fuxk that. Open Visual Studio to other platforms, but provide a decent implementation using the native languages that are used on those platforms.
There's no reason the C++ support in VS could equal that for C# or VB.NET, the reason it doesn't is because MS want to make.NET a 'easier' experience for RAD developers (ie their traditional VB coders) and don't want to spend the money on support for other languages - especially languages that can be used to transfer skills to other platforms where.NET doesn't run. VS isn't a developer tool, its a set of handcuffs chained to a Windows cage.
But... if they did open VS up, to objective-C on macs, and C/C++ on Linux, then I think that would be wonderful. Its at times like this that I am really disappointed with the DoJ for not splitting MS up and letting the VS team compete on their own because they would undoubtedly have made VS for Linux and Mac instead of screwing around with all the now-unsupported failures dev div has left in their wake for the last 10 years.
except you assume everyone is a middle-class rich American.
Symbian would have sold perfectly well in Africa and Asia. Who cares if they made $10 per unit compared to apple making $200, if they sold 20 times as many. And that's pretty much what was going on. People confuse the phone market thinking its only 1 market - it isn't, there's plenty of people who just can't afford an iPhone or have the bandwidth to use it. The old, solid, phones nokia used to make would have happily kept them going.
But analysts like to see growing figures and they were blinded by the iPhone sales and simply said that nokia was as good as dead, like there's only 1 possible phone that anyone would buy.
Wiith a bit of imagination, Nokia could have been successful, even if not as successful as they used to be. Elop simply didn't have any talent at all when he tried to play with the grown-ups (ie Apple) using Windows phone as a ticket to the party, when he should have concentrated on consolidating the other segments of the market. while running some R&D to make the next big thing, leapfrogging Apple in a few years time when people get bored with the iPhone.
1. Ballmer was a salesman, not an accountant. If you want an accountant to run the company, it'll be that guy who used to be at Wallmart. Turner IIRC.
2. Mullaly is an engineer, only one who can probably write code and can definitely do engineering (unlike old Billy).
3. Elop could probably do exactly that, only in the name of cutting off the crap, money-pit divisions and getting a large boost to the MS shareprice (hey, he'll have loads of share options remember) which would be much more attractive to other shareholders too.
erm, he isn't putting any money up - he's sued all those newspapers and made more cash than a nazi war criminal's swiss bank account!
And now, I guess he's spent it all so.. its off to the courts to say how dreadful these images and videos are still on the internet and unless Google (or whoever) pulls them off, he'll receive another £1000 per day.
Frankly, for the amount of cash he screwed out of the papers, I'd let some fat german chick whip me.
thank you Google, once you have that patent other companies won't be able to use this stupid concept for hiring without breaking the law - and I guess every failed candidate will be first up to call in the lawyers if if becomes apparent this bullshit was used against them.
Well, I can dream that a the patent system has some valid use, can't I?
the part that failed was something that was a standard part for military jet aircraft
and...
What failed is already FAA certified and in fact this accident is likely going to force a grounding of other aircraft which use this same landing system. If anything, this engineering test might even save a few lives, which is sort of the point of doing engineering tests like this.
you'd have thought they'd have done engineering tests on the thing before giving it the certification first time around.....:-)
I think a more pertinent question is - why did it fail this time, not whether the part is just generally deficient mas is the implication if they'll ground all aircraft that use it (do they ground military aircraft like they do commercial ones?).
TFA says that it failed to deploy, which suggests there is nothing wrong with it as landing gear anyway, so it had nothing to do with weight and speed of the aircraft.
I guess if Amazon had paid some taxes in France they might be a little more amenable to keeping the status quo, but as we know they make absolutely no profit, oh no, honest, then France couldn't really care less if they were regulated out of existence.
Why have the headache of data center failure without being able to do anything about it?
TFTFY.
The primary reason is simply convenience, which will be replaced the first day no-one gets any work done due to a broken internet connection (at the client end even) or another cloud downtime.
someone needs to reveal that Obama's phone was tapped by, say, the Korean government. Then, surely we'd see the American government continue to say how perfectly reasonable and normal phone interception of world leaders is.
