you've got to think - don't female police officers go to these events, and if not... wouldn't it be a good idea to send a couple, just to arrest a few idiots who think it'd be a good idea to sexually assault one.
they said that all along - Kinect is cool, but the PS Move is accurate and fast... guess it didn't capture enough marketing stuff. There's no reason why you couldn't swap the coloured ball on the end of the wand for a ring or other velcro-to-my-head sensor points though.
because you can't. MS changed some things in the RTM version that stopped the tricks you used to use in the betas.
That said, the problem isn't booting into the desktop so much as having to return to Metro everytime you want to launch a new program. Let me know if you manage to find a way to restore the start menu.
Bear in mind Microsoft said exactly the same things about Silverlight. The initial issues came from Build 2011 where all the technical streams were about C++ and HTML,.NET was rarely mentioned. That made people think MS's focus was no longer.NET. I think it was Mary-Jo Foley who reported this initially.
I doubt.NET is going away, but its no longer the first-class development platform that sucks up all the MS development resources. You could think of it as the 'new VB'. What you cannot think of it as is the be-all and end-all of Windows development, not nowadays.
or the OSI can apply the same principles to their logo as they want you to apply to your software - the gear does look similar to the OSI logo, intentionally so I should think, so the same broad design can be identifiable as an open-source-something.
I can't really see that the OSHWA logo somehow dilutes the OSI "brand" at all. If anything, you now have 2 different-but-nicely-similar logos that enhance each other.
The article says negotiations are still ongoing after a year, this should have been a "yay, that's great" story at the beginning with the 2 groups supporting their common goals.
did I say Android didn't run on x86, I meant - nobody does so.
Anyway, with ARM's new Mali integrated GPU chips with ASTC..... nope, can't think of a reason anyone would want to go non-ARM. Unless they succumb to a bag of cash left under the table.
my mate's just got a new job doing WPF dev, its not working fast enough for them so he's brought in to fix it - its written by some outsourced contractors in the very latest MVVMVMMD patterm and he was describing how 'random'' it all appears - you can't trace through the code as it hops from object to object because every so often you hit a lambda function and if you're not really careful, you'll step right over that in the debugger - and then have to start your debug chain (of 100 methods calls) all over again.
yes, introduced with XP IIRC, but here's the thing - what was a good idea became corrupted by tool providers who thought "wouldn't it be a good idea to auto-generate tests for each method on a class automatically so the dev can then fill in these stubs with their test code"... and what should have been a great concept of writing tests before coding to ensure your code does what you want it it, becomes an exercise in box-checking for method test coverage, on such a small granularity scale that the tests are meaningless and have to be supplemented with even more tests that cover how those methods work together. Not to mention the massive increase in complexity when you have to code in mocking frameworks.
Its so bad that the original TDD proponents now call what they intended BDD (behaviour driven development) to distinguish it from this myopic code-first approach. You can see this popping up here and there as the original good intent is reclaimed.
Its kind of like Agile - where scrum is quickly taken up by management who see it as a way to "do agile" yet still have loads of process, documentation and control.
its too difficult to describe all the bad techniques that get used simply because they're fashionable, but that's what I meant - the kind of devs who read stuff on the web and suddenly think "we must have that too".
I went for a job interview a while back and when I gave my reply to their question about test-driven development (that it wasn't a magic bullet that fixes all code quality issues) they weren't too impressed. Obviously they'd read something that said it was, and they weren't going to believe anything less, either that or they had the "new toy" bug and were going to use it no matter what.
I see the same with Agile, IoC, everything. Besides, after you've got a bit of experience, you can tell that the new stuff is nothing new, rewrites are always popular but nearly always end up not much better than what was there before - after all, the previous devs didn't set out to make a mess did they.
Its not the techniques I'm criticising really, except where they are used blindly without regard to specific problems with the codebase that they need to be used to solve. Often they're just used as cool, new, magic bullets.
unfortunately, I think most devs (especially the kind to complain about someone else's "crufty" code) will spend months rewriting, refactoring and introducing today's "best practices" like IoC and Dependency Injection and come up with 300kloc of even worse spaghetti code, that now has extra bugs to be fixed too.
A bit like how a discussion on stack overflow ended up discussed on ArsTechnica for some (probably advertising-related purpose) and now has come to Slashdot for further adoption. 4chan, you're next.
