BUILD 2011. The PDC replacement and some editorialising.
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I'm going to start a business, producing ScreenClear, my own invention, which is a combination of Tabasco sauce, caustic soda, and four strains of ebola. You spread it on your monitor, to ensure that cretins who touch the screen will never do so again. Anyone feel like investing?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chris Maunder wrote:
The beige box under the desk has to go.
No problem - mine is a black box under the side table. SEriously, I have looked at various all in one options and they simply don't do what I want.
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP
Trollslayer wrote:
have looked at various all in one options and they simply don't do what I want.
yet.
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Dan Neely wrote:
Do you have a glossy prospectus?
Look, it's just receding, OK?!? And it's not my fault; it's the testosterone!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dan Neely wrote:
Do you have a glossy prospectus?
Look, it's just receding, OK?!? And it's not my fault; it's the testosterone!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Real men shine.
Software Zen:
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Why do we need a box at all? The iMac and the HP Touchsmart are great examples where we already have something on the desk, so why not whack in some memory and a DVD drive and call it done?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
"Why do we need a box at all?" Because most of the non-iDevice people want to have choice in hardware.
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I see by the dumbed down UI they won't be BUILDing a roadmap with WPF and Silverlight in it.
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
WPF is the .NET way to build windows desktop applications. Silverlight is the language of WP7 and an important web application technology. It's not going anywhere and it certainly won't stagnate. There just are other priorities at the moment. And Silverlight 5 is just around the corner. Both are gonna remain very relevant and very important in the windows ecosystem. I wonder why everybody is making such a big deal about windows 8 (in the negative way - that is). I'm insanely excited about this. Imagine a new generation device in the form factor of Samsung Sliding 7 PC with windows 8 installed. If that ain't sexy, then I don't know what is.
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"Why do we need a box at all?" Because most of the non-iDevice people want to have choice in hardware.
I don't understand your argument. How will moving towards better looking devices with smaller footprints mean manufacturers reduce your choice in hardware? I'm not saying we need to ban water cooled towers with 5 graphics cards and 2 floppy drives - I just think it's time the hardware industry grew up a little.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I see by the dumbed down UI they won't be BUILDing a roadmap with WPF and Silverlight in it.
Software Kinetics - The home of good software
The way Microsoft is handling its "old" and still good technology sounds like a company on the verge of bankruptcy/insolvency. I worked for a small company that was floundering and could not pay its bills. It looked like a swimmer in an ocean grabbing for the best lifeline it could find. (The one that would get it back on track.) For Microsoft, the "best" lifeline is the one that sounds like the most popular technology. WPF and Silverlight are pretty much for Microsoft (developers) only whereas HTML 5 is for use by the broader industry. Maybe, if Microsoft were to make WPF and Silverlight available to the general public, even to open source it, it may become the industry standard. But, then, Microsoft would need to make C#, VB, and .NET available to the general public. Maybe, even open source the languages and libraries.
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I don't understand your argument. How will moving towards better looking devices with smaller footprints mean manufacturers reduce your choice in hardware? I'm not saying we need to ban water cooled towers with 5 graphics cards and 2 floppy drives - I just think it's time the hardware industry grew up a little.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Sorry for being late to reply, it seems your post got burried in my mailbox and I lost track of it. Anyhow, I guess I (half) misunderstood what you said. I thought you said that you would prefere HW manufacturers to put out a "full box" a la iMac which is kind of "sealed".. Where you as a user aren't "allowed" to crack it open and do as you please. I'ld have no problem with manufactures offering such things ALONGSIDE their current offers, off course. But as for me (and just about every company I ever worked with), I actually enjoy and see great value in ordering hardware parts, a case and a monitor to build my own pc which matches my needs for 100%, without a crapola of software and hw features that I'll never use. Also, I would never buy a computer that's "just a box" with screen and everything. HW manufactures releasing butt-ugly cases and monitors ... that's off course another story.
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Sorry for being late to reply, it seems your post got burried in my mailbox and I lost track of it. Anyhow, I guess I (half) misunderstood what you said. I thought you said that you would prefere HW manufacturers to put out a "full box" a la iMac which is kind of "sealed".. Where you as a user aren't "allowed" to crack it open and do as you please. I'ld have no problem with manufactures offering such things ALONGSIDE their current offers, off course. But as for me (and just about every company I ever worked with), I actually enjoy and see great value in ordering hardware parts, a case and a monitor to build my own pc which matches my needs for 100%, without a crapola of software and hw features that I'll never use. Also, I would never buy a computer that's "just a box" with screen and everything. HW manufactures releasing butt-ugly cases and monitors ... that's off course another story.
BubingaMan wrote:
Where you as a user aren't "allowed" to crack it open
No - that's just annoying. However, I would very much like to see far tighter standards on 3rd party hardware. I'm getting tired of buying cards that claim to work with Win7 and finding they don't. Apple's move to make it impossible upgrade things like the HDD in their new iMacs is hugely offensive.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP