This story's been up for 20 or 30 minutes and no one's bothered posting anything on it. Not even your usual first posting "1 am teh sux0rz types". How weird. Is it just that no one knows what to make of a Finnish comedy? A parody, no less, of Star Trek? I'm still a little stunned, honestly.
VB's a real object-oriented language. It's not perfect, no language is. Not C, PHP, VB, C#, Objective C, Ruby, or any of the others. But, it's come a long, long way since the days of VB 6. Ruby is incredibly cool, though, I have to say. I took the "learn a new language every year" idea to heart, and it's made me a far better developer for my trouble.
ooh, I'd be interested to see what you think about Visual Studio 2005. Our development products have evolved a fair amount since the early/mid-90s:-). You can see more about it on MSDN.
VID's not that bad;-). As far as debugging goes, symcaching and the symbol server features are soooo frigging cool. I know I sound like a total dork for saying that, but it's true. For debugger feedback, you can either post a suggestion on the MSDN Product Feedback Center, or ask a question on the official VS Debugger forum.
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I just talked with the program manager who owns our help system and he promised me that we've fixed the first issue you describe in VS 2005. You can filter out specific blocks of content now, which will enable you to get rid of the WinCE-specific help.
Also, you can now get content via the Internet or through the Local Help system, which means that you shouldn't ever run into "please insert a cd" messages again.
As far as our Tool Window situation goes, we have a way to go on improving this. I think we're doing better in terms of window management in Whidbey (VS 2005) than we did in previous releases. One cool new feature, the IDE Navigator (Ctrl+Tab) lets you navigate between every open document and tool window in the IDE in a fairly reasonable manner.
Also, we've added in either 5 or 6 refactorings to VS: you can perform operations like Extract Method or Rename Symbol now through that interface.
Finally, if you have feature requests or bug reports please post them on our Product Feedback Center. I happened to run across this post, but there's no guarantee that a Slashdot post will ever be seen by the team that owns a specific part of VS. The MSDN Product Feedback Center will let you submit issues or suggestions to us directly and will guarantee they're routed to the right people.
Cheers -- Aaron
Oh yeah, and I feel like I owe a VS "hack" now. When you're in the editor you can enable incremental search by pressing Ctrl+i and then typing a string to search for. The next instance can be jumped to by pressing Ctrl+i again.
Impartial? No, I never claimed I was. At the same time, I doubt you'll find a Google or Apple employee who you could argue is impartial either. It's just a fact of the matter. And yes, CLM definitely does mean something to me;-). Are you entirely impartial about your employer?
It would be news to me that MS is paying bloggers to evangelize Windows Vista. I think you may be referring to Team 99, but I don't believe they're being paid.
I cannot comment on DR-DOS. I know nothing about it and anything I'd say would be mere speculation.
Zero. Just like Microsoft is not paying me to write the blog that's linked to above. It's something Adam does for fun. In fact, if you read through the entire blog post Adam even says "OK, but those are Microsoft people speaking. What about the view from the Lotus side?", and proceeds to quote a couple of different former Lotus employees, including the founder of the company, Mitch Kapor. One quote: "It's an interesting myth, and one I've heard about in general terms, although I've never heard the specific quote before. However, I have no recollection of any instance of its actually happening with 1-2-3 or with any other product I've worked on."
It won't do much good if you only register this complaint on Slashdot. Click the "How to Report a Bug" shortcut on your Desktop and follow the instructions in there to log bugs. Thanks!
Fable sucked me in...for the 9 or 10 hours it took me to beat it. On the plus side of things, it taught me never to buy a Molyneaux game at full price.
You know, the PSOne is still available today, and it came out in 1994 or 1995, at least ten years ago. I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be the case with the PS2 or the PS3. However, the specific reasons that Ken Kutaragi cites make my BS detector go ping ping ping. Essentially, it sounds like he's trying to convince people that they won't have to go buy a PS4 until 2015 (seems unlikely), and that they should consider the value of the PS3 over those ten years. Sigh... (also: yes, I do work for Microsoft. yes, I have an X360 pre-ordered. However, I do own a GBA, PS2, and NGC in addition to my XBox and I will probably end up buying a PS3 eventually in order to play MGS4.)
The author of the FA refers to an XML development standard that will ease writing software for the XBox 360. I'm guessing he's actually referring to XNA and XNA Studio.
I've been feeling a sense of deja vu every time I read Slashdot for the past few weeks. The problem is that one or two posts a day have been culled directly from Boing Boing, like this story which was posted there yesterday. I recognize that not everyone actually reads Boing Boing in addition to Slashdot, but it gets really old to keep seeing the same stories over and over and over again (and that doesn't even count the dupes;-).
Can you be more descriptive about types of issues you're running into with Whidbey Beta 2 on Win2k3? Have you posted bug reports about them to the MSDN Product Feedback Center? Thx, Aaron.
