Yeah, its pretty much up to your version control, not the IDE (though the IDE version control should expose it). With the exception of MS version control, the plugins are written by the version control devs, so quality varies from ok to ghastly in my experience. (Not that MS version control doesn't suck big time).
There are some patches out there for 2005 to help out with Intellisense, but it still pretty much sucked even with that. 2008 makes it unnoticeable, but it still has correctness problems. Visual Assist X makes everything work. Haven't tried 2010, but it looks like they rewrote it, so maybe this time they got it right.
When your project size starts getting large and the number of classes/functions/types/etc starts heading to the thousands its pretty nice to have something that will quickly show you the organization of the code base and help you find things faster. Stuff like "I'm in a source file, open the corresponding header" or "show me all the places that call this function" or "rename this function everywhere it was used" or even "let me browse through the 10 versions of the function to see the right one without having to load the header file and stare at it". Also, when there's tight checkout integration its nice to click on another file, check it out, etc. without having to drop to the command line or move to something else. That's not to say that the command line isn't useful - I still find it easier to sometimes run makes or grep or whatever so there's always one handy, but personally I get a lot more done than with a plain old editor.
Having driven both places I think what we really need is just a law that you don't drive in the left lane, only pass. (Maybe have exemptions for certain times of the day when there's more traffic and no ones going anywhere anyways.) People are going to drive fast, that's a given, but if you pull the slower traffic out of the left (and even middle on > 2 lane roads) lane then you won't see passing on the right, or cars cutting across three lanes to get to get past a clog of people. Then raise the limits to something a little more reasonable (65 or 70 in open country between cities when everyone routinely does 90 doesn't seem to serve a purpose) and make the fines something worth thinking about (including suspension, lifetime bans, and jail).
So are you picturing a garage with two dudes in it, both of whom are currently working on putting netflix on home appliances? "Hey Bob, maybe we better switch back to getting some more movies up". If the owners of the content decided netflix could post whatever they wanted this stuff would be up yesterday. Its legal agreements and handwringing with the suits at the movie companies worried about their bottom lines, not Netflix that's holding it up. But given that blockbuster is about to crumble its only a matter of time before getting streamed movies is the only way people rent them. I'm guessing you'll see a lot better terms then.
You're confusing "a single view" with "consensus". I'd put good money on a majority view here being "piracy is not stealing" with a split on "piracy is/is not harmful."
I see this all the time in Bittorrent discussions, but there seems to be a double standard once the GPL comes into play. How can something be stolen if I still have a copy? Also, I wasn't going to develop the code anyways, so you didn't lose anything. And non-GPL distribution will actually _help_ the official version by making more people aware of it.
Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI). Information previously available on the site included a report on 400 Iranian opposition protesters that were arrested on 4 November, 2009, an Iranian holiday that marks the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran, according to a cached version of the site.
It was not clear whether HRAI had ties to US intelligence organisations or whether the Fars report labeled them as such due to their apparent sympathy for opposition protesters. The Fars report did not tie any of the websites to a specific US government entity.
This is not the opening salvo of a cyber war you were looking for, move along.
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Its of course plausible that these were CIA fronts, but I'm going to go with "excuse to silence some critics", much like how they say every single one of the millions of protesters in Iran is a paid US operative dedicated to overthrowing the perfect religious dictatorship that no one would possibly be unhappy with.
Whats the problem with cloning exactly? So Bill Gates wants a child with most of the same genes he has, who cares? Its not him. It might not even look a whole lot like him due to other factors we can't control. And growing body parts does not equal cloning anyways. If you grow a heart, its just an organ ready to be transplanted, not a whole person. A clone would still have to be embedded in a woman and birthed as normal. It would have all the same rights as any other person.
No, its just that their convictions weren't that solid to begin with. Its easy to say "I'm against that, and I'm hopping mad about it" when its something abstract that doesn't really affect you. Its a much bigger deal when its "You're Dad has cancer. We can cure him but we'd need to destroy these cells we were going to leave sitting in a freezer for later disposal." There are a lot of people who would stand by their convictions to the bitter end (true believers) and theres' a lot of sheep who will break at the first sign of being personally affected by their belief system.
I'm pretty sure since most people in the US who drink (millions and millions of us) understand what "proof" is, it has meaning. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it wrong.
Lets get rid of the barbque's next! That delicious smell of meat makes me hungrier, and its quadrupled by the obnoxious second hand pot smoke I've been inhaling at the same time!
