An apt observation. If I had mod points, you'd have one. However, I fear that progress in corporate special interest lobbies may have advanced sufficiently to prop up these dubious assertions of iron-fisted copyright
And kudos to Apple if they deliver to your expectations. I am strongly FOR competition in the workstation market. However, my point was to the existence of shipping 64 bit software/hardware, NOT to speculate about price/performance.
You might indeed. My 900MhZ laptop does it in 30s from a hibernation and 50s from cold power up. That's the time from when I press the power switch until the start menu responds to a mouse click (ie Explorer's message pump has initialized) and includes my domain logon with a 16 character password. Over 802.11b.
XPPro, 900 P3 Toshiba w 384MB RAM. Windows install date was October 21, 2002.
That's a pretty lame statement. He did get approval from TUV. A lack of formal certification does not a lack of knowledge confer. There are innumerable examples I could enumerate, but then they wouldn't be innumerable.
And then....the horrible horrible unclean Americans (no, an apostrophe is not an s signaling for right-of-way) went to Germany and forced the German engineers to fly the bomb anyway?
Portability never follows if you code to platform features. Ask WebSphere developers about that. In any case, to be considered a compliant implementation, it need only meet the standard set out by ECMA for the CLI. Sun could do worse than to submit Java(tm) to a standards body for ratification.
Yeaaaaaah. C:\windows\winnt. Uh huh. You DO have a lot of Win32 experience. Maybe you were joking.
I've never seen a library/module/class loader method (or function or API or whatever) that wasn't overloaded. Overloading an API doesn't make it bad, per se. And a general lack of configuration management for.DLLs doesn't either. The darn things have no versioning information that LoadLibrary_ad infinitum could reliably depend upon.
As a senior developer / team CM guy, I'll second SIE. But it is a bit pricey. The issue tracking (I assume you mean Integrity Manager) is a little complicated, but highly configurable issue tracking/workflow/swiss army knife that integrates well with SIE. I also admin the server - its based on WebLogic - and it's pretty simple. I can do checkout/checkin via broadband VPN reasonably fast. SIE supports Visual Studio 6, 7, and 7.1 (VS.Net 2002/2003) very well, and it has a good command line interface. On the other hand, there are other great solutions out there. Perforce is one - but its issue tracking (aka Jobs) isn't as feature-full.
Suck or not.../. may bash it, but I read an interesting suggestion a week or so ago: business use of the Mira devices as a second monitor might be a great way to compromise between a desktop and a laptop for those who attend a lot of meetings (therefore needing a mobile device bigger than a PDA) but who don't travel (therefore not rating a laptop). Neat idea.
OT.... Win9x/NT isn't a fork. Win9x is the Win32 API running on DOS. NT is Win32 plus other client API subsystems running on the NT kernel, which bears much more in common with the likes of unix or VMS than DOS. It would be like calling NT/Wine a fork.
If you dont want to, don't touch CE development. But it is actually pretty fun.
well, Mister CRLF, it is well suited to developing applications on the Windows platform. It provides such boons to us evil stormtroopers like:
context sensitive help with examples coded in multiple languages.
Intellisense that integrates user code documentation.
Template creation to limit junior programmer usage of pretty/useless widgets
Good macro support
Integrated web load testing tools
Integrated Active Directory support
Integrated database support
Integrated debugger
Forms designer for the gui guys (I ain't one)
Class/object browser For our shop, it is worth the investment. But then, we just get the MSDN Universal Subscription...we don't actually pay for just the IDE. But soon, there will be Sidewinder.
Well... VS.Net, for all that I love about it, sucks at managing large projects. I would STRONGLY recomend making sure you know how to build EVERY project, from the command line, without using the IDE (yes, you can invoke the IDE as a build tool from the command line.) To that end, I'd suggest using NAnt, Ant, or the not free but very fine FinalBuilder.
As far as wizard generated code goes, the (extraordinarily expensive and worth it) Compuware DevPartner Studio often flags wizard code as non-compliant with MS' own standards.
All above referenced tools/products are easily googled. No apologies if you're too lazy to do so.
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This is one of those instances where I wish you could get ONE message in a story modded up to +6. Good stuff.
Transparent titanium? WOWZERS! Next, he'll make transparent alumi...ohh, wait. That's been done.
So what Windows may be good at something Linux may suffer at and vice verca
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You're new here, huh?
I wish I had mod points today. I'm actually seeing some rational discourse.
Absolutely. I agree with you 100 percent. It depends upon your (staff's) experience. Although, it's *nix I have to sit down and RTFM for.
An apt observation. If I had mod points, you'd have one. However, I fear that progress in corporate special interest lobbies may have advanced sufficiently to prop up these dubious assertions of iron-fisted copyright
There is corresponding functionality in Win2k SP3 EE via the /3GB switch in boot.ini. Note this is different than PAE.
