MFC isn't a program, it's an MVC framework library combined with a C++ wrapper around most of Win32, which itself is mostly organized as OO, even though it has a C API.
Do you need more coffee this morning/[time of day where you are]? MFC is not an MVC framework. It is (as you say) a sometimes precariously-thin OO wrapper around the native C-based Windows API. And most people who work with it would like for it to die. Which Microsoft has actually been working at facilitating in various ways, between the whole.NET ecosystem and now the ability to write Metro apps in C++ against WinRT, leaving the C API out of the picture completely.
I guess Microsoft's MVC stuff is OK, and Razor in particular is comparable to the best of other frameworks out there, but their C# language is the primary glue that enables the awesomeness. C# is the top of the line within the Java-ripoff genre of languages, and I would like to see Microsoft take steps to help it be used more widely. I realize OSS purists will probably never be on board, and I understand why; but it's definitely not based on the quality of the technology.
How is it the right answer to tell someone who develops and maintains C#.net applications built for Windows and compiled with VS2010 to use Linux?
You're right that you can't generalize. In many cases a company is better off not rocking the boat. However, companies that strategically prefer Open Source can be better off for it, both in license costs and in expanded technology choices. For example, you can do C#.NET with Mono on Linux.
I think any office suite for iOS is likely to be stripped down versus its desktop counterpart, so I wouldn't see that as a deal breaker. I expect that MS Office for the iPad will probably show up sometime in 2012 - 2013, and Microsoft has hinted as much.
It's news because the largest software company in the world is ignoring the fastest growing platform for software in the world, rather than writing software for it.
Don't post about subjects you're unfamiliar with. Microsoft has always written a lot of software for the Mac, and even today has a bunch of stuff both released and in development for the iPad. It makes sense with their dogfooding policies to favor Windows stuff for their staff, but they are by no means "ignoring" iOS.
Much of the confusion comes from the fact that many people want to deny that the US is fighting a war against Al Qaeda, and it is fighting under the rules of war, not under the rules of criminal law. As a result they scream bloody murder about actions taken under the law of war that are perfectly legal in that context and pretend that they are violations of criminal law, or even the Constitution. They are two completely separate questions, even if similar offenses are contained in each body of law.
So what's your point? Are you saying it's OK to torture members of Al Qaeda?
If you want to observe the festivities with a more phonetically accurate English language reinterpretation of the ancient Greek letter name "Pi", you should go to the restroom and urinate. That can be a very satisfying feeling as well.
OK, so what if you re-classified the torture as a compliance enforcement mechanism rather than as a punishment? Would that make it OK, just like in the crowd control situation? Clearly it's very desirable for detainees to comply with our demand that they give us information about criminals and terrorists. (Playing devil's advocate, but hopefully making a point.)
It's not very much of an argument. Detainees have the option of sharing information in order to avoid pain, assuming they are known to possess such information. (Note that I'm not arguing in favor of torture, just trying to probe why it's OK to publicly inflict pain on people.)
Why is it OK in public spaces for law enforcement and the military to use extreme pain from heat rays and Tasers (TM) to force people to do what they want, yet it's not OK in a private cell to force somebody through pain to share information? We can torture people without leaving permanent physical injury, just like with the heat ray. So do we as a society really have moral qualms about torturing people because of the pain, or is it purely a pragmatic decision based on the low signal to noise ratio of intelligence from tortured prisoners?
Good luck with that. If you are successful, you will be accused of doing horrible things to a law enforcement person, and will be locked away for a very, very long time. The prosecution will describe the effects of the heat ray in very different terms than the defense would, if the tables were turned and you were suing law enforcement for using it on you.
"Apple Inc. plans to create a $304 million campus in Austin, Texas, which will add 3,600 jobs over the next decade, more than doubling its labourforce in the city. The Cupertino, California, customer device huge already employs thousands in Austin, whose tasks include handling customer issues and support."
Girl, you still need more training. The actions of some states a long time ago in supporting sterilization programs do not make the USA a bad place to live right now. Nobody does that anymore. Nobody (in charge) even _wants_ to do that anymore. Things are better now. Obviously you're mad about injustices of history, which is fine and good, but the comparison between the USA and China was about the present day, not the past, so your remarks on that score were irrelevant.
In which country could you post the following statements on your blog without worrying about the government arresting you?
- "The government of my country is totally corrupt, and they ought to be deposed and replaced democratically."
- "Guess what, guys, I have joined the 'xyz' religion! Come meet at my house this afternoon to observe religious services with me!"
- "Here are links to books on the subject of civil liberties: http://.../."
Obviously, in the USA you can post that stuff all day and it's no problem. Any of the three items above could get you locked up in China. So get more training, girl. It will serve you well.
I'm a US citizen. South America is a mixed bag with regard to political freedom; some places are right on the money, some not so much.
