I'm looking forward to the new hardware that will be on the market in the form of tablets or hybrids.  My opinion is that it will be a slow adoption, but it will eventually gain respectable marketshare.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/17/senator-questions-benefits-to-adult-baby/

Obscene and extreme obviously....

I don't trust politicians to run much of anything except their own selfish agendas..which is usually to be elected to power and stay in power as long as humanly possible.
American candidates for office always promise one thing, and end up a huge disappointment after elected; sucked in by a huge bureaucracy where innovation and creative ideas get shoveled under the rug in favor of more useless laws, pointless debates, and unproductive banter about what's best for subjects of the land.  
Meanwhile most the rest of us live in the real world, subject to the laws and rules enacted by these bafoons.
 

If I tried to do that, I think my wife would take me to divorce court.

• CARD-ST-INT-AISXMC SuperTalent Internal Black 3.5in All-in-1 USB 2.0 1.00 Retail Card Reader with USB 2.0 Port; Requires USB header (INTAISXMCR/AN15SMR)
• CPU-INT-CI7-2600K Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz 1.00 (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop CPU
• CS-CM-HAF-922 Cooler Master HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP 1.00 ATX Case
• DVD-LG-WH10LS30-B LG WH10LS30K Black Blu-ray? Disc Rewriter 1.00 Internal SATA 10x SuperMulti Blue LightScribe
• HD-SA-WD-1002FAEX Western Digital 1 TB Black Caviar SATA 6Gb/s 1.00 Hard Drive with 64 MB Cache (WD1002FAEX)
• HD-SSD-CR-128GB Crucial 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300 2.5-inch 1.00 SATA 6GB/s (CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1)
• MB-G-GA-P67A-UD3 Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3 Intelfi P67 Chipset, 1.00 LGA1155 DuaL-DDR3 1333, SATA 6 Gbps, PCI-E x16, GbLAN, USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard
• MEM-DD3-1333-4GB-S 4GB Super Talent DDR3 PC3-10600 1333Mhz 4.00 240-Pin Memory (WA133UB4G9)
• PS-650-TP-NEW Antec 650W True Power New 650 Watt 1.00 Continuous Power PS (TP-650)
• VID-SA-HD5670-1GB Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 1GB GDDR5 1.00 PCI-Express Dual-Link DVI-I+HDMI+VGA Video Card

What?? not available for my NookColor or for Kindle from Amazon?

I would have bought it immediately if it was an ebook!

Navigating office politics/corporate culture is a challenge and an unavoidable obstacle for all of us. Approach it with a good attitude.  There's a lot of BS in it, but you'll find gems of knowledge along the way. 

Temet Nosce

I see a lot of Dexter listed, might have to check that one out. Should I start with Season 1?

figuerres said:

BEND - did it go round the b END ????

 

anyone know what happened to it??

 

seems to be pulled off codeplex.

Yeah, where did it go? I'd like to play with it...anyone have the original install available?

turrican said:

Red5 said:

*snip*

You mean LINQ to SQL is "dead"?

I don't know about dead, but... http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,bc1bc043-3cdc-4ac2-8b46-3c72ad1d61cf.aspx

I know it's no longer a namespace that will be updated, but it should continue to work for your apps for a very long time.

We did a new app last year using EF, and there is a learning curve and nuances to overcome.

Looking back, I'm 50/50 on my decision to use EF. There are some advantages, but I'm not sure it's worth it at this time.

intelman said:

Microsoft needs to rethink all of their built in applications. Notepad, Paint, Wordpad ...

 

Snipping tool was a great addition. It needs some help still, but it is great overall.

I would guess Microsoft always intended these to be little helper apps, not full-blown applications to compete with PaintShopPro, Adobe, etc.

But I agree that subsequent releases of these types of apps should include most of the old functionality if possible.

Dr Herbie said:

jamie said:

*snip*

Time for more ...

