Anyone that knows how to code a Windows GUI app should have no trouble coding one for Mobile.
And this is exactly the problem. Microsoft marketed Windows Mobile to traditional Windows developers. But a phone is not a desktop. A phone is a resource-constrained device, and traditional desktop programmers are not used to this environment.
Worse, it seems, from my experience, that Microsoft marketed WinMo internally in the same hare-brained way, as the phone has a UI metaphor and a resource consumption totally unsuited for its target platform.
It appears that this is finally getting through to upper management, which is a good thing, as the mobile market is sufficiently competitive that MS can't play its usual game of letting hardware resources catch up with their shoddy programming without getting their lunch eaten by Symbian, Blackberry, Apple and Google.
Microsoft's big competition (and Apple's) in Europe is Symbian, no secret there.
Make that the rest of the world, not just Europe. Nokia and Sony-Eriksson are the big players in EMEA, with the Korean vendors like Samsung and LG doing brisk business in SE-Asia. Windows Mobile is struggling everywhere but in the U.S. Heck, even their flagship OEM (HTC) is now shipping Android phones.
You do realise that legal documents can never unequivocally cover all situations, right? That that is why we have judges, right? Are you stupid, or are you just trolling?
What it reveals, I think, is that there is no overriding moral code,
You make a good point. However, two of your three examples led other humans to actively wage a war to stop it. Ok, the Allies knew little of the Endloesung until about 1944 or so, but they were convinced of the evil of the Nazi regime. Same with the US Civil War. It may not have started that way, but it ended in a war to abolish slavery. And there is a strong point to be made that Italy's anti-Mafia laws are tantamount to a declaration of war.
In short, I think the historical examples you cite actually disprove your point. There appears to be a code that makes humanity want to violently overthrow sociopathic regimes.
How about some backup? I mean, we're talking the word of J. Random Slashdot Moron vs. a published and awarded economist. I think you are a bit mistaken in what 'credible' means.
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Your claim that someone who is not for open immigration is a racist "sympathizer" is risible.
Since I didn't claim that, how serious should I take your protest that you're not a racist? Methinks the lady doth protest, and lie, too much.
Attacking the poster if the poster is a provable liar is no fallacy. It is just plain stating facts. You're a coward, a liar, and quite probably a racist.
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What, you didn't say the things I quoted?
And that is another typical right-wing idiots' gambit. Imply something about the opponent (you were whining about political correctness to me, completely disregarding something I explicitly emphasised), and when the opponent calls you on that, hide behind 'but I didn't say that'. You do realise that this passive-aggressive bullshit makes you look even more like a pussy, don't you?
Does the claim that racism has been defeated in the public arena make one a racist?
In the face of actual existing and growing racism in the public arena, it makes you at least a sympathiser. In the face of your use of typical racist talking points: yes, I call you a racist. And a coward, for playing passive-aggresive games instead of saying right out what you believe.
You can go fuck yourself now, for all I care. In the face of your dishonest tactics, I have no interest in continuing this conversation.
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The problem is that I never said the things you say. Your vehement defensiveness, and the way you use the closet racists' common misstatement of the actual nature of the Muslim arbitration panels makes it quite clear where you stand.
And don't whine about political correctness. If you use the terminology of the racists, don't be a pussy if you get called a racist yourself.
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Riiight. A single column in a mainstream paper means the BNP has no support, suuure. And the fact that an outright Neo-Nazi party even gets a few percent of the vote means that there is still plenty of racism around. And it is not just Britain? Ever hear of Geert Wilders? Jean-Marie le Pen? Philip de Winter? Racism is alive and well, at least in Europe.
And the problems with Islam are overblown. If you start looking at the actual numbers, and if you analyze every incident that gets bandied about the blogosphere, you will find that most (note emphasis) 'problems' with Islam are various racists trying to make their ideology salonfahig.
OpenStreetMap can be great, depending on the source data. In my local area, the government provided the data from the municipal zoning offices and a subsidy to translate it into OSM map format. The OpenStreetMap maps are among the most detailed and accurate around for me.
So yeah, you're basically just anti-OSS trolling.
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Riiight. In case you hadn't noticed, in countries like the UK, it still is a liability to be Pakistani. Sure, the racists will try to hide their racism behind their 'critique' on your faith, because religion nicely correlates with skin colour in this case, but since it is the same BNP types attacking people, I tend to be skeptical of their stated motives.
And outright racism still exists. In fact, thanks to phenomena as described above, it is in fact becoming more accepted, not less.
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Bad people [...] judge good people [...] solely based on the circumstances of their birth
And why is this 40 years behind the times? Are you really saying what you seem to be implying, that it is not a good thing to condemn this attitude?
