I read shit like this on TDWTF all the fucking time. Please publish small bits of source code in a few years.
Code's fine. I'm no expert in 3D technology (but unlike the rest of the team, I actually know how to run a business), but I do know C++ very well and we do weekly code reviews with the entire team. The guy's one of the rare ones who's really that good, and we're lucky to have him.
You're right that most phones are terrible for typing, on the other hand you can't answer the ones on the screen of an unused desktop until you show up anyway.
That's the idea. It functions as a message drop that I can answer when I get back to it. Email would be somewhat preferable, but nobody my age actually uses email. It's all AIM and MSN and Facebook chat. Telling people to just email me would result in nobody ever actually trying to contact me because it's going out of their way.
Nonsense. Games in particular. My company's nearly done with our proprietary 3D engine technology (we've got an absolute whiz with the graphics side of things, keep him in beer and pizza and he'll be implementing "DirectX 10 only" stuff in SM2 all night), and we've already got licensees lined up, as well as two indie-game titles around 70% complete. It's not that hard if you have a clue.
This is funny as hell, because I'm running Vista right now, with Aero on, on a machine considerably slower than what you allege to be using (Core 2 Duo T6400, 4GB RAM), and it's just as responsive as XP. It runs a little warm because of Aero, but not significantly enough to be a worry (though the effects are a little distracting--I don't much like Compiz, either). As I type this I'm transferring a terabyte to an external HDD and playing Battlestar Galactica at the same time, without stutter of any kind.
Sounds like we've got a fatbeard FUD-spreader on our hands. Or just an incompetent moron.
I use an ALSA output for playing anywhere when I'm home. The speakers are wired to the various rooms. Icecast is mostly for friends who might want to listen, because I run a pretty eclectic mix, and when I'm away from home and don't want to burn the MP3 player's battery.
No, it would not do the same, because Pidgin is a cast-iron bitch about actually maintaining a session. Pidgin requires a visible X context to run. As such, I can't pull it over on demand to my machine with xlaunch or whatever (and it'd look like ass if I could because I'm not stupid enough to use a Linux desktop for everyday work); as I mentioned, NX/VNC ran unacceptably slow. In addition, using RDP means that I have all my messaging stuff in one logical window on my taskbar rather than spread across it in multiple windows.
Now answer this question: why do I give a fuck how much bandwidth it uses? The cost of bandwidth up to my cap is zero, and I don't use Bittorrent so I never even come close to the cap.
I didn't "fuck it up." I ran with the defaults. I don't have any interest in tweaking it; my time is valuable. And your "cool stuff" isn't really important, seeing as how dynamically resizing the window means nothing when I don't actually change the window size. That, and Windows is more comfortable as a desktop environment anyway, so I was OK with going back.
It's not enabled in XP Home, which is why I was bemoaning it. It really *should* be.
And RDP works passably over a 28.8k modem. I don't really care about bandwidth usage, though, because I have enough to spare. It is a non-issue for me in every way.
Yet my solution works perfectly for me, and doesn't involve changing my flow of usage. I use mIRC because I've used mIRC for ten years. In addition, Pidgin is also running on the same machine, and all of my messengers are logically grouped within one RDP session. I don't care if anything "better" exists. It's not better for me, because it's not what I want to use.
When the Linux children start to realize this, they might see some traction in software adoption.
I'm sorry, what part of "it has to not suck" was not successfully implied in my post?
I can RDP from any Windows machine. I have to have PuTTY installed *and* I have to want to deal with the retardage of command line applications *and* I can't take advantage of, oh, opening a link somebody posts with a double-click.
No, I take mIRC and Pidgin and use it over Remote Desktop, because I like having them active 24/7 on the machines in the basement rather than having to leave my laptop running all the time. It's like using programs in a screen shell, only it doesn't suck.
It's not like I'm using the entire gigabit transfer of my network anyway. Why should I care?
Shit like this is not surprising to most folks, and it's why ODF 1.1 is such crap. ODF 1.2 is better, but frankly--and this will probably earn troll mods--I'd rather have OpenXML. At least the OpenXML specification handles the basics competently.
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Money doesn't just disappear like that.
Yes, it can. Multiplier effect.
Not saying that it's true in this case, mind you, but it's certainly a possible claim.
While I am actual surprised that C# caught on
It's Java without a number of the Java hassles. Why would you be surprised?
It says as much on your first run of the application. Your users can't read.
File->Print menu.
There is. It's in the top-left corner.
Or, you know. Hit Ctrl-P, like every version of office ever.
I read shit like this on TDWTF all the fucking time. Please publish small bits of source code in a few years.
Code's fine. I'm no expert in 3D technology (but unlike the rest of the team, I actually know how to run a business), but I do know C++ very well and we do weekly code reviews with the entire team. The guy's one of the rare ones who's really that good, and we're lucky to have him.