But maybe you can give me an example of a political statement I can post on a blog to get jailed here in the USA. How 'bout it? Unless it's something of the nature of <dumb statement>"hey guys I'm about to bomb the Capital"</dumb statement>, I expect to simply laugh at you. The USA is still a free country in many respects (albeit with some legislative absurdity from time to time).
Well, no, not in your crappy backwater country, and not with some locked down hardware like an ipad. But in more sensible and advanced societies like, er, China, these kinds of things are readily available, and cheaper too.
Girl, you need more training. As messed up as our copyright and patent laws are, they are originally based on some very "sensible and advanced" ideas relating to a person's property and protection of individual rights. In China, human beings are largely regarded as disposable cattle. They can be jailed, suppressed, censored, and executed whenever the state decides to do so. Let me put it another way. I'll much happier put up with my government instituting silly policies like not allowing ripping of a DVD, than for my government to censor internet access to purely political/religious ideas, throw bloggers in jail for criticizing the government, etc.
I interpreted "human anatomical peaks" in the sense that we have anatomically-caused limits of visual resolution and color that we can perceive. The "peaks" part may also communicate that some of us see better than others (*adjusts eyeglasses*). The overall limit or "peak" is directly related to the scale of our bodies and how our eyes are put together. The phrase is a slightly unusual shorthand in this summary (of course I didn't read the article), but it makes sense to me.
I predict that factors like this will be the impetus for society ultimately being OK with switching over to computer driven vehicles. Not saying that's good or bad, just predicting.
"I am the government. If you hand me a FOIA request, and I don't like your reasons for asking, I will refuse it."
And you... approve of this? That's kind of a rare and remarkable attitude to find on Slashdot, even besides your apparent ignorance of the actual FOIA law (hint: it's not the document-holder's decision whether it's important to release). Congratulations on being a very special person!
I respect your opinion, but it puzzles me why you are not bothered when people (supposedly acting in the interest of the public) take loads of tax money but refuse to comply with FOIA requests. I understand liking and respecting prominent scientists, since they're part of what makes human civilization great. But why are you defending that misbehavior in particular?
In addition, when government delivers medicine directly, as it does in the Veterans Affairs system, the cost is much lower, and the outcomes are just as good (sometimes better).
Wow, we definitely have not read the same reviews.
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MFC isn't a program, it's an MVC framework library combined with a C++ wrapper around most of Win32, which itself is mostly organized as OO, even though it has a C API.
Do you need more coffee this morning/[time of day where you are]? MFC is not an MVC framework. It is (as you say) a sometimes precariously-thin OO wrapper around the native C-based Windows API. And most people who work with it would like for it to die. Which Microsoft has actually been working at facilitating in various ways, between the whole .NET ecosystem and now the ability to write Metro apps in C++ against WinRT, leaving the C API out of the picture completely.
I guess Microsoft's MVC stuff is OK, and Razor in particular is comparable to the best of other frameworks out there, but their C# language is the primary glue that enables the awesomeness. C# is the top of the line within the Java-ripoff genre of languages, and I would like to see Microsoft take steps to help it be used more widely. I realize OSS purists will probably never be on board, and I understand why; but it's definitely not based on the quality of the technology.
No, no no. PITA is the kind of bread you wrap your roasted squirrel meat in. _PETA_ is what you're thinking of.
The world needs to be reminded periodically not to take itself so seriously.
How is it the right answer to tell someone who develops and maintains C#.net applications built for Windows and compiled with VS2010 to use Linux?
You're right that you can't generalize. In many cases a company is better off not rocking the boat. However, companies that strategically prefer Open Source can be better off for it, both in license costs and in expanded technology choices. For example, you can do C#.NET with Mono on Linux.
I think any office suite for iOS is likely to be stripped down versus its desktop counterpart, so I wouldn't see that as a deal breaker. I expect that MS Office for the iPad will probably show up sometime in 2012 - 2013, and Microsoft has hinted as much.
It's news because the largest software company in the world is ignoring the fastest growing platform for software in the world, rather than writing software for it.
Don't post about subjects you're unfamiliar with. Microsoft has always written a lot of software for the Mac, and even today has a bunch of stuff both released and in development for the iPad. It makes sense with their dogfooding policies to favor Windows stuff for their staff, but they are by no means "ignoring" iOS.
Much of the confusion comes from the fact that many people want to deny that the US is fighting a war against Al Qaeda, and it is fighting under the rules of war, not under the rules of criminal law. As a result they scream bloody murder about actions taken under the law of war that are perfectly legal in that context and pretend that they are violations of criminal law, or even the Constitution. They are two completely separate questions, even if similar offenses are contained in each body of law.
So what's your point? Are you saying it's OK to torture members of Al Qaeda?
If you want to observe the festivities with a more phonetically accurate English language reinterpretation of the ancient Greek letter name "Pi", you should go to the restroom and urinate. That can be a very satisfying feeling as well.
