They've been trying and not doing well. They haven't been able to get traction in, well, anything else they've tried. Xbox has been moderately successful (financially speaking). Zune? no. Kin? no. Bing? very much no. Mobile? not really. (again, we're talking financially successful, not market share) Microsoft's stock hasn't done shit in 10 years.
Possibly, but IS/Engineering was testing out some tablets. Needless to say we didn't end up keeping any, and I could do without the touch screen on my laptop.
History and reality beg to differ. If anything, history has shown us that a "full" laptop or desktop OS is NOT what people want on a tablet. The UI for a tablet needs to be different than a desktop. Simply sticking windows or OS X onto a slate and substituting your finger or a stylus for a mouse and displaying an on screen keyboard is not, according to historic sales of tablets, and current sales of the iPad, what people want. I had a Windows tablet and the only thing it better at was browsing the web. For everything else it was worse and I ended up using my Thinkpad and lugging two machines home at the end of the day. I gave the Tablet back to IS after 3 weeks...
When your "enterprise" ERP application is written in VB6 with a roll your own alternative to ADO, half your business logic is in stored procedures that can be 5,000 lines long and 30% to 40% of your code was written to spec B.
It sucks, but you need to make your own natd.conf, kill the process and restart natd with your configuration:
sudo/usr/sbin/natd -alias_address x.x.x.x -interface en0 -use_sockets -same_ports -unregistered_only -dynamic -clamp_mss -f/Users/username/natd.conf
Obviously you'll need to put the whole thing into a script and run it after the system is up.
This isn't correct. a UI is a human / machine interface. An API is a machine / machine interface which is implemented by a human. The documentation for the API is more properly compared to UI.
How is this flamebait? If you publish your date of birth, full name, place of residence and other personal details on the web you deserve every bad thing that could happen to you as a result of that. I would never do such a stupid thing, but hey, if it makes you feel good about yourself go right ahead, just don't complain when someone successfully opens a line of credit in your name...
UI != API. A proper API doesn't need to be simple, it needs to work properly and consistently. Not to get too subtle, but a complex API for something like this is perfectly fine as long as it is not overly complicated, if you get what I mean.
Really? In my personal experience on numerous machines Windows 2000 was the most stable, least crashing version of Windows excepting possibly XP SP2. The jury is still out on 7 in my experience, but it is hugely better than Vista and I've had few problems. While I agree that Win2K had a lot of missing drivers on day 1, that got fixed rapidly and was really the only major problem with 2K whereas missing drivers were only one of Vista's myriad problems. The primary reason that XP was better "out of the gate" was that most (if not all) of the drivers for 2K worked on XP, XP being NT 5.1 and 2000 being NT 5.0.
So from a codebase/versioning perspective I see your point, but in terms of quality and usability I think Vista is more accurately compared to Me.
Define regular. Regular as in a couple of times a year, or on a weekly basis. Please provide a some proof of the "regular" abuse of tasers and the number of fatalities caused by them.
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What kind of a coward wants to be in charge of everyone, but take no responsibility for anyone?
Uh, most of the legislative and executive branches of government?
guess which one took the longest
I'll take "What is BP had to get permission from the feds" for $500 Alex.
You're sitting on a bunch of calls on MSFT, huh?
They've been trying and not doing well. They haven't been able to get traction in, well, anything else they've tried. Xbox has been moderately successful (financially speaking). Zune? no. Kin? no. Bing? very much no. Mobile? not really. (again, we're talking financially successful, not market share) Microsoft's stock hasn't done shit in 10 years.
Based on my 11 years working for a large company his statement is hyper-accurate.
They might want to read this first: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/05/25/2316216
Do they come with a Graty, and can I get 2 for the price of 1 if I call in the next 20 minutes?
...drench these memoirs in satire and wit...
I certainly hope so.
Possibly, but IS/Engineering was testing out some tablets. Needless to say we didn't end up keeping any, and I could do without the touch screen on my laptop.
History and reality beg to differ. If anything, history has shown us that a "full" laptop or desktop OS is NOT what people want on a tablet. The UI for a tablet needs to be different than a desktop. Simply sticking windows or OS X onto a slate and substituting your finger or a stylus for a mouse and displaying an on screen keyboard is not, according to historic sales of tablets, and current sales of the iPad, what people want. I had a Windows tablet and the only thing it better at was browsing the web. For everything else it was worse and I ended up using my Thinkpad and lugging two machines home at the end of the day. I gave the Tablet back to IS after 3 weeks...
When your "enterprise" ERP application is written in VB6 with a roll your own alternative to ADO, half your business logic is in stored procedures that can be 5,000 lines long and 30% to 40% of your code was written to spec B.
5 points if you can name that product
Obviously you'll need to put the whole thing into a script and run it after the system is up.
Your mileage may vary...
This isn't correct. a UI is a human / machine interface. An API is a machine / machine interface which is implemented by a human. The documentation for the API is more properly compared to UI.
Absolutely. However, that does not mean that an API HAS to be simple to be good.
Who shit in your Cheerios this morning?
How is this flamebait? If you publish your date of birth, full name, place of residence and other personal details on the web you deserve every bad thing that could happen to you as a result of that. I would never do such a stupid thing, but hey, if it makes you feel good about yourself go right ahead, just don't complain when someone successfully opens a line of credit in your name...
UI != API. A proper API doesn't need to be simple, it needs to work properly and consistently. Not to get too subtle, but a complex API for something like this is perfectly fine as long as it is not overly complicated, if you get what I mean.
They wouldn't call it code.
Only an idiot would purposefully publish personal information on the web.
Just because it's biased doesn't make it false...
Really? In my personal experience on numerous machines Windows 2000 was the most stable, least crashing version of Windows excepting possibly XP SP2. The jury is still out on 7 in my experience, but it is hugely better than Vista and I've had few problems. While I agree that Win2K had a lot of missing drivers on day 1, that got fixed rapidly and was really the only major problem with 2K whereas missing drivers were only one of Vista's myriad problems. The primary reason that XP was better "out of the gate" was that most (if not all) of the drivers for 2K worked on XP, XP being NT 5.1 and 2000 being NT 5.0.
So from a codebase/versioning perspective I see your point, but in terms of quality and usability I think Vista is more accurately compared to Me.
If water isn't good enough, what is better?
Gin and Tonic
As far as you know. Who knows what they might be looking for? http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10400276-233.html
Define regular. Regular as in a couple of times a year, or on a weekly basis. Please provide a some proof of the "regular" abuse of tasers and the number of fatalities caused by them.
Agree, to a point, but WTF is some dipshit doing shoplifting when he already has 2 strikes?