Something must be wrong with your computer if it takes 5 minutes for intellisense to pop up, and you notice any lag whatsoever when typing in Word. I've used both Visual C++ and Word plenty, including on not-so-hot low-end P2s and I've never seen anything like that.
Are you running the system off a floppy drive or what?
The machines aren't too screwed up, but the code might be. It does seem to be better in 6.0, but you can still confuse the heck out of intellisense.
Word seems to be more of a memory issue. Leave Word to do something that consumes memory (like, say, a compile). Come back to Word and start typing. Watch Word lag slightly for a while and then catch up. Admittedly, this is a pretty trivial problem. Scrolling also lags under almost any circumstances. Large documents just won't scroll through at anything like a consistent speed.
Much worse is Exchange which puts network requests on its apparently singular thread. Send a big message and it goes unresponsive until it finishes. Gotta love that...
And of course explorer is pretty unresponsive, yadda yadda. I think I'm done bitching for today.
Depending on your installation, Visual C++ can barf and screw up its intellisense support. It runs in the same thread as the GUI for god's sake!
What you said, except I'd modify "can barf" to "will barf on any project of sufficent size." Intellisense is amazingly easy to confound, and will happily chug away for hours trying to figure out just where it left that class. Remembering to delete your ncb files regularly helps some. If I was amazingly bored I'd try to figure out exactly what screws it up. Seems to work pretty well for VB, for whatever *that's* worth.
(cue smug grin)
Which is why *I* (tooth twinkle) use Whole Tomato Software's Visual Assist. Intellisense and MORE in one cute package
(end smug grin)
Eh, I use emacs which let's me navigate and view multiple files with enough ease that I don't miss the auto-completion. And it responds quickly enough to keypresses that there seems to be causality between a keypress and a character appearing on the screen. Still, it's probably worth checking out something that can auto-complete with any reliability.
How often in the last couple years did you notice "Gee, this word processor can't keep up with my mad typing skillz."
Answer: All the goddamn time, as long as it's Office. Even after you turn off all the spellchecking and grammar checking. 'Course, Visual Studio is even worse with Intellisense turned on. Takes a good 5 minutes some times. And switching between docs gives you up to 10 seconds of jitters before it settles down.
Not to suggest that these benchmarks are all that important, just wanted to rant for a bit.
I agree with everyone saying that the DC controller sucks in comparison with Sony's. Which is why I got this product.
It works pretty well, except that the DC uses a much smaller deadzone that DualShock wants, so there is occassional drifting.
You're making some assumptions here that I think are incorrect. I do not believe that structuring around bells and dropping everything that you were doing after 40 minutes leads to any kind of positive organizational skills. Instead, I think that it devalues the importance of finishing anything and gives a child no starting place to learn to organize their time themselves. The ability to follow instructions and to respect authority are important, agreed, but in my experience schools teach only these things, failing to instil any values, confidence, or ability to make decisions for ones self.
Finally, I don't see any reason why our janitors and factory workers need these values at the exception of all else. Why can't they also recieve encouragement and be allowed to learn lessons deeper than to obey? This isn't a winning formula for anybody, methinks.
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Could someone please explain what BBSes are used for now, in 2002? The Internet does a great job for warez and pr0ns of all sorts.
Nostalgia.
Something must be wrong with your computer if it takes 5 minutes for intellisense to pop up, and you notice any lag whatsoever when typing in Word. I've used both Visual C++ and Word plenty, including on not-so-hot low-end P2s and I've never seen anything like that.
Are you running the system off a floppy drive or what?
The machines aren't too screwed up, but the code might be. It does seem to be better in 6.0, but you can still confuse the heck out of intellisense.
Word seems to be more of a memory issue. Leave Word to do something that consumes memory (like, say, a compile). Come back to Word and start typing. Watch Word lag slightly for a while and then catch up. Admittedly, this is a pretty trivial problem. Scrolling also lags under almost any circumstances. Large documents just won't scroll through at anything like a consistent speed.
Much worse is Exchange which puts network requests on its apparently singular thread. Send a big message and it goes unresponsive until it finishes. Gotta love that...
And of course explorer is pretty unresponsive, yadda yadda. I think I'm done bitching for today.
Depending on your installation, Visual C++ can barf and screw up its intellisense support. It runs in the same thread as the GUI for god's sake!
What you said, except I'd modify "can barf" to "will barf on any project of sufficent size." Intellisense is amazingly easy to confound, and will happily chug away for hours trying to figure out just where it left that class. Remembering to delete your ncb files regularly helps some. If I was amazingly bored I'd try to figure out exactly what screws it up. Seems to work pretty well for VB, for whatever *that's* worth.
(cue smug grin)
Which is why *I* (tooth twinkle) use Whole Tomato Software's Visual Assist. Intellisense and MORE in one cute package
(end smug grin)
Eh, I use emacs which let's me navigate and view multiple files with enough ease that I don't miss the auto-completion. And it responds quickly enough to keypresses that there seems to be causality between a keypress and a character appearing on the screen. Still, it's probably worth checking out something that can auto-complete with any reliability.
How often in the last couple years did you notice "Gee, this word processor can't keep up with my mad typing skillz."
Answer: All the goddamn time, as long as it's Office. Even after you turn off all the spellchecking and grammar checking. 'Course, Visual Studio is even worse with Intellisense turned on. Takes a good 5 minutes some times. And switching between docs gives you up to 10 seconds of jitters before it settles down.
Not to suggest that these benchmarks are all that important, just wanted to rant for a bit.
I agree with everyone saying that the DC controller sucks in comparison with Sony's. Which is why I got this product. It works pretty well, except that the DC uses a much smaller deadzone that DualShock wants, so there is occassional drifting.
You're making some assumptions here that I think are incorrect. I do not believe that structuring around bells and dropping everything that you were doing after 40 minutes leads to any kind of positive organizational skills. Instead, I think that it devalues the importance of finishing anything and gives a child no starting place to learn to organize their time themselves. The ability to follow instructions and to respect authority are important, agreed, but in my experience schools teach only these things, failing to instil any values, confidence, or ability to make decisions for ones self.
Finally, I don't see any reason why our janitors and factory workers need these values at the exception of all else. Why can't they also recieve encouragement and be allowed to learn lessons deeper than to obey? This isn't a winning formula for anybody, methinks.
But each frame is flashed twice, giving a pseudo-48 framerate, which helps enormously.
For Windows (and eventually Linux, it's alpha now) check out Opera. For Macs ICab is excellent.
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