Er, I think this refers to the Windows Installer service which isn't exactly a "shitty little EXEs".
That said, Installer is so complex and so hard to deploy under, perhaps a return to the good old days of "shitty little EXEs" would be an improvement.....
No mention of evidence for concluding that the laptop was responsible. Perhaps the house burnt down for another reason. But that wouldn't make such a good story would it.
The documentation to Vista is widely available but rather incomplete. It seems that they have decided to release the product before writing all the documentation.
And then of course there is the moving target effect, that the API kept changing with each beta. That's fine though but it didn't leave much time to get things right for the RTM version.
As a developer trying to make his application work well on Vista I would welcome some documentation rather than a service pack. I mean, how can these folk release an OS with a host of new APIs and then not document them. Even ignoring the anti-trust issues how can it make business sense not to tell ISVs how to code for Vista? The wealth of apps available on Windows is one thing that gives it a head start over Mac and Linux, but MS can't write them all themselves. Please, tell us how to do it!!!
There's a few things that stick in the craw with the whole scientific journal system.
At least outside of North America, the whole academic sector is funded by the taxpayer. The journals don't fund the research. So, if we are paying for the research in the first place, why on earth don't we the public have a right to see all that's published?
It's hard to stomach the publishers complaints when you realise how they treat the source of their income, the researchers. These folk do the reviewing and editing for free, usually out of office hours. They don't mind this, it's part of the game, but why should a publisher trouser wads of cash for all their hard work?
The time will come when the publishers are forced out of business by an online, peer reviewed, sponsored publication model. Only that time won't be any time soon. It is sad to say that academics are so hopelessly individual they are highly unlikely to be able to join together to beat the publishers just yet!
A browser that started faster, responded faster, loaded pages faster, didn't consume vast amounts of my precious system memory, and using a platform native interface
The best thing about *NIX file names is that it allows you to use really useful names like *. I was present once as a colleague execute rm * to get rid of this pesky file he'd created by accident. Oh boy was he not happy with the result.
It's just as well he didn't have a file called -rf and try to get rid of them both in the same command!
As a developer of professional software one of the most important lessons that I have learnt is that every (well, almost every) time you offer the user a option of interfaces you have failed to do your job properly. Your jobs is to make a good choice for the majority of users.
Scunthorpe is a town in the east of England. Yahoo rejects names containing Scunthorpe. They must be employing really powerful algorithms to check if you are using swear words.........
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Just a shame this will come too late for the lovely Mr. Theodore Bagwell......
Er, I think this refers to the Windows Installer service which isn't exactly a "shitty little EXEs".
That said, Installer is so complex and so hard to deploy under, perhaps a return to the good old days of "shitty little EXEs" would be an improvement.....
No mention of evidence for concluding that the laptop was responsible. Perhaps the house burnt down for another reason. But that wouldn't make such a good story would it.
The documentation to Vista is widely available but rather incomplete. It seems that they have decided to release the product before writing all the documentation.
And then of course there is the moving target effect, that the API kept changing with each beta. That's fine though but it didn't leave much time to get things right for the RTM version.
Got to love the moderation here on slashdot.
Am I missing something: are "criticism" and "flamebait" really the same things?
Hardly surprising that the games were slower on the Vista machine which uses a different (slower) processor!
Yet more high quality reporting from Slashdot.....
But these things work both ways. Windows support for multi-threading within processes has been fantastic for 10 years. What's it like in Linux?
Waiting for this post to be modded down by the Linux fanboys.....
As a developer trying to make his application work well on Vista I would welcome some documentation rather than a service pack. I mean, how can these folk release an OS with a host of new APIs and then not document them. Even ignoring the anti-trust issues how can it make business sense not to tell ISVs how to code for Vista? The wealth of apps available on Windows is one thing that gives it a head start over Mac and Linux, but MS can't write them all themselves. Please, tell us how to do it!!!
OK, so it's not black and white the way I told it, but in the majority I believe my statement holds good.
There's a few things that stick in the craw with the whole scientific journal system.
At least outside of North America, the whole academic sector is funded by the taxpayer. The journals don't fund the research. So, if we are paying for the research in the first place, why on earth don't we the public have a right to see all that's published?
It's hard to stomach the publishers complaints when you realise how they treat the source of their income, the researchers. These folk do the reviewing and editing for free, usually out of office hours. They don't mind this, it's part of the game, but why should a publisher trouser wads of cash for all their hard work?
The time will come when the publishers are forced out of business by an online, peer reviewed, sponsored publication model. Only that time won't be any time soon. It is sad to say that academics are so hopelessly individual they are highly unlikely to be able to join together to beat the publishers just yet!
Can anyone explain why a Zune story is filed under Apple?
A lot of folk in Northern Ireland have a somewhat different perspective on Mr De Lorean. But what would they know, they only used to work for him!
Nobody wanted them before he left either, he basically blagged loads of government subsidies and then ran off with the case as I recall
No it won't.
Er, when did it fill up enough to burst?
One word: chart
A browser that started faster, responded faster, loaded pages faster, didn't consume vast amounts of my precious system memory, and using a platform native interface
The best thing about *NIX file names is that it allows you to use really useful names like *. I was present once as a colleague execute rm * to get rid of this pesky file he'd created by accident. Oh boy was he not happy with the result.
It's just as well he didn't have a file called -rf and try to get rid of them both in the same command!
Good to see that Firefox is now surpassing IE on all fronts, including the frequency of security flaws being plugged!!
;-)
Actually I'm a big fan of FF, especially now that I've got 2GB memory installed......
Yes, it's a very difficult task. And it's important not to shy from it by giving the users vast amount of configuration.
As a developer of professional software one of the most important lessons that I have learnt is that every (well, almost every) time you offer the user a option of interfaces you have failed to do your job properly. Your jobs is to make a good choice for the majority of users.
Didn't Al Gore invent it anyway?
Why the heck shouldn't the US control the interweb, after all, they control everything else important in the world.....
Scunthorpe is a town in the east of England. Yahoo rejects names containing Scunthorpe. They must be employing really powerful algorithms to check if you are using swear words.........
What about "if (x=y)"? Is that valid in C#?
No, you're right, if (z=x+++++y) { ... } is definintely much clearer....