As far as I know Xamarin is the company behind the already open source mono and the only Xamarin branded product I know of is Xamarin studio which is just a proprietary monodevelop. So I too would like to know what is Xamarin, why is this a big deal, and why should I care?
While mono was an open source project, the important parts of Xamarin run-time were commercialized. There was a "free" entry level but it was limited in code size or something like that, so much that the first tutorial I tried to follow was not buildable. After that I decided to let it mature a little, and maybe see if the price came down.
At least it could be better than trying to wade through the abominable mess that Microsoft have left us with now, with the enterprise-wide workstation freeze on windows 7, a number of prototype projects being attempted on windows 8.1 tablets and phones, developers tied to windows 7 not being able to build and deploy to 8.1, and developers not interested in touching the quagmire in-between and just wanting to go to one common platform for all the devices in the enterprise. Frankly I am unimpressed and disappointed with the mess Microsoft have left us in, so maybe Xamarin will provide the solution to all this, altho I suspect that any app we come up with will still need a build/deploy path for each of the app stores anyway.
So, a big bump in graphical power to coincide with the arrival of VR sounds like a smart move to me.
Would have been smarter to have prepared the PS4 for this in the first place. I was preparing myself for the expense of VR gear to go with my PS4, but with $800 to $1000 being the cheapest options I have seen so far (and when adjusted to NZ$ it will probably double) I can't see myself replacing the PS4 as well as forking out for the VR gear, so yeah, PC upgrades are looking very likely now.
Sure, the men are taking advantage of the women and ogling and treating them as sex objects.
There were some female dancers who looked sexy, therefore they were stating that all females present are sex objects? So, if they had hired jugglers for entertainment, would that have been suggesting that all attendees are jugglers?
Why should the choice of entertainment be taken as a statement about any particular subset of the attendees? My guess is it was selected to suit the majority of attendees, according to somebody's estimation, which may or may not have been correct, but was it a sign that women in IT roles are considered to be sex objects, or dancers? Please, find something real to try to fix, there's plenty of real wrongs in the world.
This bacterium is natural, not a GMO, so it doesn't have a GMO's magical powers to thrive in every environment and gobble up everything.
Um yes, that is true, but every modified organism started out as a natural organism, didn't it? I mean, "modified" kind of suggests that they started with something. And it was meant as a humorous "profit of doom" kind of statement, it's not like I'm cashing in my lifes treasures and building a plastic-free underground shelter... yet.
I guess it was the suggestion of a bunch of wide-eyed scientists going 'wow' at a new discovery. You just know they will try to genetically modify this organism in the name of "cleaning up the pollution".
I want to patent credit cards made out of aluminium, cos we all know the bugs will get loose. Tho not many people will be going shopping when all the cars electrics start shorting out. Damn
So I had a glitch in the windows store, the first time I tried to use it (to buy a music album) but the microsoft engineer suggested I run a powershell command to reinstall windows store, which completely borked it and now the store app don't run at all.
Now I don't know of the microsoft engineer just gave me really bad advice, or if something that should have fixed my original problem was messed up by other issues with this windows update.
The only 'fix' I have been able to find on the googles involves downloading a windows 10 iso and doing a in-place reinstall of the O/S. Something I have no inclination to do whatsoever. Do I really need the windows store app to be operational? Is there any dependency on it that I have not noticed yet?
While all that mess was going on, I installed iTunes and purchased the album I was looking for.
Does it refuse to accept keyboard and trackpad input when coming back from sleep every morning like OS X does? I hate having to do a force shutdown and restart every morning.
ermmm.... so why don't you just power it off at night instead of putting it into sleep?
Microsoft is obviously trying to reinvent how they make money.
Well I am mystified myself; I finally decided to open up the windows store app and see if I could buy something, only to find that the dialog box that pops up for entering my credit card details into keeps turning black when I try to type into it. Completely black dialog except for the text entry fields. The colors flicker on and off as you scroll or click a hidden dropdown list, but basically I cannot type text into the textboxes and read the field labels at the same time. I have not seen such crap software in decades. It did not inspire me to use anything written for this platform.
Can anybody tell me what the windows 10 store app was written in? cos I don't want to use that toolset for developing software.
And for a first-time user of the store, that has put me off before I ever buy anything.
What are the consequences? Well, because you're using an adblocker that blocks all ads, you won't actually notice it, and they won't get any more income from you than they did before.
Maybe a fair compromise would be ad-blocker apps that determine that you have visited a blocked web site more than twice in a week, or whatever, and prompt you to disable the ad-blocker for this site that you actually seem to be getting value from. Then ban all web sites that use pop-up bitchy dialog boxes of their own telling you what an arse you are for not letting their ads display.
