Okay. But 'share code' sounds like code written with Xamarin can be simply recompiled for multiple platforms to produce complete running apps from a single code base. I'm guessing that's not the case
Actually in a fair number of situations that is exactly the case - including the GUI bits. For non-trivial business / news / info apps you can get well over 90% of your code straight compiled with no changes and often you can push that very close to 100%.
On the other hand, you still retain full access to the underlying OS API and of course for games or apps that want to perform UI tricks and interact with specific hardware features then you will simply isolate that bit of specific code for each device OS.
This stick is going to be woefully underpowered for Windows. It has only 4GB of RAM - that will barely run Windows alone.
I disagree. Windows10 runs pretty well on even little Dell tablets with only 2GB of ram and no significant processor power. On one of these compute sticks it should actually run fine.
And Windows on IoT SoC boards - why? Windows only makes sense if you want to exploit the Windows development ecosystem. Which is nonexistent for those small IoT boards.
These boards don't use an on-board dev ecosystem, they use a dev PC and download the resulting code. To be fair, you could use the command line.net compilation / assembly tools and build code on them but there is no point. Simply connect it up to a system running Visual Studio and enjoy the full IDE, step debugging and so on. Since they run the.net core you have access to a huge library of packages and support tools.
What? Have you even seen MS's offerings? They can't build DCs fast enough because so many people are signing up. Their stuff is at least in par with Amazon if not better.
This. All of this. More and more clients who traditionally went AWS (advertising campaign back ends, social media startups and so on) are picking Azure. The AWS tools are just crude in comparison and the Azure offerings are typically more complete, more robust and much better documented.
3-4 years ago suggest Azure hosting was suicide for a potential contract, these days it is an advantage and makes the guys pushing AWS look like they aren't keeping up. The perception is shifting fast.
Flattening tires, especially under heavy vehicles can induce fatal flaws in the structural integrity of the steel belts. In short, while not at all common this sort of stupidity can later kill everyone in the truck and any number of bystanders.
"80% of replies that didn't seriously examine this before firing off knee-jerk"
Higher. it will be a cold day in hell before 20% of the Slashdot audience actually does anythign but fire off knee jerked panic responses to anything MS does.
Every one of my friends who has would never go back to being without it.
I know what you mean... thats why I don't have an iPhone and instead run a WM based phone on a network that actually... works.
Let's face it... the iPhone has a cute browser but in the end it's crippled by being on an anemic network with slow access speeds and system software that (while pretty) was built by people who were stumped by the concept of copy and paste.
Since the problem you describe is a local one caused by the incompetence of your IT staff, I doubt any of "us" need to apologize for it at all:) However, in the interests of good faith I will...
I'm sure it's not what they wanted - they're just incompetent.
The reality is that thousands of corporate networks hosting hundreds of thousands of users manage to print over a network in Vista without UAC issues. Hell, I have 11 clients that do it myself. Nothing special had to happen... just add the printer and you're done.
(lost count of the number of times that a quick check of Wikipedia has settled a breakfast/lunchtime/dinner argument)
Wow. You trust Wikipedia? That is pretty amazing in itself.
Always connected? Thats what my Treo 700w is for. It does more than the Kindle, costs less and has the amazing ability to run 3rd party utilities. Not to mention podcasting and audio book support.
Vista does no such thing. Unless you are running protected content none of the DRM code even loads or runs in the display path. You really might want to learn something yourself.
Thats the Slashdot hypocrisy filter slamming into place.
See, if you steal from a company, you get to pretend thats not only OK but heroic. If you suspect a company of doing something wrong you get to jump up and down and whine like a little girl... this is also heroic.
The side effect of this - that it is simply a justification for pirates to steal anything they want while simultaneously trying to maintain a moral high ground - is lost on no one.
Despite the desperate wishing of many in the blog-o-sphere and the tech podcasters... Vista is doing just fine. A few folks whining about their downgrade isn't really representative or very important.
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Okay. But 'share code' sounds like code written with Xamarin can be simply recompiled for multiple platforms to produce complete running apps from a single code base. I'm guessing that's not the case
Actually in a fair number of situations that is exactly the case - including the GUI bits. For non-trivial business / news / info apps you can get well over 90% of your code straight compiled with no changes and often you can push that very close to 100%.
On the other hand, you still retain full access to the underlying OS API and of course for games or apps that want to perform UI tricks and interact with specific hardware features then you will simply isolate that bit of specific code for each device OS.
it is really good stuff.
This stick is going to be woefully underpowered for Windows. It has only 4GB of RAM - that will barely run Windows alone.
I disagree. Windows10 runs pretty well on even little Dell tablets with only 2GB of ram and no significant processor power. On one of these compute sticks it should actually run fine.
