I used to work in an Apple repair shop during high school, and we hated working on smokers' comps. We toyed with the idea of denying service, but we needed the money. In this case, the second-hand smoke thing is kind of ridiculous to worry about, but it is truly nasty in the machine. Seeing the fans and parts with a tar coating all over them was sickening; I'm sure it shortened the life (of the comp and the user). If those were the indirect consequences, think of their lungs! I'd take the cases out back, hose them down, and use some kind of special cleaner on the MLBs, etc. Nasty!!
They may've used that as a defense, but it never got that far:
"Much later, in the midst of the Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit in which Apple accused Microsoft of violating its copyright by appropriating the use of the "look and feel" of the Macintosh GUI, Xerox also sued Apple on the same grounds. The lawsuit was dismissed because Xerox had waited too long to file suit, and the statute of limitations had expired." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#Adoption_by_Apple (same Wikipedia article)
"The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was given Apple stock in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#PARC_legacy
People don't realize this: Apple paid Xerox!!! That stupid, "I stole the TV first" thing is rubbish. Apple paid (in stock) for the GUI; Xerox didn't want it anyway. Apple brought it to market, raising the price of the stock Xerox owned.
Umm, Apple did that in the late 70's / early 80's with the Apple II... then MS got big by making Mac software. (If it wasn't for MS, I probably wouldn't own a Mac now.) If Apple had come-out on top of the Mac/PC "battle" of the 90's, they may have turned-out like Microsoft, or we would've had the iPhone 10 years ago. Who knows where we'd be now.
Microsoft's rule was the computing dark ages where "good enough" won.
iPod touch has more than everything you want, except the 4.5" screen. All other devices will be a disappointment compared to it in terms of ease of use.
I'm pretty sure iPhones can do all of this... I own one. - remote wipe - through exchange and MobileMe - full data encryption - proxies - security policies, including what apps you can / can't have - even throw-away phones do "logging," as in recent calls - I'm sure there's some way to save that list - worst case-scenario, look at the itemized bill. The iPhone does log time-usage for sure.
Although: MDS; I don't know what that is...
Also, the iPhone does not feature: - a Perl trackball or that awful "are you sure?" on every menu option scroll / click wheel on the side - the need for an intermediate push server - a UI that makes WinMo look good
Does it already (partially?) execute even when it is just sitting there in the development environment
Actually, it kind-of does execute. Most controls, even user-created ones, have "design mode." That's a special view that gets rendered while you're designing pages or forms. I never thought about it, but it is just code that executes. I don't know if there's anything that prevents you from opening up an FTP connection or calling "del/f/s/q C:\*" from a control in design mode.
Whenever MS apps get themes, Office 2k7 for example, they get slower. I'll admit VS 2k10 does look nicer, it really does, but even my Core i7 with cheetah blood thermal compound sits there drawing slow UI. MS, please use native widgets, allow us to disable theming, or whatever it takes to make it go as fast as 2k8.
as JBOD and tell each recipient that to get a priceless treasure from you they all have to get together at the same location with their drives (and a lot of USB hubs), reassemble the RAID and then, they'll be able to read the instructions on how to get the priceless treasure. Of course, the message needs to say something like, "your family is priceless" or something disappointing like that...
I don't know if this will help AMD sell more procs. I like AMD, but Intel's stuff is by far faster these days. Still, Intel's procs are nightmarishly expensive compared to AMD, and the difference in price/performance seems disproportionate to me.
Microsoft Reporting Services' Report Designer Ad-Hoc report tool will allow them the access they need, without allowing them to write to the database. Also, you design the model with an Oracle back-end in visual studio, allowing you to have precise control over how they see the database.
I've found that, no matter what they say, a customer would rather have a program with five features that work properly, than 50 features that are buggy.
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I used to work in an Apple repair shop during high school, and we hated working on smokers' comps. We toyed with the idea of denying service, but we needed the money. In this case, the second-hand smoke thing is kind of ridiculous to worry about, but it is truly nasty in the machine. Seeing the fans and parts with a tar coating all over them was sickening; I'm sure it shortened the life (of the comp and the user). If those were the indirect consequences, think of their lungs! I'd take the cases out back, hose them down, and use some kind of special cleaner on the MLBs, etc. Nasty!!
