The SDK has been done for a while. What takes a while is developing good software for the platform. The team had created the Surface demo software, but it takes a few months for another vendor to create software specifically for AT&T's use.
It's not too bad in a regularly lit room, it just doesn't do too well with direct sunlight (like most projected images). It's surprisingly vivid when you use it in a regular room.
I'm curious too. I have never heard of a case, but people regularly say "they have a habit." The only thing I know Microsoft having a habit of doing is abandoning old technologies.
I did... it does not state that. Please highlight where you think it says Microsoft must approve your results before you publicly post the information. From what I see, it just says you must post all the information in a publicly accessible place (such as a public website). It also says Microsoft reserves the right to re-run the test and publish their benchmarks.
From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973265. aspx
Benchmark Testing, Microsoft.NET Framework
You may conduct internal benchmark testing of the.NET Framework component of the OS Components (".NET Component"). You may disclose the results of any benchmark test of the.NET Component, provided that you comply with the following terms: (1) you must disclose all the information necessary for replication of the tests, including complete and accurate details of your benchmark testing methodology, the test scripts/cases, tuning parameters applied, hardware and software platforms tested, the name and version number of any third-party testing tool used to conduct the testing, and complete source code for the benchmark suite/harness that is developed by or for you and used to test both the.NET Component and the competing implementation(s); (2) you must disclose the date(s) that you conducted the benchmark tests, along with specific version information for all Microsoft software products tested, including the.NET Component; (3) your benchmark testing was performed using all performance tuning and best practice guidance set forth in the product documentation and/or on Microsoft's support Web sites, and uses the latest updates, patches, and fixes available for the.NET Component and the relevant Microsoft operating system; (4) it shall be sufficient if you make the disclosures provided for above at a publicly available location such as a Web site, so long as every public disclosure of the results of your benchmark test expressly identifies the public site containing all required disclosures; and (5) nothing in this provision shall be deemed to waive any other right that you may have to conduct benchmark testing. The foregoing obligations shall not apply to your disclosure of the results of any customized benchmark test of the.NET Component, whereby such disclosure is made under confidentiality in conjunction with a bid request by a prospective customer, such customer's application(s) are specifically tested and the results are only disclosed to such specific customer. Notwithstanding any other agreement you may have with Microsoft, if you disclose such benchmark test results, Microsoft shall have the right to disclose the results of benchmark tests it conducts of your products that compete with the.NET Component, provided it complies with the same conditions above.
You CAN, you just have to be open about how you conducted the test. They just require that if you publish the results, you have to also publish how you conducted it.
I think it's interesting how people (especially techies) complain about software costs when it's such a basis for what we do all day. I understand that we all bitch about our cable bill, our electricity bill, and especially the cost of gas, and it's just as fair to bitch about software too.
However, it just seems that something that is a core of business, we feel that even $100 for something we use every day is insane. I look at the cost of Microsoft Office and think "wow, that's a lot of money," but then I think about how critical it is my work and realize that I wouldn't be able to do my job as easily without it. I'm not saying there aren't alternatives... but seriously, you get what you pay for.
There are only restrictions involved in posting benchmarks for.NET 3.0 . And these restrictions only require that you state what version you were using and the methodology you took. It doesn't have any restrictions on "bad" results or any attempt to stop people from reporting accurate results. They wrote these restrictions to prevent people from testing.NET on a 386 and then JAVA on a 3 GHZ and saying "See JAVA is faster!" and it's similar to the restrictions for.NET 1.1 and 2.0... it's just because it's bundled with Vista that it's now included with the Vista EULA.
At least they're being open about the fact that Sony manufactured these defected batteries. I wonder if other devices using these batteries are going to start exploding as well?
Ummm I didn't see anything in the article mention holes in the OS.. just poor software design. You can create crap software on any platform. Why don't you take a read of that article before you come to your conclusion.
Sounds like they are application design problems, not platform problems. How is Palm OS any better? I'm seriously interested, does Palm OS immune to these issues?
My current project is using Agile methodology for development. It's great when you don't have full requirements at the beginning of the project. It would be interesting to apply this to games, and really makes sense. It seems like this would be much more organic approach and I could see it really useful in large games such as WoW where you can develop different areas while in production. A successful choice of methodology really depends on your project and what would be best for the team. Your choice of a methodology isn't a silver bullet to a successful project.
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Haha, and if you click cancel, you still get directed to the page.
Because you're licensing the content not the format it's presented in. People generally copyright the text on a website or inside a book, not that the book was printed on white paper using a serif font or that your website is running on Apache or IIS.
Will something like NTFS disk compression actually make it less than one sector, or are you right that every file will take up at least 4096 bytes? Does anyone know if this will do anything to improve retrieval speed?
Not really... you go to Tools -> Internet Options... click on the Programs tab and then click on Manage Add-ons...
Find the control and click Disable.
