Is it me, or am i the only one that EVER plays halo? I know it's not meant to be played online... but i see an average of 400 people playing it on GameSpy, every time i logon. Although that number is not high at all, it's good considering the very high possibility that the game will lag to hell and disconnect if you have more than 3 boxes playing together in a game. Halo wasn't mentioned once though. I think it should get best shooter, best graphics, and best game of the year... if it didn't lag, best online multiplayer game too. Maybe it was counted last year or something, anyone know? O well. I must be getting old, i haven't heard of ANY of these games... well.. some anyway. BTW: how does Super Mario SunShine get "Best platformer" and "Biggest disapointment" at the same time? weird...
Sheesh, i only read the first paragraph or so in fear of ruining the entire movie for me! Of course i'll probably end up getting it in DivX format a few weeks before it comes out, especially when they have previews this far before the release date (I did with the matrix 1 anyway). Anyhow, i'm sure it will be a great movie.... but like all great movies, there are always someone who's going to say it sucked for some reason or another.
EXCELENT PVR software, i've used it. Actually, i haven't tried the recording part, but everything i have tried (playing movies, mp3s, photo gallery) was worked great. Has an awsome interface too. It would be GREAT for one of those anandtec boxes.... the sv24 or whatever it is.
Why am i so happy about the new kernel? I feel all giddy inside like a school boy or something. Or is it just my inner g33k that is dieing to compile a new kernel?
Well, i am on a win2k pro workstation right now. I have a highly modified distribution of RedHat 7.2 with latest stable kernel from kernel.org. I'm a Java developer (among other languages). I installed visual studio.NET the other day... and learned the language (syntax and some libraries) in a matter of hours... it's ALMOST exactly like Java, syntax wise. I thought it was cool beacuse the GUI type stuff was faster than Java's Swing/AWT stuff... but then realized, how often am i making GUI stuff in java?... never. o well. As i browsed through the API, i started noticing stuff for accessing the windows registry... i saw stuff for loading DLL's... I saw a multitude of other things that were specific to windows. Now i ask you, how the hell will they port.NET to *n?x (that's unix) based operating systems if a good portion (about 20%) of thier APIs are specific to windows? How is that cross compatible? And what god awful software am i going to have to install on my Linux box to make it ".NET compatible". Are they going to force me to install a "registry emulator"? I hardly see C# taking over java. For one thing, I can't imagine any UNIX admin allowing microsoft software to run on his servers... eh... who cares... I'll still write java code when i want to write quick and easy OO code.
Oh yeah, and my bigest concern about the whole.NET thing is this:
Everything compiled under.NET (C/C++, C#, VB, etc) is ran through the CLR, and will run the same speed, no matter what language it was writen in. I've heard you can compile "nativley" but you loose a huge percentage of the.NET APIs.
With that said, why would i ever use C++.NET? If i'm gunna spend time writing C++ code i want it to run natively!!!!
I think the guy that wrote this article is a weakling. It's easy as hell to change the registered file types. And the people out there that may have problems changing the registered file types are most likely people that are not very computer savy in the first place, and therefore would have no reason to change that registered file type anyway. And when someone wants to open a document in a program other than what was designated to open it, 90% of the time they open that program and go to the file->open menu. You have to remember, windows was made for the idiot user. It was made to let the people of the world that do NOT want to learn what rm -rf, or mkdir, or chown do (didn't want to use dos commands, they are bartely useable anyway), it's for people that like purty buttons and pictures to guide them around the internet and tell them how to do things, and they don't care. Because if they DID care, they'd learn how to change thier registered file types.
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System.out.println(..), cout, print STDOUT, Response.write, these are my debuggers, i RARELY have to get out jdb, or gdb.
Is it me, or am i the only one that EVER plays halo? I know it's not meant to be played online... but i see an average of 400 people playing it on GameSpy, every time i logon. Although that number is not high at all, it's good considering the very high possibility that the game will lag to hell and disconnect if you have more than 3 boxes playing together in a game. Halo wasn't mentioned once though. I think it should get best shooter, best graphics, and best game of the year... if it didn't lag, best online multiplayer game too. Maybe it was counted last year or something, anyone know? O well. I must be getting old, i haven't heard of ANY of these games... well.. some anyway. BTW: how does Super Mario SunShine get "Best platformer" and "Biggest disapointment" at the same time? weird...
Sheesh, i only read the first paragraph or so in fear of ruining the entire movie for me! Of course i'll probably end up getting it in DivX format a few weeks before it comes out, especially when they have previews this far before the release date (I did with the matrix 1 anyway). Anyhow, i'm sure it will be a great movie.... but like all great movies, there are always someone who's going to say it sucked for some reason or another.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net
EXCELENT PVR software, i've used it. Actually, i haven't tried the recording part, but everything i have tried (playing movies, mp3s, photo gallery) was worked great. Has an awsome interface too. It would be GREAT for one of those anandtec boxes.... the sv24 or whatever it is.
Why am i so happy about the new kernel? I feel all giddy inside like a school boy or something. Or is it just my inner g33k that is dieing to compile a new kernel?
why? http://www.w3c.org read up on XML holmes.
Well, i am on a win2k pro workstation right now. I have a highly modified distribution of RedHat 7.2 with latest stable kernel from kernel.org. I'm a Java developer (among other languages). I installed visual studio .NET the other day... and learned the language (syntax and some libraries) in a matter of hours... it's ALMOST exactly like Java, syntax wise. I thought it was cool beacuse the GUI type stuff was faster than Java's Swing/AWT stuff... but then realized, how often am i making GUI stuff in java?... never. o well. As i browsed through the API, i started noticing stuff for accessing the windows registry... i saw stuff for loading DLL's... I saw a multitude of other things that were specific to windows. Now i ask you, how the hell will they port .NET to *n?x (that's unix) based operating systems if a good portion (about 20%) of thier APIs are specific to windows? How is that cross compatible? And what god awful software am i going to have to install on my Linux box to make it ".NET compatible". Are they going to force me to install a "registry emulator"? I hardly see C# taking over java. For one thing, I can't imagine any UNIX admin allowing microsoft software to run on his servers... eh... who cares... I'll still write java code when i want to write quick and easy OO code.
Oh yeah, and my bigest concern about the whole .NET thing is this:
Everything compiled under .NET (C/C++, C#, VB, etc) is ran through the CLR, and will run the same speed, no matter what language it was writen in. I've heard you can compile "nativley" but you loose a huge percentage of the .NET APIs.
With that said, why would i ever use C++.NET? If i'm gunna spend time writing C++ code i want it to run natively!!!!
you got balls saying that last line on a /. board hehe.
I think the guy that wrote this article is a weakling. It's easy as hell to change the registered file types. And the people out there that may have problems changing the registered file types are most likely people that are not very computer savy in the first place, and therefore would have no reason to change that registered file type anyway. And when someone wants to open a document in a program other than what was designated to open it, 90% of the time they open that program and go to the file->open menu. You have to remember, windows was made for the idiot user. It was made to let the people of the world that do NOT want to learn what rm -rf, or mkdir, or chown do (didn't want to use dos commands, they are bartely useable anyway), it's for people that like purty buttons and pictures to guide them around the internet and tell them how to do things, and they don't care. Because if they DID care, they'd learn how to change thier registered file types.