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It will support code-behind pages in ways it does not currently. ASP.Net support will be expanded.
Also, that modal start-up dialog will be changed so that modules and caches load in the background. Hopefully that'll help your start-up complaint (though some features won't be available until all the caches finish loading).
There's also a great new "File Structure" window that allows you to drag and drop methods around, see/collapse/expand regions, etc.
The one VS.Net 2003 plug-in I cannot live without
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Resharper.
It adds real-time syntax highlighting, additional keyword coloring, superb code navigation features, and code refactoring features, among many other very useful items.
If you are using Visual Studio and doing any C# coding at all, you need to check out Resharper, from JetBrains... http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/. I frankly don't know how anyone lives without it (or at least something similar).
Version 2.0 (due out late this year) will also support 2005, Visual Basic, and ASP.Net coding
I could not agree more with everything you have said. I'm just concerned about the fact that there are so many "small minded" people here in the United States of America, and that they currently weild so much power.
For there to be a real debate, there have to be two sides. And that just isnt' the case here.
One one side you have Evolution: scientific studies, data, and observable fact, widely verified, and serving as the bedrock foundation for virtually all over biology, biochem, and supported by every other branch of science from geology to astrology.
On the other you have a group of people saying "Nuh-uh!" and sticking their fingers in their ears and saying "LA LA LA LA". In other words: ignorance and childish clinging to myths taught to them when they were young.
There simply aren't two sides. Evolution is a fact. It is science. ID is not science. It is not fact. It is not even theory. There is nothing put forth by ID that disproves Evolution or even calls evolution into question. ID is nothing more than religious dogma, part of an agenda to dress up Creationism and force secular public schools to indoctrinate children in a specific religion.
Yes, you're right. I guess, to be consistent, he would champion the teaching of homosexuality in health and sex education classes, as an "alternative" to heterosexuality, just to make sure everyone can make their own decisions. Right?:-)
The problem is that there's still a sizable contingent of extremist christians out there, and at this moment in time, they've managed to curry some favor with the current government leaders.
It's more than that. They practically control the reigns and agenda of government. James Dobson has TONS of influence in both Congress and with the Administration itself. It's not just that they're loud, or obnoxious, or have 'favor', but they're actually running things.
Hrm. I'm not so sure it's a minority. Survey after survery shows over 60% of the American population rejecting evolution, and over 70% of the American Population stating that Intelligent Design should be taught in the class room.
I find these numbers very, very depressing.
As the grandparent stated, Intelligent Design is not "science" by any stretch of the imagination, and simply has no place in any science class.
Creationism's only place in the classroom is in a literature class ("Bible as Literature") or in a mythology class, along with the creation myths of every other great civilization in history.
Hmm - it works for me fine in multiline textboxes - unless you mean for moving the cursor. Like, if I end up with more-than-size-of-textbox-worth-of-text, I get the scrollbars on the textbox then can scroll up and down fine with the mouse wheel.
In IE6, the mousewheel moves the cursor up and down (scrolling the text if there's more text than fits in the displayed text box size), and when the cursor is at the top or bottom of the text box, then the whole page scrolls. In other words, you don't need to click outside the multi-line text box in order to scroll the full page with the scroll wheel. The FireFox behavior is that the scroll wheel does nothing in a multi-line text box. Very, very annoying.
I think, but am not sure, that it puts the ones you visit more regularly at the top of the list. This works better for me most of the time (I generally type my URLs into the address bar rather than use bookmarks) but I can certainly see why some people would rather have the most recently used at the top.
That's just not the case. At one point, I cut and pasted several URLs into the address bar to visit some pages that someone sent me the URLs for in an email (and they weren't clickable in the email). These pages are pages I visited ONCE. They continued to stay and the top of the list, taking up all the positions in the visible list, forcing me to ALWAYS scroll down to select any of the sites I visited regularly. They stayed put, not moving, until some weeks later when they all just suddenly disappeared en masse. In short, it's completely non-functional and I can't imagine that that's EVER the right thing to do for ANYONE. Again, very very annoying.
