Why bother. End user does QA anyway.

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I don't have time to compile fricking source codes! I have better things to do, like actually use the software. Besides, Microsoft already compiled it for me.

It would be great to be able to link vote to the voter! I could finally make sure that my family members voted correctly and take appropriate measures if they didn't ;)

I don't get it. Why should I write platform independent software? If I'm writing stuff at home I write it for myself. I have only Windows boxes at home so why should I bother making software portable? And when I'm writing stuff at work it's the customer that defines the requirements. In my 10+ year career I've never seen a requirement that the software must be (easily) portable to another platform. So why should I bother when customer doesn't pay for portability?

I've been a consultant too. The job didn't much differ from my current job which is writing code for customer projects at our own office. I did (and do) my job and was rather proud of it.

But what was bugging in consulting bisnes was that many times the customer wasn't up for the task. They thought that I come in and magically fix everything without even a single sheet of specifications about the system. It just doesn't work that way. I had to spend days without doing nothing when I was waiting for Someone in Somewhere to produce the specs for me. At one place I spent whole months sitting idle because customer didn't give me any tasks! They just liked me hanging around in case of something bad happens.

So one should not always blame the consultant for every bad thing in a world :)

I have problems with my HTC Wildfire. Sometimes it's really slow. Even vibration alert from incoming SMS comes slow. Sometimes it just refuses to open up apps. Worst of all it loses or misplaces incoming SMS (SMS send by person A appears under conversation with person B).

I don't know if HTC's problems are related to Motorola or not but I'm starting to think that there's something wrong with the Android itself. Hopefully not.

I think you are right about first trilogy's characters and plot. But what you criticized was special effect. You have to remember it was Lucas who started the whole special effects industry with original Star Wars trilogy. He wanted cool space battles and was determined to get them. So I would say special effects has always been at least one factor amongst the others (plot, characters) in Star Wars.

In second trilogy I agree with you completely. All effects, poor characters, mediocre plot. Nothing major like "Luke, I'm your father" twists in the plot. Only thing I liked was the light saber duels, especially in the Phantom Menace.

Hi. I would be very interested if you had any more informative source about Resume. This is kind of functionality I've thought about for some time and I'd be very happy to read how Apple does it "under the hood". Unfortunately the link you provided contained mainly market speech with no technical details.

It's rather easy to serialize program onto the disk (or whatever). All you need to have is well defined interface with Serialize(some stream) and Deserialize(some stream) kinds of methods. Application does all the heavy work, environment just provides the stream. In fact, Symbian had such functionality over ten years ago. But if the Operating System goes and probes process's memory and stores it, without any assistance from the application itself, and later writes it back to the process's memory when the application is started, then it's a totally different thing. Unfortunately it could be a security problem also.

Microsoft isn't the one responsible for that. Symantec and McAfee both spend a lot of money paying computer manufacturers to pre-load trial versions their software.

It also lowers the price of the computer. That's why computers with Windows can be cheaper than computers with Linux. It could be win-win-win-win (MS, manufacturer, AV-vendor, user) situation if only those Symantec and McAfee products would actually work and work good.

Did they have to shut down any factories during that time?

I'd like to add the following. It (and all the other anti-spyware tools) is an add-on because OS doesn't know what executable is malware and what is not. OS happily executes programs user decides to run. This goes for every OS out there. And this is why we are reading this particular piece of news.

Hmm. Didn't Sweden try this? IIRC they stopped building new plants and there was some talks about dismissing nuclear power altogether. Now they are running their out-of-date plants on overtime because they don't have anything else to satisfy the energy needs. Wikipedia has something about this.

Oh, sorry. Yes. Alt+d.

You might want to try CTRL+d also. Much easier and faster than F6.

Took about 15 seconds to google about this and came up with this link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc747388(WS.10).aspx

Or you can use some centralized Event Log monitoring tool. Or even write your own as I did.

And of course if you absolutely want to use CLI you can write PowerShell script and use WMI to read Event Log, run it through some filters and send it by email. Schedule a task to run your script every now and then. But I think that's really hard and time consuming way to do it.