Re:Please explain one thing - overclocking?!
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In his defense, he was probably referring to the fact that overclocking a PC causes it to run hotter, that heat has to go somewhere, and its usually just poured into the case with the drives. The higher heat in the case, will have adverse effects on the drives.
Probably the last thing a shareware developer wants is a really decent piece of software he's written selling wildy for $5 a copy.
At only $5 a copy, if you had 60 new registrants a week, after a year you'd have 3000 users to support while only making a McDonalds salary. (Factor in the cost of the PC and IDE you used to write the software and it's less).
One thing about warezed copies is, you dont have to support them. I personally would rather have 500 users paying $30 each. Honest users that rely on my software and need tech support, and realize $30 or $5 doesnt really matter because they "use" my software theyll pay either, than having thousands of people emailing me ignorant questions and requests and complaints when they paid less than burger and fries for my months of coding work.
Something to think about anyway.
Why can't people see the real answer is just to develop ultra high resolution displays finer than the resolution of the human eye, then we can just make razor sharp fonts like a high quality laser printer.:) Okay, so we'd need a 4gig GeForce20 Ultra, but it would look 3R33T.
Windows is not "totally unstable", and especially not if all someone is doing on their $40 a month Dell is their finances. I am a full time 18 hour a day, 7 day a week multimedia developer. At any and all times I have XP Pro running Macromedia Director, Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, a dozen web browsers, Sound Editing apps, videos playing... 10 times more than any average home user. My Dell Precision hasn't crashed once the since Ive installed XP, and maybe once in the year or two I ran 2000 prior to XP. Im so sick of how "Windows is a crashing nightmare". yes, yes Win95 really was. 98 is fairly lame too, but NT/2000 and now XP is really very often, very stable. The $40/month finance-only person is about the last person that needs Lindows, but its just FUD to say "they'd benefit from a more stable OS". How many Linux users that bitch about how unstable Windows is actually use Windows everyday? Or are they just perpetuating an exaggeration?
My favorite UI of all time is Softimage. For being such a massively complex 3D creation environment, they have always cut out the pretty little picture icons and stuck with buttons with actual words on them. Everything is no more than a click or two away, and the learning curve is cut down tremendously when your mind doesn't have to perform some translation of 10 pixel icons into some arbitrary command. Ive never understood the overuse of icons in a UI. If it's a really widely recognized icon or pictogram like tape player play (>) or stop ([]) symbols, that may be faster than "play" and "stop" written out. But little bitty pictures of splines and dots and shapes, dont help you learn a 3D application. We spend hundreds and thousands of years developing an instantly recognizeable library of 26 icons (A,B,C,D,etc) yet we trash them in favor of someones personal idea of what an icon for "bi-rail extrusion" should be. Bad idea. DOWN WITH ICONS, GO TEXT!!!
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In his defense, he was probably referring to the fact that overclocking a PC causes it to run hotter, that heat has to go somewhere, and its usually just poured into the case with the drives. The higher heat in the case, will have adverse effects on the drives.
Probably the last thing a shareware developer wants is a really decent piece of software he's written selling wildy for $5 a copy. At only $5 a copy, if you had 60 new registrants a week, after a year you'd have 3000 users to support while only making a McDonalds salary. (Factor in the cost of the PC and IDE you used to write the software and it's less). One thing about warezed copies is, you dont have to support them. I personally would rather have 500 users paying $30 each. Honest users that rely on my software and need tech support, and realize $30 or $5 doesnt really matter because they "use" my software theyll pay either, than having thousands of people emailing me ignorant questions and requests and complaints when they paid less than burger and fries for my months of coding work. Something to think about anyway.
Why can't people see the real answer is just to develop ultra high resolution displays finer than the resolution of the human eye, then we can just make razor sharp fonts like a high quality laser printer. :) Okay, so we'd need a 4gig GeForce20 Ultra, but it would look 3R33T.
Windows is not "totally unstable", and especially not if all someone is doing on their $40 a month Dell is their finances. I am a full time 18 hour a day, 7 day a week multimedia developer. At any and all times I have XP Pro running Macromedia Director, Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, a dozen web browsers, Sound Editing apps, videos playing... 10 times more than any average home user. My Dell Precision hasn't crashed once the since Ive installed XP, and maybe once in the year or two I ran 2000 prior to XP. Im so sick of how "Windows is a crashing nightmare". yes, yes Win95 really was. 98 is fairly lame too, but NT/2000 and now XP is really very often, very stable. The $40/month finance-only person is about the last person that needs Lindows, but its just FUD to say "they'd benefit from a more stable OS". How many Linux users that bitch about how unstable Windows is actually use Windows everyday? Or are they just perpetuating an exaggeration?
My favorite UI of all time is Softimage. For being such a massively complex 3D creation environment, they have always cut out the pretty little picture icons and stuck with buttons with actual words on them. Everything is no more than a click or two away, and the learning curve is cut down tremendously when your mind doesn't have to perform some translation of 10 pixel icons into some arbitrary command. Ive never understood the overuse of icons in a UI. If it's a really widely recognized icon or pictogram like tape player play (>) or stop ([]) symbols, that may be faster than "play" and "stop" written out. But little bitty pictures of splines and dots and shapes, dont help you learn a 3D application. We spend hundreds and thousands of years developing an instantly recognizeable library of 26 icons (A,B,C,D,etc) yet we trash them in favor of someones personal idea of what an icon for "bi-rail extrusion" should be. Bad idea. DOWN WITH ICONS, GO TEXT!!!