I second this - bought myself an Epson WP-5454 with wifi (new models seem to always be available) and its worked perfectly. The software updates are good too - even the android print/control app is good.
Wifi is very good - so it can be "conveniently located", but it does have an ethernet port if you must. Frankly, printing is slow enough that a few seconds extra over wifi to get the job to the printer really doesn't matter. It also does automatic double-sided out of the box which I like a lot as I prefer to print booklet for larger jobs.
Even comes with software to let you send an email to the printer to be printed, which I don't use, but is a nice idea - modern equivalent of a fax machine:)
The ink is about 50% cheaper than toner too, but the print quality isn't as sharp as a laser.
but you do worry about your kids growing up to be psychotically crazed and wander round school with a shotgun shooting their classmates because of various perceived slights?
Just to use a real-world, it-could-happen-to-you scenario. But its ok though, beheading only happens to *other* people, and they're no-one you know, so its ok fucked up shit like this happens.
Because they don't want to attract attention to themselves?
you must live in a different world to the fucked up one we live in.
Here in Britain, we had a failed asylum seeker appear ON TV to argue about immigration reforms with the minister. He (the immigrant) had been turned down 5 times by the courts on (costly) appeal after appeal as the judge said he had no case whatsoever, and now he's just walking around with impunity.
That's what our system has become, idiots defending the cheat who falsely claimed asylum to get in the country to basically take advantage of the economic strength we have built up over the decades.
Note that whilst its admirable for these people to work hard and send money home, its not a benefit to the economy if all your dollars disappear to the third world making your currency weaker and weaker. Nor is it a benefit if it means your native workers are on unemployment benefits because the jobs have been taken by exceptionally cheap immigrant workers. The system is screwed, and frankly, we should be working to make their own countries better than bringing them here to work like slaves.
so lets get this right - Zuckerburg et al will be doing some coding (well, I assume Zuck will be watching and 'supervising') with some "undocumented" immigrants all in one room.
I for one would be enquiring about a reward for snitching about the whereabouts of a load of illegal immigrants to the authorities.
I think i can guarantee that Huawei does not hand over anything to the US government, as the US refuses to use their kit:)
Maybe, and this could be a bit of anti-conspiracy theory here, that the reason the US refuses to use their kit is not because of the usual financial protectionism, nor of some vague bull about sending all your packets to china, but simply because they do not send any packets anywhere - even to the NSA, hence the reason they are banned from use.:)
no, I'm saying it would be inflationary. The American workers would get paid more, but the goods would cost more correspondingly, and exports would fall as US good would be expensive for other nations to buy.
In turn that would require the dollar to fall against other currencies to make the exports competitive, but that would hit imports
so the net result is that Americans would earn more, but what they could buy with that extra money would be reduced, and because American workers were getting paid more, and the cost of running the companies employing them goes up, the price of their goods goes up which means the workers demand more money producing an inflation.
Its not all bad though, its just that an economy is complex, and changing it overnight is therefore dangerous. Last thing you want is to implement the kind of protectionism a country like Argentina or Zimbabwe did and end up with hyperinflation and eventual 3rd world status. The tea party might get elected to the white house then!
Oh, and I imagine any change in favour of the US would result in American fat cats pocketing all the cash anyway.
because the enter key is the thing designed to enter linebreaks in editors. That it was hijacked by websites to do something different is not the enter key's fault. Most users, and remember what kind of user uses facebook, expect enter to add a linebreak like ti does everywhere else.
you think that US manufacturing would suddenly be competitive on the world stage, just because it became more expensive to manufacture in China?
US imports would either find somewhere else to go for cheap crap, or would build it themselves - but in the latter case, the goods produced would have to be more expensive (its just that they would all become more expensive, no-one could undercut competitors by outsourcing to china anymore) and that would kill off any consumer-led recoveries. And goods not produced in the US (eg electronics) would become more expensive still. And your exports would drop dramatically as the dollar strengthens compounding the problem.