You can keep most of your stuff in C++, most of the games on my Android are written using the NDK (so ignore the BS about Java being the best platform for android, its just the simplest). I understand you can call all your C++ code from objective-C so you only really need that for the UI if you structure your code well.
After all, getting into the mobile market would not be a goal in itself, just a way to sell more CPU's.
true... and with the rise and rise of ARM chips, Intel badly needs some other marketplace for its x86 range, including Atom. I guess no-one will really bother to port Android to Atom, and iPhones won't use it, so it makes sense for Intel to buy Nokia simply to give itself a good market.
What happens with Microsoft afterwards though... can you see MS dropping ARM support for all its OSes once Intel says "lets be friends again".
you need to upgrade to one of the latest versions - I think mine takes up loads of RAM 'cos task manager says it's using 301k, and that's with a full-page flash game going (133k in a separate process)
not DirectX, DOS was a 'to the metal' platform similar to the way games were coded for the old all-in-one computers you hooked up to your TV.
It was the general improvements in hardware - both CPU and 3d graphics cards that were powerful enough to run games even with Windows inefficiencies (compared to DOS).
As for Linux, the reason it isn't taking off on the desktop is that it really isn't a viable consumer OS. I cannot walk into PCWorld and buy a Linux OS DVD (assuming they were sold) and then buy a webcam or a new graphics card and guarantee them to work. Now the state of driver support on Linux is very good, the community does an excellent job with them, but they still cannot let the manufacturer release a driver with the CD they bundle with the device because Linux doesn't do that - you have to build it from source, so a company like Nvidia who wants to keep their driver source secret (which may not be ideal, but it practical in the real world of selling stuff)) cannot put that driver on the CD for me - because they do not know which kernel version I'm running, so they have to do a less-than-perfect job of it. Windows got this right - drivers belong to the manufacturer that goes with the hardware, thus producing a marketplace where stuff gets sold in shrinkwrapped boxes.
I know the argument about old drivers not being supported if the kernel interface changes, like it did with Vista, but you just cannot expect the likes of nvidia to release their source code. Now maybe we should have a driver model that works like Windows, or one that is stable and unchanging, but we need this problem fixed before Linux becomes a consumer OS.
It works for the datacentre as no-one gives much care to external drivers, and they don't require fancy graphics capabilities.
I doubt Linux gaming will make it suddenly take over the desktop (people are more likely to migrate from Windows 8 to a Mac) but it gives him the opportunity to create a dedicated console with steam on it. People might buy that, especially if its a computing platform as well (like the old computers of my youth).
But they do get massive financial stimulus - from other countries in aid. Of course, most of that goes in someone's pocket and not to the rural poor who need it. This is the great scandal of India, corruption is so rife its untrue.
$80m is peanuts to them, when a leading industrialist is currently building a 27-story housefor himself, his wife and 3 kids, so I guess 2 stories for the servants, and 5 each. How will they cope?!
yup, so true. One of our more respected news shows interviewed Coe (the olympic head organiser) and asked awkward questions like "so if someone turns up wearing a Pepsi tshirt, will they be allowed entry?" eventually they got an answer of "yes but only if its not obviously organised" - ie no crowdsourcing some non-coke advertising.
Reminds me of the Bavaria Babes (where brewer Bavaria gave bright orange dresses to a few ladies to go to a football match that was officially sponsored by rival Heineken), and the ban on Heineken's response of a helmet.
Frankly, its getting a bit silly when you have to ask if you can wear what you want to an event, and equally silly when the marketing people hijack that with a publicity stunt. But the most stupid is when a group of select sponsors get to take over the entire event in the first place.
Ideally you would write for OpenGL on all markets but..... well, read it yourself. The future on the other hand is uncertain, maybe we'll see more OpenGL now.
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alas, too many men use the "but she was wearing a low cut top and short skirt so I figured it was what she wanted".
obviously, something was missing in their upbringing, but they still use that argument to justify their pathetic behaviour.
you've got to think - don't female police officers go to these events, and if not... wouldn't it be a good idea to send a couple, just to arrest a few idiots who think it'd be a good idea to sexually assault one.
I'm ready to do God's work.... just, erm, how much does it pay?
The only reason I can think of has already been documented in fiction..
they said that all along - Kinect is cool, but the PS Move is accurate and fast... guess it didn't capture enough marketing stuff. There's no reason why you couldn't swap the coloured ball on the end of the wand for a ring or other velcro-to-my-head sensor points though.
because you can't. MS changed some things in the RTM version that stopped the tricks you used to use in the betas.
