I've been using it for years as well, and I don't think that I've ever had to disable it because a site wasn't working.
The list that Rick put together was fabulous. I haven't seen an ad on the internet in years. A couple of weeks back I wanted to try out another browser... (chrome/opera) but both of their ad blocking wasn't as substantial as the great list that Rick as been maintaining.
Real shame, the guy was doing some great work. Credit where credit is due!
Congrats, you're wrong on 3 counts. "Most likely" isn't neccesarily truth. Also, he's not a loony, and he also doesn't want to remove porn from the internet. He wants to block access to child pornography on the internet in Australia.
It's not practical but it's a nice idea if it could be done.
Sorry for being rude, maybe I treat people badly on the internet but I can still apologise. I was just quite annoyed because we've had a lot of success with WPF. Sounds like you didn't.
So how big was your project? What machine were you building on? Ours has 38 windows and 25 user controls, but a lot of the meaty code is being run on a server and is separate to the app (over wcf). We have 3 projects as part of the application, and on my core 2 duo 3ghz it takes about 15 seconds for a full compile. (However on a previous machine 2ghz I think it was starting to take a lot longer).
I did actually have a lot of issues with VS2008 running out of memory and the occasional crash, but that was only before we found and fixed a lot of the memory leaks, and removed all of the calls to "initialisecomponent()" in the constructor. And removed all of the on_load code so that it wasn't being called in the designer! Now everything is much much faster. We didn't use expression blend at all and tried our best to cut back on most of the eye candy. People are running our app on pentium III's and it's ok.
Well apparently VS2010 is going to use WPF - I can't begin to imagine how system-intensive but I'll have to wait and see.
And I completely agree - I'd love to see if control panel or wordpad were to be re-written by MS in WPF and to see how it goes.
There's no datagrid.
Amen. The bane of my existance. Why the hell didn't microsoft provide a grid?
We ended up using xceed's grid (which at the time was the only one around) and I freaking hate the thing. Over-engineered to the extreme. Ridiculous. Getting the databinding to work on the thing was a bloody nightmare. I posted about 10 questions on the forums about memory leaks, stuff that didn't exist and just general problems. They all got resolved but it was a royal pain in the butt.
If I was do to it again I would write my own grid using a listview. Don't go near the xceed thing. BTW, I was using version 2. (We couldn't go to version 3 at the time because it wasn't backwards compatible). The xceed guys will probably find this post and defend themselves but make up your own mind.
We have just finished a 6 month project writing a WPF application that is used by hundreds of users, all day. We chose WPF because this program is probably going to be used by the business for the next 10 years, so moving to the newest technology (WPF) instead of Winforms made sense. To say that WPF is "not ready for anything more than experimental use" is rubbish. Tell that to the 30 users upstairs who have been using this program all day every day for the past 3 months.
I'll be the first to admit that it's not perfect, and there were quite a few things that were a pain (databinding, memory leaks, memory usage)... but in total it's been quite good. It's stable.
Couldn't agree more. I've tried to develop code using mono and notepad (or vi, whatever) instead of Visual Studio. It's practically impossible.
The microsoft documentation is only useful if you're using Visual Studio. Period. Find me a.NET developer who doesn't use Visual Studio and I'll show you a magician. Visual Studio (which I admin, I think is awesome) is such a great IDE and it generates a lot of useful code and config files (etc etc etc) and crap that makes it a complete nightmare to do without.
Now it is technically possible to write.net code using mono and some other IDE, it's technically possible, and you could do it, but it'd be like pulling a shopping cart along with a toddler attached instead of removing the child and then pushing it. Stupid and too much effort.
Just fork out the $$ for VS and you've instantly saved yourself weeks of development. But Mono.... just give up now. Unless things have changed over the past 2 or 3 years. But I doubt it. I don't even really understand why they bother.
"Getting bored with atmosphere? Sick of air? Tired of nature? Come work on the Moon! New job opportunities! 0.4 gravity so you won't feel as fat! Lots of fresh(er) water!"
Don't make users sign it. That's ridiculous. But here's what it should be:
1. Same restrictions as what you have from work. No pr0n, nothing illegal.
2. User must have at least xp sp2 with patches installed with virus scanner X - or whatever your default company policy is. Or give them a pre-setup laptop. (Probably save you money in the long term, less chance of viruses etc)
3. Users must email their manager every 10 minutes to let them know that they're online.
I would vote for it being a joke by Weird Al. The guy is extremely clever and is very likely to come up with something like this. After all, he did write "Bob".
That show was a complete load of rubbish. They made up a face using golden triangles and surprise surprise, it matched the model. Sort of. If you squinted enough.
Never mind that they could have made up a thousand other faces using those triangles.
I think that a lot of this has got to do with the general decline of the quality of pop music. People now expect to hear rubbishy 3 minute bubblegum crap on the radio that has the emotional impact of a wet lettuce. As a result, our general experience of music has been relegated to "background sounds".
The latest game that I remember with great music was Doom. Those tracks rocked. (Mainly because they were based on classic heavy metal tracks. ) But then when I eventually moved onto newer games (Tomb Raider, Deus Ex) the soundtrack was just a bit of a yawn. I can't even remember if Doom 3 had any music and what it was like.
