If you think Microsoft is a "gift horse" of any kind, or is generous without having ulterior motives, then they are not only very different from the Microsoft of the past, but from almost every company out there. Microsoft is all about its own bottom line. If customers happen to get served useful products or the state of the art in the industry is advanced, that's OK, but those ends absolutely orthogonal to Microsoft's goals. This has always been the case, and it hasn't changed.
Take advantage of these open-source offerings if you wish, with due diligence, of course, but don't think for a moment that this is out the kindness of hearts of anyone in Redmond. It is possible to accomplish your business goals and do good things for your customers or the industry, and even if Microsoft is trying this new tack, it's still for the primary reason of maintaining their cash flow (which isn't inherently bad because they are a business and not a charity), but also keep in mind that they could turn on a dime if they believe it suits their ends.
Here's what it boils down to. Microsoft looked at Apple pulling in 30% of every app in their app store and got a raging hard-on for that kind of revenue and basically sacrificed everything good about Windows to try to achieve the same thing. Of course, they totally failed and we ended up with the ugliest version of Windows in 20+ years as a result.
It's funny you should mention MIPS because Windows NT used to run on MIPS, back when it was more flexible. It seems every generation of Windows becomes less flexible in some way. Nowadays, Windows can't even render the "Windows classic" skin from Windows 2000 (the only Windows theme I ever liked), which was removed from Windows 8. I guess Windows isn't powerful or flexible enough to do that kind of thing any more.
I am so sick of hearing about "Artificial Intelligence". There's nothing intelligent about it. It's just fancy pattern-matching, because that's all we can do at this point. It's better pattern-matching than we've been able to do before, but it's pure hype to call it "AI".
You're lucky. At least that works for you. My phone rarely syncs with my Ford's Sync system at all. Meanwhile, in my Kia Sedona, I have no problems ever. In the Ford Fusion, I just use a wire into the headphone jack because BT is usually too much trouble.
As far as being a car goes, I like my Ford Fusion fine, so this is a minor annoyance in general. I'm only (sort of) joking when I say the Fusion is built entirely out of blind spots.
Donald Trump made the assumption that Lester Holt, the NBC moderator for the first debate, was a Democrat. Holt is actually a registered Republican.
Doesn't matter how he's registered... he was clearly pulling for Clinton with his constant interruptions of Trump, to the point where he was flat-out arguing with him. Holt did nothing of the sort with Clinton. He wasn't a moderator, he was a participant.
Another recommendation for Series 10. Don't let 7 and 8 sour you (although I liked Series 7 a lot and 8 had its moments). Series 10 was an attempt to return to the earlier style of the show and I think they succeeded very well.
They already did it with the Windows 10 Anniversary update, which helpfully uninstalls Classic Shell so they pump ads at through that abomination of visual vomit that replaced the Start Menu.
even an hour-long special about the eighties with a grossly-disproportionate segment right at the end about Ray Parker Jr. and the original *Ghostbusters Theme*...which is about 3 times the amount of time spent actually writing the original "Ghostbusters" theme, as recounted by Ray Parker, Jr.
No they didn't. Netscape did it to themselves. It's one of the rare instances where Microsoft really did have the superior product. Of course, they went on to let IE bitrot for years until Mozilla came around. But Netscape's problems were entirely self-inflicted.
By the way, love the signature. I get that feeling often.
I am about as conservative as they come, but since I also try to apply Christian principles to my thinking, I get accused of being a liberal on occasion. One of the most amusing was when I criticized the repulsive treatment Rush Limbaugh gave Sandra Fluke. Don't get me wrong. I think she's an idiot, but Limbaugh was sickening about it. I guess holding all people to the same standard isn't common among people any kind of politics.
But more often, I get people automatically attributing bad stereotypical beliefs to me that simply don't apply. It would be nice to be judged based on your actual words and actions than the knee-jerk pigeonholing that almost everyone does. People who do argue with me seldom actually respond to what I say, but respond to the evil, racist, ignorant, redneck, stereotype strawman so beloved by the Left. It's really pathetic.
It's unfair to blame the user without knowing more detail. The only thing you can say for sure is that you and the people you know didn't have any problems.
I installed VS2015 Community with little problem, but the compiler crashed on a lot of the code I was trying to build, code that was old, but built and worked fine with an older version of VS. I was only using Community until I received the license for Professional, at which point all the compiler crashes went away. Although their dev tools tend to be pretty good, Microsoft doesn't exactly have a good track record with stability, and I have a lot of doubt that whatever the GP was experiencing was necessarily due to user error.
I've had some issues with VS2015, but nothing like what you've experienced. Have you tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling? I had to do that a couple times.
I also have not heard that their compiler is antiquated. It seems to pretty up-to-date on the implementation of standards. I do recall that MS had the first compiler to be fully C++03 compliant, although, they've been more behind the curve with the newer standards. Now, the internal code might be antiquated, but it seems pretty solid to me as a user.
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If you think Microsoft is a "gift horse" of any kind, or is generous without having ulterior motives, then they are not only very different from the Microsoft of the past, but from almost every company out there. Microsoft is all about its own bottom line. If customers happen to get served useful products or the state of the art in the industry is advanced, that's OK, but those ends absolutely orthogonal to Microsoft's goals. This has always been the case, and it hasn't changed.
