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Comment Re:geometry (Score 1) 471

I have a 36" inseam. On most airlines my knees are touching the bottom edge of the tray table on the seat in front of me. Any movement back of that seat drives the edge of the tray right into my knee caps. I don't too much mind finding another place for my legs if I am given time but when someone drives their seat back with any force it is directly smashing my kneecaps towards my shins and is very painful.I can't even put my own try table down because my legs are in the way if the seat in front of me is fully upright.

Comment Re:Wireless Sucks (Score 1) 68

I installed the app and ran it from various locations in my home. I also have 1gig up/down. I also get 400-600mbit on my phone. This app reported the same 40.x down up and 52.x up no matter where I was in my home. I'm pretty sure it is testing the cellular signal and then sending the results via the internet using your WiFi. I uninstalled it :)

Comment Missed the boat (Score 1) 278

As a programmer I think Microsoft missed the boat in a totally different way. A long time ago before Windows 2000 there was an announcement that Microsoft was going to release an OS with a replaceable UI so that the server could have a lite weight UI and the desktop a more substantial one. They never delivered. I think this would have made all the difference in the world. There there could have been the same OS on all platforms and a replaceable UI to meet the needs of each platform. With different OSes for each platform it was the most frustrating thing to develop an app for the desktop and then when porting it to Windows CE finding out that half the library/systems calls didn't even exist in that OS. I was excited again when I read that they were finally going to put the same OS on every platform with Windows 8 but then when they forced the same UI on everyone I was again greatly disappointed. I am a Windows developer, have been for 25 years. I have an Android phone and tablet and love them.

Comment Re:big (Score 1) 268

>Windows Mobile's Win32 API is easy to code. It is just like the Win32 desktop. Except it isn't. I tried for quit some time to port several desktop apps to WM6.5 and although I could use the same programming language and API a lot of the system calls didn't exist. I lot of networking functions were missing, a lot of encryption functions were missing, the phone OS was just too cut back.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 964

Blah... It is easy to set up WiFi security on your router, what sucks however is getting it set up on your DirecTV, Wii, PS3, the five smart phones in the family and what about when the kids bring their friend's XBox over and your coworker or worse yet father in law comes over with their laptop. Setting wireless security is really a giant pain in the butt when you are not the only person who is going to use it and your laptop is not the only device.
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Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch 191

An anonymous reader writes "Last week several defendants including one high-profile TV presenter were sentenced in Portugal in what has been known as the Casa Pia scandal. The judges delivered on September 3 a summary of the 2000-page verdict, which would be disclosed in full only three days later. The disclosure of the full verdict has been postponed from September 8 to a yet-to-be-announced date, allegedly because the full document was written in several MS Word files which, when merged together, retained 'computer related annotations which should not be present in any legal document.' (Google translated article.) Microsoft specialists were called in to help the judges sort out the 'text formatting glitch,' while the defendants and their lawyers eagerly wait to access the full text of the verdict."
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Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC 300

An unnamed man flying from Nigeria to New York City found out he was added to a no-fly list somewhere above the Atlantic Ocean, when the plane stopped to refuel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Officials won't say what he did or why he was added to the list after he had already boarded a flight. He was not immediately charged with a crime and Customs and Border Protection will only say that he is a "potential person of interest." From the article: "The man, a citizen of Gambia, was not on the no-fly list when he boarded the aircraft in Dakar, Senegal, said a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly."

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