Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Just When You Thought You Understood The Word "Off"
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 AM
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/08/01/446240.aspx
"[The Pocket PC] can be on, it might be able to be off, and it can be somewhere in between. A purist will call that in between state "suspended" but I like to anthropomorphize my devices, and "sleep" is more catchy. When the device is asleep, the screen is off, and programs aren't running. In fact, by and large, programs don't even know that the system went to sleep. We never tell them, and we expect them to act as though it never happened. While the PocketPC [sic] was asleep, they just didn't run."
Note that he hasn't gotten to "Unattended" which is when it is on, but sleeping while doing something, like checking email with the screen off. 8O It is really not that complex once you think about it, and even less so when you learn you don't have to think about it. But it is interesting.
"[The Pocket PC] can be on, it might be able to be off, and it can be somewhere in between. A purist will call that in between state "suspended" but I like to anthropomorphize my devices, and "sleep" is more catchy. When the device is asleep, the screen is off, and programs aren't running. In fact, by and large, programs don't even know that the system went to sleep. We never tell them, and we expect them to act as though it never happened. While the PocketPC [sic] was asleep, they just didn't run."
Note that he hasn't gotten to "Unattended" which is when it is on, but sleeping while doing something, like checking email with the screen off. 8O It is really not that complex once you think about it, and even less so when you learn you don't have to think about it. But it is interesting.
