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Phoenix54 said:

The Apple TV was Released long before the Xbox 360, so once again it's microsoft trying to rip off Apple

Holy cow! I wrote this thread like 3 years ago.

 

 

 

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ManipUni said:

Dr Herbie said:

*snip*

This.

 

Plus, let's be honest, price was always a very negative point against the segway. They cost like £5K to buy(!). For that amount of money I could either buy myself a motorcycle with training, or a second hand car and insurance for a year.

 

Why buy a Segway that can go like 10 MpH when I could buy a motorcycle that can go maybe 30-40 MpH?

UK = Big Nanny + Big Brother.      ( Don't worry... we are getting there too).

Ion Todirel said:

what do you exactly have against ThinkPads, say X200?

<q> what do you exactly have against ThinkPads, say X200? </q>

 

 It's about time we boycott "Made in China" or "Chinese companies" products.

PaoloM said:

No, I like my roads paved and taken care of, thanks.

 Hmmm...  I didn't know it takes Trillions of dollars to pave those roads.

Wow, what are they making those roads with? Gold ?

I guess the local and state governments share of Road maintenance wouldn't help much if the Fed insists on paving roads with Gold.

I get tears at the benevolence shown by Fed government. May be we should send 1000% of our salaries to Fed instead.

PS: Oh and I forgot to mention that we should all show our allegiance to our masta... King Obama.

eagle wrote:



Iran is a Nation of people and they supply 20% of Americas energy needs.

Where did you get this info ? Or are you just lying ?

 

Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries) (Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country	Jan-07	Dec-06	YTD 2007	Jan-06	Jan - Jan 2006
CANADA	1,856	1,829	1,856	1,768	1,768
SAUDI ARABIA	1,559	1,471	1,559	1,335	1,335
MEXICO	1,435	1,245	1,435	1,701	1,701
NIGERIA	1,106	1,010	1,106	1,133	1,133
VENEZUELA	955	1,045	955	1,228	1,228
ANGOLA	553	610	553	420	420
ALGERIA	548	421	548	235	235
IRAQ	531	419	531	532	532
ECUADOR	269	254	269	373	373
BRAZIL	204	130	204	61	61
KUWAIT	172	163	172	73	73
COLOMBIA	137	74	137	169	169
EQUATORIAL GUINEA	136	48	136	86	86
AZERBAIJAN	86	68	86	0	0
CHAD	70	114	70	74	74

eagle wrote:

No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch

 No... but threatening another country to wipe it off the map is certainly civilized. Riight ....

sirhomer wrote:



Srikanth_t wrote:  sirhomer wrote: Dell has a new XPS out, what's  Microsoft got? Why do you waste bandwidth with dumb responses?  Aren't all Linux lovers supposed to be tree-huggers or something ? Tell you what..... why don't you be a good Linux lover and move to Cuba.

What is that suppose to mean? All Linux users are communists? I welcome your intellegence.

 Yes. It means all Linux lovers are commies. "software ought to be free" as in "free lunch", "free health-care", etcetra are all commie line of thinking. And  I will hold that view until you can show me how I am supposed to make an HONEST living by writing "free" software for Linux.

sirhomer wrote:

Dell has a new XPS out, what's  Microsoft got?

Why do you waste bandwidth with dumb responses?  Aren't all Linux lovers supposed to be tree-huggers or something ?

Tell you what..... why don't you be a good Linux lover and move to Cuba. 

jsampsonPC wrote:

Uh, a little thing called WPF...where have you guys been? WPF is amazingly-powerful. It's connected to the .NET framework which means you're not limited by flimsy little HTML+Javascript crap that Apollo gives you. You can actually tie into low-level system data-chunks, can't do that with HTML and Javascript

To be honest, I thought it was rather entertaining that Apollo has gotten any attention in the shadow of WPF lately.

When I watched the Apollo demonstrations all I kept thinking was "So what...looks like a fancy ajax webpage..."

 Well, not so fast.  Although I have not seen Apollo's API yet, it is my guesstimate that it includes automatic system events to the application coder such as "Net disconnected", "Net connected", etcetra... 

It is also my guess that when in a disconnected situation,  the Apollo Runtime + API  transparently maintains all the Application's ViewState info and web requests. Whenever the network is re-connected the runtime then transparently synchronizes the requests with that applications Web server app.

 There is nothing in XAML that can "inherently" provide the above two facilities I guesstimated. You have to hand code it.