It actually amazed me in college how many people majoring in CS didn't know how to program...along with some who really didn't want to know because they really didn't like it. Umm, its a CS degree track, what did you expect, basketweaving?
But now we have Google automatically adding backgrounds to the search page when you don't want anything to change because it's distracting and works as it is already.
Whats funny is the day Google introed the backgrounds and showed samples, everyone at work thought something was wrong with their computer. Google prided themselves with (and others lauded) their simple vanilla search page. Then they go and try and copy Bing.... yeah, copy one of their biggest competitors.
Oddly enough, I have been using Creative PCI soundcards for 12 years now (SB Live and now X-Fi), I have never had any driver issues at all. Is Creative slow at updating drivers for new OSes? Yes. But they do eventually come out. They even caved to releasing the source of their Linux ALSA drivers. Creative cards also have a fairly large driver modding community (a past slashdot story). You can get driver packs that range from full featured, to minimal.
Is there any native PCIe firewire chipset? Quite a few motherboards are still hanging it off of the PCI bus. I guess that standard will be dead soon enough. While Apple is mostly to blame due to royalty payments, Intel not bothering to adopt it on any of their chipsets certainly didn't help.
I wasn't too happy that Intel axed the parallel port, but I could get cards/USB adapters for that. Now they axe PCI? I still have a Soundblaster X-Fi, its likely the last PCI card I'll ever buy.
This will lead to headaches for embedded and industrial system users, most of them are now just moving from ISA to PCI based solutions. There were a few P4 motherboards with ISA slots for that market even.
As usual, its all political, kinda like an open source app forking then re-merging. XHTML1 was fine, most folks implemented it. Sounds like they are just going to kludge an XHTML5 from HTML5.
Whatever happened to XHTML taking over? I remember some people going crazy over it since it would simplify HTML (since HTML 4 was too bulky, whatever) and leave all the layout dirty work to CSS. Seems like HTML5 throws all that out and sticks with the status quo.
The only thing I really want from a BIOS setup screen is some detailed online help for some of the options. Who here hasn't had a BIOS that had some obscure acronym titled option thats either missing in the manual or has a vague engrish description along the lines of "Turns Foo On/Off".
It's been said, a pair of $75 nike's would cost $300 if made by americans.
Those $75 Nikes have quite a markup. They could be made and sold here for around that price, but Nike's profit margin would suffer. There are shoes still made in the USA, and they are affordable.
There is a reason everything is marked as "beta" on basically a permanent basis. Beta = "We don't have to support it at all, even when it breaks and its our fault"
I found out the hard way when mp3 dot com went down. I wish I did a batch download of the artists I had bookmarked. Alot of good music was lost when that site imploded.
having to manually set up outlets and actions in the code so that they can be referenced by ib seems counterintuitive to that history. with vs on the other hand, it "just happens". i.e., double click on a button in the ui view and you get its onclick event handler. if it doesn't exist, it gets created.
XCode and IB remind me of developing with Borland C++ circa 1995 or so. Create the GUI in a seperate app and then load a project in the main IDE to code and compile. VS.NET (And VB before it) simplify it. Create GUI objects, double click on the object and access the code for the events behind that function.
you ain't kidding on that. even compared to mfc, apple wins. how microsoft managed to promote mfc for years without registry and security attribute classes representing critical aspects of the underlying operating system is beyond me.
MFC was a joke. I never bothered to learn how to program with it. Win32 isn't exactly intuitive to build an OO framework on. Borland managed to do it somewhat better with VCL, but it was never popular. dotNet works well, but having to do anything low level with Win32 requires some ugly looking code.
Still have a beatup MT-32 I got off of ebay. Great synth. The computer with the best built in sound? Apple IIgs hands down. Came with the 32 oscillator Ensoniq 5503DOC chip (used in the Mirage and ESQ-1) and 64k of sample RAM all in 1986. Sound cards added stereo sound (for some strange reason the built-in output was mono), recording, and MIDI abilities. Only machine for quite a while that could play MOD files with more then 4 channels.
There was actually a forum revolt over at AudiWorld when they switched from Kawf (older threaded view forum software and open source) to vBulletin. The problem was quick one line subject posts don't translate very well on vB/phpBB style forums. That and I guess a lot of Usenet junkies frequented Audiworld (most now post at a spin off site called quattroworld... which uses Kawf).
Internet Brands (who owns Audiworld and vB) managed to hack in a threaded view on vB and use it at Audiworld. It works, but is awkward to use because most new users of the site just use the (default) subject view, so threads are impossible to follow.
The Cocoa (NeXT) API requires one uses Objective-C for development. Apple used to have a Java binding (support since dropped) and there are 3rd party bindings like the one the article talks about. Apple (Steve) wants you to use their tools exclusively for development. I hope they get their sanity back soon. The only reason they may be blocking this is to keep Adobe quiet (eliminates the "If they can do it, why can't we do Flash?" arguement). Too bad some nice innovation is being squashed by someone's ego.
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Notes price, now knows why nobody buys them.
It actually amazed me in college how many people majoring in CS didn't know how to program...along with some who really didn't want to know because they really didn't like it. Umm, its a CS degree track, what did you expect, basketweaving?
Maybe Apple should learn a thing or two from Samsung. My Omnia has the following on a sticker attached to the bottom of the battery cover:
-----Internal Antenna Area----
For best performance, Do NOT
touch this area when using your phone
But now we have Google automatically adding backgrounds to the search page when you don't want anything to change because it's distracting and works as it is already.
Whats funny is the day Google introed the backgrounds and showed samples, everyone at work thought something was wrong with their computer. Google prided themselves with (and others lauded) their simple vanilla search page. Then they go and try and copy Bing.... yeah, copy one of their biggest competitors.
