So here we have several devices, all of which run Android, a wonderfully portable OS based on Linux, and yet Netflix can't be bothered to get their service to work on Linux desktops? Sure, they use Silverlight to run the thing in a browser, but why couldn't they just port this app and give us a desktop client to view our paid subscriptions from? Is the source to this available somewhere?
Exactly what I was trying to figure out. The story is/.ed, but last I checked figuring out an algorithm was a far cry from refreshing a page over and over.
Recently some of my in-laws brought me their new HP notebook complaining that it was (of course) slow, and that intermittently they could or could not load their pictures onto it. Turned out that it was one of these notebooks HP had shipped with the webos as some kind of pre-boot setup and my less than technically savvy family members weren't able to tell when they were in windows (yes, a nightmare unto itself) or were in the webos. The solution was to backup their data, wipe the machine and install stock Windows 7 from scratch. They haven't had any complaints since.
.. and when I come home and want to 'zone out' in front of a video game I'm not really interested in making sure my system is up to snuff in order to play my favorite games so I pick up my 360's controller and go to town. Now don't get me wrong, I grew up playing PC games, I was around when Kings Quest was 'cutting edge' and migrated through Doom to Quake to UT, etc, etc - but these days the desktop computer (and even the laptop as so many of them are quite the gaming rigs these days) is not the set-it-and-forget-it experience it used to be. Heck, even back in the 80's we'd make all kinds of hardware tweaks just to get a game up and running and _that was part of the fun_! But I'm getting older now and when I want to game I want to get right to it and fiddling with my machine settings shouldn't be part of the equation. Now get off my lawn, etc, etc.
It makes perfect sense now! C3PO was directly in line for being one of the most powerful and manipulative beings in the galaxy! Think about it for a second; Anakin was actually (unknowingly perhaps) creating an automaton version of his future master! 3PO being a master at reading and understanding not only spoken language but also digital forms of communication and even body language would be the perfect tool for manipulating the unsuspecting populace! Who would ever think a droid capable of such machinations?
Seriously though, the 6 million forms of communication was always pretty straight-forward I thought. I sure wish I had a system that had such capabilities as such a thing would make data conversions from one application to another trivial at most.
I use Vista on my Dell laptop since getting Linux to sleep and recover is still too spotty for my tastes but so far this is my experience with SP1:
Started Install at 2:04 PM PST
grind, grind grind
Finished at 2:32 PM PST
Process list reports dwm.exe (the 'window manager') is using ~27 megs rather than the 33 it was using previously
Shutdown/Reboot time has diminished by around 5 seconds.. nothing to write home about as I don't reboot often anyway
Switching between wired/wireless seems to pick up the networks faster and with less fiddling - previously Vista had trouble at times switching between the two and I would have to run their diagnostic tool to reset the ip
There is a 'screen flash' present at login that was not previously apparent. Could just be a matter of waiting til everything settles down and might just need a defrag after all those files were updated
Yep, O&O defrag reports the system went from 1.3% fragmented before the upgrade to about 8% fragmentation after
Overall, I don't 'feel' much of a difference. I copied a couple 1 gig isos across my network and the speed was fairly similar to what it was before - the calculation time was less, but the actual copy was almost the same but that could be due to other loads on this network right now (no, I'm not going to qualify that).
I cant say for certain but it looks like there might be one or two more services installed now that werent there before. Have to do a bit more research on that but contrary to what others have said this update does not appear to have re-enabled services that I previously had turned off such as windows search.
It will be interesting to see what other reports we get on this as it gets pushed out to the main stream users next month.
Well, first of all since we're talking about the book, you could go to the site that sort of mirrors it's philosophy: www.annoyances.org
Secondly, there are a couple things I can tell you that should help right away:
Turn off the sidebar. It uses 30+ megs of ram even when idle.
Kill superfetch as it doesn't sound like its working as it should anyway - right click 'my computer', go to manage, select sevices and applications/services and look for superfetch there - set it's startup method to disabled.
Turn off windows search - same as with superfetch but look for 'windows search' and set it to disabled.
