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11 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2010

Lenovo intros carbon-fibre ThinkPad Ultrabook

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Re: one problem

It is not a massive problem, I got two thinkpads T420 and x220, simply swap them around in bios.

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Lenovo U300s Ultrabook

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You can swap the Fn key...

on any lenovo laptop via bios. I agree it is not at the right place but it is not a deal breaker.

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Microsoft's Roslyn invites VB to Windows 8 party

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You are partially right but...

...it is also a language for projects which can't afford the development time of C++/Win32.

There is no doubt in the efficiency/speed/resource usage etc of C++ but there are many business projects which require quick turn around for a little scarifies in speed/resources. You simply can't beat the speed of development when using C#.

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Google shamed by Apple in race to HTML5

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yes

Posting from wp7 mango :)

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Is Microsoft's Javascript chief killing his .NET creation?

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@AC

You build libraries on solid underlying technology which is what .Net is. Not a half backed scripting language like Javascript.

Why you think Google is pushing it's Native plugin? Why is Android development on top of Java? Why is Apple using Objective-C? Just a clue, bcoz Javascript is not fit for the job for any complex application.

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Clueless Journalists!

Are you just bothered about page hits? You can't replace a tank with a water gun and expect to win. HTML/Javascript is a water gun as compared to .Net so please stop publishing these idiotic articles to get page hits. Can you please let me know where the alternatives to the following are in HTML/Javascript Linq, WCF, WF, WPF, Com Interop, Asp.net.

The reason MS is pushing HTML/Javascript is to attract script kiddies (who think they know everything after learning a couple of Javascript libraries).

Please kindly let me know once you have the answer. Now go and find another topic for page hits.

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Microsoft's iOS and Android love deepens

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Stop it you s***d Register

Why is not a story when Google release Chrome for Windows first or Apple release iTunes for Windows. Every commercial company takes decision based on commercial benefits and MS is no different. Now stop putting a negative spin on each and everything MS do.

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Will Windows on ARM sink Windows Phone 7?

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FYI

For Win Phone 7 the development tools/framework are Silverlight and XNA and the language is C#. For Windows 7/8 the same tools/framework/language can be used so even if they do stop Win Phone the apps won't be hard to port to full windows.

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Opera: Firefox tab sets? We've had 'em for years

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There is a solution to your first problem

I am a regular user of Opera for more than 5-6 years. There are certain websites which don't work but to solve this there are couple of options.

You can right click on the page and "Edit Site Preferences..." and by going to Network tab you can Identify as FF or IE. The problem is websites designers not with Opera. Classic example of this is Amazon website, by default it doesn't give you Auto Suggestion in search but if you Identify as FF it works fine.

Second solution and the last resort is you can right click on the page and hit Open with FF/IE/Chrome. This is nice touch and only Opera has got it where you can open the page on any other browser installed on your machine.

Your second problem, the speed, I don't believe you. Opera is the most snappiest browser in every sense not just in simple Javascript benchmarks but overall experience!

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Steve Jobs Flash rant put to the test

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The real reason

The real reason Flash is not supported is due to commercial implications. How can Apple make 30% on each app sold from AppStore if users browse to websites on phone and use a Flash app instead (around 90% of the apps done for iphone be done using Flash).

For this very same reason Java is not supported as well.

I don't think there is anything wrong with blocking Flash or Java or whatever, at the end of the day every commercial company is out there to make money. It is users choice to buy that product or not, nobody is forcing users to buy iphone/ipad.

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Microsoft re-tiles mobile platform for Windows 7 era

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Rewrite doesn't piss off developers...

...if they are for the right reasons. I've done windows mobile development in the past using .net compact framework. I can tell you from experience that the single most difficult thing to acheive was/is a good UI, by no means I am saying it wasnt' possible but it was time consuming.

I hope Microsoft support Silverlight in Windows phone 7 so it is possible to create nice UI without that much effort as it is currently.

As far as the article is concerned I must say it is boring, you could have at least added couple of images or a youtube video to support it-may be???

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