Which is why was referring to a specific faux pas by Con and his fanbois (not putting up numbers to bolster his claims). The fact that I do that does not in any way imply that I hold Linus and Ingo blameless. If I thought that, I would have written it.
There's plenty of blame to go around. I'm just focusing on Con because this article is about him, and I really dislike the tone of that particular FAQ entry.
I would say that Con's FAQ entries demonstrate exactly that Linus was right. That is not the attitude of a reliable maintainer. In fact, the whole rant sounds like a teenager with a chip on his shoulder. And given that Con is supposed to be a mature professional, that says a lot.
Of course, there is also the fact that Con and his fanbois didn't back up their position with benchmarks in the entire CK scheduler flamewar, instead relying on 'it just feels faster' subjective judgments.
I say, let him play in his little sandbox. If there's good ideas in there, they'll get lifted out. If this is yet another episode of the 'Con Kolivas is great!' show, it'll disappear again like last time.
Without Apple, chances are Microsoft would still be a Cygnus-like little shop writing interpreters and compilers for hardware manufacturers.
Microsoft had two big breaks that made them what they are: the Z80 card for the Apple II and the contract to provide PC-DOS. And arguably, without the reputation MS built in the CP/M world with the SoftCard, they might not have gotten the IBM deal.
Well, I know who Chuikov was. Then again WWII history is a hobby of mine. How many people however, even among those who knew he commanded the 62nd Army in Stalingrad, know who his political comissar was?
Yeah. It's not as if Richard Gabriel's "The Rise of Worse is Better" was written yesterday.
Then again, magazines like Wired live by 'discovering' things that are long known and then gushing about it to a public that doesn't know about it, to make it appear as if they are on the bleeding edge and, you know, totally radical.
I have a Vodafone UMTS subscription. Theoretically, according to the TOS, I am not allowed to tether it. However, how are they ever going to prove that I loaded a webpage over Bluetooth on my laptop, or straight on the phone? The HTTP request looks the same from their end.
This thread is replete with people who think it normal that businesses collude to strenghten their position in the labour market. And yet watch the howls go up if someone suggests that the employees do the same.
"Der Herrgott wuerfelt nicht", aka "God does not play dice".
Einsteins reaction to the statistical model of Quantum Mechanics definitely shows that he was as human as the rest of us. Even he was not above rejecting a model because it didn't fit his worldview.
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And this is exactly the problem. Microsoft marketed Windows Mobile to traditional Windows developers. But a phone is not a desktop. A phone is a resource-constrained device, and traditional desktop programmers are not used to this environment.
Worse, it seems, from my experience, that Microsoft marketed WinMo internally in the same hare-brained way, as the phone has a UI metaphor and a resource consumption totally unsuited for its target platform.
It appears that this is finally getting through to upper management, which is a good thing, as the mobile market is sufficiently competitive that MS can't play its usual game of letting hardware resources catch up with their shoddy programming without getting their lunch eaten by Symbian, Blackberry, Apple and Google.
Mart
Make that the rest of the world, not just Europe. Nokia and Sony-Eriksson are the big players in EMEA, with the Korean vendors like Samsung and LG doing brisk business in SE-Asia. Windows Mobile is struggling everywhere but in the U.S. Heck, even their flagship OEM (HTC) is now shipping Android phones.
Mart
You do realise that legal documents can never unequivocally cover all situations, right? That that is why we have judges, right? Are you stupid, or are you just trolling?
Mart
You make a good point. However, two of your three examples led other humans to actively wage a war to stop it. Ok, the Allies knew little of the Endloesung until about 1944 or so, but they were convinced of the evil of the Nazi regime. Same with the US Civil War. It may not have started that way, but it ended in a war to abolish slavery. And there is a strong point to be made that Italy's anti-Mafia laws are tantamount to a declaration of war.
In short, I think the historical examples you cite actually disprove your point. There appears to be a code that makes humanity want to violently overthrow sociopathic regimes.
Mart
How about some backup? I mean, we're talking the word of J. Random Slashdot Moron vs. a published and awarded economist. I think you are a bit mistaken in what 'credible' means.
Mart
Since I didn't claim that, how serious should I take your protest that you're not a racist? Methinks the lady doth protest, and lie, too much.
Attacking the poster if the poster is a provable liar is no fallacy. It is just plain stating facts. You're a coward, a liar, and quite probably a racist.
Mart
And that is another typical right-wing idiots' gambit. Imply something about the opponent (you were whining about political correctness to me, completely disregarding something I explicitly emphasised), and when the opponent calls you on that, hide behind 'but I didn't say that'. You do realise that this passive-aggressive bullshit makes you look even more like a pussy, don't you?
In the face of actual existing and growing racism in the public arena, it makes you at least a sympathiser. In the face of your use of typical racist talking points: yes, I call you a racist. And a coward, for playing passive-aggresive games instead of saying right out what you believe.
