When you're grading a large number of students you may not notice duplicated code unless you happen to go over the duplicates relatively close to each other. Furthermore, in the classes I TAed we had multiple TAs, and we would split the students amongst us. So even if two students' assignments were identical we still wouldn't necessarily notice, as different TAs might be looking at each one. Automated tools help even when you're already going over all the code manually.
MS Lock in? What MS lock in? I've watched The Guild and never once did so through anything Microsoft.
They sell DVDs of seasons 1 and 2, and I assume will do so with 3 once it's done. And the eps are posted (officially) to youtube a while after they're released to Live.
Oh, and that song they did is on both Amazon MP3 and iTunes.
So while they do use Microsoft for some distribution, it's not locked in at all.
"This milestone release delivers compatibility with.NET 2.0 and C# 3.0 on a broad range of platforms and architectures. "
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"The C# compiler is greatly improved and now delivers support for Language Integrated Query (LINQ) functionality and expression trees."
From what I remember, 3.0 didn't add anything new to the runtime. All the new language features were just syntax sugar that the compiler handled. This probably won't work with.Net 3.5 stuff, but it sounds like 3.0 should work fine.
Few, though, can match the slick ease of use of RealPlayer 11 -- and it isn't even out of beta yet.
Also, few can match the problems caused to completely unrelated software by simply installing it.
The mechanism they use for flash video ripping is (as far as I've been able to tell) pretty much undocumented and, as it currently stands, breaks lots of stuff. My company's product breaks in a couple ways, even though our product has nothing to do with Real Player and doesn't serve video.
Here are some links with info on the problems:
I also created a wiki page on the osflash site to document them and workarounds/fixes if they're found:
http://osflash.org/flashcoders/realplayer_bugs
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Real gets sued by someone over RP11. Either for stream ripping or simply for breaking Flash related products.
I have yet to find a time where I would need to strip out the DRM unless to share with the masses.
Actually, I wouldn't buy anything from the iTunes store until something like this came out. I spend most of my time in Linux, and while I liked the music store it was pointless if I couldn't listen to the music. The day after playfair came out I found it, and now I actually use the music store. So at least in my case, the playfair software actually added a customer to the music store.
And for the record, I do NOT share any of the music I buy. I only use playfair so that I can listen to the music I bought. I find it very unfortunate that so many people are so bent on stealing music, software, etc. They're making it such that usefull tools like playfair end up being considered as tools for criminals, not just as tools that MIGHT be used by criminals but have legitimate uses too.
They should have used the "On-Screen Keyboard" under Accessibility. It is a little scary that this was connected to cash.
Tried that. It was fairly difficult, as the touch screen wasn't accurate enough. Especially after we upped the resolution.
Took forever just to get the start bar. It was set to autohide, and we had the hardest time getting the screen to recognize a "click" at the bottom of the screen.
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When you're grading a large number of students you may not notice duplicated code unless you happen to go over the duplicates relatively close to each other. Furthermore, in the classes I TAed we had multiple TAs, and we would split the students amongst us. So even if two students' assignments were identical we still wouldn't necessarily notice, as different TAs might be looking at each one. Automated tools help even when you're already going over all the code manually.
MS Lock in? What MS lock in? I've watched The Guild and never once did so through anything Microsoft.
They sell DVDs of seasons 1 and 2, and I assume will do so with 3 once it's done. And the eps are posted (officially) to youtube a while after they're released to Live.
Oh, and that song they did is on both Amazon MP3 and iTunes.
So while they do use Microsoft for some distribution, it's not locked in at all.
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From what I remember, 3.0 didn't add anything new to the runtime. All the new language features were just syntax sugar that the compiler handled. This probably won't work with .Net 3.5 stuff, but it sounds like 3.0 should work fine.
- Adobe employee (engineer?) bringing up some of the issues: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2007/07
/ real_problem.cfm
- Real's response to the above post: http://rws-blog.rhapsody.com/realplayer/2007/07/r
e alplayer-beta.html
- Flash/FMS communication details: http://blog.jaycharles.net/?p=9
- Other details. From comments here it suggests that RP11 is installing some kind of proxy for the Flash communication: http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2007/8/1/re
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I also created a wiki page on the osflash site to document them and workarounds/fixes if they're found: http://osflash.org/flashcoders/realplayer_bugs I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Real gets sued by someone over RP11. Either for stream ripping or simply for breaking Flash related products.For those of us who don't know what the Sony-Betamax decision was, can someone please explain? What are the implications of this? Thanks!
I have yet to find a time where I would need to strip out the DRM unless to share with the masses.
Actually, I wouldn't buy anything from the iTunes store until something like this came out. I spend most of my time in Linux, and while I liked the music store it was pointless if I couldn't listen to the music. The day after playfair came out I found it, and now I actually use the music store. So at least in my case, the playfair software actually added a customer to the music store.
And for the record, I do NOT share any of the music I buy. I only use playfair so that I can listen to the music I bought. I find it very unfortunate that so many people are so bent on stealing music, software, etc. They're making it such that usefull tools like playfair end up being considered as tools for criminals, not just as tools that MIGHT be used by criminals but have legitimate uses too.
Correction. P4 2 Ghz, not P2...
Oh, it's worse than that. According to Window's system information it was a P2 (I think). It also had A CD burner according to My Computer.
The one "good" thing was that both drives seemed to be protected, as it wouldn't let us open the drives.