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Comment Re:It's all about the haters (Score 1) 178

For those people, the experience on lower-end Windows Phone devices is usually better than the experience on lower-end Android devices......I suspect that's where MS will garner their greatest bump in marketshare.

An unlocked Lumia device for under $100 US ---- unsubsidized!!! And it's actually a decent phone for the money and doesn't suffer as much UI stutter as a knock-off Android device.

Comment Re:You need enough rope to hang yourself (Score 4, Insightful) 217

This. Languages that enforce their rules at compile time vs run time should inherently lead to higher quality code just by "accident". You can still write bad (or good) code in any language, but a language that lets you do whatever you want requires you to be much more rigorous in your testing strategy to ensure higher quality......and we all know how much developers love to test (and to document).

Comment Re:Lots of problems with it (Score 1) 198

Most of the solutions for harnessing wave power that I've seen rely on something staying moored in the same place and letting the waves go back and forth over the device. So, a boat anchored for a time could use a similar device (probably combined with something to harness the sun and winds, too -- power needs probably exceed the generation capabilities of each of them individually). While the boat is moving, you have an engine which can generate power as well as locomotion. So, I don't really see the problem with it.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 4, Interesting) 232

Agile itself has a process for this (marketing can request all of the features they want, stack rank them, and pull into the sprint what can be done in the sprint --- keep working on the project until the budget is gone or everyone agrees it's complete). However, most people doing "Agile" aren't really doing Agile......they're doing more of an iterative-waterfall with the overhead of certain Agile processes. I've worked at places that do both and where they followed a truer Agile process, they got more done and the staff was less stressed.

Comment Re:Start Button ? (Score 3, Funny) 210

Next time you get the call, you could try this approach:

You: Wait, you know I have a computer? Are you my parole officer? I've been banned from using electronic devices due to my recent conviction. If you're accessing my computer, that makes you an accomplice. Per the plea agreement, we both going get 20 years in a federal prison. The NSA is probably now tracking us both.

Comment Re:Hahahahahahaha (Score 5, Insightful) 230

Not a Linux apologist (Windows pays my bills), but in defense of Linux, these were programs running on Linux that had exploits. Of course, many of the exploits in Windows are through programs running on Windows and not the OS itself.......but Linux fanboys wouldn't be as quick to point that out.

Comment Re:Cinelerra or Creative Cloud (Score 1) 163

For the money, it's hard to beat Magix Movie Edit Pro. It's feature rich and not as limited as the Sony product. That being said, it does tend to run slow, but you can throw hardware at it. It's not free; it's not open; and it's not Adobe, but it is better than most of the Windows free/open options.

http://www.magix.com/us/movie-...

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