And isn't there Google Docs for the iPhone or something like that if the idiots ever actually want to attempt full word processing on a PDA?
LoB
Not quite. At least, not yet. Google Docs is only available through the browser so you need a signal (mostly OK I guess since the service is unlimited data), but then the Docs are read-only (except for Notebook is writable but with cut down functionality).
Before the G1 I had a Windows Mobile phone - the interface was hideous but you did have a choice of editors from Notepad, Pocket-Word and even Emacs/Xemacs.
It was pretty useful to be able to take notes whilst reading on the way into work. So far the Android Market only has a few paltry notepad-like demos - I'm hoping a port of Emacs will find its way there sooner or later.
My boss doesn't even have a PDA. However, the other executives with PDAs have bought into the marketing line that needing to edit office documents on your phone is a sign of importance. That strokes their ego a lot more than pointing out it's more a sign of the need for a collaboration platform that can operate without duplicating and shuttling large binaries.
Yeah, it's a shame that the G1 didn't have any native support for Google Docs along with Gears for off-line working during flights or whatever. Maybe they're working on it (along with Gears for Notebook)?
Excellent, I really liked VBox over VMWare-Server it's just so much easier and straight forward to use and configure and the big plus is seamless windows for free.
But then out IT dept. rolled out some network loop protection that had the rather unfortunate effect of blocking your port from the network - leaving the guest (and host!) without a network whenever you fired up a VBox with the bridged network settings (VMWare just worked out of the box, OK).
Sure hope that's not the case any more with the new network settings.
Friends outside of work have no idea what DRM is and think I'm mad or joking whenever I try to explain what a potential encumbrance it will likely become in a few years whenever 'the thing' happens which means they'll have to re-buy their music or re-rip a thousand albums from/to CD again and lose the ID3 tags an so on.
Friends at work who should (and do) know better just ignore DRM because they want the sleek iPod device for fashion - no buts. I guess they really trust Apple - but ask yourselves how it came to be that we don't buy games for the Commodore any more - and if the music you buy today, you still want to listen to in another twenty years?
I just don't get it - got myself a Cowon iAudio5 last week - plugged the USB in and copied my music over (didn't even install the drivers). What could be easier than that? It plays all open and most closed file formats. A few years back I tried installing iTunes and the damned thing ran through a quarter of my collection 'importing' my mp3s to its DRM proprietary format and deleting the originals!
iTunes is a virus as far as I can tell..
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It is not immoral to create the human species--with or without ceremony - Samuel Clemens
Google Notebook is probably the most useful web app around, any notes I can make at work on new utils, languages, regexs etc. I like to make on Notebook, this will now pay dividends since the Motorsport industry is collapsing and we'll all be out of work in a few months yet my research won't be confined to a skip and I'll be able to pick it at my next job so long as they give me a browser and access to the web.
Two things Google Notebook could really do with are a proper keyboard interface (try to use it without the mouse - it's barely possible and very painful) and backup with Google Gears (yes, you can export to a Google Doc and gears it from there, but you get a new doc each time, really!)
Who chooses an OS around a disk FFS! I'd have thought most people would chose an OS that suits there needs based around usability, security, app availability or whatever and then (maybe) select a disk that works well with that OS. Is it really that much of an issue anyway?
Absolutely, start 'em off with Emacs and makefiles, M-x compile, C-x o, M-g [np] RET. Weed out all non-hackers at an early stage!
Also, get the brightest sparks to look up recursion in the K&R C index.
It would be a Godelian strange loop worthy of an Amigram
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You might explore that, see if it fits your needs. It looks awfully verbose to me though
You can set your own aliases in the $profile script but you don't need to; Powershell is already an elastic language
These two one-liners are functionally identical:
$items | foreach { $_ | get-members }
$items |%{$_ |gm}
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I don't like the consequences (the language is much too verbose for my tastes...)