These are just a few things off the top of my head, but there are at least a dozen more tweaks that can be made to speed Vista up so that it performs similar to XP (check out the Vista section at blackviper.com). One thing you have to understand with Vista though is that by its very nature it's a memory hog. The more memory you have the better it's going to perform. Personally, I can't see running it with less than 2 gigs. Also, if you're running an anitvirus or firewall by say Norton or McAffee don't expect to get much more performance than what you have regardless of any tweaks you do, you'd be better off just getting something like Avast antivirus and relying on the built in windows firewall along with safe computing habits.
You shot yourself in the foot with that single statement. Social dynamics is what DRIVES technology. Why do we have cell phones at all? Why are iPhones such a big deal? Is it just because of convenience? I tend to think thats not the case - as it stands a great bit of the technology we employ in our daily lives is actually inconvenient, taking time to recharge, load with information, then worry about breakage, theft, etc - But what keeps us interested in that technology? It's the fact that some company comes out with a great new toy that our brother/sister/buddy/houseguest just has to have and it becomes a matter of keeping up with the Jones', as it were.
We are social creatures by nature (yes, even the introverted/. crowd). Whatever allows us more social interactivity is what sells and keeps us coming back for more. By implementing such structures in a third world country we are laying the framework for these people to learn more about what drives them - their social interaction. Once they start to find out how much more socially plugged in they can be then they will have been caught, hook line and sinker - I know it sounds like a bad spin on things but it's not necessarily - there has to be balance in all things. But the point is that social dynamics is where the growth of todays technologies start and by giving these countries a leg up on this technology we've equipped them to drive themselves into the next generation of social and technical excellence.
I didn't know that there was a term that actually defined this methodology. As I was growing up (read: years 12-15 of my life) my friend and I both programmed. He was incredibly talented in the programming language department and I was just as good at putting the project into perspective and correlating goals with current technologies (being the 80's you can probably guess that this ran the gamut from basic, to pascal to C). We would often program together. He would have the keyboard and would fly along typing crazily while I stopped him ever so often to give my input on how something should be implemented or how it would effect the user experience later on.
I know it's anecdotal, but I sincerely wish that today I had someone like him to share my programming responsibilities with. I think together we got more done than we ever did apart (at that time). I would have to say that if you can find someone that you can 'click' with that this is definitely something worth trying.
I'm going to say in advance that my reasons for not liking KDE are shallow. No, really, I think technically KDE has a lot of merit, but what is up with having the 'K' naming convention? And why does every logo you see of KDE have those stupid gears? And then there is the whole 'adapting' of the name to the distro - I mean 'Kubuntu'?!? You've just taken a completely logical name for a Linux distro and butchered it by making it a god-awful windows-95-blue adding a friggin K and slapping more of those damned gears all over it!!!
Good grief people! Won't anyone think of the CHILDREN? Those poor little dudes are going to think you need a HAND CRANK to run Linux!
I know that this was meant in fun, and to be totally honest it WAS funny! Creationists who think the earth was made in a literal 6-7 day period are complete whack jobs that don't look at the evidence.
Some fundamentalists claim that creationism rather than evolution explains pre-human history. They assert that all physical creation was produced in just six days of 24 hours each sometime between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. But in doing so, they promote an unscriptural teaching that has caused many to ridicule the Bible.
Is a day in the Bible always literally 24 hours in length? Genesis 2:4 speaks of "the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven." This one day encompasses all six of the creative days of Genesis chapter 1. According to Bible usage, a day is a measured period of time and can be a thousand years or many thousands of years. The Bible's creative days allow for thousands of years of time each. Further, the earth was already in existence before the creative days began. (Genesis 1:1) On this point, therefore, the Bible account is compatible with true science.--2 Peter 3:8.
Commenting on claims that the creative days were only 24 literal hours in length, molecular biologist Francis Collins remarks: "Creationism has done more harm to serious notions of belief than anything in modern history."
So the bottom line is that the days mentioned in the Bible are figurative, not literal. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring the evidence which is ironic considering most of those advocating this stance are trying to promote Bible teaching.
I totally remember having to do this. Some games (Like the original Sierra: KQ, LSL, etc or Wasteland) we'd find text files on BBS's of all the page/paragraph/word codes if we didn't have the original book.
I remember on copy protection that I hit the 'jackpot' when I got this cool expansion board from my uncle that I plugged into one of my early XT machines that would allow you to copy all kinds of copy protected disks even if they used the old broken sector method (where they would actually damage the disk in one spot as a form of protection).. that thing was gold to me at the time, I could copy just about anything with it; felt a bit like a rock star because everyone else in town would come to me to get copies of stuff they wanted.
