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custom mods can be pretty fast, yes. Fluid? no. Compare even the best mod out there with a 1st gen WP7 mango device and WP7 is still smoother but the android mod is faster. It’s still generally choppy, it’s just faster at being choppy if you get my drift.

The GS2 is like this as well. the Ui is very fast, but it’s still rather choppy, just very quick at being choppy. Not at all “buttery”.

cos they are tailored for american accents. So siri understands what american Innernet is but will go batshit crazy trying to figure out what toe-mah-to is.

you’re Jon Ives!!! Job’s ghost is going to haunt you for the rest of your life for saying that!! take it back, quick!

if by mellow, you mean “dead”, then yes, it’s pretty dead despite having users. It feels more like myspace but myspace has more actitivty. I like the design though. Very metro-ish, which I’m a fan of.

yeap, that comment made my snort the cola in my mouth just as i was drinking.

I find TV ads a great source of entertainment. Particularly good ones are very enjoyable. They are only annoying when they blast you with 5 ads every 10 minutes into the show you’re watching.

Interesting. I just did this:

Goog:
—sandisk memory card (cool, useful)
—want a miu miu bag? (wtf, i’m a dude, no I don’t want an overpriced woman’s bag)
—New to gold trading? (WTF, i barely have enough cash to pay my credit card bill!)
—Designer handbags on sale (wtf!!!)
—Canon Cameras (cool – I like)

Windows Live/Hotmail
—SKydrive tip square banner (useful, I like)
—MSN headlines – 6 local and int news (cool, very useful)
—smaller skydrive tips banner (kind of redundant but still useful)

so G+ has 250 million users?

Is that why it’s nearly completely dead? I check g+ once a day and there’s usually 1, maybe 2 updates; usually zero for days/weeks on end.

I check facebook 3 times per day and there’s always a dozen updates every single day (and I have a tiny friends list).

regardless, I wouldn’t and won’t ever use these voice features where I’m talking to my phone to myself. You look like a tool doin git in public and is only acceptable at home or in your car.

note that they had more room for battery because the made the device thicker. put a ipad 3 nxt to a 2 and you will see the difference. the few mm you save from sim is inaignificant for battery usage. on a device as large as a tablet, it doesnt matter. there is still space there to put other things if they so wanted.

if it is about makinh phones smaller and thinner i would point out that there are already thinner phones using full aims that have the same battery life as an iphone.

the only real benefit of a stanard microsim isthat it will allow manufcturers more leeway in how it wants to arrange its parts in the device. there is no real practical benefits to the end user simply by going microsim.

Also, not to mention that the NEX cameras actually have better dynamic range than most entry level SLR’s.

In terms of IQ, a camera like the Nex 5N and Nex 7 are easily on par with their SLR counterparts. What’s lacking is sheer availability of lense; but that isn’t such a big issue for beginners (who are the target market) or the heavy enthusiasts (who are fine adapting older glass).

The new OMD 4/3 IQ is very close fo SLR, in many instances on par. The previous generation behind the OMD, I would give it to the SLR by a noticable margin, particularly in low light.

Also it’s worth noting, because many people get confused & think the NEX are 4/3, the NEX are using APS-C sensors; the same as SLR’s. Low light performance on the Nex cameras are on par or beats many entry level SLR and the dynamic range is excellent.

the superbar is pretty awesome. I’ve got a bunch of things pinned to it so that most of my daily task management is done via the pinned items. Super efficient.

Reading this, when I got to the part where he talked about forming a team of top name talent, I knew it was doomed to failure. Unless you have several hundred million, you aren’t going to be hiring the top end talents. It was all a gigantic dream that bore no practical streak whatsoever.

Hiring big names doesn’t even come close to guaranteeing success; it just costs a whole lot more per name. Far better to start more modestly and grow (and spend) on manpower as you need it. If they really wanted to, they could have just hired 1 name for legitimacy but instead they formed a whole damn team – warning signs galore.

I think that’s being used against the gaming industry already, which only leaves “thievery” and terrorism"

that’s a really roundabout way of just saying the guy knew what he was doing with the presentation.

Get a normal business guy to do a presentation and it’s boring as all heck and probably ugly as hell. But if they have powerpoint advanced users or a designer on hand, he can make the presentation look great on either system; I would even go so far to say that he’s got more freedom on powerpoint.

It’s the person, not the software. Powerpoint is a very simple (& powerful) software once you get past the fact that it’s got functions out the wazoo. That same guy can do wonders on powerpoint.

Also, these windows equivilent are also much more powerful than the mac software. Where they trade usability, they made up for in function. Believe it or not, business people would rather use powerpoint over Apple’s office suite.

If you are talking about it from a purely consumer pov, you are correct. From people who aren’t designers and work in corporate, it’s MS office or bust. You can do basically anythiing your mind can dream up (if you can dream up boring business things that is). Having a nice, easy to use system that can’t do what you need it to do is really, really pointless.

I actually like the look quite a bit. It looks and feels like a social photowall. I’ve always been a big fan of photo walls.