Take advantage of these open-source offerings if you wish, with due diligence, of course, but don't think for a moment that this is out the kindness of hearts of anyone in Redmond. It is possible to accomplish your business goals and do good things for your customers or the industry, and even if Microsoft is trying this new tack, it's still for the primary reason of maintaining their cash flow (which isn't inherently bad because they are a business and not a charity), but also keep in mind that they could turn on a dime if they believe it suits their ends.
I didn't realize all movies are exactly 2 hours long.
No, there are the host segments... and sometimes the Mads show a short first.
After watching CNN and MSNBC, I could see someone believing Trump was just elected Comic Book Super-Villain.
... but it was Her Turn.
-- The DNC
Here's what it boils down to. Microsoft looked at Apple pulling in 30% of every app in their app store and got a raging hard-on for that kind of revenue and basically sacrificed everything good about Windows to try to achieve the same thing. Of course, they totally failed and we ended up with the ugliest version of Windows in 20+ years as a result.
It's funny you should mention MIPS because Windows NT used to run on MIPS, back when it was more flexible. It seems every generation of Windows becomes less flexible in some way. Nowadays, Windows can't even render the "Windows classic" skin from Windows 2000 (the only Windows theme I ever liked), which was removed from Windows 8. I guess Windows isn't powerful or flexible enough to do that kind of thing any more.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Windows 10 looks like Windows 2.
I am so sick of hearing about "Artificial Intelligence". There's nothing intelligent about it. It's just fancy pattern-matching, because that's all we can do at this point. It's better pattern-matching than we've been able to do before, but it's pure hype to call it "AI".
Then Netflix no longer has the license to stream the content and neither do you. You might as well hit the torrents.
I have the same car and the same system. The Aux jack is the only thing I use.
You're lucky. At least that works for you. My phone rarely syncs with my Ford's Sync system at all. Meanwhile, in my Kia Sedona, I have no problems ever. In the Ford Fusion, I just use a wire into the headphone jack because BT is usually too much trouble.
As far as being a car goes, I like my Ford Fusion fine, so this is a minor annoyance in general. I'm only (sort of) joking when I say the Fusion is built entirely out of blind spots.
Don't forget the zero-day exploits. That's still a thing with Windows, isn't it?
Whereas I'm sure there are 500 designers involved in the "flat UI" look, doing everything in their power to make Windows 10 look like Windows 2.
Donald Trump made the assumption that Lester Holt, the NBC moderator for the first debate, was a Democrat. Holt is actually a registered Republican.
Doesn't matter how he's registered... he was clearly pulling for Clinton with his constant interruptions of Trump, to the point where he was flat-out arguing with him. Holt did nothing of the sort with Clinton. He wasn't a moderator, he was a participant.
Another recommendation for Series 10. Don't let 7 and 8 sour you (although I liked Series 7 a lot and 8 had its moments). Series 10 was an attempt to return to the earlier style of the show and I think they succeeded very well.
Seems to me you can either use managed code or get work done.
They already did it with the Windows 10 Anniversary update, which helpfully uninstalls Classic Shell so they pump ads at through that abomination of visual vomit that replaced the Start Menu.
even an hour-long special about the eighties with a grossly-disproportionate segment right at the end about Ray Parker Jr. and the original *Ghostbusters Theme* ...which is about 3 times the amount of time spent actually writing the original "Ghostbusters" theme, as recounted by Ray Parker, Jr.
There's no point in suing someone when you can just call a hit.
No they didn't. Netscape did it to themselves. It's one of the rare instances where Microsoft really did have the superior product. Of course, they went on to let IE bitrot for years until Mozilla came around. But Netscape's problems were entirely self-inflicted.
And for a while I thought this would actually be informative rather than the usual breathless content-free fare.
You must be new here.
By the way, love the signature. I get that feeling often.
I am about as conservative as they come, but since I also try to apply Christian principles to my thinking, I get accused of being a liberal on occasion. One of the most amusing was when I criticized the repulsive treatment Rush Limbaugh gave Sandra Fluke. Don't get me wrong. I think she's an idiot, but Limbaugh was sickening about it. I guess holding all people to the same standard isn't common among people any kind of politics.
But more often, I get people automatically attributing bad stereotypical beliefs to me that simply don't apply. It would be nice to be judged based on your actual words and actions than the knee-jerk pigeonholing that almost everyone does. People who do argue with me seldom actually respond to what I say, but respond to the evil, racist, ignorant, redneck, stereotype strawman so beloved by the Left. It's really pathetic.
It's unfair to blame the user without knowing more detail. The only thing you can say for sure is that you and the people you know didn't have any problems.
I installed VS2015 Community with little problem, but the compiler crashed on a lot of the code I was trying to build, code that was old, but built and worked fine with an older version of VS. I was only using Community until I received the license for Professional, at which point all the compiler crashes went away. Although their dev tools tend to be pretty good, Microsoft doesn't exactly have a good track record with stability, and I have a lot of doubt that whatever the GP was experiencing was necessarily due to user error.
COM never fulfilled its promise from, what was it, almost 20 years ago.
I was also surprised to see that VS2015 wasn't a 64-bit app. I guess like Flash, the codebase is too archaic and undisciplined to port.
I've had some issues with VS2015, but nothing like what you've experienced. Have you tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling? I had to do that a couple times.
I also have not heard that their compiler is antiquated. It seems to pretty up-to-date on the implementation of standards. I do recall that MS had the first compiler to be fully C++03 compliant, although, they've been more behind the curve with the newer standards. Now, the internal code might be antiquated, but it seems pretty solid to me as a user.
And trust me, I am no fan of Microsoft.