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@GoddersUK: Unless Adobe releases the specifications for Flash, and allows third party players. That would make Flash similar to PDF I suppose. It doesn't change the fact that Flash must die, but it would extend the life support.

@GoddersUK: It's good because of "KHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!!!!". That line is worth the price of admission by itself.

2 minutes ago, SteveRichter wrote

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maybe there is money to be made coding and selling a visual studio clone.

 

Not really any money being made, but there's always SharpDevelop.

@magicalclick: I don't use Facebook, and I'm in the US. Few of my friends and family do either, and we're all tech-y folks. No Facebook, Twitter, or any social networking of any kind. Bunch of luddites I guess.

12 hours ago, JoshRoss wrote

I would prefer a system of self policing, rather than ban hammers. I've issued my fair share of negative comments, but I think that I would be willing to modify the language of a post, if enough people pushed a mean button. What do you all think about having a mean button, right below the spam button? The mean button, wouldn't go to the admins, it would just let you know that your peers believe that you are acting inappropriate.

-Josh

That idea has shades of a popularity contest, and could easily be abused. As a community, there are certain standards that were initially instituted by Charles and company, and generally agreed upon by the niners. A warning/ban-hammer doesn't seem like an unreasonable measure. If this were a physical community, you can always smack someone upside the head, and temporary or permabanning seems like a good equivalent.

The new Netduino looks pretty sweet. They are starting to implement stuff from the gadgeteer reference designs.

@cbae: If it uses background tasks to do the location polling, then pushing it out of the back stack won't help.

@RodAtWork: An app that uses background tasks should have an entry in Settings>Background Tasks that you can toggle on or off.

3 hours ago, Bas wrote

Personally I'm a big fan of how Your Shape: Fitness Evolved handled things. They also used a mirrored avatar, surrounded by buttons at arm's length. It was immediately obvious how to select something.

I still think hold to select is kind of a crutch, but I have no idea how to do things differently. Finger gestures will always come down to some arcane gesture you'll have to learn and pushing forward only really works for things that are right in front of you.

Your Shape has two ways of selecting an option. You can either hold to select, or push most buttons by moving your hand forward.

5 hours ago, cbae wrote

 The brightness is kept really low with the automatic adjustment settings

Of the different phones that I've had, none ever go dim enough in low light, or bright enough in outdoor conditions. The manual settings are always just a little bit better. I wish you could adjust the response.