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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:48 PM

Microsoft Surface

I'm sure you have heard about this a 1000 times by now. But this time you get to hear about Microsoft Surface from someone who has used it. In case you have not heard about it, Microsoft Surface (this takes ever to load so you can try another video here
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:18 PM

Pop-fly rocks

Pop-fly is one of the most amazing piece of coolness that Microsoft shipped. From the domain name to the interface it's cool all the way. See my rotating image sphere here . Not: that this'll install Silver Light (which is less than a mb). It took me
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:07 PM

Remember me on this computer.

That is what a popular site said when I visited it's login page. But hey, I was using a cell phone :). I know I'm nitpicking but more and more users are getting onto cell phones for browsing and the sites need to be careful. Yahoo for example is and says
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:13 PM

What is work

"What is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so." ~ Bertrand Russell's 1932. Found this via BoingBoing . My version is as
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:05 PM

Bring your child to work

Today a gang of kids raided Microsoft India as we celebrated "Bring your child to work" day. The kids were given realistic looking blue badges, they played around with Xboxes, tablet PCs and had a blast.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:00 PM

C# out parameter assignment trivia

I have the following code static void foo(out int i) { try { /*...*/ i = 5; } catch (Exception) { /*...*/ } finally { /*...*/ } } this fails to compile with the message " The out parameter 'i' must be assigned to before control leaves the current method
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:34 PM

What are the different algorithms in Java? Can someone list me each and its uses?

That is the question someone posted on the Java forum http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?tstart=0&forumID=426&threadID=547969&trange=30 . You got to read the responses to believe what geeks with free time can take this question to.
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