Outlook is actually good software if you need email + calendar. I really haven't found anything as good. The Bat! sure comes as close and is lightweight as hell, but it just doesn't have the same integration and feel either. It's the best try so far, at least.
Honestly, I can't think of anything that would immature about it.. In fact, especially the UI is great once you've tried it. Easily beats Android and even iPhone too.
Also, development on WP7 phones is ridiculously easy, as you point out. I'm more than happy that Nokia finally dropped Symbian, which was a *major* pain in the ass to even set up development environment for. XNA, Silverlight etc make it ridiculously easy to do apps for WP7.
Only bad thing about WP7 is that you can't run apps outside markets as easily as with old Windows Mobile's. It really sucks. But it's something iPhone and Android mandated, so blame is on them.
Nokia has been preparing their Windows Phone 7 line-up. Their Nokia Lumia smart phone has beat sales in many European countries and Australia in December and November, even topping iPhone and every Android phone. It is also a very solid offering. I think both Microsoft and Nokia did the right to go together. Great hardware from Nokia and great software from Microsoft. That combination is pure gold.
Like what? Visual Studio is by far the best IDE there is. It is almost outstandingly powerful and still lightweight with the newest versions. It's nice to work with. Apart from VisualAssist, which is great addon, there's not much there to improve over others. In fact, the assist features of VS is on par with others, VA just takes it step further. Anyone who would use Eclipse over VS just doesn't know what he is doing.
It was the Cold War, both the US and the USSR conducted thousands of secret operations all over the world. The simple fact that operation Ajax was a viable proposition means Iran wasn't a stable democracy.
Countries like those of Eastern Europe got fucked much harder than Iran, they were invaded militarily and kept in submission for fifty years, yet they are recovering. Why cannot Iran forget Mossadegh? Or, rather, why cannot the childish American leftists forget him?
Seems like your mother never taught you that other persons bad actions does not justify you doing bad things.
It's what I started my programming history with and I still have fond memories of it. Easy enough language that got me interested in programming and provided me instant fun. There never really was any other such comprehensive language with quick-to-see results. Drawing on screen was easy, syntax was easy and reading from input was easy. You got fun things done quickly. As much as some "I'm better than you" geeks like to take a stand about it, BASIC was important part of history.
Then you probably also understand that it is the US and Europe that uses most of the resources on our planet. If you want to save as much lives as you can while preventing overpopulation, we westerners should be first ones to go. People from other places on Earth use far fewer resources per one person than we do.
I know you're a parent, and a grandparent, and hence why I used such example. It just seems like you're more easy at putting Iranians/Iraqis at that position and forgetting that they're people just like you. All with their family, history, loved ones and children.
What did he give me? He actually inspired me a lot when I was kid and reading his book. He had quite interesting stuff to said about technology and how it's going to be in the future. Apart from that, he also gave me QBasic and Visual Basic which were the first programming languages I learned and used. Indirectly, he also influenced countless of things. I remember when I was learning about game programming, AI, 3D with DirectX and other things as 10-11 years old and it was a fascinating subject. I literally spent my summer holidays reading about those. Coding on days, reading in bed and while on travel. And overally, billions of people use the OS he created. I bet you do too.
You may dislike him, sure. But you can't say he hasn't given anything. He is probably the most influential guy in the history of PC's, either directly or indirectly.
Wow, you take a mockery said and somehow establish that there's connection with every non-geek? That's quite low just to establish your own "superiority" to other people.
What would you think if your kids died and someone told you it was because of overpopulation? Would that make their dead ok? That their dead supported world not getting overpopulated? Just think a little bit before writing stupid shit.
In Linux, you are right, things are more disorganized, so trying to make two programs work together who are using different components won't be easy, but you have the same problem in Windows only less so because Microsoft keeps developers on the same page. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of Windows (or any proprietary solution): more strict, but more uniform.
So you are saying that you have the same problem in Windows, but significantly less so? Because different Windows programs work good together. Especially those that have been made to use PowerShell and its object passing. There is also OLE (which goes back 90's), dll's and similar technologies. Windows has *always* thought more about interoperability than Linux. In Linux you only pass text strings and it is let to every program to parse them correctly. How convenient, not.
That's just ignorance. You're quoting people at different points of life. Linus said that when he was in school and just had released some piece of code for others to tinker with. Bill Gates had already done school and was starting a business.
You may dislike anyone you want, but at least keep it honest.
There's nothing to stop you serialising objects and passing them between Unix apps if you wanted - this is maybe what Powershell does, without you seeing it - but I still don't know why you'd want to.
Except the "little" fact that zero other commands and programs on linux would support it.
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Outlook is actually good software if you need email + calendar. I really haven't found anything as good. The Bat! sure comes as close and is lightweight as hell, but it just doesn't have the same integration and feel either. It's the best try so far, at least.
Yes, they are my opinions (no I don't work for anyone, nor do I get 250k year)
If you have something to argue about me points, please do so. Otherwise you're just mindlessly attacking. Try using WP7.
Around 250k per year.
Honestly, I can't think of anything that would immature about it.. In fact, especially the UI is great once you've tried it. Easily beats Android and even iPhone too.
