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Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
News In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago. The European Competition's decision on the Microsoft ruling was released on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, which obtained a leaked...
[April 22, 2004, 11:55]
Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
Talkback From a friendly MaC OS X user: Hey, guess what? Windows sucks. That's right: Like a Hoover vaccuum. Sucks like a wind tunnel. Windows is the suckiest suck that ever sucked a suck. When there's sucking to be done, Windows will be there.
[April 23, 2004, 5:03]
Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
Talkback Some of the API calls are also MUCH more clearly documented than others. Anyone who has tried to write "low level" code for Windows has probably observed some of these patterns in documentation (or lack thereof) that make it very difficult at times...
[April 22, 2004, 22:01]
Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
Talkback Just download it and read it when you have the time. That 301 page report is a very good read. Took me two evenings.
[April 25, 2004, 20:42]
Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
Talkback So while MS was touting the benefits of its OS, telling everyone how wonderful it is, etc.they were really selling a system that contained a product in it that literally "addicted" its buyers because changing was too cost prohibitive.
[April 23, 2004, 9:28]
Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
Talkback For those of you that follow the US ZDNet talkbacks, you will know John Carroll. He constantly argues that people used Windows first by choice and then after by choice. This article puts to rest that Windows' success is to due to winning over...
[April 23, 2004, 9:07]
Using Windows Is Like...
Blog Total time wasted on kicking the dead whale down the beach: 20 hours. A long time ago at a Usenix conference (I think it was the one in Salt Lake City), there was a "quiz" passed around. The correct answer is dead whale.
[November 9, 2009, 10:08]
War Games 2 gets a leading man...
Blog .And this time around it's not Matthew Broderick. The dubiously titled latest outing, War Games 2: The dead Code (surely dead duck? This time instead of computer trying to trigger thermonuclear war between the US and the Soviets, a rogue AI decides...
[November 9, 2006, 13:02]
BlackBerrys and PDAs harm work/life balance
News Steve Gediking, head of IT and facilities at the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said his latest PDA has given him an efficiency gain of about half an hour a day using otherwise dead time. Ric Francis, executive director of operations at...
[July 19, 2007, 7:44]
Slow Scan HoneyNet detection via time stamp enumeration
Talkback A couple of simple apparently brain dead script kiddy network scans will show up network addresses that appear to have the same time stamps. Put simply you can look at network time stamps and do a delta on them that effectivly shows changes in the...
[December 1, 2006, 19:45]
Antivirus firms fear Bagle's bite
News One of our biggest concern is that if we look back a year ago at the Sobig variants, they all had drop-dead dates, and every time one hit that drop dead date a new variant came out; a new and improved variant of it," said Zatz.
[January 19, 2004, 8:00]
Possibly the worst phone I have ever bought
Member Review It arrived and this time it was dead on arrival. The dead phone was taken away and no phone was delivered. They said that the dead phone had to be taken away and examined before a new phone could be sent.
[February 3, 2004, 10:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is not good: like everyone, I spend far too much time running along my Maginot Line of tottering defences, shoring up slightly shaky software against the rising tide of spyware, viruses and other filth out there on the Net.
[March 11, 2005, 17:10]
Researchers cut costs of quantum cryptography
News However, in practice, photon detectors have a short period of 'dead time' after recording each photon, theoretically making the information stream less random. Nist claims its method, outlined in the paper, avoids this issue by delaying photons so...
[June 3, 2008, 15:58]
Broken Windows Part 4
Blog I've learned to keep the Explorer window at less than full screen because once it goes dead, it takes the mouse and keyboard with it within the confines of the window. Something that seemingly happens at least every other day in Visaster, a window...
[April 1, 2009, 9:58]
When does Copyrighted Software cease to be Copyrighted?
Blog What prompted all of this thought (besides lots of dead time listening to wind howls from IKE) was that Microsoft evidently got a patent on up and down scrolling on a page. Kind of like the Dead Sea scrolls, what size chunk is significant and does...
[September 22, 2008, 8:50]
Bugs at Internet speed? Pt II
News Each time Shoch and Hupp restarted an Alto, it would freeze up. When the duo arrived the next morning, dozens of the Alto computers used in their experiments were dead. The embarrassing results were left for all to see: 100 dead machines scattered...
[November 6, 2000, 9:39]
iPhone heaven/iPhone hell
Blog Actually not just that - even before you get to that stage, the shiveringly dull task of getting your head around all the purposefully obtuse minutes, talk-time and other bunkum terminology employed by the mobile operators is enough to kill a bull...
[July 17, 2008, 19:00]
MacDopplerPro X
Downloads In fact up to thirty two front row seats at the same time. Time Deformation mouse control. Track List sorted in real-time order of next pass. Full predictive dead spot crossing so that a pass is never interrupted by the beam heading passing a dead...
[October 11, 2005, 8:00]
Free Google email service to launch 'in weeks'
Talkback Dare I tell of the two Witnesses Dead in the streets Or my val-a-dateable accounts like: “SOMEWHERE IN TIME” While I’m close to death, I’m not dead yet But if you took the time to read all my poems At the time I felt sure the world would finally see
[February 21, 2006, 19:50]
