I prefer the title "software developer," but you can label it as you wish. The other reply to you is quite interesting, and worth reading for its link to a discussion of the nature of an "inventive step."
And you hold how many patents, pray tell? The problem with all of these, IMNSHO, is that they really are just little blips of intuition. Once you read the patent, it's very clear how the patent filers got from Point A to Point B. However, without having seen such a feature before would you have ever thought of it? You claim it was obvious, and I counter-claim that I don't see your name on this patent.
Funny, I work with.Net for a living and Cocoa in my spare time too. I find it far easier to crank out apps in C# than Objective C, though. There is too much tedious rigamarole in XCode and IB to creating applications incrementally. I feel like IB wants you to have your whole damned UI planned out immediately (the post-file generation outlet/action creation process does not work too well in my opinion).
What version of VS.Net are you using? 2002 or 2003? Have you given any thought to giving 2005 a whirl once it hits beta? I'd be curious to know:-).
Go check out the Jobs Blog at Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog. The authors are great people, and have really good advice on this sort of topic.
Actually, if memory serves, XBox is currently being outsold by the Bandai Wonderswan and the PS1 in Japan currently. MS Game Studios in Japan is doing a lot of work to create games for that market. Hopefully, we'll see the numbers pick up in Japan before too long. I doubt XBox will outsell the GCN in Japan at any point, but it should at least be the 3rd most popular console. Also, as far as the ENU market is concerned, the fall/holiday game lineup for XBox is strong enough that Sony really should have some concerns. Fable, Halo 2, Sudeki, EA games for XBL, blah blah blah. You get the idea.
Magazine of the New York Times? That sounds so much more compelling than New York Times Magazine! Thanks for bringing this to my attention on the Organization of the Slashdot, geeber!;-)
Xcode? ahem, Visual Studio.
Appleworks? ahem, Office. (arguably, Keynote is nicer than PPT)
Pippin? Xbox;-)
Newton? PocketPC or Smartphone;-)
WebObjects? ahem, ASP.Net.
iSync? ActiveSync.
I could go on and on. There are definitely some things that Apple does better than Microsoft: Mac OS X is a lot nicer to look at than Windows XP in many respects. Apple definitely has a certain mystique and cool-factor to it that MS does not have right now. But to categorically dismiss the software that Microsoft produces is shortsighted at best. Heck, just in terms of documentation for software development Microsoft does tons better than Apple. Secret APIs? Apple has 'em in spades. Go take a look at all of the work people have done to reverse engineer their method prototypes on CocoaDev. MS used to have private APIs in Win32, but that hasn't been the case since the consent decree.
this was despite the page layout view features in Office 2k4? I'm surprised you had issues with printing. perhaps if you could elaborate on these problems someone might be able to help you.
I would have much respect for them if they released anything serious to open source...for example the.NET platform. br/>::cough::Rotor::cough::. Rotor is distributed under the shared source license (which isn't OSD-compliant), not the CPL. But it's still out there. You can monkey with the code if you feel inclined.
I remember being told in 1995 that we would have to wait until 2015 before Microsoft would make Windows 64 bit.
In 1983, William Gibson foresaw a time distant in the future where 3 megabytes of RAM was worth something, and crazy artificial intelligences would be running rampant.;-). Also, Microsoft did have a pre-emptive multitasking OS available long before Apple did. There was many a time when I was learning to program C under Mac OS 7.5 that I would do a div/0, or do something silly with scanf() and the like. It certainly wasn't specific to Microsoft.
That's not necessarily true. I used to work for the Geek Squad, one of the companies mentioned in the article, and I used to get treated to near-rock star status whenever anyone found out about it. It's all about image, in the end, and Geek Squad (well, really its founder, Robert Stephens) has it in spades. I left the company back in 2001 after they decided to lay off all their part-time employees, and I now work as a program manager at a pretty big software development company, but when people talk about cool tech jobs, Geek Squad is always the one I really trot out.
actually,.net is fully featured across all of its supported OS's as well. It's just that its supported operating systems are Win98, WinME, Win2k, WinXP, and Win2k3. And Longhorn.
