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Some of the costs aren't just gradient values, some are very binary, the second cost line is a straight up show stopper for business applications. Fisher Price UIs may have a place but it is not the LOB application arena.
As for minimalistic UI, I'm disgusted with the change from Silverlight to MVC imagine if I had to cut off yet another limb!
So from the guy who spent the last 5 years building apps in YADMP (Yet Another Dead Microsoft Product), go for it, spend months getting your head around another paradigm, build your tolls to help your development, invest your time, effort and money into this WinRT environment.
BUT be prepared to throw the f***ing lot away AGAIN. I am so pissed with Microsoft if they did not have such a strangle hold on the LOB environment I would seriously consider a change.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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We had recovered from the first wave of the interactive web (all Flash(tm) and no content) but it has come back to haunt us in a javascript / HTML5 fuelled way. Both Auntie Bee and Bloomberg have taken to having messages leap into view when you are in the midst of reading an article. Why why why?
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Because it generates more revenue for them?
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Both Auntie Bee and Bloomberg have taken to having messages leap into view when you are in the midst of reading an article. Why why why?
They are not the only ones doing this. 
I never read obnoxious advertisements. Unfortunately, some hacker is getting paid for every one that they put in my, and your, face. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I despise particularly the 'page is loading' type.
If anybody seriously thinks we're on dial-up, circa 1996, then what kind of contempt are they showing for their 'mark'?
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Maybe they're on dialup. At least that's what AOL Extra+ tech support tells them.
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Larf!
Maybe it's my sh!tty work computer(XP, no less, and all the tank armour Business Systems can provide!), but some of the code projects links take minutes to load - dead page, dead browser, except for the little banners telling me which bit is loading.
What kind of idiot puts so much sh!t in his page that everybody who might have been interested force-closes his browser just to avoid being crucified over his morning coffee?
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: What kind of idiot puts so much sh!t in his page
Wow, have you heard about this fancy <marquee> tag? It's totally awesome, no messy lame-o JavaScript required, and even supported on IE 5 and Netscape 4! 
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Soouu-per!I'll run it up the flagpole at the hourly scrum!
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Soouu-per!
Immediately thinks of this.
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Sorry. Can't look. We're on a two minute sprint cycle of Quad Programming; the boss is playing square-dance tunes all day until we ship the product. Swap lead partner each cycle, one screen between four. 
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Why why why?
Why? Probably because some web designer wanted to earn some more money from a banner ad company, so they talked its marketing department into a cool new way they could get guaranteed viewership of their ads. Nobody anywhere once considered whether customers actually wanted such behavior. Heck, nobody anywhere probably ever stopped and thought through how the feature would work for customers.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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It seems particularly more obnoxious lately, even CP has some beasties popping up.
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Not to bad I like them!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
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Mike Hankey's sig: Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Here's the original, it's from a cartoon called 5th wave:
http://www.the5thwave.com/cartoon/3848[^]
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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Thanks Alexander
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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What attempts to be a singing voice, attached to that over-made-up goth-tart sounds like a bio-engineering experiment cloning the vocal-cord genes of Enya mixed with Olivia Newton-John that went terribly wrong 
So many fine contemporary female singers have incredible voices; check out Kimbra: [^]. And then, there's the exquisite chanteuse Lana Del Rey, who can make even the ghost-of-testosterone-past in this aging meat-package clink his chains: [^].
But, if disembodied pre-pubescent female squeaking buried under synth-tracks, and loops, does it for you: okay
“The best hope is that one of these days the Ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away ~ leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.” Kenneth Patchen, Poet
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BillWoodruff wrote: who can make even the ghost-of-testosterone-past in this aging meat-package clink his chains:
TMI 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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BillWoodruff wrote: does it for you
Depeche Mode used to be one of my favourite bands, and Blasphemous rumours is, perhaps, one of their best. I like Angelzooms' version take on it, synth and all 
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Love that show, very funny. Or it was until this season when it seems to have jumped the shark a little bit.
So I was surprised to see that it has been renewed for another three seasons. I wish them luck and hope they start to employ some funnier writers.
In any case, if it wasn't for Sheldon there would be no program at all.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I used to love watching it but haven't seen a show since about this time last year.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
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