|
Mindshare...
Microsoft Lost it! Especially on the phones.
The problem is that Billy Boy was only interested in the CRIPPLING LICENSING MONEY, not in the technology. Certainly not in the user (Ribbons? Windows 8? Original Windows Phones?)
They set out to find a way to sell OS licenses, not a way to make cool products, or change the world.
The surface, is pretty cool... But OMG, how many tries did it take? And I would prefer that I could use one as a traveling PC (The only reason I would buy one). So I am not the target audience (we have an iPad).
Having programmed to the WinCE (Properly written as Wince, which is what you do when you realize that your .Net Code wont run on it, because it is newer, or WinCE does not support the assemblies)... Ughh.
So, you don't have the developers. You don't get the apps. You can't get the users. You cannot grow, you stagnate, start dying, and look for other companies that are dying, and buy them. Find cool technology, and buy them. The one things M$FT has is $$$. That buys it time.
Personally, I think that if they don't change how they treat developers and projects, that they are going to be the IBM of this decade (and not in a good way).
They could do a comeback. But I truly hope to NOT develop a windows phone app! HTML5 and JavaScript 
|
|
|
|
|
I also don't like to see it doing poorly, for two reasons, one is that it is a fairly creative, different alternative, and the other is that I'm for more market variety rather than less.
My opinion is that most people have entirely missed the reasons for its failure so far to capture much market share. It isn't because they are "too late to the party," that means nothing. Apple was too late to the party when the iPhone showed up. Google was too late to the party, Altavista, Yahoo, Lycos and others already had that market covered. Innovation can and regularly does disrupt markets, and I think the belief that one has to be first to market is mistaken.
I think there are two primary reasons:
1) It is called "Windows Phone". That was a stupid decision. "Windows" doesn't have the same appeal as "Apple" as a brand. It says, "boring business product," or at best, "thing I use all the time but don't pay much attention to because it sits in the background." Why would you name a device after Microsoft Windows if you want it to have any appeal in the sort of market that the iPhone is in? Apple didn't call theirs the "OS X Phone", and the largest platform isn't called "Google Phone". They recognized the need for appealing branding that was independent to some degree from their main, existing products, even though their existing products have way more sex appeal, and way more likelihood to get press coverage depicting them attractively, than Microsoft Windows.
2) This one is more obvious, but for a reason that not everyone is aware of: lack of apps. I have a Windows phone, and I'm constantly unable to do things that I used to do all the time on my Android phone, or that my wife does on her iPhone. Everyone knows there is a certain hesitance on the part of developers to jump on board a platform when they don't know yet how many users will be there...and yet there is also a love among developers of being ahead of their competitors on the newest, latest, greatest platform, so there is a bit of counterbalance as well. What everyone doesn't realize is that Windows Phone 8 placed serious restrictions on what applications were even capable of doing, making WP versions of many Android / iOS apps completely impossible.
For example, I used to use KeePassDroid constantly. There is no Windows Phone equivalent. By which, I mean, there is no app I can install to open my KeePass databases without having to grant that application permissions that a password manager shouldn't have. How can I trust one of my most secure tasks-- password management-- to an app written by some random guy on the Internet? Only one way-- by knowing that that application has no ability to communicate my data to anyone. KeePassDroid asks for no network access, nothing except the right to read the files it needs to read. That's exactly right. On the Windows 8 platform, this is actually impossible, because there is no way for an app to access a file you copied onto your phone from your computer! It simply isn't allowed, except for music/media files. This means that I now have to trust app-written-by-random-internet-guy with not only Internet access privileges, but also with the right to access my Onedrive or Dropbox account as well.
It is not an uncommon issue to read reviews of applications in the WP store where people are complaining about features missing that exist on the same app in other platforms, and see responses from the developers giving the excuse that it is impossible to do that on WP.
If you hamstring your developers, then you won't get a good variety of apps, and if you don't have that, then you won't get the users. And if you don't have users, for a long enough period of time that you aren't new anymore, then you will attract even fewer developers.