And kudos to Apple if they deliver to your expectations. I am strongly FOR competition in the workstation market. However, my point was to the existence of shipping 64 bit software/hardware, NOT to speculate about price/performance.
Into what perspective exactly? That Microsoft released their 64-bit workstation OS almost 3 months ago?
Just to be balanced...here is a shipping product.
Halo and Ghost Recon come to mind.
Inverse square wave is a mother, ain't it?
You might indeed. My 900MhZ laptop does it in 30s from a hibernation and 50s from cold power up. That's the time from when I press the power switch until the start menu responds to a mouse click (ie Explorer's message pump has initialized) and includes my domain logon with a 16 character password. Over 802.11b.
XPPro, 900 P3 Toshiba w 384MB RAM. Windows install date was October 21, 2002.
That's a pretty lame statement. He did get approval from TUV. A lack of formal certification does not a lack of knowledge confer. There are innumerable examples I could enumerate, but then they wouldn't be innumerable.
And then....the horrible horrible unclean Americans (no, an apostrophe is not an s signaling for right-of-way) went to Germany and forced the German engineers to fly the bomb anyway?
Portability never follows if you code to platform features. Ask WebSphere developers about that.
In any case, to be considered a compliant implementation, it need only meet the standard set out by ECMA for the CLI. Sun could do worse than to submit Java(tm) to a standards body for ratification.
Microsoft released the source to an implementation that compiles and runs on Windows, FreeBSD and MacOS 10.2.
.Net programming, but, just like the press, that doesn't excuse you from checking the facts first.
Mono is a clean-room implementation that runs natively on x86 Linux and interpreted on PPC, S390 and StrongARM.
I realize you don't do a lick of Java or
Beautiful sig. Why can't I post anonymously?
Yeaaaaaah. C:\windows\winnt. Uh huh. You DO have a lot of Win32 experience. Maybe you were joking.
.DLLs doesn't either. The darn things have no versioning information that LoadLibrary_ad infinitum could reliably depend upon.
I've never seen a library/module/class loader method (or function or API or whatever) that wasn't overloaded. Overloading an API doesn't make it bad, per se. And a general lack of configuration management for
Gosh it's so cool to bash MS. I bet you even have a leg to stand on. I bet you can name over 10 Win32 APIs, huh? Hmmmmm.
Didnt we see handheld railguns in Eraser?
Yummy titanium Katana for Hiro!
As a senior developer / team CM guy, I'll second SIE. But it is a bit pricey. The issue tracking (I assume you mean Integrity Manager) is a little complicated, but highly configurable issue tracking/workflow/swiss army knife that integrates well with SIE.
I also admin the server - its based on WebLogic - and it's pretty simple.
I can do checkout/checkin via broadband VPN reasonably fast. SIE supports Visual Studio 6, 7, and 7.1 (VS.Net 2002/2003) very well, and it has a good command line interface.
On the other hand, there are other great solutions out there. Perforce is one - but its issue tracking (aka Jobs) isn't as feature-full.
Suck or not... /. may bash it, but I read an interesting suggestion a week or so ago: business use of the Mira devices as a second monitor might be a great way to compromise between a desktop and a laptop for those who attend a lot of meetings (therefore needing a mobile device bigger than a PDA) but who don't travel (therefore not rating a laptop). Neat idea.
OT.... Win9x/NT isn't a fork. Win9x is the Win32 API running on DOS. NT is Win32 plus other client API subsystems running on the NT kernel, which bears much more in common with the likes of unix or VMS than DOS. It would be like calling NT/Wine a fork.
If you dont want to, don't touch CE development. But it is actually pretty fun.
context sensitive help with examples coded in multiple languages.
Intellisense that integrates user code documentation.
Template creation to limit junior programmer usage of pretty/useless widgets
Good macro support
Integrated web load testing tools
Integrated Active Directory support
Integrated database support
Integrated debugger
Forms designer for the gui guys (I ain't one)
Class/object browser
For our shop, it is worth the investment. But then, we just get the MSDN Universal Subscription...we don't actually pay for just the IDE. But soon, there will be Sidewinder.
Well... VS.Net, for all that I love about it, sucks at managing large projects. I would STRONGLY recomend making sure you know how to build EVERY project, from the command line, without using the IDE (yes, you can invoke the IDE as a build tool from the command line.) To that end, I'd suggest using NAnt, Ant, or the not free but very fine FinalBuilder.
As far as wizard generated code goes, the (extraordinarily expensive and worth it) Compuware DevPartner Studio often flags wizard code as non-compliant with MS' own standards.
All above referenced tools/products are easily googled. No apologies if you're too lazy to do so.