The unfortunate problem is that China owns all your dollars and doesn't know what to do with them. In fact all they can do is to float the Renminbi which would cause a collapse in the value of the dollar against it and basically crash the US economy.. and the rest of the world too. The US can't really follow your suggestion as the Chinese would kick off and do something once they saw it happening, I'm not sure what, but I could imagine nothing good overall. Probably crash the world economy in some way or another:-)
That they're trying to create something else suggests they're fed up with the US government lurching from crisis to crisis for wholely internal political reasons. And that a new inter-bank currency would allow them to spend all those dollars a little more easily. That's the main reason they want this, I think.
On the other hand, a first step towards a global currency is surely a small step forwards in human social evolution.
you miss my point - that C# is a bit pants if you don't have VS. No VS = C# becomes just another, reasonably crappy language with loads of "evolved" functionality that occasionally is just nonsense,
Try coding C# in notepad to see what I mean. Not that anyone would,but trying it highlights the language as opposed to the IDE assistance.
I have a compiler that proves it. I'm writing simple code, I have a query that ends in.Single() and the runtime throws an exception, telling me to use First() instead as Linq to entities doesn't support this method.
I understand the difference between first and firstordefault, I know what I'm doing, and I can read the exception text. (caveat: I'm using.net 3.5, It wouldn't surprise me if they've changed it in current versions) I still think its nowhere near as clean a language as C# proponents keep claiming, not any more at least..NET is the most "well done" if you consider developer happiness using it is the only factor. It is nice, it is easy, but I think all of that is down to the environment, not the language. Try coding C# in notepad to see what I mean.
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fuxk that. Open Visual Studio to other platforms, but provide a decent implementation using the native languages that are used on those platforms.
There's no reason the C++ support in VS could equal that for C# or VB.NET, the reason it doesn't is because MS want to make .NET a 'easier' experience for RAD developers (ie their traditional VB coders) and don't want to spend the money on support for other languages - especially languages that can be used to transfer skills to other platforms where .NET doesn't run. VS isn't a developer tool, its a set of handcuffs chained to a Windows cage.
But... if they did open VS up, to objective-C on macs, and C/C++ on Linux, then I think that would be wonderful. Its at times like this that I am really disappointed with the DoJ for not splitting MS up and letting the VS team compete on their own because they would undoubtedly have made VS for Linux and Mac instead of screwing around with all the now-unsupported failures dev div has left in their wake for the last 10 years.
except you assume everyone is a middle-class rich American.
Symbian would have sold perfectly well in Africa and Asia. Who cares if they made $10 per unit compared to apple making $200, if they sold 20 times as many. And that's pretty much what was going on. People confuse the phone market thinking its only 1 market - it isn't, there's plenty of people who just can't afford an iPhone or have the bandwidth to use it. The old, solid, phones nokia used to make would have happily kept them going.
But analysts like to see growing figures and they were blinded by the iPhone sales and simply said that nokia was as good as dead, like there's only 1 possible phone that anyone would buy.
Wiith a bit of imagination, Nokia could have been successful, even if not as successful as they used to be. Elop simply didn't have any talent at all when he tried to play with the grown-ups (ie Apple) using Windows phone as a ticket to the party, when he should have concentrated on consolidating the other segments of the market. while running some R&D to make the next big thing, leapfrogging Apple in a few years time when people get bored with the iPhone.
1. Ballmer was a salesman, not an accountant. If you want an accountant to run the company, it'll be that guy who used to be at Wallmart. Turner IIRC.
2. Mullaly is an engineer, only one who can probably write code and can definitely do engineering (unlike old Billy).
3. Elop could probably do exactly that, only in the name of cutting off the crap, money-pit divisions and getting a large boost to the MS shareprice (hey, he'll have loads of share options remember) which would be much more attractive to other shareholders too.
erm, he isn't putting any money up - he's sued all those newspapers and made more cash than a nazi war criminal's swiss bank account!
