So are you saying that you believe that Steve Jobs' exceptionally strong moral and ethical compass put him way above engaging in a bit of industrial spying?
Watch out for intelligent developers whose strongest skill is creating the appearance of working without actually doing any. Watch out for intelligent developers whose main skill is undermining the work of other, even more intelligent developers. Sad but true, there is a subculture of both kinds of developers circulating through the industry moving from company to company just ahead of their termination notices, relying on the fact that no former employer will take the legal risk of telling the truth about how they actually performed.
Even now they have their Hip Hop that converts PHP to C++. Arguing against PHP is like saying that Carbon Fiber is a better material than steel for car frames.
May I please improve your car analogy? Good to hear Facebook now makes its airplanes out of aluminum instead of wood.
Turning Windows into a Fisher Price toy is about the only possible way Balmer could have found to dismantle Microsoft's business monopoly in record time. I am impressed and the words "burning platform" come to mind.
The European Commission is distinct from the European Parliament. European Commissioners have established a pretty good reputation for themselves as being for sale and not accountable to their constituencies. European Parliament nominally holds the real power, but democracy in Europe often turns into an uphill battle against corrupt commissioners.
The European Commision is also the main promoter of legalizing software patents in Europe, against the express wishes of the European Parliament.
Bill Gates still has a large shareholding in Microsoft. Microsoft has no presence in tablets but still has monopoly control of the PC market. Bill Gates says schools should buy PCs not tablets. So yet again, Bill Gates outs himselft as a self serving disingenuous asshole.
...well, at least I thought that until I found there's no USB port on the tablet itself. The Xoom will do just fine for now and I'll just keep my wallet shut.
Some people are still more comfortable with the laptop form factor, and a discrete keyboard and stand do not replace that design.
I find that it does. The only remaining issues I have are software ones... mainly, why does this have to run a cutdown hack of a UI instead of a standard UI agumented with touchscreen support?
...the keyboard dock turns it into an Android netbook, rather than a kludgy collection of knocked-together addons where you have to support the display with your knees?
Xoom's portfolio case takes care of this nicely, it is rugged, stable and light.
Sorry, I have just too much experience watching knuckle dragging framework monkeys dig holes they can't climb out of.
Whatever you might wish to think, the computer science universe started with algorithms + data structures and that has not changed, nor will it ever. And certainly not to make a gaggle of marginally competent self styled software engineers feel good about the degree they got in button clicking.
Last I checked, VC++ team has plainly stated that they are simply not interested in working on vanilla C, so why would they care about what is and isn't in C11?
Given that Microsoft's implementation of C++11 also sucks, exactly what is the VC++ team interested in working on?
That's easy to fix, just don't use Microsoft's crappy compiler. The days when it could compete effectively with GCC are long gone, and LLVM is coming up fast too.
Haha, ultra-clean is not a term I would apply to either C or its demon child C++. Speaking as someone who has written hundreds of thousands of lines of both.
Where did C99 go awry? Some of its mandatory features proved difficult to implement in some platforms. Other C99 features were considered questionable or experimental, to such an extent that certain vendors even advised C programmers to replace C with C++.
Speak for yourself Microsoft. It is not our fault that you can't implement C99 features properly or on time. For the rest of us C99 is alive, well and popular. Just avoid Microsoft's shoddy compiler and you will be fine. Both GCC and LLVM do the job properly.
By the way, similar comments apply to Microsoft's tardy and dodgy implementation of C++11.
Whoa, don't tell me Apple is playing follow the leader with Google. I thought Apple always thinks of everything first, and this is why they like to sue everybody.
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So are you saying that you believe that Steve Jobs' exceptionally strong moral and ethical compass put him way above engaging in a bit of industrial spying?
I was just reading this morning that phone sales are down for everyone (except Apple apparently).
What were you reading, a blog written by your sister? (IOW, link please.) For the rest of us, the situation seems to be developing as you would expect, contrary to widespread reality distortion from Apple. Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 26.0 percent market share. Google Android continued to grow its share in the U.S. smartphone market, accounting for 51 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple captured more than 30 percent.
Competition has a way of eroding fat margins. Just saying.
