So with more than one article like this[^] what would you do if Microsoft does, indeed, go belly up in the next few years because of the Windows 8 debacle?

Darn and here I thought you'd discuss smart phones. :)

Nexus 10 -- Google took the Samsung and had their design team apply changes to it. Beautiful piece of work that you can get a lot of mileage out of.

...and then what? Have a REAL Surface that still doesn't cut it?

There is actually a way of building a pool using pool liners instead of concrete. Problem a) if your pool needs draining in the summer -- forget it. You'll lose your liner b) use the wrong cleaner and it will suck up your liner. :doh: c) still need the same chemicals and just as much to keep clean

A good man! RIP :rose:

Yes. That is it.

...has anyone seen Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead? www.jointhereboot.com[^]

Thanks alot. Now my secret is out and soon I'll not be able to get anymore. And I almost got fired because of giggling at the reviews but no manager has the guts to come close to me.

a bunch of crap so that when most of us deactivate the metro interface and go to the desktop....we have a DEFINITELY dated and cheesy interface left to work with.

Honeypot files came out of the old days when a) a box was known to be compromised b) the box contained sensitive data (government) c) the logs showed the user had particular interest in certain types of files The files planted would be fakes aimed at providing a spy with false information that would potentially reveal spies within the country. Your concept won't catch anyone at all. If a true hacker saw your box unlocked and wanted to find these 'honeypot' files they'd open a command prompt and use dir /s to locate the files of interest then copy them to a usb disk. How does your scheme cover that?

I have a database design for logging errors including program name, method name, all parameters passed to the method, and all parameters passed in a database call. We are using CommonLogging for some of our log calls that will bind to log4net for the log functions. I have read tutorials and documentation indicating I can pass individual fields that are custom to the program. But they are all for a flat logging record, not deep for posting parameters. What I'd like to do is configure log4net to call a custom logger passing my parameters to it, and doing the database writes. Does anyone know if this is possible with the log4net configuration or not?

Well, that "tripe" was written by Dr. Dijkstra who is considered to be the father of programming languages and much of the framework of what we call computer science today. If you actually read the beginning it was also written in 1968, on a typewriter. You ever seen one, child? There is no spell checker on an IBM Selectric. I also have seen developers today utilize GOTO: in C# which makes me shudder!

Agreed about the examples though I finally found out how they are created and feel more for the creators and the process than the examples. Anyone that works in Microsoft Consulting is expected to "remain up to date on most current technology". Of course, the only way to demonstrate that is to write samples of the code. So they are required to be the ones to create the examples, usually at night, after 8-10 hours of coding for a client, when they should be spending time with their families.

However, once promoted to a manager they then make decisions on how all programmers should write their code. And they use their own code as a perfect example. Had one manager who refused to let any developer rewrite the systems that the manager had written!!!

We had an Indian company taking our code and converting it. In our initial discussions I stated two architectural requirements and they later stated I never said them!!! Then they said that they wanted more money due to meeting my specs. So when we had our next big meeting I gave them the requirement of 300 txn per second and would not let the Indian move away from the subject until he wrote it down on the board as a requirement. (he tried to pass over it stating that it was "standard" or some kind of bull cookie)

...and they probably got the coding idea by posting a question on Code Project asking 'can someone give me code to....'

..or a play and plug....

Are these the most popular or just the most expensive? $250 for a 'tasting menu' and you have to wait 3 1/2 hours to get your food. :doh:

But then he'd outsource our entire government to Bangladesh.