Still not exactly sure what it’s for though!

pretty much. The anti trust suit against MS is what stopped them from fully integrating software and services. It basically forced them to run everything independently. i still remember at the time, they were trying to integrate everything and competitors cried fould. Particularly, much earlier than anyone else, they started to push for integration with the browser so it would be a major centerpiece of the OS.

Those things got shot down once competitors started crying foul. The irony (maybe not) is that since they were strongarmed from doing these things, everyone else went ahead and did it. Now the browser is a major piece of the modern smartphone as well as tablets and even desktops.

In some areas they were well ahead of their time. Competitors via the government managed to put a halt to MS.

The MS we see now is what i would consider to be closer to what they had envisioned prior to antitrust. A unified, integrated ecosystem. No matter how fast they work, they are coming a little disadvantaged. We’ll see how it goes.

there are plenty of 3rd party alternatives aren’t there? Some of the best software I have are 3rd party and cheap/free that extend my computer beyond the OS’s base limitations.

The thing with both OSX and Windows is that you can make them into anything you want with just a slight bit of effort (Windows moreso). By all rights, there really isn’t any negative by going either Windows or OSX apart from the gaming disparity.

absolutely. A clean cut business suit and a thinkpad in hand. Sexy.

It’s also perception. You could walk into a boardroom in general with say, a macbook, and people would think you’re trendy more than anything else. Walk into a boardroom with a thinkpad and there is only one message you convey within that dirst second; you’re all business and you’re serious.

On my weekends, I don’t mind at all being seen with a “nice” looking laptop, but at work, it has to look the business or I’m not using it.

there are ALWAYS compromises. ALWAYS.

That said, IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads have always been more functional than they were pretty; and in that respect there was a consistency that many have come to love from that kind of utilitarian look. It wasn’t designed to be pretty. It was designed to be the ultimate business machine.

The keyboard is ugly but the shape of the keys actually are the most optimal and extremely comfortable and less prone to errors. Their casing is also (well used to be) really top notch. Basically, if you threw a thinkpad at a unibody MBP, th eMBP would cave in. Thinkpads were built for road warriors back when they were called road warriors.

pretty much thermonuclear war of the geek kind.

yeap, because of MS’s early entry into the smartphone with pocket PC and WinMo, they had a ton of patents. They could have dragged it out indefeinitely. B&N isn’t exactly in the best financial situation; it was suicide to fight MS.

B&N were just trying to call MS’s bluff, but MS wasn’t really bluffing. B&N clearly stated that MS was being unreasonable with their negotiations, but this new co-owned start-up clearly shows that to be more bluster than bite. MS looks to be mor ethan willing to find ways to work out a licensing deal.

I use Start menu to

access rarely used programs.
search

Windows 8 new start menu doesn’t change my habit one bit. It’s still the same process:

Start > type search query

Start > scroll to app folder/app.

In practical terms, there’s no difference for me.

Some people are more comfortable working with the large content space whiel others are comfortable with working from the side bar. For all preactical intent and purposes, you get basically the same thing just with different focus.

It’s called white space. Good design(ers) know how to utilise it. Bad design(ers) fill the space to overflowing.

perhaps you might want to consider upping your RAM as well. I assume you have photoshop or a strong(er) photo editing app. upping RAM usually provides a nice boost for very low cost.

The biggest problem for people really is the sea change of thought from static desktop to a more live and updated desktop.

That is a huge one. Most people are very used to desktops that do absolutely nothing and/or provide nothing except work as an app launcher. But when we look at our society now, we don’t operate like that. We live in a connected, very up-to-date, by-the-minute, world. Static desktops will still have their place in some circumstances but by in large, the always on, always updated desktop paradigm is more representative of how we live now.

But getting people to change habits is both scary and difficult and a very long process.

I personally find live tiles a step forward and they are generally quite useful. I’ve already taken to using wdigets for many years already but those are a hassle to setup and upkeep over time when compared to how easy and simple it was, for example, to set up my WP7. A few logins later, the device and services start doing their thing – perfect.

It’s a good read. Don’t worry about it.

There are 2 types of people on the internet.

Ones who read – you don’t have to worry about them misunderstanding your gist, because they actually read it.

Ones who read the headline and anything longer than a 4 sentence paragraph is skimmed over – these guys perpetually are misinformed, misread or have no idea what is going on. These guys also think they are right 100% of the time on things they are completely ignorant about.

If you need to write more than 2 paragraphs, you should do so. Shortened and paraphrased texts almost always fail to communicate properly.

the ribbon is adopted across 3rd party development as well. My most recent purchase was Axialis Screensaver maker. It’s ribbon.

Just because it isn’t adopted literally everywhere doesn’t mean people hate it. It simply means there are programs that simply don’t require it. There are plenty of instances where the ribbon has been adopted and in most circumstances, it works.

Also, you say the icons are abomination of design. You have no idea what design is. Those icons may not be the most aethetically pleasing (argueable) but they serve their function exceptionally well. If you think “design” is making things beautiful, you are sorely mistaken. You may not like it visually, but other people do. As a designer, I’m neutral to the icons; they serve their purpose quite well. They aren’t the prettiest icons but pretty is not a prerequisite for good design.

Guais, am I the only one who thinks those sample photos lack dynamic range??? Also, the contrast seems a bit too aggressive.