I have to agree with all of the naysayers on this. As much as I'd love to double my hard disk space for free, there's no such thing as a free lunch. This looks like a really terrific way to hose all of the data on your hard drive. You're really better off just shopping around for a reasonably priced 100gb hard drive or something instead.
If Half-Life 2 comes with Counter-Strike 2.0 and Day of Defeat 2.0 ON THE DISK, then Halo 2 will be overlooked
And if Duke Nukem Forever is ever actually released, I think Jason Jones (Bungie), John Carmack (Id), and ??? (Valve) might as well hang up their spurs and go work for McDonalds. I mean, really, I loved Halflife, and I am intending to plunk down $1500 on a new computer as soon as Halflife 2 hits stores, but please try to tone down the fanboy thing.
You're totally right that Amped was lame; SSX Tricky and SSX 3 are far better than Amped or Amped 2, but EA totally blew it by intentionally not including Live support in their games. I own a Gamecube, a GBA, a PS2, an XBox, and an NES. Of these systems, I've found the most compelling titles on the XBox. (yeah, yeah, everyone knows I'm an MS astroturfer... so what?)
eh, doncha know! Lefsa-Man is fer sooper cool, ya! In all seriousness, there's a place in south minneapolis, called ingebretsen's (I think it's at the corner of Lake St and Cedar Ave), where you can buy Lefse. It's a flat potato bread, and goes very well with lots of butter and sugar. roll it up and eat!
having suffered through Physics for Engineers 1 and 2 at the U of Minnesota three years ago, I only wish I had been able to take this class; that would've made the whole experience just a wee bit more enjoyable. oh well. At least I showed up often enough to my classes to still get my computer science degree...
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hold on one second while I pull my foot out of my mouth.... thanks for correcting me, i sure look dumb now, but at least i know enough to correct the person who i heard that from:). cheers.
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thanks for the clarification. I'll have to correct the person who told me in no uncertain terms "it's pronounced hells-burg... don't mispronounce Anders' name!":-)
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Microsoft starts trying to tell people that "OO is soo... yeasterday. You want Indigo."
You're referring to Don Box, specifically, right? I don't think it's so much that Don is pooh-pooh'ing OOP in general, it's that he feels that a service-oriented architecture is better suited to the kind of problems we face today than DCOM or CORBA. His point is that trying to use an OOP metaphor for enormous, architecturally sound remote object invocation/data transfer systems is a terribly complex task.
Also, keep in mind that Don wrote *the* book on Microsoft's COM technology; OOP has its place, but CORBA and DCOM are not really the place.
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Joel Spolsky published a great article a while back on.Net, his company's strategy for the platform, and why Anders so damn cool. Also, just in case you're curious as to how his last name is pronounced, it's pronounced hells-burg.
umm, the mac business unit didn't exist when Microserfs was written. The MacBU was created at roughly the same time that BillG tele-appeared at Macworld Expo Boston (1996 or 1997) during Steve Jobs's keynote, and MS invested $150 million or thereabouts into Apple. Before that, Mac software was handled internally by the Office team. Hope that clears stuff up.
Also,... grabbing my copy of Microserfs off the shelf... I believe that all but one of the characters in the book actually works on the Office team doing Mac apps.
The Motorola MPX200 (which runs the MS Smartphone 2k2 OS) is actually really cool. It's a hell of a lot better than the Danger Hiptop I had before. My only beef with the device is that it doesn't support the.Net Compact Framework (although the rumor sites say that support for this is due out this spring).
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I prefer the title "software developer," but you can label it as you wish. The other reply to you is quite interesting, and worth reading for its link to a discussion of the nature of an "inventive step."
