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SlackmasterK wrote:
Well, since the thread got  bumped anyway...

Since I'm the only developer on my project, I just make 3 backups:
 - Another folder
 - Dev server in another state
 - Home (shhhh)


Eh it's still a good idea to use source control even if you're the only dev. Tongue Out

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jamie wrote:
well ya you can.. its just the focus

basically all small cameras take pics of things ...flat

SLR just means... depth /  burred BG but focus on object...

* sometimes you wish you could get flat on them though



I don't think you need an SLR for aperture priority, I've seen several point-and-shoot cameras that do that.

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Here's some cool pics I took during my Ireland trip a couple weeks ago on a point-and-shoot Canon.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7366949@N06/sets/72157604324814573/

Although its near impossible to mess up shots like these.

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corona_coder wrote:
You can kill tracker in Ubuntu and it not bring down the system.  Thats called superior design


And in Vista running a file indexer doesn't hurt disk performance because of actual support for I/O prioritization.

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Bas wrote:
If there are no major architecture changes, but more fine-tuning of what we already have in Vista, then 2009 sound fine to me. Besides, three years between versions used to be just fine.


I think it will depend on the sucess of Vista SP1, if there's still a lot of issues after the service pack it will obviously delay development quite a bit.  The EU could also decide to be huge jerks (and probably will).

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nightski wrote:


I would love to see an unmanaged implementation of WPF, with the managed version transformed into a wrapper around this new foundation (similar to WinForms/Win32).  This would not only potentially solve the perf problems, but also open up WPF to managed and native developers alike.  In addition, they could then also potentially use WPF for core applications like explorer.

In fact I believe the work has already been started with Silverlight's implementation?



There is an unmanaged implementation, well sort of.  On Vista the visual tree created by WPF gets send to milcore.dll (unmanaged) which composites it with the rest of the desktop.  It's why, for example, on Vista you get smooth resizing of WPF apps when you use the Windows magnifier.

Milcore is also what powers stuff like Flip3D.  Hopefully they will publically expose it in future releases.

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At the very least I think they'll update the common controls to render properly on the DWM frames (preserving alpha channels, etc).

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YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:

I remember I've read it becomes 8KB if the ram is equal or more than 4GB (or something like that).


No, I think you're thinking of IA-64 (Itanium), where Windows set the page size to 8 KB,  x64 doesn't do that.

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YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:

Dodo wrote:
It depends on how many PCI cards you have in your system, aswell as your mainboard. Modern mainboards support to move the hardware address space even further than the end of 4GB.


I was meaning the additional overhead of windows. the size of memory page varies depending on the amount of ram installed and also 64bit vista uses more ram because 64bit and 32bit applications have different sets of 32 and 64bit libraries so the same library could be loaded twice.


I'm pretty sure the size of the memory page is always 4 KB unless I'm misunderstanding you?

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ManipUni wrote:
I believe this thread will end the entire Religion Vs. Non-Religion debate for good.



It's more likely than ending this trolling.

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And how do people get the idea that corporations are more powerful than government?  Can corporations fight wars? Can they make laws? Can they impose taxes?  They only beat the government at efficiency.  Corporations get so heavily regulated today, becoming the largest competitor in any market seems like political/legal suicide.

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