OK, so what if you re-classified the torture as a compliance enforcement mechanism rather than as a punishment? Would that make it OK, just like in the crowd control situation? Clearly it's very desirable for detainees to comply with our demand that they give us information about criminals and terrorists. (Playing devil's advocate, but hopefully making a point.)
It's not very much of an argument. Detainees have the option of sharing information in order to avoid pain, assuming they are known to possess such information. (Note that I'm not arguing in favor of torture, just trying to probe why it's OK to publicly inflict pain on people.)
Why is it OK in public spaces for law enforcement and the military to use extreme pain from heat rays and Tasers (TM) to force people to do what they want, yet it's not OK in a private cell to force somebody through pain to share information? We can torture people without leaving permanent physical injury, just like with the heat ray. So do we as a society really have moral qualms about torturing people because of the pain, or is it purely a pragmatic decision based on the low signal to noise ratio of intelligence from tortured prisoners?
Good luck with that. If you are successful, you will be accused of doing horrible things to a law enforcement person, and will be locked away for a very, very long time. The prosecution will describe the effects of the heat ray in very different terms than the defense would, if the tables were turned and you were suing law enforcement for using it on you.
"Apple Inc. plans to create a $304 million campus in Austin, Texas, which will add 3,600 jobs over the next decade, more than doubling its labourforce in the city. The Cupertino, California, customer device huge already employs thousands in Austin, whose tasks include handling customer issues and support."
Girl, you still need more training. The actions of some states a long time ago in supporting sterilization programs do not make the USA a bad place to live right now. Nobody does that anymore. Nobody (in charge) even _wants_ to do that anymore. Things are better now. Obviously you're mad about injustices of history, which is fine and good, but the comparison between the USA and China was about the present day, not the past, so your remarks on that score were irrelevant.
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In which country could you post the following statements on your blog without worrying about the government arresting you?
- "The government of my country is totally corrupt, and they ought to be deposed and replaced democratically."
- "Guess what, guys, I have joined the 'xyz' religion! Come meet at my house this afternoon to observe religious services with me!"
- "Here are links to books on the subject of civil liberties: http://.../
Obviously, in the USA you can post that stuff all day and it's no problem. Any of the three items above could get you locked up in China. So get more training, girl. It will serve you well.
I'm a US citizen. South America is a mixed bag with regard to political freedom; some places are right on the money, some not so much.
But maybe you can give me an example of a political statement I can post on a blog to get jailed here in the USA. How 'bout it? Unless it's something of the nature of <dumb statement>"hey guys I'm about to bomb the Capital"</dumb statement>, I expect to simply laugh at you. The USA is still a free country in many respects (albeit with some legislative absurdity from time to time).
Well, no, not in your crappy backwater country, and not with some locked down hardware like an ipad. But in more sensible and advanced societies like, er, China, these kinds of things are readily available, and cheaper too.
Girl, you need more training. As messed up as our copyright and patent laws are, they are originally based on some very "sensible and advanced" ideas relating to a person's property and protection of individual rights. In China, human beings are largely regarded as disposable cattle. They can be jailed, suppressed, censored, and executed whenever the state decides to do so. Let me put it another way. I'll much happier put up with my government instituting silly policies like not allowing ripping of a DVD, than for my government to censor internet access to purely political/religious ideas, throw bloggers in jail for criticizing the government, etc.
I interpreted "human anatomical peaks" in the sense that we have anatomically-caused limits of visual resolution and color that we can perceive. The "peaks" part may also communicate that some of us see better than others (*adjusts eyeglasses*). The overall limit or "peak" is directly related to the scale of our bodies and how our eyes are put together. The phrase is a slightly unusual shorthand in this summary (of course I didn't read the article), but it makes sense to me.
Stardock, please bring back the Win3.x Program Manager!
It pulls too hard and break your thumb? ouch!
Not sure why this was downvoted. That would be a cool feature for Grand Theft Auto when you don't fulfill your obligations to the mafia.
I predict that factors like this will be the impetus for society ultimately being OK with switching over to computer driven vehicles. Not saying that's good or bad, just predicting.
"I am the government. If you hand me a FOIA request, and I don't like your reasons for asking, I will refuse it."
And you... approve of this? That's kind of a rare and remarkable attitude to find on Slashdot, even besides your apparent ignorance of the actual FOIA law (hint: it's not the document-holder's decision whether it's important to release). Congratulations on being a very special person!
I respect your opinion, but it puzzles me why you are not bothered when people (supposedly acting in the interest of the public) take loads of tax money but refuse to comply with FOIA requests. I understand liking and respecting prominent scientists, since they're part of what makes human civilization great. But why are you defending that misbehavior in particular?
I have to keep cranking up the power because it doesn't seem to have any effect on you, lol! Cheers.
In addition, when government delivers medicine directly, as it does in the Veterans Affairs system, the cost is much lower, and the outcomes are just as good (sometimes better).
Wow, we definitely have not read the same reviews.