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    AlphaDeltaTheta
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    Microsoft Mickeysoft has just reported a loss of $900m over it's (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets. Another flop to it's counter. Clinkety![^]

    Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

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      Microsoft Mickeysoft has just reported a loss of $900m over it's (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets. Another flop to it's counter. Clinkety![^]

      Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

      ~ Carl von Clausewitz ~

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      Lost User
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      Amitosh S.M. wrote:

      Another flop to it's counter.

      Too soon to be calling it a flop. Offtopic; you're allowed to drop anything "Mickeysoft" and go with the software of the competition :)

      Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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        Amitosh S.M. wrote:

        Another flop to it's counter.

        Too soon to be calling it a flop. Offtopic; you're allowed to drop anything "Mickeysoft" and go with the software of the competition :)

        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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        AlphaDeltaTheta
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        Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft...:confused: May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.:~

        Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. Carl von Clausewitz Source

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          Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft...:confused: May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.:~

          Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. Carl von Clausewitz Source

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          Emmanuel Medina
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          You could do worse[^]

          If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right - Henry Ford Emmanuel Medina Lopez

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            You could do worse[^]

            If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right - Henry Ford Emmanuel Medina Lopez

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            AlphaDeltaTheta
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            Getting an Apple (the shiny Mac Pro) is on my wishlist. :-D

            Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. Carl von Clausewitz Source

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            • A AlphaDeltaTheta

              Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft...:confused: May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.:~

              Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. Carl von Clausewitz Source

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              ZurdoDev
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              Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft

              Are you a developer using Microsoft products? If so, they pay your salary so I would be grateful for them. :)

              There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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              • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                Microsoft Mickeysoft has just reported a loss of $900m over it's (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets. Another flop to it's counter. Clinkety![^]

                Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

                ~ Carl von Clausewitz ~

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                Marc A Brown
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                Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets

                Have you actually *used* one? I've owned one since day one and have been *very* happy with it.

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                  Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft...:confused: May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.:~

                  Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. Carl von Clausewitz Source

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                  Marc A Brown
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                  Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                  May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.

                  That's true of *any* company that produces *anything* that you use.

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                    Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                    Another flop to it's counter.

                    Too soon to be calling it a flop. Offtopic; you're allowed to drop anything "Mickeysoft" and go with the software of the competition :)

                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                    Marc A Brown
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                    Personally, the constant use of

                    Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                    "Mickeysoft"

                    screams "troll" to me. I always :rolleyes: when I see it.

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                      Microsoft Mickeysoft has just reported a loss of $900m over it's (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets. Another flop to it's counter. Clinkety![^]

                      Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

                      ~ Carl von Clausewitz ~

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                      Kevin Marois
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                      It's not the tablet. It's the absurdly stupid OS they loaded on it. Oh, and let's not forget the idiotic commercials they're running trying to push this thing.

                      If it's not broken, fix it until it is

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                        Microsoft Mickeysoft has just reported a loss of $900m over it's (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets. Another flop to it's counter. Clinkety![^]

                        Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

                        ~ Carl von Clausewitz ~

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                        thrakazog
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                        Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                        (which I feel is simply a PoS)

                        Why do you feel that? For doing tablet like things both the pro and rt are quite nice.

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                        • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                          Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft...:confused: May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.:~

                          Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. Carl von Clausewitz Source

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                          Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                          Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft...:confused:
                          May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.:~

                          Then why do you keep using and even paying for those products? Well, probably because the boss decided to put his money on a safe bet. You might want to realign your expectations.

                          Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                            Personally, the constant use of

                            Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                            "Mickeysoft"

                            screams "troll" to me. I always :rolleyes: when I see it.

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                            It's good to see something new after "M$" :cool:

                            Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                              Microsoft Mickeysoft has just reported a loss of $900m over it's (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets. Another flop to it's counter. Clinkety![^]

                              Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

                              ~ Carl von Clausewitz ~

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                              1. I am not saying MS is greatest ever. 2. You do realize how many products become a success in a product based company. 3. Of course, Surface was exciting and will always be for me. MS, just like IE, delayed release of this product(from pure business perspective). If it had released it say 3* years back, many would be drooling on it. * I really want to say 5 here but can't recall when I first saw surface running outside of debug mode.

                              "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                                Don't know why but all my grudge is against Microsoft...:confused: May be because, every now and then a Microsoft product becomes a nightmare for me.:~

                                Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. Carl von Clausewitz Source

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                                Don't use them then. Period.

                                "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                                  Amitosh S.M. wrote:

                                  (which I feel is simply a PoS) Surface RT tablets

                                  Have you actually *used* one? I've owned one since day one and have been *very* happy with it.

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                                  Albert Holguin
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                                  I must admit... they look very neat... but I'm not sure I'm in the tablet market.

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                                    I must admit... they look very neat... but I'm not sure I'm in the tablet market.

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                                    They're very well done. I use mine for most things I would have used a full PC for in the past -- email, web, light gaming, that sort of thing. The only thing I use my PC for now is running apps that don't run on Windows RT, app development, and heavier gaming like Dungeons & Dragons Online. When I went on vacation earlier in the summer, I left the laptop (my primary PC at the time) at home and only took my Surface. Didn't miss the laptop a bit while I was gone.

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                                      It's good to see something new after "M$" :cool:

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                                      True, but it has gotten old very quickly. I'm not a fan of Apple's stuff but I try not to come up with stupid names for them. I guess it's just something you have to outgrow.

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                                        It's not the tablet. It's the absurdly stupid OS they loaded on it. Oh, and let's not forget the idiotic commercials they're running trying to push this thing.

                                        If it's not broken, fix it until it is

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                                        And why do you consider Windows RT "absurdly stupid"? Have you actually used it? As I said in another post, it enables me to have an extremely lightweight and convenient device that does most of what I would do on a PC. Now it doesn't do *everything* of course. But I doubt I'd be comfortable doing application development on a device this size anyway. When I preordered my Surface RT, I figured I would wind up buying a Surface Pro when they came out because I'd want the additional functionality of the "full" OS. But it didn't take long for me to realize that I didn't need it for an ultraportable device like this. As to the commercials, I didn't think they were idiotic -- they were fluffy and catchy, which is what you'd expect from an introductory commercial. And now we have the Surface vs. iPad commercials that have a bit more meat (not to mention more humor) to them. But of course, taste in commercials is very subjective. :)

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                                          And why do you consider Windows RT "absurdly stupid"? Have you actually used it? As I said in another post, it enables me to have an extremely lightweight and convenient device that does most of what I would do on a PC. Now it doesn't do *everything* of course. But I doubt I'd be comfortable doing application development on a device this size anyway. When I preordered my Surface RT, I figured I would wind up buying a Surface Pro when they came out because I'd want the additional functionality of the "full" OS. But it didn't take long for me to realize that I didn't need it for an ultraportable device like this. As to the commercials, I didn't think they were idiotic -- they were fluffy and catchy, which is what you'd expect from an introductory commercial. And now we have the Surface vs. iPad commercials that have a bit more meat (not to mention more humor) to them. But of course, taste in commercials is very subjective. :)

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                                          Kevin Marois
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                                          You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but 900 million dollars in losses means many, many people disagree with you.

                                          If it's not broken, fix it until it is

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