True. VS is a hog. I've really only used Visual Studio 2007 and 2008 because I recently made the switch from Linux. I've talked to others who say versions previous to those are pretty buggy and unstable... which might be half your problem right there. When I posted, I wasn't considering the restrictions that might come from using older hardware with a new version of Visual Studio (like 2008) since I've always had a fairly up-to-date machine for development.
False. This is an opinion. It may be true for some cases but it is ignorance to say that any aspect of coding has a magic bullet. Even XML has it's trade offs. To say this only expresses ignorance or a poor attempt at brainwashing/marketing.
Having developed for years in Linux using various dev tools, I have to say that Microsoft's Visual Studio development environment is amazing compared to most open source tools I've had experience with.
Water molecules also have a tendency to clump and fall to the ground. Carbon dioxide molecules don't. A massive increase in precipitation would probably affect things in detrimental ways.
Microsoft changed a lot of stuff in the Vista kernel for DRM. Things like process spawning have become trickier. Take this blurb from MSDN:
"Protected Processes
Windows Vista introduces protected processes to enhance support for Digital Rights Management. The system restricts access to protected processes and the threads of protected processes.
The following standard access rights are not allowed from a process to a protected process:
DELETE
READ_CONTROL
WRITE_DAC
WRITE_OWNER
The following specific access rights are not allowed from a process to a protected process:
This actually worked on my 360 a few times. You can wrap it in a towel and get it hot enough that the fans are really howling, and let it cool again. After that, you might have a few more hours (or days!) of uptime. However, once the RROD starts it will get worse and worse no matter what you do. When the time came, mine went to Microsoft and back in 3 weeks, and this was during the Thanksgiving week, so at least their service was good (for me, anyway).
Funny, as a Gold user and 360 owner for a couple years now, I've never really seen any problems until recently (and slight ones at that). I doubt it will last much longer. I've been nothing but impressed with Xbox Live so far, and would be hard pressed to give up my membership.
no, they finished laying off all the good engineers over a year ago, they're going down the crapper.
What a dumb thing to say. Really. I'd hold the engineering talent in my lab up to that of any other top tier organization in any other company. Interestingly enough, and counter to your argument, it's most often the case that when a lab or product line is shuts down (and this is the same for almost any employer), the top 10%-20% are readily scooped up somewhere else within the company. The rest? Well...
The funny thing is that, in almost every rover update every week or two, they mention that. It's always the wattage, followed by the light bulb statement.
What I find so interesting is how the "open minded" "liberal" people I see are so accepting of none Christian faiths but so hostile towards Christian faiths. If you had tried to build a Christian church in Tibet before the Chinese invaded I doubt that you would have stayed out of jail long enough to finish it. Yet in predominantly Christian Countries Buddhist Temples exists with little interference. I am sure there is a Buddhist monk that has committed some crime yet you wouldn't hold it as an example of why Buddhists are evil.
I think it might be because of the widely known and long history of violence, hate, prosthelatizing, and infighting by religions of Abrahamic tradition. It's hard to find examples of that in Buddhism.
Don't you get it? This is not so much about games anymore. Whoever wins this round will be the dominant force in media entertainment during the next round. HD-DVD/BluRay are probably the last generation of media for home rental. The world is moving toward on-demand and downloadable content. Microsoft and Sony want to be firmly entrenched in your living room when it really takes off.
I, for one, love renting HD movies via Xbox Live.
This is nothing new, and is a sore spot for me...
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It's not anything new (meaning that it's not just No Child Left Behind). In 4th grade I was all but held back from where I should have been placed. I was about two years ahead in most subjects by third grade, and ended up spending much of the next school year idle reading books of my choosing and doing trivial math. The school encouraged my 4th grade teacher to do this (I ran in to her years later after college and brought up the topic). 4th grade ended up being a very hard year for me as a kid because I was so frustrated and bored. I wish my parents had approached the school board or done something more proactive, but they never did. The didn't make the same mistake for my younger sister. I think I ended up in a nice position in life, though, all things considered.
They got 5. That's in the first sentence of the quote I cited. Most of them were lying in pieces all over Europe thanks to the war - another clip from the wiki states that they were shot down as they glided away, or crashed during landing, and at a faster rate than the German government could train pilots to fly them. For the US to take the effort to ship five to the US after the war doesn't seem all that unreasonable.
