Yeah, I bought into the load time aguement for awhile too. Funny, because to circumvent to cramped space on catridges some games started to compress music and what not and it would have to be decompressed when different music and levels would load. What did this lead to--load time! Wipeout 64 was a good example of this.
When I finally gave up and bought a Playstation I did notice load time with games, but it wasn't that bad. And when the games had better music and more levels then the N64 counterparts (anyone remember MK Trilogy?) and where on average half the price--come on, how can you defend catridges?
I have to disagree with what you call the "anti-nintendo stigma". Any stigma against Nintendo was caused by them and they have nobody to blame but themselves. I was a huge Nintendo fan and stayed loyal to the N64 for years until I finally released that their decision to stick with cartridges cost them valuable third party support and was costing me $60 for mediocre games. And was a lesson learned. No! Gamecube, instead of using DVD, continued to use an inferior proprietary format for their media just so they could have total control of manufacturing. The result: alienated third party developers and smaller games (still). No thanks, Mario.
I can't even imagine using e-books in college. The best part of buying used text books is that previous students highlight the important parts and even add useful notes in them. This is one area were "old school" is better than bleeding-edge technology.
Plus, can you sell you e-books back to the book store for beer and Arby's money? I didn't think so.
My wife and I just got a digital camera and I am never going back to 35mm. It's good to see photo shoppes to start specializing in these now--and for Kodak to finally start moving to digital technology themselves. When I got our camera I got it at Office Depot where the clerk now absolutely nothing about this stuff, so I had to research it beforehand.
Mac OSX is compariable in price to WinXP, but it's the damn hardware that costs so much. Apple computers cost two to three times more than a similiar x86 system, and I doubt that the hardware it that much better given that they are dumping PowerPC. I'll be curious to see how Apple explains why you should pay $1,800 for a computer with an Intel chip and ATI card in it when an IBM compatiable with the same chips cost $800.
Fantatistic! First Paul Anderson ruins what could have been a great movie (AvP), now the Transformers are going to be soiled by Michael Bay, the hack behind such "gems" as Armegedon, Pearl Harbor, and The Rock. Can't wait to be treated to his special blend of choppy editing, idiotic dialouge, and cornball love story subplots.
I can't believe that Spielberg would be caught dead in the same room as that hack!
I truly don't understand why these security firms publish these problems (and even example code!) before giving the vendor time to fix the problem. And they justify it by acting like the Vendor is ignoring them. "We contacted Microsoft yesterday about this exploit, but have yet to respond, so we figured that we should tell the entire world how to take advantage of the problem".
Define "sells a lot". Once a month? Once a week?
I love Ohio, but our laws and procedures here are so incomplete, backwards, and subjective to interpretation. I lived in Oklahoma for a short while, and I hate to say it but they actually have good laws and procedures (e.g., real estate practices, utility company policies) that make Ohio look like it's in the Dark Ages.
He still doesn't explain what gives him the right to steal MAME. Because competitors illegally misuse MAME to undermine your own emulator doesn't give you the right to attack the makers of MAME and steal all their hard work.
It sounds to me like he is just pissed that his corporate empire's emulator isn't as good as one made by a community of volunteers who do what they do for free because they smply love arcade machines.
I certainly don't agree with that assessment. OK, this isn't exactly a fancy empiracal test, but my wife and I both experience noticably faster page loading using FireFox. We noticed this better performance both under dial up and cable. And for wife to admit that FireFox is faster than IE is really saying something, because she's the biggest M$ lover that I ever met.
I love how smooth it is to scroll around. Much nicer than having to load a new map like mapquest does. Google is right on par with Apple with creating user interfaces.
Who is Gates to lecture on forking? Look at Windows--they forked into the 9x series and the NT series. Poor Win32 developers have to make sure that their software is compatable on Win98, ME, NT, 2K, and XP before shipping. And even as we finally start phasing out the abomination that is the 9x Kernel, we still have to support ME for another three years or so.
