I beg to differ. OOP is a way to structure the concepts in an application. OOP does not specify that you have to split an isolated concept into a multitude of classes if that goes contrary to the goal for performance reasons. A good architect will have no problem doing a solid object model during analysis and modify part of it to accomodate performance requirements. Especially if you use something like C++ you know perfectly well how the resulting code will behave. That being said, there is indeed a place for everything.
When we (Navision now part of MSBS) developed a client server platform similar to MS Access back in '93 we had to drop using native windows handling for individual controls as it was too slow. Instead we had to use a single app windows structure and code the control drawing ourselves.
The comment about the delay is quite interesting. I remember a lot of the API archeology going on, but never needed to use the undocumented calls as our solution to the problem worked fine.
I suppose the have tried to do something similar with the newer APIs ?
My mind must be failing. I seem to recall that a free market is based on fairly competing businesses, hence no monopoly can be tolerated. We allow monopolies to form and exist as long as competitors have a chance to emerge.
Hmm, not even old, more like ancient use. It's as basic as it gets. Idiots will always get a chance to create software, so it's hardly surprising that you can find dumb site implementations.
Ok some lawyer has an opinion about the legality in the US;
1) Has there been any court judgement to support the opinion?
2) Why should people not affected by the software patent madness be affected?
Here we go again. I guess it is just how you end up thinking when you have been part of a big organisation for too long.
I suppose the guy sees a future where 5 computers run all the worlds software!?
One MS strategy could be to offer XP for nearly free. They have played that game before after all. It would have to be a specialised version anyway, so there would be no risk of it getting installed on a regular PC. Hopefully they don't get a chance to do that, even though I suspect that many buyers will be dumb enough to not see the bigger picture.
Nope, you are right.
I can even understand why Google would be careful about disclosing details, as that could be systematically used to deduct their criteria/algorithm.
When you have only have a small market share, it is generally not a good idea to avoid changes that will attract new users in order to try to not inconvenience existing users.
The change to tab UI is a response to the experience of having a lot of tabs open.
The unfortunate fact is that regardless of what the net effect of the way we live is, it is a long term effect. If we only react when we are 100% certain, the second thing that is 100% certain is that will be living in the outcome.
The real question is "Is there a reasonable chance that our way of life is having a significant adverse effect on the environment?". Anyone answering no to that question is either ignorant, a complete fool, or has an agenda.
You have to look at what we are risking and ask yourself if we can afford the risk, and as it stands today I think the risk is unacceptable.
The thing that really hit the nail for me was the reference to a time when the earths seas were just 10 degrees warmer. Back then the water was much more acidic, so none of the mamals and fish that we are used to today could live in it. Consider for a moment that this condition occurred over the next 200 years. No new species could evolve in such a short timespan, so we would loose the majority of earths biodiversity and a major food source.
What chance of this happening would you consider acceptable?
As a reminder have a look at what happens in smaller waters when the temperature rises a bit. Algae growth goes crazy and nearly ALL fish suffocate. This isn't speculation, its something that happens quite regularily, although a bit more often lately. Why do you think fishermen go to the arctic region to fish?
I have developed software for 20 years, but I still seem to be squized when I talk to recruiters. I rarely ever hear about any projects that are actually interesting, or that I can expect to learn much from. So I have given up on looking for web/mobile related projects and do specialised ERP projects instead. It's unbelievably boring, but I can get a decent pay. Hopefully my own projects will be profitable soon, so I can retire from contracting permanently.
Firefox crashes for me about once a day. It usually involves a flash site. But then games crash as well, so it might just be the OS/PC. I still prefer to work in FF, as the IE rendering is horrendous.
What confused view are you talking about. You mean like torn between hate and love? Nah, the only ones that look at the world in a WW2 perspective are anglo-saxons. The french are just bitter that they invented pride, and the US hijacked the pride concept. i.e. bitter that they lost the cultural dominance game. And what a shame it is, french culture is 10x more charming.
I stopped caring about high end CPU performance. The only reason I will have to upgrade is that my current PC is getting flakey. Random crashed when it's pushed beyond ordinary workload.
Sure my new system will be spec'd to cope with gaming, but it will probably be with last years technology anyway.
That case is so much BS. I know the UK law can be pretty fascist, but that judgement makes no sense at all.
Im so tempted to start doing the same hack on my own sites until I get "caught".
Actually the name was a marketing trick to attract people. It wasn't that much different from today where the southern tip becomes "green" in summer time.
The truth is scary thats why. Contrary to what you wish, human instinct doesn't evolve much.
People prefer to put their head in the ground and wish the problem to go away. Hopefully there will be a couple of major hurricanes ripping up the east coast before the warming trend moves beyond repair.
And yes there is a beyond repair, which is when enough ground is visible at the poles to make the process self feeding.
Downfall of western civilization, well it won't be limited to a particular continent.
Even if you think you can't be sure either way, how long do you want to do nothing? Personally I would rather try to do something about it before my house is permanently submerged; Which is about 3 degrees average temperature away. I would also like to be able to visit tropical islands on holiday.
When did Microsoft last take over a competitor in an industry they are well established in?
Exactly. The suggestion makes zero sense. Besides I'm sure the japanese would figure out a way to save Sony if it really came to it.
Microsoft want to move into new industries, so gaming is not on the radar, as they are pretty well covered there.
It would be more interesting to see the 10 times they got it right.
I don't really think the detail is that important, like when a login screen is clearly drawn and not an actual login. What is much more annoying is when the plot is based on something that is counter to reality.
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right on the money, cowboy!