Five Me 163s were originally brought to the United States in 1945. An Me 163 B-1a, Werknummer (serial number) 191301, arrived at Freeman Field, Indiana, during the summer of 1945, and received the foreign equipment number FE-500. On April 12, 1946, it was flown aboard a cargo aircraft to the U.S. Army Air Forces facility at Muroc dry lake in California for flight testing. Testing began on May 3, 1946 in the presence of Dr. Alexander Lippisch and involved towing the unfueled Komet behind a B-29 to an altitude of 9,000 to 10,500 m (30,000 to 35,000 ft) before it was released for a glide back to Earth under the control of test pilot Major Gus Lundquist. Powered tests were planned, but not carried out after delamination of the aircraft's wooden wings was discovered.
They were flight tested (well, glide tested), just never powered due to their poor build quality.
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True. VS is a hog. I've really only used Visual Studio 2007 and 2008 because I recently made the switch from Linux. I've talked to others who say versions previous to those are pretty buggy and unstable... which might be half your problem right there. When I posted, I wasn't considering the restrictions that might come from using older hardware with a new version of Visual Studio (like 2008) since I've always had a fairly up-to-date machine for development.
Water molecules also have a tendency to clump and fall to the ground. Carbon dioxide molecules don't. A massive increase in precipitation would probably affect things in detrimental ways.
Microsoft changed a lot of stuff in the Vista kernel for DRM. Things like process spawning have become trickier. Take this blurb from MSDN:
"Protected Processes
Windows Vista introduces protected processes to enhance support for Digital Rights Management. The system restricts access to protected processes and the threads of protected processes.
The following standard access rights are not allowed from a process to a protected process:
DELETE
READ_CONTROL
WRITE_DAC
WRITE_OWNER
The following specific access rights are not allowed from a process to a protected process:
PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS
PROCESS_CREATE_PROCESS
PROCESS_CREATE_THREAD
PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE
PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION
PROCESS_SET_INFORMATION
PROCESS_SET_QUOTA
PROCESS_VM_OPERATION
PROCESS_VM_READ
PROCESS_VM_WRITE"
Holy crap. You actually used Netcraft to confirm it!
This actually worked on my 360 a few times. You can wrap it in a towel and get it hot enough that the fans are really howling, and let it cool again. After that, you might have a few more hours (or days!) of uptime. However, once the RROD starts it will get worse and worse no matter what you do. When the time came, mine went to Microsoft and back in 3 weeks, and this was during the Thanksgiving week, so at least their service was good (for me, anyway).
...I brew my own beer. Screw 'em.
Wow. That joke is so old I almost forgot what it means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcraft
Funny, as a Gold user and 360 owner for a couple years now, I've never really seen any problems until recently (and slight ones at that). I doubt it will last much longer. I've been nothing but impressed with Xbox Live so far, and would be hard pressed to give up my membership.
Hey, I'm a "My glass is 3.9% full" kind of guy.
Birds aren't usually a problem @ 100,000 feet ;-)
Only on slashdot would a bunch of D&D dice stats be modded +5 Insightful. I LOL'd. Really.
I think the same exact trick was used to keep the framerate up in Project Gotham Racing 3.
The funny thing is that, in almost every rover update every week or two, they mention that. It's always the wattage, followed by the light bulb statement.
Umm, didn't that happen yesterday?
Don't you get it? This is not so much about games anymore. Whoever wins this round will be the dominant force in media entertainment during the next round. HD-DVD/BluRay are probably the last generation of media for home rental. The world is moving toward on-demand and downloadable content. Microsoft and Sony want to be firmly entrenched in your living room when it really takes off. I, for one, love renting HD movies via Xbox Live.
...pee in your yard. Trees like the nutrients!
It's not anything new (meaning that it's not just No Child Left Behind). In 4th grade I was all but held back from where I should have been placed. I was about two years ahead in most subjects by third grade, and ended up spending much of the next school year idle reading books of my choosing and doing trivial math. The school encouraged my 4th grade teacher to do this (I ran in to her years later after college and brought up the topic). 4th grade ended up being a very hard year for me as a kid because I was so frustrated and bored. I wish my parents had approached the school board or done something more proactive, but they never did. The didn't make the same mistake for my younger sister. I think I ended up in a nice position in life, though, all things considered.
They got 5. That's in the first sentence of the quote I cited. Most of them were lying in pieces all over Europe thanks to the war - another clip from the wiki states that they were shot down as they glided away, or crashed during landing, and at a faster rate than the German government could train pilots to fly them. For the US to take the effort to ship five to the US after the war doesn't seem all that unreasonable.