Not sure what caused this, but my experiments earlier with.Net 2.0 beta 2 on VS.Net 2005 Beta 2 were awful. The GUI performance was much much much slower than anything I considered acceptable. It was like using Java 5 years ago on a P2.
I hope the final release solves that, but man, from that experience, it seemed like the CLR had a long long way to go.
E3 is a very important event for game developers. It's one of the few times when you can pitch an idea to every publisher you want at once. It's an ideal time to forge a new business relationship because the overhead of the meeting (airfare, etc...) can be spread out.
As for the back-room only stuff, that is DESIGNED to keep out the small press because they tend to be less valuable and distracting. E3 is all about exposure - to the retailers and to the big press. Small press doesn't give enough exposure and can often be more trouble than it's worth.
Customers play a game for a limited amount of time. Then they either put the game on the shelf (unlikely to touch it again) or they sell/give it to someone else.
Those that sell/give it to someone else keeps the support commitment for that CD key alive longer than the typical customer that stops playing the game and puts it away,
Visual Studio 2005 also includes a new feature called Profile Guided Optimization.
This feature allows you to make a special build of your program which instruments your code with performance metrics gathering code. You run your program and it automatically gathers a bunch of data. Then you rebuild the program and the compiler looks at the performance metrics and can make special optimizations targeted at your application.
I spoke with the developers about this feature and they quoted a 20-30% speedup in Yukon (the next version MS SQL Server) - for free, just by having a better compiler.
This is a very real bug that has been around for years.
Nobody seems to know exactly what causes it, but some theories are that it has to do with having lots of tabs open, or otherwise stressing the application.
Perhaps it is easy to estimate and schedule. But its often very very expensive because you are changing the way you do things, changing your approaches and thinking. It's not a search-replace operation, or a surgical snip (as many Endian issues can be).
Am I the only one bugged by the captchas these days?
They are getting harder and harder for actual people to read, and a recent/. article reported that researchers have been successful at breaking them anyway.
Too bad those comments won't be maintained by someone who fixes the code later.
And too bad most of that information can be had from the source repository - there really is no need to clutter up the code with flowerboxes like this:
// Function GetSize() // Return: int // Gets the size of the field int GetSize() { return size; }
How many times in a large codebase have you come across something like this:// Don't doo Foo() here because of x and y and z Foo()
Comments often don't get maintained properly, which leads them to be out of date and wrong.
Which is worse, no comment, or an incorrect comment? The presence of incorrect comments leads developers to have a rather healthy skepticisim of all comments....
This is basically what Gmail does, and I agree it would be nice to see that in Thunderbird. It removes the need to categorize a message into a single folder only, since you can just put as many tags on it as you want.
"The Founding Father's felt that the state was the proper unit to give authority to. We are a collection of States who band together for protection and bargining rights when dealing with foreign nations, and to facilitate resolutions to internal conflict. That's what the Federal Government original was designed to do. Read up on the Federalist system sometime. State's have authority."
Does anyone really believe that anymore? I sure don't.
Halo PC requires an administrator to install it (so that it can write to Program Files and create the HKLM registry keys for example) but any user can run it.
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They own the IP for a franchise they developed/paid for.
Why wouldn't they expect to make a profit from this franchise since they invested in it?
Why should Vivendi allow another party to exploit its franchise without any way for Vivendi (the franchise owner) to benefit?
Not sure what caused this, but my experiments earlier with .Net 2.0 beta 2 on VS.Net 2005 Beta 2 were awful. The GUI performance was much much much slower than anything I considered acceptable. It was like using Java 5 years ago on a P2.
I hope the final release solves that, but man, from that experience, it seemed like the CLR had a long long way to go.
E3 is a very important event for game developers. It's one of the few times when you can pitch an idea to every publisher you want at once. It's an ideal time to forge a new business relationship because the overhead of the meeting (airfare, etc...) can be spread out.
As for the back-room only stuff, that is DESIGNED to keep out the small press because they tend to be less valuable and distracting. E3 is all about exposure - to the retailers and to the big press. Small press doesn't give enough exposure and can often be more trouble than it's worth.
