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Did you mean Window Pains? 
/ravi
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I always saw it as microsoft metro-sexual.
.... and that is in the public domain.
grr
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What about "Prince-ifying" it? Call it W#
Or just be blindingly honest: Windows 8 Your PC
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This is Microsoft after all. You just know it's going to end up being something just as simple and evocative as Metro. You know, something like "Typeface-centric Orthagonal Monocolor Tiles Version 8.3".
Then to add insult to injury some marketing jackass will then condense it down to "TOM T 8.3" you know, because it rhymes and that's clever!
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After which, Apple will file a lawsuit complaining that Microsoft has infringined on its patents on rectangles and pastel colors.
/ravi
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Don't forget their patents on fonts, typesetting, electricity and I think respiration (odds are you're violating at least one of these right now!).
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At least thay haven't patented reading, otherwise i should be paying royalties to read The Code Project.
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Give them time. I'm sure they have a crack legal team coming up with a means of circumventing prior art as we speak.
Hey, maybe that new round headquarters in Cupertino is just a front for apple legal's new time machine. Maybe THAT'S how they've gotten so many of these patents! I'm sure the "rounded rectangle" was legitimately patentable in 3000BC 
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What about "STEPS" System Touch Explore Peruse Start"
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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I like it. The media would have a field day with the tagline "Windows 8 - watch where you step!".
/ravi
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RAVI: Had not thought of that. Very insightful. I bet the Apple-friendly ones would at least.
I am on the fence about Win8. It is an imperative that will not go away. I am observing it from a distance still. So far VS 2012 and its tools seem too packaged in some areas. I am interested in the improved thread management though. (Misspelled thread as tread. Maybe it was correct in the first place  )
DPM.
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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The programming bug swept through the market at the open of exchanges on a day when Joyce, a 57-year-old Harvard College graduate known as TJ, limped into work following knee surgery. Joyce said that while the bug sent “a ton of orders, all erroneous” into the market as the firm prepared to trade with the NYSE (NYX)’s new so-called retail liquidity program, it had “nothing to do” with the NYSE. A potentially bankrupting error.
"As beings of finite lifespan, our contributions to the sum of human knowledge is one of the greatest endeavors we can undertake and one of the defining characteristics of humanity itself"
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I guess this kinda suggests that QA and staging environments might be a good idea when you're dealing with huge amounts of other peoples (or your own) money.
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True.
"As beings of finite lifespan, our contributions to the sum of human knowledge is one of the greatest endeavors we can undertake and one of the defining characteristics of humanity itself"
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews. We talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves.
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Yesterday, Google's Vic Gundotra proudly exclaimed that "I'm not interested in screwing over developers" as he piled on top of Dalton Caldwell's post accusing Facebook of being naughty on the platform front. I'm not here to defend Facebook or Twitter or anyone else who takes lumps in Dalton's blog, but Vic's opportunistic post warrants a little scrutiny, as I always worry when people in power positions go over the top to proclaim what they're *not* doing. I rather hope Google can back up the claim going forward, because it certainly hasn't in the past. Here are a few ways Google has not fulfilled its promise to the platform.
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Pot, meet Kettle...
This reads like a talking points memo from a political campaign... 
Be The Noise
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WHat really hit me was removing support for Soap. Seems like that is a pretty big change. Don't really know about a lot of the others
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The easiest way to monitor your household from anywhere in the world is to connect an old Android smartphone with a mobile NXT robot. A NXT robot represents a cheap and simple to handle microcontroller device in combination with two servos, that allow to build a flexible mobile platform. On top of this mobile robot we place the Android smartphone. The Android smartphone acts as high-level controller that receives commands over the Internet and transmits these commands to the NXT controller over a Bluetooth connection. Android phone home!
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Very cool! I am just wondering if we can control/extend using .NET programmer languages. But from your link, seems like coding done in Java (but wait looks like it's just wiring down byte[] ... I can do that with .NET).
I stumbled across FEZ Mini Robot Kit - apparently you can program the microprocessor in C#![^]
I so want a bot at home chase after my Jack Russel (but this one doesn't look sturdy enuf, my dog will just bite and tear it apartment in seconds)
dev
modified 3-Aug-12 0:16am.
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Wow. Well I can see the obvious military uses of this. Pretty scary if you're a terrorist and you see one of these things flying around in your building 
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I think for it to become viable weapon still needs *either*
(a) more power engine/frame to carry real weapons
OR
(b) just carry lethal ninja darts
PLUS - quiet engine, lol
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