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Visual Basic is very much like COBOL. Whether you like it or not, it exists in the business world and will continue to exist for quite some time to come. Business is concerned about making money, not replacing something that already exists.
I have occasion to work on reports remotely: SQLServer 2000, Business Objects 6.5 (installed in September 2005). Why hasn't it been upgraded? Because it works... and there is an established report and user base that uses it.
When will it be replaced? When it breaks to the point it can't be recovered, but, until then... it serves the business.
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Fixing Windows 8's most glaring flaws is nice, but the new Windows doesn't address the fundamental PC dilemma. I didn't know it was in need of saving
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Yeah it's gonna die with us.
It was a good run - nearly all my adult life.
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While I agree with some points of the article, I think this guy draws too bad of a picture of Windows, and a too good one of Apple. A key aspect he doesn't seem to understand is that the PC market is simply saturated, it likely won't see growth rates like back in the 90s ever again but at the same time, it won't become irrelevant any time soon - and that's not primarily the fault of Windows. The mobile market, on the other hand, is not yet saturated because it is artificially kept in steady growth because of rapid hard- and software changes and aggressive marketing (you always need the latest and shiniest) combined with a lack of compatibility to older versions (planned obsolescence). Plus, a PC is overkill for a lot of people (consumers) who just want to check their mail, browse the web and use communication platforms like Skype, no wonder they go for a tablet device instead.
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Quote: Getting rid of IE is a good move, but I don't see why it should be for a Windows-only browser like Spartan. In this day and age, it makes more sense to replace IE with Chrome, Firefox, or even Safari.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: the new Project Spartan browser that finally conforms to standard HTML, as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari have long done.
Where does this guy get his information? From the Apple store rep?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Microsoft has revealed that macro-malware attacks are on the rise, with at least 500,000 machines around the globe currently affected. If only those responsible could do something!
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With the rise of devops for automating application development and deployment to the cloud, both users and developers could benefit. "Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me."
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Microsoft will most likely announce this week that it will enable customers to run Android apps on their Windows 10 phones, tablets and PCs. "Time to wave the white flag and head for the bunker, boys."
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Administrative Law Judge Theodore Essex of the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled on Monday that Nokia and Microsoft Mobile products infringed two patents held by R&D company InterDigital. Essex's decision is preliminary and will be reviewed by the full commission, which is expected to announce its final ruling on Aug. 28. The final ruling could lead to a ban on importing the phones into the U.S.
Whomp whomp whomp
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Quote: InterDigital develops technologies that are incorporated into standards and employs about 200 engineers, Van de Wille said. It has been involved in patent disputes with several large mobile vendors
I want to know how many lawyers InterDigital employs...
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Did the judge send out his ruling from his iPhone?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The same ol' bugs, vulnerabilities and hacks keep cropping up. Can an automated approach or a new perspective finally do what developers can't?
In theaters this summer, "SQL Injection 10: Full Throttle."
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In theaters this summer, "SQL Injection 10: Full Throttle."
LOL 
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If people actually gave an elephant about security, Windows would be dead, Linux never would've gone beyond one kids toy project, some guy named Theo would wear the god developers halo, and OpenBSD would rule the world. Meanwhile in the real world, it isn't, it did, it will never happen, the populizer of the fondle slab's ghost is anointed, and we'll be pwnd from now to eternity.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mashape, the increasingly popular management platform and marketplace for APIs, today open-sourced one of the core technologies that power its service. The platform, called Kong, allows Mashape to power the API requests of the more than 140,000 developers
So if Kong is the API platform, what's supposed to be the Empire State Building?
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Synfig Studio 1.0 is released now! Anyone come with animated ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)
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That's really cool!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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When you’re sitting down to design a business process, it can sometimes be challenging to find a way to cut across the company’s organizational structure. Or just reorg once a year: it "works" for Microsoft
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C++ is currently in version 14, which was released last year, but last week C++ Daddy Bjarne Stroustrup published the presentation below outlining what he thinks needs to be done to create version 17. "The world looks just the same. And history ain't changed"
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slide 4:
"What I do not want to try to do"
- Have C++ compete with every other language by adding as many as possible of their features
- Increase the complexity of C++ use for the 99% for the benefit of the 1% (us and our best friends)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Have C++ compete with every other language
That's short sighted.
Dan Neely wrote: Increase the complexity of C++ use
He means by adding features that only benefit 1% of C++ users at the cost of more complexity and less usability for the other 99% of C++ users.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Dan Neely wrote: Have C++ compete with every other language
That's short sighted.
Which is why I can't understand why they've been doing it.
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Dan Neely wrote: Increase the complexity of C++ use
He means by adding features that only benefit 1% of C++ users at the cost of more complexity and less usability for the other 99% of C++ users.
Which is what they're getting by jamming not just one but dozens of kitchen sinks into a language that's already far too huge for mere mortals to comprehend more than a tiny sliver of it. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Points taken.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Rust’s quest for world domination was never destined to happen overnight, so Rust needs to be able to interoperate with the existing world just as easily as it talks to itself. I think I've heard this one before
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