The apps are meant to be an extension to locally installed instances of the next version of Microsoft Office, the same way Outlook Web Access provides access to mail without the fat Outlook client."
But Outlook Web Access isn't an extension to the locally installed fat Outlook client -- you can use Web Access without it... maybe I just misunderstood submitter's wording. I don't have time to RTFA because I'm running out the door but I expect Microsoft's cross-browser office plan will require office products to be installed locally. Likely the glue will be Silverlight and/or.NET -based. I highly doubt a pure web version of the read-write products will exist because it's a stupid level to put everything on. Although I have to admin I get a lot of use from Google's free documents suite but it's fodder for desktop products.
I'm assuming most apps built for Windows Mobile you don't want to use on the desktop and vice-versa... even if it is easy to target both at the same time.
What Microsoft will do is push updates through Windows Update to speed up the IE8 JavaScript engine, upgrade users to another minor release, etc, whatever needs to be done. It allows them to get to market faster. Microsoft's got the push-update down to a fine art so they don't have to have a better product at release date.
I'm loving Chrome right now.
Plus the new level of gadget integration with portal pages is amazingly intuitive. It's definitely a progression although I'm unsure a welcome one for most people yet. They'll start "getting it" soon. We gotta' get used to this because web-based app usage is on the rise.
Face it, people are hostile toward change. So am I. The real proof comes three months later when the complaints are gone from the news. At that point will everybody be settled into the change? Likely, even those who yelled about it. Last month the popular thing was to scream about getting the old Facebook back. Years back people were screaming they wanted Windows 95 back instead of the new Windows XP.
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good points both for and against change. Ultimately things will change and it won't be at a rate you like or in a way you like. I suggest accepting the change and running with it, to focus the "screaming" energy into something more useful.
Singleton: - a single object (as distinguished from a pair) - a set containing a single member - In mathematics, a singleton is a set with exactly one element. For example, the set {0} is a singleton.
One good reason for finding "singletons" on the web (unique web properties) might be to find an entry point for competition where the market is not yet saturated. At the same time it's often hard to compete against something that's firmly established (e.g. David and Goliath). Maybe submitter has a obsessive compulsive disorder and feels a strong need to find one of everything on the web. Speculation. Maybe I'm a jackass.
Small companies pay programmers with no experience, likely substantially less; however it gives you the opportunity to get your foot in the door. Additionally small companies often develop a breadth of experience because you are required to take on many roles. For a developer this might mean developing across multiple software layers and getting involved in many aspects instead of being slotted into one focused area. Small companies don't have the stability. Be ready to give a lot. Years later you can take a lot back after experience is built up. This is only one option but is viable.
It's kind curious he was able to submit his comment to Slashdot using [Enter] but wasn't able to complete the word "wrong". I guess we'll never know...
Compared with other kinds of the applications the browser is much more GUI oriented and functionality ties much closer. In fact the GUI functionality is probably much larger than the non-GUI functionality separated away from it.
It seems a bit restrictive nowadays. For example, you could use the same framework and features in every project but use a different syntax, like the.NET Framework can be programmed through C#, VB.NET. J# and 50-odd other languages meaning people can actually leverage their existing skill set instead of learning the "one and only" skill set.
Do you think a man as smart as Reiser would put up with years of abuse? I would suggest they were equally disfunctional, they both had it coming, but one got to the other first.
...What? No, the elimination of mutexing and locks is made possible by a shared-nothing architecture.
Not responding specifically to your post, but to the thread and the article. This place seems fitting.
I call bullshit on the concept that: if data is not shared we can get rid of locks. Message passing occurs between objects, objects come from classes and classes are data types; therefore your objects that are doing the message passing are data (complex, encapsulated, maybe inherited, maybe using composition) and you need locks inside an object to ensure two simultaneous calls (or message passes) to it do not ruin each other.
If you have 550 metric tons of anything that can't explode then it's really not worth mentioning that aspect. I mean, do news stories about sugar processing plants mention that 550 metric tons of sugar can't be used in a bomb.
So the yellow cake can spread a feeling of panic if *seen* in an explosion. That's so lame. The fear of terrorism is turning the general populace into a bunch of rambling idiots conditioned to see terror in everything. It must be such a sad life.
Most users don't want to wait two months to chat again. From that perspective the pigeon hole technique likely works. What's more plausible is people will leave the AIM network and choose a different one altogether.
Overall it sounds like some of the secondary clients are poorly made, some work and some don't. Maybe some of the poorer implementations have disregarded proper setting/passing of version # in the past and the network now requires it.
Sounds like Georgia wants some free hosting and free tools and will only have to pay a web integration salary instead of a developer... why the hell not?
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The marketplace doesn't care about difference of seconds in boot time. They care about what they are familiar with.
...looks like the Wheel of Fortune.
But Outlook Web Access isn't an extension to the locally installed fat Outlook client -- you can use Web Access without it... maybe I just misunderstood submitter's wording. I don't have time to RTFA because I'm running out the door but I expect Microsoft's cross-browser office plan will require office products to be installed locally. Likely the glue will be Silverlight and/or .NET -based. I highly doubt a pure web version of the read-write products will exist because it's a stupid level to put everything on. Although I have to admin I get a lot of use from Google's free documents suite but it's fodder for desktop products.
