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Not like that in the UK. They're everywhere.

They're really cheap here (820 = £179 SIM free) and they work perfectly with giffgaff for a mere £15 a month for unlimited SMS, data and 400 mins calls.

There is no better experience for such little cash. Cheap androids are all crappy.

Well that's a load of shit as I haven't paid an annual dev fee and I can deploy to my Lumia 820 and 710 quite happily.

I had to register the device but that was it.

Yes context matters as does experience from the journalist who crapped out the article.

Even if ethically dubious...

There are far worst things happening in the UK though. It's becoming a career decision to neglect your children so you can claim special needs status and therefore disability benefit (and celebrity status on FaceBook amongst peers).

Well around here they're busy DoS attacking the Job Centre.

"The suspect was found with his computer systems open and logged on to various virtual systems and forums. The subject has a significant amount of money flowing through his bank account."

Well I'm fucked. That's my job!!!

Unless you own a Lenovo which has power management functions that avoid that problem.

The content was good though which after all is the main thing...

Yes. This was the ministry of defence which somehow manages to fuck everything up on a galactic scale. They really didn't have the talent to pull that off.

Once it gets going though it screams. Not sure I want to trade the miniscule difference in startup time for that.

As for page load times, this is silly. There is no startup time on a page at all. Possibly the first hit but there are warm start options for that in CLR at least which make this a complete non issue.

To give you an idea, 98% of our page hits are under 80ms processing time and we have big, heavy pages (we're old school asp.net mostly).

Good luck. Don't let anyone kick you down. I learned how to program in a week in 1988 (and I'm still learning to program).

This isn't going to work. I worked in the defence industry for a couple of years in an IT capacity and I'm not joking, the guys who run the shop don't know arse from elbow. Everything is run army style i.e. procedurally and non established procedures, even if they mitigate realistic threats aren't considered or accepted. They're that bad that still to this day, there are NT4 and exchange 5.5 deployments hanging around because some clueless fuck hasn't had orders to fix it.

What will happen here is they will create a team that will be written out of usefulness by procedure instantly and that is all.

Do you really notice that though?

I can't say I've had that problem myself. They are quite startup heavy but typical c# console apps start up on an ssd based system in ~150ms and 700ms on rust disks.

If you're calling something thousands of times, fast process startup times are good. This isn't the model windows uses though which is the primary target of c#.

They're both pretty awful if you've used office on windows for a number of years which is the market they're trying to break into.

iWork is absolutely terrible from experience as well. It's not possible to effectively work with others, the UI is horrid and unproductive and it's completely unmaintained.

It has a dock which is where it wins for me. Oh and as you say, applications. OSX sucks for productivity apps.

Windows user here who spends a lot of the time on the command line. PuTTY is good enough.

I'm actually in the process of writing a Metro terminal app which will hopefully fill the void here.

Actually no. Microsoft at least (this thread mainly targets them) doesn't lock you into any file formats. Why?

a) I've always been able to export/extract data at will.

b) All their protocols and formats are specified openly here: http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/default.as...

Their ecosystem has made me £527,000 in the last 5 years. Does that make me $pongle?

It's just childish.

Have asked him to try that but he's just disappeared away from home for a week without the 5 and doesn't want to break the 4s.

Until one day he is found out to be not credible on most things he blabbers about and it goes all over the press. Then people will just demonise everything he endorses.

While I appreciate the focus, the guy is entirely opposite when it actually comes to technology purchasing and quite happily throws piles of cash at closed proprietary products on a daily basis and brags about it on television.

Nice idea. So going to do that on my spare T61 later :)

That font is something quite a few of us have probably had to put up with.

My father suffers from this (and vertigo if that's any correlation). For him, it's when perspective and shape transformations don't compare to reality. This is something that 2d graphics pretending to do 3d transformations is pretty good at screwing up.

He can sit at quake 3 for an hour fine, but the effects in osx make him feel sick (so he turns them off).

Edit: I just emailed him and iOS 7 is doing his nut in as well. He's switched back to his 4S with iOS 6 on it.

You took the words from my mouth.

For reference, I'm not new here. My account is.

Fuck yes. The best part is the full English has changed into the "all day breakfast" in the last 20 years.

When some asshats blew up half of London in 2005, I had a full English breakfast (at 2pm) and two cups of tea, then walked 16 miles home and still wasn't hungry when I got in :)

Can't beat it.

Pretty good solution actually as well. Older ThinkPad keyboards have back and forward keys next to the arrows as well.

Hold the middle button and use the nipple. It scrolls like a mousewheel.