Basically, the "usability" is pretty far behind IE6, whatever its other advantages are, and it's so annoying that even though I actively want to switch, I simply can't.
Never mind that there are other major problems (I can't listen to voice mail on AT&T's CallVantage website, because it only plays about the first 3 seconds of any message I have... and several other sites refuse to operate on FireFox flat out). I just do not understand the "FireFox-Love" I see and hear from everyone. I just don't see it. I see nothing that it does better than IE6 in day-to-day use, and I'm constantly fighting it, being frustrated by it, and being foiled by it. I almost always have to revert back to IE6 to actually do things without frustration, or sometimes just to do things PERIOD.
And I still don't see/get/understand the advantage or purpose of Tabbed Browsing. At least as configured "out of the box" it seems to be a complete non-feature to me. I see zero advantage, and the few times I've bothered to use it, it actually annoyed me (with it's constant warnings any time I tried to close a window that other pages would close too).
So, the mouse-wheel scrolls the cursor up and down within the multi-line text box, and when it reaches the top or bottom, resumes scrolling the full page? It certainly doesn't behave that way under XP (in fact, it does absolutely nothing).
Logic is "most often visited", with even more priority given to URL's chosen from the bar (as opposed to links or bookmarks).
That is distinctly NOT the behavior I see on XP. I see an arbitrary/random list that seems relatively static. I typed in a URL once, and it stayed at the top for no known reason for almost a month, and then suddenly disappeared. Meanwhile, URLs I select all the time from this list are way at the bottom (I have to scroll the list down to see them).
If only FireFox would support the mouse-wheel inside multi-line text boxes (like the one I'm typing text into right now).
If only the drop-down list box for FireFox's address bar made ANY sense what-so-ever. In IE6, the most recently used URL is at the top, and unused URLs fall to the bottom and then off the list. I have never figured out what "logic" FireFox uses in that list. It's annoying to the point of uselessness.
It's amazing that these two minor issues are essentially keeping me from switching full time to FireFox, because they annoy me so much.
If it helps, I can't stand Anime either. But FireFly (and the new Serenity movie) are nothing like that. And while the trailer may have concentrated on those aspects you cited, trust me that the show isn't "all about that" at all, or I would be completely bored with it.
The show was all about the characters. The culture. The universe they inhabited. It wasn't about the sci-fi technology or technobabble or any of that stuff. It was about connections and motivations and wit.
Seriously, give the show a chance. Rent the first DVD on NetFlix, or force yourself to watch the first four hours of the show on Sci-Fi when it reruns in August/September. Chances are, you'll get as hooked as I am. And if you do start watching the series, each episode gets generally better and better. I found the last episode ("Objects in Space") to be nothing short of brilliant.
It's a show that's worth the investment and the risk. You will be rewarded.
Fox axed the pilot which was INTENDED to be the premier, and instead showed the second episode, which wasn't the premier episode, just the first episode shown.
Yes, it matters.
And it's really worth watching in order. Seriously. Sacrifice a Netflix queue slot. Or better yet, just wait until later in August when Sci-Fi will run the entire series IN ORDER, in the run-up to the movie's premier at the end of September.
You do realize that the first episode was actually the SECOND episode, as the two hour preimier was never shown by Fox, and that subsequent episodes were shown out of order as well.
You might try renting the first DVD from NetFlix and watching the first four shows in order. And the show did get stronger and stronger as each episode progressed. I found the premier shown on Fox to be dull as well, but I kept with it anyway and was rewarded. And when I finally saw the two hour pilot, I was hooked. I own it on DVD now.
Only in the world of computers can a sequel to "BattleField 1942" be called "Battlefield 2" without anyone blinking an eye. Or is it just me that sees this and interprets the 'sequel' as being 1940 versions behind the original, or at the very least, set 1940 years prior?:-)
I've always decided that the main problem with eBooks was the form-factor and display.