If I had any points left I'd mod you up.
Though I'm a programmer by trade, I spend a lot of time going to seminars, meetings and assemblies where having to tote along my t40 (albeit fairly light) is just a bit too much of a pain. After watching the flash demo on palm.com and actually seeing the size of the thing compared to Hawkins I think this would fill my needs quite nicely.
That said, I do notice in the demo that they don't show the interface itself off other than a little drop down menu on the upper left of the screen. If that's the only navigation system they've got then I'll be disappointed. I'm not expecting the performance and flexibility of a full size notebook computer but having at least the functionality of something like a Lifedrive would be nice. And it's going to need to be able to utilize third party programs just like other palm devices - if it doesn't then this is a waste of time.
Anyway, my 2c.
Screw the consoles, give us some quality game play with a real story line. And I'm not talking about the shoddy excuse for a story they threw out in FOT:BOS.
Hell, I'd settle for a retooled version of Dungeon Siege/Diablo and its ilk styled using some kind of isometric real time engine.. I've had just about enough of these attempts at making everything 3d and ultra-realistic.
Great games start in the mind, and those kinds of games start with a good story. This flashy console stuff is a bunch of fluff with no soul.
Do we really need another standards book? First of all this thing is going to be defunct within at least 6 months and second I don't know a single self-respecting web developer that cracks a book when working on a site. Yeah, I just skimmed the article but it just seemed like a total rehash of the last five or six books that were thrown up here. I mean, if it were an E-Book of some sort then I might be into it because I could reference it while working at my station but honestly if its got a spine and paper then I dont have time to get my fat butt out of my chair and go to the shelf to look up a technique when I could just as easily find it in two seconds on google.
First off, I've read/. for years and this is the first time I have ever been compelled to post. Chalk it up to this guys' troll actually pushing my buttons enough to get me ticked.
Number one, why are you going on about Linux in general when the topic is concerned with Ubuntu specifically? This is about a Distro-specific book, not Linux as a whole so stop your whining. Yeah, Linux as a whole has some issues, but this isn't the place to drag them out. The goal here is to get 'newbs' interested in a distro that has a lot going for it in hopes that they will eventually want to embrace Linux itself as a whole and finally come to realize that there is more to the computing experience than fighting with all the downfalls of proprietary operating systems.
Computers were never meant to be used solely by the likes of those who love to tear things apart. That is the second of two major roadblocks keeping Linux out of the main stream.
Well, I'd have to say that since Linux was initially put together by a guy working on a school project that it WAS built to be torn apart, but it's grown beyond that and Ubuntu shows us that just about anybody with a bit of sense and the ability to follow clear directions can get it to do what they desire.
Get programs to install as easily as they do on OSX and Windows and rid the community of the mentality that you are a noob and weak if you don't want to play the game at the lowest disassembled level.
Sounds to me like you are insulting the intelligence of 'newbs' here. Everyone was a newb once. I've spent over 15 years working with technology of various sorts but I had to start somewhere. If I had decided that as a newb it was beyond me I would never had made it this far. Don't insult peoples intelligence. Learn as a newb and then impart what you know to others. Don't spread this kind of FUD it just makes you look like a dogmatic wannabe.
Ubuntu is no where near as good as it could be. The developers have given up on the idea of making it simple and strong and capable for your grandmother to use and maintain by herself.
So you're in bed with the dev's now, eh? I'd bet they look at it differently. And aside from Ubuntu the whole Linux community has taken strides and is continuing to do so on all useability fronts. You are making your opinion sound as if its some kind of law.
I've run Linux for 3 years and I can only say that I spend significantly more time maintaining it than I do any other OS
Sounds like you need to go back and run Ubuntu itself for a bit longer. Upgrading Ubuntu is painless. There has been only one major issue with the update system regarding a broken X server installation and though this was admittedly a bad thing the whole community pulled together to help fix it in only a few hours of time after it happened - and no one tried to pull the wool over anyones eyes about it. A mistake was made, it was addressed and rectified. Other than this I have personally not had ANY update issues with Ubuntu.
To expect, nay demand, that the users have a compiler on their computer is the worst notion in the idea of personal computers.
