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Traditional usability guidelines propose that error messages should be rationally informative. However, error messages are also inherently brand messages. Branding seeks to create emotional responses to products, and failure evokes emotional responses. Current failure reflects backwards to prior experiences and forward to prospective experiences, and the form of an error message is indicative of the the brand’s sensitivity to the user experience. Plus: A Brief History of Error Message Infamy
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If you follow the world of Android tablets and phones, you may have heard a lot about Tegra 3 over the last year. Nvidia's chip currently powers many of the top Android tablets, and should be found in a few Android smartphones by the end of the year. It may even form the foundation of several upcoming Windows 8 tablets and possibly future phones running Windows Phone 8. So what is the Tegra 3 chip, and why should you care whether or not your phone or tablet is powered by one? Are 4 + 1 cores better?
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Who’s tracking your movements across the Web? The biggest offenders are Google and Facebook, says the Evidon Global Tracker Report, a semi-annual analysis of the ad tracking industry that will be made public tomorrow. [ITworld]
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Well they are two of the biggest online advertisers, so I'd be surprised if they weren't.
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Yepp, but you can use Google and even escape them : https://startpage.com/
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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During the Pocono 400 NASCAR race, Twitter ran its first TV ads promoting Hashtag Pages. Are we witnessing the birth of a viable advertising strategy? [ITworld]
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At least they didn't have the cars tweet automatically when certain events during the race occured, else #TurninLeft would rapidly become one of the most overused hashtags.
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But Microsoft have added HTML 5 support as an output target for the next version of Lightswitch[^].
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There are billions upon billions of ad and spending dollars in our phones, waiting to be snatched up. Why can't big, cynical corporations capture them? [ITworld]
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A few weeks ago, we shared our plans for the Express editions of Visual Studio 2012. As we've worked to deliver the best experience with Visual Studio for our platforms with Windows 8, Windows Phone, and for Web and Windows Azure, we heard from our community that developers want to have for Windows desktop development the same great experience and access to the latest Visual Studio 2012 features at the Express level.
Today, I’m happy to announce that we will add Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop to the Visual Studio 2012 family. This will bring to the Visual Studio Express family significant new capabilities that we’ve made available in Visual Studio 2012 for building great desktop applications.
They listened. It's back.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I don't want new facilities.
I don't want a new interface.
I just want the elephanting thing to work properly, and for MS to fix some of the annoying bugs that have been in there for at least the last two revisions! For example, being able to derive a user control directly from an abstract class without the designer coughing up blood!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Perhaps, but by "Desktop" do they mean the real desktop we all know and love or is it the dreaded Metro Desktop of Sesame Street flat colours and tiled blocks for kiddies with no brains (i.e. Marketing people) to play with?
- 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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Real desktop. The lego version already had an Express release.
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The sad part is that is actually a fact:
For the last 10 years, Microsoft developers are every day BETTER than before, marketing department is every day WORST!
Leonardo Paneque
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Magenta is an implementation of Darwin/BSD on top of the Linux kernel. It is made up of a number of kernel and userland components that work together. It is fully binary compatible with iPhone OS 5.0 (as in, it uses the same binary format). I bet you won't find this on the App Store.
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Getting our hands on the source code of such a ground breaking engine is exciting. Upon release in 2004 Doom III set new visual and audio standards for real-time engines, the most notable being "Unified Lighting and Shadows". For the first time the technology was allowing artists to express themselves on an hollywood scale. Even 8 years later the first encounter with the HellKnight in Delta-Labs-4 still looks insanely great. Your inside-the-code game guide.
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Want to learn about databases? Like musicals? The folks who wrote "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks" give you a roundown of popular NoSQL databases... in song. I am the very model of a modern document database.
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At Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley, two researchers are trying to shed some light on why some programming languages hit the big time but most others don’t. After all, new programming languages arrive all the time. But few ever reach a wide audience. Why have we not been reliably able to improve on C?
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new insights into not only the causes over the problem
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What problem?
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Because students are brainwashed in Universities into thinking that Unix/C/C++ are the Final Frontier and there is no need to go beyond them.
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I thought they all learned Java these days.
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It's also worth asking why some languages that were so successful are now almost historical. Cobol and Fortran were mainstay in the 60s going into the 70s. Then we had Modula and Ada champing at the bit but they passed by. In the mid 80s we had TurboPascal and I first learned it then C. I was not brain-washed to accept that C was the only way but it's terse style certainly encouraged more widespread appeal. C# has fans and critics in equal measure. The fact is, it's here and is widespread. As for Java, I have no need to want to learn it and see little need to do so. Its Write Once Run Everywhere paradigm is compromised by its actual paradigm, Write Once Debug Everywhere.
For now C# is where I'm at and it's good enough for my aspirations. It's a pity Delphi got bashed by Borland's poor marketing and management c**k-ups. Now that's its owned by Embarcadero they took a great product and ran it further into obscurity.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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PHS241 wrote: poor marketing and management c***-ups
That seems familiar from some other company, somehow.
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