Everyone thinks that at first, but after some experience you realise that it is not practical to fix *every* bug in a product. Some things are just not important enough, or so unlikely to actually happen in "real life", that it's not worth fixing them. Of course, you prioritise and generally fix all the high priority items. I'd guess that 99% of those famous known bugs were low priority.
In the same way that I generally turn off lens flares (look pretty, but actually less realistic) this seems like it would actually *reduce* immersion. The fake camera effects are another thing reminding you that you're looking at a screen and not a real scene.
You can't "stamp out" terrorism. It just doesn't work that way. You can stamp out entire populations , if you're so inclined, but terrorists by definition are hidden and unknown until you have a police state.
If you want more info, check out the Original Trilogy site. Especially the forums. People are doing some hard work to get the best possible version of the original film. It's also an eye-opener on how relatively slack Lucas was with the official Star Wars DVDs.
This is a good point. Even within the case study, I thought they were fairly open that it was a general redesign to improve performance, and.NET was only part of the picture. They probably could have done much the same thing in other environments (such as Java;)
To be fair the scrolling does seem to be a Moz/Firefox problem (see links earlier). It's smooth enough on IE6. But the design is counterintuitive and helpful.
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MSSQL seems to require dates to be specified in the format defined by the server's internationalisation settings
Apart from actually passing an appropriate Date type to the API (ODBC/ADO etc), there is a simple solution:
Agreed. The one thing I do want from UT200x is more draw distance - it's tiresome to have your view blurred out at (what looks like) 1km or so. Even original UT didn't do that.
better graphics Huh? You mean the default backgrounds? Hm.
Window themes OK, 1 point.
better Start menu Which all the professionals I know immediately turn off.
user switching Which no professional I know uses.
a graphical log-in screen Ditto.
better drivers Uh. Really? "Better"??
better taskbar Haven't noticed the tinyest difference. I noticed that the quicklaunch area seems to be off by default, which is ironic.
a better tray Automatically hiding the wrong icons? Yep. Much better.
a better file manager Oh really? In what way is it even detectably different? Or do you mean the huge space wasting, never-what-you-actually-want tasks pane?
better network manager If I new what you meant by a "network manager" I could comment. There are certainly more network setup options, but I don't notice any useful functional difference from W2K.
nicer-looking fonts ClearType? Hm, maybe. 1/2 a point for LCD users.
easier access to scanners Maybe. Slightly.
All of these are basically trivial or irrelevant to me and the other people I know who use XP.
That sounds reasonable. Kind of a simple social contract: we try and make it work as closed source. If it falls over, we release the source so a) the effort wasn't wasted and can be continued and b) those people who did take it up aren't left without support.
I was meaning that the movie would be originally recorded at a higher rate. Obviously it doesn't make any sense to up the frame rate if the source stays the same.
But you would have noticed, in "Life as a House" he had the job of playing a whiny teenager. I have suspicion that wasn't so much acting as being the thing that Haydn does. (And surely most of us have some experience to draw on:)
I have to say: f**k these captchas. They are really putting me off posting. If it was once in a while (and then you have to answer before you can continue posting) I would understand, but every post? This freaking sucks.
Sounds like they are doing better: for example, a version of OpenGL for their graphics API, instead of some wacky home-grown thing.
As a rather nice by-product, this will encourage many more developers to learn a graphics API that is implemented on lots of other platforms besides Windows.
Maybe you can hear the difference (although as the other poster said, it's most likely due to source/mixing differences). But 99% of people cannot. Therefore, the format will not catch on, except to 1% of the buying public.
Still, it seems reasonable to me that it exists as a niche for high-quality recordings. It's just never going to be "popular.
What will that be used for at a consumer level though? High-def (blu-ray or HD-DVD) will likely reach the maximum useful quality we can perceive. I have a projector and upscaled DVD looks pretty amazing already - HD will be somewhat sharper, but it's not going to be "twice" as good. So going beyond it seems unlikely to have any point.
One use for more storage I can see is upping the framerate to 50/60 Hz, I find movies a bit jerky sometimes. But that will only use a certain percentage more, not even twice, because the extra frames would compress well).
This is very true, in my experience. There's no substitute for the original developer (unless of course they've been doing a poor job already). I've seen one complex OSS project be left by the original developer and still, years later, no new releases are made; even though the project was very successful and used by many, many people.
My unique NYT signup address has never been spammed. I think they honestly use it only for information. And thats fine; I respect that they need to find ways to get some return on providing me with good info.
Interesting... that's a bit further back than I was thinking of.
Of course, Borland could have matched the deals, if they were really concerned. And they did make a lot of mistakes; even today they persist in a glorious "enterprise" vision that alot of their users couldn't care less about.
Still, there's no doubt that Microsoft did harsh things to them and many others.
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I bought a copy to support them. Foolish, perhaps: maybe I should have just donated. But I got to own a piece of Sun software, not likely otherwise :)
Everyone thinks that at first, but after some experience you realise that it is not practical to fix *every* bug in a product. Some things are just not important enough, or so unlikely to actually happen in "real life", that it's not worth fixing them.
