Comment No Dave Cutler? (Score 1) 285
Designed & wrote VMX and Windows NT 3.1.
I guess lists like this are always a matter of opinion.
Designed & wrote VMX and Windows NT 3.1.
I guess lists like this are always a matter of opinion.
Don't forget Pioneer 10 and 11...
connecting to multiple email accounts (multiple Exchange account at that) and having a consolidated inbox was probably the major reason for the switch
iOS & Android still can't match the BB for email support so I can't fathom what you are talking about here.>
That's certainly true now; my new BB Curve has all those features too.
But I'm talking a few years ago; in the Bold 9000 era. BBOS at that time (4 point something or other) could only do email via BES; one account only and no POP3 / IMAP (unless you had a 3rd party client; even then it got messy because of no unified inbox and increased battery drain). The iPhone with iOS4 and most Android phones at the time could do unlimited email accounts - and iPhone could have multiple Exchange accounts, which was quite unique for the day.
As to all you other unquoted but acknowledged points (communications, security, VPN,
The idea that serious people want a physical keyboard is something that even people in the Blackberry boardroom no longer believe in. At our firm, BBs disappeared almost overnight as soon as corporate mail was made available on iPhone and Android..
I've seen that too; the mass exodus from BB to iPhone/Android. The full touchscreen was probably the shiny reason to move away; connecting to multiple email accounts (multiple Exchange account at that) and having a consolidated inbox was probably the major reason for the switch, however. From an IT Administration standpoint, the elimination of the BES because EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) is good enough for maybe 90% of organizations was a primary factor: no more buying extra BES licenses when someone new comes on board.
This particular phone was well along the development schedule when the MS-Nokia deal came along. Sure, it's been Microsoft'd in terms of UI, but whoopty-do.
The bigger question is what happens with future generations of the Nokia X: Will it continue as an Android phone, or transition to a Windows Phone?
Perhaps one of the buttons can be set to directly call the Fire Dept.
Mayday, perhaps?
It would posit that if Heisenberg were still alive, he would disagree with you.
But Heisenberg is in a resolved Schrödinger's cat problem...
The "only" place I could fix my system control code was sitting on a chair right next to the oven's output cooling fans. Lots of snacking on nice, fresh biscuits
Plenty of time spent in other snack food factories, and lots of other stories (eg. packaging machine failure left me frantically rebooting an NT4 system whilst it was raining corn chips from the overflowing scale above me).
You utter bastard.
As if I didn't have enough keeping up with XKCD, now you bring this rather funny comic to take my attention.
May the fleas of a kilocamel infest your armpits.
Old story from way back; a building has been found on the moon that contains a machine that kills people in many different ways throughout the strange building but always consistently. Almost like a mouse in a maze, the scientists figure out that if they can get through this death trap and map each method of death along the way they should be able to get further each time and eventually manage to travel out the other side. Of course it could take many lives to accomplish this so they devise a method of teleporting a copy of someone from the earth to the moon and taking a "backup" copy that shares memories with their counterpart so that when that doppelganger dies there is still a version left alive earth-side.
The only problem is that the sheer horror of each death causes the surviving copy to be driven insane, the human mind just not able to cope, that is until they find the reckless Al Barker who's courted death all his life. It's only then that the research makes any headway.
Take a picture so now we don't have to imagine what a Beowulf cluster of x looks like any more?
To program is to be.