Windows Phone is just beginning. In one week it had 20,000 apps, 2 weeks later 50,000 apps, and another 2 weeks later, 60,000 apps! Apple and Android market place has more apps but I'm pretty sire it didn't grow this fast in their beginnings.
That's because all the employees, interns and so on at Microsoft are 'encouraged' to write a Windows Phone app by firing the ones that do not unless they have a note from their line managhttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/06/0128255/nokia-suspends-its-free-developer-program#er excusing them. Also they MS bloggers, astroturfers etc have to mention the next Halo game - "Halo 5 - Flogging a dead Warthog", which will probably be a "Windows Phone 9" aka "XBox portable" exclusive the way things are going.
Dude, do you honestly think its only Microsoft employees who managed to code up and release 20,000-60,000 apps while still juggling their day job? Have you ever even attempted to write software?
This "crippled piece of shit" can, among thousands of other things, run XBMC and output 1080p video, turning and dumb TV into a smartTV. Not too shabby for $25.
Only if you use one codec. No Xvid/mpeg2 etc.
I haven't tested with any 1080p DivX files, but the Pi plays SD DivX/XviD content without a sweat. I think this should comfortably play the majority of videos you throw at it.
Not really. It just needs other data to be meaningful: how much you guys pay in taxes overall.
If you don't pay as much sales or income tax, for example, then it balances out.
Sales tax (or VAT) in Ireland is currently at 23%. You also pay 20% income tax on anything up to 32,800 euro and 41% on anything above that. You are issued a number of tax credits which reduces your tax burden somewhat, but once you go above the 32,000 mark you'll be taxed pretty heavily. There are further taxes on income ontop of this.
Its a massive contrast to WA for instance where sales tax was at 11% and there was no state income tax
Some curiosity:In Bulgaria and also most other eastern European countries there used to be a funny practice amongst ISP's:Each internet provider used to have a NAS/LAN server, accessible only to subscribers/customers, loaded with warez, pr0n and movies, in a catalog type of way, year by year.
This was way back in 1999- 2005. So You basically see what your monthly fee is, now much Mbps you get up/down, and also what kind of "bonus" warez this particular ISP has to offer, lol! I almost canot believe this was the de facto standard for many years!
Many American ISPs (even AOL) included Usenet as part of their subscriptions back in the day.
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I was wondering that myself, but I think it must justnbe MtGox transactions rather than all BitCoin transactions.
I was a bit worried there. I got the email about Mt Gox being compromised, and soon afterwards my Gmail account stopped working. I'm guessing maybe Google just reset the passwords of everyone who got the Mt Gox email.. because my password isn't the same between the sites.. and Google asked me to change my password when I logged in via a browser.
Same happened here too. I think its quite an invasion of privacy on googles part.
So... lemme get this straight, MS is not the market leader in either dynamic webpages OR cellphones, but it wants to win that market by trying to force people to go with their nonstandard tools that work on nothing but their own platform with a market share the size of OS/2?
Good luck...
Microsoft is a market leader as far as development tools go (Visual Studio,.net, etc). Don't underestimate what a couple of billion dollars and a few years worth of development and marketing can bring you.
My bet is that Silverlight isnt going anywhere anytime soon - Microsoft are still attempting to get a successful smartphone out the door. As long as they're focused on WP7, they'll continue to make investments in Silverlight to try and win developers for both platforms.
CmdrTaco if you're in the Seattle area within the next two months I can give you a tour of the Microsoft Redmond campus;-)
Can't really see that being your scene though!
In commercials you always see how some ordinary thing is so very difficult and cubersome to do. You know... "Vacuuming under the sofa is so hard and the vacuum cleaner doesn't fit there well and you have to (*gasp*) kneel down and it still won't be perfectly clean... But if you buy Super Cleaner (TM) RIGHT NOW you'll...". At that point, every regular person should go "Excuse me? I've vacuumed under the sofa and it's not that difficult, really".
