Honestly, who cares about multitasking? As a developer, I do. As a user, I really don't care. Since I've had my iPhone, I've been pleased with the user experience. It is intuitive and stable. It makes my life easier.
Have you tried android? I've downloaded the SDK. I thought I could use the emulator to demonstrate some of our mobile apps. I was really disappointed with the experience. It is clearly not polished yet. I have no doubt they will succeed. I believe their successful model will be inexpensive mobile devices, subsidized through advertising. That will be a model that Apple will not compete, at least for the next few years.
Actually, they care about their OEMs as well as other strong partners like Intel. This is where Apple succeeds and Microsoft fails. Does Apple serve the Corporate Customer or an ordinary consumer? Do they bend to AT&T's needs for the Iphone? Do they cave to Intel like Microsoft? Apple focuses their efforts on the consumer. This is a winning strategy.
Some of the posts hear blast comcast support. In the past (2+years ago), their customer support had problems. Their support has been very good, in my opinion since then. I live in their primary region (Philly area), which might explain the customer service variance.
I have had some painful technical problems in the past. They have been able to track down and solve the problems successfully (significant packet loss during gameplay, VOIP problems etc).
I started checking into FIOS in my area (always willing to put pressure on and keep competition alive in the area). What I found kept me from considering the move at this time. In particular, the fact that they require you to use their router (which is only G, so I've been told). Of course, I can use my router behind theirs, but I don't think this is optimal.
As seen on slashdot before http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/02 9222, various companies attempt to hinder broadband rollout by governments. Will this decision then reduce the resistance against municipalities building their own infrastructure? If my township isn't one of the cherries to be picked by the companies, we can pick it ourselves.
I wonder if Verizon is pulling a "fast one"? My phone # xfer was sent to Verizon on Jan 6. Yes, it has been ~ 2 months since I requested a phone # xfer to vonage. Can Verizon just sit on this request? I hope the law prevents that.
I like the idea of having the source publicly available. How do we verify that they build that source code? Do we goto SourceForge and download the latest and greatest code for the build? Does Price Waterhouse certify that the built code was generated from the source in question?
There are many aspects to this...lets not forget there should be a robust and auditable process around the source.
That's what the patent is about. Since the "new" office documents are xml based, they must be trying to protect their ability to provide the tools and techniques that are included/will be included in their xml strategy (xml is their future). I agree with nutsaq. Ant clearly provided scripting abilities within xml for a long time now (ant itself provides those abilities, let alone embedded scripting languages mentioned).
http://ant.apache.org
I spent 3 days recovering from a hard drive failure over Christmas! A three month old hard drive failed, along with my OS manager (System Commander). Two disks of data were lost (partition table zapped). I spend most of the holiday restoring information. For your information, it was a Seagate 80GB drive (watch out!).
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Honestly, who cares about multitasking? As a developer, I do. As a user, I really don't care. Since I've had my iPhone, I've been pleased with the user experience. It is intuitive and stable. It makes my life easier.
Have you tried android? I've downloaded the SDK. I thought I could use the emulator to demonstrate some of our mobile apps. I was really disappointed with the experience. It is clearly not polished yet. I have no doubt they will succeed. I believe their successful model will be inexpensive mobile devices, subsidized through advertising. That will be a model that Apple will not compete, at least for the next few years.
Actually, they care about their OEMs as well as other strong partners like Intel. This is where Apple succeeds and Microsoft fails. Does Apple serve the Corporate Customer or an ordinary consumer? Do they bend to AT&T's needs for the Iphone? Do they cave to Intel like Microsoft? Apple focuses their efforts on the consumer. This is a winning strategy.
Some of the posts hear blast comcast support. In the past (2+years ago), their customer support had problems. Their support has been very good, in my opinion since then. I live in their primary region (Philly area), which might explain the customer service variance.
I have had some painful technical problems in the past. They have been able to track down and solve the problems successfully (significant packet loss during gameplay, VOIP problems etc).
I started checking into FIOS in my area (always willing to put pressure on and keep competition alive in the area). What I found kept me from considering the move at this time. In particular, the fact that they require you to use their router (which is only G, so I've been told). Of course, I can use my router behind theirs, but I don't think this is optimal.
As seen on slashdot before2 9222, various companies attempt to hinder broadband rollout by governments.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/0
Will this decision then reduce the resistance against municipalities building their own infrastructure? If my township isn't one of the cherries to be picked by the companies, we can pick it ourselves.
Thx...Im using Windows XP....that may be the difference.
Haven't seen this in a while, but the column truncates in firefox...v.s. IE 6....
Thanks Microsoft!
Typical.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:1:./tem p/~c109N2CQBe::/
I wonder if Verizon is pulling a "fast one"? My phone # xfer was sent to Verizon on Jan 6. Yes, it has been ~ 2 months since I requested a phone # xfer to vonage. Can Verizon just sit on this request? I hope the law prevents that.
After reading the responses to this post, I find it interesting that most score low
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All I can say is, good luck former AOL employees....I hope you find better positions at more promising companies...
I like the idea of having the source publicly available. How do we verify that they build that source code? Do we goto SourceForge and download the latest and greatest code for the build? Does Price Waterhouse certify that the built code was generated from the source in question?
There are many aspects to this...lets not forget there should be a robust and auditable process around the source.
Dan
slashdotted - try this http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1028302004 /
Out of memory - nice!
That's what the patent is about. Since the "new" office documents are xml based, they must be trying to protect their ability to provide the tools and techniques that are included/will be included in their xml strategy (xml is their future). I agree with nutsaq. Ant clearly provided scripting abilities within xml for a long time now (ant itself provides those abilities, let alone embedded scripting languages mentioned). http://ant.apache.org
I spent 3 days recovering from a hard drive failure over Christmas! A three month old hard drive failed, along with my OS manager (System Commander). Two disks of data were lost (partition table zapped). I spend most of the holiday restoring information. For your information, it was a Seagate 80GB drive (watch out!).
Speaking of Psychohistory, I would love to see the book series turned into a movie. What do you think?...