The real killer app for this is Google's settop box. Android linux providing: TV recording, TV guides, internet-streamed video, internet-streamed games/apps, video jukebox (hopefully from local or LAN storage), plus connectivity to remote services too.
Add a keyboard and a trackpad and most people would not need a PC at all - and that means they wouldn't need Windows at all. Hmmmm.
glad to be helpful... See this blog for a quick guide w' screenshots, and use VisualSVN Server to create the repo - its 'teh win' for Windows server based subversion repos.
it varies on the version of the Word format - 97, 2003, docx etc, but when I view diffs of a Word doc in Tortoise, it fires up a side-by-side viewer that shows things crossed out, added in colours. Somewhat like the 'track revision' feature in Word.
You can change the difference tool for different types of document, so you can do PDFs too.
Obviously some do a better job than others, and none are as good as diffs of a text document, even Word's track revisions feature can be a pain to read.
good - wasting time commenting on this stuff keeps them motivated to post.
that said, after reading your comment, I had to see what the fuss was about.. I found it quite amusing really. Well, no less amusing that "installing boyfriend 2.0" or "upgrading girlfriend to wife", or any Irish, Polish, or random celebrity jokes that no-one seems to have a problem with. (I'm not American so I don't have the same 'horror' of the N word BTW, round here it's the C word that's the 'uh-oh' one).
It obviously falls into the "not meant to be taken seriously" category (except by the author perhaps, but then he didn't care - he just cared to push your buttons).
So - ignore it and although it won't go away, you can stop caring about it. *That* is what will rile the poster.
are you sure that's true? I mean, MS originally claimed they couldn't port WPF to XP and that everyone would have to buy Vista.
When they realised no-one would, they suddenly found a way to get WPF working on XP, hardware-acceleration included. Just because XP doesn't support the WDDM, just means MS hasn't provided the right bits in the other APIs. I mean, Direct3D does hardware-accelerated fonts, and that runs on XP.
No, the problem isn't a technical one, its a cost one. MS has APIs built into Vista/Win7 that aren't available to XP and rather than extend an older API to support all platforms, they're throwing those away in favour of new APIs that support only the new platforms rather than add those features to the old ones. Means you have to buy new MS stuff, you see...
I mean, if I worked at a financial org, and they asked me to write some wierd code that created dummy trade records, I may think 'eh?' and ask whether it was correct or not, but they'd then tell me its all legal, above board and just another one of those stupid regulatory rules that seem to make no sense to mere programmers... and I'd shrug, say "well, ok then" and do it. then they give me a huge bonus and I think "great, working for financial services is wonderful - they always pay large bonuses"
I mean, imagine if you worked on a popular OS and my boss told me to put a back-door in, saying the NSA required it of us. what would you do?:)
. It also must take into account the handling of external correspondence in the future, where a recipient outside the company must have the means to return an authenticated document as a response
this sounds like the hardest part - 3rd party person will not be in the AD, so cannot be authenticated or managed with a certificate associated with the userid. Obviously if the 3rd party doesn't modify the document you can prove its not modified (but that's easy). If they do.. how do they expect whatever they send in to be an 'authenticated' document.
Personally, I'd put everything in subversion - version control every document 'published' (ie committed) to the repository, you can then see the diffs and the user who did the commit. But that's just an idea based on the relatively vague requirements we've been given.
Trying to get people to buy a "wall wart server" is a decade away
not so - there are a lot of them and networked to the internet. They're NMT devices - network streamers. you plug one into your home network (ie ethernet it to your router) and then you can watch your legitimately downloaded movies on your TV, plus Youtube and some of them iPlayer etc.
It wouldn't be a huge leap forward to enhance their firmwares with more internet-based services. Some already have a bittorrent client, some have streaming off the web capabilities. Add a "Facebook" option to them, and you've got what's a killer app for some people.
Have a look, see the ACRyan Playon, or the Raidsonic IcyBox, or the Asus O!Play, or the Popcorn Hour, or the WD, or the.. multitude of others.
but... that means, if you do not make profit from them its ok. So, if you sold the fruits of the ideas that you obtained from someone else, that's bad. But if you gave them away to benefit everyone (a'la OSS), then that's as fine as the idea being freely available to all men and benefiting society.
I rather like that - if you do not profit from it, you cannot be held accountable by the patent. Cool or what!