To completely delete it from your system, just go to: C:\windows\Downloaded Program Files\
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I think it's actually somewhat "difficult" to install ActiveX anymore. Since their updates in SP2, you have to click on the information bar and explicity state that you want to install this ActiveX (and it gives you a warning about how it can be unsafe).
I mean, I'm the first one to admit that IE has been very crappy in the past... but IE6 SP2 (other than the damn rendering, of course, but there's hope for IE7)does a pretty good job of being secure.
I get the whole Google standing up for itself or Google standing up to corporations.. but come one, it isn't Google standing up for us. Don't get me wrong, I think charging another company for bandwidth because their customers are accessing their site is ridiculous! However, Google's battle wasn't about consumer rights.
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The SDK has been done for a while. What takes a while is developing good software for the platform. The team had created the Surface demo software, but it takes a few months for another vendor to create software specifically for AT&T's use.
Yep. You can write software for Surface using .NET as well as some additional APIs for multi-touch capabilities.
It's not too bad in a regularly lit room, it just doesn't do too well with direct sunlight (like most projected images). It's surprisingly vivid when you use it in a regular room.
You can get license servers for your network with Vista. Your clients then only have to contact your license server and not Microsoft directly.
I'm curious too. I have never heard of a case, but people regularly say "they have a habit." The only thing I know Microsoft having a habit of doing is abandoning old technologies.
From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973265
You CAN, you just have to be open about how you conducted the test. They just require that if you publish the results, you have to also publish how you conducted it.
Mod parent up, this is really good news!
Neat breakdown.
I think it's interesting how people (especially techies) complain about software costs when it's such a basis for what we do all day. I understand that we all bitch about our cable bill, our electricity bill, and especially the cost of gas, and it's just as fair to bitch about software too.
However, it just seems that something that is a core of business, we feel that even $100 for something we use every day is insane. I look at the cost of Microsoft Office and think "wow, that's a lot of money," but then I think about how critical it is my work and realize that I wouldn't be able to do my job as easily without it. I'm not saying there aren't alternatives... but seriously, you get what you pay for.
There are only restrictions involved in posting benchmarks for .NET 3.0 . And these restrictions only require that you state what version you were using and the methodology you took. It doesn't have any restrictions on "bad" results or any attempt to stop people from reporting accurate results. They wrote these restrictions to prevent people from testing .NET on a 386 and then JAVA on a 3 GHZ and saying "See JAVA is faster!" and it's similar to the restrictions for .NET 1.1 and 2.0... it's just because it's bundled with Vista that it's now included with the Vista EULA.
At least they're being open about the fact that Sony manufactured these defected batteries. I wonder if other devices using these batteries are going to start exploding as well?
Ummm I didn't see anything in the article mention holes in the OS.. just poor software design. You can create crap software on any platform. Why don't you take a read of that article before you come to your conclusion.
Sounds like they are application design problems, not platform problems. How is Palm OS any better? I'm seriously interested, does Palm OS immune to these issues?
My current project is using Agile methodology for development. It's great when you don't have full requirements at the beginning of the project. It would be interesting to apply this to games, and really makes sense. It seems like this would be much more organic approach and I could see it really useful in large games such as WoW where you can develop different areas while in production. A successful choice of methodology really depends on your project and what would be best for the team. Your choice of a methodology isn't a silver bullet to a successful project.
Haha, and if you click cancel, you still get directed to the page.
Because you're licensing the content not the format it's presented in. People generally copyright the text on a website or inside a book, not that the book was printed on white paper using a serif font or that your website is running on Apache or IIS.
In a properly set up environment, rebooting a single server doesn't mean the overall system has had downtime.
Glad I'm not the only one who was like "WTF?"
Will something like NTFS disk compression actually make it less than one sector, or are you right that every file will take up at least 4096 bytes? Does anyone know if this will do anything to improve retrieval speed?
Isn't this covered in Security 101 -- most instances of stealing information, destroying data, etc. occurs from the inside (or ex-employees).
http://search.msn.com/ Looks pretty minimal to me.
Not really... you go to Tools -> Internet Options... click on the Programs tab and then click on Manage Add-ons...
Find the control and click Disable.
To completely delete it from your system, just go to: C:\windows\Downloaded Program Files\
I think it's actually somewhat "difficult" to install ActiveX anymore. Since their updates in SP2, you have to click on the information bar and explicity state that you want to install this ActiveX (and it gives you a warning about how it can be unsafe).
I mean, I'm the first one to admit that IE has been very crappy in the past... but IE6 SP2 (other than the damn rendering, of course, but there's hope for IE7)does a pretty good job of being secure.
I get the whole Google standing up for itself or Google standing up to corporations.. but come one, it isn't Google standing up for us. Don't get me wrong, I think charging another company for bandwidth because their customers are accessing their site is ridiculous! However, Google's battle wasn't about consumer rights.