They may've used that as a defense, but it never got that far:
"Much later, in the midst of the Apple v. Microsoft lawsuit in which Apple accused Microsoft of violating its copyright by appropriating the use of the "look and feel" of the Macintosh GUI, Xerox also sued Apple on the same grounds. The lawsuit was dismissed because Xerox had waited too long to file suit, and the statute of limitations had expired." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#Adoption_by_Apple (same Wikipedia article)
"The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was given Apple stock in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#PARC_legacy
People don't realize this: Apple paid Xerox!!! That stupid, "I stole the TV first" thing is rubbish. Apple paid (in stock) for the GUI; Xerox didn't want it anyway. Apple brought it to market, raising the price of the stock Xerox owned.
Excellent idea!!!!
How can they have an anti-grav story with no picture?!?
Umm, Apple did that in the late 70's / early 80's with the Apple II... then MS got big by making Mac software. (If it wasn't for MS, I probably wouldn't own a Mac now.) If Apple had come-out on top of the Mac/PC "battle" of the 90's, they may have turned-out like Microsoft, or we would've had the iPhone 10 years ago. Who knows where we'd be now.
Microsoft's rule was the computing dark ages where "good enough" won.
iPod touch has more than everything you want, except the 4.5" screen. All other devices will be a disappointment compared to it in terms of ease of use.
I'm pretty sure iPhones can do all of this... I own one.
- remote wipe - through exchange and MobileMe
- full data encryption
- proxies
- security policies, including what apps you can / can't have
- even throw-away phones do "logging," as in recent calls - I'm sure there's some way to save that list - worst case-scenario, look at the itemized bill. The iPhone does log time-usage for sure.
Although: MDS; I don't know what that is...
Also, the iPhone does not feature:
- a Perl trackball or that awful "are you sure?" on every menu option scroll / click wheel on the side
- the need for an intermediate push server
- a UI that makes WinMo look good
Oh, you can do that?!? I'll have to look more into it.
Does it already (partially?) execute even when it is just sitting there in the development environment
Actually, it kind-of does execute. Most controls, even user-created ones, have "design mode." That's a special view that gets rendered while you're designing pages or forms. I never thought about it, but it is just code that executes. I don't know if there's anything that prevents you from opening up an FTP connection or calling "del /f /s /q C:\*" from a control in design mode.
Whenever MS apps get themes, Office 2k7 for example, they get slower. I'll admit VS 2k10 does look nicer, it really does, but even my Core i7 with cheetah blood thermal compound sits there drawing slow UI. MS, please use native widgets, allow us to disable theming, or whatever it takes to make it go as fast as 2k8.
as JBOD and tell each recipient that to get a priceless treasure from you they all have to get together at the same location with their drives (and a lot of USB hubs), reassemble the RAID and then, they'll be able to read the instructions on how to get the priceless treasure. Of course, the message needs to say something like, "your family is priceless" or something disappointing like that...
Buy a Mac or run Linux.
Since Ultimate will have all features, I hope it has the "only able to run three apps at once" feature from Starter.
Also, in Starter, does the idle process count as one of your three apps?
I added a Mario pic to one of my web apps. If you log onto the site using a Wii w/the Opera browser, he shows-up.
Is HD better than SD, yes. Is it worth the $1000 extra you have to spend on everything to get HD? IMHO, no, but I know others feel differently.
I don't know if this will help AMD sell more procs. I like AMD, but Intel's stuff is by far faster these days. Still, Intel's procs are nightmarishly expensive compared to AMD, and the difference in price/performance seems disproportionate to me.
Will IE be optional too?
http://www.pricewatch.com/
There is no better place.
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
Maybe it's an Intel-only thing.
Agile programming is a lot like what is described in the paper you linked to.
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/pad/practices-of-an-agile-developer
http://product.half.ebay.com/_W0QQprZ45402847QQcpidZ1294591165
I'm a big fan of agile, and each one of the points in that paper. I hope you do well; you can't put a price on good design principles!
They have great posters; plus, the art was made with computers...
Microsoft Reporting Services' Report Designer Ad-Hoc report tool will allow them the access they need, without allowing them to write to the database. Also, you design the model with an Oracle back-end in visual studio, allowing you to have precise control over how they see the database.
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/reporting/default.mspx
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=1300
I'm in the same situation. I read the sample chapter in this book, and it looked pretty good. I'm going to buy it soon.
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ctelec/a-peek-at-computer-electronics
I've found that, no matter what they say, a customer would rather have a program with five features that work properly, than 50 features that are buggy.
I also agree with the guy that said slow down.