.. licking the frog is ok. You see, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
I guess with this frog-based foam, they've just put the finishing touches on the lightest of sugary whipped fondant frog confection.
simply put - the programmer takes his 15 minutes to do a quality job, and the result is better and more efficient. Over years of use of that program, the world saves hundreds of thousands in energy costs, and server hardware costs, not to mention the time saved by users who would have otherwise stared at the screen thinking "come on you bl**dy pile of c**p, 8Gig of RAM and a 3Ghz CPU and you *still* spin that damned hourglass".
Given that, 15 minutes seems worth it. Every time I try to write a new email in Outlook, I wish those programmer had spent a lot longer than that!
Of course, given your way - where we make it so easy for a programmer to code bloated, inefficient apps - you'll have plenty of 15 minutes to spend considering what the outsourced Indian who now has your job is doing.
to be fair - TFA is actually quite good. The summary could be a little more descriptive and have less comments that might have seemed a good teaser to people who didn't know this (and hey, there *are* lots of people who didn't know you can't get rid of libc), but... its a good post 'cos of the article.
I think a lot of people now are coming to/. to read the summary and post, completely forgetting that those summaries are just a quick hint as to which articles you want to go and read. Some, perhaps, you can do without reading TFA - all the 'Microsoft suffers another security flaw' for instance, we don't need to RTFA just to take the piss out of MS!, but the others... they're good articles. Try reading them sometime.
yeah, but the letters are case-insensitive and can use numbers only, no special characters.... that makes for about 6 months on average (300ish days in the worst case).
now... can you run these cards in a SLI configuration, and how many cards can you buy after you've cracked^H^H^H^H^recovered Warren Buffet's account password?:)
that used to be the case, and was partly responsible for the dominance of Windows. But that was a long time ago, now we have all kinds of UI on Windows - not just the differences between XP, Vista and 7, but the differences between theold menu-bar style apps and the new ribbon, or IE style apps.
Go ahead, look at IE and tell me its got a familiar GUI in keeping with the rest of Windows. The divisions in Microsoft are now in the business of making every GUI look different, possibly to differentiate itself from other MS products, possibly just because they can. Expect this to increase over time.
* Parent sees conversation child is having * Parent presses button
I assume either that, or the grooming is so obvious and blatant that even the child reports the pervert. Obviously, those children that use the button were never going to see the stranger's puppies.
I also don't think our current crop of MPs is anything special. The vast majority are career politicians, and there is another load of them preparing in university debating societies right now. Losing even a large number of them to the scandal won't hurt Britain one bit.
amen. I watched Question Time last night (with an all-female audience to, I assume, show up the stupidity of the current political parties obsession with all-female candidate short-lists), and one woman said that she had no chance of becoming a Member of Parliament because she didn't go to the right university or know the right people networks, and she was dead right - we've thrown away the old nepotism in favour of a new one based on a different set of people's mates (at least the old lot were trained to be the ruling class and perform acceptably at that, the new lot are simply self-centred power-hungry t*****rs).
Selling 3d golf on the phone is one thing, trying to sell the same game on the xbox is pointless, and on the PC worthless.
Sometimes just because you can do something doesn't mean its worth doing. Look at supreme commander 2 - dumbed down so xbox users can play it, PC gamers simply told to suck it up.
No, I still think its best not to start off with anything other than something really simple. The point is not that you get to learn OO or web services or whatever, but that you get it to work immediately, with interactive debugging. I'd even go so far to say you should learn a scripting language (like php or python), but they tend to be too web-centric and not-so-easily debugged.
Hmm, that said, there is a PHP debugger/IDE. Perhaps that would be best to start with.
Then, once you have the basics of programming in you, you can branch out to new stuff. But its important to realise that what you or I know, the 10 year old newbie to programming doesn't have a clue about. He has to learn the stuff we've forgotten to take for granted.
You could start with Pascal as the 2nd language, and extend yourself to Modula-2 as the third, but you'd probably be better off learning C as the 2nd, and C++ as the 3rd.
BTW. today OO isn't so important - its all Web Services. Oh sorry, Cloud services. Oh sorry, the *next* big thing;)
Yes I know... its a shame MS isn't as bad as everyone would like.
However, look at the things they do do wrong, its mainly complexity and partly 'new stuff'. I'm looking to port one of my old apps to the new Visual Studio... and its all changed beyond recognition so I have to go learn a brand new framework (again) to do the same thing I did last time, which in itself required learning a new framework. Its like they can never quite get it right, so continually replace the old 'crap' with new shiny stuff.. until they want to replace that and the 'new shiny' becomes the 'old crap ' all over again. It can be difficult to maintain and keep up.
