crenshaw

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by crenshaw 15y ago
I once decided to cut cord to the vanity light in my car (long story why). Even though the car was off I was able to get quick a scare. Lesson, electricity in a car is not off when the key is out. I was close to winning one of those Darw
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by crenshaw 15y ago
I don't even think you need to call them jerks. Just say something like, "Our new licensing deals have us moving to a model where we are charged, not for how often you stream video, but for everyone who could potentially stream video. Thi
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by crenshaw 15y ago
A couple of points: * People forget that Microsoft is used to selling Windows that runs on multiple architectures. They had(have?) Itanium, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, and MIPS in the past. Of course those were targeted at professionals, not cons
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by crenshaw 15y ago
The other thing that is interesting is: "Android and iOS are covered tons in the media, and Windows Phone—surprisingly for a Microsoft product—seems to have missed the boat on brand awareness. An embarrassing 45 percent of consumers surveye
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by crenshaw 15y ago
A lot of people wondered why in the world would MS endorse a 4'7" phone (the HTC Titan). From people I know who work retail, including a cousin who works for ATT retail, people come into stores wanting either an iPhone or a smartphone. The
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Mary Jo Foley just came out and said the exact opposite now: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-desktop-apps-w... Sinofsky is of course the person to listen to, but I'm concerned that wires aren't crossing correctly -- and I'm
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by crenshaw 15y ago
What's this Back berry OS? :-)
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Others do have the PDF. Seems to just vary. Most of the ones I clicked did have full papers attached.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Thanks. That is definitive.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
OK. And Windows on ARM won't run Amiga apps either. You and I both know that's not really related to what the poster stated. The poster said that ARM will only run Metro apps. You can not run x86 apps and still run non-Metro apps. And
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Has that been stated or confirmed?
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by crenshaw 15y ago
I seemed to remember reading somewhere that Microsoft weren't going to take a cut, No cut of legacy apps I believe. Although Metro apps are HTML5 right? Some are. Can also be managed code or native.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
I don't mind having both worlds, in fact I like it, I just don't want them so intermingled. When coding, doing a research paper, or going through my finances, I want classic desktop mode. I'm probably at my laptop, and mostly typing, searc
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by crenshaw 15y ago
There are no downsides when you decline to talk Doesn't the highlighted section actually note that silence can be used against you? It would seem you need to decline to talk and request counsel, if I understood correctly.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
This depends. For most startups what you say is true. You can launch 5 times and most wouldn't notice. But for a startup with a lot of press, a bad launch can hurt momentum (I'd think). Look at Color.
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Future Directions for C#/VB(channel9.msdn.com)
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Doesn't work on IE5 mobile. :-) (I did actually try though)
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by crenshaw 15y ago
That's horrible. This article did also remind me to cancel my streaming (but now I'll wait until the end of the month ;-). I'm going the surprising route of doubling down on DVDs now.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Congats! I never heard of Etude, but looks really cool. Gonna go get it (if it's still available).
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Isn't it amazing to see how much MS is driving the industry. Apple is doing a smartphone, TV focused UI, tablet, and cloud services. :-)
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by crenshaw 15y ago
If that's the case then it would be great to hear the reason from one of you who are on the C# design team and reading news.yc :) I'd second that. Maybe someone @MS could send this to the Async team?
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by crenshaw 15y ago
What the C# designers don't seem to have noticed is that async/await is very closely related to LINQ and could have been built as a new syntax on top of LINQ. Considering the C# designers include Erik Meijer and work closely with Don Syme
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by crenshaw 15y ago
You nailed it. The other thing is that .NET devs generally aren't framework devs. They're app devs. With that said, there are some nice frameworks that exist, but competing against the top framework vendor, Microsoft, is tough. And while
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by crenshaw 15y ago
I see you confuse being available (as in "I kept a copy around") with being alive and actively developed. I see you confuse source being available with being alive and actively developed. Sure, in theory, with source available its possi
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by crenshaw 15y ago
That's right, photoshop isn't going to be going Metro anytime soon, and neither is Matlab, or Autocad, or Excel, or video editing software, or any "Pro" program (for lack of a better word). I'd actually be surprised if there isn't a fully
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by crenshaw 15y ago
I don't think cohesiveness across these systems needs to be a prereq. In classic mode things should work great. In Metro mode things should work great. Bumpiness in transition, IMO, is acceptable for v1. To put it another way, I'd much r
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by crenshaw 15y ago
Metro is actually meant to be "soulless" by design. It's supposed to be distinctly digital. The idea is that your "connections" come from your actual social web, not from rendered wood textured bookshelves. At least, that's the idea.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
I think the act of flipping between them is not meant to be a common event. But I do agree they do need to clean up the edges, although I don't think its "critical" for v1 of Metro.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
I don't think that's true. Can you point to a source? I've heard and seen only the opposite.
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by crenshaw 15y ago
All of the WP7 devices will be able to run Mango. Mango hasn't been released yet for existing phones, but speculation is that it will happen on Sept 23rd. Although I don't know what the roll out will look like.

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