Yeah IE8 does single level of that with colors, which IMO is enough, and I loved the hell out of it (as im a compulsive middle-clicker when tracking information down, and I just want to kill everything in that browsing "tree").
If Opera (my usual browser) supported that, then I would be a happy man.
...could also make them liable for sites that are blacklisted for ads. Additionally, some people won't/don't want this...
Why don't you just come straight out and say that Google, who is responsible for the lions share of online advertising, funds basically all of Firefox's development?
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger with a gun, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger with a gun, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with guns.
Fixed that asshattery.
The gun is the only personal weapon that escalates a simple mugging / rape / beating into a killing.
Your gun loving country also has the highest homicide rates by a massive margin. Thats because everyone is walking around with a gun thinking they are a cowboy.
Over here only the criminals have guns. They tend to use them on other criminals. They don't need to use them on the law abiding citizens because they never have to worry about some gun nut with a concealed carry license when they rob a bank.
Actually its stupid to argue. Your country is the one with huge amounts of guns and bullet filled corpses per capita - and you think it makes you safe? Violent bloody rednecks, the lot of ya.
I liked Steam until I bought GTA4. I had hoped that by getting on Steam that there would be the nice happy Steam DRM experience (ie: it just works) rather than the assrape.
I had to sign up and sign in to both Games For Windows Live, and Rockstar Social Club. I had to link these profiles together (or the game would crash on startup with an MMA10 error). I had to install SecureROM and activate my copy. As there is apparantly unlimited activations, I'm not sure who is actually benefiting from this additional DRM.
Then theres a whole bunch of performance issues and crashes, which presumably will be patched. Still, its a fucking dodgy console port, and I suggest that anyone who isn't really really interested in the multiplayer to pirate the damn thing.
I wasted twice the value of the game in my time trying to get the goddamn thing to work.
Are you hearing this Rockstar? If I'd waited for the Skulluptra rip, I wouldve had one-fucking-click install, and none of your bullshit. I paid you to get fucked right up the arse. Good luck getting another sale out of me - you are going to have to put some damn good multiplayer in everything you sell now - or you can fuck right off.
Its no more of an effective killswitch than a key ban for some other system. If they flick the switch you go download on of the many steam emulators or game specific cracks - and keep running the single player component of your games. (With the same pissed off look on your face as if say EA blocked your Battlefield 2 key).
Please report to the address emailed to you. Your first assignment will be testing the "Intruder". The lady* who will be "piloting" the "Intruder" would like you to specificly report on the marketing claims, namely "Give it Back to Him", and "Dilates like a can of beans".
The thing that struck me most about Farcry 2, being set in Africa, was the lack of black dudes. To be frank I found it hilarious that someone had decided that they needed an even mix of races to avoid the game "being about shooting black guys".
I mean seriously, is everyone really that jacked up about all these perceived slights on their race?
And I agree with you. I suspect it cuts both ways enough to even out. To be completely frank I suggest theres a lot more users that are comfortable with an OS install and get the cheap option and pirate windows, than there is users who install *nix.
I'm basing this on all of my friends, who all build their own computers and all have pirated copies of XP:P
Well if the world was going to give me one (1) free software company, I would pick MS. I would also then immediately fuck off to a holiday destination and allow Ballmer & co to keep making me shitloads of cash while I banged hookers and drank cocktails.
The view is obviously allowed to understand what is being viewed. So the view can provide "friendly" services, like providing popup calendars on edit boxes, or even simple "pre-validation" on input fields. Hell, if you like the view can grab the correct service interface and lookup the damn 3D model of the widget being edited.
The controller should not rely on the view to perform any validation. As long as the controller controls the view only via its interface and action events come back out, and, importantly the view does not fuck with the model directly, then it doesnt matter what it does.
Basically when you implement IWidgetEditingView in the most naive way, you should not be able to break the controller/model. (And thus be able to unit test the controller easily, confidently swap view implementations because stupid-client-b wants dicks on his screen, etc).