That's not really true.
Customers play a game for a limited amount of time. Then they either put the game on the shelf (unlikely to touch it again) or they sell/give it to someone else.
Those that sell/give it to someone else keeps the support commitment for that CD key alive longer than the typical customer that stops playing the game and puts it away,
Visual Studio 2005 also includes a new feature called Profile Guided Optimization.
This feature allows you to make a special build of your program which instruments your code with performance metrics gathering code. You run your program and it automatically gathers a bunch of data. Then you rebuild the program and the compiler looks at the performance metrics and can make special optimizations targeted at your application.
I spoke with the developers about this feature and they quoted a 20-30% speedup in Yukon (the next version MS SQL Server) - for free, just by having a better compiler.
Ive used 2 TiVos for 5 years each.
The hardware has been very reliable for me. I had to replace a hard disk in each one, but that is to be expected. Everything else works very well.
This is a very real bug that has been around for years.
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Nobody seems to know exactly what causes it, but some theories are that it has to do with having lots of tabs open, or otherwise stressing the application.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9664
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1334
(have to copy/paste that since Bugzilla doesnt permit links from Slashdot)
It's a smart short-term move.
How long until the market is saturated?
Can Apple really sell iPods forever? I suspect not. What then? Raise the prices of songs I guess.
I'm very skeptical that would happen.
It would drive sales of more Apple software products that work on Windows, or more software products built with Apple SDKs.
But I don't think you see nearly as much crossover as you imagine.
And I think Apple sees very little benefit.
Perhaps it is easy to estimate and schedule. But its often very very expensive because you are changing the way you do things, changing your approaches and thinking. It's not a search-replace operation, or a surgical snip (as many Endian issues can be).
The Cocoa frameworks are a huge part of the value proposition of OSX. Why would Apple want to give that up?
For most apps that is only a small, small piece of the puzzle.
The big effort in porting are the APIs; that is, going from Win32 -> Cocoa.
That's not a easy job, and the switch to Intel didn't make it any easier.
I don't want the Microdrive or any of the complications that come with it (most notably, the speed hit mentioned by the reviews).
If Palm were to cut the Microdrive but keep the Wifi, I would buy this for sure.
Isn't that the vast majority of the market??
Am I the only one bugged by the captchas these days?
/. article reported that researchers have been successful at breaking them anyway.
They are getting harder and harder for actual people to read, and a recent
I was all excited for SVN until I saw the debate over which repository store to use, berkeleydb or ffs.
Looks like there is still quite a lot of maturing left before SVN is ready...
Too bad comments can be harmful.
// Don't doo Foo() here because of x and y and z
How many times in a large codebase have you come across something like this:
Foo()
Comments often don't get maintained properly, which leads them to be out of date and wrong.
Which is worse, no comment, or an incorrect comment? The presence of incorrect comments leads developers to have a rather healthy skepticisim of all comments....
This is basically what Gmail does, and I agree it would be nice to see that in Thunderbird. It removes the need to categorize a message into a single folder only, since you can just put as many tags on it as you want.
I read once (I think Sklansky wrote it?) that it is feasible for you to have a bad run of cards as long as 20 years (!)
"The Founding Father's felt that the state was the proper unit to give authority to. We are a collection of States who band together for protection and bargining rights when dealing with foreign nations, and to facilitate resolutions to internal conflict. That's what the Federal Government original was designed to do. Read up on the Federalist system sometime. State's have authority."
Does anyone really believe that anymore? I sure don't.
That also sounds quite appealing!
Too bad that some programmers' interesting bits are other programmers' boring bits....
Screw business logic. Coding up all that other stuff sounds very interesting to me.
Halo PC requires an administrator to install it (so that it can write to Program Files and create the HKLM registry keys for example) but any user can run it.
I felt that way as well until I tried to read those floppies from 10 years ago.
They were stored neatly in boxes or trays, but not a single one was readable.
I chucked them all out.