Microsoft pulling free development tools for Windows 8 desktop apps, only lets you ride the Metro for free

linucs · 2012-05-25T09:07:46.433512+00:00

and it's against the license to port it even if a third party were to put in the effort, as Mono has done for .NET

The major development frameworks (e.g. Foundation Kit, Application Kit) were based off of open standards, i.e. OpenStep. GNUstep is a free implementation of OpenStep that attempts to implement these same frameworks as open source and to some extent it hasn't done too badly. The Interface Builder equivalent (I think it's called Gorm) can even read and write nib files compatible with Interface Builder.

GNUstep often comes up in discussion on Apple's Cocoa or Objective-C mailing lists too.

dmac5dmark2 · 1 day

Such an awesome shot. I take it that these drivers are searching for seafood? Or are they searching for pearls perhaps...

Munter · 2 days

It's a piece of shit anyway. When I was living in Sydney I went on it. I felt so ripped off. They could have made it so much better if it went from Central Station to Circular Quay, then to Darling Harbour, then to Broadway, but no, it goes in a shitty loop and costs twice more than the bus and/or train that also goes to the same places. The perspex windows are full of stress fractures too so you can forget about the view. And in Sydney, where a couple of summers ago it reached 40 degrees, the last thing you want to do is get in a monorail cabin filled with steamy body odour with no openable windows or air conditioning.

stupidmelon13 · 2 days

Actually it looks like it got into gear OK, but just had no traction and ended up doing a burnout.

itsanameforagirl · 3 days

If you read about it here the language was in fact called SEQUEL to begin with, but they had to change it because a company already had a trademark on SEQUEL. The official pronunciation of SQL is "S. Q. L." but likely only because of the trademark.

itsanameforagirl · 3 days

Many pronounce it "sequel" because it was called SEQUEL (Structured English QUEry Language), the only reason it changed to SQL was because an aircraft company had a trademark on SEQUEL. There's more on it here.

itsanameforagirl · 3 days

The Angelatron! Angela can just run the bone fragments through the filtering algorithm in the Angelatron and adjust the parameters to extrapolate a facial reconstruction. I can't believe this technology exists. Think of the criminals that we can now put behind bars because of this!

Just, as long as there isn't someone smart enough to encode a virus on the bone fragment or else it could cause the Angelatron to stop cooling itself and it may catch fire from overheating.

itsanameforagirl · 3 days

The phrase is mostly nonsense for a number of reasons:

The redundancy of saying GUI interface (it's like saying "ATM machine" etc).
Using Visual Basic to develop a GUI interface isn't abnormal, VB makes it easy to create user interfaces, but it is completely the wrong tool for low-level network inspection (whatever "tracking an IP address" means).
There's really no need to exclaim the fact that you're making a GUI interface. It's irrelevant mostly, because nobody really needs to know that the tool will have a GUI interface. I can't think of a way to describe why it's pointless, but maybe imagine a policeman running to get to his squad car saying "I'll chase after him in this car using the steering wheel to steer!"
"Track his IP address" is not a totally dumb thing to say. For example, all smart phones will have an IP address since you need one to browse the web. It would have made more sense to say "track his location using his IP address". This would require a number of things for it to work however, mostly that the phone would either need to be broadcasting its GPS coordinates [unlikely], or the CSI team would need to have access to the cell tower network to see which cell towers his phone is currently connected to (much less precise but still doable). It doesn't make much sense in the context of the TV show though.

itsanameforagirl · 3 days

That's how it's pronounced...

itsanameforagirl · 3 days

I heard it turned out to be an inside joke amongst the technical writers/advisers to make the most ridiculous comment on a TV show while still sounding somewhat legitimate to anyone not in the know. There was one on NCIS as well that was equally ridiculous, but I can't remember it...

HumbleBeast · 4 days

True!

HumbleBeast · 4 days

It's only a 7% saving, which is better than nothing, but not really that appealing.

maxwellhill · 4 days

The real reason that warnings haven't been handed out is that it is incredibly cumbersome for a copyright holder to do so. The Americans who wrote the bill had a clause that allowed ISPs to charge a fee to cover the costs of relaying the notice to the customer. The same group are trying to get the act amended so that a company may be able to act on behalf of the copyright holder. If that happens, then you could expect notices to be handed out more often.

maxwellhill · 4 days

It's 3 strikes from the same copyright holder though, after which you have to attend a hearing at the Copyright Tribunal where the maximum enforced penalty is $10,000.

HumbleBeast · 4 days

I'm like that at the Supermarket... Countdown is the worst, sometimes they'll have dairy products nearing expiration dates and it'll have the yellow "clearance" sticker on it. I get all excited about saving money but find out it's only reduced by 17c.

cleej9 · 8 days

Every time I try to write kernel I end up writing kernal and having to backtrack and correct it. Every time. Yes, I did it this time as well.

cleej9 · 8 days

Some IDEs are aware of the variables that you've declared though (for example, IntelliSense and others), which could be implicitly added to the spellchecker dictionary.

sam34gtr · 8 days

Wait, it's a coffee shop, but where's the coffee table book on coffee tables? There needs to be a coffee table book on coffee tables.

TheMostDangerousGame · 8 days

It's called Lynx in Australia and New Zealand...

teddypicker505 · 9 days

That's true for areas where grain-fed beef is more popular, but in New Zealand, the vast majority of beef is grass-fed, and while there are occasional supplements to the cow's diet, it is predominantly grass.

teddypicker505 · 9 days

75-100 litres would be accurate for a large-breed lactating dairy cow, but a calf bred for beef would drink nowhere near that much. See my comment here.

teddypicker505 · 9 days

2L per day is nowhere near enough water for a calf or cow (source: I've worked on several dairy farms in New Zealand). Just some simple googling revealed this:

Calves drink 25L per day
Calves bred for beef require between 14L and 25L depending on breed [PDF]
1. ADD = "average daily demand"
2. PDD = "peak daily demand" (cows can drink their entire days worth of water within one hour, and it is usually assumed that about one fifth to one quarter of stock will drink their daily water at one time).

KAPT_Kipper · 9 days

D'oh, of course! Although, the syntax still isn't backwards, the arguments are. Either way, it's coffee time...

KAPT_Kipper · 9 days

The syntax isn't backwards, it's simply missing the closing parenthesis, and the URL "detector" has determined that ](Interior is part of the URL.

user_without_a_soul · 10 days

From the Oxford Dictionaries Online:

The alternative spellings blonde and blond correspond to the feminine and masculine forms in French, but in English the distinction is not always made, as English does not have such distinctions of grammatical gender. Thus, blond woman or blonde woman, blond man or blonde man are all used. The word is more commonly used of women, though, and in the noun the spelling is typically blonde. In American usage the usual spelling is blond for both adjective and noun.

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