I'm sure glad a hyperlink can't plagiarize! In a landmark ruling, a Canadian court has ruled that a web site's publication of hyperlinks to an allegedly defamatory web site is not in and of itself a 'publication,' and therefore cannot in and of itself constitute defamation. In a 10-page decision [PDF], Crookes v. Wikimedia, Sup. Ct., British Columbia, Judge Keller dismissed the libel case against Jon Newton, the publisher of p2pnet.net, which was based on the fact that his article contained links to the allegedly defamatory site, since hyperlinks, the Court reasoned, are analogous to footnotes, rather than constituting a 'republication.' Mr. Newton was represented in the case by famous libel, slander, and civil liberties lawyer Dan Burnett of Vancouver, British Columbia.
I'm assuming most apps built for Windows Mobile you don't want to use on the desktop and vice-versa... even if it is easy to target both at the same time.
She should start providing a car warranty if she wants to keep her phone number.
What Microsoft will do is push updates through Windows Update to speed up the IE8 JavaScript engine, upgrade users to another minor release, etc, whatever needs to be done. It allows them to get to market faster. Microsoft's got the push-update down to a fine art so they don't have to have a better product at release date. I'm loving Chrome right now.
Plus the new level of gadget integration with portal pages is amazingly intuitive. It's definitely a progression although I'm unsure a welcome one for most people yet. They'll start "getting it" soon. We gotta' get used to this because web-based app usage is on the rise.
Face it, people are hostile toward change. So am I. The real proof comes three months later when the complaints are gone from the news. At that point will everybody be settled into the change? Likely, even those who yelled about it. Last month the popular thing was to scream about getting the old Facebook back. Years back people were screaming they wanted Windows 95 back instead of the new Windows XP. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good points both for and against change. Ultimately things will change and it won't be at a rate you like or in a way you like. I suggest accepting the change and running with it, to focus the "screaming" energy into something more useful.
Good point, but at least submitter knows it's worth trying.
Singleton:
- a single object (as distinguished from a pair)
- a set containing a single member
- In mathematics, a singleton is a set with exactly one element. For example, the set {0} is a singleton.
One good reason for finding "singletons" on the web (unique web properties) might be to find an entry point for competition where the market is not yet saturated. At the same time it's often hard to compete against something that's firmly established (e.g. David and Goliath). Maybe submitter has a obsessive compulsive disorder and feels a strong need to find one of everything on the web. Speculation. Maybe I'm a jackass.
Small companies pay programmers with no experience, likely substantially less; however it gives you the opportunity to get your foot in the door. Additionally small companies often develop a breadth of experience because you are required to take on many roles. For a developer this might mean developing across multiple software layers and getting involved in many aspects instead of being slotted into one focused area. Small companies don't have the stability. Be ready to give a lot. Years later you can take a lot back after experience is built up. This is only one option but is viable.
It's kind curious he was able to submit his comment to Slashdot using [Enter] but wasn't able to complete the word "wrong". I guess we'll never know...
Because if you don't patent it first, no matter how dumb the patent seems, then somebody else will and you'll be up shit creek.
... for Kids Who Can't Email Good.
If the Microsoft empire is burning it's because they're burning all that extra cash they have lying around. They're not hurting.
Compared with other kinds of the applications the browser is much more GUI oriented and functionality ties much closer. In fact the GUI functionality is probably much larger than the non-GUI functionality separated away from it.
It seems a bit restrictive nowadays. For example, you could use the same framework and features in every project but use a different syntax, like the .NET Framework can be programmed through C#, VB.NET. J# and 50-odd other languages meaning people can actually leverage their existing skill set instead of learning the "one and only" skill set.
Do you think a man as smart as Reiser would put up with years of abuse? I would suggest they were equally disfunctional, they both had it coming, but one got to the other first.
Furthermore the 41,000 number is misleading because there is no evidence supporting how many records were viewed using this method.
Because companies who write code that badly also don't keep web logs.
Not responding specifically to your post, but to the thread and the article. This place seems fitting.
I call bullshit on the concept that: if data is not shared we can get rid of locks. Message passing occurs between objects, objects come from classes and classes are data types; therefore your objects that are doing the message passing are data (complex, encapsulated, maybe inherited, maybe using composition) and you need locks inside an object to ensure two simultaneous calls (or message passes) to it do not ruin each other.
If you have 550 metric tons of anything that can't explode then it's really not worth mentioning that aspect. I mean, do news stories about sugar processing plants mention that 550 metric tons of sugar can't be used in a bomb. So the yellow cake can spread a feeling of panic if *seen* in an explosion. That's so lame. The fear of terrorism is turning the general populace into a bunch of rambling idiots conditioned to see terror in everything. It must be such a sad life.
Most users don't want to wait two months to chat again. From that perspective the pigeon hole technique likely works. What's more plausible is people will leave the AIM network and choose a different one altogether. Overall it sounds like some of the secondary clients are poorly made, some work and some don't. Maybe some of the poorer implementations have disregarded proper setting/passing of version # in the past and the network now requires it.
Well now, don't you feel better.
Sounds like Georgia wants some free hosting and free tools and will only have to pay a web integration salary instead of a developer ... why the hell not?