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Kent Beck making sense. Wow.
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The big news for most users is the fact that Windows Phone 8 won’t work on current hardware. To me this is short-sighted as it seems to punish the only fans the platform has so far. But let’s think about it in broader strokes that just me. Is this a good strategy overall? For the developer there is quite a lot of interesting news.
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Interesting read.
Regarding the main issue of the new phone OS not being supported on the old hardware, I can lean both ways.
From a technical point of view this can turn out to be a very wise decision when we look in the rear view mirror a couple more years from now.
Through the years, Microsoft and Intel have been heavily criticized for adding so much backwards compatibility, that they did not take full advantage of new technologies. The first generation of a platform like this is very likely to have some fundamental issues that were not anticipated early on.
From an end user point of view it is disappointing, but in todays fast-paced phone market it is not really a surprise that 2 year old technology is being phased out.
I bought the HTC Surround (WP7) in October 2010. I was not really happy with it in the beginning, but with the 7.5 update many issues were fixed and today it is working well for me. I still think it is a terrible idea to put surround sound speakers in a phone, but that has nothing to do with the OS.
I have been considering upgrading to the Lumia 900 because I am eligible for the $100 upgrade price. Given the latest news, I will probably hold onto my current phone for a while. I am sure I am not the only one doing so, which has to be a blow to Nokia, but that is their own fault for being some 18 months behind their competitors.
Soren Madsen
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As an end user (Nokia Lumia 800) my take is this...
I can still make and receive phone calls.
I can still make and receive texts.
I can still browse the web.
I can still use the 100,000+ apps in the marketplace.
The apps I already have won’t stop working.
Those app. writers will probably still for a while provide updates for 7.5/7.8 users because it will be a long time before there are enough WP 8 ones, especially as the 7.5 updates will still run on 8, especially true for app. writers who earn money.
Heavy-duty games writers will write native WP 8 but these would never be runnable on WP 7.5 anyway.
By the time WP 8 is established with sufficient native WP 8 apps., my contract will have finished and I can upgrade my phone.
However, the market perception is damaging, especially as Lumia is only a few months or less old.
Kevin
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When the history books of the future are written, Alan Turing will go down in the company of Newton and Darwin and Einstein. His visions changed how humanity conceives of computation, information and pattern -- and 100 years after his birthday, and 58 years after his tragic death, Turing's legacy is alive and growing. Happy 100th birthday Alan Turing!
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So Alan Turing was born 100 years ago today. It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. But here's a question - could the arts and humanities move further into Turing's legacy than admirable commentary on specific biographical revelations of his life, or questions which bother cultural ambiguity? Computational science for the arts crowd.
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Android, and more particularly Windows Phone, are at a strong disadvantage because their own app ecosystems have fewer or less reliable content offerings. These two platforms do have one (difficult) strategic advantage, however, because they are behind, they need to innovate. It's possible to leapfrog Apple's mobile advantage... but will they?
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The Chromium OS should provide a much faster computing experience for the Raspi compared to the current Debian and Arch Linux-based builds. Right now, the Chromium support for the Raspberry Pi is very much a work in progress but a slimmed-down, browser-only operating system may be just what the underpowered but useful 700 MHz ARM computer with 256 MB of RAM needs. A grown-up OS for a baby computer?
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In the 1980s and 1990s, consumer-tech religious wars were a little easier to understand. Back then, there were only two camps: Apple and Microsoft. The hostility for and against Microsoft and Apple hasn’t abated. But over time, new religions have arisen... Why can't we all just get along?
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Unsure how much of it entertainment and how much fact, but a fun listen nevertheless.  +5
/ravi
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Kristin Dian Mariano wrote: Terry Gou, the chief executive officer of Apple components partner Foxconn, said that iPhone 5 will beat Galaxy S3, Samsung's flagship phone...
More [^]
Wonde Tadesse
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Still wouldn't buy one...........just saying.
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Articles like this are a worthless waste of time.
The headline and the quoted text are all that "suggest" iPhone 5 will be better.
The rest of the article just describes basic specs, but provides no detail why it will be better. In fact, the article describes more about the Galaxy and its popularity with phone carriers and pre-release orders. Then when it returns to describe the iPhone, the article indicates there are no definite dates yet, "it is rumored".
All of my software is powered by a single Watt.
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Wonde Tadesse wrote: Terry Gou ... said
I think that says it all. 
/ravi
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Ravi wrote: I think that says it all...
It's a rumor. Better to wait till they release it.
Wonde Tadesse
modified 24-Jun-12 0:53am.
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Other than the fact the main tenor of the argument is "the new iPhone will be better than the S3 because it will be better" that is one annoying website. It seemed to have at least 3 videos embedded per page, one I couldn't figure out how to mute. I want to listen to my music not some advert for a pretty poor sounding game.
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All is revealed here[^]. It's actually quite interesting.
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Quote: Instead, the design team initially worked in what Stevie Bathiche (pictured below), Microsoft's hardware maven, calls an underground bunker with no windows.
I find it hard to believe anywhere MS is involved has no Windows. 
More seriously:
Quote: ClearType is Microsoft's font smoothing system which uses the fourth pixel that every screen has in every Red Green Blue pixel group
I'm pretty sure the word they wanted was "twip" not "pixel".
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The team were underground, but now they've Surfaced... [Sorry, but it had to be said  ]
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I don't know what they were smoking down there, but what surfaced was incredible. 
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Rebooting updates no longer just for Windows [ITworld]
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Fedora tries to be at the bleeding edge of technology, sometimes at the expense of stability. Luckily with Linux, you have options. I don't suspect many with server type of applications are even using Fedora anyhow and are probably using something more long-term stable (RH Enterprise, CentOS, Debian, or Ubuntu LTS).
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atbennett wrote: no longer just for Windows
Used a Mac?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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