And Windows on IoT SoC boards - why? Windows only makes sense if you want to exploit the Windows development ecosystem. Which is nonexistent for those small IoT boards.
These boards don't use an on-board dev ecosystem, they use a dev PC and download the resulting code. To be fair, you could use the command line .net compilation / assembly tools and build code on them but there is no point. Simply connect it up to a system running Visual Studio and enjoy the full IDE, step debugging and so on. Since they run the .net core you have access to a huge library of packages and support tools.
What? Have you even seen MS's offerings? They can't build DCs fast enough because so many people are signing up. Their stuff is at least in par with Amazon if not better.
This. All of this. More and more clients who traditionally went AWS (advertising campaign back ends, social media startups and so on) are picking Azure. The AWS tools are just crude in comparison and the Azure offerings are typically more complete, more robust and much better documented.
3-4 years ago suggest Azure hosting was suicide for a potential contract, these days it is an advantage and makes the guys pushing AWS look like they aren't keeping up. The perception is shifting fast.
Can I still say that something is so easy, a monkey could do it?
No, these days that makes you a racist somehow.
Yes, I drive a Chevy.
That was awesome :)
Flattening tires, especially under heavy vehicles can induce fatal flaws in the structural integrity of the steel belts. In short, while not at all common this sort of stupidity can later kill everyone in the truck and any number of bystanders.
Hey, some other morons were willing to damage peoples cars because they don't like the brand or size they picked. Same thing.
"80% of replies that didn't seriously examine this before firing off knee-jerk"
Higher. it will be a cold day in hell before 20% of the Slashdot audience actually does anythign but fire off knee jerked panic responses to anything MS does.
I use that feature all the time in IE.
Every one of my friends who has would never go back to being without it.
I know what you mean... thats why I don't have an iPhone and instead run a WM based phone on a network that actually... works.
Let's face it... the iPhone has a cute browser but in the end it's crippled by being on an anemic network with slow access speeds and system software that (while pretty) was built by people who were stumped by the concept of copy and paste.
Since the problem you describe is a local one caused by the incompetence of your IT staff, I doubt any of "us" need to apologize for it at all :) However, in the interests of good faith I will...
I'm sorry your admins suck.
Actually, I didn't ask you for an example... that was someone else. You might want to read these things.
I'm sure it's not what they wanted - they're just incompetent.
The reality is that thousands of corporate networks hosting hundreds of thousands of users manage to print over a network in Vista without UAC issues. Hell, I have 11 clients that do it myself. Nothing special had to happen... just add the printer and you're done.
So you're either lying or your admins suck.
Fire your idiot admins. Seriously. Then tell us what company you work for so we can make sure to never trust them with any important data.
You woudl have to be some sort of idio-admin-savant to get UAC prompts in the situation you described.
(lost count of the number of times that a quick check of Wikipedia has settled a breakfast/lunchtime/dinner argument)
Wow. You trust Wikipedia? That is pretty amazing in itself.
Always connected? Thats what my Treo 700w is for. It does more than the Kindle, costs less and has the amazing ability to run 3rd party utilities. Not to mention podcasting and audio book support.
Vista does no such thing. Unless you are running protected content none of the DRM code even loads or runs in the display path. You really might want to learn something yourself.
Wow works perfectly. It is possible that your system is borked.
"The display subsystem ... is laden with DRM. Microsoft checks with the RIAA before it shows you anything. See other comments in this story."
Your earlier point indicated you had no clue... this one makes it certain.
Do you have any technical information you didn't grab from a slashdot headline or a Mac fanboy?
You do know that this works just fine right?
Thats the Slashdot hypocrisy filter slamming into place.
See, if you steal from a company, you get to pretend thats not only OK but heroic. If you suspect a company of doing something wrong you get to jump up and down and whine like a little girl... this is also heroic.
The side effect of this - that it is simply a justification for pirates to steal anything they want while simultaneously trying to maintain a moral high ground - is lost on no one.
Despite the desperate wishing of many in the blog-o-sphere and the tech podcasters... Vista is doing just fine. A few folks whining about their downgrade isn't really representative or very important.
I disagree. I think the people at MS know exactly the market they are in and are very happy with the progress they are making.
Right!
Of course if we did that a lot of Slashdot users would be whining that there are children starving while food in the US could be used to feed them.
So the next step is to force the US to produce more food. For the children's sake.
How dare you say that competition might be a good idea! Here at Slashdot we hate competition and demand a monopoly.
Think of the children!
On Slashdot of course that's just a bullsh*t excuse to pretend hating Microsoft isn't just a silly prejudice.