I agree. C/C++ are the dominant languages--sorry, Sun marketing dept.--and aren't getting any less popular. Given that the Moore's law will start to expand in the realm of multithreaded/multiprocessor rather than raw clock cycles, the high performance of C++ will be more critical than ever.
Oh, snap! You got me.
No, my whole point is test data in all sorts of formats, such as PDF and Excel. Test data that is known to cause all sorts of problems. For example, if I have a Word files that crashes OO.org at one point, why not offer those files publicly to other developers of other products (Abiword, KWord) to see if they perhaps have similar problems.
What you are referring to is actually "forward compatibility" where older versions of a program can read files saved in newer formats from a newer version.
Unfortunately, in my experience few programs (at least in the Windows world) ever work this way. That's way most programs allow you to save files in older formats so that colleages (sic, I'm sure) with older versions of the program can share files with you.
Microsoft, in there defense, is good at backward compatiblity.
Actually, this is something that I would like. I work by myself on one computer, but I would love to be able to versioning control. The problem is that it's just me on one computer, so Perforce and CVS is overkill (if not impossible since you have to run all that from a server). I can't seem to find a simple stand alone version system out there:-(
I use FireFox, but the problem here is Media Player that I sure is using IE components. I've noticed this problem too and it's gotten to where I just don't download WMV files. Long live MP3 and MPEG!
I haven't found a good WMP open-source replacement yet; otherwise, I would get rid of it like I did MS Office (replaced with OpenOffice.org) and IE (replaced with FireFox).
Why is this even such big news? Microsoft releases a file searching tool!!! Am I supposed to be impressed? I mean, isn't there a file search tool already in Windows?! Granted, it's dog slow and maybe this new tool is better, but I just don't understand why MS making a file searching tool to compete with its own Windows File Find makes sense.
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Yeah, I bought into the load time aguement for awhile too. Funny, because to circumvent to cramped space on catridges some games started to compress music and what not and it would have to be decompressed when different music and levels would load. What did this lead to--load time! Wipeout 64 was a good example of this. When I finally gave up and bought a Playstation I did notice load time with games, but it wasn't that bad. And when the games had better music and more levels then the N64 counterparts (anyone remember MK Trilogy?) and where on average half the price--come on, how can you defend catridges?
I have to disagree with what you call the "anti-nintendo stigma". Any stigma against Nintendo was caused by them and they have nobody to blame but themselves. I was a huge Nintendo fan and stayed loyal to the N64 for years until I finally released that their decision to stick with cartridges cost them valuable third party support and was costing me $60 for mediocre games. And was a lesson learned. No! Gamecube, instead of using DVD, continued to use an inferior proprietary format for their media just so they could have total control of manufacturing. The result: alienated third party developers and smaller games (still). No thanks, Mario.
Yeah, especially if they give you 90 hours of homework per week!
I can't even imagine using e-books in college. The best part of buying used text books is that previous students highlight the important parts and even add useful notes in them. This is one area were "old school" is better than bleeding-edge technology. Plus, can you sell you e-books back to the book store for beer and Arby's money? I didn't think so.
My wife and I just got a digital camera and I am never going back to 35mm. It's good to see photo shoppes to start specializing in these now--and for Kodak to finally start moving to digital technology themselves. When I got our camera I got it at Office Depot where the clerk now absolutely nothing about this stuff, so I had to research it beforehand.
File versioning, man that is so funny because I was just thinking the other day how great a feature that would be for OSes to have.
Mac OSX is compariable in price to WinXP, but it's the damn hardware that costs so much. Apple computers cost two to three times more than a similiar x86 system, and I doubt that the hardware it that much better given that they are dumping PowerPC. I'll be curious to see how Apple explains why you should pay $1,800 for a computer with an Intel chip and ATI card in it when an IBM compatiable with the same chips cost $800.
Fantatistic! First Paul Anderson ruins what could have been a great movie (AvP), now the Transformers are going to be soiled by Michael Bay, the hack behind such "gems" as Armegedon, Pearl Harbor, and The Rock. Can't wait to be treated to his special blend of choppy editing, idiotic dialouge, and cornball love story subplots. I can't believe that Spielberg would be caught dead in the same room as that hack!
