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Verizon's hunger for spectrum space, and add-on fees, led instead to a flourishing unofficial tether and hotspot market. [ITworld]
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The Kindle Fire HD has landed on the doorstep of iFixit. Naturally, we've embarked on the epic voyage of exploring the electronic innards of the Kindle Fire HD. What will we find? Follow along as we methodically break down each component. Don't judge an ebook reader by its cover.
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Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - literally off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. Software doesn't work and no one cares.
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He brought that all on himself; no pity from me.
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I would claim we have maintained a steady level of brokenness, while increasing complexity by orders of magnitude.
This lets me guess that we (as a group, not as individuals) are willing to cope with that amount of brokenness, and it's the prime boundary in our push for complexity.
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Scott Hanselman wrote:
•Is this a speed problem? Are we feeling we have to develop too fast and loose?
•Is it a quality issue? Have we forgotten the art and science of Software QA?
•Is it a people problem? Are folks just not passionate about their software enough to fix it?
•UPDATE: It is a communication problem? Is it easy for users to report errors and annoyances?
No. It is a business decision.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Have a friend that is not very computer savy and they were trying to transfer files from one computer to another using a 65GB SD card. Copy was not working so did a move. Trying to do it one folder at a time since did not seem to be copying multiple folders (don't know the details). Needless to say lost all that stuff. I could have told the friend that is copy was not working, I would be really careful about using move. Now pissed as all hell at Windows. May even pay the premium for Apple the next time.
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We’ll explore the evolution of CSS’s layout capabilities from CSS 1 to CSS 3 and beyond. Along the way we’ll talk about why equal-height columns were such big a problem, what the CSS Working Group is currently working on, and what challenges are presented by taking print design capabilities and translating them for the Web. CSS styles the web. This is its story.
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When developing in a particular environment, say Android or Cocoa, we are subconsciously aware that the APIs are essentially fixed and beyond our control. The web, however, is built by many different companies and individuals, giving consumers of the platform (web developers) a unique chance to also become contributors to its evolution. Rather than griping about how broken something on the web is, remember that you can play a part in fixing it! Here's one idea of how the web could work better. What are your suggestions?
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To make it easier to figure out what you consider to be programming I’ve made a handy little list in ascending order of what I think is easy and what I think is complex. For the record, I think that all of these except the first are programming. Programming to me is defined as making some agent perform a task, no matter whether or not that agent is a computer or simply another person. And you may start arguing about this list in 3... 2... 1... Go!
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Didn't waste my time reading it.
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I get was he was going for, but since you specifically requested arguing...
In what world is a simple smartphone application (11) more complex than either industrial ladder logic (7) or teaching someone to replace a clutch (8)?!?
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One goal of scientific publication is to share results in enough detail to allow other research teams to reproduce them and build on them. However, many recent reports have raised the alarm that a shocking amount of the published literature in fields ranging from cancer biology to psychology is not reproducible. Pharmaceuticals company Bayer, for example, recently revealed that it fails to replicate about two-thirds of published studies identifying possible drug targets. It worked in my lab.
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One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – and to practise, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, I want to introduce you to 20 different tools for creating visualisations: from simple charts to complex graphs, maps and infographics. Almost everything here is available for free, and some you have probably installed already. In table one, notice that the usefulness of this article is in a rising trend...
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Microsoft is updating all of its major product lines this year, with the new Windows 8, Office, Windows Server and Internet Explorer releases, plus ongoing updates to the software used by its Xbox gaming platform. But while Ballmer called the year “epic,” he appears ready to if not jettison those products, at least subsume them in a new wave of devices around which Microsoft can develop platforms. “I think when you look forward, our core capability will be software, [but] you’ll probably think of us more as a devices-and-services company,” Ballmer told the Times. “Which is a little different. Software powers devices and software powers these cloud services, but it’s a different form of delivery...." Microsoft beyond the Surface.
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Since free software is so pervasive these days, it might not be very hard to find something within a company's product portfolio that depends greatly on free or open source software. Once discovered, all it takes is a claim of license violation like this one to shut down that software. Red Hat's legal-fu is massive, because it's using the fact that there is still a lot of non-compliance of the GPL out there to its clear advantage. What is the actual upside of software patents versus the costs of spurious litigation?
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Researchers have uncovered active malware attacks that exploit a critical and previously unknown vulnerability in the latest versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The attacks are being waged by the same malware group that recently exploited a separate, zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's Java software framework. The attacks install the Poison Ivy backdoor trojan when unsuspecting people browse a booby-trapped website using a fully patched version of Windows XP running the latest versions of IE 7 or IE 8... WinXP? IE7? Latest? <facepalm>
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It will be interesting too see as I like the windows phone at the moment and would like to see what the 7.8 update does to my handset.
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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let the battles continue..ITproPortal[^]
“The S4 will see some external changes but retain its popular rectangular shape with rounded corner concept."
Rounded rectangles....oo, I thought Apple had a patent for that! Maybe a deliberate dig with that wording.
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DaveAuld wrote: The S4 will see some external changes but retain its popular rectangular shape with rounded corner concept.
Rounded rectangles....oo, I thought Apple had a patent for that! Maybe a deliberate dig with that wording.
That is just...just...damn brilliant!
Full-fledged Java/.NET lover, full-fledged PHP hater.
Full-fledged Google/Microsoft lover, full-fledged Apple hater.
Full-fledged Skype lover, full-fledged YM hater.
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Article from Times of India
For the first time since the 1980s, personal computers no longer account for the majority of demand for DRAM memory chips.
Data released by market research firm IHS iSuppli on Friday showed that only 49 percent of all new DRAM chips were used to make personal computers in the second quarter, underscoring the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets at the expense of PCs.
By the end of 2013, PCs are expected to soak up just 42.8 percent of DRAM chip production, with the rest split between phones, tablets and other devices, according to IHS iSuppli.
Since Apple launched the iPad in 2010, tablets have been eating into laptop sales, slamming the profits of long-time PC heavyweights like Hewlett Packard and Dell.
Last week, top PC chipmaker Intel cut its outlook for the current quarter due to a decline in demand for its processors.
DRam chips store short-term information in PCs, smartphones and tablets to help shorten the time it takes to process information. Hard disk drives and NAND chips are used for longer-term storage of movies, music, email and other data.
While the PC market won't go away, DRAM chipmakers like Micron, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will increasingly focus their resources on developing better memory chips for mobile devices, IHS iSuppli said.
Executives and Wall Street investors are concerned that even the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 platform in October may fail to give the PC industry a badly needed boost.
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