A API could also be implemented more efficiently than it's predecessor, granting better performance.
Unlikely. You are putting a nice object model on top of some rather horrible data streaming and parellel processing tasks.
The nicer you make the object model, the worse it will match up with the hardware model, and the slower it will perform. This is called a mapping impedance - and is a common bitch with ORM tools. So sorry, no, forcing pixel/vertex/geometry shaders into a nice HLSL interface is never going to make it faster, and people with _commercial_ development experience are going to understand the reasons for making a more rational API with a performance hit. If you want your complex game then you are either going to have it fast and buggy with a shit API, or a little slower and less buggy with a decent one. Same reason people go for managed platforms like Java or.Net.
As a developer working in industrial visualisation (SCADA HMI tools - flat shaded polygons and not many of them), this directly impacts me. I'm even working in managed code, which is slower again. Nobody gives two tosses, because frankly a month of hardware progress is enough to make up any difference in API performance (and I'm hitting hundreds of FPS anyway).
I also really cannot be fucked responding to the usual loud butthurt whining about Vistas performance / UI / whatever the fuck. It works fine, can look like XP, on non-crap hardware. Cry some more.
People don't see the difference. The benchmarks I've seen using real games show a negligable difference. 10% is an exaggeration. Your personal experiences don't mean shit, frankly, and neither do the whinings of people online who are having to measure this crap with the FPSometer in Fraps.
If it can't do simple things better, faster. How is it going to handle the more complex stuff better?
I guess you failed CS 101. A more sophisticated API is always going to be slower than "poke xxx".
Graphics hardware is moving from being a specialised device which can handle basic primitive drawing to a full fledged massive vector processor. Doing this makes it less efficient at the original task.
Your time might be worthless, but in the real world developer time costs money - and at the rate of hardware improvement its pretty clear that MS and its customers are happy to take a few % performance hit to have a more featured/safe/simpler/etc API.
v10 brought much better memory management and reworked the shader model to add geometry shaders. The smallish hit in state management / data stream overhead is made up by the fact that half the procedural geometry can be done in the GPU.
v11 will introduce compute shaders. Presumably the older API functions will be slower on equivalent hardware again. But I'll have compute shaders to play with (and it won't be by using some dodgy ass API which is the equivalent of poke).
Only counterstrike tards care about getting 100fps vs 110fps. Hint: That shiny new intel quad core would get smoked at performing FFTs by an ASIC. Does that make the Q6600 the lesser CPU because its traded raw performance on certain tasks for generalisation?
TBH I don't get where all this whinging is coming from. I have a 9600GT, its one of the cheapest cards you can get, it runs everything fine under vista? Why the butthurt?
I know, they could have backported all of Vista to work on Windows 98! Some people said it wasn't technically possible! All they had to do was put the 98->XP upgrade and then the XP->Vista upgrade on one DVD. But they didn't....
Oh wait... thats because its a _completely retarded idea_. Adding DX10 to XP would mean backporting a bunch of kernel mods, the new driver model, etc - which while "possible" would certainly be a hell of a lot of work.
So shut the fuck up freetard and just buy the new OS... you had the old one for six fucking years, do you expect it to be supported forever?
And no, those DX10 hacks don't "support DX10 on XP" - they emulate a bunch of crap, and they emulated it badly.
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Unfortunately on a multiuser system you don't want people allocing a bunch of ram and just reading everyone's data out of it.
Yeah IE8 does single level of that with colors, which IMO is enough, and I loved the hell out of it (as im a compulsive middle-clicker when tracking information down, and I just want to kill everything in that browsing "tree").
If Opera (my usual browser) supported that, then I would be a happy man.
Why don't you just come straight out and say that Google, who is responsible for the lions share of online advertising, funds basically all of Firefox's development?
That is why you won't get built in ad-blocking.
Considering there seems to be more personal freedom in China these days I'd suggest you are delusional.
