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Coolest video, ever. How large is that campus?! No way Lenn was going to walk that distance...
Btw, who was the designated sit-on-the-hood-camera-guy? Scoble?

Seriously tho. Great work guys.

/Lars.

What's up with the video quality? It's really fuzzy.

/Lars.

Are there any good examples on how applications use the Z-axis (depth) in a useful way?

/Lars.

Bogusrabin wrote:

I think Windows' command-line interface is so _crap_ (if you have ever used UNIX systems) that it's much easier use GUI.

Dude, just wait for MONAD to hit your desktop. The new shell is going to be sweet.

Or sign up for beta testing if you can't wait. Check this thread: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=5648#5648

/Lars.

Lwatson wrote:

I have always felt that unless you are tackling something just outside of your comfort zone one learns nothing.

Words of wisdom that!

/Lars.

This is changing very quickly. In the younger generation having a land line at all is no longer taken for granted. Having broadband and a mobile works just as well. Here in Sweden they scrapped long distance a few years ago, so now it's the same rate for any domestic call. And flat rate for off peak is available.

Using three mobile phones is nothing unusual. I have one for work, one private, and one prepaid. The third one is for things like if I need to register on a web site to get some free service, or if I don't want to bring my more expensive phone along to the pub. Like a "Hotmail phone". My wife has a phone of her own of course, and one for work.

I think Microsoft will have to do it's homework very well to compete in this market. Slow interfaces, battery hungry phones, and instability just isn't an option. And I'm pretty sure this is one platform people won't accept having to run a virus scan and update every week.

/Lars.

Holy cow! Paying for incoming calls. *LOL* !!

/Lars.

xbtest wrote:

Say whatever you want about Newton and all the bad press it got, but Newton in 1997 had already most of this, HWR and GUI wise

That is what makes this effort even more impressing.
Efter Newton tried natural handwriting recognition - and failed miserably - not too many wanted to follow down that path.

Doonesbury 28th August 1993:

[Mike gets a phone call]

- Mike? Bellows Here!
- Mr Bellows! Good to hear from you, Sir!
- Listen, Mike, I Might have a small project
  I can Throw your way...
- That's great Sir!
- How about a working lunch? When are your free?
- Well, Let me see... How about today Sir?
- No can do. I've got a one o'clock with BDIPPL at
  Cafe FWIBLOB.
- Hey, You got a digital assistant too, Sir?

As far as I can remember this was one of the reasons Palm decided to let the user learn "Grafitti" instead of the user teaching the unit. I'm very impressed by this demo. It looks like they've done some hard work improving it.

/Lars.

Cool sign. I did something similar when the company rented a new floor in the building. But mine said:

"Liberated Area - No bosses beyond this point"

Maybe that's why I didn't get a raise that year.

/Lars.

Looks like Charles Simonyi Left Microsoft in 2002 to start Intentional Software.

I never liked Hungarian Notation

If you can't intuitivly predict the answer to foo(13), you need to rename it. So it's kind of a trick question. But as Kharsim said - whatever gets the job done.

/Lars.