This style of advertising seems to be much more common in the U.S (Maybe Canada but I've only spent a few hours there) than in Western Europe. Our advertisers tend not to treat their target audience like retards as that means that only retards will relate and buy their products.
The one exception I'd like to make to this is Dr Watson crash reports. A full dump may contain PII due to the very nature of a process dump. These are rarely submitted and the user is made aware of the fact that PII may be contained in the report. Most of the time, in the event of a process crashing a microdump is sent containing not much more than a call stack and a report on the hardware the application is being run under.
any other sources on this, it seems an incredibly stupid thing to do for a non-microsoft company.
I've seen how Microsoft does Business Intelligence and there is huge emphasis on not collecting any personally identifiable information. Things like submitting the path to a certain file is not allowed due to the possibility that the file might be stored in a users home directory and thus give out a user name/something that could possibly be tracked back to the actual user.
If you have any examples of Microsoft logging personally identifiable information I'd love to know though
Yes - security keys have patents on them and you need a license from the patent holder to produce these keys. Its a method of making sure that these keys cant be copied by just any locksmith
Thanks for the information I thought otherwise. Theyre pretty expensive on Ebay considering their actual value. When I ordered 100 trillion zim dollars for 5 euro, I was convinced it was fake. But no the country is just in so much crap that they can't even watermark their newer currency.
Reminds me of what happened in my university. Some students thought it would be smart for their final 4th year projects to go onto a public forum and offer money for somebody to do the project for them.
The university sent a public mail out offering for the students to turn themselves in and redo a different project over the summer (might have been capped at 40%) or else risk getting caught and not get a degree + be banned from all the universities in Ireland.
Microsoft is a very large company and to my surprise there is not nearly as much cross team communication going on as you'd expect from the outside. People behind FAT more than likely had nothing to do with WP7. Theyre practically two different companies operating out of the same coffer.
While I only heard this and havent extensively used the phone yet myself, theyre doing their best to hide the entire notion of a file system from the user. How theyre doing this and what theyre doing exactly I'm not sure, maybe FAT32 wasnt suitable for what they were trying to achieve.
1. What language do you count in?
2. What language do you dream in?
Afrikaans is my mothertongue so I tend to count in that but for larger numbers I probably revert to English (First 10 years of my life was spent speaking Afrikaans exclusively, second 10 years was mostly English with Afrikaans at home). If you give me a very large number in English I would be able to visualise it a bit quicker than the same number in Afrikaans, but for lower more frequently used numbers they'd both be exactly the same. Just different words for the same concepts.
As far as dreams go, it depends who I'm speaking to in my dream. If its my friends I speak in English and if its at home I speak in Afrikaans.
As somebody who is fluently bilingual (speaking one language at home and another while out with friends), my thoughts tend to be neither English or Afrikaans but rather concepts which are then translated.
When I think I generally dont think in words unless I think about thinking in words.
I'm sure many other bilingual people that speak both languages frequently can probably say something similar.
They don't have to tell you - as far as Windows Update goes your machine is requesting something from them, they have every right to keep track of the number of requests/number of copies of a certain patch being sent out or the number of keys being activated on Microsofts servers.
As far as the interns goes its pretty short sighted not to give them one of these phones. Odds are theyll be going back to university and have a much larger group of people looking at what theyre using than the FTEs inside Microsoft who will all already be converts.
What I'd like to see is how many of those employees will actually give up their iPhone.
While I disagree with Monsters high prices on cabling, HDMI's error correction isnt perfect. The cable is still a one way stream so theres no way for your TV to request for your Bluray player (or whatever you might have hooked up) to resend a packet, and the high end cable companies are selling on the basis of a reduced error rate. Generally for anything below 5 metres though it doesnt really matter.
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Windows Phone is just beginning. In one week it had 20,000 apps, 2 weeks later 50,000 apps, and another 2 weeks later, 60,000 apps! Apple and Android market place has more apps but I'm pretty sire it didn't grow this fast in their beginnings.
