Rather than carefully designing a number of different interfaces while taking into consideration the strengths and weaknesses of each form factor, they feel it would be more prudent to make unpleasant compromises to every platform in the name of uniformity.
Dell's been growing quite a bit in the server market lately. I could see them wanting to preen the client side components in order to offer a more complete and integrated virtualization stack.
They've been around a long time, but they seem to have a decent presence in the thin client and virtualization market. They make a pretty good Remote Desktop + VMware View client for iPhone and iPad (I think there's an Android version, but I'm not sure how it compares).
I don't think the byte size is important for "golf" purposes unless you count everything down to the bare metal. If they can do Tron in 226 bytes of x86 machine code, then I'll take note. Otherwise the size is only meaningful from a practical standpoint, e.g. how much more disk space and RAM will be necessary to use this program.
I can put "win.com" in autoexec.bat, but that doesn't mean I've implemented Windows 3.1 in 7 bytes.
I don't expect them to engineer and construct the computer system from scratch, but claiming it's 226 bytes and ignoring the mountains of libraries and APIs being relied upon throughout the OS and web browser is a bit like ordering from McDonald's and saying you "made dinner".
This is Dynamics GP we're talking about. The UI is so horrendous that pretty much anything would be an improvement. Even giving it the Hot Dog Stand theme.
(I hope they fired the idiot that decided to change the MDI application to SDI without making a single change to the interface, so you have to constantly deal with your data entry windows falling behind the main window.)
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As a bonus, by the time the tritium begins to fade, you've been subjected to enough radiation to see just fine in the dark anyway.
Will it take them more or less time than Apple took to backpedal on this?
I would be very impressed if you can regularly saturate a 100 mbit port with just an RDP connection.
Rather than carefully designing a number of different interfaces while taking into consideration the strengths and weaknesses of each form factor, they feel it would be more prudent to make unpleasant compromises to every platform in the name of uniformity.
So you're saying Oracle is more honest than Google?
You've just described AOL with alarming accuracy.
Bisexual slash fiction for nerds.
Personally, I'm at the point where I'd rather take my chances with the alleged terrorists than the TSA.
It's only a matter of time before we can finally visit clownpenis.fart.
...Microsoft now owns the patent for the "busy signal"?
So basically IRC with higher latency.
Dell's been growing quite a bit in the server market lately. I could see them wanting to preen the client side components in order to offer a more complete and integrated virtualization stack.
They've been around a long time, but they seem to have a decent presence in the thin client and virtualization market. They make a pretty good Remote Desktop + VMware View client for iPhone and iPad (I think there's an Android version, but I'm not sure how it compares).
Invalid straw-man exception.
I don't think the byte size is important for "golf" purposes unless you count everything down to the bare metal. If they can do Tron in 226 bytes of x86 machine code, then I'll take note. Otherwise the size is only meaningful from a practical standpoint, e.g. how much more disk space and RAM will be necessary to use this program.
I can put "win.com" in autoexec.bat, but that doesn't mean I've implemented Windows 3.1 in 7 bytes.
I don't expect them to engineer and construct the computer system from scratch, but claiming it's 226 bytes and ignoring the mountains of libraries and APIs being relied upon throughout the OS and web browser is a bit like ordering from McDonald's and saying you "made dinner".
How many megabytes of supporting code are necessary to run those 226 bytes?
We need to decimate the ranking. Quickly.
This is Dynamics GP we're talking about. The UI is so horrendous that pretty much anything would be an improvement. Even giving it the Hot Dog Stand theme.
(I hope they fired the idiot that decided to change the MDI application to SDI without making a single change to the interface, so you have to constantly deal with your data entry windows falling behind the main window.)
HP will now start shipping all their PCs with 32 MB of RAM, but you can buy an additional 256 MB for just $100.
Some shit-hole "news" network is complaining that its user comment section is a shit-hole.
Doesn't he have more important things to do, like overseeing the posting of tubgirl on one of his own sites over a Halo 3 rivalry?
But that's not sensationalist enough. On a scale from 6,999,999,998 to 7,000,000,000, I'd put us around 6,999,999,999.
Battletoads and Adventure Island are, on the other hand, mother-fucking-hard.
I always remember to put DEVICEHIGH=FEB.SYS into my config.sys every four years.
I think I like this theory the best.
They'll all be too autistic to bother with the heroin.