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Any thoughts?-superboyac (March 23, 2011, 08:51 PM)
To me it just proves that half of the people that buy laptops don't really need them.
In the 6 years I've had my laptop, I've probably used it less than 15 hours total. Typically for some manner of diagnostic (or router configuration), that only required that I have a network connection and a command prompt or browser window.
So I could easily deal with a much smaller & lighter device ... as long as it had a proper OS that would run whatever app~lication I chose to write for it.-Stoic Joker (March 23, 2011, 08:50 PM)
A mix of -1408,30 days of night, farm house and Hostel, is what i would like to see someday.-mahesh2k (March 23, 2011, 11:21 AM)
I take it you like Rob Zombie's movies? Those are wicked evil. He's got a very twisted, sinister imagination.-Renegade (March 23, 2011, 06:57 PM)
Homicidal Clowns (The Devils Rejects)... What's not to like?
Hostel = People with a piqued sense of entitlement + Kicks Just Keep Getting Harder To Find... Funny really how "evil" is easier to accept when it's a mythical creature of some kind. It keeps things tidily abstracted to the it can't really happen zone. - Call it horror at a safe distance. - But when it's just people, be they egotistically sick & twisted or not, doing evil deeds ... the level of "real" becomes a bit (more unnerving) harder to be/stay disconnected from.-Stoic Joker (March 23, 2011, 08:34 PM)
...let's just hope they stick with that for a long timeFor all the other WinRAR customers, who have purchased a regular license (even if the purchase has been made in 2005 or 2003 for example), we still offer free upgrades and updates. There are no indications that this policy will change in the near future.Clear enough!-WinRAR-Darwin (March 14, 2011, 10:38 AM)-f0dder (March 14, 2011, 01:53 PM)
One would hope.
I spoke with an attorney recently about all these 'policy' changes where software developers are backing out of their former 'lifetime' license agreements by either changing the product's name, or simply announcing (with a suitable amount of handwringing) that they've decided to no longer honor their previous terms.
He said if the software user was legally bound by the terms of the license at the time of installation, such an after the fact policy change to the license terms could be construed as a breach of contract and could also risk running afoul of antifraud statutes. At least in the USA.
He also said the business justifications that are offered for backing out of "lifetime free upgrades" agreement have no legal relevance. If you enter into a contract, you are bound by what both parties agreed to, even if your situation changes down the road.
The only way out of that is to either offer a new set of terms BOTH parties agree to - or refund the buyer's original purchase price.
Moral: stand by your word or have your checkbook ready. And think twice about what you offer.-40hz (March 18, 2011, 08:43 AM)
http://www.wxpnews.com/
And the real news is that forecasters see the percentage of laptops starting to decline in 2012, with desktop sales decreasing even further. The winner looks to be tablets, sales of which are expected to steadily increase.
And while the Forrester report has laptop sales still comfortably out front in 2015, real world experience may tell a different story. In September of last year, Wired Magazine reported that Best Buy Chief Executive Brian Dunn said the iPad had replaced as much as half of all laptop sales at their stores.
http://www.wxpnews.c...ptop-Cannibalization-russell.williams (March 23, 2011, 02:56 PM)
A mix of -1408,30 days of night, farm house and Hostel, is what i would like to see someday.-mahesh2k (March 23, 2011, 11:21 AM)
If you are writing in PADGen, you need to stop, unless you are an extremely talented writer, in which case you’d probably know better anyways. That goes for all the program descriptions, press release, and other “copy”. Things like download URLs are trivial, so just enter that into PADGen normally.
The most important fields when you write your PAD file are:
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They're still scaled critters though. An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.
You don't know how bad I want a store of my own...
And you know what I would call it?
App's Store, of course!-app103 (March 22, 2011, 11:12 PM)
That reminds me of that guy named Michael Rowe who was a programmer, and made a website called mikerowesoft.com I believe that Microsoft forced him to take down the domain or something similar.-Deozaan (March 23, 2011, 01:29 AM)
^ To make you burn even more, consider this... Amazon will probably settle with Apple, thereby creating precedent...-wraith808 (March 22, 2011, 10:57 AM)
You don't know how bad I want a store of my own...
And you know what I would call it?
App's Store, of course!-app103 (March 22, 2011, 11:12 PM)
Apple paralyzed people in the name of 'GTD and less is more type' of thingy. Some jobs requires a lot of detailing and features, take any music software or finance software for example, they need a lot of features. Not a single mobile platform app, is going to solve this issue. You may find some apps doing job of desktop software, but you're limited with view, typing and many other thought inputs that makes you do better on desktop, not on mobile. So my point is in case of niche softwares (music, finance etc), you can attract customers but can't get them to run on longer term with apps. Desktop softwares come with detailing and features so these softwares.-mahesh2k (March 21, 2011, 03:36 PM)
I will give anyone all of the credits in my DC account if they can give an example of anything in the mobile world that comes close to that level of innovation.
Nokia 1110i and previous phones used to have feature to bar unwanted numbers, all modern nokia and sony erricson phones lack this feature in their mobile sets(as per my observation). Zen wisdom says, 'face yer fears, don't run away from it' and following that quote all the mobile app companies and apple cuts features like this which are necessary. That's ancient solution to demanding innovation-mahesh2k (March 21, 2011, 03:36 PM)
The Birds ?
What!? Birds aren't cute and cuddly?-4wd (March 22, 2011, 06:00 AM)
There's FOSS with documentation?!?!Yeah. But it's usually considered a glitch when that happens.-Renegade (March 22, 2011, 03:34 AM)-40hz (March 22, 2011, 03:53 AM)
wraith808, you are right of course
Also there are different kind of documentation used or demanded in software development; some of those are useless IMHO, so I applaud "the agile method" for trying to dispose of them.-housetier (March 21, 2011, 05:22 AM)
Assuming they can get away with it.
One of the biggest criticisms of FOSS development is its general lack of comprehensive documentation.-40hz (March 21, 2011, 06:08 PM)
