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It's not about moving your finger around on a touchscreen, it's about giving visual feedback if your finger is in the vicinity of an interactive object; without touching the screen.
The technology isn't implemented on mobile -and home- devices today, but it will be over the next couple of years.
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so, you're right. I missed that  ... but they need new touch technology before that will work
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The Karaoke Channel boasts that the app's advantage over other singing games is that you don't have to download the tracks. Each song simply streams from the game's servers, which is great until the internet goes down. You can favourite songs, tweak their keys and listen to an optional vocal track. You'll also be able to acquire Achievements. Songs in the key of CREDIT EXPIRED.
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I bet you're loving your Apple right now. 
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Another reason not to use Apple products and services.
But that's why I send certain attachments compressed into a .7z file, most email virus scanners don't know to how look inside so they don't complain when you try to send an .exe to someone, I assume it could be of similar usefulness here.
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SkyDrive apparently did something similar with images. I wonder if someone from the FBI found something genuinely nasty, which scared Microsoft and Apple enough to be overly aggressive in getting rid of some files.
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Its always a good idea to do encryption on your files while using online services like SkyDrive. They can't scan it if it's encrypted 
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Welcome to the cloud, where service providers can do whatever they please and you can do nothing, not even complain. By the way, the big brother may be watching you... 
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Big brother isn't the problem.
It's all the little brothers, little sisters, and all the nephews and nieces.
Big brother has an extended family.
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A detective inducts the truth.
A journalist abducts the truth.
Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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smcnulty2000 wrote: It's all the little brothers, little sisters, and all the nephews and nieces
Careful, you're implying porn there. (How did you get all those things?)
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I have a project I am working on for the client that targets Azure. I wanted to move up to .NET 4.5 to take advantage on async/await keywords and other improvements. It is a an MVC 4 project. Of course in order to run .NET 4.5 on Azure, you have to update your project configuration. Here's how you do it... Tricks of the (cloud) trade...
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Not one of your best links I'm afraid. It doesn't even stretch past half a screen.
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I’ve been responsible for the technical evaluation portion of some developer interviews recently. I stumbled through the first few, unhappy with my aged and worn approach of asking questions, having the candidate write pseudo code on a white-board, and so. A friend challenged me: he said that the interview should be a positive experience for the candidate even if they don’t get the job. With that in mind, here’s what I decided to do. Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about...
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...your mother.
"I'll tell you about my mother!" Boom!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Just under a year ago, we unveiled a set of SkyDrive APIs that made it easy for developers on modern mobile platforms to provide their users with the ability to access their SkyDrive content in their favorite apps. And since then, we’ve been working at how we could continue to make this easy for more and more developers.... We also continue to be impressed by the broad range of ways in which developers building apps of all kinds are using the SkyDrive APIs to build great experiences for their users.Here, we wanted to highlight some new additions that we find compelling—IFTTT, DocuSign and SoundGecko. How are you using the SkyDrive APIs?
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This manual supersedes all earlier information about the FORTRAN system. It describes the system which will be made available during late 1956, and is intended to permit planning and FORTRAN coding in advance of that time. An Introductory Programmer's Manual and an Operator's Manual will also be issued. Kickin' it old school.
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Scott Hanselman dubbed JavaScript the assembly language for the web and the number of compilers targeting JavaScript seems to confirm that statement. While there are many attempts at improving the JavaScript development experience through a different language, not all of them will be relevant to a game developer. In particular, you probably want to avoid one that will add overhead to the JavaScript virtual machine (VM) and slow it down. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the different approaches that are out there. To make cool HTML5 games, all we really need is the JavaScript engine and the canvas element.
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Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling. But Internet Explorer 10 has a problem: Web developers don't expect to see it on the mobile Web. The mobile Web is dominated by WebKit-based browsers, and mobile sites tend to be developed exclusively for, and tested exclusively on, WebKit browsers. A similar problem exists for tablets. Proprietary WebKit features are actually holding back the open web.
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meanwhile Internet Explorer is holding back 3D on the web (I mean no support for WebGL)
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Proprietary WebKit features are actually holding back the open web
And IE holds back whatever else is remaining. Not to mention that IE owned the term "Proprietary browser feature".
The HTML "standard" is whatever the majority of browser manufactures agree on. WebKit is simply more consistent a platform to develop. Every single IE release since IE4 has meant a scramble to update the workarounds for the quirks de jour the IE team added.
Each release has, admittedly, been getting better, but why not just move to the WebKit engine and innovate on things that matter, like matching and beating Chrome's dev tools, or having the fastest Javascript engine, or making the inbuilt HTML good enough that the Outlook team ditches Word as its HTML renderer and uses IE so we can have our HTML emails actually render properly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: or making the inbuilt HTML good enough that the Outlook team ditches Word as its HTML renderer and uses IE so we can have our HTML emails actually render properly.
That's probably a 10 year battle minimum. In the office team's shoes adding all of IE's exploit targeting to Outlook would be extremely high on my list of things never to do.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I doubt IE's issues are any worse than Office's issues. Using Word instead of IE is because composing emails in Word is a better experience than composing them in IE. Which is kinda ironic since viewing emails in Word is a far worse experience than viewing them in IE.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I doubt IE's issues are any worse than Office's issues.
They might not be any worse; but they are AFAIK much more readily exploited. You here about IE exploits all the time; when's the last time you heard about a virus that spread by exploiting outlook's renderer.
Chris Maunder wrote: Using Word instead of IE is because composing emails in Word is a better experience than composing them in IE.
I suspect the fact that Doc/Docx and WordHtml map to each other roughly 1:1 is also a factor; if they added an html5 mode that supported all the new and shiney they'd need to figure out how to convert each and every one of those features into a word representation so your formatting survived mostly intact when you toggle the html/richtext modes. Word in the browser might get us there eventually. Assuming they don't keep it crippled to protect desktop office sales anyway.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The centre of gravity may not have fully shifted yet, but it's moving. Big Windows, as many insiders have called it, will be replaced by Bigger Windows, one that works at cloud scale to deliver information and services to smart end points. Tomorrow's Microsoft will be built around Azure. That strategy means more and more collaboration between the different parts of the organisation as what were in the past standalone applications become services that are consumed by other services. To the cloud!
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