The WPF interface is definitely not as responsive as the old Win32 GUI. The old GUI's code problems probably reached critical mass and they decided to rewrite, and chose WPF for whatever reason.
However, I find the text editor is nice and snappy for me. We beta testers definitely submitted a lot of feedback and MS actually had to eat their own dog food, which meant they pushed some updates to the framework itself to improve the situation. This was especially true with text rendering, which now looks more or less the same as non-WPF text rendering.
Could it be better? Yes. Is it at least serviceable right now? Yes.
Then again, WPF is GPU-accelerated, and if you are using software rendering or onboard graphics, you may be less inclined to get any kind of respectable performance out of it. It's the "2D Acceleration" feature from graphics cards in the mid-1990s all over again...
It does bring up one thing I've noticed on work group meals, and it seems to be the difference between men and women.
In general, a group of 5-15+ guys eat out together, the check comes (most places in NOLA will not do separate checks), we get the bill, add on 20% for tip, and split it evenly between everyone there.
If there are women in the group...geez, the calculators come out, and they try to figure what everyone had to the penny, and usually the tip is short....
Does anyone else find this to be the case?
I've seen it happen in any group outing, not just a work lunch. I've also seen women participate in the equal-slices-of-the-pie payment plan you described, and I've seen men pinch pennies so hard they squeezed a booger out of George Washington's nose. I think it depends more upon who you're eating with, and maybe the women you work with are tremendous cheapskates. Or maybe their salad and water doesn't add up to your buffalo chicken sandwich with fries and a Coke, or some other guy's shrimp etouffee, and they recognize that they're getting a bad deal. Who knows?
Those women might also be getting paid less than the men, so I can understand trying to save pennies wherever possible. I'm not saying this is absolutely the case but don't fail to consider that economic circumstances tend to dictate that you need to pay attention to the small stuff sometimes.
Also, we guys tend to be inherently a little lazier about the check (or our priorities are different) and thus we don't care as much about the few pennies that we might save as long as the math is simple and we get it done quickly.
There's a fine line between frugal and cheapskate. Nice to see you're generous, at least!
Not necessarily. You can divide it into four categories: [Intelligent, not intelligent] x [wants to prove it, doesn't want to prove it].
One can be really, really good at something or some things, and also be selfish and only want to benefit themselves, and thus not really care if anyone else knows about it. Take a look at Wall Street, or any other stock exchange: Some of those people are absolutely brilliant, but they are only doing it for their own wallets.
One can also be really, really bad at something, realize it, and want to share with everyone and pretend they are better anyway. Example: A great many Youtube video submissions, especially instructional videos.
Intelligence is not correlated with a desire to prove said intelligence.
Nobody wants your information until it suddenly gains a hint of being interesting or valuable. Run-of-the-mill thieves are far more likely to pawn your stuff than to do forensics or poke around in all your files.
Posting a sentence like your second one might be a bad idea;)
I like my Blu-Rays. I don't seem to have the issues that other people are talking about, like crashing and unskippable commercials. The same proportion of DVDs had unskippable commercials too, and films released on both formats will have the same arrangements, so it's not like you're getting anything different there. Some players are better than others at having multiple ways around it, like sometimes there's a second menu button that works or you can manually choose the title and chapter. I don't care about the extras, don't buy collector's editions, don't have or want 3D yet, and don't want Internet features.
I'm generally not replacing my DVDs. I'm buying Blu-Ray for new purchases but if the price premium is too big, I skip buying entirely and look for something else. It doesn't really matter that much that I have or don't have a particular title in my collection. Certain stores offer memberships that save you money on each title, which I use and get my money's worth, so I suppose I don't represent a lot of people. But that applies to DVDs as well... I'd probably buy more Blu-Rays if there were bigger discounts available for them, so I could get them for close to DVD price. $10-20 more than the DVD is too big of a premium for most movies, and $20 is really a lot of money for one movie.
