No, it's because these languages and frameworks coming out of Microsoft deserve suspicion at best, and in most cases, nothing but contempt. If I was actually using C# in day-to-day life I would use the given name, but I don't and have no intention of doing so. You shouldn't either.
Remember, this is the company whose sole driving force is to push its bread-and-butter products (Windows and Office) at the expense of all competition, and keep you dependent on these products. No matter how many worthless "promises" and "pledges" have been issued by slippery lawyers. If C# works for you on a non-windows platform for now, great for you, but don't expect it to in ten years.
That is why I call this language a hash. Yes, they're trying to be clever with a musical pun, but 'sharp' is giving Microsoft supporters more credit than I think they deserve. In ASCII a sharp (#) is indistinguishable from a hash (#), so you'll forgive me if I choose to be a bit derogatory and use the latter.
Why is that? Has Ballmer stood down as CEO or something?
I know Oracle is a horrible, horrible company, not worthy of our money but comparing it to Microsoft is perhaps like comparing Robert Mugabe to Atilla the Hun.
Some models of IBM DeathStar, oops sorry DeskStar disks had glass platters. I have encountered two of these in my hard-drive smashing expeditions, thankfully with suitable eye protection.
I guess they wouldn't have the same thermal expansion/contraction issues that metal ones had, at the expense of being more brittle.
Yes, the 4% pitch rise is pretty much one semitone. Everyone's voice is a bit squeakier, and all music is off key. Particularly troubling when watching music-heavy movies such as Star Wars.
One very minor upside is that the movie is over a bit more quickly:)
Funny, at my place it was the opposite. I bought a 100Hz Philips TV with "Natural Motion" which is basically simple motion interpolation.
Film content on it looked absolutely FANTASTIC, much better than anything in cinemas. Scenes that I remembered having very juddery movement in the cinema was now beautifully smooth on my telly. After a couple of movies everyone decided there was no going back to a set without motion interpolation.
Unfortunately when *that* TV eventually gave up its smoke I could only afford to replace it with a 50Hz LCD set. I miss it.
BBC video (PAL) shows 25 complete frames per second (30 for NTSC) but each of those frames is made up of two fields. The first field[1] is comprised of all the odd lines, the second made of even lines. Now the catch is that these two fields are captured at different times, in fact 1/50 second apart. So the net effect on an interlacing television set is that objects, pans, tilts, zooms, etc all appear to be moving at 50fps.
The funny thing is that the television standard designers way back when realised that 25fps wasn't enough but electronics of the day couldn't make an electron beam scan a full frame every 1/50 second.
[1] I forget if this is actually the order or if it's vice versa but it doesn't really matter for this discussion.
We've stuck with horrible juddery 24fps for exactly one reason: people think anything else doesn't look like "professional" film, so they make everything 24fps to make it look like everyone else's. It's a self-feeding loop, and it stinks. It's the same kind of thinking that kept colour film and "talkies" out of some cinemas (though admittedly few in the former case as people quickly figured which was better). The problem is somewhat exacerbated by a couple of generations seeing low-quality TV broadcasts at higher framerates (50 and ~60 fields per second for PAL and NTSC respectively).
48fps gives motion that is just much more natural, being closer to how we actually perceive the world. Have you ever wondered why pans and tilts in movies are eeerily slow? Any faster and you get a jerky hard-to-track mess. One other option is to give up on showing anything interesting during the motion and add heavy blurring which can be pulled off artistically if done right.
Until I can no longer use it to pay taxes and other debts it's as much a 'real' currency as anything else.
What is it about fiat currencies that makes them not real, just because the materials they are made of hold no significant value? What, do you think gold and other "precious" metals will stay valuable forever? Have a think about exactly why the price of gold is so high at the moment (hint: it involves China).
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Quiet! Upper management don't know about that one yet.
I'm glad they included the option to turn single-window mode off. Y'know, for human users with more than one brain cell.
See this comment for an explanation.
Yes, just like pronouncing "Arkansas" as "ar-kin-saw", "Internet" as "enner-nat" and, the worst offence of all, "solder" rhyming with "fodder".
No, it's because these languages and frameworks coming out of Microsoft deserve suspicion at best, and in most cases, nothing but contempt. If I was actually using C# in day-to-day life I would use the given name, but I don't and have no intention of doing so. You shouldn't either.
Remember, this is the company whose sole driving force is to push its bread-and-butter products (Windows and Office) at the expense of all competition, and keep you dependent on these products. No matter how many worthless "promises" and "pledges" have been issued by slippery lawyers. If C# works for you on a non-windows platform for now, great for you, but don't expect it to in ten years.
