I'm not sure if a virtual machine (VM ware player) allows you to have direct access to your graphics hardware. I think VMware workstation allows you to use the hosts video card. But is only supports acceleration for OpenGL.
Besides, this makes justifying PC gaming and the PC as a games platform even more difficult. Especially considering that the xbox 360 and Playstation 3 have already had this game for a while and don't have this DRM system.
Whenever I go for a walk, I normally leave folding@home running. If you have a particularly powerful GPU you can run folding@home using your GPU, which yields better results. If you're interested in GPU folding, I would recommend checking out Bit-techs features on folding
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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/06/15/what-is...
Is it just me, or has there been an increase in the amount of attacks on apple hardware? Either that or I just seem to be more aware of them.
Apple's increasing popularity seems to be attracting more hackers to target the platform. This attack combined with an iTunes Buffer Overflow attack could lead to fair amount of serious security breaches.
I wouldn't describe it as painful myself. But, I would agree with sentiment. Having spent 3+yrs working with Java and then moving to C# (2yrs+ dev) has been a pleasant experience. C# is great language with features like delegates, Indexers, Pointers and Unsafe Code (executed in an unsafe context) and constraints on type parameters.
In contrast, I hate the msdn documentation for C# and still have a soft spot for java documentation.And yes, C# v Java is not the same as JVM v CLR
I think another thing I really hate about C# documentation is that it's merged with docs for other languages like VB.NET. It's a small thing but when I need to do something, I really don't want to be wasting time constantly filtering through stuff I don't need.
Thanks Rexxar - you've made my life easier. For some reason I've never noticed it before. Maybe it's because I use Firefox and the filter button looks really small on it.
In hindsight, hate was a bit strong. thanks for the bookmarklet. I too prefer the low-band version of the msdn. But I prefer java docs layout. It's a lot easier to use and navigate. With namespaces at the top, classes just below and method/class details as the main view. I think it's very elegant.
Agreed, Technology should be like a sewage treatment facility. In that, you know it treats your water supply. But you don't have to be aware of the interact refinement process and engineering splendour that has gone into it.
> Life is like a sewer ...
> what you get out of it
> depends on what you put into it.
In software we try to break this. We try to allow people to get a lot out of the technology without necessarily investing much effort into understanding or learning about it. In this sense we are trying to make software unlike a sewer.
Hmm. I'm sure someone with a good sense of humor and a gift for writing could make a really funny routine out of this.
im in a similar situation at the moment. My friend and I are taking a very low-tech approach. A few beers, pad of A4 paper and a couple of pens seems to do us very well.
We model UIs, entity-relationship's and use cases all free hand. I think it's a lot quicker than using something like visio, etc to mock-up ideas.
For organizing ideas, a very large pad of paper and a delta elite triangle grip ballpoint pen(1).
If it gets to a lot of words, back to the computer I go.
(1)I know the pen is over-specified, but I find writing with most pens/pencils so unpleasant that I even type and print single envelopes to avoid it. The delta (that specific one, not any) makes writing tolerable for me--I carry one in my pocket and use it even to sign receipts.
Understandable. I almost exclusively use Papermate felt-tip pens, with occasional disposable fountain pens. These require less pressure to write with, and are thus easier on the wrist.
Yeah, it's a little tiny minor thing, but it makes a difference...
Instead of large sheets of flimsy paper, we are using 4x6 note cards, binder clips, and pencils. At first, the small cards seem like a problem, but they work well because they force you to break your ideas into meaningful chunks.
Make a mistake? Chuck a card. Missed something? Insert a card. Need to reorganize? Lay them all out on a floor and shuffle as necessary.
I'll never go back to notebooks or pads (or pens) again.
I'm the same. I'm a bit of a noob with web dev, but I've recently started work on my second medium-sized web project. Since doing my first one, I've learned a bit about database normalisation, but in some ways it proved a stumbling block: I couldn't get started until I'd made some database tables, but now I knew I should design the database first, yet trying to get everything down in Notepad seemed too much trouble.
When I tried writing each table out on a post-it-note, it was so much easier - even enjoyable - to come up with a normalised schema.
I wonder if/when computer technology will advance to the point where it's as flexible and disposible as pen and paper?
Agreed. I especially liked the use of "All the lovely graphical skins turned to so much bitwise detritus" I can visualize the 1's and 0's settling on the bottom.
Despite his discontent for "the wizards", he seems to realize their usefulness in his last sentence with "the tool as convenient information repository." Certainly, especially in their earlier incantations, the wizards can try to do too much, but a decade later I think they are hitting their intended mark as knowledge repositories.