Where do you get this notion? Last install I did of Ubuntu (Dapper on a friends machine) The dev tools weren't installed by default. Just the basics, and even if you need more synaptics does it all auto-magically. Get your facts straight.
I could go on and on, but I think the bottom line here is that you have some personal issues that you seem to be venting to the general public that are not even in line with the context of this particular discussion. Your talk of demands, universalness, etc sounds more like spreading FUD than it does any kind of productive contribution. If any of us 'zealots' felt the way that you portray us to feel then none of the ground that has been covered thus far with Linux would ever have been made.
Bring on the Noobs, I say. We want them. We need them. We welcome them. If we didn't this wouldn't be a battle worth fighting.
Mono under linux has become fairly solid of late. Might be worth your time to check it out. Installing is a breeze using any debian based distro. I use it for professional dev on Ubuntu dapper myself. The interface is similar to the MS dev environment minus a few goodies (code folding doesnt seem to be implemented). The C# implmentation seems rather solid imo, and like everything in the OSS world it will only get better with time.
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So here we have several devices, all of which run Android, a wonderfully portable OS based on Linux, and yet Netflix can't be bothered to get their service to work on Linux desktops? Sure, they use Silverlight to run the thing in a browser, but why couldn't they just port this app and give us a desktop client to view our paid subscriptions from? Is the source to this available somewhere?
Exactly what I was trying to figure out. The story is /.ed, but last I checked figuring out an algorithm was a far cry from refreshing a page over and over.
Recently some of my in-laws brought me their new HP notebook complaining that it was (of course) slow, and that intermittently they could or could not load their pictures onto it. Turned out that it was one of these notebooks HP had shipped with the webos as some kind of pre-boot setup and my less than technically savvy family members weren't able to tell when they were in windows (yes, a nightmare unto itself) or were in the webos. The solution was to backup their data, wipe the machine and install stock Windows 7 from scratch. They haven't had any complaints since.
HP, this does not bode well!
.. and when I come home and want to 'zone out' in front of a video game I'm not really interested in making sure my system is up to snuff in order to play my favorite games so I pick up my 360's controller and go to town. Now don't get me wrong, I grew up playing PC games, I was around when Kings Quest was 'cutting edge' and migrated through Doom to Quake to UT, etc, etc - but these days the desktop computer (and even the laptop as so many of them are quite the gaming rigs these days) is not the set-it-and-forget-it experience it used to be. Heck, even back in the 80's we'd make all kinds of hardware tweaks just to get a game up and running and _that was part of the fun_! But I'm getting older now and when I want to game I want to get right to it and fiddling with my machine settings shouldn't be part of the equation. Now get off my lawn, etc, etc.
It makes perfect sense now! C3PO was directly in line for being one of the most powerful and manipulative beings in the galaxy! Think about it for a second; Anakin was actually (unknowingly perhaps) creating an automaton version of his future master! 3PO being a master at reading and understanding not only spoken language but also digital forms of communication and even body language would be the perfect tool for manipulating the unsuspecting populace! Who would ever think a droid capable of such machinations?
Seriously though, the 6 million forms of communication was always pretty straight-forward I thought. I sure wish I had a system that had such capabilities as such a thing would make data conversions from one application to another trivial at most.
I use Vista on my Dell laptop since getting Linux to sleep and recover is still too spotty for my tastes but so far this is my experience with SP1:
Overall, I don't 'feel' much of a difference. I copied a couple 1 gig isos across my network and the speed was fairly similar to what it was before - the calculation time was less, but the actual copy was almost the same but that could be due to other loads on this network right now (no, I'm not going to qualify that).
I cant say for certain but it looks like there might be one or two more services installed now that werent there before. Have to do a bit more research on that but contrary to what others have said this update does not appear to have re-enabled services that I previously had turned off such as windows search.
It will be interesting to see what other reports we get on this as it gets pushed out to the main stream users next month.
Well, first of all since we're talking about the book, you could go to the site that sort of mirrors it's philosophy: www.annoyances.org
Secondly, there are a couple things I can tell you that should help right away:
These are just a few things off the top of my head, but there are at least a dozen more tweaks that can be made to speed Vista up so that it performs similar to XP (check out the Vista section at blackviper.com). One thing you have to understand with Vista though is that by its very nature it's a memory hog. The more memory you have the better it's going to perform. Personally, I can't see running it with less than 2 gigs. Also, if you're running an anitvirus or firewall by say Norton or McAffee don't expect to get much more performance than what you have regardless of any tweaks you do, you'd be better off just getting something like Avast antivirus and relying on the built in windows firewall along with safe computing habits.
