Percentage Accuracy : 98.99799599198397% Percentage Inaccuracy : 1.002004008016032% Characters per minute : 499 cpm Characters per second : 8 cps Words per minute : 91 wpm Words per second : 1 wps Total Speed status : Too Good Overall Accuracy : Brilliant
People, stop your frothing and think for a second. What does Microsoft want? Microsoft wants their software on every mobile device made, exactly the same way they want their software on every desktop PC.
Why the HELL would Microsoft, in a market they don't even yet play in, knife their premier partner in order to help another partner succeed? It doesn't make sense. What makes sense is that both hardware companies go to market, both selling compelling versions of a smartphone running Stinger. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is a losing strategy.
Forget business ethics, since we can take it for granted that, if Microsoft even has them, they are newly learned at the hands of the DoJ. Killing Sendo to benefit HTC would be a stupid decision, whatever vestigal IP MS might inherit, because the strategy is to be ubiquitiously licensed by everyone.
I understand that an inflammatory court filing from a nearly bankrupt little company trying to recoup some of its losses in a fat mother's-milk settlement straight from King Midas' teat has you a little stirred up, but the facts just don't add up. MS wins when Sendo AND HTC win, not when one or the other does. Look at the Pocket PC - 4 major vendors, now with Dell on-board. This is the same strategy as Smartphone.
You are rashly assuming this, and you're wrong. All the major groups (and the minor ones with more attentive dev managers) run a tool like this that can catch issues like this, and many more. Unfortunately, quite often in the rush to ship, this data has not been inspected thoroughly or properly.
Developers use the Smartphone Development Kit, which comes with test certificates for dev purposes and with an emulator, in case you don't have a device.
Let's clear a few things up - this "crippling" is done by Orange, not by Microsoft. The phone supports signed apps as part of its security model and it is up to the carrier what policy they want to allow on the device. One of the available policies is "all apps run, no matter their signature or lack thereof."
Regarding the $600 fee to have the app signed with a Microsoft cert: this is perfectly reasonable and probably even cheap, considering that the coder writing the app is buying Microsoft's good name, so to speak. This is a shitty compromise, and it is definitely not what Microsoft would want, but Orange has made it hard.
Every programmer who implemented an SMTP server because it was the way things were done, without ever giving a moment's thought to the fact that the design had a barndoor-sized authentication hole in it and needed to be reworked was asking for it.
There wouldn't even be a place for spam in the world if PKI-based whitelists (just digital signing, not even encryption) were an integral part of the design from the beginning. SMTP designers traded verifiability for convenience, and now we're reaping what they sowed.
Unreal. I cannot believe I wasted 10 minutes of my life reading a completely thought-free "rant" from an arrogant, self-absorbed child. More relevantly, I cannot believe that anything this lame could ever find its way to the front page.
Microsoft is so not a player in this space, so they don't get any respect from real hardware oems, except the ones who already make hardware for them (like HTC). Not only that, but all the established phone builders view them as a threat, since they'd like to commoditize the cellphone hardware just as they commoditized desktop hardware. It's going to be an interesting war.
In a space that Microsoft doesn't own, it's going to come down to 3rd party apps and overall product value, combined with whoever's the best phone. Being a pda/phone combo is nice and all, but if your phone sucks, no one will use it long enough to get enjoyment out of the fact that it can do wireless http browsing and IMAP4.
Battery life will also be a big issue, I think, although I don't know how big. The HTC Canary does fairly well in standby mode, since it shuts off its power-sucking color screen. Not sure about the Symbian OEMs - I've only played with the Microsoft product.
QED: a primary skill for Microsoft employees is reimplementing strcpy()....and 30,000 security holes smack their heads as a gigantic light bulb clicks on.
Every version of Office or any other software product has a very real cost associated with it in terms of the man-hours that went into it. Don't be so naive as to think that there is no dev work or testing going into these late versions of Office. The groups have a full or nearly full development schedules every product cycle, as all major Microsoft applications are expected to pivot with and support the latest company-wide initiative, in this case,.Net.
For every puny UI feature that you see and mock, there are 20 behind-the-scenes features not designed directly for end users.
Exactly. Keeping your project in separate build modules has nothing to do with what happens to the exes and dlls at runtime. I suspect it's purely for testing reasons.
1. Why are you using Linux? 2. What are your tips for me as aspiring writer? 3. Why are you a pedo? 4. Why are you sexist? 5. Why are your books only interesting to young people?
Macroscope was an incredible book, and I quite liked Battle Circle. I wish there had been more along those lines before Piers decided that making money was more interesting than writing challenging fiction.
Re:Microsoft and the media conglomerates
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This isn't a conflict, it's a business opportunity. By playing both sides of the court, Microsoft provides features that customers will like and simultaneously forces media providers to get on board for its content control schemes if they don't want to see their revenues fade. So Media Player plays MP3s without complaint and also supports the locked up Windows Media Format, which is slowly gaining traction as an alternate file format on new CDs, in addition to the PCM data.
Where have you been? Microsoft shipped and killed UltimateTV awhile ago, which is where the PVR tech for Freon is coming from. Patents aren't even an issue here.
Re:Nothing untrue in the article at all. /. howeve
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If all logged-in users could daily moderate the submissions queue, with the top 30 stories or so making it to the front page, Slashdot would no longer need editors and the quality of the stories would improve 100%. Why this wasn't implemented or at least run as an experiment a long time ago seems strange to me.
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Percentage Accuracy : 98.99799599198397%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 1.002004008016032%
Characters per minute : 499 cpm
Characters per second : 8 cps
Words per minute : 91 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Brilliant
People, stop your frothing and think for a second. What does Microsoft want? Microsoft wants their software on every mobile device made, exactly the same way they want their software on every desktop PC.
