Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st May 2012 20:03 UTC
For Microsoft, the traditional desktop is old news. It's on its way out, it's legacy, and the harder they claim the desktop has equal rights, the sillier it becomes. With companies, words are meaningless, it's actions that matter, and here Microsoft's actions tell the real story. The company has announced the product line-up for Visual Studio 11, and the free Express can no longer be used to create desktop applications. Message is clear.
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RE[2]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by Nelson on Tue 22nd May 2012 03:54
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RE[3]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by 1c3d0g on Wed 23rd May 2012 01:42
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Hello?!? Have you even tried the public Windows 8 beta's? The programs are maximized ALL THE DAMN TIME, and in Microsoft's infinite wisdom, they decided to nix the taskbar, so you can't even take a look at the status of the other programs, let alone switch to other programs and running them side-by-side! How f*cked up is that?
Trust me when I say that Windows 8 will be WAY WORSE than Vista. You haven't seen a flop this bad since Windows ME.
RE[2]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by MollyC on Tue 22nd May 2012 05:37
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And how the f*ck am I supposed to be using my IRC, e-mail client, browser, music player, torrent downloader etc. when I can't even multi-task properly?
Microsoft and everyone else with their shitty pro-Metro stance can say what they want, but you just cannot answer a simple damned question.
No thanks. Power users who want to get real, serious work done will stick with Windows 7, and most will definitely just switch to another platform. Enough with this toy interface bullsh!t.
Microsoft and everyone else with their shitty pro-Metro stance can say what they want, but you just cannot answer a simple damned question.
No thanks. Power users who want to get real, serious work done will stick with Windows 7, and most will definitely just switch to another platform. Enough with this toy interface bullsh!t.
You're showing your ignornace with that comment.
Oh, spare me the "power user" crap. One thing I've come to understand recently is that self-proclaimed "power users" are probably the whiniest babies on the planet. And ironically, "power users" tend to spew the most ignorant nonsense when it comes to tech. I guess it's because they think they know everything and so tend to make authoritative statements more than others. Self-proclaimed "power users" aren't nearly as "tech savvy" as they claim to be.
"Power users". lol Give me a break. lol
RE[3]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by Alfman on Tue 22nd May 2012 06:22
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RE[3]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by 1c3d0g on Wed 23rd May 2012 01:46
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RE[2]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by bert64 on Tue 22nd May 2012 15:32
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The windows interface has always been very poor for heavy multitaskers anyway... No virtual workspaces, apps geared up to run maximized, crude ways like alt-tab for switching apps, limited space to display currently running apps.
I typically have 10 virtual workspaces, any of which can be accessed instantly with alt+number, all of which have several apps laid out in them ready to use and i remember which number corresponds to which use.
RE[3]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by lucas_maximus on Wed 23rd May 2012 05:16
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RE[2]: What prevents complex apps using Metro
by zima on Mon 28th May 2012 23:26
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And how the f*ck am I supposed to be using my IRC, e-mail client, browser, music player, torrent downloader etc.
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Power users who want to get real, serious work done
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Power users who want to get real, serious work done
Making impression of serious work, you mean?
most will definitely just switch to another platform
Yeah, most, just like Vista... (or with DOS to Win shift - the first two releases of the latter were also "pushed")
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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
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 13:17 UTC
"Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for 3rd place. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android smartphone vendors and Apple shipped a total of 199.5 million units worldwide during 1Q13, up 59.1% from the 125.4 million units shipped during 1Q12." Windows Phone doubles from a few to twice few, iOS loser market share as its growth is slower than that of the overall market. BlackBerry continues slide into irrelevance.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 12:06 UTC
"According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies service, global Android smartphone profits reached US$5 billion in total during the first quarter of 2013. Samsung dominated and captured an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits." Wow.More News »
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And how the f*ck am I supposed to be using my IRC, e-mail client, browser, music player, torrent downloader etc. when I can't even multi-task properly?
Microsoft and everyone else with their shitty pro-Metro stance can say what they want, but you just cannot answer a simple damned question.
No thanks. Power users who want to get real, serious work done will stick with Windows 7, and most will definitely just switch to another platform. Enough with this toy interface bullsh!t.