Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Jan 2011 22:09 UTC
And this is part two of the story: Microsoft has just confirmed the next version of Windows NT (referring to it as NT for clarity's sake) will be available for ARM - or more specifically, SoCs from NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments. Also announced today at CES is Microsoft Office for ARM. Both Windows NT and Microsoft Office were shown running on ARM during a press conference for the fact at CES in Las Vegas.
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Also in software engineer experience only counts for so much ... and it not only me who thinks this ... The author of Code Complete also agrees with me, one of the best books on Software Engineering ever written.
I didn't say I was a Software Engineer, I am a Systems Engineer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering
Software is but one part of a system.
The type of systems my teams engineered are Cockpit Procedures Trainers (CPT) and Flight Training Devices (FTD). These indeed take a number of years to build, and there is much blood, sweat and tears to go into it. A decent FTD may use as many as twenty PCs to drive various simulated cockpit screens and the outside world visuals and other player tactical simulations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator
This represents a bucketload of software and hardware all integrated together into a complex system. It is actually more complex than the aircraft being simulated.
Perhaps this might give you a feel for the scope of such a project:
http://www.cwu.edu/~aviation/facilit_simlators.html
Having said that, a full-feature A grade movie takes just about as much effort, and that venture is protected only by copyright.
Anyway, back to software ... if one's team had to write the entire software from whoa to go, it would be impossible (the final software deliverable occupies about 20 CDs, and even that uses common components such as the same OS on most machines). The airframe would reach end of life before the simulator on which to train the pilots was ready.
The best approach to providing software for a complex system is to use as much as possible of what already works and is proven.
For example, for the outside world graphics subsystems, we sometimes used this solution:
http://real-time.ccur.com/solutions_businessneed_imagegeneration.as...
The point is that even though this solution is based on open source, we still paid for it, and we still paid about twenty software engineers to integrate with it and write aircraft-specific parts of the FTD software, and it was still part of an overall engineering solution, and money was still made on the deal by both us and Concurrent. To re-use open source solutions for components of the overall system was better for us, better for our customer, better for the whole life-cycle cost (including software maintenance) of the solution because the customer got all the source code, and we got the FTD product out the door at about the same time as the real aircraft was first comissioned.
Where is the problem?
Edited 2011-01-08 12:46 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
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Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
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No they are not ... they are an opinion. You make circular arguments. Circular arguments have a fundamental problem and you just don't see it.
OK, so? I do happen to have many years of engineering experience at leading development teams.
Don't believe it for a second. You linked me (in another discussion) to using C# binding for GTK when I said I will use Visual Studio and .NET because it works. This is crazy ...
You also said "What is soo special about source code" (in another discussion) ... if you lead software development teams you would know the sweat, blood and tears it takes to make a decent product and also the amount of money.
I also give my source code to my customers .. however in my contract states they may not disclose to 3rd parties else unless they ask for my permission. If they have their own developers they can work on it. Most customers are happy about this ... they pay extra if they want to own it.
It is inferred in every post you make ... most people "read between the lines". It is certainly obvious to me, and other I have spoke to about your posts on OSNews.
I assess technical matter everyday. I think though decisions on a logical basis almost everyday of my life.
However you have an "open source" agenda that skews your thinking.
Also in software engineer experience only counts for so much ... and it not only me who thinks this ... The author of Code Complete also agrees with me, one of the best books on Software Engineering ever written.
Edited 2011-01-07 22:04 UTC