And now, I guess he's spent it all so .. its off to the courts to say how dreadful these images and videos are still on the internet and unless Google (or whoever) pulls them off, he'll receive another £1000 per day.
Frankly, for the amount of cash he screwed out of the papers, I'd let some fat german chick whip me.
thank you Google, once you have that patent other companies won't be able to use this stupid concept for hiring without breaking the law - and I guess every failed candidate will be first up to call in the lawyers if if becomes apparent this bullshit was used against them.
Well, I can dream that a the patent system has some valid use, can't I?
the part that failed was something that was a standard part for military jet aircraft
and...
What failed is already FAA certified and in fact this accident is likely going to force a grounding of other aircraft which use this same landing system. If anything, this engineering test might even save a few lives, which is sort of the point of doing engineering tests like this.
you'd have thought they'd have done engineering tests on the thing before giving it the certification first time around..... :-)
I think a more pertinent question is - why did it fail this time, not whether the part is just generally deficient mas is the implication if they'll ground all aircraft that use it (do they ground military aircraft like they do commercial ones?).
TFA says that it failed to deploy, which suggests there is nothing wrong with it as landing gear anyway, so it had nothing to do with weight and speed of the aircraft.
I guess if Amazon had paid some taxes in France they might be a little more amenable to keeping the status quo, but as we know they make absolutely no profit, oh no, honest, then France couldn't really care less if they were regulated out of existence.
It has little to do with progress.
Why have the headache of data center failure without being able to do anything about it?
TFTFY.
The primary reason is simply convenience, which will be replaced the first day no-one gets any work done due to a broken internet connection (at the client end even) or another cloud downtime.
someone needs to reveal that Obama's phone was tapped by, say, the Korean government. Then, surely we'd see the American government continue to say how perfectly reasonable and normal phone interception of world leaders is.
I second this - bought myself an Epson WP-5454 with wifi (new models seem to always be available) and its worked perfectly. The software updates are good too - even the android print/control app is good.
Wifi is very good - so it can be "conveniently located", but it does have an ethernet port if you must. Frankly, printing is slow enough that a few seconds extra over wifi to get the job to the printer really doesn't matter. It also does automatic double-sided out of the box which I like a lot as I prefer to print booklet for larger jobs.
Even comes with software to let you send an email to the printer to be printed, which I don't use, but is a nice idea - modern equivalent of a fax machine :)
The ink is about 50% cheaper than toner too, but the print quality isn't as sharp as a laser.
but you do worry about your kids growing up to be psychotically crazed and wander round school with a shotgun shooting their classmates because of various perceived slights?
Just to use a real-world, it-could-happen-to-you scenario. But its ok though, beheading only happens to *other* people, and they're no-one you know, so its ok fucked up shit like this happens.
does it come with a Zuckerberg head, so our cartoons can be... you know, more appropriately targetted.
Because they don't want to attract attention to themselves?
you must live in a different world to the fucked up one we live in.
Here in Britain, we had a failed asylum seeker appear ON TV to argue about immigration reforms with the minister. He (the immigrant) had been turned down 5 times by the courts on (costly) appeal after appeal as the judge said he had no case whatsoever, and now he's just walking around with impunity.
That's what our system has become, idiots defending the cheat who falsely claimed asylum to get in the country to basically take advantage of the economic strength we have built up over the decades.
Note that whilst its admirable for these people to work hard and send money home, its not a benefit to the economy if all your dollars disappear to the third world making your currency weaker and weaker. Nor is it a benefit if it means your native workers are on unemployment benefits because the jobs have been taken by exceptionally cheap immigrant workers. The system is screwed, and frankly, we should be working to make their own countries better than bringing them here to work like slaves.
says the American whose country is basically built on borrowed money.
so lets get this right - Zuckerburg et al will be doing some coding (well, I assume Zuck will be watching and 'supervising') with some "undocumented" immigrants all in one room.
