It's a checklist feature. 100% useless in practice.
Better unix than linux has a long way to go (better linux than linux even more).
To MS: some filesystem advice:
1. case sensitive file system 2. make file locking advisory, not mandatory (essential to have "make" work well) 3. allow deletion of files that are in use
WinForms apps are not "real" Windows apps either. It's easily noticeable and apps written in it are full of little bugs (multi display support is crap, large font support is crap -- MS still can't make resizeable dialogs after 20 years of doing GUI.
Gtk# probably wouldn't be any worse and could actually be better because doesn't carry 20 years of Windows legacy.
I tried X2 once but the controls we really strange. Not to mention that my favorite requirement -- mouse control Wing Commander style wasn't supported.
I wonder how much of it they fixed since and how much could be done in the linux port. I'd buy the game instantly if it had properly working mouse control and working F1 key to get the list of keybindings.
Unless you are running a virtual machine and the root kit detector is running outside, this is not really possible.
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>Who says you should be able to turn like that. Is that not very unrealistic?
Maybe. But I remember having fun in Quake 2 with it's great 3d sound where I was able to turn around 180 degrees in a split second and rail someone that just made a noise behind me.
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Until you can plug in a mouse and keyboard (and it actually works) they are not even close for some games (FPS, RTS,...)
No, he's completely right. I have been using both Visual studio 2003 and now 2005 beta 2 and I prefer Eclipse any day.
If you are into drag-and drop cobbling the code together, MS may have nice wizards that make simple things easier and hard things harder. For coding, Eclipse is easily better (than 2003 certainly and VS 2005 still has far too many bugs).
One extremely annoying thing is "design time" concept and files that are generated during editing and not during build time as they should be. There are slight improvements in VS 2005, but still not enough (dataset stuff actually became worse). The MS way of doing things easy with Wizards instead of improving/extending the framework itself is just a dead end (unless you like clicking).
Visual Studio also has a NIH (not-invented-here) problem with build systems -- the 2003 is crap, and msbuild still has growing up problems (none of msbuild,nant,and are as mature as using make files -- they seem to suffer from too verbose output and too many unnecessary rebuilds).
Only Intellisense is slightly in VS due to showing the parameter names.
And web projects were never done well in VS and still don't work well (I get unexplainable 5 minute builds for something that usually rebuilds in 30 seconds)
VS 6.0 was very good (for C/C++), but everything after just isn't as mature and usable as Eclipse is for Java.
>To be honest, Google Talk actually seems like a bit of a deflating moment - it's the first product Google's released whose features are already widely present in the market. I haven't downloaded it, and don't really plan to, unless it has some new features to die for.
It is a necessary step. There is no reason why every email address shouldn't also be an IM address. All we need is a standard protocol so any IM user can talk to any other user just like this is possible with email.
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1. keyboards
NOT. whoever invented f-lock should be shot. The other new keyboards "features" aren't great either.
2. mice
Yes. But Logitech is better
3. Developer tools
They do some things well, and some things (wizards, build process) very badly.
Eclipse is easily better than VS 2005 these days. The only thing saving MS is some C# improvements over Java.
I guess I wont be playing that game even if they bother to make a Linux version ...
Too bad...
How about a full size (except numpad) keyboard with real keys that click.
Based on www.pckeyboard.com?
It's a checklist feature. 100% useless in practice.
Better unix than linux has a long way to go (better linux than linux even more).
To MS: some filesystem advice:
1. case sensitive file system
2. make file locking advisory, not mandatory (essential to have "make" work well)
3. allow deletion of files that are in use
It's probably time to go grave digging for prior art.
No linux play. No me buy.
WinForms apps are not "real" Windows apps either. It's easily noticeable and apps written in it are full of little bugs (multi display support is crap, large font support is crap -- MS still can't make resizeable dialogs after 20 years of doing GUI.
Gtk# probably wouldn't be any worse and could actually be better because doesn't carry 20 years of Windows legacy.
...to put it on the outside of Hotblack Desiato's ship.
I tried X2 once but the controls we really strange. Not to mention that my favorite requirement -- mouse control Wing Commander style wasn't supported.
I wonder how much of it they fixed since and how much could be done in the linux port. I'd buy the game instantly if it had properly working mouse control and working F1 key to get the list of keybindings.
Currently, the biggest problems in my machine is hard drive noise. I have 3 hard drives (rubber mounted).
I have a fanless PSU and CPU and a single exhaust case fan.
Coil whine is not noticeable yet.
It has a fan.
Silent = no fan
Quiet = quiet fan
(2x fan -> ! Quiet)
IMO
(I now have a silent 350W power supply)
"Direct Hardware Request" ???
Unless you are running a virtual machine and the root kit detector is running outside, this is not really possible.
>Who says you should be able to turn like that. Is that not very unrealistic?
Maybe. But I remember having fun in Quake 2 with it's great 3d sound where I was able to turn around 180 degrees in a split second and rail someone that just made a noise behind me.
Until you can plug in a mouse and keyboard (and it actually works) they are not even close for some games (FPS, RTS, ...)
It seems somehow much slower than the original ajax version here.
how about some carbon fibre
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Acer Ferrari 4000
>A slow, RAM-hungry, .NET is almost exactly in the same ballpark (certainly for the 2nd part, which in real world makes the first part true anyway)
Actually, if you hope to achieve 100ms (preferably 50ms) on a loaded system, your idle system latencies should be below 10 or 20ms.
>Yes, it may beat Windows XP's latencies, but on a desktop OS, latency isn't typically a big deal (does XP even claim to be realtime?)
Scheduler latency may not normally be a big problem, but user interface latency is a problem and UI should be a (soft) realtime system.
Most software using garbage collectors starts to suck when you start using the swap file.
They should not do this.
Does it have a microphone built-in?
The only thing you should plug into the ethernet port of these worthless devices should be the etherkiller.
Agreed.
DRM is obsolete as soon as I can get a big enough RAM chip implanted.
No, he's completely right. I have been using both Visual studio 2003 and now 2005 beta 2 and I prefer Eclipse any day.
If you are into drag-and drop cobbling the code together, MS may have nice wizards that make simple things easier and hard things harder. For coding, Eclipse is easily better (than 2003 certainly and VS 2005 still has far too many bugs).
One extremely annoying thing is "design time" concept and files that are generated during editing and not during build time as they should be. There are slight improvements in VS 2005, but still not enough (dataset stuff actually became worse). The MS way of doing things easy with Wizards instead of improving/extending the framework itself is just a dead end (unless you like clicking).
Visual Studio also has a NIH (not-invented-here) problem with build systems -- the 2003 is crap, and msbuild still has growing up problems (none of msbuild,nant,and are as mature as using make files -- they seem to suffer from too verbose output and too many unnecessary rebuilds).
Only Intellisense is slightly in VS due to showing the parameter names.
And web projects were never done well in VS and still don't work well (I get unexplainable 5 minute builds for something that usually rebuilds in 30 seconds)
VS 6.0 was very good (for C/C++), but everything after just isn't as mature and usable as Eclipse is for Java.
>To be honest, Google Talk actually seems like a bit of a deflating moment - it's the first product Google's released whose features are already widely present in the market. I haven't downloaded it, and don't really plan to, unless it has some new features to die for.
It is a necessary step. There is no reason why every email address shouldn't also be an IM address. All we need is a standard protocol so any IM user can talk to any other user just like this is possible with email.