Powershell is an elastic language, so you can use the fully verbose verb-noun convention, the short-cuts or any unambiguous abbreviation. The following one-liners are identical:
So *nix has an MTBF of a few seconds? Fella could sure get used to a decent Windows operating system from the good folks at MSFT in one of those planes. Plus the docs you download from the office suite could actually be used at a place of work too.
Much as I don't like nuclear equipped Tupolev bombers returning to UK airspace, or being bent over a barrel with gas supply/pricing policies. I do kinda like the return of AllOfMP3 - like it a lot. Go go Putin, the bare chested, fly fishing, knife wielding, fighter jet co-pilot savior of digital music as the good lord always intended.
It was originally called 'Managed Extensions for C++' or just 'MC++' for short back with VS2002.NET and it was ugly. Because the language was still ANSI Standard C++ compiler specific keywords had to start with a double under-score making its readability close to zero.
With VS2005 MS have created a new language C++/CLI which has been accepted as a new standard by ECMA - 'Standard ECMA-372' - http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/sta ndards/Ecma-372.htm
Thanks to the new keywords the flow of the language is much more natural and C++ is now considered a first-class.NET language - the only in fact, that lets you mix and match managed and unmanaged code - so you don't have to throw away all of your MFC and ATL libraries, and can extend existing frameworks with managed controls. It's also much closer to the CLI than any other language so you can perform tweaks that no other language can do.
If we'd had this back in the days of.NET v1 I doubt whether C# would've taken off much more than VB.NET - now everyone's a C# programmer and a good C++ programmer is even harder to find than they used to be.
In short, C# is the new VB - programming for the masses. For server based, semi real-time/distributed systems work the good news is that C++/CLI has caught up (and overtaken) the rest of the world.
'C++/CLI In Action' from Manning Publications is a good book.
Regards,
Duncan.
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yet, were is the proof that its not the earth that is rising?
Well, my property developer advised me that they're not making any more earth - so I should snap up as much as I can now. He did seem quite sure.
And isn't there Google Docs for the iPhone or something like that if the idiots ever actually want to attempt full word processing on a PDA?
LoB
Not quite. At least, not yet. Google Docs is only available through the browser so you need a signal (mostly OK I guess since the service is unlimited data), but then the Docs are read-only (except for Notebook is writable but with cut down functionality). Before the G1 I had a Windows Mobile phone - the interface was hideous but you did have a choice of editors from Notepad, Pocket-Word and even Emacs/Xemacs. It was pretty useful to be able to take notes whilst reading on the way into work. So far the Android Market only has a few paltry notepad-like demos - I'm hoping a port of Emacs will find its way there sooner or later.
My boss doesn't even have a PDA. However, the other executives with PDAs have bought into the marketing line that needing to edit office documents on your phone is a sign of importance. That strokes their ego a lot more than pointing out it's more a sign of the need for a collaboration platform that can operate without duplicating and shuttling large binaries.
Yeah, it's a shame that the G1 didn't have any native support for Google Docs along with Gears for off-line working during flights or whatever. Maybe they're working on it (along with Gears for Notebook)?
Or maybe you're by chance experiencing more CSMA collisions, or the network's now has more active nodes or higher traffic?
Excellent, I really liked VBox over VMWare-Server it's just so much easier and straight forward to use and configure and the big plus is seamless windows for free. But then out IT dept. rolled out some network loop protection that had the rather unfortunate effect of blocking your port from the network - leaving the guest (and host!) without a network whenever you fired up a VBox with the bridged network settings (VMWare just worked out of the box, OK). Sure hope that's not the case any more with the new network settings.