That said, the problem isn't booting into the desktop so much as having to return to Metro everytime you want to launch a new program. Let me know if you manage to find a way to restore the start menu.
Bear in mind Microsoft said exactly the same things about Silverlight. The initial issues came from Build 2011 where all the technical streams were about C++ and HTML, .NET was rarely mentioned. That made people think MS's focus was no longer .NET. I think it was Mary-Jo Foley who reported this initially.
I doubt .NET is going away, but its no longer the first-class development platform that sucks up all the MS development resources. You could think of it as the 'new VB'. What you cannot think of it as is the be-all and end-all of Windows development, not nowadays.
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Market Cap of â55m so its not as big as say, RedHat, but it is bigger than Nokia... or will be in a few months :)
Incidentally, Nokia bought Qt from Trolltech for â104m... I don't think they sold it for anything near that amount.
or the OSI can apply the same principles to their logo as they want you to apply to your software - the gear does look similar to the OSI logo, intentionally so I should think, so the same broad design can be identifiable as an open-source-something.
I can't really see that the OSHWA logo somehow dilutes the OSI "brand" at all. If anything, you now have 2 different-but-nicely-similar logos that enhance each other.
The article says negotiations are still ongoing after a year, this should have been a "yay, that's great" story at the beginning with the 2 groups supporting their common goals.
So this means they'll ditch Bing for ... something else, and maybe add things like labels and tags to their email platform.
I'd be worried at Microsoft - this could end up looking in the same mould as Elop at Nokia.
did I say Android didn't run on x86, I meant - nobody does so.
Anyway, with ARM's new Mali integrated GPU chips with ASTC ..... nope, can't think of a reason anyone would want to go non-ARM. Unless they succumb to a bag of cash left under the table.
my mate's just got a new job doing WPF dev, its not working fast enough for them so he's brought in to fix it - its written by some outsourced contractors in the very latest MVVMVMMD patterm and he was describing how 'random'' it all appears - you can't trace through the code as it hops from object to object because every so often you hit a lambda function and if you're not really careful, you'll step right over that in the debugger - and then have to start your debug chain (of 100 methods calls) all over again.
And no, I didn't make up the MVVMVMMD pattern up!
My problem with it is that it's supposed to increase developer productivity, but no-one seems interested in keeping it simple anymore.
yes, introduced with XP IIRC, but here's the thing - what was a good idea became corrupted by tool providers who thought "wouldn't it be a good idea to auto-generate tests for each method on a class automatically so the dev can then fill in these stubs with their test code"... and what should have been a great concept of writing tests before coding to ensure your code does what you want it it, becomes an exercise in box-checking for method test coverage, on such a small granularity scale that the tests are meaningless and have to be supplemented with even more tests that cover how those methods work together. Not to mention the massive increase in complexity when you have to code in mocking frameworks.
Its so bad that the original TDD proponents now call what they intended BDD (behaviour driven development) to distinguish it from this myopic code-first approach. You can see this popping up here and there as the original good intent is reclaimed.
Its kind of like Agile - where scrum is quickly taken up by management who see it as a way to "do agile" yet still have loads of process, documentation and control.
its too difficult to describe all the bad techniques that get used simply because they're fashionable, but that's what I meant - the kind of devs who read stuff on the web and suddenly think "we must have that too".
I went for a job interview a while back and when I gave my reply to their question about test-driven development (that it wasn't a magic bullet that fixes all code quality issues) they weren't too impressed. Obviously they'd read something that said it was, and they weren't going to believe anything less, either that or they had the "new toy" bug and were going to use it no matter what.
I see the same with Agile, IoC, everything. Besides, after you've got a bit of experience, you can tell that the new stuff is nothing new, rewrites are always popular but nearly always end up not much better than what was there before - after all, the previous devs didn't set out to make a mess did they.
Its not the techniques I'm criticising really, except where they are used blindly without regard to specific problems with the codebase that they need to be used to solve. Often they're just used as cool, new, magic bullets.
unfortunately, I think most devs (especially the kind to complain about someone else's "crufty" code) will spend months rewriting, refactoring and introducing today's "best practices" like IoC and Dependency Injection and come up with 300kloc of even worse spaghetti code, that now has extra bugs to be fixed too.