My big gripe is the high priced DVD and Blu-Ray multi-format sets. I'll skip over buying the movie entirely if I am forced to purchase a set with multiple formats. I only want ONE DISC with the movie on it, not a secondary DVD that I'll never use. Seriously, who is the target audience for this? I suppose they could theoretically make an extra few bucks of profit by making these sets the only copies available for sale, but they don't get any of the base profit or that extra profit if they don't sell any.
For people WITH high definition sets... Cable, fiber and satellite provide pretty good on-demand HD programming. I've watched a bunch of movies and TV shows this way and it buffers really fast. It's not comparable to streaming Netflix or anything, it's better enough that you can call it competition for a rental disc. I know several people who don't own many Blu-Rays because they can just subscribe to a premium channel like HBO, Starz, or whatever and watch the on-demand movies.
Which discs have run Java during movie playback and/or caused a crash? I'm simply curious, because in my rather limited experience I have yet to see this myself.
They have been recording specific facts every day that you can use to gauge the plant's progress. For example, take this copy and paste from the report on April 11: "In Unit 1 the pressure in the RPV is increasing, as indicated on both channels of instrumentation. In Units 2 and 3 Reactor Pressure Vessel and Drywell pressures remain at atmospheric pressure. RPV temperatures remain above cold shutdown conditions in all Units, (typically less than 95 C). In Unit 1 temperature at the feed water nozzle of the RPV is 228 C and at the bottom of the RPV is 121 C. In Unit 2 the temperature at the feed water nozzle of the RPV is 149 C. The temperature at the bottom of the RPV was not reported. In Unit 3 the temperature at the feed water nozzle of the RPV is 92 C and at the bottom of the RPV is 111 C."
Seems a lot more scientific than the average news media to me...
That's an interesting take on the situation... except you still have to hook it up to a power supply and a recording system in order for it to be useful, and provide some sort of environmental shielding around the camera and the cable. The bulk of a camera today isn't found in the sensor.
I wonder what a bank would do to the branch manager if a former employee could walk away with $200,000 six months after being fired. Or, to use a car analogy, if a former employee was able to walk into a dealership and drive away with a $200,000 car just like that.
Well, he didn't walk away with tangible things of value. A better analogy would be: * Bank analogy: someone destroyed enough of the bank's records that it cost the bank $200,000 to fix the resulting mess. * Car analogy: someone drove a monster truck onto the dealer's grounds and squashed $200,000 worth of cars.
It's not usually the case that a sysadmin's manager knows the system as well as the admin. So, it's not really possible for a sysadmin's manager to prevent all possible angles on something like that. It's kind of unique to that business. A bank's branch manager would know where all the doors were, and have a sheet that accounts for all the keys. A dealership would have some accounting for who has the keys to each car, who has the keys to the safe, and when any car keys were ordered or made. I know this because I've had to deal with ordering a duplicate car key, and there was more to the process than you'd think.
I think the current system works pretty well. Corporate information security policies do need to be designed, kept updated, and followed better in general, though.
This is exactly the sort of thing I like about Slashdot! Please feel free to nitpick with information like that.
I remember seeing a lot of articles in the mid 2000's about it too. There was a brief surge of interest in the stuff, probably because carbon nanotubes were the hot new thing. Someone reported their presence in Damascus steel back then after looking at a sample under a high powered microscope of some sort, and a bunch of TV history shows then ran specials, and you heard about "carbon nanotubes" in the news every five minutes.
What I don't recall ever seeing was that someone had duplicated it. All I saw was a bunch of theory about how it could possibly be made. So, it's pretty exciting news if historians have in fact reconstructed it!
Reminds me a little of how civilizations lost and had to reinvent cement.
I have seen some clips on Youtube where someone reorganized the segments in linear fashion. So you'd see one entire myth busting session, then the other one, and that was a lot better than the ADD method that they use for the show. I suspect it has something to do with getting the audience to stick around for all the commercials or perhaps getting a wider audience to watch it.
Well, you never know, they might actually stumble upon something valid. In fact, they might have already discovered something, and the press release could be lagging significantly behind the development like it does so often with military developments.
They have practical experience: * blowing stuff up in creative but specific ways using improvised explosive devices, of qualities equal to or exceeding what you'd see in the field * instrumenting the entire scenario for data analysis later in such a way that the instrumentation is not destroyed * preventing other stuff from getting destroyed by said explosion
You can spend all day failing to come up with a material with the right properties no matter which angle you attack the problem from. Sure, you could model the physics until your brain leaks out of your ears, and you can also waste inordinate time and materials testing via a "Okay, how about now? Now? Now?" methodology. In the end, you can get similar results by calculation or experiment. Check out Damascus steel, for example - we haven't completely figured that out yet, and we certainly can't reproduce it, but people were making it and you can believe they weren't using modern science to design it. I do believe in the value of science, but it doesn't always need to trump experience.
The guys who experience the effective improvised explosives in the field don't make it back to tell you how it was built, ya know?:(
Reminds me of Idiocracy. Why come you no have tattoo?? We have an unscannable! HALT! You must be processed!
Oh, I get it, you were quite possibly referring to the Mark of the Beast. Okay, never mind then. Apply the usual slippery-slope argument and can we skip the subsequent validity-of-religions trollathon this time?
Yeah, get rid of the fans you have and install some golf fans instead. They don't tend to scream. Or maybe some Lions fans, since they don't really have much to scream about?
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The WPF interface is definitely not as responsive as the old Win32 GUI. The old GUI's code problems probably reached critical mass and they decided to rewrite, and chose WPF for whatever reason.
However, I find the text editor is nice and snappy for me. We beta testers definitely submitted a lot of feedback and MS actually had to eat their own dog food, which meant they pushed some updates to the framework itself to improve the situation. This was especially true with text rendering, which now looks more or less the same as non-WPF text rendering.
Could it be better? Yes. Is it at least serviceable right now? Yes.
Then again, WPF is GPU-accelerated, and if you are using software rendering or onboard graphics, you may be less inclined to get any kind of respectable performance out of it. It's the "2D Acceleration" feature from graphics cards in the mid-1990s all over again...
It isn't.
That's your power supply's job, bus (if any) is irrelevant.
I know... That's what I was thinking, but the thought apparently didn't make it intact to my fingers. One of those days...
It does bring up one thing I've noticed on work group meals, and it seems to be the difference between men and women.
In general, a group of 5-15+ guys eat out together, the check comes (most places in NOLA will not do separate checks), we get the bill, add on 20% for tip, and split it evenly between everyone there.
If there are women in the group...geez, the calculators come out, and they try to figure what everyone had to the penny, and usually the tip is short....
Does anyone else find this to be the case?
I've seen it happen in any group outing, not just a work lunch. I've also seen women participate in the equal-slices-of-the-pie payment plan you described, and I've seen men pinch pennies so hard they squeezed a booger out of George Washington's nose. I think it depends more upon who you're eating with, and maybe the women you work with are tremendous cheapskates. Or maybe their salad and water doesn't add up to your buffalo chicken sandwich with fries and a Coke, or some other guy's shrimp etouffee, and they recognize that they're getting a bad deal. Who knows?
Those women might also be getting paid less than the men, so I can understand trying to save pennies wherever possible. I'm not saying this is absolutely the case but don't fail to consider that economic circumstances tend to dictate that you need to pay attention to the small stuff sometimes.
Also, we guys tend to be inherently a little lazier about the check (or our priorities are different) and thus we don't care as much about the few pennies that we might save as long as the math is simple and we get it done quickly.
There's a fine line between frugal and cheapskate. Nice to see you're generous, at least!
Not necessarily. You can divide it into four categories: [Intelligent, not intelligent] x [wants to prove it, doesn't want to prove it].
One can be really, really good at something or some things, and also be selfish and only want to benefit themselves, and thus not really care if anyone else knows about it. Take a look at Wall Street, or any other stock exchange: Some of those people are absolutely brilliant, but they are only doing it for their own wallets.
One can also be really, really bad at something, realize it, and want to share with everyone and pretend they are better anyway. Example: A great many Youtube video submissions, especially instructional videos.
Intelligence is not correlated with a desire to prove said intelligence.
Nobody wants your information until it suddenly gains a hint of being interesting or valuable. Run-of-the-mill thieves are far more likely to pawn your stuff than to do forensics or poke around in all your files.
Posting a sentence like your second one might be a bad idea ;)
YET.
I'm sure they would love to get away with that, and other devices are setting the precedent. It's only a matter of time.
I like my Blu-Rays. I don't seem to have the issues that other people are talking about, like crashing and unskippable commercials. The same proportion of DVDs had unskippable commercials too, and films released on both formats will have the same arrangements, so it's not like you're getting anything different there. Some players are better than others at having multiple ways around it, like sometimes there's a second menu button that works or you can manually choose the title and chapter. I don't care about the extras, don't buy collector's editions, don't have or want 3D yet, and don't want Internet features.
I'm generally not replacing my DVDs. I'm buying Blu-Ray for new purchases but if the price premium is too big, I skip buying entirely and look for something else. It doesn't really matter that much that I have or don't have a particular title in my collection. Certain stores offer memberships that save you money on each title, which I use and get my money's worth, so I suppose I don't represent a lot of people. But that applies to DVDs as well... I'd probably buy more Blu-Rays if there were bigger discounts available for them, so I could get them for close to DVD price. $10-20 more than the DVD is too big of a premium for most movies, and $20 is really a lot of money for one movie.
My big gripe is the high priced DVD and Blu-Ray multi-format sets. I'll skip over buying the movie entirely if I am forced to purchase a set with multiple formats. I only want ONE DISC with the movie on it, not a secondary DVD that I'll never use. Seriously, who is the target audience for this? I suppose they could theoretically make an extra few bucks of profit by making these sets the only copies available for sale, but they don't get any of the base profit or that extra profit if they don't sell any.
For people WITH high definition sets... Cable, fiber and satellite provide pretty good on-demand HD programming. I've watched a bunch of movies and TV shows this way and it buffers really fast. It's not comparable to streaming Netflix or anything, it's better enough that you can call it competition for a rental disc. I know several people who don't own many Blu-Rays because they can just subscribe to a premium channel like HBO, Starz, or whatever and watch the on-demand movies.
Which discs have run Java during movie playback and/or caused a crash? I'm simply curious, because in my rather limited experience I have yet to see this myself.
To hug nuclear waste, you need nuclear arms!
+1 Unfortunately True
This is the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
They have been recording specific facts every day that you can use to gauge the plant's progress. For example, take this copy and paste from the report on April 11: "In Unit 1 the pressure in the RPV is increasing, as indicated on both channels of instrumentation. In Units 2 and 3 Reactor Pressure Vessel and Drywell pressures remain at atmospheric pressure. RPV temperatures remain above cold shutdown conditions in all Units, (typically less than 95 C). In Unit 1 temperature at the feed water nozzle of the RPV is 228 C and at the bottom of the RPV is 121 C. In Unit 2 the temperature at the feed water nozzle of the RPV is 149 C. The temperature at the bottom of the RPV was not reported. In Unit 3 the temperature at the feed water nozzle of the RPV is 92 C and at the bottom of the RPV is 111 C."
Seems a lot more scientific than the average news media to me...
That's an interesting take on the situation... except you still have to hook it up to a power supply and a recording system in order for it to be useful, and provide some sort of environmental shielding around the camera and the cable. The bulk of a camera today isn't found in the sensor.
If the pronunciation of SCSI is the rule we're following, then we'll probably be calling this "Spuddy".
