CompGuy101 wrote:



Dashboard menus appear to be faster.

The dashboard takes ages to load when you first boot up the xbox.

Halo 3 was s .. o .... s .. l .. o .. w .. yesterday.

As for Lloyd, why not just create a network bridge to connect your xbox to the internet?

Bas wrote:



I have a 22" Samsung 226BW. Before that, I always used CRT's because I can't stand TFT's ghosting effects, even when the delay is 8 or 6ms. The 226BW has a 2ms delay, which isn't noticable to me.

Oh, and I first played Oblivion on it and got incredible motion sickness after half an hour.

ScanIAm wrote:

So then all the money doesn't go back into development, it goes into car payments, mortgages, and swag.

Nice try, tho.

• You need to change the "Join Us" link colour on the 'who we are' banner-logo-thingamabob, or simply keep it white. Also you should only display that on the front page, in my opinion.
• Contact Us should not be a pop-up. Neither should product descriptions.
  
• The copyright and the links at the bottom looks malplaced, in that they're not aligned with each other, or centered.
• I'm a bit dubious as to the stars on the technology page, it doesn't seem all that professional to me. I assume it means "preferred", but you'd only show techs you are competent and comfortable with, right?
• The font used for the subheadings on services is a bit too big, making it wash a bit with the title and the content - Make it a bit smaller, or place it just under the border. Also, you need more spacing between each section, like you have on technology and products.
• You might want to show a screenshot with each product on the products page. Add some life to it.
• Not very professional with "validate xhtml/css" links. This is something you put on your blog or personal website perhaps, but not a business site.
  

jsampsonPC wrote:



prencher wrote: ...My preferences in no way conflict with yours, so I do not understand why you try to force your values on me. We can both have our cake and eat it too.

Who said I was trying to force my values on you? All I did was ask if the c9 team would allow us to post videos from non-soapbox sources. YOU came in and started talking about censorship, etc. That's another topic in and of itself. I agree with you though, I would prefer the option of enabling/disabling filters.

I don't turn a blind-eye to authorities. "Just do as we say because we say so" doesn't fly well with me. So I agree with you, if a filter-feature were implemented, that would make me even happier...but I suspect that feater would take more work to implement than a youtube-embed feature.

Friends again?

jsampsonPC wrote:



prencher wrote: YouTube embeds? No thanks. Regarding censorship and filtering: No thanks. At least give us the option to turn it OFF. I don't have this anal retentive fear of 'bad words', and I don't live in a country where the government thinks it can tell me what words I can and cannot use in public.

Unfortunately we live in a world where things need to be filtered and censored to keep things civil. You may be a fan of anarchy and anti-authority, but I certainly am not. If that is the type of country you want, then I welcome you to go find that group and enjoy yourself.

If we didn't have the filtering and censorship we have right now, this forum would quickly overflow with spam and kiddie-nonsense; then you could kiss your intelligent conversations goodbye for screen full of pr0n-links and FKU USCK's from the mouths of 12 year old who never got spanked.

DigitalDud wrote:



prencher wrote:  In many ways it's similar with C# / C++.. For a lot of stuff C# can be faster, simply because it takes a lot of effort to make the C++ faster (See RicoM and Raymonds blog series where raymond did a C app and Rico did a C# one).

Yeah and Raymond ended up winning, no?  In my experience, the .NET JIT compiler does not optimize nearly as aggressively as does C compilers, like VC++.  It's limited by its requirement that it perform compilation in a very short amount of time. 

Also with startup (especially cold) and memory footprint, C# will really lose here.

Minh wrote:

In my game, Star Ranger, I used low poly models, had a generic (virtual calls) scene graph, used C++ to talk directly to DirectX, and I can't maintain vsync.

That is, when I turned vsync on, sometimes it'd drop below 60fps & so the game stutters for a little bit, which I didn't think was possible w/ C++.

I think it was because I didn't bother to batch any of my models, using a separate vertex buffer for each. I was gonna re-write it (doing better GPU management) w/ XNA, but just got side tracked.

Wouldn't that be cool? An XNA game performing better than C++ ?

BlackTiger wrote:



Kental wrote:  To be quite honest, I've had absolutely NOTHING but trouble using ATI cards in the past.  I've bought 3, and I've had 3 die on me, or simply not work at all.  For one of them I was able to get it to work by using Omega drivers (ATI's drivers crashed my machine endlessly, and I'm simply assuming it was their drivers because as soon as I uninstalled them, it never crashed again). My personal preference will still continue to be nVidia, because I've never had a problem with them on vista yet.  I continue to get 50-60 FPS on any game I play, regardless of settings usually. To answer the original point, however: I didn't notice a difference in these drivers from the last ones.  From a performance standpoint, that is.