 

A bit of electronica:

 

The Geeks were Right!:

 

 

Time to Pretend (CAUTION, explicit lyrics):

 

 

Herbie

 

The geeks were right: Me Likey!  Very 80's ish.

ManipUni said:

The five people who own a Zune will be very happy to hear that.

I guess that's me, since I own five of them (me, wife, kids)

I won't hack mine to play Doom, but still pretty cool someone did this.

I'll wait until Quake is available

CKurt said:

Zeus said:

*snip*

It's up ! Download now

It's available here too.

Connection issues though...too many users probably.

If all of you could wait until I get mine, that would be great

Sven Groot said:

W3bbo said:

*snip*

But how long does mathematica take if the upperbound on k is not infinite, but another arbitrary high number?

 

WolframAlpha won't give you an answer if you do that.

I was sure it was 42. Dang.

RLO said:

magicalclick said:

*snip*

Magical, I can appreciate what you are trying to say, but the statements as I mentioned before were very coy.  There is no "Zune Phone", but if it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.  It must be a duck, or in this case a Zune Phone.  Now, they were very precise in how they termed everything to let the public think that WP7S was going to look like the shots leaked in 2008 instead of looking like a Zune device.  It was brillant strategy, because we were all surprised with the reveal.  Although it helped keep the changes secret and surprisingly fresh, it was still misleading and with real consequences to those that bought the ZuneHD.  In the end, they let the consumers think one thing and never adjusted that perception until the end.

Do I like what they have done? Yes.  Do I like how they treated me as a customer? No. Will I get over it?  Maybe.

 

Wkempf, if they developed the requirement for three buttons after the fact, I hope someone was complaining to high-heaven about shafting current WinMo customers and stiring up a reaction from the Zune community.  I don't see what's is so special about having three buttons except as an excuse not to backport to older devices. 

 

Red5, I don't believe the platform will die, I just believe it will be taking a new turn.  I have voiced this in other places, but Zune could become PlaysforSure part II in which they let Zune DRM be added to third party players not manufactured by Microsoft.  It wouldn't be too hard to turn over the device manufacturing to the same companies doing the phones and thus relieve MS the burden of manufacturing and focusing on the software+services side of things.

 

With Zune added as part of the Xbox blade, I can feel certain they are in the content distribution business for the long run.

my "Dang.." was more for me having to carry two devices instead of one

Looks like it's official:  http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2010/03/31/zune-hd-64gb-coming-april-12.aspx

Oh well....

I hope they keep the zune platform alive. I think it's a great product. I wish Microsoft would get their act together on the marketing plan for zune.  Their product placement and availability is not very good.

jamie said:

dentaku said:

*snip*

 

 

 

 

 

 =  TORONTO !

 

oops - forgot klaatu:

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNdql7ShBOg

 

 

time to show my age....

jamie said:

Red5 said:

*snip*

hey red    - longtime 9er

 

cool vid

 

I'm officially just a "Lurker" now.

Nice to see you're still posting the good stuff. Fun thread to follow.

In tribute to St. Patricks day, an Irish tune popularized by Pink Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqHBL1CIq_w

ZippyV said:

figuerres said:

*snip*

I think I found the right word for Channel9: overengineered.

I think you're on to something

If true, I really hope MS gets their act together on the marketing of such a device.

The marketing and retail placement of Zune in general  S U C K S.

I think one reason iPod is so popular, is the sheer availability of all the cool accessories that seem to be available everywhere.

MS needs to partner with accessory manufacturers to increase their marketshare in the media player arena.

I have win7 on my acer netbook for 3 days now. So far so good. I think my use of the OS features though is a lot less than some of the descriptions I see here.

Compared to XP though? time will tell. My netbook had XP Home on it from the factory and so far Win7 seems a little slower, which I expected, but it's not enough to for me to be too vociferous yet. The 60 second lag someone mentioned previously is about the biggest complaint I have so far.

Once i get it on my dual monitor desktop, I may have more to say...