Is it really so difficult to believe that out of the millions of Slashdot readers, that some of them might be intelligent enough to handle this test?
Sad news indeed. Kermit has finally croaked.
I wonder what a bank would do to the branch manager if a former employee could walk away with $200,000 six months after being fired. Or, to use a car analogy, if a former employee was able to walk into a dealership and drive away with a $200,000 car just like that.
Well, he didn't walk away with tangible things of value. A better analogy would be:
* Bank analogy: someone destroyed enough of the bank's records that it cost the bank $200,000 to fix the resulting mess.
* Car analogy: someone drove a monster truck onto the dealer's grounds and squashed $200,000 worth of cars.
It's not usually the case that a sysadmin's manager knows the system as well as the admin. So, it's not really possible for a sysadmin's manager to prevent all possible angles on something like that. It's kind of unique to that business. A bank's branch manager would know where all the doors were, and have a sheet that accounts for all the keys. A dealership would have some accounting for who has the keys to each car, who has the keys to the safe, and when any car keys were ordered or made. I know this because I've had to deal with ordering a duplicate car key, and there was more to the process than you'd think.
I think the current system works pretty well. Corporate information security policies do need to be designed, kept updated, and followed better in general, though.
This is exactly the sort of thing I like about Slashdot! Please feel free to nitpick with information like that.
I remember seeing a lot of articles in the mid 2000's about it too. There was a brief surge of interest in the stuff, probably because carbon nanotubes were the hot new thing. Someone reported their presence in Damascus steel back then after looking at a sample under a high powered microscope of some sort, and a bunch of TV history shows then ran specials, and you heard about "carbon nanotubes" in the news every five minutes.
What I don't recall ever seeing was that someone had duplicated it. All I saw was a bunch of theory about how it could possibly be made. So, it's pretty exciting news if historians have in fact reconstructed it!
Reminds me a little of how civilizations lost and had to reinvent cement.
I have seen some clips on Youtube where someone reorganized the segments in linear fashion. So you'd see one entire myth busting session, then the other one, and that was a lot better than the ADD method that they use for the show. I suspect it has something to do with getting the audience to stick around for all the commercials or perhaps getting a wider audience to watch it.
Well, you never know, they might actually stumble upon something valid. In fact, they might have already discovered something, and the press release could be lagging significantly behind the development like it does so often with military developments.
They have practical experience:
* blowing stuff up in creative but specific ways using improvised explosive devices, of qualities equal to or exceeding what you'd see in the field
* instrumenting the entire scenario for data analysis later in such a way that the instrumentation is not destroyed
* preventing other stuff from getting destroyed by said explosion
You can spend all day failing to come up with a material with the right properties no matter which angle you attack the problem from. Sure, you could model the physics until your brain leaks out of your ears, and you can also waste inordinate time and materials testing via a "Okay, how about now? Now? Now?" methodology. In the end, you can get similar results by calculation or experiment. Check out Damascus steel, for example - we haven't completely figured that out yet, and we certainly can't reproduce it, but people were making it and you can believe they weren't using modern science to design it. I do believe in the value of science, but it doesn't always need to trump experience.
The guys who experience the effective improvised explosives in the field don't make it back to tell you how it was built, ya know? :(
Reminds me of Idiocracy. Why come you no have tattoo?? We have an unscannable! HALT! You must be processed!
Oh, I get it, you were quite possibly referring to the Mark of the Beast. Okay, never mind then. Apply the usual slippery-slope argument and can we skip the subsequent validity-of-religions trollathon this time?
Exactly. And sealed != non-existent... which means that in a lot of US states, a ticket for a minor traffic infraction means you now have a record.
Yeah, get rid of the fans you have and install some golf fans instead. They don't tend to scream. Or maybe some Lions fans, since they don't really have much to scream about?
Smeagol's got a song, too:
"Because he's got a friend in himself"