I just installed chrome and noticed that it had somehow pinned itself to my taskbar. Considering I don't like chrome, and only use it to test compatability, I was upset to see that it had the ability to pin itself to my taskbar.

Is this still the case? Again, if the taskbar team changed their tune on that and made it easy to pin apps through the API, then whatever...

I even use this for FPS gaming and do not notice any lag at all. I do have it close to the receiver but even still I do not notice any real difference from when I used wired.

I want a messenger app that will run in the background.

AndyC said:

W3bbo said:

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I'm kind of struggling to see how WHS backups could be 'simpler'. I don't have to do anything, it just works.

even if it weren't simpler, (which they seem both the same to me in ease of use as far as backups go) it's a no brainer to go with WHS. A nearly identical version of windows server 2003 standard for $150? hell yes.

ManipUni said:

SlackmasterK said:

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I can understand that. What are the avantages of a Tablet compared to paper and a pen? Would it save you time?

When I was in school, there were plenty of times that I would have loved to have a tablet for notes. There were many times that I would have been taking notes and maybe would have drawn a graph on my paper, then finding out I made it too big to write more words next to it, then having to grab a new sheet or flip over to the other side and draw an arrow to my graph from the wording I had just written, etc. It would have been great to be able to just grab my drawing on the sheet of paper and resize it or move it over some without having to erase some.

A tablet wouldn't have saved me any time, but it would have definitely made note taking more concise, and easier to read.

wkempf said:

Evok said:

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Can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic. I hope the latter.

Why would I be sarcastic? That's exactly what this is. Are you seriously trying to suggest that the iphone is hard to use, or at least as hard as this attempted joke tries to make it seem?

DCMonkey said:

Evok said:

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Nobody but Steve Jobs and Linux hackfest presenters use the later two. The military, like most corporations, uses Powerpoint for presentations.

I understand, but to take an unfair swipe at PP, when it's the fault of the people who created the slide for the confusion is just stupid. In that case, I could say Visual Studio is flawed because someone created a project littered with confusing spaghetti code.

CannotResolveSymbol said:

CreamFilling512 said:

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I'll walk you through everything I used my iPad for today (although my usage patterns are likely to change, as I get used to it and the app ecosystem starts to fill in some gaps):

 

* Went to my first class.  Attempted to (audio) record the lecture, and failed.  This is one of the gaps in the App Store I mentioned   Evernote is apparently limited to 20 minutes, and there's not much else available right now.

 

* Went to work.  Demoed our (internal) iPhone app running on the iPad.  It's (describing it vaguely as it's not public) a research prototype of a mapping application.  It makes a nifty demo on the iPhone, but it's beautiful on the iPad's larger screen.  Simply put, the iPad makes maps "come alive" (so to speak) in a way that neither paper maps nor maps in a web browser are capable of doing (and this runs counter to the opinion of one of our human factors researchers here...  going to meet with her tomorrow; should be interesting).

 

* Worked for a while (not on the iPad).  Used the iPad for email as emails came in--  the iPad puts my three email accounts in one easy-to-access place (not that I couldn't do this with either of my regular computers, but I prefer to keep those machines connected only to my work email; the iPad (and my iPod Touch) accesses both work and personal email).

 

* Went to second class.  Used iPad for web browsing while waiting for class to start.  Discovered I didn't have a printed copy of one of the papers we were going to discuss in class--  pulled up the paper on my iPad for reference during the discussion.  After class, used the calendar application to make a note in Google Calendar that we would not be having class next week.

 

* Went home.  Surfed the web for a bit.  Started up my desktop, and that's where I am now--  for now, I'm using the iPad the same way I was earlier; primarily serving as an auxiliary device while doing actual work on a desktop PC.  I've got a paper to read through later--  I'll probably do that on the iPad rather than on paper because it's pretty lengthy.

 

And, after relatively heavy use today, it's still sitting at about 62% battery life.  Can't do that with my netbook--  my Mini 12 has to be recharged after about 5 hours of heavy use.

 

This isn't to sell you on the iPad, or even to convince you that the iPad is something you need to have--  as a student, I have relatively unusual usage patterns for these types of devices.  But, for my use, the iPad fits just about perfectly--  better than my netbook (which browses the web acceptably, but pukes when encountering Flash/Silverlight content and couldn't play a game more complicated than Windows XP's Solitaire) and better (for how I'm using it) than a full-size laptop (which is heavy and doesn't last anywhere near as long).  There are still a few cases where the netbook's better (remote desktop, SSH+X11, and the few Windows apps that actually run well on the thing), but the iPad does most of what I was actually using the netbook for...  but a lot faster and smoother.

remote desktop, SSH+X11

Even those you could do on the ipad through apps, though I never used either so not sure if they would replace the windows netbook in that regard.

Ion Todirel said:

exoteric said:

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I'd really want grouped exceptions:

 

try

{

}

catch (SocketException)

catch (WebException)

{

    // some common handling here

}

 

vs.

 

try

{

}

catch (SocketException)

{

    // some handling here

}

catch (WebException)

{

    // same handling as above

}

or something like:

try
{ 
    ... 
}
catch (System.IO.FileLoadException, System.IO.FileNotFoundException)
{
    ...
}

This is something I've been wanting for a while.  I especially hate having one line of code catch blocks just because I needed to catch some random exception that I didn't want caught by System.Exception.  Something like this would make things look cleaner I think.

CreamFilling512 said:

Should put the videos on Xbox live dashboard, make it so.

Now that would be awesome.  Yes, make channel9 videos accessible from Xbox LIVE.  It could even have its own channel somewhere on the dashboard.