Yet another whine, sulking, bitching repeat-post. Sigh. I never realized at the time that things were so good...I honestly expected that we would keep going forward. For the past 10-20 years, it has just been whining laced thickly on whining. For every comment with a constructive suggestion or a "hey, let's go make something new and interesting ourselves, because we have some good ideas, right?", there are two whiners whining about how much better things were before and how much better everything would be if everyone's time were spent making something new, as if newer is better. It just says that things were better before, when everything was new, and there was nothing to whine about.
The excuse about not finishing it because of globalization seems a bit contrived. It could be easily solved by selecting to play as "the frenchman" or "the italian", and give the players gestures depending on which character they played. Or simply just choose culture-agnostic gestures.
However, it seems like a cool idea to implement a simple thing like a real-time stone, paper, scissors, where you can pretty much attack and defend at any time. Seems like a game likely to boost reaction time and ESP skills.
In the case of software engineering, more code isn't better. It's always better to spend some time making a good design, which are almost always smaller in code than worse designs. Typing a lot creates a lot of code to maintain. Unless you are coding COBOL or using an ancient development environment, you shouldn't be typing that much. If you truly would have increased performance as a coder by typing more quickly, you are indeed very special, I've never met a coder who wasn't a total newbie who had typing speed as the main bottleneck.
Also, the typical keyboard layout, at least here in Norway, makes "touch" or any derivative of it almost useless. Open curly brace (which is quite commonly used, I imagine) on a normal keyboard here is Alt-gr and 7. Close curly brace is Alt-gr and 0. Considering the extremely high frequence of use of these characters, slightly slanting the hand and making it dynamic instead of keeping it in a typical static "touch"-position not only increases throughput from brain to compiled code but shields the body from stress.
Looking at how Visual Studio presents the editor surface to a coder, the following keys are used in the extreme: open and close curly brace, dot, open and close parenthesis, enter, space, cursor keys and control. I'd say that with the current level of code completion, macros and intellisense these keys are probably used as much as most of the other keys combined. And keep in mind, most of these keys aren't even present on the keyboard the touch system was invented for. It really just doesn't make sense for coding performance to go through the roof with touch typing.
This is true. Also, consider the other things taking time in a studio situation. Most professional strobe systems take at least half a second to recycle. This means you can pretty much forget firing bursts in a studio situation.
Also, in a burst situation, you actually have two caches taking the hit before the wifi-part, the in-camera memory and the memory on the memory-card. So I would think this combination would happily accommodate most real life extreme burst situations. Maybe what the original poster was really looking for was a video camera.
This actually sounds like a great device, and I'll definitely get one of they make a CF-version compatible with my Canon-gear.
If you link to a resource that's not local, you have to keep revisiting your own links to make sure the contents are in the same spirit as the ones you linked to. This is not just a problem for ISPs, but also for everyone creating content for the web, because you are suddenly responsible for something that's not yours to control.
Ummm, wasn't it pointed out in the earlier trial that the poor port of Quicktime was because Apple ported it to the then published Microsoft media specs, whereas Microsoft's own media player used undocumented APIs? Wouldn't that qualify as the abuse you are looking for? Well, at least the courts thought so.
Quicktime is a piss-poor port no matter how you look at it. It's currently the only application I know of which doesn't even manage to playback sound without constantly and violently chopping on my RME Hammerfall audio-card, apparently because the player doesn't support hardware mixing. Blaming stuff like this on lacking documentation is more a convenience than based on fact.
Has Microsoft made it difficult to install third party media players? Yes.
The last couple of weeks I've installed a couple of codec-packs, both implicitly installed Media Player Classic. So it really isn't that difficult.
As others have pointed out, rewriting just for the sake of rewriting isn't good business. New applications from MS do use.NET; look at Sparkle, which is IMHO the coolest application they've released in recent years.
Go ahead, watch a couple of them, they're all very good, IMHO. They'll make you crave a Windows 2003 Server for your projects aswell. At least just a little.
Parent got it more right than you. WinFX is the next iteration of the.NET BCL which is a collection of managed APIs, including (that is, now adding) WCF (Windows Communication Foundation, formerly known as Indigo) and WPF (Windows Presentation Fondation, formerly known as Avalon) and WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation). XAML is the declarative (XML-markup) which is similar to XUL. All that can be done in XAML can also be done in code; elements used in mark-up will be immediately available as first class objects in C# and friends.
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Yet another whine, sulking, bitching repeat-post. Sigh. I never realized at the time that things were so good...I honestly expected that we would keep going forward. For the past 10-20 years, it has just been whining laced thickly on whining. For every comment with a constructive suggestion or a "hey, let's go make something new and interesting ourselves, because we have some good ideas, right?", there are two whiners whining about how much better things were before and how much better everything would be if everyone's time were spent making something new, as if newer is better. It just says that things were better before, when everything was new, and there was nothing to whine about.