I believe they've made some progress with WP 8.1, but that may be too little and too late.
I personally think the tiles thing is nice, the execution on the OS itself is not bad (except for copying the godawful "back button does everything" UI problem from Android), but the two issues above have really hindered the platform.
|
|
|
|
|
I totally agree about WP. 100%.
I want to like Win8, but it's like the Windows team looked at WP and asked, "How can we turn this into a bad idea?". It's got nothing to do with m&k vs touch etc. or one OS to rule them all. It's simple stuff like the horizontal scrolling on W8 being pixel perfect scrolling rather than pages like it is in a WP pivot/panorama. Little things like that, not to mention the crap in the app store and the limited/broken API's in WinRT.
I also tend to find a lot of things don't, "just work together" the way I way I expect (or at all), but it is certainly nice when they do.
Certainly as far as phone goes I don't get the hate or diminishing market share either. I love WP and everytime I try to use iOS I find it confusing and horrible (which must make me the dumbest person on the planet because apparently there has never been anything so "user friendly" and "intuitive" before).
|
|
|
|
|
So does anyone probably know a good scanner for plagiarism?
Problem is that my University is quite strict on that and i want to be sure not to get anything wrong. I do triplecheck if i have quoted all statements from websites and books but i fear i could read past something and forgett it.
Thank you
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
|
|
|
|
|
Post it up as an article.
We'll tell you if it's plagiarised PDQ! :EvilLaughSmiley:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Seems legit to post my "invention" as an article, 120 pages are possible to be posted? 
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
|
|
|
|
|
My dissertation: Part 1 of 120.
My dissertation: Part 2 of 120.
...
My dissertation: Part 120 of 120.
Some people seem to think that's the best way to do it... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
... then, of course, the university scanner will find the article and dump the dissertation as plagiarized. 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
|
|
|
|
|
Unfortunately there is none (actually you can Google for 'check article for plagiarism free' and get some sites, but...), I'm using Google for that...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Not sure whether there is any free software, but I've heard people using Vector space model[^] and other IR techniques for that purpose.
|
|
|
|
|
One I know is Copyscape[^]
I learnt that, some article/ blog/ eBook writers (!) uses it while outsourcing to ghost writers.
Thanks,
Milind
|
|
|
|
|
I could be way off base as I've never written a dissertation myself, however...
Don't you usually have an advisor for these things? Could you not simply ask what the university's process is for checking for plagiarism?
Honesty is the best policy (usually,) and it seems to me if you are upfront and honest about your concerns, they should be willing to help.
|
|
|
|
|
HobbyProggy wrote: I do triplecheck if i have quoted all statements from websites and books but i fear i could read past something and forgett it.
Reference as you. I find it strange (and I know several people that do this) where they quote something and then months later they have to go back and find the references. Particularly hard to do when you're quoting something found only on paper, so you can't even do a search. What a royal waste of time.
I quote something, I hit the footnote button and reference it immediately.
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
|
You're doing it wrong.[^]
Quote: Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please "research"
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
|
|
|
|
|
Reminds me of a quote from my grad school days...
"Stealing from one is called plagiarism.
Stealing from many is called research."
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
|
|
|
|
|
I don't understand. You're writing it, right? Then I'd think you would know whether anything was plagiarized without putting it through a scanner.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
|
|
|
|
|
The issue (as I understand it) is that since your brain is a fantastic sponge (but not always the best at recalling all the details,) the possibility exists that the OP could have recalled the exact wording of something read somewhere, but not exactly where it was read. Thus, you end up with details in your dissertation that match the wording of someone else's previous work closely enough to trigger a match in a plagiarism checker, even though the intention was not to plagiarize.
Running your work through various engines can help to reveal such slip-ups.
|
|
|
|
|
Why go through all this trouble when there's this[^]? 
/ravi
|
|
|
|
|
Use the one the University uses, for project submissions. They can't fault it, can they.
RA
|
|
|
|
|
|
Impressive!
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
|
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
