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I work at Pelco. The opinions expressed here are my own, and neither Pelco nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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Have Mac will Blog [via James Robertson]: "For all OS X’s excellence, it should be remembered that OS X is a good deal younger than Vista, with the Mach microkernel sitting under BSD and a coherent interface layer sitting above it. Windows has archaelogical layers of software buried under the covers, because Microsoft chose to provide a great deal of backward compatibility." - That statement is only partially correct. NT began life in 1989, Mach in 1985. The NT Kernel is newer. As to the backward compatibility layers on top of an otherwise excellent kernel, well, he's right there.
If Microsoft were to create a new OS they should start with the NT Kernel and go from there. Microsoft could survive creation of a new OS, just as Apple did, and they can be heroes on the other side. Keep the Win32 API's in the OS as a compatibility layer, just as Apple has Carbon, and introduce the "new" way to do things, slowly turning developers to it, with a conversion deadline of a number of years, say ten. If you remember back to the initial release of NT it included two shells, Windows and the OS/2 shell. Yes, you could put a new UI on top of NT. I used to know the complete details, but my old brain is failing me at the moment.
In a nutshell Microsoft could strap the .NET runtime up on top of the NT Kernel, as the new API, just as Apple did with Cocoa, and move toward a much easier development model. Of course that's a big oversimplification of the real work, but they could do it.
There's no doubt Windows is carrying around old baggage, but the OS as a whole is not a complete loss as folks would lead you to believe.
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Yes, our lovely XBox-360 has started acting up, we got the dreaded Red Ring of Death. Last night Kim was off killing folks in Call of Duty and the box would hang about every five to ten minutes, requiring a reboot, which makes for terrible game play. It's kind of frustrating it happened over the summer, when the kids and Kim are out of school, it's prime gaming time!
Oh well, the repair center was very polite. We're going to ship off the box as soon as possible so we should get it back just in time for a week of play before school starts again.
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Good morning movie liners, are you ready to get the day started?
Here goes, good luck!
Labels: MLOTW
ESPN: "As a result, the SuperSonics are headed to Oklahoma City with Bennett leading the way, leaving behind the team name, colors and 41 years of history." - Bennett had zero intention of keeping the team in Seattle, he just went through the motions. It's a sad, sad, day in Seattle.
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Fortune: "Starbucks (SBUX) can’t catch a break. The coffee retailer says it will close 600 stores, about 8.5% of its 7,100 total stores, an expansion of the 100-store closing target it had previously announced." - Ouch! I wonder if my daughter's Starbucks is in danger of closing?
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Sara Ford: "To create an alias, open up the Command Window (or anywhere you can type in VS commands) and type in something along the lines of..." - I've always wondered how to use the Command Window, but I've never taken the time to look into it, much less use it. I love the the alias "?", shades of Classic Visual Basic.
Labels: Development, Microsoft, Visual Studio
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Wired: "Tony Markel drives a plug-in hybrid that runs 50 miles per charge, goes 100 miles per gallon and gets power from the sun. If he has his way, you'll drive one too before long." - This would work quite well for me, we have abundant sunshine 'round these parts to power the little bugger.
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Visio Guy: "Ok, ok, this is all just a thinly-veiled excuse to play with the new Themes feature, see what it takes to create a custom theme with Visio 2007, and share some of that info with all y'all." - Chris explores a new Visio 2007 feature in his own special way. If you're a Visio user, developer, or remember the old vector game, Battlezone, you'll enjoy it.
Labels: Development, Visio
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Good afternoon.
No takers for the second week in a row, major bummer.
The correct answer was...
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jobs.joelonsoftware.com: "The explosive growth of Pelco and the Imaging Systems division in particular has led to needs for a software developer who is passionate about solving complex problems, in particular the design and development of embedded Linux kernel and driver software for high performance DSPs. We need great developers to join our world-class team!" - We're hiring, come on in, the water's fine.
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New York Times: "If you’re looking for a tech job in the United States, the best place to go is not Silicon Valley. It’s New York." - We just lost a very valuable member of one of our teams to a company in New York, so there seems to be some validity to that statement.
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Apple Gazette: "The phone will retail for $250. You then get a $50 mail-in-rebate…which will bring the cost down to $200 when you eventually get your rebate check in the mail." - The only chance this phone has to compete against the iPhone, it's one and only chance, is it's offered by Verizon. If you don't want to switch networks you have a phone that is a distant second to the iPhone's design. We're going to see tons of clones now, but that's what happens when you're the best of breed.
Good luck with that LG.
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