That's because all the employees, interns and so on at Microsoft are 'encouraged' to write a Windows Phone app by firing the ones that do not unless they have a note from their line managhttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/06/0128255/nokia-suspends-its-free-developer-program#er excusing them. Also they MS bloggers, astroturfers etc have to mention the next Halo game - "Halo 5 - Flogging a dead Warthog", which will probably be a "Windows Phone 9" aka "XBox portable" exclusive the way things are going.
Dude, do you honestly think its only Microsoft employees who managed to code up and release 20,000-60,000 apps while still juggling their day job? Have you ever even attempted to write software?
This "crippled piece of shit" can, among thousands of other things, run XBMC and output 1080p video, turning and dumb TV into a smartTV. Not too shabby for $25.
Only if you use one codec. No Xvid/mpeg2 etc.
I haven't tested with any 1080p DivX files, but the Pi plays SD DivX/XviD content without a sweat. I think this should comfortably play the majority of videos you throw at it.
Would this mean it would be much easier for me (from the UK) to leave this screwed up country and move to the states?
No, it would make it harder for you to leave. I don't think UK workers make up 7% of the H1B, but other larger nations such as India certainly would.
Not really. It just needs other data to be meaningful: how much you guys pay in taxes overall.
If you don't pay as much sales or income tax, for example, then it balances out.
Sales tax (or VAT) in Ireland is currently at 23%. You also pay 20% income tax on anything up to 32,800 euro and 41% on anything above that. You are issued a number of tax credits which reduces your tax burden somewhat, but once you go above the 32,000 mark you'll be taxed pretty heavily. There are further taxes on income ontop of this. Its a massive contrast to WA for instance where sales tax was at 11% and there was no state income tax
Some curiosity:In Bulgaria and also most other eastern European countries there used to be a funny practice amongst ISP's:Each internet provider used to have a NAS/LAN server, accessible only to subscribers/customers, loaded with warez, pr0n and movies, in a catalog type of way, year by year. This was way back in 1999- 2005. So You basically see what your monthly fee is, now much Mbps you get up/down, and also what kind of "bonus" warez this particular ISP has to offer, lol! I almost canot believe this was the de facto standard for many years!
Many American ISPs (even AOL) included Usenet as part of their subscriptions back in the day.
I was wondering that myself, but I think it must justnbe MtGox transactions rather than all BitCoin transactions.
I was a bit worried there. I got the email about Mt Gox being compromised, and soon afterwards my Gmail account stopped working. I'm guessing maybe Google just reset the passwords of everyone who got the Mt Gox email.. because my password isn't the same between the sites.. and Google asked me to change my password when I logged in via a browser.
Same happened here too. I think its quite an invasion of privacy on googles part.
So... lemme get this straight, MS is not the market leader in either dynamic webpages OR cellphones, but it wants to win that market by trying to force people to go with their nonstandard tools that work on nothing but their own platform with a market share the size of OS/2?
Good luck...
Microsoft is a market leader as far as development tools go (Visual Studio, .net, etc). Don't underestimate what a couple of billion dollars and a few years worth of development and marketing can bring you.
My bet is that Silverlight isnt going anywhere anytime soon - Microsoft are still attempting to get a successful smartphone out the door. As long as they're focused on WP7, they'll continue to make investments in Silverlight to try and win developers for both platforms.
CmdrTaco if you're in the Seattle area within the next two months I can give you a tour of the Microsoft Redmond campus ;-)
Can't really see that being your scene though!
In commercials you always see how some ordinary thing is so very difficult and cubersome to do. You know... "Vacuuming under the sofa is so hard and the vacuum cleaner doesn't fit there well and you have to (*gasp*) kneel down and it still won't be perfectly clean... But if you buy Super Cleaner (TM) RIGHT NOW you'll...". At that point, every regular person should go "Excuse me? I've vacuumed under the sofa and it's not that difficult, really".