Fixed that asshattery.
The gun is the only personal weapon that escalates a simple mugging / rape / beating into a killing.
Your gun loving country also has the highest homicide rates by a massive margin. Thats because everyone is walking around with a gun thinking they are a cowboy.
Over here only the criminals have guns. They tend to use them on other criminals. They don't need to use them on the law abiding citizens because they never have to worry about some gun nut with a concealed carry license when they rob a bank.
Actually its stupid to argue. Your country is the one with huge amounts of guns and bullet filled corpses per capita - and you think it makes you safe? Violent bloody rednecks, the lot of ya.
Ahhhhh.......
Lulz. America sucks.
That is all.
I liked Steam until I bought GTA4. I had hoped that by getting on Steam that there would be the nice happy Steam DRM experience (ie: it just works) rather than the assrape.
I had to sign up and sign in to both Games For Windows Live, and Rockstar Social Club. I had to link these profiles together (or the game would crash on startup with an MMA10 error). I had to install SecureROM and activate my copy. As there is apparantly unlimited activations, I'm not sure who is actually benefiting from this additional DRM.
Then theres a whole bunch of performance issues and crashes, which presumably will be patched. Still, its a fucking dodgy console port, and I suggest that anyone who isn't really really interested in the multiplayer to pirate the damn thing.
I wasted twice the value of the game in my time trying to get the goddamn thing to work.
Are you hearing this Rockstar? If I'd waited for the Skulluptra rip, I wouldve had one-fucking-click install, and none of your bullshit. I paid you to get fucked right up the arse. Good luck getting another sale out of me - you are going to have to put some damn good multiplayer in everything you sell now - or you can fuck right off.
Its no more of an effective killswitch than a key ban for some other system. If they flick the switch you go download on of the many steam emulators or game specific cracks - and keep running the single player component of your games. (With the same pissed off look on your face as if say EA blocked your Battlefield 2 key).
Windows will back pages on disk constantly so it can alloc pages faster by just dropping them. (It also tries to keep a pool of zeroed pages).
Also in some circumstances it can be better to push some unused pages onto disk to embiggen (I love that word) the disk cache.
Australia already has that law. Free NetNanny for everyone that wants a "clean" connection.
Now ask me how many people have taken up this offer...
Please report to the address emailed to you. Your first assignment will be testing the "Intruder". The lady* who will be "piloting" the "Intruder" would like you to specificly report on the marketing claims, namely "Give it Back to Him", and "Dilates like a can of beans".
* Andrew^Ha is legally a female.
Inferior is of course in the eye of the beholder.
Given the choice (and having the technical ability to install and keep a Linux install running), I choose to use Vista.
But I think we agree that the stats on OS purchased with hardware are very likely to be a complete load of shit :P
The thing that struck me most about Farcry 2, being set in Africa, was the lack of black dudes. To be frank I found it hilarious that someone had decided that they needed an even mix of races to avoid the game "being about shooting black guys".
I mean seriously, is everyone really that jacked up about all these perceived slights on their race?
Yes they do. Check your anti-discrimination laws - they will have provisions for health insurers to discriminate based on race.
And I agree with you. I suspect it cuts both ways enough to even out. To be completely frank I suggest theres a lot more users that are comfortable with an OS install and get the cheap option and pirate windows, than there is users who install *nix.
I'm basing this on all of my friends, who all build their own computers and all have pirated copies of XP :P
Well if the world was going to give me one (1) free software company, I would pick MS. I would also then immediately fuck off to a holiday destination and allow Ballmer & co to keep making me shitloads of cash while I banged hookers and drank cocktails.
I bought two EEEEEPCs with Linux because they were cheaper and immediately installed old copies of XP I had lying around on them...
Field validation is not a view function, agreed.
The view is obviously allowed to understand what is being viewed. So the view can provide "friendly" services, like providing popup calendars on edit boxes, or even simple "pre-validation" on input fields. Hell, if you like the view can grab the correct service interface and lookup the damn 3D model of the widget being edited.
