I don't think WPF is really that alive, although I agree calling it 'dead' is a bit dramatic.
Microsoft, as is there frequent pattern, has moved on from WPF in that it's stable but won't be invested in significantly anymore.
Example: If you take a look at the last major Microsoft conference (MIX10) then you'll see there we no new WPF features added, while a whole bunch of new Silverlight things announced. Even Microsoft realizes that the web is having an impact on their desktop UI strategy, i.e. Silverlight is way good enough and far too similar to WPF to keep two forks alive.
Saying Silverlight is a 'subset' of a WPF is true, but misses out the portability side, i.e it has it's own run-time. It would be just as true to say that WPF is missing features that Silverlight has.
This might be a cynical view but here's how I see it panning out:
1 - US sits backs and waits for either private investors or NASA to make a break through the bureaucracy. Unfortunately nothing happens for at least 10 years.
2 - China / India / Delete As Appropriate make a mad dash on their manned space program, i.e. nationalism and all that.
3 - US gets annoyed by 2 and public opinion now gets interested.
4 - US responds and spend serious GDP. Most likely wins.
5 - GOTO 1
The system seems setup to respond to outside competition, and needs something to fight against and beat. We're just in a period where the other competitors are slowly gearing up that's all.
By completely ignoring what you asked for I would recommend you buy two Nintendo DS's and just wireless a couple of games. My wife and I do this and it's (a) no hassle, just works (b) great fun and (c) when one of you doesn't want to do it the other can watch tv...
This decent round-up here finished off the Raptor line for me. A SpinPoint is much cheaper, much larger and has a lot less noise too. So why bother?
Maybe the VelociRaptor will perform better, but I've seen a lot of PC builders get obsessed with the 'badge', i.e. someone told them that their games will run faster with a Raptor...
Perhaps the sequels will one day, through tiny changes of their launch dates, actually meet that exact Darwin Day date. I would then expect that the sequel that makes that date would then spawn the most sequels of its own.
If that sounds unlikely then you need to consider that the time to develop Spore is way beyond the scale of how humans can comprehend periods of time that long.
That doesn't always work out so well though, does it?
You have to enforce it - that's the trick. Writing it down is the easy bit.
Crib Notes: As is the trend, I am being lazily sarcastic about the current US administration/constitutional monarchy that the US has today. True story. (golf claps)
I have this game, and for 'nicer water' I don't want to lose 20% of the frame-rate. It doesn't/play/ as well with lower FPS, just makes nicer screenshots (if you squint and stare).
Besides, Bioshock on the XBox360 (which cost less to buy than my 'DX10' graphics card) manages similar effects, and that's basically a DirectX7 with customizations. They could have done this on DX9 if they wished.
When DirectX 10 was first pitched as a 'game changer' and a reason to get Vista I don't think anyone would have thought it would have been as weak as 'slightly nice water'. DX10 will probably be a technology dead alley for early adopter suckers (like me) and be surpassed next year by an incompatible DX11 as MSFT get's the plan together for the successor to the XBox360...
It's been out for getting on to 2 years now and there is nothing (repeat *NOTHING*) that works well (or 'better') with it.
I play a lot of PC games and even the latest releases, i.e. Crysis render faster and just as well in DirectX 9. Even mythical DX10 improvements to Microsoft titles like Flight Sim X haven't worked out either, with the results being a cut in framerates and a slight different 'look' (which is subjective if it's better). I got fooled into purchasing a 'DX10' card (8800 GTX) and of the last 10 or so games that I've bought, all have work better in DX9 (even if they had a DX10 mode, which most don't or even plan to).
DirectX 10 has been a damp squib. I don't know why people ask about it anymore. Adoption has not happened, and it's certainly no reason to buy Vista.
Get some help man. Really. Or at least tell someone that gives a shit how you feel just to vent.
It does get easier over time - trust me. I've got five kids (they are older now) and look back at that feed/poop time with a bizarre mix of horror and romanticism.
So hang in there, it's worth it in the end. Besides, you're in it for duration now, and if you even look at the little guy funny for this being his fault then I'll hunt you down and rip your neck open and stuff my fist up into your fucking head. Do your best and take care.
You look at Turing, you say, "Asperger's!" and think you know all you need to know about the dude, even though your knowledge consists of a single highly speculative medical article. That's just plain lazy. Uh, yeah, ok. I now can't decide if you either on the right of the autistic spectrum, trying to troll (why do we feed them!?) or really do have some magical insight into the things I know. I'm leaning towards 'just a jerk'.
Let me guess, you have trouble working in teams eh? Zed, is that you?