Of course, you prioritise and generally fix all the high priority items. I'd guess that 99% of those famous known bugs were low priority.
In the same way that I generally turn off lens flares (look pretty, but actually less realistic) this seems like it would actually *reduce* immersion. The fake camera effects are another thing reminding you that you're looking at a screen and not a real scene.
You can't "stamp out" terrorism. It just doesn't work that way. You can stamp out entire populations , if you're so inclined, but terrorists by definition are hidden and unknown until you have a police state.
If you want more info, check out the Original Trilogy site. Especially the forums. People are doing some hard work to get the best possible version of the original film. It's also an eye-opener on how relatively slack Lucas was with the official Star Wars DVDs.
This is a good point. Even within the case study, I thought they were fairly open that it was a general redesign to improve performance, and .NET was only part of the picture. They probably could have done much the same thing in other environments (such as Java ;)
To be fair the scrolling does seem to be a Moz/Firefox problem (see links earlier). It's smooth enough on IE6. But the design is counterintuitive and helpful.
MSSQL seems to require dates to be specified in the format defined by the server's internationalisation settings
Apart from actually passing an appropriate Date type to the API (ODBC/ADO etc), there is a simple solution:
'yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss'
Some more info at, e.g. Tibor Karaszi's page
Agreed. The one thing I do want from UT200x is more draw distance - it's tiresome to have your view blurred out at (what looks like) 1km or so. Even original UT didn't do that.
better graphics
Huh? You mean the default backgrounds? Hm.
Window themes
OK, 1 point.
better Start menu
Which all the professionals I know immediately turn off.
user switching
Which no professional I know uses.
a graphical log-in screen
Ditto.
better drivers
Uh. Really? "Better"??
better taskbar
Haven't noticed the tinyest difference. I noticed that the quicklaunch area seems to be off by default, which is ironic.
a better tray
Automatically hiding the wrong icons? Yep. Much better.
a better file manager
Oh really? In what way is it even detectably different? Or do you mean the huge space wasting, never-what-you-actually-want tasks pane?
better network manager
If I new what you meant by a "network manager" I could comment. There are certainly more network setup options, but I don't notice any useful functional difference from W2K.
nicer-looking fonts
ClearType? Hm, maybe. 1/2 a point for LCD users.
easier access to scanners
Maybe. Slightly.
All of these are basically trivial or irrelevant to me and the other people I know who use XP.
Yes, it DOES affect the original, which is now somewhat worthless because it identifies both you and random thieves X, Y and Z.
Yes, but marketers always like to pretend that their products are perfect... we wouldn't make anything else sir...
That sounds reasonable. Kind of a simple social contract: we try and make it work as closed source. If it falls over, we release the source so a) the effort wasn't wasted and can be continued and b) those people who did take it up aren't left without support.
I was meaning that the movie would be originally recorded at a higher rate. Obviously it doesn't make any sense to up the frame rate if the source stays the same.
But you would have noticed, in "Life as a House" he had the job of playing a whiny teenager. I have suspicion that wasn't so much acting as being the thing that Haydn does. (And surely most of us have some experience to draw on :)
I have to say: f**k these captchas. They are really putting me off posting. If it was once in a while (and then you have to answer before you can continue posting) I would understand, but every post? This freaking sucks.
viola
Did you mean: voila?
Sounds like they are doing better: for example, a version of OpenGL for their graphics API, instead of some wacky home-grown thing.
As a rather nice by-product, this will encourage many more developers to learn a graphics API that is implemented on lots of other platforms besides Windows.
Can you point me to the download link? All I could find was "Buy Now" which lead me to a price list saying US$10,000.
Maybe you can hear the difference (although as the other poster said, it's most likely due to source/mixing differences). But 99% of people cannot. Therefore, the format will not catch on, except to 1% of the buying public.
Still, it seems reasonable to me that it exists as a niche for high-quality recordings. It's just never going to be "popular.
What will that be used for at a consumer level though? High-def (blu-ray or HD-DVD) will likely reach the maximum useful quality we can perceive. I have a projector and upscaled DVD looks pretty amazing already - HD will be somewhat sharper, but it's not going to be "twice" as good. So going beyond it seems unlikely to have any point.
One use for more storage I can see is upping the framerate to 50/60 Hz, I find movies a bit jerky sometimes. But that will only use a certain percentage more, not even twice, because the extra frames would compress well).
This is very true, in my experience. There's no substitute for the original developer (unless of course they've been doing a poor job already). I've seen one complex OSS project be left by the original developer and still, years later, no new releases are made; even though the project was very successful and used by many, many people.
My unique NYT signup address has never been spammed. I think they honestly use it only for information. And thats fine; I respect that they need to find ways to get some return on providing me with good info.
Interesting... that's a bit further back than I was thinking of.
Of course, Borland could have matched the deals, if they were really concerned. And they did make a lot of mistakes; even today they persist in a glorious "enterprise" vision that alot of their users couldn't care less about.
Still, there's no doubt that Microsoft did harsh things to them and many others.
Doh! I mean "other platforms".
Just as well very few people would use Finder for moving files around then. Hm.