As a software company, it's in Microsoft's best interest to prevent "new hardware" from being a barrier to entry for buying their software. (Remember the "Vista Capable" mess?)
As a hardware company, Apple mostly uses their software to try to entice you into buying new hardware.
In fact, the computer was so convincing, that the judges believed it was actually Alan Turing.
The computer is now in jail, pending appeal of long-standing homosexuality charges. When asked for comment, its lawyer said, "That's very interesting. Tell me more about this subject."
well we could take it to the next logical step, What about blind people? we need to make sure blind people can access the internet and "watch" their videos as well!
Yeah, but the cost of paying a guy to spend two minutes in a sound booth saying, "There's a cat, and it's doing some funny things," wouldn't be cost-prohibitive, and would knock out at least 95% of the workload.
From what I've seen of this application, yeah, it's definitely not "simple". It should have been built with a secure, well-written database back-end handling the security and business rules, with a mostly dumb front-end.
An Access front-end with SQL Server acting as the back-end can work just fine for relatively simple applications, but the developer still has to know what he's doing. For a simple data entry and maintenance application, I can throw something together in just an hour or two. It's less effort to do simple stuff with Access, and less effort to do complicated stuff with, say, C#. So, right tool for the right job and all that.
But storing data in the Access database, and having it accessed by multiple users is always a recipe for disaster.
What he said. My laptop never leaves the house now. In cases where I need to use a "real" computer, I just RDP/VNC/SSH to the machine in question. I only pull out the bluetooth keyboard when I plan to do a lot of typing. Even Visual Studio over RDP was surprisingly pleasant.
It's tremendously rare that I need to use all that in one go - the right tool for the right job, and all that. (The Linux proponents are always touting choice, right?)
I once had an issue with something on OpenBSD that appeared to be running into filesystem permission issues. I was trying to figure out which file it wasn't able to read. To track it down, I wanted to watch filesystem activity in real-time. I'm not a dyed-in-the-wool OpenBSD expert, so I asked our guy who is, and he had no elegant way to do that. In the end, I had to use a lot of guesswork and debugging print statements. On Windows, I'd load up Process Monitor and have my answer in 5 minutes (including trace setup time).
I'd argue just the opposite. It's not particularly hard to use Task Manager, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, the Windows event log, the Services mmc snap-in, application logs, Wireshark, and netstat -b. All of those are either built in to the OS, or freely available. And that's by no means an exhaustive list (check out all the Sysinternals tools sometime).
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I have to decide whether to go with a scatological or racist joke. Hmm...
Okay, how about, "Sorry, took me a few flushes to get that one down."
As a software company, it's in Microsoft's best interest to prevent "new hardware" from being a barrier to entry for buying their software. (Remember the "Vista Capable" mess?)
As a hardware company, Apple mostly uses their software to try to entice you into buying new hardware.
Dude, it's not all New-Yorkers. That Billy Joel song was fictional, you know.
Probably because Blizzard is the only one to perfect the abusive Skinner box loot grind. Why do gambling addicts keep going to casinos?
Alright, one more: Yo mamma's so fat, when she walks to the fridge, she violates causality.
Yo mamma's so fat, CERN used her to find the Higgs-Boson with four-sigma certainty.
In fact, the computer was so convincing, that the judges believed it was actually Alan Turing.
The computer is now in jail, pending appeal of long-standing homosexuality charges. When asked for comment, its lawyer said, "That's very interesting. Tell me more about this subject."
Yeah, but the cost of paying a guy to spend two minutes in a sound booth saying, "There's a cat, and it's doing some funny things," wouldn't be cost-prohibitive, and would knock out at least 95% of the workload.
Change it to Windows ME, and you can get the senior discounts.
Well just look at them! You ever tried getting one of today's three-year-olds to manage a shift?
My petite, girlish hands are finally paying off. Hours of Kid Icarus with no pain. VINDICATION.
Breaking: Do bears shit in the woods?
From what I've seen of this application, yeah, it's definitely not "simple". It should have been built with a secure, well-written database back-end handling the security and business rules, with a mostly dumb front-end.
An Access front-end with SQL Server acting as the back-end can work just fine for relatively simple applications, but the developer still has to know what he's doing. For a simple data entry and maintenance application, I can throw something together in just an hour or two. It's less effort to do simple stuff with Access, and less effort to do complicated stuff with, say, C#. So, right tool for the right job and all that.
But storing data in the Access database, and having it accessed by multiple users is always a recipe for disaster.
The funny part is you could replace "Android" with "Gynoid", and the headline would make just as much sense, if not more.
Are we talking Android, the operating system, or android, the robot design concept? This is Japan we're talking about, so... you never know.
What he said. My laptop never leaves the house now. In cases where I need to use a "real" computer, I just RDP/VNC/SSH to the machine in question. I only pull out the bluetooth keyboard when I plan to do a lot of typing. Even Visual Studio over RDP was surprisingly pleasant.
He's probably the type that disables superfetch because IT'S USING ALL THE RAM.
"Gift" is not a verb. You cannot create a gerund from a noun.
You're going to have to be T-1000 certified if you want my dollars.
It's tremendously rare that I need to use all that in one go - the right tool for the right job, and all that. (The Linux proponents are always touting choice, right?)
I once had an issue with something on OpenBSD that appeared to be running into filesystem permission issues. I was trying to figure out which file it wasn't able to read. To track it down, I wanted to watch filesystem activity in real-time. I'm not a dyed-in-the-wool OpenBSD expert, so I asked our guy who is, and he had no elegant way to do that. In the end, I had to use a lot of guesswork and debugging print statements. On Windows, I'd load up Process Monitor and have my answer in 5 minutes (including trace setup time).
I'd argue just the opposite. It's not particularly hard to use Task Manager, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, the Windows event log, the Services mmc snap-in, application logs, Wireshark, and netstat -b. All of those are either built in to the OS, or freely available. And that's by no means an exhaustive list (check out all the Sysinternals tools sometime).
Maybe it's because Windows' security isn't the rotting mess it was 10-15 years ago?
They didn't so much "gather". Everybody else just froze to death.
That's odd, I come up with 36.9998973.