Give me an "eBook" that's about the size and weight of a standard paperback. Open it up, and there should be electronic paper on both sides. Visible in normal light and bright sunshine. Minimum 300dpi resolution. The two facing screens should display type much like a paperback does, with a nice mat finish (no shiny stuff). And it should be augmented by touch sensitivity, so I can "change pages" by swiping across the right hand page (top corner down towards center) in the standard "turning the page" gesture. There should be touch sensitive spots along the bottom that allow me to call up the table of contents, an index (that also allows searches), and tools to allow me to highlight and bookmark passages. When I open the eBook it should open to right where I left off. It should be water resistent, shock resistent, and the screen should be flexible enough that I don't have to worry about breaking the damn thing.
New books should be just a pluggable memory cartridge away. The memory cartridges should also store the bookmarks and highlights and "current position" so I can flip through several books at any time without losing my place in any one of them.
Once an eBook experience is like THAT, then watch out, they'll actually start to catch on. Or at the very least, *I* would suddenly be interested in owning one.
This display is a step on the road to that dream eBook...
Blockbuster does offer censored versions of movies, sometimes without any indication that they've been censored. Other cases, they offer R versions instead of the original unrated or NC17 versions. And they just flat-out don't carry a whole lot of movies. NetFlix not only doesn't censor or substitute "cleaned up" versions of films, but it offers a huge and wide selection that you'll never, ever find at BlockBuster.
And yeah, waiting a whole day for a DVD is so rough. You know, you can keep three at a time, so you watch one, mail it off, and watch the next, and by the time you get to the third, you already have a new one in the mail. It's not like you're ever waiting as long as your queue stays full.
I agree. But the expansion pack has left me utterly cold. More of the same. When it isn't downright frustrating, it's downright boring. And the lame rip-off of HL-2's gravity gun is just pathetic.
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It will support code-behind pages in ways it does not currently. ASP.Net support will be expanded.
Also, that modal start-up dialog will be changed so that modules and caches load in the background. Hopefully that'll help your start-up complaint (though some features won't be available until all the caches finish loading).
There's also a great new "File Structure" window that allows you to drag and drop methods around, see/collapse/expand regions, etc.
Resharper.
It adds real-time syntax highlighting, additional keyword coloring, superb code navigation features, and code refactoring features, among many other very useful items.
If you are using Visual Studio and doing any C# coding at all, you need to check out Resharper, from JetBrains... http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/. I frankly don't know how anyone lives without it (or at least something similar).
Version 2.0 (due out late this year) will also support 2005, Visual Basic, and ASP.Net coding
I could not agree more with everything you have said. I'm just concerned about the fact that there are so many "small minded" people here in the United States of America, and that they currently weild so much power.
For there to be a real debate, there have to be two sides. And that just isnt' the case here.
One one side you have Evolution: scientific studies, data, and observable fact, widely verified, and serving as the bedrock foundation for virtually all over biology, biochem, and supported by every other branch of science from geology to astrology.
On the other you have a group of people saying "Nuh-uh!" and sticking their fingers in their ears and saying "LA LA LA LA". In other words: ignorance and childish clinging to myths taught to them when they were young.
There simply aren't two sides. Evolution is a fact. It is science. ID is not science. It is not fact. It is not even theory. There is nothing put forth by ID that disproves Evolution or even calls evolution into question. ID is nothing more than religious dogma, part of an agenda to dress up Creationism and force secular public schools to indoctrinate children in a specific religion.
Yes, you're right. I guess, to be consistent, he would champion the teaching of homosexuality in health and sex education classes, as an "alternative" to heterosexuality, just to make sure everyone can make their own decisions. Right? :-)
Amen to everything you said.
The problem is that there's still a sizable contingent of extremist christians out there, and at this moment in time, they've managed to curry some favor with the current government leaders.
It's more than that. They practically control the reigns and agenda of government. James Dobson has TONS of influence in both Congress and with the Administration itself. It's not just that they're loud, or obnoxious, or have 'favor', but they're actually running things.
Hrm. I'm not so sure it's a minority. Survey after survery shows over 60% of the American population rejecting evolution, and over 70% of the American Population stating that Intelligent Design should be taught in the class room.
I find these numbers very, very depressing.
