If nokia decided to support Android while they are resurrecting N900/N9/Maemo/Meego, they'd be way better of than any other alternative.
FTFY It would also mean that they have some sanity and business sense left, as opposed to hiring a Microsoft plant who talks about jumping off the oil platforms into the sea.
No. All Mictosoft's "great technologies" are descendants of two: OLE and DDE..NET was actually supposed to have a single technology using their descendants (SOAP, COM/COM+/DCOM/ActiveX further development), but they kept stuffing it with languages, common runtime, until it became "everything we think, software development ought to be". But its origin is in object management model, not network communications.
Then, of course, they have discovered that "managed code" is just as buggy as the native one, and that their client-server model sucks without OS supporting it with interprocess communications, so now they are doing full reverse back to C++ and trying to bring Stroustrup into their fold, however they won't accept Qt because they can't have full control over it. But that's just Microsoft being Microsoft.
Misleading terminology is not for people who know what it means, it's for people who heard the term, and would believe that it applied to a Microsoft product.
US: We send you a group of spies with Stuxnet virus on USB drives. China: Virus was incompatible with our hardware and software, we caught your spies and keep them in prison forever.
China: Our spies stolen Outlook password while your diplomat was emailing our documents to CIA. We discovered that the same password works on all VPNs in CIA and NSA where your spy-diplomat had an account, and got encryption keys for all your drones in the Middle East. US: You can't, we have Norton!
Let's all make sure that all kids will have genotype close to a local maximum of intelligence, even if it cuts off the capability to approach global maximum for all future generations!
But what am I complaining about? US society, the only people stupid enough to do anything like that, is already taken over by psychopaths, it's like worrying about European royal families inbreeding.
Microsoft is trying to "appropriate" another established term to create an air of legitimacy of their products and imply capabilities that they do not have.
RTOS is a common name for a "Real-Time Operating System", systems that are commonly used on ARM, and, as their name implies, have real-time capabilities that Windows, of any flavor, never had and likely never will. Please note that "RT" was used for this purpose since at least 1973 (RT-11 operating system by DEC).
Let's look back to Microsoft previous efforts on this path. Many years ago they pulled out of nowhere the "Digital Nervous System" advertising slogan, apparently for no purpose other than to create confusion with DNS, Domain Name System. More recently, again, out of nowhere they called one of the descendants of their unholy marriage of OLE and DDE, ".NET", what would be a really stupid name if it wasn't a standard top-leven domain, and sounded somehow related to ".com", a typical term for an Internet-based business. On top of this, Microsoft was extremely persistent in inventing trademarked terms that sound generic -- "Windows", "Word" are actual trademarks, and "MS SQL Server" is constantly mentioned as "SQL Server", even though the former is a Microsoft trademark and the latter is a generic name for a database server using SQL language that covers dozens of Microsoft competitors.
How about a lawsuit from all RTOS developers (including at least two flavors of Linux-based ones)?
uh-huh.. and people should listen to you because?.. you hate microsoft?.. yawn..
Why listen to me? This is the position of everyone except Microsoft and Microsoft-only-trained people.
Typically because OSS developers are terrible at creating usable UIs for normal people.. OSS world has horrible tools when it comes to creating GUIs.
Even if it was true, it would not in any way change the fact that Qt is superior to all Microsoft GUI toolkits that ever existed.
Even a shitty developer using WPF and Visual Studio would be preferable than some anti-ms zealot wasting hours in vi writing Qt code.
A person who does not hate Microsoft, is either unfamiliar with Microsoft, or is not qualified to do anything with software development. Same would apply to a scientist in the time of Renaissance who did not hate Inquisition -- that would make him an intellectual prostitute.
He claims that Russia is more likely to start a nuclear war. If he (as you imply) thinks that Russia would be more likely to start a war only if missile defense is evil, he is an even greater idiot.
Why is this shit up to the teacher in the first place?
The whole point of multiple choice test is to reduce the amount of work performed by the teacher and allow less intelligent people to become teachers. When I studied in a far superior public education system, multiple choice tests were banned, and teachers were supposed to evaluate every answer individually, however all teachers were also supposed to pass the same course and use the same curriculum and textbooks -- no skipping chapters because teacher is too stupid to teach it.
The problem is identified correctly, however it has nothing to do with the government managing schools. Vouchers are a terrible idea because almost parents want obedient children who follow exact beliefs of their parents and never in their life challenge the weakest authority figure that there ever was -- a parent.
Education system is an institution of the society, so if government handles it poorly, you need better government, not worse education.
Let's examine the assumption that missile defense is evil, because it destabilizes the strategic situation; Russia is more likely to choose to shoot first because it's use it or lose it.
Congratulation, you are an idiot. Or American patriot of the idiotic kind.
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If nokia decided to support Android while they are resurrecting N900/N9/Maemo/Meego, they'd be way better of than any other alternative.
FTFY
It would also mean that they have some sanity and business sense left, as opposed to hiring a Microsoft plant who talks about jumping off the oil platforms into the sea.
A more natural way of phrasing your point however is: if you have iOS on your mobile, you'd want iOS on your desktop and your laptop.
I think, this is exactly what GNOME3 developers thought.
The Windows/NT line has a modular design
Had. A long time ago.
No. All Mictosoft's "great technologies" are descendants of two: OLE and DDE. .NET was actually supposed to have a single technology using their descendants (SOAP, COM/COM+/DCOM/ActiveX further development), but they kept stuffing it with languages, common runtime, until it became "everything we think, software development ought to be". But its origin is in object management model, not network communications.
