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HP, with their non-Android based WebOS, was the only company capable of making a dent - or a beachhead - against iPad sales. When you have two parties making h/w and s/w for a tabl…

Sort of like every Android 2.2 phone ever sold? Has anyone every seen an OS upgrade on their Android Smartphone?

If you're willing to spend 10x the amount, you can score a professional printer. How much is "many times the amount"? (p.s. checkout Up! printer)

market cap / payroll population Ford = 350k Apple = 6.122M Google = 6.385M

He said it was $7k/yr FLAT FEE. That means it doesn't change no matter how many people he hires. In fact, the regulations are set up so that he should hire as many people as possib…

But, less than question mark and a space are not a valid XML combination. XML processing instructions cannot begin with a space. Likewise, PHP cannot run commands into the short ta…

Can you give a demonstration of its non-uniqueness?

Also, if you can code the change yourself it gets rejected as "not a bug" for a few times, then they think about it and say that it's too late for any reasonable release and that i…

Boo, deleted short tags. Why do people hate short tags again? I can't remember because <? is not valid XML so there shouldn't be any problems with mixing php and xml... hmm... I wo…

Yes, they feel invisible because they weren't made because the guy had an accident because he shows up to work high and operates heavy machinery and gets hospitalized and the compa…

The performance issues have just been masked with caching. The template layer makes hundreds of useless classes each request. Could speed it up 40% or so with flyweight pattern on …

So, they've been using Zend Framework for 10 years?

ZF and CI are horrible examples of coding practices. They are extreme examples of "make a class for everything because you can". ZF file and directory structure is at odds with PHP…

If you have to spend any time setting it up, it doesn't have sensible defaults.

I find it nearly impossible to navigate adobe.com. Takes like 2 or 3 days of visiting, getting frustrated/lost and then stopping for me to get the latest version of flash.

Why do VOIP apps on both platforms lack bluetooth support? I think that's a more interesting question to ask for mobile "phone" OSes.

So, it's angie's list for products... ?

WP is trash. You can speed it up about 10 times with just a couple query fixes and removing the 100 extra calls to stripslashes you get when you pull a get var 100 times.

Sounds like really bad coding taken to another level. At some point in your program you will know which thumbnails are needed for the page. Instead of structuring that logic and co…

The challenging thing about freelancing is trying to convince customers that they're solving the wrong problem. Companies generally don't need another flex/php/.net/python/ruby exp…