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15 hours ago, Charles wrote

What's wrong with paying for software, anyway? I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Reflector is not rocket science. Roll your own! .NET makes it easy to do so.

C

By that logic: When are you gonna make Visual Studio Express editions paid? You know, 30 bucks. What's wrong with paying for software? An editor is easy to roll on your own

I'd pay 35$. But the way they force everybody to upgrade is disgusting frankly

How is cutting away internet access going to help anything?

If anything, it will send all the geeks, pirates, nerds and all those people, who wouldn't normally go to the streets, actually go out and protest.

Local businesses also gotta be suffering from it. All this for what? You can't contain information anyway, so the rationale for doing things like this, as seen to many times in the past, is invalid and does more damage than good.

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/01/28/how-egypt-cut-itself-off-from-the-net/

With major carriers such as Vodaphone colluding with the Egypt government to deny most access to the internet in Egypt, I'd really be afraid what'd stop this from happening just about anywhere else.

Surely with so many countries having ruled that internet is a human right, this shouldn't be possible in our civilized country.

As somebody who uses Vodaphone service(Which is crap), I'm really tempted to switch ISP. Because blocking a whole country like that is just inexcusable

I really gotta ask. Am I the only one who read that thing as Bob getting fired and it wasn't a decision of his own?

Sorry Dahat et al. But you just killed the main feature of WHS. 

Time to find a new solution for my NAS box, which was running WHS. WHS was wonderful, easy to use and worked flawlessly. But with DE, it's pointless

20 hours ago,blowdart wrote

 

Everytime I see a public flounce from one language to another (even if it's from Java to C#) I have to wonder how much of it is because the author is trying to convince himself/herself he/she did the right thing.

Every. Single. Time.

@vesuvius:

I'd start writing applications to sell in a heart-beat, but given the fact that all predictions says that the adoption of WP7 will be rather low, I do not have confidence in the platform to take off, enough that it's worth me spending time on supporting an application that was only intended to be an application for me, even if I'm sure other people would like it.

It's a chicken and egg problem.

Damnit, now i"m hungry.

It looks delicious though.

4 hours ago, PaoloM wrote

Yup, easily. I got an email from a Twitter thread, emailed, got redirected to my local Dev evangelist, exchanged a couple of emails detailing my app design intentions and got a device fedexed overnight. Did you email the Dev rep with the details of your app?

So you have to convince a person, who might not even respond to your email, that your application is a good idea, in order for you to get a dev-device?

See, I can't commit to actually ever releasing anything. I'm just a hobbyist with some spare-time who wants to write for a mobile platform.

It's not just $99. It's $99/year.