You're equating blowjobs with having sex with children? I hope your religion doesn't have anything against putting stuff up your ass, because thats one mighty big stick you have up there.
I guess the one you left out. MS will actually let you charge for downloads of XNA titles now. Doesn't seem like the most lucrative channel, but its there. Seems like facebook or iphone would be the hub though for cheap, fun, indy titles.
The GP is opposed to DRM on philosophical means it seems, while you're only speaking of convenience. Consoles are built with DRM from the ground up - the DRM is in the hardware of the machine and you can't do anything without interacting with it.
Of course, this means that its a pretty seamless experience for the user. I put a disc in or download a game and there's nothing I need to worry about - no installation, no activation, no online only presence. It "Just Works". Which of course forces one to ask: if there was an analog to this in the PC world - some hardware DRM you could put on your machine and be done with the various software based disc checked and network activated schemes once and for all - would you install it?
If you don't have internet access, how are you posting this? Don't get me wrong, I like LAN parties as much as the next nerd, but generally the ones I go to have Internet. Its kind of mandatory now that the host provides it: chips, beer, bathroom, Internet, etc. Its not like the internet connection is going to stop LAN parties. I'm not trying to troll or harass, I'm just wondering why its such a big deal. (And no, given the length of development for the game and the deep pockets I'm sure it wouldn't have been an issue to put it in - it is for a lot of titles though as its one more thing to test).
The article suggests a "special" sim tool or a paper clip. Those are both special since right now I don't have either on me. And many since there are two of them. And "completely disassemble" is true also since that's as far as anyone can take an IPhone apart. So the GP is right. So there. Thhhhhbbt!:)
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I'm pretty sure a crow bar doesn't cost _that_ much.
Yeah, its pretty much up to your version control, not the IDE (though the IDE version control should expose it). With the exception of MS version control, the plugins are written by the version control devs, so quality varies from ok to ghastly in my experience. (Not that MS version control doesn't suck big time).
There are some patches out there for 2005 to help out with Intellisense, but it still pretty much sucked even with that. 2008 makes it unnoticeable, but it still has correctness problems. Visual Assist X makes everything work. Haven't tried 2010, but it looks like they rewrote it, so maybe this time they got it right.
When your project size starts getting large and the number of classes/functions/types/etc starts heading to the thousands its pretty nice to have something that will quickly show you the organization of the code base and help you find things faster. Stuff like "I'm in a source file, open the corresponding header" or "show me all the places that call this function" or "rename this function everywhere it was used" or even "let me browse through the 10 versions of the function to see the right one without having to load the header file and stare at it". Also, when there's tight checkout integration its nice to click on another file, check it out, etc. without having to drop to the command line or move to something else. That's not to say that the command line isn't useful - I still find it easier to sometimes run makes or grep or whatever so there's always one handy, but personally I get a lot more done than with a plain old editor.
I'm confused, are you from the past and your time machine connects to the future on a modem?
Just curious, is the speech impediment part of the character? He sounds like he was born deaf or something.
Also, "best retrogaming comedy" is a pretty low bar. How do you tell the difference?
Having driven both places I think what we really need is just a law that you don't drive in the left lane, only pass. (Maybe have exemptions for certain times of the day when there's more traffic and no ones going anywhere anyways.) People are going to drive fast, that's a given, but if you pull the slower traffic out of the left (and even middle on > 2 lane roads) lane then you won't see passing on the right, or cars cutting across three lanes to get to get past a clog of people. Then raise the limits to something a little more reasonable (65 or 70 in open country between cities when everyone routinely does 90 doesn't seem to serve a purpose) and make the fines something worth thinking about (including suspension, lifetime bans, and jail).
This comment has a link to the box:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1596796&cid=31629454
It says "Includes downloadable character and quest A $15 Value One-time use code available with full retail purchase"
Nothing about free or it being any thing more than one time. Not sure how that can be called "false advertising"
So are you picturing a garage with two dudes in it, both of whom are currently working on putting netflix on home appliances? "Hey Bob, maybe we better switch back to getting some more movies up". If the owners of the content decided netflix could post whatever they wanted this stuff would be up yesterday. Its legal agreements and handwringing with the suits at the movie companies worried about their bottom lines, not Netflix that's holding it up. But given that blockbuster is about to crumble its only a matter of time before getting streamed movies is the only way people rent them. I'm guessing you'll see a lot better terms then.