There is an open source program called ToDoList that is really good. You can find it at codeproject.com
I truly don't understand why these security firms publish these problems (and even example code!) before giving the vendor time to fix the problem. And they justify it by acting like the Vendor is ignoring them. "We contacted Microsoft yesterday about this exploit, but have yet to respond, so we figured that we should tell the entire world how to take advantage of the problem".
I guess the best way to avoid this is to not install MS Office and use OpenOffice instead :-)
Define "sells a lot". Once a month? Once a week? I love Ohio, but our laws and procedures here are so incomplete, backwards, and subjective to interpretation. I lived in Oklahoma for a short while, and I hate to say it but they actually have good laws and procedures (e.g., real estate practices, utility company policies) that make Ohio look like it's in the Dark Ages.
He still doesn't explain what gives him the right to steal MAME. Because competitors illegally misuse MAME to undermine your own emulator doesn't give you the right to attack the makers of MAME and steal all their hard work. It sounds to me like he is just pissed that his corporate empire's emulator isn't as good as one made by a community of volunteers who do what they do for free because they smply love arcade machines.
I certainly don't agree with that assessment. OK, this isn't exactly a fancy empiracal test, but my wife and I both experience noticably faster page loading using FireFox. We noticed this better performance both under dial up and cable. And for wife to admit that FireFox is faster than IE is really saying something, because she's the biggest M$ lover that I ever met.
I love how smooth it is to scroll around. Much nicer than having to load a new map like mapquest does. Google is right on par with Apple with creating user interfaces.
Who is Gates to lecture on forking? Look at Windows--they forked into the 9x series and the NT series. Poor Win32 developers have to make sure that their software is compatable on Win98, ME, NT, 2K, and XP before shipping. And even as we finally start phasing out the abomination that is the 9x Kernel, we still have to support ME for another three years or so.
I agree. C/C++ are the dominant languages--sorry, Sun marketing dept.--and aren't getting any less popular. Given that the Moore's law will start to expand in the realm of multithreaded/multiprocessor rather than raw clock cycles, the high performance of C++ will be more critical than ever.
Oh, snap! You got me. No, my whole point is test data in all sorts of formats, such as PDF and Excel. Test data that is known to cause all sorts of problems. For example, if I have a Word files that crashes OO.org at one point, why not offer those files publicly to other developers of other products (Abiword, KWord) to see if they perhaps have similar problems.
What you are referring to is actually "forward compatibility" where older versions of a program can read files saved in newer formats from a newer version. Unfortunately, in my experience few programs (at least in the Windows world) ever work this way. That's way most programs allow you to save files in older formats so that colleages (sic, I'm sure) with older versions of the program can share files with you. Microsoft, in there defense, is good at backward compatiblity.
I found TortoiseSVN. Maybe that is what I need. Thanks for the info.
Actually, this is something that I would like. I work by myself on one computer, but I would love to be able to versioning control. The problem is that it's just me on one computer, so Perforce and CVS is overkill (if not impossible since you have to run all that from a server). I can't seem to find a simple stand alone version system out there :-(
Cool! I'll try it right away. Thanx for the heads up. Bliz
I use FireFox, but the problem here is Media Player that I sure is using IE components. I've noticed this problem too and it's gotten to where I just don't download WMV files. Long live MP3 and MPEG! I haven't found a good WMP open-source replacement yet; otherwise, I would get rid of it like I did MS Office (replaced with OpenOffice.org) and IE (replaced with FireFox).
Why is this even such big news? Microsoft releases a file searching tool!!! Am I supposed to be impressed? I mean, isn't there a file search tool already in Windows?! Granted, it's dog slow and maybe this new tool is better, but I just don't understand why MS making a file searching tool to compete with its own Windows File Find makes sense.
I better not say to protect the guilty :-) Yeah, when you mix developers and marketing wizards together, the end results is pure "magic"!