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So all people who use Oracle database would also abandon Oracle since it's close source?

Reasons for down vote? Coward.

Down voted as expected. Hater, identify yourself or be a coward.

Way too many Microsoft haters. BE OPEN MINDED. C# is a tool, like computer, as long as used to solve real world problems, who cares who's behind it? It's like how Apple fanboys are saying Object-C is the most awesome programming language in the world, totally biased.

> I am a developer who has leaned towards .NET over the last few projects and one of the things that used to nag me is that the platform is a closed one (and the licensing fees can be a decent part of the cost). I was fairly certain I would migrate off it if the project ever took off seriously.

Can you explain why? Is it because the only reason it's closed? You just hate MS.

Our patent system is FUBAR.

You are right. Need to change revenue to "net income".

Obviously you didn't read my reply clearly. I said "the history-back button" (one of back buttons)is gone, that is the little down-arrow button when clicked it shows the history.

Looking at the slide, with my limited accounting knowledge, it seems Google has managed to decrease the total cost of expense which contributed to the increase in revenue from Q1.

Well, it actually did. Compare the Firefox 1 UI with current FF5 browser you will notice how much the UI has changes, simpler and cleaner, and the history-back buttons are gone.

FF1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox_1_0_8.png

FF5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox5.png

Remember Netscape? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Netscape_Navigator.png

I am well aware that we all got 10 fingers unless you are mutants. Why use only one, right? Well, when comes to UI, the less is better for users. And it's less UI behavior consideration for developers. That's all.

Being useful and hard to use are two different things. For developers, more buttons mean more things to consider when developing apps.

Personally, I just don't see the usefulness of Back buttons on WP. The Back button should be replaced when the multitask swtich feature in "Mango". The Search, maybe, it's useful sometimes. Again, like you've mentioned, the users would have to guess whether it will bring up the Bing Search or the in-app one. It sounds just confusing.

What WP do you have? My Samsung Focus soft touch button is so sensitive that I hit those buttons by accident ALL THE TIME. That's just frustrating. I'd rather not having any button at all or replace those with press-down real buttons.

Having fewer buttons seem to make interface cleaner and less chance to screw up for users. But again it's a hardware issue for debate rather than software.

My fav:

Smaller plate -> smaller portion.

That should be something easy to get started for any company.

I don't quite recall but isn't there a setting that you can change the behavior of Home Button, both single click and double click?

Can't say much about Android, but the Back button on the Windows Phone is unreliable and doesn't always take you back to where it's supposed to be. It's just confusing. I much prefer the simple UI that iPhone has with a single button.

Who's the programmer?

What did Lodsys get that patent in the first place!? Who were the idiots that approved the patent?

Patent law reform is a must.

Should move the corporate to China and clone the heck out of everything.

Facebook -> RenRen

Twitter -> Weibo

YouTube -> Tudou

Google -> Baidu

Flickr -> YuPoo

See http://www.randomwire.com/chinese-web-20-clones

Yeah, Trolls, go ahead and sue them.

This is so stupid.

Why give up jQuery and learn another scripting language?

Too clever. Can VIM do it too?

Sounds like it's great for detecting plagiarism.

Here's a thread on xda-developer forum of working MicroSD cards list

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834144

Confirmed Working(Data remains after soft reset):

Centon 8GB Class 6

Kingston 4GB Class 4

Kingston 16GB Class 4

Microcenter 16GB Class 2

Patriot 16GB Class 2

PNY 8GB Class 4

PNY 16GB Class 2

SanDisk 8GB Class 2

SanDisk 16GB Class 4

Currently Unstable/Unsure:

Kingston 8GB Class 4

Kingston 32GB Class 4

SanDisk 16GB Class 2

SanDisk 32GB Class 2

Confirmed Not Working(Data gone after soft reset):

A-Data

A-Data 4GB Class 6

A-Data 8GB Class 6

A-Data 16GB Class 6

Lexar 16GB Class 6

Transcend 8GB Class 6

Transcend 16GB Class 6

Also, just found Patriot 16GB Class 4 on Amazon, it now claims it works on Samsung Focus

http://www.amazon.com/MicroSD-Memory-Samsung-Mobile-MicroSDH...

WP7 got its merits

Development tools and technical documentations are outstanding. Visual Studio has excellent WP7 support. The submission process was actually quite smooth. Never had problem except, yes, IE only. Shame on MS. The phone user experience is called Metro, the icons are actually Tiles, original design and different from the icon-based iOS and Android. I would say, for once, MS tried to not be a copycat.

What's bad

My biggest headache, the phone build-in search is useless. The Marketplace search is also useless, and it crashes a lot and had to restart the phone to be able to use the Marketplace again. Little apps available in Marketplace, 10,000(WP7) vs 150,000(Android) vs. 400,000(iOS), though this will changes over time as WP7 picks up momentum. No copy & paste. NoDo is supposed to add this feature ,but the roll out is WAY TOO SLOW (my Samsung Focus is the last device on the list). Overall, I am still anxious to see how WP7 will do in 2011.

How about adding hiphop-php from Facebook?

Is it possible to associate each strip with a number, like the real barcode?

How can I put it on my glasses?