This has occurred a little recently, the cult of the backwards-compatibility is being sacrificed to the cult of the new and shiny.
The other aspect is complexity. In Linux, everything sits in a directory and runs independently, and is hooked together using standard mechanisms. Lovely. Its a breath of fresh air when you don't have to install a framework, a toolkit, a patch set, an upgrade and then fix some really obscure part of the system that was invented to make things complicated. I recall installing MS Small Business package which required a MS-SQL install, which in turn required WMI updates which failed. Eventually I found the WMI DB needed rebuilding completely. It made the worst linux configurations look like childs play.
I see a lot more of that nowadays compared to old versions of Windows, too much 'stuff' crammed in there (and then see the first para for why its never quite good enough and maintained properly - they realise the stuff they've slapped in is crap, and replace it with an alternative shiny thing).
I think a lot of customers are realising this. We're a Microsoft shop ("replace everything with WCF services") but we support Oracle on Redhat for some reason, and our largest customers have all specified Redhat to run their DBs on. Considering they have to admin Windows for the rest of the product system, I find that quite intriguing.
Lots of people use simple things like their pets or parents birthdays as those reminder question answers,
and more importantly, lots of people use the same password for a lot of sites. If the passwords are not stored securely then he could quickly query the facebook DB and read the password.
Yes, I know. I'm a C++ dev myself and I see so much effort being placed in C# (and so much "can we do it in C# please, please can we, can we" from the other devs) that we're most definitely a niche in Microsoft now. Sure VC++ is still developed, but not like the.net tools. Sure, we have WWS (but only for Windows 7/Server 2008r2, you can get it for the older platforms, but it'll cost you a lot of cash).
And yes, I know of the Ribbon as the MFC thing that no-one else has, but there are lots of them available for WPF now. Once Office becomes more.NET, you'll see the C++ support drag along further behind. Its a shame.
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The real killer app for this is Google's settop box. Android linux providing: TV recording, TV guides, internet-streamed video, internet-streamed games/apps, video jukebox (hopefully from local or LAN storage), plus connectivity to remote services too.
Add a keyboard and a trackpad and most people would not need a PC at all - and that means they wouldn't need Windows at all. Hmmmm.
Personally, I'm currently a surgical trainee looking to get out. Long story.
couldn't cut it eh? ..... I'll get my coat.
glad to be helpful... See this blog for a quick guide w' screenshots, and use VisualSVN Server to create the repo - its 'teh win' for Windows server based subversion repos.
it varies on the version of the Word format - 97, 2003, docx etc, but when I view diffs of a Word doc in Tortoise, it fires up a side-by-side viewer that shows things crossed out, added in colours. Somewhat like the 'track revision' feature in Word.
You can change the difference tool for different types of document, so you can do PDFs too.
Obviously some do a better job than others, and none are as good as diffs of a text document, even Word's track revisions feature can be a pain to read.
good - wasting time commenting on this stuff keeps them motivated to post.
that said, after reading your comment, I had to see what the fuss was about.. I found it quite amusing really. Well, no less amusing that "installing boyfriend 2.0" or "upgrading girlfriend to wife", or any Irish, Polish, or random celebrity jokes that no-one seems to have a problem with. (I'm not American so I don't have the same 'horror' of the N word BTW, round here it's the C word that's the 'uh-oh' one).
It obviously falls into the "not meant to be taken seriously" category (except by the author perhaps, but then he didn't care - he just cared to push your buttons).
So - ignore it and although it won't go away, you can stop caring about it. *That* is what will rile the poster.
are you sure that's true? I mean, MS originally claimed they couldn't port WPF to XP and that everyone would have to buy Vista.
When they realised no-one would, they suddenly found a way to get WPF working on XP, hardware-acceleration included. Just because XP doesn't support the WDDM, just means MS hasn't provided the right bits in the other APIs. I mean, Direct3D does hardware-accelerated fonts, and that runs on XP.
No, the problem isn't a technical one, its a cost one. MS has APIs built into Vista/Win7 that aren't available to XP and rather than extend an older API to support all platforms, they're throwing those away in favour of new APIs that support only the new platforms rather than add those features to the old ones. Means you have to buy new MS stuff, you see...
but is it a bribe, or a bonus?
