"In this case, Richard Miller has been a member of this community for as
long as I can remember."
Thanks for mentioning this, Mark. Perhaps some were not aware of this.
I would NEVER create software that was not of high ethical standards. In
this case, my app can help save all the data on the users computer by
predicting a hard drive or software failure in advance. Kinda useful, I
think.
Richard Miller
On 3/29/14 1:03 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
On Mar 29, 2014, at 6:04 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
I don’t want to quibble, but the request in this e-mail would
seem to me to be highly dangerous, totally subversive,
and irrevocably suspicious.
Maybe somebody would like to graft into a developing
LiveCode program, an automatic spy mechanism.
I suggest that nobody answer to this e-mail, especially
those who could conceive of a way to do it.
Confused
All tools can be used for either evil or good. In this case, Richard Miller
has been a member of this community for as long as I can remember. The
knowledge he seeks is easily obtained from very simple google searches. I
happen to have a solution that might save him the time and effort of tooling
around to get it right. I understand the need for the tool he is making and
see no problems with helping him to get things working.
Richard’s tool is for a company network of computers under their control. If
this technology was to be used on computers outside the control of the company,
it is common to notify the user at least once that this is taking place via a
dialog, preference setting, and EULA.
What I find technologically interesting is that LiveCode has progressed to a
point that developers can now make tools in new markets to solve problems we
could not do previously. Canela has developed a technology we lovingly refer to
as minions for our office use. These light applications run silently in the
background providing our software the ability to process data in a distributed
fashion. This increases our productivity, which in turn increases the
productive of the users of our products and services. They can be installed on
every computer in our company wide network to do good. I foresee a time in the
near future where we will use them in the software we provide to our customers
to make our applications download updates and perform long calculations in the
background. These tasks today either interrupt our users and/or degrade their
experience. These silent applications work on separate threads of any modern
CPU and make our offering more attractive than our competitors.
You can see the value of the minions in one of the RunRev conference videos
from Atlanta circa 2012. Skip to about the middle of my presentation and see
what these little guys can do. Is Richard’s work any different?
Best regards,
Mark Talluto
canelasoftware.com
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