I understand your point of view, but I look at it like this: soft comfy handcuffs are still handcuffs. It's better to complain about them or avoid them right up front, instead of waiting until they stop you personally from doing something you want to do. Think back to the famous "First they came for the trade unionists..." .
I'm not sure where MS thinks they're heading with Windows Phone 7. Their only advantage with WM6 was that it was actually an open platform... you could install applications from any source. From a usability point of view, it sucks, and I say that as a current user. It is not really intended to be used without a stylus, it's slow, and it's generally not very intuitive. It seems that they're dropping their only feature, adopting the early failures of Apple (cut & paste), and heading towards what most people dislike about the iPhone (single marketplace).
Maybe their doing what Linus Torvalds did with Git, in reversing every decision that CVS made, but I don't think it's going to end well for them. Between iPhone and Android, they're beat in almost every feature.
I've found that competitive design pays off better than competitive development. It's easier to refactor code than it is the complete design of a piece of software, so it's more important top get it right the first time. For code just use paired programming or a decent code review process (or both).
From a security point of view, I'd feel better if Google wrote their own PDF implementation. Far be it for me to read TFA, but I get the impression that this code comes from Adobe, whose software generally makes me nervous.
but you can't rewrite the decades of bad advice still out there
At this point I'd settle for people not writing SQL in all caps with the vowels removed. It's like the 'convention' is to make SQL as unreadable as possible. The 70's are over folks, toss your caps-lock key and buy a vowel. SQL can be readable.
Didn't several music artists make more money by letting people pay what they thought was fair than setting a fixed price? Fair is what the market thinks is fair.
Open API's are generally a good thing, although these days you seem to need some sort of user confirmation to stop them from being abused. The open API is not the bad part, the abuse is.
Yes, and I said "If he is rude and patents it" , as patents are the mechanisms that cause trouble. If he copyrighted it, they can't use exactly that code, but can still create a solution. If he patents the solution to a specific problem, people can't create their own solutions, even if they're slightly different. It's all irrelevant anyway. He didn't patent it, and he gave them the code under GPL licence. Software patents still suck of course.
The way the ridiculous software patents work, don't they have a problem anyway if this guy is rude and patents the solution? Seems to me that software patents are currently of the form "I've patented all solutions to the following software problem", regardless of whether the implementation of the solution is different. Theoretically they would need to license the fix. Wouldn't that be a nice wake-up call to the industry? I am probably just dreaming/misinterpreting things, but it's interesting to consider.
Here's a link showing some good options. Looks like the best option show (that this report looked at, in 2009) was an MSI Wind at 11 hours light use and 7ish hours stressful use. I would hope there's a few more better options these days. Still, I think you have much more potential with a netbook, while giving up little (and for less money).
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I'm fairly confident that most politicians at a high enough level are sociopaths. As with CEOs, etc, it is almost required.
Microsoft has tastier feet. Duh.
You didn't mention whether or not you minded any of us standing on your lawn.
Oh well, the world needs test subjects too.
I understand your point of view, but I look at it like this: soft comfy handcuffs are still handcuffs. It's better to complain about them or avoid them right up front, instead of waiting until they stop you personally from doing something you want to do. Think back to the famous "First they came for the trade unionists ..." .
... except you can run anything you want on this one.
I'm not sure where MS thinks they're heading with Windows Phone 7. Their only advantage with WM6 was that it was actually an open platform ... you could install applications from any source. From a usability point of view, it sucks, and I say that as a current user. It is not really intended to be used without a stylus, it's slow, and it's generally not very intuitive. It seems that they're dropping their only feature, adopting the early failures of Apple (cut & paste), and heading towards what most people dislike about the iPhone (single marketplace).
Maybe their doing what Linus Torvalds did with Git, in reversing every decision that CVS made, but I don't think it's going to end well for them. Between iPhone and Android, they're beat in almost every feature.
The teaching is part of the intent, but yes it works poorly if there's a huge disparity in skills.
I've found that competitive design pays off better than competitive development. It's easier to refactor code than it is the complete design of a piece of software, so it's more important top get it right the first time. For code just use paired programming or a decent code review process (or both).
From a security point of view, I'd feel better if Google wrote their own PDF implementation. Far be it for me to read TFA, but I get the impression that this code comes from Adobe, whose software generally makes me nervous.
You an really only go as far as saying "There are, in fact, no known Mac OS X viruses in the wild".
but you can't rewrite the decades of bad advice still out there
At this point I'd settle for people not writing SQL in all caps with the vowels removed. It's like the 'convention' is to make SQL as unreadable as possible. The 70's are over folks, toss your caps-lock key and buy a vowel. SQL can be readable.
Didn't several music artists make more money by letting people pay what they thought was fair than setting a fixed price? Fair is what the market thinks is fair.
Killing yourself for financial compensation is a poor long-term business plan.
Open API's are generally a good thing, although these days you seem to need some sort of user confirmation to stop them from being abused. The open API is not the bad part, the abuse is.
Yes, and I said "If he is rude and patents it" , as patents are the mechanisms that cause trouble. If he copyrighted it, they can't use exactly that code, but can still create a solution. If he patents the solution to a specific problem, people can't create their own solutions, even if they're slightly different. It's all irrelevant anyway. He didn't patent it, and he gave them the code under GPL licence. Software patents still suck of course.
The way the ridiculous software patents work, don't they have a problem anyway if this guy is rude and patents the solution? Seems to me that software patents are currently of the form "I've patented all solutions to the following software problem", regardless of whether the implementation of the solution is different. Theoretically they would need to license the fix. Wouldn't that be a nice wake-up call to the industry? I am probably just dreaming/misinterpreting things, but it's interesting to consider.
Ctrk-k, type search spec, enter, rejoice.
Isn't the 'net supposed to route around that sort of crap?
Here's a link showing some good options. Looks like the best option show (that this report looked at, in 2009) was an MSI Wind at 11 hours light use and 7ish hours stressful use. I would hope there's a few more better options these days. Still, I think you have much more potential with a netbook, while giving up little (and for less money).
There are a few 10" netBooks with 10 hour battery life. I have a 9" Acer with an 8+ hour life. I carry it in a sleeve to meetings, etc, for notes.
No, but they do have a Mickey Mouse operating system.
... or realizes that words are not fonts.
Wherever he damn well pleases, apparently.
I'm guessing "I an not a Canadian", not that there's anything wrong with that.