You can go fuck yourself now, for all I care. In the face of your dishonest tactics, I have no interest in continuing this conversation.
Mart
The problem is that I never said the things you say. Your vehement defensiveness, and the way you use the closet racists' common misstatement of the actual nature of the Muslim arbitration panels makes it quite clear where you stand.
And don't whine about political correctness. If you use the terminology of the racists, don't be a pussy if you get called a racist yourself.
Mart
Riiight. A single column in a mainstream paper means the BNP has no support, suuure. And the fact that an outright Neo-Nazi party even gets a few percent of the vote means that there is still plenty of racism around. And it is not just Britain? Ever hear of Geert Wilders? Jean-Marie le Pen? Philip de Winter? Racism is alive and well, at least in Europe.
And the problems with Islam are overblown. If you start looking at the actual numbers, and if you analyze every incident that gets bandied about the blogosphere, you will find that most (note emphasis) 'problems' with Islam are various racists trying to make their ideology salonfahig.
Mart
OpenStreetMap can be great, depending on the source data. In my local area, the government provided the data from the municipal zoning offices and a subsidy to translate it into OSM map format. The OpenStreetMap maps are among the most detailed and accurate around for me.
So yeah, you're basically just anti-OSS trolling.
Mart
Riiight. In case you hadn't noticed, in countries like the UK, it still is a liability to be Pakistani. Sure, the racists will try to hide their racism behind their 'critique' on your faith, because religion nicely correlates with skin colour in this case, but since it is the same BNP types attacking people, I tend to be skeptical of their stated motives.
And outright racism still exists. In fact, thanks to phenomena as described above, it is in fact becoming more accepted, not less.
Mart
And why is this 40 years behind the times? Are you really saying what you seem to be implying, that it is not a good thing to condemn this attitude?
Mart
On a properly run network, that is not a bad assumption. You do not want people updating their workstations yourself.
Mart
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
Mart
Rule #1 in InfoSec: everything outside your hosts cannot be trusted. By extension, no, the LAN is not trustworthy.
Why do you think that secure authentication protocols like Kerberos are designed around not trusting the network, only hosts?
Mart
Which is why was referring to a specific faux pas by Con and his fanbois (not putting up numbers to bolster his claims). The fact that I do that does not in any way imply that I hold Linus and Ingo blameless. If I thought that, I would have written it.
There's plenty of blame to go around. I'm just focusing on Con because this article is about him, and I really dislike the tone of that particular FAQ entry.
Mart
I would say that Con's FAQ entries demonstrate exactly that Linus was right. That is not the attitude of a reliable maintainer. In fact, the whole rant sounds like a teenager with a chip on his shoulder. And given that Con is supposed to be a mature professional, that says a lot.
Of course, there is also the fact that Con and his fanbois didn't back up their position with benchmarks in the entire CK scheduler flamewar, instead relying on 'it just feels faster' subjective judgments.
I say, let him play in his little sandbox. If there's good ideas in there, they'll get lifted out. If this is yet another episode of the 'Con Kolivas is great!' show, it'll disappear again like last time.
Mart
Without Apple, chances are Microsoft would still be a Cygnus-like little shop writing interpreters and compilers for hardware manufacturers.
Microsoft had two big breaks that made them what they are: the Z80 card for the Apple II and the contract to provide PC-DOS. And arguably, without the reputation MS built in the CP/M world with the SoftCard, they might not have gotten the IBM deal.
Mart
Well, I know who Chuikov was. Then again WWII history is a hobby of mine. How many people however, even among those who knew he commanded the 62nd Army in Stalingrad, know who his political comissar was?
Mart
Care to point out just where the OP wrote that? Or even suggested it?
Mart
Yeah. It's not as if Richard Gabriel's "The Rise of Worse is Better" was written yesterday.
Then again, magazines like Wired live by 'discovering' things that are long known and then gushing about it to a public that doesn't know about it, to make it appear as if they are on the bleeding edge and, you know, totally radical.
Mart
Since the E71 only has one keypad, an external QWERTY one, I'm calling you a liar.
Mart
I have a Vodafone UMTS subscription. Theoretically, according to the TOS, I am not allowed to tether it. However, how are they ever going to prove that I loaded a webpage over Bluetooth on my laptop, or straight on the phone? The HTTP request looks the same from their end.
Mart
This thread is replete with people who think it normal that businesses collude to strenghten their position in the labour market. And yet watch the howls go up if someone suggests that the employees do the same.
Mart
"Der Herrgott wuerfelt nicht", aka "God does not play dice".
Einsteins reaction to the statistical model of Quantum Mechanics definitely shows that he was as human as the rest of us. Even he was not above rejecting a model because it didn't fit his worldview.
Mart