And where do you think they got it from...
There's a small rubbish bin icon at the end of the Opera tab bar.
Also, you can just hit ctrl-z to undo closing a tab. It even loads that tab's full history!
I'm 22 (and also went to engineering school,) and the last game console I bought before the Wii was a Sega Megadrive (Genesis in America) I'm mostly a PC gamer, and none of the other consoles really has anything extra to offer me to make me buy it instead of a new graphics card.
Also, I never in a million years imagined I'd have girls I barely know turning up at my house to *ahem* play with my Wii.
There you have it slashdot, Wii brings girls to your house*.
*Disclaimer: Of course this still leaves you standing awkwardly in the corner of your own living room not quite sure how to start a conversation. Maybe they will fix this in the next hardware revision...
I was meaning the whole WinFx/.Net 3 package of WPF, WCF, etc. And you're exactly right, its good that they are moving away from win32, which should make porting more straightforward.
And I also agree with you that its unlikely Microsoft would let someone make a successful attempt at implementing something like WPF on a different platform.
Thats really what I meant - going backwards Win32 ties.Net to Windows, but moving forwards its likely to be legal factors more than anything - but make no mistake the tie to a Microsoft platform will be there. Possibly not Windows in the more distant future, but still a Microsoft platform nontheless.
Disclaimer: I am a C# dev working at a Microsoft Partner
You realise that Visual Studio is mostly written in C++..Net on any other platform won't help at all. In fact, most of Microsoft's big name products are mostly native code, and will be for a very long time - why re-write something that works?
The big problem with 'porting'.Net as you describe is that a lot of the actual.Net framework is simply a thin veneer over win32. This means in order to 'simply' port.Net, you need to reimplement large chunks of win32 on your target platform.
And don't even talk about.Net 3.0, a good chunk of which *is* WinFx. Do you really think Microsoft is going to implement some of its core functionality for competitor's platforms? Why would they? For that matter, why would they let someone else do it?
No, the reason to use.Net (and the reason I have a job) is because (in my opinion) its a much better way to write windows software than using win32 directly. If you want interoperability go elsewhere, say for example the much maligned Java.
So there's no reason to give Dell a free pass because "it might have been dropped". Even if it had been, it shouldn't have blown up.
Does this apply to almost every other manufacturer of consumer electronics? Are they also denied "free passes" when batteries explode? Because its a hell of a lot more common than many posters seem to think.
I suspect that the problem is that the lithium-ion technology is inherently unstable and should not be put in consumer gear.
I am not a chemistry major, but I don't see how its possible to store energy without the possibility of that energy being released in an uncontrolled manner.
I find it a bit frustrating how closed minded people are being about this exploding laptop issue.
Yes, its definitly possible that the battery exploded due to overheating or overcharging caused by failure of its protection circuit. However, it is also possible that it suffered impact damage. (e.g. someone dropped the battery while changing it, or the laptop was dropped but survived.)
It is a bit of a pity everyone tends to ignore other likely causes simply because they enjoy talking down the same companies over and over.
For those who have never seen the genuine advantage notification 'tool' at work, if it detects you have an invalid license, it will help you through the process of purchasing a new license online (they mail you a physical cd, and activate your copy of windows with the key from that cd immediatly.) They are even generous enough to offer the OEM price without any hardware purchase at all...
In all honesty though, I really don't see why people who have stolen something feel they have the right to complain it might be taken away...
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And where do you think they got it from... There's a small rubbish bin icon at the end of the Opera tab bar. Also, you can just hit ctrl-z to undo closing a tab. It even loads that tab's full history!
Thanks America, for saving us all yet again.
Whatever would we do without you?
You might be interested in a lecture given by Dijkstra in 1972 entitled "The Humble Programmer"
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In it, he argues that the best programmers are those who are able to accept their personal limitations.
[Html Version] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD0
[PDF Version] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340
Personally I think he makes many excellent points we can all learn from.
I'm 22 (and also went to engineering school,) and the last game console I bought before the Wii was a Sega Megadrive (Genesis in America) I'm mostly a PC gamer, and none of the other consoles really has anything extra to offer me to make me buy it instead of a new graphics card. Also, I never in a million years imagined I'd have girls I barely know turning up at my house to *ahem* play with my Wii. There you have it slashdot, Wii brings girls to your house*. *Disclaimer: Of course this still leaves you standing awkwardly in the corner of your own living room not quite sure how to start a conversation. Maybe they will fix this in the next hardware revision...
I was meaning the whole WinFx/.Net 3 package of WPF, WCF, etc. And you're exactly right, its good that they are moving away from win32, which should make porting more straightforward.
.Net to Windows, but moving forwards its likely to be legal factors more than anything - but make no mistake the tie to a Microsoft platform will be there. Possibly not Windows in the more distant future, but still a Microsoft platform nontheless.
And I also agree with you that its unlikely Microsoft would let someone make a successful attempt at implementing something like WPF on a different platform.
Thats really what I meant - going backwards Win32 ties
Disclaimer: I am a C# dev working at a Microsoft Partner
.Net on any other platform won't help at all. In fact, most of Microsoft's big name products are mostly native code, and will be for a very long time - why re-write something that works?
.Net as you describe is that a lot of the actual .Net framework is simply a thin veneer over win32. This means in order to 'simply' port .Net, you need to reimplement large chunks of win32 on your target platform.
.Net 3.0, a good chunk of which *is* WinFx. Do you really think Microsoft is going to implement some of its core functionality for competitor's platforms? Why would they? For that matter, why would they let someone else do it?
.Net (and the reason I have a job) is because (in my opinion) its a much better way to write windows software than using win32 directly. If you want interoperability go elsewhere, say for example the much maligned Java.
You realise that Visual Studio is mostly written in C++.
The big problem with 'porting'
And don't even talk about
No, the reason to use
I am not a chemistry major, but I don't see how its possible to store energy without the possibility of that energy being released in an uncontrolled manner.
Lithium Ion batteries can explode significant lengths of time after being dropped.
I highly doubt you'd believe any evidence they gave.
Were it not for the fact it would be grossly irresponsible to do so, I would suggest you get a Lithium ion battery and throw it on the floor.
You might just be surprised at what sometimes happens.
I find it a bit frustrating how closed minded people are being about this exploding laptop issue.
Yes, its definitly possible that the battery exploded due to overheating or overcharging caused by failure of its protection circuit. However, it is also possible that it suffered impact damage. (e.g. someone dropped the battery while changing it, or the laptop was dropped but survived.)
It is a bit of a pity everyone tends to ignore other likely causes simply because they enjoy talking down the same companies over and over.
For those who have never seen the genuine advantage notification 'tool' at work, if it detects you have an invalid license, it will help you through the process of purchasing a new license online (they mail you a physical cd, and activate your copy of windows with the key from that cd immediatly.) They are even generous enough to offer the OEM price without any hardware purchase at all...
In all honesty though, I really don't see why people who have stolen something feel they have the right to complain it might be taken away...
Oh no... the people who already don't buy windows will hate Microsoft even more.
I'm sure they are trembling in fear.
What you describe sounds strikingly like Java and .NET
And hey, would you look at that, there are various competing platforms (eg GCJ, Mono, etc)