Watch out for intelligent developers whose strongest skill is creating the appearance of working without actually doing any. Watch out for intelligent developers whose main skill is undermining the work of other, even more intelligent developers. Sad but true, there is a subculture of both kinds of developers circulating through the industry moving from company to company just ahead of their termination notices, relying on the fact that no former employer will take the legal risk of telling the truth about how they actually performed.
Even now they have their Hip Hop that converts PHP to C++. Arguing against PHP is like saying that Carbon Fiber is a better material than steel for car frames.
May I please improve your car analogy? Good to hear Facebook now makes its airplanes out of aluminum instead of wood.
Standard practice at is to collect this data methodically, efficiently and comprehensively then ignore it completely in favor of a powerpoint slide.
Well, I would add "meant to kill off XP And Linux".
Where's the funny mod?
Turning Windows into a Fisher Price toy is about the only possible way Balmer could have found to dismantle Microsoft's business monopoly in record time. I am impressed and the words "burning platform" come to mind.
UEFI boot comes to mind, just off the top of my head.
How do they keep getting elected?
European commissioners are appointed, not elected.
The European Commission is distinct from the European Parliament. European Commissioners have established a pretty good reputation for themselves as being for sale and not accountable to their constituencies. European Parliament nominally holds the real power, but democracy in Europe often turns into an uphill battle against corrupt commissioners.
The European Commision is also the main promoter of legalizing software patents in Europe, against the express wishes of the European Parliament.
Bill Gates still has a large shareholding in Microsoft. Microsoft has no presence in tablets but still has monopoly control of the PC market. Bill Gates says schools should buy PCs not tablets. So yet again, Bill Gates outs himselft as a self serving disingenuous asshole.
...well, at least I thought that until I found there's no USB port on the tablet itself. The Xoom will do just fine for now and I'll just keep my wallet shut.
Some people are still more comfortable with the laptop form factor, and a discrete keyboard and stand do not replace that design.
I find that it does. The only remaining issues I have are software ones... mainly, why does this have to run a cutdown hack of a UI instead of a standard UI agumented with touchscreen support?
...the keyboard dock turns it into an Android netbook, rather than a kludgy collection of knocked-together addons where you have to support the display with your knees?
Xoom's portfolio case takes care of this nicely, it is rugged, stable and light.
It's the tablet I've been waiting for. Somebody inherits my trusty Xoom.
Sorry, I have just too much experience watching knuckle dragging framework monkeys dig holes they can't climb out of.
Whatever you might wish to think, the computer science universe started with algorithms + data structures and that has not changed, nor will it ever. And certainly not to make a gaggle of marginally competent self styled software engineers feel good about the degree they got in button clicking.
I also don't believe Apple are in the business of suing people all that much
Wow, no wonder you posted anon.
The "11" actually refers to how far you can turn up the volume.[1]
[1] Quoted from Tough Love's Album of Unreliable Facts (c)
Last I checked, VC++ team has plainly stated that they are simply not interested in working on vanilla C, so why would they care about what is and isn't in C11?
Given that Microsoft's implementation of C++11 also sucks, exactly what is the VC++ team interested in working on?
That's easy to fix, just don't use Microsoft's crappy compiler. The days when it could compete effectively with GCC are long gone, and LLVM is coming up fast too.
Because C is an ultra-clean procedural language.
Haha, ultra-clean is not a term I would apply to either C or its demon child C++. Speaking as someone who has written hundreds of thousands of lines of both.
Where did C99 go awry? Some of its mandatory features proved difficult to implement in some platforms. Other C99 features were considered questionable or experimental, to such an extent that certain vendors even advised C programmers to replace C with C++.
Speak for yourself Microsoft. It is not our fault that you can't implement C99 features properly or on time. For the rest of us C99 is alive, well and popular. Just avoid Microsoft's shoddy compiler and you will be fine. Both GCC and LLVM do the job properly.
By the way, similar comments apply to Microsoft's tardy and dodgy implementation of C++11.
Whoa, don't tell me Apple is playing follow the leader with Google. I thought Apple always thinks of everything first, and this is why they like to sue everybody.