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You can once again use RSS feeds to have all Google Alert notifications delivered to your feed reader of choice. Google Alerts has reactivated the option, which had disappeared following the shuttering of Google Reader a few months back. Coupled with the usual email digests, this returns to you the RSS option that was favored by many who wanted to keep their inboxes decluttered. For those who like to be fed
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As professional nerds, we love role-playing games. And we love web development. Naturally, we wondered what a character talent tree for a web developer might look like. Because it's Friday
OK, it's stupid and only WoW players are likely to get the joke (or Rift players, but are there any?), but it is somewhat useful as a collection of links to various training sources (including CodeProject).
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Microsoft isn't done taunting Apple about those new iPhones. Not by a long shot. After trying to seize publicity immediately following Apple's latest hardware unveiling, the company is back with seven — yes, seven — "fly on the wall" videos that ridicule both new iPhone models. Ugh. Why?
Really? You need to go there? Why not just come up with better phones (oh, you have that), or a better user experience for smartphones (oh, you have that too)? Why not just remind everyone how you're better instead of poking at a keynote?
But I do have to say, "And the beauty is, we can charge whatever we like" is sadly true.
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"We're giving them the finger, ..., print, fingerprint" ...
"so finger it is"
Humm.... please tell me this is a hoax, or is Ballmer still pulling the strings ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Between these, and the Scroogled series, I really hope someone gets sacked. As in put in a sack and dropped in a river, as they'll just go to another company and do things like this.
And if it is Ballmer, maybe he can hurry the ____ up.
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TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Ugh. Why?
Why not? It seems very reasonable under the circumstances.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Reasonable to try to market your product:
- without mentioning your product
- by mocking a competitor for adding a feature your product doesn't have
- by mocking a competitor for adding colours to their product (that yours already does)
- with moderately bad acting
- by using visual references no one outside of your marketing team are likely to get
- using the word "Brah" in your marketing
Sorry, I don't think it's reasonable. It's not in the category of insulting your customers (the old Dinosaur ads for Office are a low point hard to match), but not good marketing.
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TTFN - Kent
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Yes, but it's Apple!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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 OK, I've give you that.
IMO, here were a couple of better examples Microsoft could have gone with:
Nokia[^]
Denny's[^]
Not directly iPhone 5, but spot on: Kit Kat[^] Jon Ive is just so unabashedly mockable.
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TTFN - Kent
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I love the KitKat one especially!  Yummy!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: without mentioning your product
I didn't see the video because it was removed; however, if you can market your product without mentioning your product that seems pretty good to me.
Quote: by mocking a competitor for adding a feature your product doesn't have
by mocking a competitor for adding colours to their product (that yours already does)
with moderately bad acting
I'm a MAC. I'm a PC.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I guess I should have better phrased that first one as, "Trying to market your product without ever mentioning your product." No where in the video was it clear that they'd rather you buy a Windows Phone (or even that it was a Microsoft video as I remember it).
RyanDev wrote: I'm a MAC. I'm a PC.
Well, I was never as keen on those as Apple was, but I'd argue that they never mocked the PC for features they didn't have. Moderately bad acting? Yeah, I'll give you that one.
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Over the last few years, the iPhone has really become my go-to camera. The DSLRs have sat on the shelf and even a compact Panasonic 4/3 camera only comes out infrequently. This means that when Apple introduces a new device I’m all ears when it comes to what they say about its camera. Would this convince you to upgrade?
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Twitter has announced that it has "confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO," but details beyond that are being kept under wraps. Will their stock price be $140 or less?
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Linus Torvalds found out the hard way that solid-state drives (SSDs) aren't invincible -- and when they do fail, they can die without warning and at inconvenient times. But you do have a backup copy of the kernel, right?
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And what standard are they bastardizing? Where does it say what type of event the click target must receive?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Often considered a bad idea to use it anyway, in favour of Unobtrusive JavaScript[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
modified 16-Sep-13 4:33am.
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Link fail.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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That's really odd - Code Project seems to truncate the link at an underscore for some reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is a bug that is known but never really fixed.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Excuse me... I believe by now it's just called a "feature".
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MSPointerEvent is derived from MouseEvent so it's backward compatible. What's the issue?
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Are you trying to contaminate a rant with facts?!?! 
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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