You shot yourself in the foot with that single statement. Social dynamics is what DRIVES technology. Why do we have cell phones at all? Why are iPhones such a big deal? Is it just because of convenience? I tend to think thats not the case - as it stands a great bit of the technology we employ in our daily lives is actually inconvenient, taking time to recharge, load with information, then worry about breakage, theft, etc - But what keeps us interested in that technology? It's the fact that some company comes out with a great new toy that our brother/sister/buddy/houseguest just has to have and it becomes a matter of keeping up with the Jones', as it were.
We are social creatures by nature (yes, even the introverted
I didn't know that there was a term that actually defined this methodology. As I was growing up (read: years 12-15 of my life) my friend and I both programmed. He was incredibly talented in the programming language department and I was just as good at putting the project into perspective and correlating goals with current technologies (being the 80's you can probably guess that this ran the gamut from basic, to pascal to C). We would often program together. He would have the keyboard and would fly along typing crazily while I stopped him ever so often to give my input on how something should be implemented or how it would effect the user experience later on.
I know it's anecdotal, but I sincerely wish that today I had someone like him to share my programming responsibilities with. I think together we got more done than we ever did apart (at that time). I would have to say that if you can find someone that you can 'click' with that this is definitely something worth trying.
I'm going to say in advance that my reasons for not liking KDE are shallow. No, really, I think technically KDE has a lot of merit, but what is up with having the 'K' naming convention? And why does every logo you see of KDE have those stupid gears? And then there is the whole 'adapting' of the name to the distro - I mean 'Kubuntu'?!? You've just taken a completely logical name for a Linux distro and butchered it by making it a god-awful windows-95-blue adding a friggin K and slapping more of those damned gears all over it!!!
Good grief people! Won't anyone think of the CHILDREN? Those poor little dudes are going to think you need a HAND CRANK to run Linux!
I know that this was meant in fun, and to be totally honest it WAS funny! Creationists who think the earth was made in a literal 6-7 day period are complete whack jobs that don't look at the evidence.
Some fundamentalists claim that creationism rather than evolution explains pre-human history. They assert that all physical creation was produced in just six days of 24 hours each sometime between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. But in doing so, they promote an unscriptural teaching that has caused many to ridicule the Bible.
Is a day in the Bible always literally 24 hours in length? Genesis 2:4 speaks of "the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven." This one day encompasses all six of the creative days of Genesis chapter 1. According to Bible usage, a day is a measured period of time and can be a thousand years or many thousands of years. The Bible's creative days allow for thousands of years of time each. Further, the earth was already in existence before the creative days began. (Genesis 1:1) On this point, therefore, the Bible account is compatible with true science.--2 Peter 3:8.
Commenting on claims that the creative days were only 24 literal hours in length, molecular biologist Francis Collins remarks: "Creationism has done more harm to serious notions of belief than anything in modern history."
So the bottom line is that the days mentioned in the Bible are figurative, not literal. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring the evidence which is ironic considering most of those advocating this stance are trying to promote Bible teaching.
I totally remember having to do this. Some games (Like the original Sierra: KQ, LSL, etc or Wasteland) we'd find text files on BBS's of all the page/paragraph/word codes if we didn't have the original book.
.. that thing was gold to me at the time, I could copy just about anything with it; felt a bit like a rock star because everyone else in town would come to me to get copies of stuff they wanted.
I remember on copy protection that I hit the 'jackpot' when I got this cool expansion board from my uncle that I plugged into one of my early XT machines that would allow you to copy all kinds of copy protected disks even if they used the old broken sector method (where they would actually damage the disk in one spot as a form of protection)
Sometimes I miss the eighties!
