Australia and New Zealand were test for the new licensing system for Office 2000. What you guys are going to be getting in with O2K sp1 we have had since O2K was initially released. As far as I know, no other MS products handled this way here.
You get 50 starts of any office app and then it stops working. When you call them you end up arguing with a typical drone that doesn't comprehend the idea that you might have to reformat and reinstall their OS every few months.
I'm sure this won't cause a revenue increase for MS, but will cause legitimate users to look at other products simply to avoid the hassles...
And every time you have to reformat and reinstall your OS. You'll have to ring MS and argue with them that you do have a legal copy and you're not try to pirate it.
We have been having to do this in Australasia for the last six months. The last time we had to threaten to remove all copies of Office from the company and convert to Star Office.
This actually *does* have an application.... radio station automation software does exactly that when X-fading between to songs or two songs and a voice break in between. Generally they do it in hardware thou..... I worked on an application a few years ago that did this, managed to get up to 6 near CD quality (not important for radio) tracks decompressing and playing simultaneously on a P266 under OS/2 (whilstful sigh).
... your comments are exactly what I've been thinking for the last few years. Most people criticizing OO just haven't ever 'gotten it', and have never clicked to that way of thinking.
The frustrating thing is that it seems impossible to 'show them the light'. Maybe really understanding OO requires somebody to find that type of thinking for themselves, as it can't be taught?
...to tell us which country you live in? A similar thing has happened where in New Zealand, and being aware of experiences in other countries would be useful.
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You get 50 starts of any office app and then it stops working. When you call them you end up arguing with a typical drone that doesn't comprehend the idea that you might have to reformat and reinstall their OS every few months.
I'm sure this won't cause a revenue increase for MS, but will cause legitimate users to look at other products simply to avoid the hassles...
And every time you have to reformat and reinstall your OS. You'll have to ring MS and argue with them that you do have a legal copy and you're not try to pirate it. We have been having to do this in Australasia for the last six months. The last time we had to threaten to remove all copies of Office from the company and convert to Star Office.
The point is object orientation make the modularization easier, more flexible, and finer grained.
This actually *does* have an application.... radio station automation software does exactly that when X-fading between to songs or two songs and a voice break in between. Generally they do it in hardware thou..... I worked on an application a few years ago that did this, managed to get up to 6 near CD quality (not important for radio) tracks decompressing and playing simultaneously on a P266 under OS/2 (whilstful sigh).
Kinda funny really coming from user # 148044.
The frustrating thing is that it seems impossible to 'show them the light'. Maybe really understanding OO requires somebody to find that type of thinking for themselves, as it can't be taught?
For example, adding an unnescessary brace to one class, can cause completely nonsensical error messages in other classes/files.
Because of this, numerous times I've been forced to revert to javac in order to understand what the hell is wrong. Extremely frustrating!
...to tell us which country you live in? A similar thing has happened where in New Zealand, and being aware of experiences in other countries would be useful.