Why the HELL would Microsoft, in a market they don't even yet play in, knife their premier partner in order to help another partner succeed? It doesn't make sense. What makes sense is that both hardware companies go to market, both selling compelling versions of a smartphone running Stinger. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is a losing strategy.
Forget business ethics, since we can take it for granted that, if Microsoft even has them, they are newly learned at the hands of the DoJ. Killing Sendo to benefit HTC would be a stupid decision, whatever vestigal IP MS might inherit, because the strategy is to be ubiquitiously licensed by everyone.
I understand that an inflammatory court filing from a nearly bankrupt little company trying to recoup some of its losses in a fat mother's-milk settlement straight from King Midas' teat has you a little stirred up, but the facts just don't add up. MS wins when Sendo AND HTC win, not when one or the other does. Look at the Pocket PC - 4 major vendors, now with Dell on-board. This is the same strategy as Smartphone.
You are rashly assuming this, and you're wrong. All the major groups (and the minor ones with more attentive dev managers) run a tool like this that can catch issues like this, and many more. Unfortunately, quite often in the rush to ship, this data has not been inspected thoroughly or properly.
Decal does NOT forge packets, it just listens and interprets, and manipulates the client in response to whatever. It's a spectacular good to the game.
Let's see. To make a phone call: start dialing, hit talk.
Fraught with frustration...I understand. ???
Developers use the Smartphone Development Kit, which comes with test certificates for dev purposes and with an emulator, in case you don't have a device.
Let's clear a few things up - this "crippling" is done by Orange, not by Microsoft. The phone supports signed apps as part of its security model and it is up to the carrier what policy they want to allow on the device. One of the available policies is "all apps run, no matter their signature or lack thereof."
Regarding the $600 fee to have the app signed with a Microsoft cert: this is perfectly reasonable and probably even cheap, considering that the coder writing the app is buying Microsoft's good name, so to speak. This is a shitty compromise, and it is definitely not what Microsoft would want, but Orange has made it hard.
Every programmer who implemented an SMTP server because it was the way things were done, without ever giving a moment's thought to the fact that the design had a barndoor-sized authentication hole in it and needed to be reworked was asking for it.
There wouldn't even be a place for spam in the world if PKI-based whitelists (just digital signing, not even encryption) were an integral part of the design from the beginning. SMTP designers traded verifiability for convenience, and now we're reaping what they sowed.
Unreal. I cannot believe I wasted 10 minutes of my life reading a completely thought-free "rant" from an arrogant, self-absorbed child. More relevantly, I cannot believe that anything this lame could ever find its way to the front page.
Or you could use the slightly lower precedence operator or in this context, to avoid any possible order-of-operations bugs.
Microsoft is so not a player in this space, so they don't get any respect from real hardware oems, except the ones who already make hardware for them (like HTC). Not only that, but all the established phone builders view them as a threat, since they'd like to commoditize the cellphone hardware just as they commoditized desktop hardware. It's going to be an interesting war.
In a space that Microsoft doesn't own, it's going to come down to 3rd party apps and overall product value, combined with whoever's the best phone. Being a pda/phone combo is nice and all, but if your phone sucks, no one will use it long enough to get enjoyment out of the fact that it can do wireless http browsing and IMAP4.
Battery life will also be a big issue, I think, although I don't know how big. The HTC Canary does fairly well in standby mode, since it shuts off its power-sucking color screen. Not sure about the Symbian OEMs - I've only played with the Microsoft product.
testing, please disregard
Actually, you can write CGI in C++, but it's not quite as common. Also, there's more memory management to do with cpp.
QED: a primary skill for Microsoft employees is reimplementing strcpy(). ...and 30,000 security holes smack their heads as a gigantic light bulb clicks on.
You sound hot. Can I get your phone number?
I always use 90210/CA and aaa@aaa.com. One only hopes that there is no Arthur Alex Anderson who works for the American Automobile Association.
Every version of Office or any other software product has a very real cost associated with it in terms of the man-hours that went into it. Don't be so naive as to think that there is no dev work or testing going into these late versions of Office. The groups have a full or nearly full development schedules every product cycle, as all major Microsoft applications are expected to pivot with and support the latest company-wide initiative, in this case, .Net.
For every puny UI feature that you see and mock, there are 20 behind-the-scenes features not designed directly for end users.
Fuck, my morale is in the shitter now, just from reading that. Thanks a lot, power-trip man.
Exactly. Keeping your project in separate build modules has nothing to do with what happens to the exes and dlls at runtime. I suspect it's purely for testing reasons.
Mr. Anthony:
1. Why are you using Linux?
2. What are your tips for me as aspiring writer?
3. Why are you a pedo?
4. Why are you sexist?
5. Why are your books only interesting to young people?
Hmm, ok, that's 5. Anyone else?
Macroscope was an incredible book, and I quite liked Battle Circle. I wish there had been more along those lines before Piers decided that making money was more interesting than writing challenging fiction.
This isn't a conflict, it's a business opportunity. By playing both sides of the court, Microsoft provides features that customers will like and simultaneously forces media providers to get on board for its content control schemes if they don't want to see their revenues fade. So Media Player plays MP3s without complaint and also supports the locked up Windows Media Format, which is slowly gaining traction as an alternate file format on new CDs, in addition to the PCM data.
Where have you been? Microsoft shipped and killed UltimateTV awhile ago, which is where the PVR tech for Freon is coming from. Patents aren't even an issue here.
If all logged-in users could daily moderate the submissions queue, with the top 30 stories or so making it to the front page, Slashdot would no longer need editors and the quality of the stories would improve 100%. Why this wasn't implemented or at least run as an experiment a long time ago seems strange to me.