Comment Re:just use virtual machines (Score 5, Funny) 464
VM machines are not simple
Virtual machine machines might not be simple, but virtual machines can be.
VM machines are not simple
Virtual machine machines might not be simple, but virtual machines can be.
Of course, Microsoft has a solution to this in the form of Office 365. Instead of buying a retail copy tied to a single machine, you could instead subscribe to Office 365, which is tied to the user not the hardware, and can be used across 5 PCs or 4 Macs at any one time. But subscriptions aren’t for everyone, and eventually you end up paying more for the software.
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Wait, what?
EDIT: Never realised I could do this.
I agree. I've noticed that
I think that this was the worst one in recent memory, with "WAF" going unexplained.
This one was also particularly bad.
Is the DRM stuff still applicable to the LGPL?
It sounds like you have more experience than myself, but after reading the below article I was of the opinion that C++ in a kernel is not a good idea right now.
C++ for Kernel Mode Drivers: Pros and Cons
The advice seems somewhat relevant for platforms other than Windows.
I went to purchase Diablo III from Blizzard's online store, and after signing in to my Australian (or SEA or whatever region) battle.net account the price went from US$Price to AU$(Price+20).
I tried to play devils advocate on this one, and what I came up with is that bandwidth and rackspace in Australia are much more expensive than other parts of the world.
But I get the feeling Blizzard don't have battle.net servers in Australia, and since most of their content delivery comes through Bittorrent (and who cares if they "seed" it themselves from the US with cheap bandwidth or AU), so I don't know why it costs so much more.
I've been using Windows 8 as my primary desktop operating system for the past few weeks. You can pretty much avoid Metro after logging in, just hit WINKEY + D to take yourself to the desktop. From there it's pretty much Windows 7 with better multi-monitor support.
There's a handful of areas where it could be more polished, but you can't complain about them in the context (preview release).
You can't avoid seeing Metro entirely, but it's not something you have to work with. In Windows 7, if I have to launch something that's not pinned to my taskbar my workflow is WINKEY + Type the program name + ENTER. Windows 8 preserves this workflow. You'll be typing the program name into a Metro search bar, but at the end of the day the same program starts up on the Windows 8 desktop.
The application was originally written in 1993 and there's been various levels of pragmatism applied to new development and maintenance between then and now. There are "proper" ways of manipulating data in an RDBMS invariant manner, but the application was never designed for it.
As it stands we're looking to get rid of support for JET and use SQL Server. For our application SQL Server does everything we want it to, therefore interoperability with other database platforms isn't a high priority.
Perhaps when we've rewound our application to only support the one provider and get rid of all the JET crud (no pun intended) we'll more easily be able to add an abstraction layer.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.