I beg to differ. OOP is a way to structure the concepts in an application. OOP does not specify that you have to split an isolated concept into a multitude of classes if that goes contrary to the goal for performance reasons. A good architect will have no problem doing a solid object model during analysis and modify part of it to accomodate performance requirements. Especially if you use something like C++ you know perfectly well how the resulting code will behave. That being said, there is indeed a place for everything.
When we (Navision now part of MSBS) developed a client server platform similar to MS Access back in '93 we had to drop using native windows handling for individual controls as it was too slow. Instead we had to use a single app windows structure and code the control drawing ourselves. The comment about the delay is quite interesting. I remember a lot of the API archeology going on, but never needed to use the undocumented calls as our solution to the problem worked fine. I suppose the have tried to do something similar with the newer APIs ?
My mind must be failing. I seem to recall that a free market is based on fairly competing businesses, hence no monopoly can be tolerated. We allow monopolies to form and exist as long as competitors have a chance to emerge.
which is exactly why you save the session ID in a cookie and not the URL, and require cookies to be enabled.
Hmm, not even old, more like ancient use. It's as basic as it gets. Idiots will always get a chance to create software, so it's hardly surprising that you can find dumb site implementations.
Ok some lawyer has an opinion about the legality in the US; 1) Has there been any court judgement to support the opinion? 2) Why should people not affected by the software patent madness be affected?
Gasp! Are you saying they shouldn't try to whine someone into spending their time coding Win9X support?
Here we go again. I guess it is just how you end up thinking when you have been part of a big organisation for too long. I suppose the guy sees a future where 5 computers run all the worlds software!?
One MS strategy could be to offer XP for nearly free. They have played that game before after all. It would have to be a specialised version anyway, so there would be no risk of it getting installed on a regular PC. Hopefully they don't get a chance to do that, even though I suspect that many buyers will be dumb enough to not see the bigger picture.
Nope, you are right. I can even understand why Google would be careful about disclosing details, as that could be systematically used to deduct their criteria/algorithm.
When you have only have a small market share, it is generally not a good idea to avoid changes that will attract new users in order to try to not inconvenience existing users. The change to tab UI is a response to the experience of having a lot of tabs open.
The unfortunate fact is that regardless of what the net effect of the way we live is, it is a long term effect. If we only react when we are 100% certain, the second thing that is 100% certain is that will be living in the outcome. The real question is "Is there a reasonable chance that our way of life is having a significant adverse effect on the environment?". Anyone answering no to that question is either ignorant, a complete fool, or has an agenda. You have to look at what we are risking and ask yourself if we can afford the risk, and as it stands today I think the risk is unacceptable. The thing that really hit the nail for me was the reference to a time when the earths seas were just 10 degrees warmer. Back then the water was much more acidic, so none of the mamals and fish that we are used to today could live in it. Consider for a moment that this condition occurred over the next 200 years. No new species could evolve in such a short timespan, so we would loose the majority of earths biodiversity and a major food source. What chance of this happening would you consider acceptable? As a reminder have a look at what happens in smaller waters when the temperature rises a bit. Algae growth goes crazy and nearly ALL fish suffocate. This isn't speculation, its something that happens quite regularily, although a bit more often lately. Why do you think fishermen go to the arctic region to fish?
I have developed software for 20 years, but I still seem to be squized when I talk to recruiters. I rarely ever hear about any projects that are actually interesting, or that I can expect to learn much from. So I have given up on looking for web/mobile related projects and do specialised ERP projects instead. It's unbelievably boring, but I can get a decent pay. Hopefully my own projects will be profitable soon, so I can retire from contracting permanently.
Firefox crashes for me about once a day. It usually involves a flash site. But then games crash as well, so it might just be the OS/PC. I still prefer to work in FF, as the IE rendering is horrendous.
Considering how many people actually live close to the water that is really an ass of a comment, especially when you keep repeating it.
I would say that 20% of the people playing MMO's are women. IRL that is. So flash games must be like 90% female gamers.
What confused view are you talking about. You mean like torn between hate and love? Nah, the only ones that look at the world in a WW2 perspective are anglo-saxons. The french are just bitter that they invented pride, and the US hijacked the pride concept. i.e. bitter that they lost the cultural dominance game. And what a shame it is, french culture is 10x more charming.
I stopped caring about high end CPU performance. The only reason I will have to upgrade is that my current PC is getting flakey. Random crashed when it's pushed beyond ordinary workload. Sure my new system will be spec'd to cope with gaming, but it will probably be with last years technology anyway.
That case is so much BS. I know the UK law can be pretty fascist, but that judgement makes no sense at all. Im so tempted to start doing the same hack on my own sites until I get "caught".
Actually the name was a marketing trick to attract people. It wasn't that much different from today where the southern tip becomes "green" in summer time.
The truth is scary thats why. Contrary to what you wish, human instinct doesn't evolve much. People prefer to put their head in the ground and wish the problem to go away. Hopefully there will be a couple of major hurricanes ripping up the east coast before the warming trend moves beyond repair. And yes there is a beyond repair, which is when enough ground is visible at the poles to make the process self feeding. Downfall of western civilization, well it won't be limited to a particular continent. Even if you think you can't be sure either way, how long do you want to do nothing? Personally I would rather try to do something about it before my house is permanently submerged; Which is about 3 degrees average temperature away. I would also like to be able to visit tropical islands on holiday.
When did Microsoft last take over a competitor in an industry they are well established in? Exactly. The suggestion makes zero sense. Besides I'm sure the japanese would figure out a way to save Sony if it really came to it. Microsoft want to move into new industries, so gaming is not on the radar, as they are pretty well covered there.
It would be more interesting to see the 10 times they got it right. I don't really think the detail is that important, like when a login screen is clearly drawn and not an actual login. What is much more annoying is when the plot is based on something that is counter to reality.
I cant be bothered to watch the interview. I don't trust M$ to talk and act straight.