Never overclock your system. Never buy cheap video cards and overclock them. Never buy cards with passive cooling.
Simple rules. I never had any problems with ATI cards.

Soviut wrote:



rhm wrote:  AndyC wrote: You could try setting SnapToDevicePixels to true, which sometimes helps. Also, make sure your system has ClearType turned on as that can improve WPF font rendering substantially. Just to echo that.... If you don't use ClearType (either because you don't like it or because you are using a CRT monitor) you will find that WPF by default uses a 'fuzzy' anti-aliasing algorithm like Adobe Reader does. You can either enable ClearType (if possible), or tell WPF not to anti-alias at all.

ClearType anti-aliasing performs some basic pixel snapping on the fonts and uses different colours from the actual font to blend it with the background.  Even on CRTs this produces smooth fonts that stay sharp.  Adobe Reader, Mac OS and the Safari browser (as some examples) simple use a 2x or 4x anti-aliasing.  This means that letters like "U" may appear sharp on the left side and fuzzy on the right, depending on font size.

An interesting thing I remember from some of the older versions of Flash was that if ClearType was on, Flash would double-anti-alias the text, because its internal AA was being applied as well, making it incredibly slow to edit text.

Soviut wrote:



k2t0f12d wrote:  jamie wrote:  That logo should scare the pants off MS Ray6 wrote: They waste time doing a logo for a license and MS should be scared? People say that free software gets the short straw because it isn't getting enough promotion, but someone does a logo and now you say its a waste of time.

This has got to be one of the worst "professional" logos I've seen in a while.  What's with the giant sabertooth sticking out of the 3.  Go figure, the OSS comunity has no designers.  Just look at the PHP logo, a photoshop beveled oval with the letter's php in it.

This is where all the developers who can't design go "its not about design, its about functionality blah blah".  Well this post was about marketability and this GPL logo fails grandly at that.  While I can't stand the zealot linux and mac communities who defend their "team" for no real reason other than to feel like they belong to something, at least apple can market their stuff.

Ray6 wrote:

By the sounds of it, this is just as well.

I would rather they fixed the problem, instead of just pouring money on it, but a welcome move nonetheless.

Siyavash wrote:

Linux = 40% MAC + 40% Windows + 20% other spices.

The thing about morons is... when they start saying stuff like "Micro$oft is dying next year" taken from back of their body... you better start buying Microsoft stocks. That is what I learned from the past.

I seen the "Microsoft hating" back in 1995, I actually been one of these morons. ALL so called "Open source coders" ( back then we called them code rippers since they didn't write their own code and stole it from others ) that I known, all the Linux h4x0r guys I known, they were and are all out of jobs. No money, no life, no nothing. and the ones I know STILL go around saying it should all be free!!! haha... So anyhow back then the little brainy started thinking. I started coding on Windows and oh boy, how I fell in love with it.

Today, more than a decade from then, when I look back I see I made the right choice. Even back then they said "Microsoft will die next year."

One wonders, these morons who probably love Star Wars ( I do too ) should somehow learn from it? I mean, they say Microsoft is evil but see who is hating who, who is angry towards who. Eventhough they see us as bad people, I think they are the ones who are Evil and hate. This hate will prevent them from winning.

What they forget is that "Microsoft" is not one evil person, but it is built by people, people who have families and kids, they feel love and sadness, they too work hard like everyone else and let us not forget that it is built by people who love technology not hating it.

Anything which is built upon spite and hate will fail, it is doomed from the start. History is the best teacher.

And speaking of food, I love fried penguins! and sometimes just raw and bloody.

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MB wrote:



I'm still trying to figure out: "The Wow starts now." 

WTF ??

DigitalDud wrote:



Windows is installed on PCs because it's designed to work with the hardware and vice-versa.  Sure you could probably run a Linux distribution on a number of OEM configurations, maybe you could even get all the hardware components to work, but do you really want to go that route?  I mean look at Macs, they have a very tight integration of the OS with the hardware, and the user experience is very good as a result.  Think about it.

Microsoft and a number of hardware partners, create many of the standards for hardware on PCs such as ACPI, EFI, UAA, PnP, etc. This is the way the industry works and moves forward, but Linux isn't really part of that.  It just kind of evolves to support this stuff after the fact.  So it's not really an ideal OS for PCs, especially with new hardware.

If you need a good UNIX-like environment I'd highly recommend a Mac.  It's bit expensive but hey, its got the only *nix OS that's user friendly and has an actual driver model.