Posts by Sentient

Well I wish them luck

they're going to need it.

And what's the big deal with Cut n Paste? Never used it on my phone, never missed it.

If that's all that's lacking this OS will be the best ever, which I doubt it will be.

Pay for Ads?

No thank you.

Time is Money,

Maintenance costs time & money.

Maybe we should call the first nuclear tanker Deepwater Horizon.

device

"as the applications concerned were all developed using the Bada simulator"

What makes you say that? The apps just had to run on the simulator to be allowed entry. It doesn't mean they cannot use the device for testing if they have a device.

Question

How comes that he has to reverse engineer the behaviour if android is open source? Can't he just download the source and see what it does?

I fear I am missing something obvious here.

nice analysis

"If Microsoft doesn't make it easy and transparent to opt out of 'toast', that word might well describe the fate of its upcoming "ad-serving machine."

lol indeed

He has a point

It's brave decisions like this that make Apple what it is today and it's why Apple needs Jobs. Even though I doubt I will ever own a mac I can respect that.

More Rights than Wrongs

Expression Blend really helps us to create nice and beautiful UI's in what would otherwise have been boring functional UI's.

And it's more than that, because you can prototype UI's you can play with more ideas and come up with richer and better tuned UI's.

At this moment our programmers are programming and we have designers and analysts working on the UI. I hope that the days were programmers are spending months on trying something are gone.

BTW we're making windows only desktop clients.

It's not only marketing

It's also hard for most developers who are used to OO. Also it's not as if most developers are bored, doing nothing, waiting for a new language.

So what I guess will happen is that some devs play with it during free time write some .NET assemblies and incorporate those in bigger programs.

Programming languages should not be pushed by marketing, they need to be adopted by developers.

Being a developer...

Is easy these days. I like to think that both sides BIG Enterprise and lean and mean script kiddies learn from each other.

Hence the dynamic keyword in .NET 4. and the rise of ASP.NET MVC as an alternative of ASP.NET.

While I applaud standards they are notoriously slow in their inception and I fear there will always be room for cutting edge non standard implementations.

Apart from HTML 5 I am then thinking about the new C++ standard. Or about how DirectX always seems to be more feature complete than OpenGL these days.

As long as there is respect for your fellow developers and you can appreciate what they are doing you can really enjoy programming and learning.

Loved this article because it tapped so many sources.

Interesting

It makes a lot of sense. They can keep using PHP as a nice and easy programming language for the devs and compile it to C++ so that it can be compiled to machine code which executes faster, hence uses less power.

I don't see anything wrong with it.

What really worries me is

the CO2 output of pressing these comments votes buttons?

inches

Probably an inch to mm conversion failure. :)

5 pages of a 38 page document

When I read this article I thought. Ouch bad for silverlight then I looked up the what's new in silverlight 4 document.

In total there are 5 pages of a 38 page document are about 'trusted applications' that contain features that are handy for some applications. It doesn't make silverlight windows only.

Ooh well I guess an article about a better and improved Silverlight doesn't get you a lot of hits.

But then I expect more from the reg than from slashdot.

Google is the new Microsoft

Note: I use firefox and I like, before I used IE and liked it. I even used Chrome and liked it. Reason I now stick to firefox is firebug.

That having said. I am growing tired of Google pushing chrome through others throat. Ever visited youtube with firefox lately or google with IE? Download chrome everywhere. Everyone is entitled to some publicity but does it really need a yellow background?

I thought Google was a cool company.

Now I think Google is a big company as 'evil' as MS.

Having said that I think it's time for some new reg icons.

what Alacrity Fitzhugh said.

I also have 10+ years experience in C++, quite a bit harder than Java, and saw some pretty horrible code. Making a language harder doesn't prevent programmers to abuse it. Where did you get that notion? Ever heard of COM?

I played with PHP for a few months and saw as much clean code as ugly code.

It's just different. One's a scripting language the other's strongly typed language. You can create shite with both.

huh?

It's clear you don't have to pay for these phones

And even when taking price into account #3 has proprietary memory cards and no 3,5 earphones.

C++ on a VM?

"Adobe now wants to make that code accessible to Flash Player and AIR."

Let them tackle boost first and then I'll be interested.

naive

" DON'T BUY A HOUSE NEAR AN AIRPORT."

So naive. We bought a house near work, so we don't have to commute too far.

When we bought it there was no air traffic over our house but one year later there was due to an increased number of planes and a spreading the noise action plan of the government.

I think this reaction is more demonstrative of the problem.

" I don't think it's for the individual on the ground to 'shut up' and have their health damaged because increasing numbers of people want a long weekend in Valencia 12 times a year."

Love DRM

Well I must say I hated DRM at first, but when I look at all the money I saved not buying games because of it I am not so sure any more. It defends me against the hunter-gatherer in me.

Industry > Technology

"No! I strenuously object to the godawful concept that more people automatically means more pollution. Modernity and technology are the drivers. New York with eight million people in it is FAR cleaner (and with less crowded living conditions) than New York when it had one million people. "

Valid point but that's a long term effect. Short term effect is that if you buy a baby you pollute more. Pampers anyone.

Now don't get me wrong It would be godawful to not save lives or allow people to have kids I just think that it doesn't hurt to give more incentive to the industry to come up with cleaner technology. But best to sign out here before someone mentions the war in Iraq. ;)

I also value modernity and technology but I fear that it's the industry, or some rich capitalists that hold the strings.