Some folks do this in, say, TF2. Playing as the Heavy while listening to a Russian march is strangely appropriate. Also awesome.
(Or "Barbie Girl" at twice normal speed while playing Scout. My friends have odd ideas of what is "good.")
You're right that most phones are terrible for typing, on the other hand you can't answer the ones on the screen of an unused desktop until you show up anyway.
That's the idea. It functions as a message drop that I can answer when I get back to it. Email would be somewhat preferable, but nobody my age actually uses email. It's all AIM and MSN and Facebook chat. Telling people to just email me would result in nobody ever actually trying to contact me because it's going out of their way.
Whoops, that was me.
Also, I wouldn't use eggdrop. I fucking hate Tcl. ;)
Except I have them both on this computer (XP 32-bit, as I still run a couple 16-bit apps, Vista 64-bit) and I don't notice much difference at all...
Right...but I can't remember the last time I saw Win2K outside of a server environment. Even my CS lab updated to XP Professional.
Must be hard on that magical 100MHz quad-core.
Not from Windows 2000 ;)
Why would I still have a Win2K machine lying around...?
A valid point, though i think irssi works nicely.
I run a mIRC-script channel bot. Doesn't work so well outside of it.
As a college student who has used game projects for such purposes: your son is fortunate. :)
You have to be a programmer, an artist, something of a musician
Or have a few friends.
Nonsense. Games in particular. My company's nearly done with our proprietary 3D engine technology (we've got an absolute whiz with the graphics side of things, keep him in beer and pizza and he'll be implementing "DirectX 10 only" stuff in SM2 all night), and we've already got licensees lined up, as well as two indie-game titles around 70% complete. It's not that hard if you have a clue.
This is funny as hell, because I'm running Vista right now, with Aero on, on a machine considerably slower than what you allege to be using (Core 2 Duo T6400, 4GB RAM), and it's just as responsive as XP. It runs a little warm because of Aero, but not significantly enough to be a worry (though the effects are a little distracting--I don't much like Compiz, either). As I type this I'm transferring a terabyte to an external HDD and playing Battlestar Galactica at the same time, without stutter of any kind.
Sounds like we've got a fatbeard FUD-spreader on our hands. Or just an incompetent moron.
I use an ALSA output for playing anywhere when I'm home. The speakers are wired to the various rooms. Icecast is mostly for friends who might want to listen, because I run a pretty eclectic mix, and when I'm away from home and don't want to burn the MP3 player's battery.
No, it would not do the same, because Pidgin is a cast-iron bitch about actually maintaining a session. Pidgin requires a visible X context to run. As such, I can't pull it over on demand to my machine with xlaunch or whatever (and it'd look like ass if I could because I'm not stupid enough to use a Linux desktop for everyday work); as I mentioned, NX/VNC ran unacceptably slow. In addition, using RDP means that I have all my messaging stuff in one logical window on my taskbar rather than spread across it in multiple windows.
Now answer this question: why do I give a fuck how much bandwidth it uses? The cost of bandwidth up to my cap is zero, and I don't use Bittorrent so I never even come close to the cap.
I didn't "fuck it up." I ran with the defaults. I don't have any interest in tweaking it; my time is valuable. And your "cool stuff" isn't really important, seeing as how dynamically resizing the window means nothing when I don't actually change the window size. That, and Windows is more comfortable as a desktop environment anyway, so I was OK with going back.
It's not enabled in XP Home, which is why I was bemoaning it. It really *should* be.
And RDP works passably over a 28.8k modem. I don't really care about bandwidth usage, though, because I have enough to spare. It is a non-issue for me in every way.
Yet my solution works perfectly for me, and doesn't involve changing my flow of usage. I use mIRC because I've used mIRC for ten years. In addition, Pidgin is also running on the same machine, and all of my messengers are logically grouped within one RDP session. I don't care if anything "better" exists. It's not better for me, because it's not what I want to use.
When the Linux children start to realize this, they might see some traction in software adoption.
I'm sorry, what part of "it has to not suck" was not successfully implied in my post?
I can RDP from any Windows machine. I have to have PuTTY installed *and* I have to want to deal with the retardage of command line applications *and* I can't take advantage of, oh, opening a link somebody posts with a double-click.
Go back to your mother's basement, fatbeard.
No, I take mIRC and Pidgin and use it over Remote Desktop, because I like having them active 24/7 on the machines in the basement rather than having to leave my laptop running all the time. It's like using programs in a screen shell, only it doesn't suck.
It's not like I'm using the entire gigabit transfer of my network anyway. Why should I care?
Shit like this is not surprising to most folks, and it's why ODF 1.1 is such crap. ODF 1.2 is better, but frankly--and this will probably earn troll mods--I'd rather have OpenXML. At least the OpenXML specification handles the basics competently.