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I was in the Army before I was medically discharged ( I was run-over) so I wound up as a developer not being my first choice.

I think people are developers on a step to somewhere, it's not a destinaton like it used to be. Why? Well I think that coding has lost it's cool.

I love being a Architect but I'm crossing ove to the darkside and entering management ... but I'm still coming here. Being a good *whatever* in tech means that you need to see things from other points of view.

Hmmmm, I live in a rural part of the UK where I just about get a 1MB connection.

Channel9 hardly ever takes very long to load at all but it's either fast or just never loads. Now I can't put the not loading down to C9 as there is 16 hopes between me and Microsoft ... and MS sites aren't the only ones that have this problem.

Hmmmm, I suppose I'm one of those 'old' posters then Jamie!? ....ok I'm 40 this year so I'll let you have that!

I think with any forum the real 'wheat' is left behind ... the chaff comes and goes.

On a more serious note, social networking has shown that different types of Web communication comes in waves. People like to be involved in the next big thing to get a bit of reflection 'yeah I'm cool, I use Google Buzz' for example. But the people that constantly use more established types such as Forums, for example, do so because they are getting something more out of it that is greater than trying to be cool.

I lurk here because this is a place where trusted, inteligent people I know and respect leave their opinions on the latest developments in all things web. Well doh .... people pay good money for this kind of thing!

I think to continue to make C9 great we concentrate on this strength bring news here and comment on it .... so carry on challenging us you miserable old Canadian ... I put it down to the weather!

Pros ....

I have an iPhone 3G and I love buying software for £0.59p from the AppStore.

The UI is slick and a joy to use.

Cons ....

But I'm sick of the dependency on rubbish iTunes and I would like to leave the walled garden of Apple and have some more choice and control.

I hate that I can't organise the icons to anything other than moving them around from page to page.

The iPhone is a sexy good looking phone but it is becoming to look dated. The 3GS was just a stop gap to buy time but we aren't going to see a new iPhone this year.

Isn't it nice to have some competition?

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Sabot said:

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A "minor grumble" (that Microsoft and the manufacturers treat tablet/slate computing just like any other PC, and don't provide any kind of optimized experience for them) has kept tablet computing from going mainstream.  Hardly sounds "minor" to me.

What are you talking about !?

I think enoughs, enough now on the iPad lets not give the thing any more oxygen of publicity.

Apple needed to have an answer for Netbooks to prevent people from escaping from Apple-world but they needed a USP so they've turned a minor grumble into a problem to make that edge.

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AndyC said:

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But there are already iPhone apps for that sort of thing, and they will no doubt get even better as they're updated for the iPad itself.  Apple's very much taking the "build it and they will come" approach here...  the proliferation of iPhone apps shows that this is plausible.

Apple is looking for a device to lock-in the book readers now. It's a multi-billion dollar business. Apple's got the music market at it's knees and is still working on the film/tv market with the AppleTV.

But this device is a step too far because it is less than what people expected. A badly named big ol' iPhone doesn't win any prizes.

*** Please Note: This iPad video is a little in poor taste so please don't watch if you are offended by material on subjects that below the beltline ***

Another thing Sarah Blow pointed out today is that the iPad has no handwritting recognition software ... abit odd for a pad?

I want to upgrade my work laptop (Lenovo T400) to Windows 7. It currently runs XP Pro. I want to know will the group policies etc still work or is there some gottcha I need to be aware of? I've run the upgrade advisor and it's given me allot of info about programs and drivers just not if it will bust any policies or configurations.