It's terrible advice. The only thing worse than asking for a counter-offer is accepting one. It proves to your current employer that you can be bought, and therefore cannot be trusted.
If one (such as yourself, in this case) defines "social interaction" so narrowly as to include only Facebook, then certainly, you are correct, that only Facebook is useful for "social interaction."
The rest of us, however, will know you're a moron.
... and when everyone does it like you do, there will be no such thing as television.
You, however, will have hit your "three strikes" long before that, and will no longer have the option to have an internet connection, so the point will be moot for you.
I knew since the beginning it was a terrible example, though, but I wasn't able to think anything better.
That's the problem (and the reason why SFU is going away). There are very, very few legitimate uses for SFU these days. Few enough that it no longer justifies the (likely quite expensive) investment from Microsoft.
Then Win8 service pack 1 will add back in a bunch of stuff they had taken out, and make the traditional desktop the default.
I would be SHOCKED if there wasn't a way to make the desktop the default from the very beginning, especially for any version expected to be used in a commercial environment. The Win8 devs at MS wouldn't want the Metro interface to be default, so they'd work it out if only for themselves. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Metro was only the default in the (.*Home.*) versions.
Is this a shock to anyone after The Week of Windows 8 Hype?
No, it's a shock SUA lasted this long. The Interix community has been mostly dead for a long time.
If there was a theme running through all of the stories it was this: Windows as you have known it is deprecated, a traditional Windows desktop will be available (certainly on x86, perhaps on arm) for those who are determined enough to figure out how to reenable it but don't expect it to last much longer.
inorite? I mean, you have to click on "DESKTOP" to get to the traditional Windows desktop. Most people will never manage to dig up that well-hidden secret.
If Windows and native Win32 executables themselves are on the chopping block
They're not.
why would they have any interest in maintaining a UNIX command line layer?
They wouldn't. It's expensive, takes a lot of manpower, and is rarely used. It was much more useful in getting Unix shops onto Windows back in the early NT days. That was a long time ago, and it's outlived it's usefulness. As I said before, the point of SUA was NOT to allow you to "grep" your "My Documents" folder.
Win32 (and UNIX more so) isn't going to lend itself to the sort of app store lockdown Microsoft is moving to.
Someone ought to tell Apple that. I'm sure they'd like to know what you know.
If you have a choice of buy Win32 apps/games at Walmart/Gamestop and Microsoft gets no taste of the action or buy everything at the App Store and give Microsoft 30%, which do you think they are going to 'nudge' you toward?
If they don't, they get sued by shareholders?
And by 'nudge' I mean turn your PC into an iPhone with hard crypto locks and remove all options that do not let them rake off their 30 points.
And then, if you care about that sort of thing (and empirical evidence suggests that the giant majority of people DO NOT, c.f. Apple) then there's always Linux and *BSD.
The point of SUA (SFU, Interix, whatever) wasn't to allow you to run "grep" on you "My Documents" folder. If that's what you were using it for, you were doing it wrong.
-"not shutting your water heater when you leave for 3 months will save you money because it will cost more in the end to eat the water when you get back"
Modern water heaters are startlingly efficient. I looked into tankless heaters some time ago, assuming I'd win on the efficiency alone. I wouldn't.
Of course, Linux will still be there, but how many developers will devote resources to Linux development when Apple and MS can pretty much guarantee them a locked-down, piracy-free platform (even if they do take a cut of the action)?
When it comes to games, I would guess that that number won't change much from what it is now, meaning, essentially zero.
I've been using onboard Realtek audio for something like a decade, on multiple machines at home and at work, as well as laptops, and the last time I remember having audio driver problems are the bad-old-days of Creative Labs.
I remember back in the day we were using a Java applet that was doing some client-side security stuff for us, in the browser. It was awesome in that not only did it only work with the Sun JVM, it only worked in a small set of very specific point releases of the Sun JVM (and the latest version was NOT in that set...).
So, I guess then being from Microsoft, it will be just like Arduino in that all the software *and* all the hardware designs are open source, so anybody can make and sell the hardware if they feel like it. Right? And people can take the hardware designs and modify them to make special purpose version, and be able to release updates to the software tool chain to support the new hardware?
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It's terrible advice. The only thing worse than asking for a counter-offer is accepting one. It proves to your current employer that you can be bought, and therefore cannot be trusted.
If one (such as yourself, in this case) defines "social interaction" so narrowly as to include only Facebook, then certainly, you are correct, that only Facebook is useful for "social interaction."
The rest of us, however, will know you're a moron.
I sure it doesn't matter anyway, because the age of the PC is over, and we're all going to be using tablets, right? Right??
How do you know the patents in question are all software patents?
Are all the patents in question software patents? It's possible that MS has patents on other components of the system.
... but some of us have morals. What you're doing is illegal (whether or not you think it should be), and I'm not interested in participating.
