct. 29 2012,13:17
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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TheCatt
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Posted on: Oct. 29 2012,14:19 |
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Nexus 4 looks pretty awesome... or does it not have LTE?
No LTE
fuck that.
Edited by TheCatt on Oct. 29 2012,14:19
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Oct. 30 2012,07:05 |
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(TPRJones @ Oct. 30 2012,08:40)
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(Malcolm @ Oct. 29 2012,15:15)
QUOTE If only the UI and compatibility for that OS family weren't centuries behind MS. It outputs to a Gutenberg press and is only compatible with Babbage's difference engine?
If it's lucky. The lack of a quality Linux UI implementation continues to astonish me. Not that it matters since the real cash cow software isn't developed for it.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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