As any experienced gamer can tell you, great music can make a really big difference to a game. But generally it's regarded as something to slot into the game at the last minute. There are notable exceptions of course - a new Wii game called De Blob was designed ground up with the music in mind. It'll make a big difference.
BTW - if you really want some good rockin' music for your game, get in contact with me:) (Some of my music is up here and here. And I've done some music for the Angry Nintendo Nerd so some of you guys might have already heard my stuff without even knowing:)
"Pragmatic Progammer" is horrifically outdated. Do not bother - you'll actually learn things that are very bad practice. (only learn 1 text editor?? please).
If you were to lose $40,000,000,000 at a rate of 1 bit a minute (you'd only need 36 bits) it'd take only a bit over half an hour.
Probably should do a buy back then.
I'm one of those people. I don't give a rats about how my car works. I care for it (give it oil, check tire pressures, regular services) but that's it. If a mechanic goes to me "what's wrong with it?" I say, "It's broken. It won't go. Fix it".
No, I don't know if it's the driveshaft or the diff or the spangdongle and I don't care. That's your job.
I doubt they'd know if they have an IP address when troubleshooting their internet connection, and I wouldn't expect them to.
Mod parent up - I couldn't agree more. Users are not idiots. Users just don't care about reading dialog boxes because a lot of the time the message isn't useful or helpful.
Here's a suggestion for everyone. Whenever you display an error message, don't just display the error message. The user (normally) doesn't particularly care what went wrong. They just want to know how to fix it.
Eg, I was trying to buy an AudioBook on iTunes the other day, when it said to me "Users in Australia cannot purchase tracks on the UK site". Now it didn't tell me "well, go to the Australian site, and here's a link to go to it" or say "would you like to go to the Australian site?". It just gave me a dumb error message. It took me ten minutes to find the link to the Australian site (scroll down to the bottom of the front page, dur. Seems so obvious now).
Dammit, be helpful to your users. Don't just display the error message. Display what to do about it. Even "please try again later" is better than nothing.
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China and other totalitarian dictatorships haven't exactly been restrained in their executions regardless of the profit motive.
China is actually a lot more restrained than Iran.
Iran actually is a lot more restrained than North Korea.
So does that mean: Audience = TotalFwad - Fwad?
and me.
Now that made me laugh. Thank you : )
The Darjeeling Limited?? Bill Murray didn't even have a speaking role, he appeared for a full 5 seconds.
The Life Aquatic was a steaming turd.
Bill Murray hasn't been in anything good for years.
d) He gives you the choice, doesn't force you to believe, and respects your decision. Same way your parents can't force you to love them.
If you're genuinely asking this question and want some answers send me a msg : )
Yes and a big NO.
They're losing a ridiculous amount of money. And for what? Keeping an average site afloat. Surely it can't last.
Amen brother.
I've been using it for years as well, and I don't think that I've ever had to disable it because a site wasn't working.
The list that Rick put together was fabulous. I haven't seen an ad on the internet in years. A couple of weeks back I wanted to try out another browser... (chrome/opera) but both of their ad blocking wasn't as substantial as the great list that Rick as been maintaining.
Real shame, the guy was doing some great work. Credit where credit is due!
Congrats, you're wrong on 3 counts. "Most likely" isn't neccesarily truth. Also, he's not a loony, and he also doesn't want to remove porn from the internet. He wants to block access to child pornography on the internet in Australia.
It's not practical but it's a nice idea if it could be done.
Sorry for being rude, maybe I treat people badly on the internet but I can still apologise. I was just quite annoyed because we've had a lot of success with WPF. Sounds like you didn't.
So how big was your project? What machine were you building on? Ours has 38 windows and 25 user controls, but a lot of the meaty code is being run on a server and is separate to the app (over wcf). We have 3 projects as part of the application, and on my core 2 duo 3ghz it takes about 15 seconds for a full compile. (However on a previous machine 2ghz I think it was starting to take a lot longer).
I did actually have a lot of issues with VS2008 running out of memory and the occasional crash, but that was only before we found and fixed a lot of the memory leaks, and removed all of the calls to "initialisecomponent()" in the constructor. And removed all of the on_load code so that it wasn't being called in the designer! Now everything is much much faster. We didn't use expression blend at all and tried our best to cut back on most of the eye candy. People are running our app on pentium III's and it's ok.
Well apparently VS2010 is going to use WPF - I can't begin to imagine how system-intensive but I'll have to wait and see.
And I completely agree - I'd love to see if control panel or wordpad were to be re-written by MS in WPF and to see how it goes.
It came out Oct 27 - we started in Feb :)
Thanks for the info though!
There's no datagrid. Amen. The bane of my existance. Why the hell didn't microsoft provide a grid?
We ended up using xceed's grid (which at the time was the only one around) and I freaking hate the thing. Over-engineered to the extreme. Ridiculous. Getting the databinding to work on the thing was a bloody nightmare. I posted about 10 questions on the forums about memory leaks, stuff that didn't exist and just general problems. They all got resolved but it was a royal pain in the butt.
