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It's a Trap! If you send the same graphic to every home… ;)
Commented Nov 26, 2012 on For a Bit of Colored Ribbon at Coding Horror
For a Bit of Colored Ribbon
For the last year or so, I've been getting these two page energy assessment reports in the mail from Pacific Gas & Electric, our California utility company, comparing our household's energy use to those of the houses around us. Here's the relevant excerpts from the latest report; click throug...
Having played with Jeff's RT for a few days and being a long time Apple user (who doesn't have an iPad), I can say that I agree that the Keyboard is very nice. I have been an Apple user for a long time and I have used (and still use) Android phones for personal telephony. I have used all versions of Windows (although Windows XP was the last version I used on a daily basis). I have now put together a PC and brought the Windows 8 Pro (39.99$) for gaming.
I agree, the Surface RT is nice, looks interesting and I wish I had those 10 years ago when I developed a tactile system for windows using GDI and GDI+ when C# came out.
Like Jeff said, this is a 1.0 device. But unless Microsoft screws it too bad, it can only get better. This is good for both Apple and Google as well. We really need a 3rd player here.
Commented Nov 1, 2012 on Do You Wanna Touch at Coding Horror
Do You Wanna Touch
Traditional laptops may have reached an evolutionary dead-end (or, more charitably, a plateau), but it is an amazing time for things that … aren't quite traditional laptops. The Nexus 7 is excellent, the Nexus 10 looks fantastic, I can't wait to get my hands on the twice-as-fast iPad 4, the n...
I already congratulated you in person, but once again, excellent writing and Congratulations Jeff! ;)
Commented Oct 24, 2011 on On Parenthood at Coding Horror
On Parenthood
Our son was born March 12th, 2009. He's a little over two and a half years old. Now, I am the wussiest wuss to ever wuss up the joint, so take everything I'm about to say with a grain of salt – but choosing to become a parent is the hardest thing I have ever done. By far. Everything else pales ...
One disadvantage of large amounts of RAM (that you don't need) is that suspending/hibernating times are considerably longer.
Writing a 24 GB hib file takes much longer than say a typical notebook with 4GB.
I have had 10GB for the past 2 years (Mac Pro 8 core) for VM purposes (live in OS X, work on W7) and I don't look back, but upgrading to, say 20 right now, would probably end up being a waste… I'd rather get OWC SSDs :)
Commented Jan 21, 2011 on 24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody at Coding Horror
24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody
Are you familiar with this quote? 640K [of computer memory] ought to be enough for anybody. — Bill Gates It's amusing, but Bill Gates never actually said that: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amou...
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