I'm hoping someone can point out an obvious strategy or something.
A while back, HP announced they were dumping their successful PC manufacturing business, and that the Touchpad and Pre3 were being pulled. Ok, clearly the management had been smoking something, but alright, whatever. So we get our fire sale $100 Touchpad and the promise of a $75 Pre3. Except the Pre3 doesn't look like it was ever sold for $75 in the UK where the price was announced; it was up for £299 ($486) for a while and then disappeared from HP's site, for a while redirecting to their laptops section for no discernible reason. Now it's "sold out". Yeah. Ok. Meanwhile, Blakey's TouchPad order from B&N was mysteriously canceled among many others on Amazon. Now they're being sold in the UK for £399 for the base model. ($648) The people they have manning the phones don't know what's going on. Inconsistencies in the website signify they don't know what's going on. They're deleting posts on their Facebook wall apparently about it. All I can picture of this is two men in suits fighting over a keyboard, one saying "Fire sale!" and the other one saying "Rip off the British!"
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Just what is HP up to?
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RE: Am I nukeable?
Work is about 150 miles off. Home... is pretty close, definitely enough that a strike such as that described would be cause for concern.
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RE: Gimp 2.7.2 Splash Screen
Although don't think I've ever seen crapware based on open-source software (probably with "enhancements" added by the distributor) before.
[url]http://www.illusionmage.com/[/url]
Basically Blender 2.4.9 with a different branding
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RE: Am I nukeable?
Work is about 150 miles off. Home... is pretty close, definitely enough that a strike such as that described would be cause for concern.
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RE: Train wreck
Some of those are a little misguided/down to unfamilliarity with the OS.
Icons bounce so if the dock is hidden they pop up out of the screen border without opening the dock in front of what you're doing.
Window switching is meant to be done via Exposé or whatever it's called now. It's not as good as start+1/2/3/4/5/6 on Windows, but it's not that bad. Their reveal desktop mode is far, far better than the Windows equivalent which seems to forget to bring the windows back when you hit it again if you open any windows. (thus making it useless for quick desktop access without interrupting your workflow)
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RE: I just wrote a poem... I'm curious to read what TheDailyWTF thinks.
You got your fetish in my misanthropic transhumanist webcomic character!
Oh yeah? Well you got your misanthropic transhumanist webcomic character in my fetish! -
RE: If certain tech companies produced carpentry tools...
I've got one! What if they made drink receptacles!
Apple would obviously make a shiny aluminum Thermos because it's all about aluminum, branding, and insular double walled gardens.
Microsoft would be mostly selling ordinary but well-used, dependable mugs after years of perfecting them, but over the past few years sold a few aluminum cheese graters as mugs in an effort to chase Apple but getting pretty much nowhere due to them mostly copying only the flaws .
The Linux guys provide origami templates to make your own paper cup from. They don't actually fit together as the tabs have dependencies on slots that don't actually exist. -
RE: Powerful ‘Flame’ cyberweapon tied to popular Angry Birds game
Tempted to go write some malware in UScript, as it'll drag the whole of UE3 along for the ride (~40mb exe) making it the BIGGEST MALWARE EVER.
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RE: Talking to the code
Talking to the code is a great method of debugging, actually. Coding Horror refers to it as rubber duck problem solving.
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RE: More WTFery from SorryIAsked.com (i.e. StackOverflow)
@Vanders said:
It's like they thought Unicode support might be a good idea but then realised doing it right would be hard, so they made wchar_t completely useless then sat back and ate donuts.
That's a good way to describe the entire string handling feature set in C.