If I had any points left I'd mod you up. Though I'm a programmer by trade, I spend a lot of time going to seminars, meetings and assemblies where having to tote along my t40 (albeit fairly light) is just a bit too much of a pain. After watching the flash demo on palm.com and actually seeing the size of the thing compared to Hawkins I think this would fill my needs quite nicely. That said, I do notice in the demo that they don't show the interface itself off other than a little drop down menu on the upper left of the screen. If that's the only navigation system they've got then I'll be disappointed. I'm not expecting the performance and flexibility of a full size notebook computer but having at least the functionality of something like a Lifedrive would be nice. And it's going to need to be able to utilize third party programs just like other palm devices - if it doesn't then this is a waste of time. Anyway, my 2c.
There can never be enough T&A!
Amen, brother!
.. I've had just about enough of these attempts at making everything 3d and ultra-realistic.
Screw the consoles, give us some quality game play with a real story line. And I'm not talking about the shoddy excuse for a story they threw out in FOT:BOS.
Hell, I'd settle for a retooled version of Dungeon Siege/Diablo and its ilk styled using some kind of isometric real time engine
Great games start in the mind, and those kinds of games start with a good story. This flashy console stuff is a bunch of fluff with no soul.
Do we really need another standards book? First of all this thing is going to be defunct within at least 6 months and second I don't know a single self-respecting web developer that cracks a book when working on a site. Yeah, I just skimmed the article but it just seemed like a total rehash of the last five or six books that were thrown up here. I mean, if it were an E-Book of some sort then I might be into it because I could reference it while working at my station but honestly if its got a spine and paper then I dont have time to get my fat butt out of my chair and go to the shelf to look up a technique when I could just as easily find it in two seconds on google.
Number one, why are you going on about Linux in general when the topic is concerned with Ubuntu specifically? This is about a Distro-specific book, not Linux as a whole so stop your whining. Yeah, Linux as a whole has some issues, but this isn't the place to drag them out. The goal here is to get 'newbs' interested in a distro that has a lot going for it in hopes that they will eventually want to embrace Linux itself as a whole and finally come to realize that there is more to the computing experience than fighting with all the downfalls of proprietary operating systems.
Well, I'd have to say that since Linux was initially put together by a guy working on a school project that it WAS built to be torn apart, but it's grown beyond that and Ubuntu shows us that just about anybody with a bit of sense and the ability to follow clear directions can get it to do what they desire.
Sounds to me like you are insulting the intelligence of 'newbs' here. Everyone was a newb once. I've spent over 15 years working with technology of various sorts but I had to start somewhere. If I had decided that as a newb it was beyond me I would never had made it this far. Don't insult peoples intelligence. Learn as a newb and then impart what you know to others. Don't spread this kind of FUD it just makes you look like a dogmatic wannabe.
So you're in bed with the dev's now, eh? I'd bet they look at it differently. And aside from Ubuntu the whole Linux community has taken strides and is continuing to do so on all useability fronts. You are making your opinion sound as if its some kind of law.
Sounds like you need to go back and run Ubuntu itself for a bit longer. Upgrading Ubuntu is painless. There has been only one major issue with the update system regarding a broken X server installation and though this was admittedly a bad thing the whole community pulled together to help fix it in only a few hours of time after it happened - and no one tried to pull the wool over anyones eyes about it. A mistake was made, it was addressed and rectified. Other than this I have personally not had ANY update issues with Ubuntu.
Where do you get this notion? Last install I did of Ubuntu (Dapper on a friends machine) The dev tools weren't installed by default. Just the basics, and even if you need more synaptics does it all auto-magically. Get your facts straight.
I could go on and on, but I think the bottom line here is that you have some personal issues that you seem to be venting to the general public that are not even in line with the context of this particular discussion. Your talk of demands, universalness, etc sounds more like spreading FUD than it does any kind of productive contribution. If any of us 'zealots' felt the way that you portray us to feel then none of the ground that has been covered thus far with Linux would ever have been made.
Bring on the Noobs, I say. We want them. We need them. We welcome them. If we didn't this wouldn't be a battle worth fighting.
Actually, it DOES phone home: http://news.com.com/Microsofts+antipiracy+tool+pho nes+home+daily/2100-1016_3-6081286.html
Mono under linux has become fairly solid of late. Might be worth your time to check it out. Installing is a breeze using any debian based distro. I use it for professional dev on Ubuntu dapper myself. The interface is similar to the MS dev environment minus a few goodies (code folding doesnt seem to be implemented). The C# implmentation seems rather solid imo, and like everything in the OSS world it will only get better with time.