Also, development on WP7 phones is ridiculously easy, as you point out. I'm more than happy that Nokia finally dropped Symbian, which was a *major* pain in the ass to even set up development environment for. XNA, Silverlight etc make it ridiculously easy to do apps for WP7.
Only bad thing about WP7 is that you can't run apps outside markets as easily as with old Windows Mobile's. It really sucks. But it's something iPhone and Android mandated, so blame is on them.
Nokia has been preparing their Windows Phone 7 line-up. Their Nokia Lumia smart phone has beat sales in many European countries and Australia in December and November, even topping iPhone and every Android phone. It is also a very solid offering. I think both Microsoft and Nokia did the right to go together. Great hardware from Nokia and great software from Microsoft. That combination is pure gold.
Great example of how "greatly" open source devs get UI and design, tho
Like what? Visual Studio is by far the best IDE there is. It is almost outstandingly powerful and still lightweight with the newest versions. It's nice to work with. Apart from VisualAssist, which is great addon, there's not much there to improve over others. In fact, the assist features of VS is on par with others, VA just takes it step further. Anyone who would use Eclipse over VS just doesn't know what he is doing.
Funnily, I'm not American, I'm Russian.
Puhleeeze, let go of that fucking Mossadegh!
It was the Cold War, both the US and the USSR conducted thousands of secret operations all over the world. The simple fact that operation Ajax was a viable proposition means Iran wasn't a stable democracy.
Countries like those of Eastern Europe got fucked much harder than Iran, they were invaded militarily and kept in submission for fifty years, yet they are recovering. Why cannot Iran forget Mossadegh? Or, rather, why cannot the childish American leftists forget him?
Seems like your mother never taught you that other persons bad actions does not justify you doing bad things.
It's what I started my programming history with and I still have fond memories of it. Easy enough language that got me interested in programming and provided me instant fun. There never really was any other such comprehensive language with quick-to-see results. Drawing on screen was easy, syntax was easy and reading from input was easy. You got fun things done quickly. As much as some "I'm better than you" geeks like to take a stand about it, BASIC was important part of history.
This is one of the most intelligent posts I've read on Slashdot in a while. Mod parent up.
Then you probably also understand that it is the US and Europe that uses most of the resources on our planet. If you want to save as much lives as you can while preventing overpopulation, we westerners should be first ones to go. People from other places on Earth use far fewer resources per one person than we do.
You really think Anonymous played any role in it? If anything it only made Sony more pro-establishment. You're idiot, eldavojohn.
I know you're a parent, and a grandparent, and hence why I used such example. It just seems like you're more easy at putting Iranians/Iraqis at that position and forgetting that they're people just like you. All with their family, history, loved ones and children.
What did he give me? He actually inspired me a lot when I was kid and reading his book. He had quite interesting stuff to said about technology and how it's going to be in the future. Apart from that, he also gave me QBasic and Visual Basic which were the first programming languages I learned and used. Indirectly, he also influenced countless of things. I remember when I was learning about game programming, AI, 3D with DirectX and other things as 10-11 years old and it was a fascinating subject. I literally spent my summer holidays reading about those. Coding on days, reading in bed and while on travel. And overally, billions of people use the OS he created. I bet you do too.
You may dislike him, sure. But you can't say he hasn't given anything. He is probably the most influential guy in the history of PC's, either directly or indirectly.
Want to see "consumers"?? http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos/
Wow, you take a mockery said and somehow establish that there's connection with every non-geek? That's quite low just to establish your own "superiority" to other people.
Also wrong. Other programs can parse serialized python objects, so long as those programs are also Python programs
So, in practical sense, again none.
As far as I understand it (and I'm European), Canada is already US' bitch.
What would you think if your kids died and someone told you it was because of overpopulation? Would that make their dead ok? That their dead supported world not getting overpopulated? Just think a little bit before writing stupid shit.
Please get this already. Python and Perl ARE NOT shells.
Passing objects via shared memory is 1) more convenient 2) hell of a lot faster and better. And it works in every program the same way.
In Linux, you are right, things are more disorganized, so trying to make two programs work together who are using different components won't be easy, but you have the same problem in Windows only less so because Microsoft keeps developers on the same page. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of Windows (or any proprietary solution): more strict, but more uniform.
So you are saying that you have the same problem in Windows, but significantly less so? Because different Windows programs work good together. Especially those that have been made to use PowerShell and its object passing. There is also OLE (which goes back 90's), dll's and similar technologies. Windows has *always* thought more about interoperability than Linux. In Linux you only pass text strings and it is let to every program to parse them correctly. How convenient, not.
That's just ignorance. You're quoting people at different points of life. Linus said that when he was in school and just had released some piece of code for others to tinker with. Bill Gates had already done school and was starting a business.
You may dislike anyone you want, but at least keep it honest.
Python is not a shell. Besides, serializing your output does nothing as other commands and programs cannot parse those under Linux.
There's nothing to stop you serialising objects and passing them between Unix apps if you wanted - this is maybe what Powershell does, without you seeing it - but I still don't know why you'd want to.
Except the "little" fact that zero other commands and programs on linux would support it.