I turn off my ad-blocker for all sites that I user regularly, as they are obviously providing content I value and deserve what income they can get. When I get sucked into hitting some click-bait link and go to a site I am not familiar with, I don't think they deserve to use me as an advertising platform, until at least I determine if they have provided me with useful and intelligent content. When a web site has a passive text note at the top saying, hey, we noticed you are blocking our ads, and we have hungry kittens to feed, and it would be really nice if you allowed our ads so that we can keep our site going.... etc... then I will usually turn off the ad-blocker for that site, and refresh, if they had content that wasn't total garbage. If I am halfway thru reading an article and a popup gets shoved over the top of what I am looking at, bitching about ad-blockers ruining the internet, then I close that site down and look elsewhere for the subject I was just reading about (cos it prolly wasn't their own original story to start with) so those annoying sites don't get a second chance. Judicious use of ad-blockers is my way of showing appreciation for intelligent, entertaining or informative web sites that deserve to be supported. Advertisers will just have to learn to live with the fact that a certain percentage of the internet using population are not dick-wits waiting to suck up more of their crap at every mouse click.
Yeah and we are focused on fixing all the issues that have caused projects to move.
Great news, tho I kept my project on SF all along, and it never seemed to suffer. Personally I feel that some of the bitterness or whatever you want to call it is a little over the top here, the packaged installers were awful but I never suffered any invasive installations myself as it was obvious when the installers were carrying more payload than the thing I was trying to install. I guess it was the ethics of it that enraged so many people.
I think they should genetically engineer watermelon plants to perform this conversion using the sun for energy input. They we could scatter the plants all over the planet and whenever you need some fuel just go pick a few watermelons offa the roadside.
The whole "homogenize mobile and desktop" line of thought is what gave us garbage like Windows 8. Targeting all devices means you have to follow the lowest common denominator. That, or implement platform-specific code, which is basically what you'd be doing for any cross-platform program to begin with.
This is the biggest cock up of the all. Our enterprise workstations are on win7, and it will take several committees and quite a lot of time and money for a new O/S to be tested with all the applications in use, before preparing to test, train and upgrade thousands of staff and thousands of workstations.
Now there is growing interest in having certain key staff and data services going mobile with tablets and phones, but at this stage windows 8.1 is the approved platform for achieving that. Apparently there are parts of the development cycle for 8.1 which I cannot perform on win7, you have to have 8.1 components installed. On top of that, us in development cannot see the point in fapping around with 8.1 now, and would prefer to use one platform that covers all needs, which logically would be windows 10, but I can't see that being adopted for several years, given the total cost to the business that would be involved.
I am most likely being short-sighted and have not investigated too many options just yet, but microsoft seem to have really fucked up the entire development scene for large enterprises, shattering faith and confidence in the great.Net solution which was once supposed to end all disparity, and scattered development tools, frameworks and learning requirements across a range of platforms. We will indeed be stuck catering to the lowest common denominator, which microsoft do not seem to appreciate as they seem to believe businesses are happy throwing away all their currently running software and replacing the lot, every time they decide to mess things around.
The GOTOs were fairly easy to follow in the code. A flavor of BASIC I used early on in my career also had a RETURN TO command, so you didn't have to return to where the GOSUB occurred, your subroutine could have multiple returns to different locations. That started to get messy to follow at times.
You would have to judge how old is too old, by meeting some of the racist old bastards who unfortunately have too much influence on others around them. I was not excusing them by any means, simply stating that, in my opinion, the older people are, the less likely they will be to change the attitudes that have been ingrained in them by their family or peers all of their lives.
Not immediate death... They deserve the chance to learn that they were raised by and/or among ignorant people. Older generations maybe cannot be expected to change the racist views they were imprinted with, but younger people in this bigger more communicative world should be expected to see beyond that crap, and also be able to see that people of any race can be an arsehole.
The last reporting I read on that suggested that most of it ended up in frozen stock piles because whale meat has mostly gone out of fashion and most people don't really like it that much.
Totally agree, also I sometimes find on SO a better set of keywords to start googling on, when I didn't know quite which part of a SDK best handled the feature I was looking for, so it can be a great research tool as well as just a source for copying a bit of code.
How is that a hidden variable theory? Its much the same as taking two balls of silly putty and pressing them against opposite sides of a coin. In a dark room. Then taking one of them down the road to your mates place, where he can look at it and know what the one you left at home looks like. Whats hidden? Its only the imaginary "I don't know" probability wave which you "collapse" by looking at one of them. All the rest is just a big mind-fuck. And Einstein was more concerned with the stupid theories people were making up about quantum physics than the challenge of broken locality.
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As far as I know Xamarin is the company behind the already open source mono and the only Xamarin branded product I know of is Xamarin studio which is just a proprietary monodevelop. So I too would like to know what is Xamarin, why is this a big deal, and why should I care?
While mono was an open source project, the important parts of Xamarin run-time were commercialized.
