damiankennedy

Yes, its illegal here too unless he filed a registered prospectus somehow.

Kiwi here and the rumour is that this new venture breaks his parole so back to the little jail cell with a mouldy mattress for him. We're not fans of people that try and bribe/blackmail our politicians here.

I dont know what the people in these ads are doing.

Yes exactly, and that makes the boomerang you borrowed to buy your house seem smaller.

It is effectively money printing which will lead to inflation but that does not mean it is the wrong thing to do. Inflation over time balances out old debt with new income.

This is a good example if you also include a Saw class and an Axe class. Saw and Axe implement ICutter and IUsable. The Tree class implements ICuttable. Then Worker class calls ICutter.cut(ICuttable)

that was heaps more meaningful than the bbc one

LOL. I misread and thought he put the whole laptop in and the tinfoil was what was left of the casing.

@Boboblong Trolls are normally depicted as males. Your argument has many counter examples Lovelace, Curie and Nightingale.

Regardless of whether you agree with GN or not some of the commenters make good points and I wonder if MS in choosing style over substance arent making the sames mistake as New Coke. The original Xerox vision was always multiple windows placed side by side and each program doing a specific task and program to program comunication. OSX was doing the besg job at this with a good amount of style to boot. Now with this new MUI you cant even launch a program without covering up the whole screen. Perhaps they should call it Curtains.

So where can I buy some magic beans ;-)

I read a book by a man from Israel who was a soldier during the 6-day war. The night before, everyone on leave was picked up by young females in unmarked cars and taken back to base. Of course, in that war the entire army was mobilised. That might be done again as a precaution but this time I don't think anyone will know until the day after. I for one, hope they don't do it at all.

As this price ($199~=$250NZ) they wont be able to make them fast enough which is exactly the kind of marketing MSFT needs. Lets say they lose $300 on each device. That means the can sell 80 million a year and still be profitable. That would give them 20% market share! Steve Balmer should put himself in the ads too, his ads were great when Windows first came out. I'd definitely buy one because it will run Office and Visual Studio right? I mean they wouldn't dilute the Windows brand with a Windows but not actual Windows device, that would be crazy. And the new Modern UI (moo-ey), its so colourful. (I love #A05000).

I have to agree. Despite being a fill-time C# programmer I spent many evenings trying to get something working in WP7. It was far easier (and more fun) to pick-up Java and start android programming.

NOOOOOOOOOO!

PS: b = "68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 79 6f 75 74 75 62 65 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 77 61 74 63 68 3f 76 3d 64 51 77 34 77 39 57 67 58 63 51 0a"

print("".join(chr(int(w, 16)) for w in b.split()))

They're in a chain of stores in New Zealand called Warehouse Stationary.

The device itself plugs into the TV's HDMI slot and looks like an oversize memory stick. I then put in my home wifi details just like you would on a phone. Then with apps like kies you can link to any other android phone or vice versa. The family windows box isn't turned on most days and when it is it just continuously downloads updates and spins the hard disk.

I'm confused. Why would you get one of these instead of an Android TV?

My Android TV running ICS was only 135 $NZ and I got a wireless keyboard for 70 $NZ. Now my kids play Angry Birds Space and Justin Bieber videos on TV!

That would be my guess as well. Although I am really pleased Codecademy has Python now.

edit: removed the 'A'

I couldn't disagree more. How many people are there making Apple and Android apps now? How about the "Connected Generation"

Maybe they just embedded something like RTOS-32. The company that makes it (www.On-Time.com) say it can be integrated with Visual Studio and used along side Visual C++.