As the grandparent stated, Intelligent Design is not "science" by any stretch of the imagination, and simply has no place in any science class.
Creationism's only place in the classroom is in a literature class ("Bible as Literature") or in a mythology class, along with the creation myths of every other great civilization in history.
Hmm - it works for me fine in multiline textboxes - unless you mean for moving the cursor. Like, if I end up with more-than-size-of-textbox-worth-of-text, I get the scrollbars on the textbox then can scroll up and down fine with the mouse wheel.
In IE6, the mousewheel moves the cursor up and down (scrolling the text if there's more text than fits in the displayed text box size), and when the cursor is at the top or bottom of the text box, then the whole page scrolls. In other words, you don't need to click outside the multi-line text box in order to scroll the full page with the scroll wheel. The FireFox behavior is that the scroll wheel does nothing in a multi-line text box. Very, very annoying.
I think, but am not sure, that it puts the ones you visit more regularly at the top of the list. This works better for me most of the time (I generally type my URLs into the address bar rather than use bookmarks) but I can certainly see why some people would rather have the most recently used at the top.
That's just not the case. At one point, I cut and pasted several URLs into the address bar to visit some pages that someone sent me the URLs for in an email (and they weren't clickable in the email). These pages are pages I visited ONCE. They continued to stay and the top of the list, taking up all the positions in the visible list, forcing me to ALWAYS scroll down to select any of the sites I visited regularly. They stayed put, not moving, until some weeks later when they all just suddenly disappeared en masse. In short, it's completely non-functional and I can't imagine that that's EVER the right thing to do for ANYONE. Again, very very annoying.
Basically, the "usability" is pretty far behind IE6, whatever its other advantages are, and it's so annoying that even though I actively want to switch, I simply can't.
Never mind that there are other major problems (I can't listen to voice mail on AT&T's CallVantage website, because it only plays about the first 3 seconds of any message I have... and several other sites refuse to operate on FireFox flat out). I just do not understand the "FireFox-Love" I see and hear from everyone. I just don't see it. I see nothing that it does better than IE6 in day-to-day use, and I'm constantly fighting it, being frustrated by it, and being foiled by it. I almost always have to revert back to IE6 to actually do things without frustration, or sometimes just to do things PERIOD.
And I still don't see/get/understand the advantage or purpose of Tabbed Browsing. At least as configured "out of the box" it seems to be a complete non-feature to me. I see zero advantage, and the few times I've bothered to use it, it actually annoyed me (with it's constant warnings any time I tried to close a window that other pages would close too).
I must be missing something.
Works fine on the Linux port.
So, the mouse-wheel scrolls the cursor up and down within the multi-line text box, and when it reaches the top or bottom, resumes scrolling the full page? It certainly doesn't behave that way under XP (in fact, it does absolutely nothing).
Logic is "most often visited", with even more priority given to URL's chosen from the bar (as opposed to links or bookmarks).
That is distinctly NOT the behavior I see on XP. I see an arbitrary/random list that seems relatively static. I typed in a URL once, and it stayed at the top for no known reason for almost a month, and then suddenly disappeared. Meanwhile, URLs I select all the time from this list are way at the bottom (I have to scroll the list down to see them).
If only FireFox would support the mouse-wheel inside multi-line text boxes (like the one I'm typing text into right now).
If only the drop-down list box for FireFox's address bar made ANY sense what-so-ever. In IE6, the most recently used URL is at the top, and unused URLs fall to the bottom and then off the list. I have never figured out what "logic" FireFox uses in that list. It's annoying to the point of uselessness.
It's amazing that these two minor issues are essentially keeping me from switching full time to FireFox, because they annoy me so much.
Very, very well put.
If it helps, I can't stand Anime either. But FireFly (and the new Serenity movie) are nothing like that. And while the trailer may have concentrated on those aspects you cited, trust me that the show isn't "all about that" at all, or I would be completely bored with it.
The show was all about the characters. The culture. The universe they inhabited. It wasn't about the sci-fi technology or technobabble or any of that stuff. It was about connections and motivations and wit.