There was a "free" entry level but it was limited in code size or something like that, so much that the first tutorial I tried to follow was not buildable. After that I decided to let it mature a little, and maybe see if the price came down.
At least it could be better than trying to wade through the abominable mess that Microsoft have left us with now, with the enterprise-wide workstation freeze on windows 7, a number of prototype projects being attempted on windows 8.1 tablets and phones, developers tied to windows 7 not being able to build and deploy to 8.1, and developers not interested in touching the quagmire in-between and just wanting to go to one common platform for all the devices in the enterprise. Frankly I am unimpressed and disappointed with the mess Microsoft have left us in, so maybe Xamarin will provide the solution to all this, altho I suspect that any app we come up with will still need a build/deploy path for each of the app stores anyway.
So, a big bump in graphical power to coincide with the arrival of VR sounds like a smart move to me.
Would have been smarter to have prepared the PS4 for this in the first place. I was preparing myself for the expense of VR gear to go with my PS4, but with $800 to $1000 being the cheapest options I have seen so far (and when adjusted to NZ$ it will probably double) I can't see myself replacing the PS4 as well as forking out for the VR gear, so yeah, PC upgrades are looking very likely now.
Sure, the men are taking advantage of the women and ogling and treating them as sex objects.
There were some female dancers who looked sexy, therefore they were stating that all females present are sex objects? So, if they had hired jugglers for entertainment, would that have been suggesting that all attendees are jugglers?
Why should the choice of entertainment be taken as a statement about any particular subset of the attendees? My guess is it was selected to suit the majority of attendees, according to somebody's estimation, which may or may not have been correct, but was it a sign that women in IT roles are considered to be sex objects, or dancers? Please, find something real to try to fix, there's plenty of real wrongs in the world.
This bacterium is natural, not a GMO, so it doesn't have a GMO's magical powers to thrive in every environment and gobble up everything.
Um yes, that is true, but every modified organism started out as a natural organism, didn't it? I mean, "modified" kind of suggests that they started with something. And it was meant as a humorous "profit of doom" kind of statement, it's not like I'm cashing in my lifes treasures and building a plastic-free underground shelter... yet.
I guess it was the suggestion of a bunch of wide-eyed scientists going 'wow' at a new discovery. You just know they will try to genetically modify this organism in the name of "cleaning up the pollution".
I want to patent credit cards made out of aluminium, cos we all know the bugs will get loose. Tho not many people will be going shopping when all the cars electrics start shorting out. Damn
So I had a glitch in the windows store, the first time I tried to use it (to buy a music album) but the microsoft engineer suggested I run a powershell command to reinstall windows store, which completely borked it and now the store app don't run at all.
Now I don't know of the microsoft engineer just gave me really bad advice, or if something that should have fixed my original problem was messed up by other issues with this windows update.
The only 'fix' I have been able to find on the googles involves downloading a windows 10 iso and doing a in-place reinstall of the O/S. Something I have no inclination to do whatsoever. Do I really need the windows store app to be operational? Is there any dependency on it that I have not noticed yet?
While all that mess was going on, I installed iTunes and purchased the album I was looking for.
Does it refuse to accept keyboard and trackpad input when coming back from sleep every morning like OS X does? I hate having to do a force shutdown and restart every morning.
ermmm.... so why don't you just power it off at night instead of putting it into sleep?
Hi, I worked on the app. We used Visual Basic.
heh. that would be tragic if it wasn't so funny
They gonna drill down there and put a parking fine under my wiper?
Microsoft is obviously trying to reinvent how they make money.
Well I am mystified myself; I finally decided to open up the windows store app and see if I could buy something, only to find that the dialog box that pops up for entering my credit card details into keeps turning black when I try to type into it. Completely black dialog except for the text entry fields. The colors flicker on and off as you scroll or click a hidden dropdown list, but basically I cannot type text into the textboxes and read the field labels at the same time. I have not seen such crap software in decades. It did not inspire me to use anything written for this platform.
Can anybody tell me what the windows 10 store app was written in? cos I don't want to use that toolset for developing software.
And for a first-time user of the store, that has put me off before I ever buy anything.
What are the consequences? Well, because you're using an adblocker that blocks all ads, you won't actually notice it, and they won't get any more income from you than they did before.
Maybe a fair compromise would be ad-blocker apps that determine that you have visited a blocked web site more than twice in a week, or whatever, and prompt you to disable the ad-blocker for this site that you actually seem to be getting value from. Then ban all web sites that use pop-up bitchy dialog boxes of their own telling you what an arse you are for not letting their ads display.
I turn off my ad-blocker for all sites that I user regularly, as they are obviously providing content I value and deserve what income they can get.
When I get sucked into hitting some click-bait link and go to a site I am not familiar with, I don't think they deserve to use me as an advertising platform, until at least I determine if they have provided me with useful and intelligent content.