The controller should not rely on the view to perform any validation. As long as the controller controls the view only via its interface and action events come back out, and, importantly the view does not fuck with the model directly, then it doesnt matter what it does.
Basically when you implement IWidgetEditingView in the most naive way, you should not be able to break the controller/model. (And thus be able to unit test the controller easily, confidently swap view implementations because stupid-client-b wants dicks on his screen, etc).
Unlikely. You are putting a nice object model on top of some rather horrible data streaming and parellel processing tasks.
The nicer you make the object model, the worse it will match up with the hardware model, and the slower it will perform. This is called a mapping impedance - and is a common bitch with ORM tools. So sorry, no, forcing pixel/vertex/geometry shaders into a nice HLSL interface is never going to make it faster, and people with _commercial_ development experience are going to understand the reasons for making a more rational API with a performance hit. If you want your complex game then you are either going to have it fast and buggy with a shit API, or a little slower and less buggy with a decent one. Same reason people go for managed platforms like Java or .Net.
As a developer working in industrial visualisation (SCADA HMI tools - flat shaded polygons and not many of them), this directly impacts me. I'm even working in managed code, which is slower again. Nobody gives two tosses, because frankly a month of hardware progress is enough to make up any difference in API performance (and I'm hitting hundreds of FPS anyway).
I also really cannot be fucked responding to the usual loud butthurt whining about Vistas performance / UI / whatever the fuck. It works fine, can look like XP, on non-crap hardware. Cry some more.
People don't see the difference. The benchmarks I've seen using real games show a negligable difference. 10% is an exaggeration. Your personal experiences don't mean shit, frankly, and neither do the whinings of people online who are having to measure this crap with the FPSometer in Fraps.
Suicide is a crime. (At least in .au)
Probably with the free healthcare we don't want to be spending money patching up bunches of emo tards that can't do it right the first time :P
Agreed.
Who cares? You are negotiating with the Nucular Option, which they don't have. They might be pissed off, but there is fuck all they can do about it.
I guess you failed CS 101. A more sophisticated API is always going to be slower than "poke xxx".
Graphics hardware is moving from being a specialised device which can handle basic primitive drawing to a full fledged massive vector processor. Doing this makes it less efficient at the original task.
Your time might be worthless, but in the real world developer time costs money - and at the rate of hardware improvement its pretty clear that MS and its customers are happy to take a few % performance hit to have a more featured/safe/simpler/etc API.
v10 brought much better memory management and reworked the shader model to add geometry shaders. The smallish hit in state management / data stream overhead is made up by the fact that half the procedural geometry can be done in the GPU.
v11 will introduce compute shaders. Presumably the older API functions will be slower on equivalent hardware again. But I'll have compute shaders to play with (and it won't be by using some dodgy ass API which is the equivalent of poke).
Only counterstrike tards care about getting 100fps vs 110fps. Hint: That shiny new intel quad core would get smoked at performing FFTs by an ASIC. Does that make the Q6600 the lesser CPU because its traded raw performance on certain tasks for generalisation?
TBH I don't get where all this whinging is coming from. I have a 9600GT, its one of the cheapest cards you can get, it runs everything fine under vista? Why the butthurt?
I know, they could have backported all of Vista to work on Windows 98! Some people said it wasn't technically possible! All they had to do was put the 98->XP upgrade and then the XP->Vista upgrade on one DVD. But they didn't....
Oh wait... thats because its a _completely retarded idea_. Adding DX10 to XP would mean backporting a bunch of kernel mods, the new driver model, etc - which while "possible" would certainly be a hell of a lot of work.
So shut the fuck up freetard and just buy the new OS... you had the old one for six fucking years, do you expect it to be supported forever?
And no, those DX10 hacks don't "support DX10 on XP" - they emulate a bunch of crap, and they emulated it badly.
What do you mean wait? The cracked version will be out earlier than the game, sans DRM.