It can only be a picture of Big Billg himself, which of course scares the living daylights out of the tin hat linux weenies whose only purpose in life is to make their box the most secure (and then use their DOB as their PIN number), whilst at the same time downloading pr0n using a custom written shell script executed using cron.
I own and operate a small dotcom like business and we always bought the bits for our machines, and built them ourselves.
We bought the best components, big cases and were able to ensure everything worked as desired. But reliability is a BIG issue.
We recently stopped this practice and decided to buy from a small but reliable company (armari.co.uk). I bought a test machine (dual amd 1800+, 1GBram, etc.) and the build quality is amazing...we are now purchasing these machines (plus dual monitor) for all the team.
It's a big relief knowing that I can just call someone and have it fixed asap. Armari even provided named Win2k login, partioned the way I like, and system rescue CD's that in 10 minutes put the os, drivers and configs all back to factory ship.
No looking back to the dim and dark days of spending hours trying to get a SCSI card to boot a CD:-) Get someone else to burn it in - it's a waste of your time.
I agree with the author. MS can say in their EULA that you can't run their software on non-Windows OSes, so he can say that you can't run his software when adaware is present.
I think he's doing a great service by prompting to uninstall it and then starting the process for you.
I'll acknowledge that things get fixed but hey, I only downloaded it a couple of months ago and when I did it was 'new'...bugs/issues an all (which should have bene caught in testing). I'd hate to have seen it before it was 'ready for release'.
So, does "create new" still allow you to create a new hard drive without having to spend any money?
Do you still have to put up with the DrakConf error?
Next time I give Linux a whirl (in about 1 month) I'll try suse instead. I was trying Linux out to see if it was 'consumer ready' yet but concluded that it wasn't. When it is I'll port my apps to it;)
I don't see the connection. If they are trying to displace one developer tool with another than what do the consumers care. They care about their apps, not what tools were used to produce them.
MS *will* use their marketing leverage to pound on us developers though. I've never had a mailshot from Sun nor have I been offered Sun sponsored freebies...so in the end if java loses (and *if* it's not due to technicalities) then it's down to poor developer marketing and nothing else. Shame on Sun then for sitting on their laurels for 6/7 years instead of heavily marketing their product to people like me!
MS rolls out a new product and ships a stack of examples, a nice easy-peasy GUI and provides plenty of support for developers to get started. When I 'played' with java I had none of that. Maybe it's different now but I have no incentive to look. Java sucks and blows in the performance stakes, and if C# does too then it won't get a look in either.
I don't have enough experience to pick out any fine examples...but last time I used Linux (mandrake about 2 months ago) it was far from finished:
* What about virtual desktops - I wanted zero virtual desktops but it took me a *long* time to find out how to remove the last nagging one form the task bar.
* I run "control center", only to be told that in order to run "DrakConf" blah blah...WTF is "DrakConf" and who was trying to run it - I do *know* I just saying that really it should say "control center" don't ya think?
* I can right-click on the desktop and select "paste" only to be told there is nothing to paste. A very simple bug surely. Does it take an army of developers and testers to spot this? Nope, just me in my first two minutes of desktop use.
* "Create new..." Yeah, I want to create a new hard drive, I'll have a terabyte please, no make that two. Something needs to be changed here because I need to buy and install a drive and can't simply create one.
These are minor issues, dull little tasks that need doing but yet they remain undone. They also remain the difference between something that is a pleasure to use and something that isn't.
Fix these and the product gets better. Stop adding "features" for the sake of it and get the current ones 'finished'. These are the dull jobs I mean, and these are the things that make a difference.
"We have to look at this together and come up with a strategy that will enable us to effectively take on C#"
Eh? Why take it on. Surely if it's better then you should use it. If it's not then you simply won't.
No need for counter arguments, no need for a full frontal assault on the others battle lines.
Java won't die any more than perl/vb/asm/cobol/etc. will. If C# is good then java will take an even more backseat than it already has - but that doesn't affect the current java developers negatively...afteral, they just want a good cross platform high level language that prevents them from doing bad things, right?
If the solution is a good one then who cares. I don't use VB or perl (etc.) because they don't meet my requirements. C# might but I have yet to look at it, java doesn't because in my problem-domain it's too damn slow.
May the best tool win their so called fight for being right.
"Who has a larger budget - Microsoft, or the rest of the industry, including volunteers working for the experience?"
I think reliability is of more interest than simple size. It's of no use to have 100 engineers if you can't reliably get them to work on the stuff that matters - which normally coincides with stuff that is dull to work on;-)
I've seen microsft code (for consumer apps, which is what I worked on). The code had it's bad points (some of it was *very* anal about naming) but mostly it was good.