I for one would be enquiring about a reward for snitching about the whereabouts of a load of illegal immigrants to the authorities.
Dear Huawei chairman,
open source all of your drivers and firmware, then we'll be forced to agree that your equipment is safe for use.
I think i can guarantee that Huawei does not hand over anything to the US government, as the US refuses to use their kit :)
Maybe, and this could be a bit of anti-conspiracy theory here, that the reason the US refuses to use their kit is not because of the usual financial protectionism, nor of some vague bull about sending all your packets to china, but simply because they do not send any packets anywhere - even to the NSA, hence the reason they are banned from use. :)
no, I'm saying it would be inflationary. The American workers would get paid more, but the goods would cost more correspondingly, and exports would fall as US good would be expensive for other nations to buy.
In turn that would require the dollar to fall against other currencies to make the exports competitive, but that would hit imports
so the net result is that Americans would earn more, but what they could buy with that extra money would be reduced, and because American workers were getting paid more, and the cost of running the companies employing them goes up, the price of their goods goes up which means the workers demand more money producing an inflation.
Its not all bad though, its just that an economy is complex, and changing it overnight is therefore dangerous. Last thing you want is to implement the kind of protectionism a country like Argentina or Zimbabwe did and end up with hyperinflation and eventual 3rd world status. The tea party might get elected to the white house then!
Oh, and I imagine any change in favour of the US would result in American fat cats pocketing all the cash anyway.
what a pity... now he can do whatever the f*** he likes without any regard for consequences.. like what's Facebook going to do, ban his page?
He should still open source it, then he can truthfully say "it wasn't me".
because the enter key is the thing designed to enter linebreaks in editors. That it was hijacked by websites to do something different is not the enter key's fault. Most users, and remember what kind of user uses facebook, expect enter to add a linebreak like ti does everywhere else.
you think that US manufacturing would suddenly be competitive on the world stage, just because it became more expensive to manufacture in China?
US imports would either find somewhere else to go for cheap crap, or would build it themselves - but in the latter case, the goods produced would have to be more expensive (its just that they would all become more expensive, no-one could undercut competitors by outsourcing to china anymore) and that would kill off any consumer-led recoveries. And goods not produced in the US (eg electronics) would become more expensive still. And your exports would drop dramatically as the dollar strengthens compounding the problem.
The unfortunate problem is that China owns all your dollars and doesn't know what to do with them. In fact all they can do is to float the Renminbi which would cause a collapse in the value of the dollar against it and basically crash the US economy.. and the rest of the world too. The US can't really follow your suggestion as the Chinese would kick off and do something once they saw it happening, I'm not sure what, but I could imagine nothing good overall. Probably crash the world economy in some way or another :-)
That they're trying to create something else suggests they're fed up with the US government lurching from crisis to crisis for wholely internal political reasons. And that a new inter-bank currency would allow them to spend all those dollars a little more easily. That's the main reason they want this, I think.
On the other hand, a first step towards a global currency is surely a small step forwards in human social evolution.
It [gold] also remains far over valued versus its industrial use
so does paper with funny symbols, old dude's faces and a signature printed on it.
you miss my point - that C# is a bit pants if you don't have VS. No VS = C# becomes just another, reasonably crappy language with loads of "evolved" functionality that occasionally is just nonsense,
Try coding C# in notepad to see what I mean. Not that anyone would,but trying it highlights the language as opposed to the IDE assistance.
plain wrong.
I have a compiler that proves it. I'm writing simple code, I have a query that ends in .Single() and the runtime throws an exception, telling me to use First() instead as Linq to entities doesn't support this method.
I understand the difference between first and firstordefault, I know what I'm doing, and I can read the exception text. (caveat: I'm using .net 3.5, It wouldn't surprise me if they've changed it in current versions) I still think its nowhere near as clean a language as C# proponents keep claiming, not any more at least. .NET is the most "well done" if you consider developer happiness using it is the only factor. It is nice, it is easy, but I think all of that is down to the environment, not the language. Try coding C# in notepad to see what I mean.