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Does it only work 3 days a week too?

1 day ago, Charles wrote

One of the great things about JavaScript is that it is a very   flexible language. 

This is also what makes it a terrible language.

Uhh they said 2011, CDMA phones are always slow to come out.

I'm probably going to pick it up but more because of the technology potential and the dashboard integration than the launch games.  I wish they had a broader array of games at launch.   I know they're trying to push the whole "controller-free gaming" message hard, but some "hybrid" games that use conventional controllers and Kinect to enhance the experience (like head-tracking) would have been nice and would have satisfied core gamers.

Also kind of scared that all the demos at E3 were done standing up, even while watching a movie!  You can use this on the couch, behind the coffee table, right?

They said there's no HLSL support at launch for Phone, probably at a later release (but nothing official yet).  It ships with some set of fixed-function effects.

Hah yeah, that's ridiculous, just go and edit the wikipedia article instead lol.

There were actually a couple songs in Halo that reminded me of Myst and Riven, I think it was mostly some of the samples that are used, now I see I wasn't crazy.

Yeah I always end up scripting "robocopy" to run as a scheduled task instead of using Windows Backup.

Yeah this is maybe one of the best interviews I've seen on C9.  I'm working on an XNA 3D engine right now for fun targeting the Xbox 360 and this was so inspiring.

Edit: Thanks for asking my question.

I don't see anything about such a thing.  Direct2D is nothing like GDI, it's a 2D helper library built on top of Direct3D.  The end result of drawing is always a bunch of commands sent over DMA to the GPU, there is no support for printer devices like GDI.   The rendering surfaces live in the GPU and are only formats supported by the GPU.  There's no printer rendering surface.

Edit: Reading MSDN documentation, it looks like Direct2D has pretty extensive interop with GDI.  I think it can actually use GDI as a render target, didn't know that.  In this case they could use GDI for printing by just changing the render target.