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Well, every app should* be build in layers, with a public API -- then you and others can write whatever client UIs you want.
* Not that I'm any better at doing it than anyone else.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: every app should* be build in layers
..don't cast that in stone, otherwise we'll get a 3-tier "DIR" command.
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DIR is just part of a UI for the OS which has an API. Windows Explorer is another UI for the same OS API (I hope).
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It's a command; a lightweight app. The UI is a command-line, no idea if it actually uses FindFirstFile.
Perhaps my idea of an "application" is a bit too broad; yet a lot of my old apps were simple console-apps, with a separate UI app that would simply call the console-version. Was a great way to fake multi-threading in the VB6-era.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It's a command;
Yes.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: a lightweight app
Is it? Is it not simply built into the Command Line Interface of the OS (cmd.exe)?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Is it? Is it not simply built into the Command Line Interface of the OS (cmd.exe)?
Bad example, as the "dir" command was an internal one. "deltree" (exe) OTOH was an executable, and DOS needed to know it's PATH, just like "format" (.com)
IIRC, about half of the "commands" were simple console apps. In Linux, that's still the way most of the system works; over the command line.
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Yes, and I reckon they are still just clients of the OS's API.
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I'm calling BS on this.
Any interaction between a person and a machine requires an interface. When you are driving a car and you step on the gas pedal to make it go, that pedal is an interface.
The Keyless-go feature still requries that you touch the door handle to lock it or unlock it. That is still an interface.
Not all interfaces have to be visible or require your touch. Some interfaces may be based on sound or speech or heat or radio waves or motion.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
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Yes, but not all interfaces are user interfaces.
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Every interface I described is a user interface. Not every user interface is a graphical user interface.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Six months ago I deleted email from my phone by unlinking my Gmail account from the iPhone Mail app. I did this mostly out of curiousity around two questions; could I actually do it given how addicted to checking my email I was and what consequences would it have in my daily life? Smartphones make it harder than ever to actually stick with your thoughts and keep working.
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Turn it off?
Would it hurt much if you read the mail/sms/whatsap a bit later than "right now"?
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Email on a phone? WTE? 
I didn't disable it, I just don't use it. My wife uses hers for email and FaceBook (women  ).
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The relatively manageable list of "generic top-level domains" (gTLDs) that we've all mastered over the last couple of decades, such as .com, .net, and .org, is set to expand dramatically starting next year. This expansion isn't happening because we're running out of unique Web addresses under the existing set of gTLDs. Far from it. It's happening because the body in charge of these things—the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN—thought it would be fun and profitable. As more users rely on search instead of URLs, will TLDs matter?
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Sure! As soon as www.microsoft.hentai is a valid URL, Microsoft will have to buy it! Of course, what they'd PUT there is another question...
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“Our research shows that for many years, poor sales of Windows-based phones stem from a deep and stable lack of consumer interest for the product,” Ferragu wrote. “Despite numerous and repeated efforts of manufacturers (Nokia, but also Samsung and HTC) and Operators to develop an alternative to Android and Apple based on Windows, and despite the launch of numerous phones based on Windows with strong features, reviews and marketing support, the operating system remains cornered to less than 5% market share in smartphones.” Despite new developer opportunities, WP8 will never catch up with iOS or Android.
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Never is a really long time - once people thought nobody would ever surpass AOL + Netscape on the internet.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Despite numerous and repeated efforts of manufacturers (Nokia, but also Samsung
and HTC)
From what I have seen in the local market for Windows based phones, if that is there best effort then we would all be still stuck with brick phones.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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We've just been sent a shot of the next Kindle Fire, Amazon's Android-based tablet that's expected to be announced next week after the current model "sold out" earlier today. We're being told that a "pair" of Fires is likely — a 7- and a 10-incher — though it remains unclear whether both models will be introduced at the same time. We're not sure which model we're looking at here, but the scale of the keyboard suggests that seven inches is more likely. A new tablet is coming, and this is the Prime suspect.
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Zoomzum[^]
Quote: the android development is the most recent topic for discussion and there are a lot of ways for the same. Some of the most common and used ways for studying android development are either buying and selling android books or even by visiting various sites that can provide essential information on the same.
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Mozilla, who are renowned for their successful internet browser, are entering the mobile race, developing a new web-centric OS that will directly compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft.
Refer here...[^]
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If it cannot handle a printer-driver, it's not an OS.
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Well Android can (I can print from my phone, if I ever felt the need), and it's it's based on Android it may be able to.
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No, the kernel is only part of the operating system. The shell is also part of the operating system.
Ever hear of anyone running a computer on "just Linux"? (i.e. not Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.). Of course not, because Linux is a kernel, and the kernel on it's own is useless. Linux is not an operating system, it is only one part of an operating system.
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