When a web site has a passive text note at the top saying, hey, we noticed you are blocking our ads, and we have hungry kittens to feed, and it would be really nice if you allowed our ads so that we can keep our site going.... etc... then I will usually turn off the ad-blocker for that site, and refresh, if they had content that wasn't total garbage.
If I am halfway thru reading an article and a popup gets shoved over the top of what I am looking at, bitching about ad-blockers ruining the internet, then I close that site down and look elsewhere for the subject I was just reading about (cos it prolly wasn't their own original story to start with) so those annoying sites don't get a second chance.
Judicious use of ad-blockers is my way of showing appreciation for intelligent, entertaining or informative web sites that deserve to be supported. Advertisers will just have to learn to live with the fact that a certain percentage of the internet using population are not dick-wits waiting to suck up more of their crap at every mouse click.
Yeah and we are focused on fixing all the issues that have caused projects to move.
Great news, tho I kept my project on SF all along, and it never seemed to suffer.
Personally I feel that some of the bitterness or whatever you want to call it is a little over the top here, the packaged installers were awful but I never suffered any invasive installations myself as it was obvious when the installers were carrying more payload than the thing I was trying to install. I guess it was the ethics of it that enraged so many people.
I think they should genetically engineer watermelon plants to perform this conversion using the sun for energy input.
They we could scatter the plants all over the planet and whenever you need some fuel just go pick a few watermelons offa the roadside.
The whole "homogenize mobile and desktop" line of thought is what gave us garbage like Windows 8. Targeting all devices means you have to follow the lowest common denominator. That, or implement platform-specific code, which is basically what you'd be doing for any cross-platform program to begin with.
This is the biggest cock up of the all. Our enterprise workstations are on win7, and it will take several committees and quite a lot of time and money for a new O/S to be tested with all the applications in use, before preparing to test, train and upgrade thousands of staff and thousands of workstations.
Now there is growing interest in having certain key staff and data services going mobile with tablets and phones, but at this stage windows 8.1 is the approved platform for achieving that. Apparently there are parts of the development cycle for 8.1 which I cannot perform on win7, you have to have 8.1 components installed. On top of that, us in development cannot see the point in fapping around with 8.1 now, and would prefer to use one platform that covers all needs, which logically would be windows 10, but I can't see that being adopted for several years, given the total cost to the business that would be involved.
I am most likely being short-sighted and have not investigated too many options just yet, but microsoft seem to have really fucked up the entire development scene for large enterprises, shattering faith and confidence in the great .Net solution which was once supposed to end all disparity, and scattered development tools, frameworks and learning requirements across a range of platforms. We will indeed be stuck catering to the lowest common denominator, which microsoft do not seem to appreciate as they seem to believe businesses are happy throwing away all their currently running software and replacing the lot, every time they decide to mess things around.
The GOTOs were fairly easy to follow in the code. A flavor of BASIC I used early on in my career also had a RETURN TO command, so you didn't have to return to where the GOSUB occurred, your subroutine could have multiple returns to different locations. That started to get messy to follow at times.
It got modded as troll, but personally I think it was a valid expression of a not-uncommon opinion. And quite well stated.
You would have to judge how old is too old, by meeting some of the racist old bastards who unfortunately have too much influence on others around them. I was not excusing them by any means, simply stating that, in my opinion, the older people are, the less likely they will be to change the attitudes that have been ingrained in them by their family or peers all of their lives.
Not immediate death... They deserve the chance to learn that they were raised by and/or among ignorant people. Older generations maybe cannot be expected to change the racist views they were imprinted with, but younger people in this bigger more communicative world should be expected to see beyond that crap, and also be able to see that people of any race can be an arsehole.
Yup, fascists and fanatics want to censor things.
Either because people don't agree with your politics, or your religion, or your choice of text editor, or flavor of ice cream.
Now you're just talking crazy talk; everybody knows that vanilla flavor is best.
The last reporting I read on that suggested that most of it ended up in frozen stock piles because whale meat has mostly gone out of fashion and most people don't really like it that much.
Totally agree, also I sometimes find on SO a better set of keywords to start googling on, when I didn't know quite which part of a SDK best handled the feature I was looking for, so it can be a great research tool as well as just a source for copying a bit of code.
How is that a hidden variable theory?
Its much the same as taking two balls of silly putty and pressing them against opposite sides of a coin. In a dark room. Then taking one of them down the road to your mates place, where he can look at it and know what the one you left at home looks like. Whats hidden? Its only the imaginary "I don't know" probability wave which you "collapse" by looking at one of them. All the rest is just a big mind-fuck. And Einstein was more concerned with the stupid theories people were making up about quantum physics than the challenge of broken locality.
Eight bits per cell (as opposed to one bit for current ram). So neither three nor five.
Well actually its both three and five.