I thought that was one of the greatest features too, until I was involved in the development of a considerably large Windows Forms application. There are so many bugs associated with the combination of anchoring and resizing. Its obvious Microsoft's focus during development & testing of the.Net CLR was ASP.Net not Windows Forms!
Have you had a look at OpenCMS? Its not really intended for blogs, but for more formal web content management. I've used it on a couple of projects and its free as in both beer and speech.
For example, while ALT tags are good, they are really not necessary for spacer images, purely eye candy elements, etc. I'm big on HTML standards, but you just don't need ALT tags on every image...
Alt tags are required by certain HTML standards, such as XHTML 1.0 - so if you are being compliant then you don't have a choice. One of the reasons ALT tags are important, even on spacers, is that visually impaired users may rely on them because they can't see the images themselves.
9iAS Release 2 is a big improvement over the initial release. We are using the initial release and have encountered a number of bugs, however we are now planning an upgrade to Release 2 as it appears all of our current problems have been resolved (lets hope there are no new ones). Also, remember that it is based on Orion which has been around for a while.
Yeah, yeah... I understand all that - my point concerned the average consumer, not the geeks. I'm really just commenting that the speed at which processors are increasing in performance is outstripping the applications. Although Microsoft is working hard to slow things down (:-)) there isn't much justification for the increased speed.
I work for a company that does software development (Java, C++, VB etc) and we have PIII 933MHz PCs as standard - even though everyone here would love a 2GHz machine, there really isn't much commerial justification for spending the money.
I agree! All I meant was that even techies (like me) can be satisfied quite cheaply with a dual celeron system. Mum and dad should be quite happy with a single 1.3GHz celeron.
Unless of course you are trying to get 400fps in Quake 5 - then you can justify the 6-way P4 system...
Does any one really notice the difference in speed between even 1.7GHz and the 2.0Ghz? I know it will scrape time from a kernel re-compile, but what non-IT consumers care about this? Especially considering you can get a dual 1.3 GHz celeron system for next to nothing.
I think Intel would make more money by even lowering prices even further and offering P4 SMP (non-Xeon) - they'd sell more chips... and make me happier;-)
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Isn't the 360 actually tracking well against the PS3? (debt from Zune and the original Xbox aside)
I thought that was one of the greatest features too, until I was involved in the development of a considerably large Windows Forms application. There are so many bugs associated with the combination of anchoring and resizing. Its obvious Microsoft's focus during development & testing of the .Net CLR was ASP.Net not Windows Forms!
The version numbers are not real decimals, i.e. the sequence will be:
...
.27 in the 2.4 series.
2.6.8
2.6.9
2.6.10
2.6.11
So we're along way from
Have you had a look at OpenCMS? Its not really intended for blogs, but for more formal web content management. I've used it on a couple of projects and its free as in both beer and speech.
DirectX relies on COM, so porting it to another platform isn't realistic without porting COM.
For example, while ALT tags are good, they are really not necessary for spacer images, purely eye candy elements, etc. I'm big on HTML standards, but you just don't need ALT tags on every image...
Alt tags are required by certain HTML standards, such as XHTML 1.0 - so if you are being compliant then you don't have a choice. One of the reasons ALT tags are important, even on spacers, is that visually impaired users may rely on them because they can't see the images themselves.
9iAS Release 2 is a big improvement over the initial release. We are using the initial release and have encountered a number of bugs, however we are now planning an upgrade to Release 2 as it appears all of our current problems have been resolved (lets hope there are no new ones). Also, remember that it is based on Orion which has been around for a while.
Yeah, yeah... I understand all that - my point concerned the average consumer, not the geeks. I'm really just commenting that the speed at which processors are increasing in performance is outstripping the applications. Although Microsoft is working hard to slow things down (:-)) there isn't much justification for the increased speed.
I work for a company that does software development (Java, C++, VB etc) and we have PIII 933MHz PCs as standard - even though everyone here would love a 2GHz machine, there really isn't much commerial justification for spending the money.
I agree! All I meant was that even techies (like me) can be satisfied quite cheaply with a dual celeron system. Mum and dad should be quite happy with a single 1.3GHz celeron.
Unless of course you are trying to get 400fps in Quake 5 - then you can justify the 6-way P4 system...
Does any one really notice the difference in speed between even 1.7GHz and the 2.0Ghz? I know it will scrape time from a kernel re-compile, but what non-IT consumers care about this? Especially considering you can get a dual 1.3 GHz celeron system for next to nothing.
;-)
I think Intel would make more money by even lowering prices even further and offering P4 SMP (non-Xeon) - they'd sell more chips... and make me happier