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Just what the world needs, a smartphone with massive memory leaks!
11pm, still in the office... Perhaps I should go home
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Quote: According to John Swainson, president of Dell Software, Dell will make no bones about the fact that going forward, it will strongly favor its own intellectual property over any competitive third-party software offerings that it competes with as part of an effort to give customers a more complete experience.
Remarkable turnaround for a company once known only as a PC manufacturer.
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Dell came to the conclusion that there isn't much money in moving boxes rather late in the game.
But consider the fact that Dell's business plan ensured that most of the inventory was paid for by the buyers.... you placed your order and paid and waited for delivery... that is why I say that the inventory -- as well as the labor charges -- was being paid for by buyers. And of course the component suppliers were paid 30 days later so Dell lived very well on the float!
Despite that, it managed to piss away its earnings on bloated corporate overhead.
Conclusion: Bloat destroys float!
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I only hope they don't start to make a Dell OS based on Android or something like that. 
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I only hope that if they start to make a Dell OS, it is based on Android or something like that 
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Should it be named new DOS (Dell Operating System)? 
All are born right-handed. Only gifted few overcome it.
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code.
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Where can I go to learn Windows 8? What material is available? There is a LOT of content available for Windows 8. For me personally I learnt initially from the Windows 8 Camp in a box and building my own test apps. However the ever amazing Bruce Nicholson provided me with a fantastic list recently. Are your apps ready for the Windows 8 launch?
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Ex-Apple Employee Reveals The Biggest Complaints Developers Have About Working With Apple
If you want to know how iOS developers really feel about working with Apple, just ask Mike Lee. Lee has had plenty of interactions with developers, both as a former senior engineer at Apple, where he worked on the company's Worldwide Developer Relations team, and as the head of Appsterdam, a movement to bring together indie developers. Along the way, Lee has overheard more than a few developer complaints. One thing is certain: developers will complain about anything.
Headline fixed!
modified 3-Jul-12 16:33pm.
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Seems you are the victim of either a copy/paste error or resposting yourself.
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Thanks for the heads up. Pasting error. Fixed now.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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You know me. I'll complain about anything.
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Would you complain about free BACON for life?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Yes, because it's not free beer and BACON for life.
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An increasing number of web development tools are now coming out that are themselves written in web development languages. In fact any project that needs a highly mutable or modifiable UI is a good candidate for being written in web languages. Here are a few of the latest web-based web development tools. Marked up for markup.
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Have you ever peeked into the source code of any of the applications you run every day? Ever used make install to install some application? You will see make in most projects. It enables developers to easily compile large and complex programs with many components. It’s also used for writing maintenance scripts based on timestamps. This article shows you how to have fun with make. Good, old-school, command-line builds.
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An illustrated collection of (sometimes violent) fables, concerning the Art and Philosophy of software development. What is the sound of one bit flipping?
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What is all this fuss about the Higgs boson? The physics community is abuzz that a fundamental particle expected by the largely successful Standard Model of particle physics may soon be found by the huge Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Europe. Here's an explanation for the non-physicist. Tiny explosions that reveal the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
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It's turned into science's worst-kept secret. Tomorrow, physicists at CERN near Geneva in Switzerland are expected to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson, the culmination of a 50-year quest to find the elusive particle that gives others their mass. Here's how they got there. It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine.
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Analyzing one of American corporate history’s greatest mysteries—the lost decade of Microsoft, Kurt Eichenwald traces the “astonishingly foolish management decisions” at the company that “could serve as a business-school case study on the pitfalls of success.” Relying on dozens of interviews and internal corporate records—including e-mails between executives at the company’s highest ranks—Eichenwald offers an unprecedented view of life inside Microsoft during the reign of its current chief executive, Steve Ballmer. They used to point their finger at IBM and laugh.
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I really think people are dancing on MS's grave prematurely. Ok, I predict Windows 8 will be an unmitigated disaster for desktop users (especially for business, where it will never gain traction), but they are still profitable. Very profitable, in fact.
They've done something seriously right with the Xbox 360 (once they stopped melting), and I boldly predict, based on almost nothing, that their new tablet will soundly beat Android Tablets, which have never been able to get their act together. MS was never in the position to do what Google did, or what Apple did, and I wish people would stop acting like they should be where those other companies are. Google exploded onto the scene at the right time, and Apple is just a freak of nature at this point.
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
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I’ve been scratching my head lately regarding management, and what is it good for. Wherever you go you’ll find bad managers. Actually, bad or good is not the correct term here – it’s effectiveness. Have managers every made your life as a coder easier - or worse?
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The open data movement is a hammer which has gathered the support of many nails. There are the curious taxpayers, who feel their annual checks mean they deserve a peek at the interesting facts the government has collected. There are the ambitious business owners, who see an opportunity to privatize profits from work with socialized costs. And there are the self-styled activists, who believe that if we reveal the data on what the government is really doing, we will arrest corruption by exposing it to sunlight. It’s always been investigative journalism, not data mining, that’s revealed the big scandals about politicians.
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In a decision that could have widespread implications, Europe's highest court ruled on Tuesday that the trading of "used" software licenses is legal and that the author of such software cannot oppose any resale. [ITworld]
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