Never looked at the OS code though but, due to the cross-pollentation of teams and due to the code-review/sharing process I can't see why any code would be readicically different in either quality or style.
I'll say this; Everyone, at some point, produces shite code and no-one is immune to it. That's the only fact there is.
"primary development does not scale, debugging [the interesting code or bits that affect me personlly] does."
It's about time someone stopped all of this rampant debugging and started 'designing' some of this stuff instead. I've seen ugly code, I've seen unmaintainable code, but with OSS I've seen ugly and unmaintainable code. Sure some is good but most is rubbish.
I don't know 'most people' so I can't speak for them - although should they ask me to I'll be only too pleased.
If most people truly wanted it then MS would have been wise to do a deal with the supplier in most demand. They didn't and I draw my own conclusions from that.
"There's a lot of piss poor code out there because there are a lot of piss poor programmers out there -- people who should not be in this industry, people who took a couple of classes in VB and think that qualifies them for the title of "Programmer." "
Isn't there. I was hiring for a C++/Win32 coder a couple of months ago and I has some *real* bad candidates. IN the end my opening question for C++ was "Is your entire C++ experience solely with MFC". If the answer is yes then interview ends...
Yeah, you mean like given the fact that building methods are so mature we could use lamer builders to create our cities, bridges etc. Uh, no thanks and I wouldn't wanna fly in one of *your* aircraft.
You're wrong. If you want a good job done then hire good people. Don't blame the tools (a bad workman?) blame those that chose the tools and implemented the designs. Lamers blame their tools because the tools can't defend themselves.
You don't need to be super smart to use C++ (or your favourite tool). You just need to know what you are doing, know the tools and their limitations.
There is no silver bullet - remember that from TMMM??
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A proven technique for making the whole day pass faster whilst still delivering the same quantity of output.
In modern systems Wolfenstein replaces the Quake step but somehow absorbs a lot more of time. Dammit.
It can only be a picture of Big Billg himself, which of course scares the living daylights out of the tin hat linux weenies whose only purpose in life is to make their box the most secure (and then use their DOB as their PIN number), whilst at the same time downloading pr0n using a custom written shell script executed using cron.
When do I get my prize?
;-)
I own and operate a small dotcom like business and we always bought the bits for our machines, and built them ourselves.
:-) Get someone else to burn it in - it's a waste of your time.
We bought the best components, big cases and were able to ensure everything worked as desired. But reliability is a BIG issue.
We recently stopped this practice and decided to buy from a small but reliable company (armari.co.uk). I bought a test machine (dual amd 1800+, 1GBram, etc.) and the build quality is amazing...we are now purchasing these machines (plus dual monitor) for all the team.
It's a big relief knowing that I can just call someone and have it fixed asap. Armari even provided named Win2k login, partioned the way I like, and system rescue CD's that in 10 minutes put the os, drivers and configs all back to factory ship.
No looking back to the dim and dark days of spending hours trying to get a SCSI card to boot a CD
I also have a Seiko Kinetic - the buttons never stab me ;-)
Did Mr Sensitive write this review?
I agree with the author. MS can say in their EULA that you can't run their software on non-Windows OSes, so he can say that you can't run his software when adaware is present.
I think he's doing a great service by prompting to uninstall it and then starting the process for you.
I claimed nothing AC, I said *thank goodness I don't live in the US*. Hope that helps.
In this instance hell yes. My drivers licence has no picture or biometric smilies. Next up they'll want your DNA.
Are you saying otherwise?
Guess where...take three guesses.
Just like nothing outside the US affects the US, unless it's oil related of course.
Get over yourself, everyone else has.
...I live outside the US. I guess you folks can look forward to this disease becoming widespread.
So much for freedom and privacy. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I'll acknowledge that things get fixed but hey, I only downloaded it a couple of months ago and when I did it was 'new'...bugs/issues an all (which should have bene caught in testing). I'd hate to have seen it before it was 'ready for release'.
;)
So, does "create new" still allow you to create a new hard drive without having to spend any money?
Do you still have to put up with the DrakConf error?
Next time I give Linux a whirl (in about 1 month) I'll try suse instead. I was trying Linux out to see if it was 'consumer ready' yet but concluded that it wasn't. When it is I'll port my apps to it
I don't see the connection. If they are trying to displace one developer tool with another than what do the consumers care. They care about their apps, not what tools were used to produce them.
MS *will* use their marketing leverage to pound on us developers though. I've never had a mailshot from Sun nor have I been offered Sun sponsored freebies...so in the end if java loses (and *if* it's not due to technicalities) then it's down to poor developer marketing and nothing else. Shame on Sun then for sitting on their laurels for 6/7 years instead of heavily marketing their product to people like me!