And you hold how many patents, pray tell? The problem with all of these, IMNSHO, is that they really are just little blips of intuition. Once you read the patent, it's very clear how the patent filers got from Point A to Point B. However, without having seen such a feature before would you have ever thought of it? You claim it was obvious, and I counter-claim that I don't see your name on this patent.
Funny, I work with .Net for a living and Cocoa in my spare time too. I find it far easier to crank out apps in C# than Objective C, though. There is too much tedious rigamarole in XCode and IB to creating applications incrementally. I feel like IB wants you to have your whole damned UI planned out immediately (the post-file generation outlet/action creation process does not work too well in my opinion).
What version of VS.Net are you using? 2002 or 2003? Have you given any thought to giving 2005 a whirl once it hits beta? I'd be curious to know :-).
Go check out the Jobs Blog at Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog. The authors are great people, and have really good advice on this sort of topic.
Actually, if memory serves, XBox is currently being outsold by the Bandai Wonderswan and the PS1 in Japan currently. MS Game Studios in Japan is doing a lot of work to create games for that market. Hopefully, we'll see the numbers pick up in Japan before too long. I doubt XBox will outsell the GCN in Japan at any point, but it should at least be the 3rd most popular console. Also, as far as the ENU market is concerned, the fall/holiday game lineup for XBox is strong enough that Sony really should have some concerns. Fable, Halo 2, Sudeki, EA games for XBL, blah blah blah. You get the idea.
Magazine of the New York Times? That sounds so much more compelling than New York Times Magazine! Thanks for bringing this to my attention on the Organization of the Slashdot, geeber! ;-)
"Ours will be just like Apple's, only better."
;-) ;-)
;-)
Xcode? ahem, Visual Studio.
Appleworks? ahem, Office. (arguably, Keynote is nicer than PPT)
Pippin? Xbox
Newton? PocketPC or Smartphone
WebObjects? ahem, ASP.Net.
iSync? ActiveSync.
I could go on and on. There are definitely some things that Apple does better than Microsoft: Mac OS X is a lot nicer to look at than Windows XP in many respects. Apple definitely has a certain mystique and cool-factor to it that MS does not have right now. But to categorically dismiss the software that Microsoft produces is shortsighted at best. Heck, just in terms of documentation for software development Microsoft does tons better than Apple. Secret APIs? Apple has 'em in spades. Go take a look at all of the work people have done to reverse engineer their method prototypes on CocoaDev. MS used to have private APIs in Win32, but that hasn't been the case since the consent decree.
The evilness of MS is greatly overstated
this was despite the page layout view features in Office 2k4? I'm surprised you had issues with printing. perhaps if you could elaborate on these problems someone might be able to help you.
I would have much respect for them if they released anything serious to open source...for example the .NET platform. /> ::cough::Rotor::cough::. Rotor is distributed under the shared source license (which isn't OSD-compliant), not the CPL. But it's still out there. You can monkey with the code if you feel inclined.
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I remember being told in 1995 that we would have to wait until 2015 before Microsoft would make Windows 64 bit.
;-). Also, Microsoft did have a pre-emptive multitasking OS available long before Apple did. There was many a time when I was learning to program C under Mac OS 7.5 that I would do a div/0, or do something silly with scanf() and the like. It certainly wasn't specific to Microsoft.
In 1983, William Gibson foresaw a time distant in the future where 3 megabytes of RAM was worth something, and crazy artificial intelligences would be running rampant.
i agree wholeheartedly, but such are the vagaries of life where you post a comment a minute after a story goes live ;-)
That's not necessarily true. I used to work for the Geek Squad, one of the companies mentioned in the article, and I used to get treated to near-rock star status whenever anyone found out about it. It's all about image, in the end, and Geek Squad (well, really its founder, Robert Stephens) has it in spades. I left the company back in 2001 after they decided to lay off all their part-time employees, and I now work as a program manager at a pretty big software development company, but when people talk about cool tech jobs, Geek Squad is always the one I really trot out.
actually, .net is fully featured across all of its supported OS's as well. It's just that its supported operating systems are Win98, WinME, Win2k, WinXP, and Win2k3. And Longhorn.
