I have really gotten onboard with using tested and trusted 3rd party frameworks, or using code generators. I can create about 30-50% of my code using generators. Code generation not only eliminates simple bugs, it enforces a standard practice across the group and keeps the code clean.
I am by no means a big fan of Microsoft, but bashing should take place only when bashing is due.
Microsoft implemented.Net as a wrapper to Win32 because that would be the fastest way to do it. Isn't COM/MFC just wrappers to the WIN32 API too? In the meantime they are rewriting the Win API into managed code and calling this new API WINFX http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/11/24/lo nghorn_01.htm.
The benefit here is that the.Net interface layer can stay the same, while the low level API layer is changed and your programs can still compile.
If this really happens as Microsoft says it will, then I have no problems with the wrapper layer. It is much faster than Java and easier to develop in than C++.
This is one of the reasons why no other handheld console has been able to break into the market and why the PSP will not kill off Nintendo. The Gameboy from Black and White to Color has had several thousand games released for it. Many of which are still enjoyable like Warioland, Super Mario, Zelda Links Awakening. I still play these and love finding cheapo GB/GBC games on Ebay.
Backward compatible is huge for me. In the case of the gameboy, if the DS won't play my original gameboy games, I might as well look closer at the PSP, which also won't play my games.
So if the XBOX2 won't play XBOX1 games I will look closer at the PS3.
Farmers aren't just given free money, they are given low-interest loans. Rarely are they able to pay these loans back and most often the farmers go out of business. The family farmer does need to be saved. Everywhere I look family farms are being bought by developers who turn them into houses, which have people, which have cars, which clogg the roads and pollute my air. I would rather smell cow manure, than car exhaust. At least you get used to the cow smell.
Right now only agribusiness is what produces most of your food, and they don't care about taking care of their animals, genetically modifying your food or using pesticides. Anything they can do to increase food output and profits, they will do. We don't want a food monopoly and we don't want to depend on foriegn countries for our food. To put this in a way geeks can understand, can you imagine if you depended on microsoft not for your OS, but for your food? You would go hungry.
My parents are baby boomers and I work with several baby boomers. Yes they all want to retire, but guess what..... they can't. They have to pay for their kids rising costs of college. They have rising medical insurance costs and prescription drugs to pay for too. Retirement age as is the age to receive Social Security is rising because less people have the money to retire. Many baby boomers have lost their pensions and are returning to the work force. This means baby boomers are still competing for the jobs the next generation is trying to get.
I don't think we will ever run out of workers until there is a new black plague.
I agree. Those who haven't read George Orwell's Animal Farm, I advise they do so. Politicians always use fear and intimidation as an excuse to take freedom away. This has been the rallying cry of the Bush Administration and their reason for taking away the liberties of Amercians in the name of War.
On your second sarcastic remark, Baltimore is not so bad. Sure it smells bad, polluted air, polluted water, high crime, tons of panhandlers, congested roads...... no your right, avoid Baltimore. I prefer the city of Annapolis, Maryland.
This is one of the goals of the Mono project www.go-mono.com. Using ikvm, it includes a Java byte-code vm in the.net runtime. In addition there are.net compilers for C# and Basic. Other sites are working on compilers for Python, Perl etc.
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VS.NET is a bloated hulk of an IDE, that sucks tremendous resources and is so big things are hard to find.
I personally like SharpDevelop as it has the features you need in the right place.
Its definately Kentucky. Only in Kentucky do you have a Springfield so close to a Shelbyville and a Simpsonville. And yes, Shelbyville is filled with cousin-marrying hicks. But I can't explain the episode with the Doplhins that invade from the Ocean.
Unlikely.
I doubt any of the code from the leaked WIn2K would even work in Linux. And if someone changed it to get it to work in Linux, then it wouldn't be copying anymore.
Software liability won't hurt Open Source Developers because almost every open source license specifically says they offer no warranty, use at your own risk. If anything it would hurt non-open source, like MS, since they would require the insurance but an individual developer working on Open Source in Norway/Austrailia/Russia certainly doesn't. In Open source no one really owns the product so you don't know who to who would be liable.
Ultimately this shouldn't be something politicians should have to get involved in. We should be requesting liability from software vendors as we do with car dealers through license agreements. Manufacturers are liable for your car if it breaks down in two months because that is the deal you sign with the dealer. Most dealers have an X number of year warranty.
So why don't we sign these with our software vendors? Well it makes the software cheaper for one. If you request liability be added to the license agreement they will ask for more money and more time.
We would already have software liability if it weren't for the fact that MS is a monopoly, so you have to agree to their terms not yours.
.Net is a big memory hog too. I would love to see Longohrn as 100%.net because it would require 1 GB of ram just to run IE. Add Outlook, Word and WMP and your brand new-latest-greatest machine would run at a crawl. Then all those people with old machines would have no choice but Linux.
Miguel has done a lot of good work for Gnome, but I don't understand his preoccupation with tying Gnome so closly to Mono. Doesn't C#/Mono run much slower than C/C++ because of the runtime baggage, garbage-collection etc? Why would I want my DE (gnome) to run any slower than it already does? Also the extra memory needed will further reduce the number of machines such a bloated DE would run well on. If Gnome 3.0 has a significant Mono footprint, then it is back to KDE for me.