A bit like how a discussion on stack overflow ended up discussed on ArsTechnica for some (probably advertising-related purpose) and now has come to Slashdot for further adoption. 4chan, you're next.
they were making it , but obviously no-one knows how much support it'll get in the future.
You can keep most of your stuff in C++, most of the games on my Android are written using the NDK (so ignore the BS about Java being the best platform for android, its just the simplest). I understand you can call all your C++ code from objective-C so you only really need that for the UI if you structure your code well.
After all, getting into the mobile market would not be a goal in itself, just a way to sell more CPU's.
true... and with the rise and rise of ARM chips, Intel badly needs some other marketplace for its x86 range, including Atom. I guess no-one will really bother to port Android to Atom, and iPhones won't use it, so it makes sense for Intel to buy Nokia simply to give itself a good market.
What happens with Microsoft afterwards though... can you see MS dropping ARM support for all its OSes once Intel says "lets be friends again".
you need to upgrade to one of the latest versions - I think mine takes up loads of RAM 'cos task manager says it's using 301k, and that's with a full-page flash game going (133k in a separate process)
not DirectX, DOS was a 'to the metal' platform similar to the way games were coded for the old all-in-one computers you hooked up to your TV.
It was the general improvements in hardware - both CPU and 3d graphics cards that were powerful enough to run games even with Windows inefficiencies (compared to DOS).
As for Linux, the reason it isn't taking off on the desktop is that it really isn't a viable consumer OS. I cannot walk into PCWorld and buy a Linux OS DVD (assuming they were sold) and then buy a webcam or a new graphics card and guarantee them to work. Now the state of driver support on Linux is very good, the community does an excellent job with them, but they still cannot let the manufacturer release a driver with the CD they bundle with the device because Linux doesn't do that - you have to build it from source, so a company like Nvidia who wants to keep their driver source secret (which may not be ideal, but it practical in the real world of selling stuff)) cannot put that driver on the CD for me - because they do not know which kernel version I'm running, so they have to do a less-than-perfect job of it. Windows got this right - drivers belong to the manufacturer that goes with the hardware, thus producing a marketplace where stuff gets sold in shrinkwrapped boxes.
I know the argument about old drivers not being supported if the kernel interface changes, like it did with Vista, but you just cannot expect the likes of nvidia to release their source code. Now maybe we should have a driver model that works like Windows, or one that is stable and unchanging, but we need this problem fixed before Linux becomes a consumer OS.
It works for the datacentre as no-one gives much care to external drivers, and they don't require fancy graphics capabilities.
3. The people who will buy the Steam console.
I doubt Linux gaming will make it suddenly take over the desktop (people are more likely to migrate from Windows 8 to a Mac) but it gives him the opportunity to create a dedicated console with steam on it. People might buy that, especially if its a computing platform as well (like the old computers of my youth).
But they do get massive financial stimulus - from other countries in aid. Of course, most of that goes in someone's pocket and not to the rural poor who need it. This is the great scandal of India, corruption is so rife its untrue.
$80m is peanuts to them, when a leading industrialist is currently building a 27-story house for himself, his wife and 3 kids, so I guess 2 stories for the servants, and 5 each. How will they cope?!
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Even in the socialist paradise of Europe, the police are serving their corporate masters
who are massive cocks, so this little thread turned out to be quite on-topic :)
or maybe it'd grow to mutant proportions.... a thousand comic books can't all be wrong, can they?
yup, so true. One of our more respected news shows interviewed Coe (the olympic head organiser) and asked awkward questions like "so if someone turns up wearing a Pepsi tshirt, will they be allowed entry?" eventually they got an answer of "yes but only if its not obviously organised" - ie no crowdsourcing some non-coke advertising.
Reminds me of the Bavaria Babes (where brewer Bavaria gave bright orange dresses to a few ladies to go to a football match that was officially sponsored by rival Heineken), and the ban on Heineken's response of a helmet.
Frankly, its getting a bit silly when you have to ask if you can wear what you want to an event, and equally silly when the marketing people hijack that with a publicity stunt. But the most stupid is when a group of select sponsors get to take over the entire event in the first place.
The full story is excellently described here.
Ideally you would write for OpenGL on all markets but..... well, read it yourself. The future on the other hand is uncertain, maybe we'll see more OpenGL now.