This style of advertising seems to be much more common in the U.S (Maybe Canada but I've only spent a few hours there) than in Western Europe. Our advertisers tend not to treat their target audience like retards as that means that only retards will relate and buy their products.
The one exception I'd like to make to this is Dr Watson crash reports. A full dump may contain PII due to the very nature of a process dump. These are rarely submitted and the user is made aware of the fact that PII may be contained in the report. Most of the time, in the event of a process crashing a microdump is sent containing not much more than a call stack and a report on the hardware the application is being run under.
any other sources on this, it seems an incredibly stupid thing to do for a non-microsoft company.
I've seen how Microsoft does Business Intelligence and there is huge emphasis on not collecting any personally identifiable information. Things like submitting the path to a certain file is not allowed due to the possibility that the file might be stored in a users home directory and thus give out a user name/something that could possibly be tracked back to the actual user.
If you have any examples of Microsoft logging personally identifiable information I'd love to know though
Yes - security keys have patents on them and you need a license from the patent holder to produce these keys. Its a method of making sure that these keys cant be copied by just any locksmith
Thanks for the information I thought otherwise. Theyre pretty expensive on Ebay considering their actual value. When I ordered 100 trillion zim dollars for 5 euro, I was convinced it was fake. But no the country is just in so much crap that they can't even watermark their newer currency.
The Zimbabwean dollar officially died over a year ago. They all use USD/EUR now
Reminds me of what happened in my university. Some students thought it would be smart for their final 4th year projects to go onto a public forum and offer money for somebody to do the project for them. The university sent a public mail out offering for the students to turn themselves in and redo a different project over the summer (might have been capped at 40%) or else risk getting caught and not get a degree + be banned from all the universities in Ireland.
Microsoft is a very large company and to my surprise there is not nearly as much cross team communication going on as you'd expect from the outside. People behind FAT more than likely had nothing to do with WP7. Theyre practically two different companies operating out of the same coffer. While I only heard this and havent extensively used the phone yet myself, theyre doing their best to hide the entire notion of a file system from the user. How theyre doing this and what theyre doing exactly I'm not sure, maybe FAT32 wasnt suitable for what they were trying to achieve.
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1. What language do you count in? 2. What language do you dream in?
Afrikaans is my mothertongue so I tend to count in that but for larger numbers I probably revert to English (First 10 years of my life was spent speaking Afrikaans exclusively, second 10 years was mostly English with Afrikaans at home). If you give me a very large number in English I would be able to visualise it a bit quicker than the same number in Afrikaans, but for lower more frequently used numbers they'd both be exactly the same. Just different words for the same concepts. As far as dreams go, it depends who I'm speaking to in my dream. If its my friends I speak in English and if its at home I speak in Afrikaans.
As somebody who is fluently bilingual (speaking one language at home and another while out with friends), my thoughts tend to be neither English or Afrikaans but rather concepts which are then translated. When I think I generally dont think in words unless I think about thinking in words. I'm sure many other bilingual people that speak both languages frequently can probably say something similar.
They don't have to tell you - as far as Windows Update goes your machine is requesting something from them, they have every right to keep track of the number of requests/number of copies of a certain patch being sent out or the number of keys being activated on Microsofts servers.
As far as the interns goes its pretty short sighted not to give them one of these phones. Odds are theyll be going back to university and have a much larger group of people looking at what theyre using than the FTEs inside Microsoft who will all already be converts. What I'd like to see is how many of those employees will actually give up their iPhone.
Where does the series of tubes fit in though?
As far as the keyboard goes - I was pretty dissapointed with the android/htc keyboard. Give Swype a try - you wont ever be looking back.
While I disagree with Monsters high prices on cabling, HDMI's error correction isnt perfect. The cable is still a one way stream so theres no way for your TV to request for your Bluray player (or whatever you might have hooked up) to resend a packet, and the high end cable companies are selling on the basis of a reduced error rate. Generally for anything below 5 metres though it doesnt really matter.