Well, actually just one Ethernet port... And it's debatable whether it'll be gigabit or not: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/news.php?aid=10033. We can probably expect this sort of thing to happen again before the PS3 ever ships (hopefully without that hideous Dual Shock 3 controller).
Go buy an Audiovox SMT 5600 from Cingular (nee HTC Typhoon). Yeah, it's SIM-locked to Cingular. But you can do whatever else you want to with this phone, from writing C++, VB, or C# apps, to slapping whatever ringtones you want on it. The only phone that will replace this thing for me will a device running the new version of Smartphone. I'm totally hooked (and clearly biased, so take that for WIW;-) )
I'm responsible for accessibility and user interface consistency across Visual Studio, hence my interest in this topic
JAWS isn't the only screen reader package out there. Two others that I come in contact with on a regular basis are Window Eyes (nice guys, btw) and Dolphin.
It's interesting to note that blind users aren't the only ones who can benefit from screen readers. I was chatting with a program manager with dyslexia recently. She relies on JAWS a good deal of the time; it just makes things easier for her.
As far as more resources go in terms of Microsoft, Accessibility and everything else I highly recommend checking out these resources:
This ruling is somewhat unfortunate. But at the same time, I'm a cable modem user by choice today since it's a fair bit cheaper (when you work out price:performance) for me than DSL would be, despite the expected advantages of competition in this space. I see ads all the time imploring me to switch to Qwest DSL or Speakeasy, but I've never found it to be the better option for my needs.
We are working on improving this company-wide. Overall user experience is increasingly becoming a priority for everyone I know and work with at MS. This kind of thing takes time to change, though. Also, I think that you and I may have very different usage habits for Media Player. I have it running for 6-8 hours a day when I'm working in my office in order to listen to music. WMP 6.4 didn't have the music organization capabilities that WMP 10 does today, and there's no way I could use it nearly as effectively.
I'm still not certain about what exactly you don't want to see enabled by default, though, however it bears mentioning that if you really don't like the size of window titlebars in XP you can crank down the size through the Display control panel. Personally, I try to leave everything on the defaults. The only thing I truly can't stand, though, is that Details is not the default view in Explorer.
Which part of it would you find yourself unlikely to use?
On top we have the window titlebar,
which is followed by Back/Forward buttons, address field and search field on one line,
Which are followed by the tab bar
And finally the menu bar, coupled with other buttons.
Realistically, it's using the same number of rows as Safari is on my iBook right now, where I have:
Titlebar
Buttons, address field, and search field
quick links
Tabs
And you can certainly toggle the size of the oversized toolbar buttons on IE anyway. They're probably only zoomed up to make it clear what's being clicked on.
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Try moving to Queen Anne. I think I can find a condo the size of my closet for $400,000.
This story's been up for 20 or 30 minutes and no one's bothered posting anything on it. Not even your usual first posting "1 am teh sux0rz types". How weird. Is it just that no one knows what to make of a Finnish comedy? A parody, no less, of Star Trek? I'm still a little stunned, honestly.
VB's a real object-oriented language. It's not perfect, no language is. Not C, PHP, VB, C#, Objective C, Ruby, or any of the others. But, it's come a long, long way since the days of VB 6. Ruby is incredibly cool, though, I have to say. I took the "learn a new language every year" idea to heart, and it's made me a far better developer for my trouble.
ooh, I'd be interested to see what you think about Visual Studio 2005. Our development products have evolved a fair amount since the early/mid-90s :-). You can see more about it on MSDN.
Hitting Escape seems to dismiss the mode just fine too. I hadn't ever thought about pressing an Arrow key. thanks.
VID's not that bad ;-). As far as debugging goes, symcaching and the symbol server features are soooo frigging cool. I know I sound like a total dork for saying that, but it's true. For debugger feedback, you can either post a suggestion on the MSDN Product Feedback Center, or ask a question on the official VS Debugger forum.
Also, you can now get content via the Internet or through the Local Help system, which means that you shouldn't ever run into "please insert a cd" messages again.
As far as our Tool Window situation goes, we have a way to go on improving this. I think we're doing better in terms of window management in Whidbey (VS 2005) than we did in previous releases. One cool new feature, the IDE Navigator (Ctrl+Tab) lets you navigate between every open document and tool window in the IDE in a fairly reasonable manner.
Also, we've added in either 5 or 6 refactorings to VS: you can perform operations like Extract Method or Rename Symbol now through that interface.
Finally, if you have feature requests or bug reports please post them on our Product Feedback Center. I happened to run across this post, but there's no guarantee that a Slashdot post will ever be seen by the team that owns a specific part of VS. The MSDN Product Feedback Center will let you submit issues or suggestions to us directly and will guarantee they're routed to the right people.
Cheers -- Aaron
Oh yeah, and I feel like I owe a VS "hack" now. When you're in the editor you can enable incremental search by pressing Ctrl+i and then typing a string to search for. The next instance can be jumped to by pressing Ctrl+i again.
Too poor?!? You can go download our Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 for free right now if you want from this web site here.