MS rolls out a new product and ships a stack of examples, a nice easy-peasy GUI and provides plenty of support for developers to get started. When I 'played' with java I had none of that. Maybe it's different now but I have no incentive to look. Java sucks and blows in the performance stakes, and if C# does too then it won't get a look in either.
I don't have enough experience to pick out any fine examples...but last time I used Linux (mandrake about 2 months ago) it was far from finished:
* What about virtual desktops - I wanted zero virtual desktops but it took me a *long* time to find out how to remove the last nagging one form the task bar.
* I run "control center", only to be told that in order to run "DrakConf" blah blah...WTF is "DrakConf" and who was trying to run it - I do *know* I just saying that really it should say "control center" don't ya think?
* I can right-click on the desktop and select "paste" only to be told there is nothing to paste. A very simple bug surely. Does it take an army of developers and testers to spot this? Nope, just me in my first two minutes of desktop use.
* "Create new..." Yeah, I want to create a new hard drive, I'll have a terabyte please, no make that two. Something needs to be changed here because I need to buy and install a drive and can't simply create one.
These are minor issues, dull little tasks that need doing but yet they remain undone. They also remain the difference between something that is a pleasure to use and something that isn't.
Fix these and the product gets better. Stop adding "features" for the sake of it and get the current ones 'finished'. These are the dull jobs I mean, and these are the things that make a difference.
"We have to look at this together and come up with a strategy that will enable us to effectively take on C#"
Eh? Why take it on. Surely if it's better then you should use it. If it's not then you simply won't.
No need for counter arguments, no need for a full frontal assault on the others battle lines.
Java won't die any more than perl/vb/asm/cobol/etc. will. If C# is good then java will take an even more backseat than it already has - but that doesn't affect the current java developers negatively...afteral, they just want a good cross platform high level language that prevents them from doing bad things, right?
If the solution is a good one then who cares. I don't use VB or perl (etc.) because they don't meet my requirements. C# might but I have yet to look at it, java doesn't because in my problem-domain it's too damn slow.
May the best tool win their so called fight for being right.
"Who has a larger budget - Microsoft, or the rest of the industry, including volunteers working for the experience?"
;-)
I think reliability is of more interest than simple size. It's of no use to have 100 engineers if you can't reliably get them to work on the stuff that matters - which normally coincides with stuff that is dull to work on
It's not MS vs the rest of the industry.
If they thought they were getting a bum deal then they *would* be comparing notes regardless of the paper says they should and shouldn't do.
I've seen microsft code (for consumer apps, which is what I worked on). The code had it's bad points (some of it was *very* anal about naming) but mostly it was good.
Never looked at the OS code though but, due to the cross-pollentation of teams and due to the code-review/sharing process I can't see why any code would be readicically different in either quality or style.
I'll say this; Everyone, at some point, produces shite code and no-one is immune to it. That's the only fact there is.
Errm, that's right, so what's your point.
Except raymond left out the inportant words:
"primary development does not scale, debugging [the interesting code or bits that affect me personlly] does."
It's about time someone stopped all of this rampant debugging and started 'designing' some of this stuff instead. I've seen ugly code, I've seen unmaintainable code, but with OSS I've seen ugly and unmaintainable code. Sure some is good but most is rubbish.
No wonder it needs a hord of avide debuggers.
Again, you say it like it's a fact but cannot simply accept it's your opinion. Get over yourself.
You say it like it's a fact, when the only fact is that it's your opinion.
I've read enough, like you, to draw my own conclusions.
I don't know 'most people' so I can't speak for them - although should they ask me to I'll be only too pleased.
If most people truly wanted it then MS would have been wise to do a deal with the supplier in most demand. They didn't and I draw my own conclusions from that.
"Please don't describe the GPL as viral unless you're trying to insult it."
Quite. It *is* viral and I wouldn't have used the word had I not understood the connotations.
"There's a lot of piss poor code out there because there are a lot of piss poor programmers out there -- people who should not be in this industry, people who took a couple of classes in VB and think that qualifies them for the title of "Programmer." "
Isn't there. I was hiring for a C++/Win32 coder a couple of months ago and I has some *real* bad candidates. IN the end my opening question for C++ was "Is your entire C++ experience solely with MFC". If the answer is yes then interview ends...
Yeah, you mean like given the fact that building methods are so mature we could use lamer builders to create our cities, bridges etc. Uh, no thanks and I wouldn't wanna fly in one of *your* aircraft.
You're wrong. If you want a good job done then hire good people. Don't blame the tools (a bad workman?) blame those that chose the tools and implemented the designs. Lamers blame their tools because the tools can't defend themselves.
You don't need to be super smart to use C++ (or your favourite tool). You just need to know what you are doing, know the tools and their limitations.
There is no silver bullet - remember that from TMMM??