That is why I call this language a hash. Yes, they're trying to be clever with a musical pun, but 'sharp' is giving Microsoft supporters more credit than I think they deserve. In ASCII a sharp (#) is indistinguishable from a hash (#), so you'll forgive me if I choose to be a bit derogatory and use the latter.
Why is that? Has Ballmer stood down as CEO or something?
I know Oracle is a horrible, horrible company, not worthy of our money but comparing it to Microsoft is perhaps like comparing Robert Mugabe to Atilla the Hun.
Nnother, more chilling, interpretation of his review is this:
every man has his price.
Doesn't matter. Microsoft is a bigger, more evil giant than even Oracle. They will always, always try to screw you over.
Yes, but to interpret a hash (#) as "sharp" there is usually a previous musical context.
In my part of the woods, the Microsoft language is simply known as C hash.
Yes, but where is he going to find a motherboard that supports the 128GB needed to run 8 instances of Amarok?
Oh, and some grumbling about 8 PCI sound cards, though I guess USB ones would work fine.
Just make sure you're well clear of this beauty when it changes gear.
I wonder what size blowoff valve one could fit to one of these things...
Some models of IBM DeathStar, oops sorry DeskStar disks had glass platters. I have encountered two of these in my hard-drive smashing expeditions, thankfully with suitable eye protection.
I guess they wouldn't have the same thermal expansion/contraction issues that metal ones had, at the expense of being more brittle.
Yes, the 4% pitch rise is pretty much one semitone. Everyone's voice is a bit squeakier, and all music is off key. Particularly troubling when watching music-heavy movies such as Star Wars.
One very minor upside is that the movie is over a bit more quickly :)
Funny, at my place it was the opposite. I bought a 100Hz Philips TV with "Natural Motion" which is basically simple motion interpolation.
Film content on it looked absolutely FANTASTIC, much better than anything in cinemas. Scenes that I remembered having very juddery movement in the cinema was now beautifully smooth on my telly. After a couple of movies everyone decided there was no going back to a set without motion interpolation.
Unfortunately when *that* TV eventually gave up its smoke I could only afford to replace it with a 50Hz LCD set. I miss it.
Yes and no.
BBC video (PAL) shows 25 complete frames per second (30 for NTSC) but each of those frames is made up of two fields. The first field[1] is comprised of all the odd lines, the second made of even lines. Now the catch is that these two fields are captured at different times, in fact 1/50 second apart. So the net effect on an interlacing television set is that objects, pans, tilts, zooms, etc all appear to be moving at 50fps.
The funny thing is that the television standard designers way back when realised that 25fps wasn't enough but electronics of the day couldn't make an electron beam scan a full frame every 1/50 second.
[1] I forget if this is actually the order or if it's vice versa but it doesn't really matter for this discussion.
Indeed. I rejoiced when third party Doom engines were released, allowing me to play it beyond the 30fps ceiling that the original had.
You're right. Lucas shot first. Then he tinkered. That's when the problems started.
Mod parent up.
We've stuck with horrible juddery 24fps for exactly one reason: people think anything else doesn't look like "professional" film, so they make everything 24fps to make it look like everyone else's. It's a self-feeding loop, and it stinks. It's the same kind of thinking that kept colour film and "talkies" out of some cinemas (though admittedly few in the former case as people quickly figured which was better). The problem is somewhat exacerbated by a couple of generations seeing low-quality TV broadcasts at higher framerates (50 and ~60 fields per second for PAL and NTSC respectively).
48fps gives motion that is just much more natural, being closer to how we actually perceive the world. Have you ever wondered why pans and tilts in movies are eeerily slow? Any faster and you get a jerky hard-to-track mess. One other option is to give up on showing anything interesting during the motion and add heavy blurring which can be pulled off artistically if done right.
Well the weight of an eye at least, if you happen to strike a drive with glass platters.
Cool, so can I sell my Steam games second-hand when I'm finished with them?
Until I can no longer use it to pay taxes and other debts it's as much a 'real' currency as anything else.
What is it about fiat currencies that makes them not real, just because the materials they are made of hold no significant value? What, do you think gold and other "precious" metals will stay valuable forever? Have a think about exactly why the price of gold is so high at the moment (hint: it involves China).
That makes me sad. Why oh why did AMD kill off their Phenom 2 line?
Their six-core Phenoms were excellent, and I'd really rather not give Intel any money if I can help it.
Skype works well on your Android phone? Just give them a bit of time and they'll "fix" that problem. Remember Skype is now owned by Microsoft.
Out of curiosity, can you still use Skype over WiFi or did they get around to making it 3G only?
Given that software patents are 100% worthless, I hope Microsoft enjoys their donation from Facebook, and AOL enjoys their cool billion.
Eeeasy money.
So... one might say that you were boycotting DRM games.