Anti-science, anti-choice, anti-privacy, it's arguable he's anti-Geneva Convention... "It's unfortunate" pretty much sums it up right there, imo.
It would be news to me that MS is paying bloggers to evangelize Windows Vista. I think you may be referring to Team 99, but I don't believe they're being paid.
I cannot comment on DR-DOS. I know nothing about it and anything I'd say would be mere speculation.
Zero. Just like Microsoft is not paying me to write the blog that's linked to above. It's something Adam does for fun. In fact, if you read through the entire blog post Adam even says "OK, but those are Microsoft people speaking. What about the view from the Lotus side?", and proceeds to quote a couple of different former Lotus employees, including the founder of the company, Mitch Kapor. One quote: "It's an interesting myth, and one I've heard about in general terms, although I've never heard the specific quote before. However, I have no recollection of any instance of its actually happening with 1-2-3 or with any other product I've worked on."
It won't do much good if you only register this complaint on Slashdot. Click the "How to Report a Bug" shortcut on your Desktop and follow the instructions in there to log bugs. Thanks!
Fable sucked me in...for the 9 or 10 hours it took me to beat it. On the plus side of things, it taught me never to buy a Molyneaux game at full price.
You know, the PSOne is still available today, and it came out in 1994 or 1995, at least ten years ago. I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be the case with the PS2 or the PS3. However, the specific reasons that Ken Kutaragi cites make my BS detector go ping ping ping. Essentially, it sounds like he's trying to convince people that they won't have to go buy a PS4 until 2015 (seems unlikely), and that they should consider the value of the PS3 over those ten years. Sigh... (also: yes, I do work for Microsoft. yes, I have an X360 pre-ordered. However, I do own a GBA, PS2, and NGC in addition to my XBox and I will probably end up buying a PS3 eventually in order to play MGS4.)
The author of the FA refers to an XML development standard that will ease writing software for the XBox 360. I'm guessing he's actually referring to XNA and XNA Studio.
I've been feeling a sense of deja vu every time I read Slashdot for the past few weeks. The problem is that one or two posts a day have been culled directly from Boing Boing, like this story which was posted there yesterday. I recognize that not everyone actually reads Boing Boing in addition to Slashdot, but it gets really old to keep seeing the same stories over and over and over again (and that doesn't even count the dupes ;-).
Can you be more descriptive about types of issues you're running into with Whidbey Beta 2 on Win2k3? Have you posted bug reports about them to the MSDN Product Feedback Center? Thx, Aaron.
Well, actually just one Ethernet port... And it's debatable whether it'll be gigabit or not: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/news.php?aid=10033. We can probably expect this sort of thing to happen again before the PS3 ever ships (hopefully without that hideous Dual Shock 3 controller).
Go buy an Audiovox SMT 5600 from Cingular (nee HTC Typhoon). Yeah, it's SIM-locked to Cingular. But you can do whatever else you want to with this phone, from writing C++, VB, or C# apps, to slapping whatever ringtones you want on it. The only phone that will replace this thing for me will a device running the new version of Smartphone. I'm totally hooked (and clearly biased, so take that for WIW ;-) )
Why do you assume Microsoft hasn't changed? I'm genuinely curious about this.
I'm responsible for accessibility and user interface consistency across Visual Studio, hence my interest in this topic
JAWS isn't the only screen reader package out there. Two others that I come in contact with on a regular basis are Window Eyes (nice guys, btw) and Dolphin.It's interesting to note that blind users aren't the only ones who can benefit from screen readers. I was chatting with a program manager with dyslexia recently. She relies on JAWS a good deal of the time; it just makes things easier for her.
As far as more resources go in terms of Microsoft, Accessibility and everything else I highly recommend checking out these resources:
Enable
Sara Ford's old VS Accessibility blog
the new VS Accessibility blog
Blind Programming.com (check out the mailing lists too)
This ruling is somewhat unfortunate. But at the same time, I'm a cable modem user by choice today since it's a fair bit cheaper (when you work out price:performance) for me than DSL would be, despite the expected advantages of competition in this space. I see ads all the time imploring me to switch to Qwest DSL or Speakeasy, but I've never found it to be the better option for my needs.
I'm still not certain about what exactly you don't want to see enabled by default, though, however it bears mentioning that if you really don't like the size of window titlebars in XP you can crank down the size through the Display control panel. Personally, I try to leave everything on the defaults. The only thing I truly can't stand, though, is that Details is not the default view in Explorer.
On top we have the window titlebar,
which is followed by Back/Forward buttons, address field and search field on one line,
Which are followed by the tab bar
And finally the menu bar, coupled with other buttons.
Realistically, it's using the same number of rows as Safari is on my iBook right now, where I have:
Titlebar
Buttons, address field, and search field
quick links
Tabs
And you can certainly toggle the size of the oversized toolbar buttons on IE anyway. They're probably only zoomed up to make it clear what's being clicked on.
mmmm.... delicious tripe.