Seriously, give the show a chance. Rent the first DVD on NetFlix, or force yourself to watch the first four hours of the show on Sci-Fi when it reruns in August/September. Chances are, you'll get as hooked as I am. And if you do start watching the series, each episode gets generally better and better. I found the last episode ("Objects in Space") to be nothing short of brilliant.
It's a show that's worth the investment and the risk. You will be rewarded.
Fox axed the pilot which was INTENDED to be the premier, and instead showed the second episode, which wasn't the premier episode, just the first episode shown.
Yes, it matters.
And it's really worth watching in order. Seriously. Sacrifice a Netflix queue slot. Or better yet, just wait until later in August when Sci-Fi will run the entire series IN ORDER, in the run-up to the movie's premier at the end of September.
You do realize that the first episode was actually the SECOND episode, as the two hour preimier was never shown by Fox, and that subsequent episodes were shown out of order as well.
You might try renting the first DVD from NetFlix and watching the first four shows in order. And the show did get stronger and stronger as each episode progressed. I found the premier shown on Fox to be dull as well, but I kept with it anyway and was rewarded. And when I finally saw the two hour pilot, I was hooked. I own it on DVD now.
Only in the world of computers can a sequel to "BattleField 1942" be called "Battlefield 2" without anyone blinking an eye. Or is it just me that sees this and interprets the 'sequel' as being 1940 versions behind the original, or at the very least, set 1940 years prior? :-)
I've always decided that the main problem with eBooks was the form-factor and display.
Give me an "eBook" that's about the size and weight of a standard paperback. Open it up, and there should be electronic paper on both sides. Visible in normal light and bright sunshine. Minimum 300dpi resolution. The two facing screens should display type much like a paperback does, with a nice mat finish (no shiny stuff). And it should be augmented by touch sensitivity, so I can "change pages" by swiping across the right hand page (top corner down towards center) in the standard "turning the page" gesture. There should be touch sensitive spots along the bottom that allow me to call up the table of contents, an index (that also allows searches), and tools to allow me to highlight and bookmark passages. When I open the eBook it should open to right where I left off. It should be water resistent, shock resistent, and the screen should be flexible enough that I don't have to worry about breaking the damn thing.
New books should be just a pluggable memory cartridge away. The memory cartridges should also store the bookmarks and highlights and "current position" so I can flip through several books at any time without losing my place in any one of them.
Once an eBook experience is like THAT, then watch out, they'll actually start to catch on. Or at the very least, *I* would suddenly be interested in owning one.
This display is a step on the road to that dream eBook...
I wish I could mod the parent "+1 Gratuitously brilliant (pun intended) Star Trek reference"
Blockbuster does offer censored versions of movies, sometimes without any indication that they've been censored. Other cases, they offer R versions instead of the original unrated or NC17 versions. And they just flat-out don't carry a whole lot of movies. NetFlix not only doesn't censor or substitute "cleaned up" versions of films, but it offers a huge and wide selection that you'll never, ever find at BlockBuster.
And yeah, waiting a whole day for a DVD is so rough. You know, you can keep three at a time, so you watch one, mail it off, and watch the next, and by the time you get to the third, you already have a new one in the mail. It's not like you're ever waiting as long as your queue stays full.
You left out step 6...
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1. Move around corner
2. Light turns off
3. Loud noise
4. Option - Load Saved Game
5. Wash - Rinse - Repeat.
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I agree. But the expansion pack has left me utterly cold. More of the same. When it isn't downright frustrating, it's downright boring. And the lame rip-off of HL-2's gravity gun is just pathetic.
And let's not forget the poor (superior) Alpha chip. I guess it's still in its last death throes right now, but still...
A lot of potential was killed and/or never realized over the last decade...
You haven't lived until you've coded in BLISS! Seriously!
Personally, I think paying $300+ a year for cable to PAY for the privledge of watching television is completely stupid.
Shit, between cable TV, movie channels, and cable internet access, I shell out $175 a MONTH. I'd *love* to pay only $300 a year!!
It's just proof at how sad things have gotten when a 'fake news' show is more real, more relevant, and more insightful than any REAL news show.