In their excuse, there is apparently a food shortage.
The excuse about not finishing it because of globalization seems a bit contrived. It could be easily solved by selecting to play as "the frenchman" or "the italian", and give the players gestures depending on which character they played. Or simply just choose culture-agnostic gestures.
However, it seems like a cool idea to implement a simple thing like a real-time stone, paper, scissors, where you can pretty much attack and defend at any time. Seems like a game likely to boost reaction time and ESP skills.
Trials HD on the XBOX360?
Don't you mean infinite repetitions of F, A and P?
I call bullshit/COBOL.
In the case of software engineering, more code isn't better. It's always better to spend some time making a good design, which are almost always smaller in code than worse designs. Typing a lot creates a lot of code to maintain. Unless you are coding COBOL or using an ancient development environment, you shouldn't be typing that much. If you truly would have increased performance as a coder by typing more quickly, you are indeed very special, I've never met a coder who wasn't a total newbie who had typing speed as the main bottleneck.
Also, the typical keyboard layout, at least here in Norway, makes "touch" or any derivative of it almost useless. Open curly brace (which is quite commonly used, I imagine) on a normal keyboard here is Alt-gr and 7. Close curly brace is Alt-gr and 0. Considering the extremely high frequence of use of these characters, slightly slanting the hand and making it dynamic instead of keeping it in a typical static "touch"-position not only increases throughput from brain to compiled code but shields the body from stress.
Looking at how Visual Studio presents the editor surface to a coder, the following keys are used in the extreme: open and close curly brace, dot, open and close parenthesis, enter, space, cursor keys and control. I'd say that with the current level of code completion, macros and intellisense these keys are probably used as much as most of the other keys combined. And keep in mind, most of these keys aren't even present on the keyboard the touch system was invented for. It really just doesn't make sense for coding performance to go through the roof with touch typing.
...for the second amendment.
This is true. Also, consider the other things taking time in a studio situation. Most professional strobe systems take at least half a second to recycle. This means you can pretty much forget firing bursts in a studio situation.
Also, in a burst situation, you actually have two caches taking the hit before the wifi-part, the in-camera memory and the memory on the memory-card. So I would think this combination would happily accommodate most real life extreme burst situations. Maybe what the original poster was really looking for was a video camera.
This actually sounds like a great device, and I'll definitely get one of they make a CF-version compatible with my Canon-gear.
Dude, you should look into getting a couple of that stuff on the left in that graph.
If you drop Newtonian Physics it'll be the last thing you drop.
If you link to a resource that's not local, you have to keep revisiting your own links to make sure the contents are in the same spirit as the ones you linked to. This is not just a problem for ISPs, but also for everyone creating content for the web, because you are suddenly responsible for something that's not yours to control.
It might have accidentaly taught you recursion, but you wouldn't have noticed, you GOTO'er.
If yes is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Drink beer.
"Because, it's really not about you or me. It's about Wii."
To quote Irwin Mahatma Fletcher: I R pissed.
Quicktime is a piss-poor port no matter how you look at it. It's currently the only application I know of which doesn't even manage to playback sound without constantly and violently chopping on my RME Hammerfall audio-card, apparently because the player doesn't support hardware mixing. Blaming stuff like this on lacking documentation is more a convenience than based on fact.
The last couple of weeks I've installed a couple of codec-packs, both implicitly installed Media Player Classic. So it really isn't that difficult.
As others have pointed out, rewriting just for the sake of rewriting isn't good business. New applications from MS do use .NET; look at Sparkle, which is IMHO the coolest application they've released in recent years.
Playing Ninja Gaiden Black on the XBOX has definitely improved my real life Flying Swallow technique.
Regarding 2), I'm sure stuff like this doesn't hurt either:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/learning/learn/
Go ahead, watch a couple of them, they're all very good, IMHO. They'll make you crave a Windows 2003 Server for your projects aswell. At least just a little.
The collective IQ of the universe just dropped a full point as a result of this being modded insightful.
Well, duh. It makes perfect sense; of course a guy named Bakun would throw Perl at himself.
Parent got it more right than you. WinFX is the next iteration of the .NET BCL which is a collection of managed APIs, including (that is, now adding) WCF (Windows Communication Foundation, formerly known as Indigo) and WPF (Windows Presentation Fondation, formerly known as Avalon) and WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation). XAML is the declarative (XML-markup) which is similar to XUL. All that can be done in XAML can also be done in code; elements used in mark-up will be immediately available as first class objects in C# and friends.
This error-message went away after uploading my own picture instead of choosing a stock-image (YMMV).
My own image was, however, utterly scrambled by the time my I submitted my registration. Do I really want these guys to care for my media?
Regarding odd names, in Norway, "Odd" is a quite common name. Interestingly enough, so is "Even".
My uncle is named "Odd Petter".
You can only do that if you consistently blame getting fragged on the lag.