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Correct.

It is a saying from Roman times where the gladiators either shower in flowers (some kind of lillies) or die.

Article according to a noun, either feminine genus in singular, or plural (all genera).



tot = dead (adjective)
Tod = death (noun)
sterben = die (verb)
sterbend = dying (adverb)



Gladiolen (pl.), a kind of flowers (gladiolus), refering to a "sword flower" from latin "gladius" = sword; belongs to the lillies (Iridaceae).

Louis van Gaal (Bayern Munichs current coach) murdered it in German.

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Wow, by far the most interesting thing in the coments has nothing to do with the subject of the article :p

Shouldn't it be "Der Tod oder die Gladiolen" then?

yes, it should. it's a bad translation of the dutch "de dood of de gladiolen". the dutch "de" can be "die" or "der" in german, because german has three definite articles (der,die,das) and dutch ony two (de,het). the saying doesn't exist in german, or at least it didn't.

I'm not sure I want to use office on a phone without copy and paste.

Or, does the copy and paste only work inside office? In which case, nevermind; that would be decent.

It is like that in real life, in fact.

It's called cut-off design. It's used to optimize the "you can scroll me" affordance, the feeling people have that they can put their finger and swipe it to the left, that there's something to see on the right. If you carefully watch web pages, you'll find out that some of them voluntarily suggest that vertical scroll is available this way.

Though I agree that the way WP7 implements it looks a bit crude and wastes some useful screen space.

I assume you feel the same about HTC and Apple and Motorola and Google as well then?

Yeah, because Google is suing others for patent infringements waving ridiculous software patents. Riiight.

No, Google is just waving ridiculous software patent infringements.

There. Fixed it for you.

WP7 won't know what to do with Windows malware anymore than Linux or the Xbox.

WP7 is all ARM, I don't think they even plan on having it ported for Atoms.

No, that's incorrect. Sure, your "average" assembly code won't run on the platform directly, but assembly is anything but average and my opinion would be that less then %5, maybe even %1, of malware would have any assembly code in it.

However, MS did port the .NET stack and hence pretty much anything written in VS will run just fine. Sure, I'm guessing some file locations have moved, etc..., but the code itself will run just fine.

In short, Win7 mobile probably has plenty of the same holes as regular Win7, especially the .NET related ones.

Assembly code has nothing to do with it. WP7 can not execute a standard Win32 exe. Windows malware makes Win32 specific calls in order to keep itself alive. Not only is WP7 unable to process a Win32 executable but even if it could the exchange would look like this:

Malware: Requesting standard access to the registry.
WP7: What the hell are you talking about?




First of all the vast majority of malware that is not installed voluntarily take advantage of buffer overruns. Both Java and C#/.NET are interpreted languages that require bounds checking to prevent them from happening.

If what you are really saying is that trojans written in .net can be ported to WP7 well that means nothing since trojans can be placed inside Android apps as well. Since WP7 doesn't allow outside apps Android is actually more vulnerable to this type of attack.

Saying that WP7 will be a security risk because of .NET makes about as much sense as saying that Xbox is a security risk because of .NET or that Linux distros are at risk because of Mono.

Edited 2010-10-13 07:31 UTC

How about a clue, for starters.

...and yet, that exact same behaviour from Apple, and no complaints from you. Huh.

What are you talking about, I have moaned non-stop about the iPhone. It’s terrible policies, Apple’s dislike of the open web, them forcing H.264.

The issues with Apple are _different_, but I have complained no less than with Microsoft, as has been seen with the number of articles I’ve written targeted specifically to a Microsoft or Apple issue.

To substantiate that, here’s a list of my articles in reverse date order

* Why the OS Matters (Microsoft/IE)
http://camendesign.com/writing/os_matters

* Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness (Microsoft/IE)
http://camendesign.com/stop_this_madness

* The Price That Cannot Be Bartered (Apple/iTunes)
http://camendesign.com/privacy

* Will Apple Embrace the Web? No. (Apple/Web)
http://camendesign.com/writing/not_the_web

* This Is Where We Are Going (Apple/iTunes)
http://camendesign.com/writing/destination_internet

* Microsoft Missed the Boat With Mobile (How Microsoft/Web)
http://camendesign.com/writing/missed_the_boat

* The Real Reason Microsoft About Faced on IE8 Standards Opt-In (Microsoft/IE)
http://camendesign.com/writing/ie8-standards

I cover both, on their own faults.
And considering that I am a web developer, Microsoft’s impact has been larger on me than Apple; I expect that reverse in the future.

Edited 2010-10-12 07:29 UTC

Outright straight faced lies and preemptive FUD? Such as...?

I don't mind, as long as it is not preventing me from understanding the article itself/real content.

Wat zal je dan na dit berichtje een ongelofelijke pokkehekel aan me hebben. Jammer joh.

Don't be childish

My irony meter just exploded.

vad hade du tänkt göra åt det då?