I mean, if I worked at a financial org, and they asked me to write some wierd code that created dummy trade records, I may think 'eh?' and ask whether it was correct or not, but they'd then tell me its all legal, above board and just another one of those stupid regulatory rules that seem to make no sense to mere programmers... and I'd shrug, say "well, ok then" and do it. then they give me a huge bonus and I think "great, working for financial services is wonderful - they always pay large bonuses"
I mean, imagine if you worked on a popular OS and my boss told me to put a back-door in, saying the NSA required it of us. what would you do? :)
. It also must take into account the handling of external correspondence in the future, where a recipient outside the company must have the means to return an authenticated document as a response
this sounds like the hardest part - 3rd party person will not be in the AD, so cannot be authenticated or managed with a certificate associated with the userid. Obviously if the 3rd party doesn't modify the document you can prove its not modified (but that's easy). If they do.. how do they expect whatever they send in to be an 'authenticated' document.
Personally, I'd put everything in subversion - version control every document 'published' (ie committed) to the repository, you can then see the diffs and the user who did the commit. But that's just an idea based on the relatively vague requirements we've been given.
Trying to get people to buy a "wall wart server" is a decade away
not so - there are a lot of them and networked to the internet. They're NMT devices - network streamers. you plug one into your home network (ie ethernet it to your router) and then you can watch your legitimately downloaded movies on your TV, plus Youtube and some of them iPlayer etc.
It wouldn't be a huge leap forward to enhance their firmwares with more internet-based services. Some already have a bittorrent client, some have streaming off the web capabilities. Add a "Facebook" option to them, and you've got what's a killer app for some people.
Have a look, see the ACRyan Playon, or the Raidsonic IcyBox, or the Asus O!Play, or the Popcorn Hour, or the WD, or the .. multitude of others.
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you had me up to that point :)
but... that means, if you do not make profit from them its ok. So, if you sold the fruits of the ideas that you obtained from someone else, that's bad. But if you gave them away to benefit everyone (a'la OSS), then that's as fine as the idea being freely available to all men and benefiting society.
I rather like that - if you do not profit from it, you cannot be held accountable by the patent. Cool or what!
.. licking the frog is ok. You see, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
I guess with this frog-based foam, they've just put the finishing touches on the lightest of sugary whipped fondant frog confection.
the CPU.
simply put - the programmer takes his 15 minutes to do a quality job, and the result is better and more efficient. Over years of use of that program, the world saves hundreds of thousands in energy costs, and server hardware costs, not to mention the time saved by users who would have otherwise stared at the screen thinking "come on you bl**dy pile of c**p, 8Gig of RAM and a 3Ghz CPU and you *still* spin that damned hourglass".
Given that, 15 minutes seems worth it. Every time I try to write a new email in Outlook, I wish those programmer had spent a lot longer than that!
Of course, given your way - where we make it so easy for a programmer to code bloated, inefficient apps - you'll have plenty of 15 minutes to spend considering what the outsourced Indian who now has your job is doing.
to be fair - TFA is actually quite good. The summary could be a little more descriptive and have less comments that might have seemed a good teaser to people who didn't know this (and hey, there *are* lots of people who didn't know you can't get rid of libc), but... its a good post 'cos of the article.
I think a lot of people now are coming to /. to read the summary and post, completely forgetting that those summaries are just a quick hint as to which articles you want to go and read. Some, perhaps, you can do without reading TFA - all the 'Microsoft suffers another security flaw' for instance, we don't need to RTFA just to take the piss out of MS!, but the others... they're good articles. Try reading them sometime.
yeah, but the letters are case-insensitive and can use numbers only, no special characters.... that makes for about 6 months on average (300ish days in the worst case).
now... can you run these cards in a SLI configuration, and how many cards can you buy after you've cracked^H^H^H^H^recovered Warren Buffet's account password? :)
that used to be the case, and was partly responsible for the dominance of Windows. But that was a long time ago, now we have all kinds of UI on Windows - not just the differences between XP, Vista and 7, but the differences between theold menu-bar style apps and the new ribbon, or IE style apps.
Go ahead, look at IE and tell me its got a familiar GUI in keeping with the rest of Windows. The divisions in Microsoft are now in the business of making every GUI look different, possibly to differentiate itself from other MS products, possibly just because they can. Expect this to increase over time.
But for now I solve problems, I fix things, and I help people. That sums up what I enjoy doing, and usually involves technology
Thank goodness we have those offshored programmers to make things that then require fixing!
I think its more about the section you missed:
* Parent sees conversation child is having
* Parent presses button
I assume either that, or the grooming is so obvious and blatant that even the child reports the pervert. Obviously, those children that use the button were never going to see the stranger's puppies.