... and when everyone does it like you do, there will be no such thing as television.
You, however, will have hit your "three strikes" long before that, and will no longer have the option to have an internet connection, so the point will be moot for you.
Welcome to the future.
The mind boggles at someone attempting to convince others that IRC and messageboards weren't fundamentally designed for social interaction.
I knew since the beginning it was a terrible example, though, but I wasn't able to think anything better.
That's the problem (and the reason why SFU is going away). There are very, very few legitimate uses for SFU these days. Few enough that it no longer justifies the (likely quite expensive) investment from Microsoft.
Then Win8 service pack 1 will add back in a bunch of stuff they had taken out, and make the traditional desktop the default.
I would be SHOCKED if there wasn't a way to make the desktop the default from the very beginning, especially for any version expected to be used in a commercial environment. The Win8 devs at MS wouldn't want the Metro interface to be default, so they'd work it out if only for themselves. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Metro was only the default in the (.*Home.*) versions.
Is this a shock to anyone after The Week of Windows 8 Hype?
No, it's a shock SUA lasted this long. The Interix community has been mostly dead for a long time.
If there was a theme running through all of the stories it was this: Windows as you have known it is deprecated, a traditional Windows desktop will be available (certainly on x86, perhaps on arm) for those who are determined enough to figure out how to reenable it but don't expect it to last much longer.
inorite? I mean, you have to click on "DESKTOP" to get to the traditional Windows desktop. Most people will never manage to dig up that well-hidden secret.
If Windows and native Win32 executables themselves are on the chopping block
They're not.
why would they have any interest in maintaining a UNIX command line layer?
They wouldn't. It's expensive, takes a lot of manpower, and is rarely used. It was much more useful in getting Unix shops onto Windows back in the early NT days. That was a long time ago, and it's outlived it's usefulness. As I said before, the point of SUA was NOT to allow you to "grep" your "My Documents" folder.
Win32 (and UNIX more so) isn't going to lend itself to the sort of app store lockdown Microsoft is moving to.
Someone ought to tell Apple that. I'm sure they'd like to know what you know.
If you have a choice of buy Win32 apps/games at Walmart/Gamestop and Microsoft gets no taste of the action or buy everything at the App Store and give Microsoft 30%, which do you think they are going to 'nudge' you toward?
If they don't, they get sued by shareholders?
And by 'nudge' I mean turn your PC into an iPhone with hard crypto locks and remove all options that do not let them rake off their 30 points.
And then, if you care about that sort of thing (and empirical evidence suggests that the giant majority of people DO NOT, c.f. Apple) then there's always Linux and *BSD.
The point of SUA (SFU, Interix, whatever) wasn't to allow you to run "grep" on you "My Documents" folder. If that's what you were using it for, you were doing it wrong.
Probably it'd work like OnLive. Graphics suck, but it does work, kinda.
Your strategy is easily dealt with:
find ([^\+]*)(\+\w+|)@(.*)
replace with $1@$3
If it ever became widespread, it'd be defeated VERY rapidly.
If only there were some system, some abstraction layer, that would allow objects to be represented as text. Hmm.
Maybe in the future.
-"not shutting your water heater when you leave for 3 months will save you money because it will cost more in the end to eat the water when you get back"
Modern water heaters are startlingly efficient. I looked into tankless heaters some time ago, assuming I'd win on the efficiency alone. I wouldn't.
I wish to subscribe to your newsletter, and all that.
Of course, Linux will still be there, but how many developers will devote resources to Linux development when Apple and MS can pretty much guarantee them a locked-down, piracy-free platform (even if they do take a cut of the action)?
When it comes to games, I would guess that that number won't change much from what it is now, meaning, essentially zero.
'cause I run all my Python code in the IDE, amirite?
Yep, they do. Scary, huh?
Amen to that. Customer service still matters.
I've been using onboard Realtek audio for something like a decade, on multiple machines at home and at work, as well as laptops, and the last time I remember having audio driver problems are the bad-old-days of Creative Labs.
Am I just lucky?
I remember back in the day we were using a Java applet that was doing some client-side security stuff for us, in the browser. It was awesome in that not only did it only work with the Sun JVM, it only worked in a small set of very specific point releases of the Sun JVM (and the latest version was NOT in that set...).
I'm with the GP. The more things change...
Then there was a shake up and we got a new manager of engineering and all that time and money went down the drain
Damn, that .NET is insidious. I mean, I knew it ate babies, but stealing people's money too?
So, I guess then being from Microsoft, it will be just like Arduino in that all the software *and* all the hardware designs are open source, so anybody can make and sell the hardware if they feel like it. Right? And people can take the hardware designs and modify them to make special purpose version, and be able to release updates to the software tool chain to support the new hardware?
The .NET Micro Framework is Apache licensed. If you're looking for an open hardware design around it, I'd start with the Netduino.