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Chromebook is perfectly positioned to beat Windows 3.1

Or that's what I read.

Re:Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All on Saturday May 14, 2011 @07:05AM (#2547485)
You are skipping an important step: prizes.

Free->prizes->paid.

Also things like free food, better internet, lab space are all great motivators. The message there is I can't afford to pay you what you're worth but I'll do what I can.

WinPhone7 has a great community in London and I know a lot of people who are starting to express interest because MS is giving out xboxes and free phones and buying beer.

$7/hr could have bought a lot of xboxes.

Re:Why C# Is Not My Favorite Programming Language on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @04:48AM (#2513196)
So he brought up sealed classes and didn't think that was a point in itself?

Only problem I typically have is libraries that overuse sealed and final keywords.

Umm.. Live tiles are a huge part of windows phone dev environment. Not sure you could change much on the home screen.

Maybe rounded corners? But why bother?

Re:Hating on Candyland: Why most games for kids are awful on Saturday April 16, 2011 @05:50PM (#2454937)
You are not playing optimally. Monopoly is far from perfect, but there is some more depth than that.

Here's two questions: - How many houses is optimal for most sets? - Would you rather have both utilities or two railroads?

IE9 on win7 is slick, lightning fast graphics. Look for their fishie demo.

By having a browser on one platform they can use hardware acceleration on the browser making a win for both and keeping their hold on both.

That's the theory anyway. They'll probably screw it up bit that's the theory.

Re:Visualizing Directed Edges in Graphs: Don't Use Arrows on Monday April 11, 2011 @07:38AM (#2432208)
Umm... that's great for printed materials but how are you going to make that work on a white(black)board or for that matter with a pencil?

Not sure I've done many directed graphs in print but I've done quite a few with a marker/pencil/chalk.

Re:Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing on Friday April 08, 2011 @11:02AM (#2424062)
Returning meaningful results is progress.

Why would you want a predictably wrong answer, you must be a manager.

Re:Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing on Friday April 08, 2011 @08:49AM (#2423496)
Not sure this is relevant progress but 18 march bing for "HG download" gave no mercurial results (hg was assumed to be a mistyping of HD), by 24 march it was giving all mercurial results. I twittered about both.

That is at least anecdotal evidence that things are progressing in some way or another.