I also don't think our current crop of MPs is anything special. The vast majority are career politicians, and there is another load of them preparing in university debating societies right now. Losing even a large number of them to the scandal won't hurt Britain one bit.
amen. I watched Question Time last night (with an all-female audience to, I assume, show up the stupidity of the current political parties obsession with all-female candidate short-lists), and one woman said that she had no chance of becoming a Member of Parliament because she didn't go to the right university or know the right people networks, and she was dead right - we've thrown away the old nepotism in favour of a new one based on a different set of people's mates (at least the old lot were trained to be the ruling class and perform acceptably at that, the new lot are simply self-centred power-hungry t*****rs).
Maybe things will change, come the revolution!
Selling 3d golf on the phone is one thing, trying to sell the same game on the xbox is pointless, and on the PC worthless.
Sometimes just because you can do something doesn't mean its worth doing. Look at supreme commander 2 - dumbed down so xbox users can play it, PC gamers simply told to suck it up.
No, I still think its best not to start off with anything other than something really simple. The point is not that you get to learn OO or web services or whatever, but that you get it to work immediately, with interactive debugging. I'd even go so far to say you should learn a scripting language (like php or python), but they tend to be too web-centric and not-so-easily debugged.
Hmm, that said, there is a PHP debugger/IDE. Perhaps that would be best to start with.
Then, once you have the basics of programming in you, you can branch out to new stuff. But its important to realise that what you or I know, the 10 year old newbie to programming doesn't have a clue about. He has to learn the stuff we've forgotten to take for granted.
You could start with Pascal as the 2nd language, and extend yourself to Modula-2 as the third, but you'd probably be better off learning C as the 2nd, and C++ as the 3rd.
BTW. today OO isn't so important - its all Web Services. Oh sorry, Cloud services. Oh sorry, the *next* big thing ;)
Yes I know... its a shame MS isn't as bad as everyone would like.
However, look at the things they do do wrong, its mainly complexity and partly 'new stuff'. I'm looking to port one of my old apps to the new Visual Studio... and its all changed beyond recognition so I have to go learn a brand new framework (again) to do the same thing I did last time, which in itself required learning a new framework. Its like they can never quite get it right, so continually replace the old 'crap' with new shiny stuff.. until they want to replace that and the 'new shiny' becomes the 'old crap ' all over again. It can be difficult to maintain and keep up.
This has occurred a little recently, the cult of the backwards-compatibility is being sacrificed to the cult of the new and shiny.
The other aspect is complexity. In Linux, everything sits in a directory and runs independently, and is hooked together using standard mechanisms. Lovely. Its a breath of fresh air when you don't have to install a framework, a toolkit, a patch set, an upgrade and then fix some really obscure part of the system that was invented to make things complicated. I recall installing MS Small Business package which required a MS-SQL install, which in turn required WMI updates which failed. Eventually I found the WMI DB needed rebuilding completely. It made the worst linux configurations look like childs play.
I see a lot more of that nowadays compared to old versions of Windows, too much 'stuff' crammed in there (and then see the first para for why its never quite good enough and maintained properly - they realise the stuff they've slapped in is crap, and replace it with an alternative shiny thing).
I think a lot of customers are realising this. We're a Microsoft shop ("replace everything with WCF services") but we support Oracle on Redhat for some reason, and our largest customers have all specified Redhat to run their DBs on. Considering they have to admin Windows for the rest of the product system, I find that quite intriguing.
Lots of people use simple things like their pets or parents birthdays as those reminder question answers,
and more importantly, lots of people use the same password for a lot of sites. If the passwords are not stored securely then he could quickly query the facebook DB and read the password.
Yes, I know. I'm a C++ dev myself and I see so much effort being placed in C# (and so much "can we do it in C# please, please can we, can we" from the other devs) that we're most definitely a niche in Microsoft now. Sure VC++ is still developed, but not like the .net tools. Sure, we have WWS (but only for Windows 7/Server 2008r2, you can get it for the older platforms, but it'll cost you a lot of cash).
And yes, I know of the Ribbon as the MFC thing that no-one else has, but there are lots of them available for WPF now. Once Office becomes more .NET, you'll see the C++ support drag along further behind. Its a shame.
yeah well I can do mush faster thanb that but I think tiot snds to make my accurewacy a bit less than oprimakl.
Hey! That reads like someone off a gaming forum. Kewl, so *now* I know what those boys are on.