The real boon will be software design so close to the way people actually communicate that programmers can more easily write what regular people want out of their software.

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He's attacking rocketry the way he would assemble software: design, build, test and repeat in rapid-fire succession to quickly determine what works and what doesn't.

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Such cheap, off-the-rack software will indeed open up Web design to artists, the way Adobe opened up page design 15 years ago.

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The general design, usability and stability of the Zune desktop software has indeed come a long way, and we'd have no reservations about using it for all day music browsing and listening.

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The design of the physical device gets out of the way of the gadget's software--which lets it morph from being a Web browser to a media player to a phone and back again.

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We played around with it a bit, and while the 800 x 600 E Ink screen resolution is a little disappointing, and the resistive touchscreen layer impacts readability in a small but noticeable way, the software is certainly pleasant, and iriver is up to its usual standard in hardware design.

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