Friends outside of work have no idea what DRM is and think I'm mad or joking whenever I try to explain what a potential encumbrance it will likely become in a few years whenever 'the thing' happens which means they'll have to re-buy their music or re-rip a thousand albums from/to CD again and lose the ID3 tags an so on. Friends at work who should (and do) know better just ignore DRM because they want the sleek iPod device for fashion - no buts. I guess they really trust Apple - but ask yourselves how it came to be that we don't buy games for the Commodore any more - and if the music you buy today, you still want to listen to in another twenty years? I just don't get it - got myself a Cowon iAudio5 last week - plugged the USB in and copied my music over (didn't even install the drivers). What could be easier than that? It plays all open and most closed file formats. A few years back I tried installing iTunes and the damned thing ran through a quarter of my collection 'importing' my mp3s to its DRM proprietary format and deleting the originals! iTunes is a virus as far as I can tell.. -- It is not immoral to create the human species--with or without ceremony - Samuel Clemens
Along with their logo..
Google Notebook is probably the most useful web app around, any notes I can make at work on new utils, languages, regexs etc. I like to make on Notebook, this will now pay dividends since the Motorsport industry is collapsing and we'll all be out of work in a few months yet my research won't be confined to a skip and I'll be able to pick it at my next job so long as they give me a browser and access to the web. Two things Google Notebook could really do with are a proper keyboard interface (try to use it without the mouse - it's barely possible and very painful) and backup with Google Gears (yes, you can export to a Google Doc and gears it from there, but you get a new doc each time, really!)
Who chooses an OS around a disk FFS! I'd have thought most people would chose an OS that suits there needs based around usability, security, app availability or whatever and then (maybe) select a disk that works well with that OS. Is it really that much of an issue anyway?
Absolutely, start 'em off with Emacs and makefiles, M-x compile, C-x o, M-g [np] RET. Weed out all non-hackers at an early stage! Also, get the brightest sparks to look up recursion in the K&R C index.
I for one welcome our new barely walking, cigarette lighting, handwriting robotic overlords!
It would be a Godelian strange loop worthy of an Amigram
You might explore that, see if it fits your needs. It looks awfully verbose to me though
You can set your own aliases in the $profile script but you don't need to; Powershell is already an elastic language
These two one-liners are functionally identical:
$items | foreach { $_ | get-members }
$items |%{$_ |gm}
I don't like the consequences (the language is much too verbose for my tastes...)
Powershell is an elastic language, so you can use the fully verbose verb-noun convention, the short-cuts or any unambiguous abbreviation. The following one-liners are identical:
$items | for-each{ $_ | get-members }
$items |%{$_ |gm}
So *nix has an MTBF of a few seconds? Fella could sure get used to a decent Windows operating system from the good folks at MSFT in one of those planes. Plus the docs you download from the office suite could actually be used at a place of work too.
Much as I don't like nuclear equipped Tupolev bombers returning to UK airspace, or being bent over a barrel with gas supply/pricing policies. I do kinda like the return of AllOfMP3 - like it a lot. Go go Putin, the bare chested, fly fishing, knife wielding, fighter jet co-pilot savior of digital music as the good lord always intended.
It was originally called 'Managed Extensions for C++' or just 'MC++' for short back with VS2002.NET and it was ugly. Because the language was still ANSI Standard C++ compiler specific keywords had to start with a double under-score making its readability close to zero. With VS2005 MS have created a new language C++/CLI which has been accepted as a new standard by ECMA - 'Standard ECMA-372' - http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/sta ndards/Ecma-372.htm
Thanks to the new keywords the flow of the language is much more natural and C++ is now considered a first-class .NET language - the only in fact, that lets you mix and match managed and unmanaged code - so you don't have to throw away all of your MFC and ATL libraries, and can extend existing frameworks with managed controls. It's also much closer to the CLI than any other language so you can perform tweaks that no other language can do.
If we'd had this back in the days of .NET v1 I doubt whether C# would've taken off much more than VB.NET - now everyone's a C# programmer and a good C++ programmer is even harder to find than they used to be.
In short, C# is the new VB - programming for the masses. For server based, semi real-time/distributed systems work the good news is that C++/CLI has caught up (and overtaken) the rest of the world.
'C++/CLI In Action' from Manning Publications is a good book.
Regards,
Duncan.
Seeing as your targeting Windows, why not use C++/CLI and get the very same memory management as C# ?