I have been using a Mini for development for about a year and a half, but I am at the point where it has become so frustrating that I need to upgrade. Not only has my build time grown longer, IDE responsiveness slower, but I also bought a bigger monitor and therefore lost some available memory due to the need for more "video ram". Currently the Mini is hooked up to a four way KVM, along with my Windows development machine and my server.
I really wish there was a Mac that was in between the Pro and the iMac. What I want is the guts of the high end iMac, with a dedicated video card, in a regular case with no monitor. Does anyone else feel the same?
I know it is possible to piddle around and make a decent approximation of a MacPro with a hacked version of OS X for half the price. But I would rather have a legitimate version of OS X on a machine that I didn't have to spend a day putting together and patching kexts on.
I have read, on other forums, that that there are ping time restrictions for LAN mode built into 360 games, to prevent things like XLink Kai from working. Does anyone have some concrete information on this?
I may not agree with much of what Canada and France do but they have the right idea when it comes to medical care.
It seems that everyone thinks that everyone else is doing a better job on health care than themselves. Ask Canadians if they think their system is working? Yes, some parts are good, but lots of parts could be a lot better. Is it possible to have universal coverage and the highest level of care combined at a level of taxation that gets a government re-elected?
Money is always going to be wasted, either through the expense of having these third party insurance companies, or through bureaucracy.
I use Firefox and Camino on my Macs because Safari seems slow in workflow (not page refresh) and just odd to me. I hope they spent some time improving version 3 on the Mac instead of wasting development on porting it.
Does it know what a middle mouse button is? Does it have tabs? Does it at least try to look like a Windows app? Firefox looks more or less like a Windows app and somewhat like a Mac app on each OS it is running on, and even more so after theming it.
I am not really sure Safari is needed or wanted on Windows.
Maybe Microsoft can retaliate by porting Windows Movie Maker to the Mac?
Wouldn't putting the panels on the houses also cut down on the loss that occurs during transmission? Therefore needing less panels than having them placed remotely?
Sax's Licensing Law: Tracking development use of free software libraries in proprietary software is just as difficult as tracking the in-house use of proprietary software. Exactly. Especially if you are trying to do things correctly, rather than "it's open source, so we can just use it right?".
Yes, if everyone did it 'the way it's supposed to be done', then sniping would be unnecessary.
But there at least three phenomena that it partly protects you against. First the shilling. Second, the type of bidder who does not like to lose at any cost, and who keeps coming back and upping their bid incrementally, rather than deciding what their maximum bid is and leaving it at that. Thirdly, the type of person that does not know the value of an item, but merely assumes that if someone else has bid x on it, then they will bid x + n and can't have paid too much.
How is this different than just having everybody snipe at the last second? The results would be the same.
Snipers do not always win. They still have to determine the maximum they wish to pay for an item. How does sniping jack the price up more than if the sniper had bid the same amount a few days earlier?
I have been using JFormDesigner for about a year now, on both Mac and Windows. It really speeds up the usage of complex powerful layouts like FormLayout, or GridBagLayout, if you must use that.
The ability to switch the look and feel in the design mode is also a nice feature.
I have been using JFormDesigner for Java for about a year now. I think it is quite decent.
I have previously used the Qt designer, up to version 3.3.4, and it was OK. I still found I needed to tweak code and layouts specifically for the target OS. Perhaps that was due to lack of familiarity with the tool.
I simply expect a GUI designer to relieve some of the tedium of hand coding a layout, especially those with obtuse interfaces, like grid bag. If the designer also can provide a way of hooking UI elements to the code, without generating code that is a pig's ear, then that is a bonus.
If a GUI designer could generate dialogs and other elements that looked perfect on each platform from a single specification, then that would be the holy grail for me.
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I have been using a Mini for development for about a year and a half, but I am at the point where it has become so frustrating that I need to upgrade. Not only has my build time grown longer, IDE responsiveness slower, but I also bought a bigger monitor and therefore lost some available memory due to the need for more "video ram". Currently the Mini is hooked up to a four way KVM, along with my Windows development machine and my server.
I really wish there was a Mac that was in between the Pro and the iMac. What I want is the guts of the high end iMac, with a dedicated video card, in a regular case with no monitor. Does anyone else feel the same?
I know it is possible to piddle around and make a decent approximation of a MacPro with a hacked version of OS X for half the price. But I would rather have a legitimate version of OS X on a machine that I didn't have to spend a day putting together and patching kexts on.
I have read, on other forums, that that there are ping time restrictions for LAN mode built into 360 games, to prevent things like XLink Kai from working. Does anyone have some concrete information on this?
It seems that everyone thinks that everyone else is doing a better job on health care than themselves. Ask Canadians if they think their system is working? Yes, some parts are good, but lots of parts could be a lot better. Is it possible to have universal coverage and the highest level of care combined at a level of taxation that gets a government re-elected?
Money is always going to be wasted, either through the expense of having these third party insurance companies, or through bureaucracy.
I use Firefox and Camino on my Macs because Safari seems slow in workflow (not page refresh) and just odd to me. I hope they spent some time improving version 3 on the Mac instead of wasting development on porting it.
Does it know what a middle mouse button is? Does it have tabs? Does it at least try to look like a Windows app? Firefox looks more or less like a Windows app and somewhat like a Mac app on each OS it is running on, and even more so after theming it.
I am not really sure Safari is needed or wanted on Windows.
Maybe Microsoft can retaliate by porting Windows Movie Maker to the Mac?
Wouldn't putting the panels on the houses also cut down on the loss that occurs during transmission? Therefore needing less panels than having them placed remotely?
Perhaps Microsoft were silly to stop selling first generation Xboxes?
Yes, if everyone did it 'the way it's supposed to be done', then sniping would be unnecessary.
But there at least three phenomena that it partly protects you against. First the shilling. Second, the type of bidder who does not like to lose at any cost, and who keeps coming back and upping their bid incrementally, rather than deciding what their maximum bid is and leaving it at that. Thirdly, the type of person that does not know the value of an item, but merely assumes that if someone else has bid x on it, then they will bid x + n and can't have paid too much.
How is this different than just having everybody snipe at the last second? The results would be the same.
Snipers do not always win. They still have to determine the maximum they wish to pay for an item. How does sniping jack the price up more than if the sniper had bid the same amount a few days earlier?
What reasons does eBay have for making bid sniping against their terms, other than to protect the shill bidders, and thus their profits?
I have been using JFormDesigner for about a year now, on both Mac and Windows. It really speeds up the usage of complex powerful layouts like FormLayout, or GridBagLayout, if you must use that.
The ability to switch the look and feel in the design mode is also a nice feature.
I have been using JFormDesigner for Java for about a year now. I think it is quite decent.
I have previously used the Qt designer, up to version 3.3.4, and it was OK. I still found I needed to tweak code and layouts specifically for the target OS. Perhaps that was due to lack of familiarity with the tool.
I simply expect a GUI designer to relieve some of the tedium of hand coding a layout, especially those with obtuse interfaces, like grid bag. If the designer also can provide a way of hooking UI elements to the code, without generating code that is a pig's ear, then that is a bonus.
If a GUI designer could generate dialogs and other elements that looked perfect on each platform from a single specification, then that would be the holy grail for me.