You're confusing "a single view" with "consensus". I'd put good money on a majority view here being "piracy is not stealing" with a split on "piracy is/is not harmful."
I see this all the time in Bittorrent discussions, but there seems to be a double standard once the GPL comes into play. How can something be stolen if I still have a copy? Also, I wasn't going to develop the code anyways, so you didn't lose anything. And non-GPL distribution will actually _help_ the official version by making more people aware of it.
FTFA:
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Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI). Information previously available on the site included a report on 400 Iranian opposition protesters that were arrested on 4 November, 2009, an Iranian holiday that marks the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran, according to a cached version of the site.
It was not clear whether HRAI had ties to US intelligence organisations or whether the Fars report labeled them as such due to their apparent sympathy for opposition protesters. The Fars report did not tie any of the websites to a specific US government entity.
This is not the opening salvo of a cyber war you were looking for, move along.
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Its of course plausible that these were CIA fronts, but I'm going to go with "excuse to silence some critics", much like how they say every single one of the millions of protesters in Iran is a paid US operative dedicated to overthrowing the perfect religious dictatorship that no one would possibly be unhappy with.
Whats the problem with cloning exactly? So Bill Gates wants a child with most of the same genes he has, who cares? Its not him. It might not even look a whole lot like him due to other factors we can't control. And growing body parts does not equal cloning anyways. If you grow a heart, its just an organ ready to be transplanted, not a whole person. A clone would still have to be embedded in a woman and birthed as normal. It would have all the same rights as any other person.
No, its just that their convictions weren't that solid to begin with. Its easy to say "I'm against that, and I'm hopping mad about it" when its something abstract that doesn't really affect you. Its a much bigger deal when its "You're Dad has cancer. We can cure him but we'd need to destroy these cells we were going to leave sitting in a freezer for later disposal." There are a lot of people who would stand by their convictions to the bitter end (true believers) and theres' a lot of sheep who will break at the first sign of being personally affected by their belief system.
Man, I wish I had some MOD points. Bravo!
I'm pretty sure since most people in the US who drink (millions and millions of us) understand what "proof" is, it has meaning. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it wrong.
Lets get rid of the barbque's next! That delicious smell of meat makes me hungrier, and its quadrupled by the obnoxious second hand pot smoke I've been inhaling at the same time!
You're equating blowjobs with having sex with children? I hope your religion doesn't have anything against putting stuff up your ass, because thats one mighty big stick you have up there.
I guess the one you left out. MS will actually let you charge for downloads of XNA titles now. Doesn't seem like the most lucrative channel, but its there. Seems like facebook or iphone would be the hub though for cheap, fun, indy titles.
The GP is opposed to DRM on philosophical means it seems, while you're only speaking of convenience. Consoles are built with DRM from the ground up - the DRM is in the hardware of the machine and you can't do anything without interacting with it.
Of course, this means that its a pretty seamless experience for the user. I put a disc in or download a game and there's nothing I need to worry about - no installation, no activation, no online only presence. It "Just Works". Which of course forces one to ask: if there was an analog to this in the PC world - some hardware DRM you could put on your machine and be done with the various software based disc checked and network activated schemes once and for all - would you install it?
It tells you the correct date and time and everyone else you're rich.
This watch is gigantic - I know its subjective but I seriously doubt "stylish" is what comes to mind when most people look at this thing.
Amazingly I've never gone to twitter or signed up for it, and somehow have never been bothered by it. Go figure!
I felt the same way about Lord of the Rings! Bastards! Only when they finally showed all 12 hours in a row did I attend.
If you don't have internet access, how are you posting this? Don't get me wrong, I like LAN parties as much as the next nerd, but generally the ones I go to have Internet. Its kind of mandatory now that the host provides it: chips, beer, bathroom, Internet, etc. Its not like the internet connection is going to stop LAN parties. I'm not trying to troll or harass, I'm just wondering why its such a big deal. (And no, given the length of development for the game and the deep pockets I'm sure it wouldn't have been an issue to put it in - it is for a lot of titles though as its one more thing to test).
The article suggests a "special" sim tool or a paper clip. Those are both special since right now I don't have either on me. And many since there are two of them. And "completely disassemble" is true also since that's as far as anyone can take an IPhone apart. So the GP is right. So there. Thhhhhbbt! :)