You're telling me that an application looking at an indexed file with LOADS of information that's not even relevant to it is going to be better than INI files?
Like the table of contents in a book, an indexed file helps, but if you're looking through a book with 1000+ chapters, it can be a pain just to read the table of contents in itsself!
A single file dealing with ALL of Windows' settings leads to slower processing time and potential system corruption. Who here has NOT had a registry file corruption or knew somebody who had a registry file corruption?
General windows settings could be done in specific files (remember win.ini and system.ini???) to point to drivers and general windows-wide settings, as well as profile directories. Those directories could then contain application-specific files. Which may also even make roaming profiles easier to deal with.
And I'm saying this and I write Windows software for a living.
That's exactly it.
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?p age=about.html
"Google engineers all have "20 percent time" in which they're free to pursue projects they're passionate about. This freedom has already produced Google News, Google Suggest, AdSense for Content, and Orkut - products which might otherwise have taken an entire start-up to launch."
Besides, sometimes creativity keeps one thinking better. Rather than project, project project, same old blah blah, they can use company time to work on something decent. It might have to be company oriented in the end, but they are allowed to do this.
Subject: Mom, a funny thing happened on the way to the store
IP address: 1.2.3.4
DNS Name: helpme.ocean.com
Location: Middle of the ocean
Emails: lots
Looks like it's randomly chosen from a list of locations and put at the end of the XML when it's created.
I really hope they have one for Antarctica with a.aq domain.
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> 2.8GB of uncompressed hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows swap file) Darn lack of Windows swap file support for Linux.
You're telling me that an application looking at an indexed file with LOADS of information that's not even relevant to it is going to be better than INI files? Like the table of contents in a book, an indexed file helps, but if you're looking through a book with 1000+ chapters, it can be a pain just to read the table of contents in itsself! A single file dealing with ALL of Windows' settings leads to slower processing time and potential system corruption. Who here has NOT had a registry file corruption or knew somebody who had a registry file corruption? General windows settings could be done in specific files (remember win.ini and system.ini???) to point to drivers and general windows-wide settings, as well as profile directories. Those directories could then contain application-specific files. Which may also even make roaming profiles easier to deal with. And I'm saying this and I write Windows software for a living.
Actually I find yours to be more obfuscated. But that's my opinion.
That's exactly it. http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?p age=about.html
"Google engineers all have "20 percent time" in which they're free to pursue projects they're passionate about. This freedom has already produced Google News, Google Suggest, AdSense for Content, and Orkut - products which might otherwise have taken an entire start-up to launch."
Besides, sometimes creativity keeps one thinking better. Rather than project, project project, same old blah blah, they can use company time to work on something decent. It might have to be company oriented in the end, but they are allowed to do this.
Subject: Mom, a funny thing happened on the way to the store IP address: 1.2.3.4 DNS Name: helpme.ocean.com Location: Middle of the ocean Emails: lots Looks like it's randomly chosen from a list of locations and put at the end of the XML when it's created. I really hope they have one for Antarctica with a .aq domain.
A gives you Apple, X gives you X.Org.
G gives you gmail, but HEY that's clearly owned by Independent International Investment Research!
And of course: "W" gives you "Dubya".