Then, of course, they have discovered that "managed code" is just as buggy as the native one, and that their client-server model sucks without OS supporting it with interprocess communications, so now they are doing full reverse back to C++ and trying to bring Stroustrup into their fold, however they won't accept Qt because they can't have full control over it. But that's just Microsoft being Microsoft.
US: I cast... magic missile
China: Why you cast magic missile? There nothing to attack!
Dan J. Bernstein for DM!
I knew, I have missed something!
Misleading terminology is not for people who know what it means, it's for people who heard the term, and would believe that it applied to a Microsoft product.
1. In generally accepted terms, it does not.
2. It didn't in Windows terminology until this version.
3. It's misleading.
Now go kill all your friends, then yourself. Chances are, they are "viral marketeers" for Microsoft, too.
US: We send you a group of spies with Stuxnet virus on USB drives.
China: Virus was incompatible with our hardware and software, we caught your spies and keep them in prison forever.
China: Our spies stolen Outlook password while your diplomat was emailing our documents to CIA. We discovered that the same password works on all VPNs in CIA and NSA where your spy-diplomat had an account, and got encryption keys for all your drones in the Middle East.
US: You can't, we have Norton!
Let's all make sure that all kids will have genotype close to a local maximum of intelligence, even if it cuts off the capability to approach global maximum for all future generations!
But what am I complaining about? US society, the only people stupid enough to do anything like that, is already taken over by psychopaths, it's like worrying about European royal families inbreeding.
Microsoft is trying to "appropriate" another established term to create an air of legitimacy of their products and imply capabilities that they do not have.
RTOS is a common name for a "Real-Time Operating System", systems that are commonly used on ARM, and, as their name implies, have real-time capabilities that Windows, of any flavor, never had and likely never will. Please note that "RT" was used for this purpose since at least 1973 (RT-11 operating system by DEC).
Let's look back to Microsoft previous efforts on this path. Many years ago they pulled out of nowhere the "Digital Nervous System" advertising slogan, apparently for no purpose other than to create confusion with DNS, Domain Name System. More recently, again, out of nowhere they called one of the descendants of their unholy marriage of OLE and DDE, ".NET", what would be a really stupid name if it wasn't a standard top-leven domain, and sounded somehow related to ".com", a typical term for an Internet-based business. On top of this, Microsoft was extremely persistent in inventing trademarked terms that sound generic -- "Windows", "Word" are actual trademarks, and "MS SQL Server" is constantly mentioned as "SQL Server", even though the former is a Microsoft trademark and the latter is a generic name for a database server using SQL language that covers dozens of Microsoft competitors.
How about a lawsuit from all RTOS developers (including at least two flavors of Linux-based ones)?
That's nothing, I have seen a C++ method with colon cancer. They had to transplant a colon from some namespace.
hairyfeet is karma whoring again, posting known popular opinions without adding anything to the discussion.
Repeating something often doesn't make it false.
uh-huh.. and people should listen to you because?.. you hate microsoft? .. yawn..
Why listen to me? This is the position of everyone except Microsoft and Microsoft-only-trained people.
Typically because OSS developers are terrible at creating usable UIs for normal people .. OSS world has horrible tools when it comes to creating GUIs.
Even if it was true, it would not in any way change the fact that Qt is superior to all Microsoft GUI toolkits that ever existed.
Even a shitty developer using WPF and Visual Studio would be preferable than some anti-ms zealot wasting hours in vi writing Qt code.
A person who does not hate Microsoft, is either unfamiliar with Microsoft, or is not qualified to do anything with software development. Same would apply to a scientist in the time of Renaissance who did not hate Inquisition -- that would make him an intellectual prostitute.
Congratulation, you are an idiot, too.
He claims that Russia is more likely to start a nuclear war.
If he (as you imply) thinks that Russia would be more likely to start a war only if missile defense is evil, he is an even greater idiot.
Intimidation of intelligent people, forcing everyone else to memorize the authority figures' preferences instead of truth.
Or maybe people who wrote this are incredibly dumb.
Well, a table kinda looks like an animal.
Really, WHAT THE FUCK was that motherfucking shit of a question?!!
Why is this shit up to the teacher in the first place?
The whole point of multiple choice test is to reduce the amount of work performed by the teacher and allow less intelligent people to become teachers. When I studied in a far superior public education system, multiple choice tests were banned, and teachers were supposed to evaluate every answer individually, however all teachers were also supposed to pass the same course and use the same curriculum and textbooks -- no skipping chapters because teacher is too stupid to teach it.
The problem is identified correctly, however it has nothing to do with the government managing schools. Vouchers are a terrible idea because almost parents want obedient children who follow exact beliefs of their parents and never in their life challenge the weakest authority figure that there ever was -- a parent.
Education system is an institution of the society, so if government handles it poorly, you need better government, not worse education.
s/thinkingy/thinking/ of course.
There was a dragon fly surveillance bot on display.
Where?
It was on display because it was declassified since it was already over 20 years old.
Probably also because it never worked.
The guy leading them into the building quipped, "If we had that 20 years ago can you imagine what we have today?"
I would guess, better propaganda and more corrupt management.
There are no "rogue nations" more rogue than US.
Let's examine the assumption that missile defense is evil, because it destabilizes the strategic situation; Russia is more likely to choose to shoot first because it's use it or lose it.
Congratulation, you are an idiot. Or American patriot of the idiotic kind.
It still won't be if it would be possible to rebuild the offensive weapons while being protected.