Turing disliked working with others and most likely had what we'd call today Asperger's syndrome (we do like to label these things). The book 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' is an interesting read (or more directly: http://www.ijpm.org/content/pdf/175/Turing.pdf)
..although when he didn't have to look at people, he did achieve great things as part of the Enigma team.
Poor Zed looks like he's in the running for plain ol' Bipolar Disorder sans Genius though...
Fair point, but to a large extent Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, and Ada Augusta all worked alone; and they did ok in terms of ideas and lack of jerkness.
Although I bet Zed would kick their collective asses, using his nunchucks and rudimentary understanding of the HTTP spec.
I put SP1 on a spare laptop here, and one unexpected thing is that it puts an unremovable watermark on the desktop of 'Windows Vista (TM). Evaluation copy. Build 6001', i.e. the same you get when you haven't purchased or running the demo. Jeez.
This isn't a production machine so I don't greatly care, but I do feel I'm being punished just for trying it out - i.e. I paid $400 for an O/S, go put a SP1 on and now look as if I've pirated it... Thanks guys...
My favorite print magazine Custom PC (recommended for those PC hardware fetishes, although not sure if they cover the USA?) had a round up of these solid-state devices in the summer:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Get this: How about an option where the Zune would use a built-in microphone so that you could broadcast your voice to your Zune peers within a 9 feet radius via WiFi?
That would allow you to be able to speak and hear people, all through their Zune's, just by being in the *same room*. Wouldn't that absolutely rock?!
It's these sort of cool ideas that shows why Microsoft innovation will alway beat that effeminate museli-munching Apple crowd nonsense...
You see, if they can't agree about *that*, then why would we expect this plan to be agreed upon? How would we do it without them?
I know it's Monday and all (on my bit of the planet) but the sad truth is that democracy/govt is now a distant second to commerce, and there is no short-term profit in saving a planet. You would need to prove it will be destroyed before anyone will risk some action. The hulking masses of people can't comprehend a disaster that happens in slow-motion over a 50 year period - it makes lousy tv news...
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That whooshing sound you hear over your head isn't the US manned spaced program... :)
I don't think WPF is really that alive, although I agree calling it 'dead' is a bit dramatic.
Microsoft, as is there frequent pattern, has moved on from WPF in that it's stable but won't be invested in significantly anymore.
Example: If you take a look at the last major Microsoft conference (MIX10) then you'll see there we no new WPF features added, while a whole bunch of new Silverlight things announced. Even Microsoft realizes that the web is having an impact on their desktop UI strategy, i.e. Silverlight is way good enough and far too similar to WPF to keep two forks alive.
Saying Silverlight is a 'subset' of a WPF is true, but misses out the portability side, i.e it has it's own run-time. It would be just as true to say that WPF is missing features that Silverlight has.
WPF isn't dead, it's just resting. (insert parrot joke here-> )
PS Apologies if you've bet on WPF, you should really have recognized the pattern by now...
This might be a cynical view but here's how I see it panning out:
1 - US sits backs and waits for either private investors or NASA to make a break through the bureaucracy. Unfortunately nothing happens for at least 10 years.
2 - China / India / Delete As Appropriate make a mad dash on their manned space program, i.e. nationalism and all that.
3 - US gets annoyed by 2 and public opinion now gets interested.
4 - US responds and spend serious GDP. Most likely wins.
5 - GOTO 1
The system seems setup to respond to outside competition, and needs something to fight against and beat. We're just in a period where the other competitors are slowly gearing up that's all.
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By completely ignoring what you asked for I would recommend you buy two Nintendo DS's and just wireless a couple of games. My wife and I do this and it's (a) no hassle, just works (b) great fun and (c) when one of you doesn't want to do it the other can watch tv...
This decent round-up here finished off the Raptor line for me. A SpinPoint is much cheaper, much larger and has a lot less noise too. So why bother? Maybe the VelociRaptor will perform better, but I've seen a lot of PC builders get obsessed with the 'badge', i.e. someone told them that their games will run faster with a Raptor...
Perhaps the sequels will one day, through tiny changes of their launch dates, actually meet that exact Darwin Day date. I would then expect that the sequel that makes that date would then spawn the most sequels of its own.
If that sounds unlikely then you need to consider that the time to develop Spore is way beyond the scale of how humans can comprehend periods of time that long.
That doesn't always work out so well though, does it?
You have to enforce it - that's the trick. Writing it down is the easy bit.
Crib Notes: As is the trend, I am being lazily sarcastic about the current US administration/constitutional monarchy that the US has today. True story. (golf claps)
Since I've played both DX9 and DX10 versions (in fact I just nipped back and looked again), I'll go with my 'slightly nicer water' judgement thanks.
If you like I could amend it to 76.5% more ass, but only if I can get a cut of the Vista marketing dollar.
