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Here we go again Browsers are the OS

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  • L led mike

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9950652-7.html[^] As if, as developers, being limited by yet another layer of someone else's idea of "what we need" is going be revolutionary. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Google fan but someone needs to explain this one to me because I just don't get it.

    led mike

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    Jim Crafton
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    Hell I stopped reading as soon as I saw "Web 2.0" in the title. That's all I need to see to know I'm going to be reading a puff piece that makes about as much logical sense as trying to program using a magic 8 ball.

    ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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      Hell I stopped reading as soon as I saw "Web 2.0" in the title. That's all I need to see to know I'm going to be reading a puff piece that makes about as much logical sense as trying to program using a magic 8 ball.

      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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      Christopher Duncan
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      Jim Crafton wrote:

      makes about as much logical sense as trying to program using a magic 8 ball.

      Hey, now. Don't be disrespecting my primary debugging tool.

      Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com

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      • J Jim Crafton

        Hell I stopped reading as soon as I saw "Web 2.0" in the title. That's all I need to see to know I'm going to be reading a puff piece that makes about as much logical sense as trying to program using a magic 8 ball.

        ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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        Lost User
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        Jim Crafton wrote:

        that makes about as much logical sense as trying to program using a magic 8 ball.

        As I see it, yes It is certain It is decidedly so Most likely Signs point to yes Without a doubt Yes Yes - definitely You may rely on it

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          Jim Crafton wrote:

          that makes about as much logical sense as trying to program using a magic 8 ball.

          As I see it, yes It is certain It is decidedly so Most likely Signs point to yes Without a doubt Yes Yes - definitely You may rely on it

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          Jim Crafton
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          Sounds suspiciously like a Plain English program! :)

          ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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          • C Chris Maunder

            Can someone at CNet please fix the bloody Javascript errors in their ads? :mad:

            cheers, Chris Maunder

            CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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            led mike
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            Nah no need, the new browser that is the OS will automagically fix those errors

            led mike

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            • J Jim Crafton

              Hell I stopped reading as soon as I saw "Web 2.0" in the title. That's all I need to see to know I'm going to be reading a puff piece that makes about as much logical sense as trying to program using a magic 8 ball.

              ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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              led mike
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              What, you didn't know that Buzzwords qualify as new technology? Click you heals three times and repeat: "There's no place like Ajax" :-D

              led mike

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              • L led mike

                What, you didn't know that Buzzwords qualify as new technology? Click you heals three times and repeat: "There's no place like Ajax" :-D

                led mike

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                Jim Crafton
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                Sorry, I must have fallen asleep at that meeting... :)

                ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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                • J Jim Crafton

                  Sorry, I must have fallen asleep at that meeting... :)

                  ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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                  led mike
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                  Jim Crafton wrote:

                  Sorry, I must have fallen asleep at that meeting

                  Of course you did. There is recent scientific evidence suggesting that meetings are a cure for awakeness.

                  led mike

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                  • L led mike

                    http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9950652-7.html[^] As if, as developers, being limited by yet another layer of someone else's idea of "what we need" is going be revolutionary. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Google fan but someone needs to explain this one to me because I just don't get it.

                    led mike

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                    WillemM
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                    Browser screen of death?? But really, browser as an operating system, I don't think it's going to happen.

                    WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson My blog

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                    • J Jim Crafton

                      Sounds suspiciously like a Plain English program! :)

                      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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                      Gary R Wheeler
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                      Shh. That's the Plain English port of Linux.

                      Software Zen: delete this;
                      Fold With Us![^]

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                      • L led mike

                        http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9950652-7.html[^] As if, as developers, being limited by yet another layer of someone else's idea of "what we need" is going be revolutionary. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Google fan but someone needs to explain this one to me because I just don't get it.

                        led mike

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                        Hans Dietrich
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                        Does anyone have a link to the Cloud Computing API? :)

                        Best wishes, Hans


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                          Does anyone have a link to the Cloud Computing API? :)

                          Best wishes, Hans


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                          Jim Crafton
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                          I think that's still up in the air...

                          ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog

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