For Windows developers we need only go back to Windows 95. An innovative way to present data to the end user was introduced called the listview control. In its most common usage it can be programmed to act like a grid. It can also be programmed to present icons representing the data which looks extremely similar to the presentation of applications on popular modern devices.

About the only reason I don't switch over to linux is due to the sheer number of distros. They remind me of a salesman pitching snake oil to cure your o/s constipation.

Run skype on your shiny fondle slab and stop bitching. If that is not good enough for you then run Apples version of video chat.

Until we understand biological intelligence, until we understand how the brain works, until then, and only then will someone be able to create artificial intelligence.

My favorite solution to this problem is to leverage a 3rd party solution to do the heavy lifting that creates the actual PDF document and tie into it with printing code. When you setup the printer device and print mode correctly you can render your output in a print document as you would to the screen. The only changes are in calculating DPI because the screen and printer will have different dots per inch. I have done this on Windows using 2 techniques. The first was long ago and that was to use an installed post-script printer driver to "print to a file" and then have ghost script convert PS to PDF. As far as I know this is still a free and open solution. The makers of Ghostscript only clause to freedom of usage is that the software can't be for commercial usage. The second manner is to have your software look for a virtual PDF printer driver and "print to file". When you install Foxit PDF it installs a virtual PDF printer driver that can be used by code.

I see it happening with Elon Musk's hyperloop vision. The combustible engine & driver are going to eventually be phased out for mass transit that works.

When Obama took the podium and showed off all the citizens that are going to benefit from the ACA he fielded a question about the website crashing and he cited that Apple had bugs in its latest rollout and they fixed them but that didn't mean that Apple was a failure. Obama loves Apple. (period)

All this is great, hoorah, pom pom, etc. but when will my Nexus 7 be able to watch Amazon Instant Video? BTW - Installing Firefox beta and an old version of flash that deliver a laggy pixelated experience is not ever a solution, it is just a geek work around. A solution would be an Amazon Instant Video application for the Nexus 7. I am surprised it doesn't exist since there is one for iPad, Wii, and PS3. I can't understand what Amazon gains by limiting access to their pay content from the Nexus 7. I mean they sell their devices at a break even or loss price so it can't be because of that.

Does anyone have a sane answer or is this just Amazon sticking it to Google?

Microsoft would love to pop that cherry

Steve,

Pirates or Ninjas?

You won't need source control until you start using it and then you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Then you'll start making wild changes because, hey, you have source control now so you can always roll back. This quickly leads to needing a testing environment.

Time for a SNL skit about tablets in the box...

In soviet Russia the box opens you

It is Microsoft's own poor practices to saturate the market with their product that they are even in this predicament. Many in the tech community, whether enthusiast or professionals, have known that Windows is very fast and responsive when it is installed and configured properly. It can even be secured decently for consumer grade usage. Microsoft hurt their own brand by letting OEM's have free reign to dump all over their brand with buggy, unsupported bloat ware that cripples a new PC right out of the box.

I'm wondering if anyone has coined "fauxgrammer" or "fauxder". I see the authors point about Ruby and NoSQL but even though JavaScript gets a bad rap I thought it was actually a useful, object oriented language that is constantly being improved upon as internet glue.... I'm a C++ guy but I see the merits of a language that is poised to tie the cloud to the ground. I think the referred to culture problems stem from companies that hire multiple programmers to do the same job but as individuals and not as a team, where one solution will be picked. It has got to be a stressful way to write code, being slaved to your terminal because of ego, knowing your peers are working on it as well. That seems like an environment that isn't good for fostering trust.

I felt both the 4.8 and 5.6 EQ. We have severe rain today. Tomorrow it will probably be 115 again and the day after -31 with a tornado in the middle of a blizzard that has an embedded sand-storm. This state gets weirder by the minute. The best part about it are all the tee shirts coming out of the boutique shops like "I survived Okiequake 2011". Another funny one is a picture of a lawn chair tipped over with the caption "Okiequake 2011: Time to rebuild"

Ming, where are you? When is the hot hail coming?