I have this game, and for 'nicer water' I don't want to lose 20% of the frame-rate. It doesn't /play/ as well with lower FPS, just makes nicer screenshots (if you squint and stare).
Besides, Bioshock on the XBox360 (which cost less to buy than my 'DX10' graphics card) manages similar effects, and that's basically a DirectX7 with customizations. They could have done this on DX9 if they wished.
When DirectX 10 was first pitched as a 'game changer' and a reason to get Vista I don't think anyone would have thought it would have been as weak as 'slightly nice water'. DX10 will probably be a technology dead alley for early adopter suckers (like me) and be surpassed next year by an incompatible DX11 as MSFT get's the plan together for the successor to the XBox360...
Why? There is no real reason to run DirectX 10.
It's been out for getting on to 2 years now and there is nothing (repeat *NOTHING*) that works well (or 'better') with it.
I play a lot of PC games and even the latest releases, i.e. Crysis render faster and just as well in DirectX 9. Even mythical DX10 improvements to Microsoft titles like Flight Sim X haven't worked out either, with the results being a cut in framerates and a slight different 'look' (which is subjective if it's better). I got fooled into purchasing a 'DX10' card (8800 GTX) and of the last 10 or so games that I've bought, all have work better in DX9 (even if they had a DX10 mode, which most don't or even plan to).
DirectX 10 has been a damp squib. I don't know why people ask about it anymore. Adoption has not happened, and it's certainly no reason to buy Vista.
Get some help man. Really. Or at least tell someone that gives a shit how you feel just to vent.
It does get easier over time - trust me. I've got five kids (they are older now) and look back at that feed/poop time with a bizarre mix of horror and romanticism.
So hang in there, it's worth it in the end. Besides, you're in it for duration now, and if you even look at the little guy funny for this being his fault then I'll hunt you down and rip your neck open and stuff my fist up into your fucking head. Do your best and take care.
Let me guess, you have trouble working in teams eh? Zed, is that you?
Turing disliked working with others and most likely had what we'd call today Asperger's syndrome (we do like to label these things). The book 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' is an interesting read (or more directly: http://www.ijpm.org/content/pdf/175/Turing.pdf)
..although when he didn't have to look at people, he did achieve great things as part of the Enigma team.
Poor Zed looks like he's in the running for plain ol' Bipolar Disorder sans Genius though...
Fair point, but to a large extent Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, and Ada Augusta all worked alone; and they did ok in terms of ideas and lack of jerkness.
Although I bet Zed would kick their collective asses, using his nunchucks and rudimentary understanding of the HTTP spec.
I put SP1 on a spare laptop here, and one unexpected thing is that it puts an unremovable watermark on the desktop of 'Windows Vista (TM). Evaluation copy. Build 6001', i.e. the same you get when you haven't purchased or running the demo. Jeez.
This isn't a production machine so I don't greatly care, but I do feel I'm being punished just for trying it out - i.e. I paid $400 for an O/S, go put a SP1 on and now look as if I've pirated it... Thanks guys...
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..boat travel as "the railway of the sea"..
That sounds dumb - I mean, how would the boat stay on the rails? Duh?
Sigh. I shouldn't feed them, but hey...
Evolution: You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it means.
Hint: It's got nothing to do with 1000 monkeys typing on keyboards or random systems.
INNER JOIN?
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My favorite print magazine Custom PC (recommended for those PC hardware fetishes, although not sure if they cover the USA?) had a round up of these solid-state devices in the summer:
http://www.custompc.co.uk/labs/601070/solid-state-drives/products.html
Still looks like the market needs more baking by the 1.0 cash-gullible crowd...
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
'Helped out' a village?
Ooo, I know, I know..
Get this: How about an option where the Zune would use a built-in microphone so that you could broadcast your voice to your Zune peers within a 9 feet radius via WiFi?
That would allow you to be able to speak and hear people, all through their Zune's, just by being in the *same room*. Wouldn't that absolutely rock?!
It's these sort of cool ideas that shows why Microsoft innovation will alway beat that effeminate museli-munching Apple crowd nonsense...
...
Um, yeah, nevermind...
>get the US/India/China to agree
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You see, if they can't agree about *that*, then why would we expect this plan to be agreed upon? How would we do it without them?
I know it's Monday and all (on my bit of the planet) but the sad truth is that democracy/govt is now a distant second to commerce, and there is no short-term profit in saving a planet. You would need to prove it will be destroyed before anyone will risk some action. The hulking masses of people can't comprehend a disaster that happens in slow-motion over a 50 year period - it makes lousy tv news...
> I thought British policemen didn't have guns. Try wearing that t-shirt at Heathrow - y'know, as an experiment like...