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Really, do they advertise?
I haven't noticed since I have adblock on my PC and I never got an ad on my phone either.
All I know is they have the best search engine around (Bing isn't even close!), they have a pretty sweet free email service, they have a pretty good browser that does everything I expect from a browser and they are the biggest player in the mobile phone market.
Am I concerned about privacy? They're probably not as bad as Facebook (what I don't have)...
The alternative is Apple (iPhone, Safari, do they have a search engine and email service?), but I'm not an iDiot who buys mediocre overpriced stuff because it has some brand.
And then there's Microsoft, but as said I've had it with my Windows Phone, Bing and IE suck, I'm not sure they take my privacy any more serious than Google, and Outlook is pretty nice, but doesn't offer some of the features I like about Gmail.
Other tech giants like Facebook or Amazon don't offer phones, search engines, free email, a browser... At least not that I know of.
So yeah, I decided to just switch to Google...
To bad there isn't much in terms of alternatives.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I suggest you LG G2: good screen 5.2 inch (full HD), and good camera (13 megapixel)
Or LG G3, but it's expensive and the screen size is big: 5.5 inch (2560 x 1440 QHD)
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The Motorola Moto X is a fantastic option, especially given the price. Almost stock Android, timely updates, and great hardware. I have one, and it's probably my favorite smartphone to date.
EDIT: Or, if you want the cheaper option, the G is almost as good and significantly cheaper...
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Is it just me or is the way the confirmation dialogs in Mac OS Yosemite race out of the screen and bounce at you really, really, REALLY irritating? I've just deleted a whole bunch of calendar items with each delete requiring two of these crazy, zooming, bouncing dialogs in my face each time.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's just you! Normal people do not use MacOS  ...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I can't stand animations; they provide meaningless information. Can they be turned off? Thanks for reminding me to check my settings (Win 7).
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Oh great, yet another "It's just work" moment from Apple.
I been out on medical leave and haven't experienced this gem as of yet but I do know that IT has updated my MacBook that I use to Yosemite. For every update there half a dozen other updates to xCode and the libraries and the devices I debug on. Yeah.. it'll be great to get back to work.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Oh great, yet another "It's just work" moment from Apple.
It did just work.
They soon fixed that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What calendar app are you using?
I just got home (to my iMac with Yosemite) and using the OS X Calendar app I created an event and deleted it without any confirmation required let alone a crazy, zooming, bouncing, in my face dialog. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The standard one.
I was deleting a recurring event - that may have been the cause of the bouncing and flashing and craziness.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Is it just me
Yes.
OK - so I actually only installed it last night so haven't noticed anything yet.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Mimas Prototype Death Star (without the dodgy trench!), the Comet shot is pure Sci-Fi poster stuff
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I posted a question [^]about WPF reporting.
I got a few answers and I've been looking at them.
1) I've decided against Telerik after their Tech Support told their report suit only works if you purchase their Control suite also.
2) Infragists... NO! Used their crap in the past and I won't go back. Besides, I can't find a demo to try. Not a same to run... a demo I can download and work with.
3) CodeReason[^]... Looks promsing, but I downloaded it and I don't see any kind of designer(????)
4) Crysal Report....20 years ago they were great. $hit now.
This got me thinking... what happened to the days of easy reporting. It used to be simple. Is it just me or has reporting gotten REALLYL complicated?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Yes... it is horribly complicated, and every choice is a mess.
It really is time for the marketing department (or finance department, or whatever) to learn how to query data for themselves instead of countless iterations of a report that nobody really cares about, and won't be used once the initial person who requested the report leaves the company and no longer has to justify his/her job.
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Kevin Marois wrote: Is it just me or has reporting gotten REALLYL complicated?
..take a text-file, write a method that replaces text, loop the dataset and replace the placeholders in the text-file with values, and you're done. Add some HTML, and presto, reports you can view with any "device". Add your background and all the other markup as CSS.
It does not have to be complicated.
If you are to sell that reporting-solution to someone else, then it has to sound complicated. Otherwise, they would simply take a text-file, write a method..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It does not have to be complicated.
Your options I WAY too complicated... and a maintenance nightmare. Not a serious option for anything other than columns of text data.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: Your options I WAY too complicated
Replacing tokens in a text-file?
Kevin Marois wrote: and a maintenance nightmare.
If it is one already, then indeed, don't go that way.
Kevin Marois wrote: Not a serious option for anything other than columns of text data
Most of the web is built that way; HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kevin Marois wrote: Your options I WAY too complicated
Not really. I have used this method before and it works very well.
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If all the report contained was columns of raw text, then sure, this would work.
But back to the real world... my report has a lot more content, so no, looping over data and replacing text is not an option.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Ok. Only you can decide what is the correct method for you. Good luck. Report tools all suck at some level.
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Slacker007 wrote: Report tools all suck at some level.
Ain't that the truth.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Can't you just use razor / T4 to generate an html page? you can have anything on that page.
Razor is a bit more complicated to get working out of mvc, but is possible and the templates look nicer than T4, but both work wonders.
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I have done this many times. Good suggestion.
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Or, you could go a bit further and re-use ASP.NET MVC's Razor:
https://github.com/AlexCuse/RazorReport[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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