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I have really gotten onboard with using tested and trusted 3rd party frameworks, or using code generators. I can create about 30-50% of my code using generators. Code generation not only eliminates simple bugs, it enforces a standard practice across the group and keeps the code clean.
I am by no means a big fan of Microsoft, but bashing should take place only when bashing is due. Microsoft implemented .Net as a wrapper to Win32 because that would be the fastest way to do it. Isn't COM/MFC just wrappers to the WIN32 API too? In the meantime they are rewriting the Win API into managed code and calling this new API WINFX http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/11/24/lo nghorn_01.htm.
The benefit here is that the .Net interface layer can stay the same, while the low level API layer is changed and your programs can still compile.
If this really happens as Microsoft says it will, then I have no problems with the wrapper layer. It is much faster than Java and easier to develop in than C++.
This is one of the reasons why no other handheld console has been able to break into the market and why the PSP will not kill off Nintendo. The Gameboy from Black and White to Color has had several thousand games released for it. Many of which are still enjoyable like Warioland, Super Mario, Zelda Links Awakening. I still play these and love finding cheapo GB/GBC games on Ebay. Backward compatible is huge for me. In the case of the gameboy, if the DS won't play my original gameboy games, I might as well look closer at the PSP, which also won't play my games. So if the XBOX2 won't play XBOX1 games I will look closer at the PS3.
Farmers aren't just given free money, they are given low-interest loans. Rarely are they able to pay these loans back and most often the farmers go out of business. The family farmer does need to be saved. Everywhere I look family farms are being bought by developers who turn them into houses, which have people, which have cars, which clogg the roads and pollute my air. I would rather smell cow manure, than car exhaust. At least you get used to the cow smell.
Right now only agribusiness is what produces most of your food, and they don't care about taking care of their animals, genetically modifying your food or using pesticides. Anything they can do to increase food output and profits, they will do. We don't want a food monopoly and we don't want to depend on foriegn countries for our food. To put this in a way geeks can understand, can you imagine if you depended on microsoft not for your OS, but for your food? You would go hungry.
My parents are baby boomers and I work with several baby boomers. Yes they all want to retire, but guess what..... they can't. They have to pay for their kids rising costs of college. They have rising medical insurance costs and prescription drugs to pay for too. Retirement age as is the age to receive Social Security is rising because less people have the money to retire. Many baby boomers have lost their pensions and are returning to the work force. This means baby boomers are still competing for the jobs the next generation is trying to get. I don't think we will ever run out of workers until there is a new black plague.
I agree. Those who haven't read George Orwell's Animal Farm, I advise they do so. Politicians always use fear and intimidation as an excuse to take freedom away. This has been the rallying cry of the Bush Administration and their reason for taking away the liberties of Amercians in the name of War.
...... no your right, avoid Baltimore. I prefer the city of Annapolis, Maryland.
On your second sarcastic remark, Baltimore is not so bad. Sure it smells bad, polluted air, polluted water, high crime, tons of panhandlers, congested roads
This is one of the goals of the Mono project www.go-mono.com. Using ikvm, it includes a Java byte-code vm in the .net runtime. In addition there are .net compilers for C# and Basic. Other sites are working on compilers for Python, Perl etc.
VS.NET is a bloated hulk of an IDE, that sucks tremendous resources and is so big things are hard to find. I personally like SharpDevelop as it has the features you need in the right place.
Its definately Kentucky. Only in Kentucky do you have a Springfield so close to a Shelbyville and a Simpsonville. And yes, Shelbyville is filled with cousin-marrying hicks. But I can't explain the episode with the Doplhins that invade from the Ocean.
Hell yeah. Lets elect Linus. Just vote, delete your cookies then vote again. Repeat for as long as you like.
Unlikely. I doubt any of the code from the leaked WIn2K would even work in Linux. And if someone changed it to get it to work in Linux, then it wouldn't be copying anymore.
Software liability won't hurt Open Source Developers because almost every open source license specifically says they offer no warranty, use at your own risk. If anything it would hurt non-open source, like MS, since they would require the insurance but an individual developer working on Open Source in Norway/Austrailia/Russia certainly doesn't. In Open source no one really owns the product so you don't know who to who would be liable. Ultimately this shouldn't be something politicians should have to get involved in. We should be requesting liability from software vendors as we do with car dealers through license agreements. Manufacturers are liable for your car if it breaks down in two months because that is the deal you sign with the dealer. Most dealers have an X number of year warranty. So why don't we sign these with our software vendors? Well it makes the software cheaper for one. If you request liability be added to the license agreement they will ask for more money and more time. We would already have software liability if it weren't for the fact that MS is a monopoly, so you have to agree to their terms not yours.
.Net is a big memory hog too. I would love to see Longohrn as 100% .net because it would require 1 GB of ram just to run IE. Add Outlook, Word and WMP and your brand new-latest-greatest machine would run at a crawl. Then all those people with old machines would have no choice but Linux.
Miguel has done a lot of good work for Gnome, but I don't understand his preoccupation with tying Gnome so closly to Mono. Doesn't C#/Mono run much slower than C/C++ because of the runtime baggage, garbage-collection etc? Why would I want my DE (gnome) to run any slower than it already does? Also the extra memory needed will further reduce the number of machines such a bloated DE would run well on. If Gnome 3.0 has a significant Mono footprint, then it is back to KDE for me.