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It will be interesting too see as I like the windows phone at the moment and would like to see what the 7.8 update does to my handset.
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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let the battles continue..ITproPortal[^]
“The S4 will see some external changes but retain its popular rectangular shape with rounded corner concept."
Rounded rectangles....oo, I thought Apple had a patent for that! Maybe a deliberate dig with that wording.
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DaveAuld wrote: The S4 will see some external changes but retain its popular rectangular shape with rounded corner concept.
Rounded rectangles....oo, I thought Apple had a patent for that! Maybe a deliberate dig with that wording.
That is just...just...damn brilliant!
Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater.
Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater.
Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.
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Article from Times of India
For the first time since the 1980s, personal computers no longer account for the majority of demand for DRAM memory chips.
Data released by market research firm IHS iSuppli on Friday showed that only 49 percent of all new DRAM chips were used to make personal computers in the second quarter, underscoring the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets at the expense of PCs.
By the end of 2013, PCs are expected to soak up just 42.8 percent of DRAM chip production, with the rest split between phones, tablets and other devices, according to IHS iSuppli.
Since Apple launched the iPad in 2010, tablets have been eating into laptop sales, slamming the profits of long-time PC heavyweights like Hewlett Packard and Dell.
Last week, top PC chipmaker Intel cut its outlook for the current quarter due to a decline in demand for its processors.
DRam chips store short-term information in PCs, smartphones and tablets to help shorten the time it takes to process information. Hard disk drives and NAND chips are used for longer-term storage of movies, music, email and other data.
While the PC market won't go away, DRAM chipmakers like Micron, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will increasingly focus their resources on developing better memory chips for mobile devices, IHS iSuppli said.
Executives and Wall Street investors are concerned that even the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 platform in October may fail to give the PC industry a badly needed boost.
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Ummm... how are "smartphones, tablets" not "personal computers"? I know mine are.
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OMG Ubuntu[^]
Oscar-Winning Video Editor Demoed on Ubuntu
By Joey Sneddon, posted April 24, 2012
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Professional video editor Lightworks – used to edit many Oscar-winning films and documentaries – is one step closer to its Linux release.
Visitors to this months NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show 2012 earlier this month would’ve had chance to see a pre-alpha build of the app running on Ubuntu at the Editshare – the company behind the software – stand.
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Even if you never visit the Google Reader site itself, there’s a good chance the feed readers you do use—NetNewsWire, Reeder, Vienna, whatever—use Google Reader to sync the status of feed subscriptions across your devices. And if you’re a blogger, the same is true of most of the subscribers to your site’s feed—Google Reader has become almost everyone’s master subscription list. Here's a trick to exercise some control over when the master feed gets updated.
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Technical writing should teach someone how to do something. The easiest path to this is to be clear. A good start is by answering a couple implicit questions your reader will have. Why should I care? What new thing will I be able to do? One thing to note is that a guide is not a replacement for a reference.
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As we announced last year, we support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version of one of these browsers is released, we begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version. IE8 is not yet 4 years old. How long should vendors support older software?
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Are IE9/IE10 going to be available on XP machines soon?
Well, if Google manages to get some volume license sales for Windows 7/8, good for Microsoft, hey!
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: IE8 is not yet 4 years old. How long should vendors support older software?
"Should"? From a moral viewpoint or what? They're not required to support their software at all, it's a thing called service.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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On the occasion of the presentation of the Computer Society's and Hitachi's inaugural Tsutomu Kanai Award for distributed computing, Computer visited recipient Ken Thompson at Lucent's Bell Labs. We were interested in learning about Thompson's early work on Unix and his more recent work in distributed computing. We were especially interested in learning about the creative process within Bell Labs and his sense of where computer science was heading. It's interesting to see how these insights from 1999 match up with the reality of 2012.
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JavaScript has two parents: Scheme and Self. We can thank Self for all of the object-orientedness of JavaScript and indeed we do in our code and our tutorials. However, Scheme played just as important a role in the language’s design, and we would do ourselves ill to overlook JavaScript’s functional heritage. What exactly does it mean for JavaScript to be functional?
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Ooh, look. There's a shiny bandwagon. Let's jump on it.
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As you may know this week Microsoft killed off the Forefront brand, killed some of the Forefront products, and renamed others to reflect their real strategic alignment. This is the natural outcome of a process that started about four years ago, and most specifically two and half years ago, as the economic downturn and resulting budget cuts at Microsoft collided with its ambitions in the security products space. Enterprise security products is where the real money, er... was.
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The iPhone 5 is the latest smartphone to hop on-board the LTE (Long Term Evolution) bandwagon, and for good reason: The mobile broadband standard is fast, flexible, and designed for the future. Yet LTE is still a young technology, full of growing pains. Here’s an overview of where it came from, where it is now, and where it might go from here. Can you hear me now?
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People keep asking why Apple didn’t opt for the micro-USB connector. The answer is simple: that connector isn’t smart enough. It has only 5 pins: +5V, Ground, 2 digital data pins, and a sense pin, so most of the dock connector functions wouldn’t work – only charging and syncing would. Also, the pins are so small that no current plug/connector manufacturer allows the 2A needed for iPad charging. Note that this refers to individual pins; I’ve been told that several devices manage to get around this by some trick or other, but I couldn’t find any standard for doing so. 8 (pins) is enough?
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Since 2005 we showed a prototype of this film at the end of our talks. Some people suggested to put it online, so we made a new, complete one: it shows each and every Unicode 6.0 character. 109.242 characters in total. Starring: 109.242 unicode characters
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Given Apple's reliance on fully licensed ARM cores in the past, the expected performance gains and unpublishable information that started all of this I concluded Apple's A6 SoC likely featured two ARM Cortex A15 cores. It turns out I was wrong. But pleasantly surprised. The A6 is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design. The CPU core(s) aren't based on a vanilla A9 or A15 design from ARM IP, but instead are something of Apple's own creation. Here's a look inside Apple's latest, home-grown ARM processor.
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Want an iPhone 5?
Better join the queue[^] then!
Yes, these pair of insert words of choice have started a line 8 days before the phone will be available.
Head over to the article and agree or disagree with the comments! (Get a feeling there won't be many disagree )
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I think I was as excited about the Google Nexus 7 tablet which I pre-ordered and waited three weeks for (online, not outside a store).
/ravi
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as if we don't see dozens of posts from people here clamoring to download every beta and RC from every version of Visual Studio that MS releases. building test VMs to run it on, spending hours downloading beta software, breathlessly describing how the buttons look, what the wizards do, all the new soon-to-be-deprecated frameworks MS has included.
bitch, please. everybody's a fanboy for something.
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At least with downloading a beta or using a beta product, you are at least "using" the product, and as you know beta's can last for months, so at least your are benefiting potentially from using it.
But come on, waiting in line 8 days for a phone........no comparison.
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no, the waiting isn't the same: the silly hype is.
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