Oddly enough, I have been using Creative PCI soundcards for 12 years now (SB Live and now X-Fi), I have never had any driver issues at all. Is Creative slow at updating drivers for new OSes? Yes. But they do eventually come out. They even caved to releasing the source of their Linux ALSA drivers. Creative cards also have a fairly large driver modding community (a past slashdot story). You can get driver packs that range from full featured, to minimal.
Is there any native PCIe firewire chipset? Quite a few motherboards are still hanging it off of the PCI bus. I guess that standard will be dead soon enough. While Apple is mostly to blame due to royalty payments, Intel not bothering to adopt it on any of their chipsets certainly didn't help.
I wasn't too happy that Intel axed the parallel port, but I could get cards/USB adapters for that. Now they axe PCI? I still have a Soundblaster X-Fi, its likely the last PCI card I'll ever buy.
This will lead to headaches for embedded and industrial system users, most of them are now just moving from ISA to PCI based solutions. There were a few P4 motherboards with ISA slots for that market even.
As usual, its all political, kinda like an open source app forking then re-merging. XHTML1 was fine, most folks implemented it. Sounds like they are just going to kludge an XHTML5 from HTML5.
Whatever happened to XHTML taking over? I remember some people going crazy over it since it would simplify HTML (since HTML 4 was too bulky, whatever) and leave all the layout dirty work to CSS. Seems like HTML5 throws all that out and sticks with the status quo.
That jogged some bad memories... make it stop.
Then there were the ISA cards with added proprietary bus pins. No not EISA, something Compaq invented and used in like 3 models.
The only thing I really want from a BIOS setup screen is some detailed online help for some of the options. Who here hasn't had a BIOS that had some obscure acronym titled option thats either missing in the manual or has a vague engrish description along the lines of "Turns Foo On/Off".
Isn't Intel already using EFI with a BIOS compatibility module on some of their motherboards?
Compaq used a special service partition on the HD to run that GUI based BIOS and diagnostics.
There was one true GUI BIOS out there, the AMI WinBIOS. Nobody really adopted it and stuck to the old "pink screen" AMI BIOS. (remember those?)
It's been said, a pair of $75 nike's would cost $300 if made by americans.
Those $75 Nikes have quite a markup. They could be made and sold here for around that price, but Nike's profit margin would suffer. There are shoes still made in the USA, and they are affordable.
Yeah, just ask Bill Gates how his Teledesic investment is coming along.
There is a reason everything is marked as "beta" on basically a permanent basis. Beta = "We don't have to support it at all, even when it breaks and its our fault"
Perhaps this is a timely link: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
I found out the hard way when mp3 dot com went down. I wish I did a batch download of the artists I had bookmarked. Alot of good music was lost when that site imploded.
archetypcal classic Game Boy version
What about the archetypal classic NES version? I've always identified Tetris with the console.
Which one?
Before you assume there was only one, look up "Tengen Tetris" to read about an early fight over this game.
having to manually set up outlets and actions in the code so that they can be referenced by ib seems counterintuitive to that history. with vs on the other hand, it "just happens". i.e., double click on a button in the ui view and you get its onclick event handler. if it doesn't exist, it gets created.
XCode and IB remind me of developing with Borland C++ circa 1995 or so. Create the GUI in a seperate app and then load a project in the main IDE to code and compile. VS.NET (And VB before it) simplify it. Create GUI objects, double click on the object and access the code for the events behind that function.
you ain't kidding on that. even compared to mfc, apple wins. how microsoft managed to promote mfc for years without registry and security attribute classes representing critical aspects of the underlying operating system is beyond me.
MFC was a joke. I never bothered to learn how to program with it. Win32 isn't exactly intuitive to build an OO framework on. Borland managed to do it somewhat better with VCL, but it was never popular. dotNet works well, but having to do anything low level with Win32 requires some ugly looking code.
The registry settings are still present and there are a few utilities that let you switch MIDI playback devices. http://software.bootblock.co.uk/?id=vistamidipicker
Still have a beatup MT-32 I got off of ebay. Great synth. The computer with the best built in sound? Apple IIgs hands down. Came with the 32 oscillator Ensoniq 5503DOC chip (used in the Mirage and ESQ-1) and 64k of sample RAM all in 1986. Sound cards added stereo sound (for some strange reason the built-in output was mono), recording, and MIDI abilities. Only machine for quite a while that could play MOD files with more then 4 channels.
The Soundblaster X-Fi still does with SoundFont support. The older PCI versions even have MIDI I/O in the breakout boxes.
You forgot Cairo. They talked that one up for years. Heck, its where WinFS originated.
There was actually a forum revolt over at AudiWorld when they switched from Kawf (older threaded view forum software and open source) to vBulletin. The problem was quick one line subject posts don't translate very well on vB/phpBB style forums. That and I guess a lot of Usenet junkies frequented Audiworld (most now post at a spin off site called quattroworld... which uses Kawf).
Internet Brands (who owns Audiworld and vB) managed to hack in a threaded view on vB and use it at Audiworld. It works, but is awkward to use because most new users of the site just use the (default) subject view, so threads are impossible to follow.
The Cocoa (NeXT) API requires one uses Objective-C for development. Apple used to have a Java binding (support since dropped) and there are 3rd party bindings like the one the article talks about. Apple (Steve) wants you to use their tools exclusively for development. I hope they get their sanity back soon. The only reason they may be blocking this is to keep Adobe quiet (eliminates the "If they can do it, why can't we do Flash?" arguement). Too bad some nice innovation is being squashed by someone's ego.