If I was do to it again I would write my own grid using a listview. Don't go near the xceed thing. BTW, I was using version 2. (We couldn't go to version 3 at the time because it wasn't backwards compatible). The xceed guys will probably find this post and defend themselves but make up your own mind.
We have just finished a 6 month project writing a WPF application that is used by hundreds of users, all day. We chose WPF because this program is probably going to be used by the business for the next 10 years, so moving to the newest technology (WPF) instead of Winforms made sense. To say that WPF is "not ready for anything more than experimental use" is rubbish. Tell that to the 30 users upstairs who have been using this program all day every day for the past 3 months.
I'll be the first to admit that it's not perfect, and there were quite a few things that were a pain (databinding, memory leaks, memory usage)... but in total it's been quite good. It's stable.
Couldn't agree more. I've tried to develop code using mono and notepad (or vi, whatever) instead of Visual Studio. It's practically impossible.
.NET developer who doesn't use Visual Studio and I'll show you a magician. Visual Studio (which I admin, I think is awesome) is such a great IDE and it generates a lot of useful code and config files (etc etc etc) and crap that makes it a complete nightmare to do without.
.net code using mono and some other IDE, it's technically possible, and you could do it, but it'd be like pulling a shopping cart along with a toddler attached instead of removing the child and then pushing it. Stupid and too much effort.
The microsoft documentation is only useful if you're using Visual Studio. Period. Find me a
Now it is technically possible to write
Just fork out the $$ for VS and you've instantly saved yourself weeks of development. But Mono.... just give up now. Unless things have changed over the past 2 or 3 years. But I doubt it. I don't even really understand why they bother.
No it hasn't. That's just what people have been telling you. How'd it taste?
I can see it now. In a pamphlet from 2150:
"Getting bored with atmosphere? Sick of air? Tired of nature? Come work on the Moon! New job opportunities! 0.4 gravity so you won't feel as fat! Lots of fresh(er) water!"
Don't make users sign it. That's ridiculous. But here's what it should be:
1. Same restrictions as what you have from work. No pr0n, nothing illegal.
2. User must have at least xp sp2 with patches installed with virus scanner X - or whatever your default company policy is. Or give them a pre-setup laptop. (Probably save you money in the long term, less chance of viruses etc)
3. Users must email their manager every 10 minutes to let them know that they're online.
I would vote for it being a joke by Weird Al. The guy is extremely clever and is very likely to come up with something like this. After all, he did write "Bob".
That show was a complete load of rubbish. They made up a face using golden triangles and surprise surprise, it matched the model. Sort of. If you squinted enough.
Never mind that they could have made up a thousand other faces using those triangles.
I think that a lot of this has got to do with the general decline of the quality of pop music. People now expect to hear rubbishy 3 minute bubblegum crap on the radio that has the emotional impact of a wet lettuce. As a result, our general experience of music has been relegated to "background sounds".
:) (Some of my music is up here and here. And I've done some music for the Angry Nintendo Nerd so some of you guys might have already heard my stuff without even knowing :)
The latest game that I remember with great music was Doom. Those tracks rocked. (Mainly because they were based on classic heavy metal tracks. ) But then when I eventually moved onto newer games (Tomb Raider, Deus Ex) the soundtrack was just a bit of a yawn. I can't even remember if Doom 3 had any music and what it was like.
As any experienced gamer can tell you, great music can make a really big difference to a game. But generally it's regarded as something to slot into the game at the last minute. There are notable exceptions of course - a new Wii game called De Blob was designed ground up with the music in mind. It'll make a big difference.
BTW - if you really want some good rockin' music for your game, get in contact with me
"Pragmatic Progammer" is horrifically outdated. Do not bother - you'll actually learn things that are very bad practice. (only learn 1 text editor?? please).
If you were to lose $40,000,000,000 at a rate of 1 bit a minute (you'd only need 36 bits) it'd take only a bit over half an hour.
Probably should do a buy back then.
I'm one of those people. I don't give a rats about how my car works. I care for it (give it oil, check tire pressures, regular services) but that's it. If a mechanic goes to me "what's wrong with it?" I say, "It's broken. It won't go. Fix it".
No, I don't know if it's the driveshaft or the diff or the spangdongle and I don't care. That's your job.
I doubt they'd know if they have an IP address when troubleshooting their internet connection, and I wouldn't expect them to.
Mod parent up - I couldn't agree more. Users are not idiots. Users just don't care about reading dialog boxes because a lot of the time the message isn't useful or helpful.
Here's a suggestion for everyone. Whenever you display an error message, don't just display the error message. The user (normally) doesn't particularly care what went wrong. They just want to know how to fix it.
Eg, I was trying to buy an AudioBook on iTunes the other day, when it said to me "Users in Australia cannot purchase tracks on the UK site". Now it didn't tell me "well, go to the Australian site, and here's a link to go to it" or say "would you like to go to the Australian site?". It just gave me a dumb error message. It took me ten minutes to find the link to the Australian site (scroll down to the bottom of the front page, dur. Seems so obvious now).
Dammit, be helpful to your users. Don't just display the error message. Display what to do about it. Even "please try again later" is better than nothing.