I have to agree with all of the naysayers on this. As much as I'd love to double my hard disk space for free, there's no such thing as a free lunch. This looks like a really terrific way to hose all of the data on your hard drive. You're really better off just shopping around for a reasonably priced 100gb hard drive or something instead.
Lund University http://www.lu.se in Sweden had or has a course in Klingon
luse(r) ?
Ehhh, it's too easy to even make it worthwhile...
Actually, what Microsoft said was that the hackers were unable to modify any source code repositories.
If Half-Life 2 comes with Counter-Strike 2.0 and Day of Defeat 2.0 ON THE DISK, then Halo 2 will be overlooked
And if Duke Nukem Forever is ever actually released, I think Jason Jones (Bungie), John Carmack (Id), and ??? (Valve) might as well hang up their spurs and go work for McDonalds. I mean, really, I loved Halflife, and I am intending to plunk down $1500 on a new computer as soon as Halflife 2 hits stores, but please try to tone down the fanboy thing.
You're totally right that Amped was lame; SSX Tricky and SSX 3 are far better than Amped or Amped 2, but EA totally blew it by intentionally not including Live support in their games. I own a Gamecube, a GBA, a PS2, an XBox, and an NES. Of these systems, I've found the most compelling titles on the XBox. (yeah, yeah, everyone knows I'm an MS astroturfer... so what?)
eh, doncha know! Lefsa-Man is fer sooper cool, ya! In all seriousness, there's a place in south minneapolis, called ingebretsen's (I think it's at the corner of Lake St and Cedar Ave), where you can buy Lefse. It's a flat potato bread, and goes very well with lots of butter and sugar. roll it up and eat!
having suffered through Physics for Engineers 1 and 2 at the U of Minnesota three years ago, I only wish I had been able to take this class; that would've made the whole experience just a wee bit more enjoyable. oh well. At least I showed up often enough to my classes to still get my computer science degree...
hold on one second while I pull my foot out of my mouth.... thanks for correcting me, i sure look dumb now, but at least i know enough to correct the person who i heard that from :). cheers.
thanks for the clarification. I'll have to correct the person who told me in no uncertain terms "it's pronounced hells-burg... don't mispronounce Anders' name!" :-)
Microsoft starts trying to tell people that "OO is soo... yeasterday. You want Indigo."
You're referring to Don Box, specifically, right? I don't think it's so much that Don is pooh-pooh'ing OOP in general, it's that he feels that a service-oriented architecture is better suited to the kind of problems we face today than DCOM or CORBA. His point is that trying to use an OOP metaphor for enormous, architecturally sound remote object invocation/data transfer systems is a terribly complex task.
Also, keep in mind that Don wrote *the* book on Microsoft's COM technology; OOP has its place, but CORBA and DCOM are not really the place.
Joel Spolsky published a great article a while back on .Net, his company's strategy for the platform, and why Anders so damn cool. Also, just in case you're curious as to how his last name is pronounced, it's pronounced hells-burg.
umm, the mac business unit didn't exist when Microserfs was written. The MacBU was created at roughly the same time that BillG tele-appeared at Macworld Expo Boston (1996 or 1997) during Steve Jobs's keynote, and MS invested $150 million or thereabouts into Apple. Before that, Mac software was handled internally by the Office team. Hope that clears stuff up. Also, ... grabbing my copy of Microserfs off the shelf ... I believe that all but one of the characters in the book actually works on the Office team doing Mac apps.
The Motorola MPX200 (which runs the MS Smartphone 2k2 OS) is actually really cool. It's a hell of a lot better than the Danger Hiptop I had before. My only beef with the device is that it doesn't support the .Net Compact Framework (although the rumor sites say that support for this is due out this spring).