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Actually this is a bidding procedure issue. The department bought Microsoft licenses without giving anyone else a chance to bid on the software. For me, government shouldn't be paying any corporation -- Google included -- for proprietary software. It's a waste of taxpayer money in this age.-zridling (November 03, 2010, 03:16 PM)
Just a warning -- from what i've seen of people's experiences, it's seems really hard for people to slowly and gradually learn to program over a long period of occasional dabbling.. I suspect it's like learning a spoken language, in that if you don't immerse yourself, the concepts don't stick.-mouser (October 31, 2010, 08:09 PM)
I have fought with this since VS 2005. Basically my problem with it is that the IDE is almost more complicated than the code. I know it is just because I don't know how to use it, but I really need a "how to use Visual Studio" course. Unfortunately everything is how to program C# or VB. I don't care about how to program yet another video player. I need to know how to accomplish certain tasks within the IDE. I used TextPad for Java and that was just about right as far as complexity, but as Renegade pointed out, it is horrendous if you have to program a UI. We used NetBeans for that, but even that was clunky at best. I have had a project in mind for probably 5 years or more now, and even have the "engine" written in Java (It would be a simple task to change it to C# instead). It is the UI and display that I really need to work with, but just can't find the starting point.-steeladept (October 31, 2010, 04:14 AM)
Perhaps OT, but I really hate the latest generation of notebooks because of their abysmal vertical display resolution (something like 720 pixels).
The designers apparently assume that watching videos is the main reason of existence for a notebook and not reading and working with texts or anything else a bit longer. Perhaps something to watch out for.-Lutz_ (October 31, 2010, 12:02 AM)
Don't most people have people in their contact list like "Mom" "Dad" "Wife", etc?
Kind of makes "ICE" redundant.-Deozaan (October 29, 2010, 01:15 PM)
Contrary to several chain e-mail warnings, ICE is not something that Paramedics will rush to look for the instant they arrive at an emergency, and is certainly not required in order for LAFD Paramedics to provide quick, focused and compassionate emergency care.
We tell people: Add ICE to your cell phone only after you've affixed similar information to (or near) the official photo identification you routinely carry in your wallet.
Why?
With so many types and brands of wireless phones, it can take precious minutes to learn how to access a phone's directory. Many wireless devices are also found to be locked, damaged or have discharged batteries following an incident, rendering ICE unusable.
Please do encourage your interested friends and colleagues to make an ICE entry in their cell phone, especially if it will give them peace of mind- but not at the expense of written emergency contact and medical information.
Another thing to take notice of is the plethora of fantastic tools you get in your context menu in Visual Studio.
It's hard for me to imagine any new learner being anything but negatively impacted by all of the plethora of tools and commands in Visual Studio. I've been programming for 30 years and i still find these super powerful IDEs a bit overwhelming and distracting.. If you're just starting out learning how to program you might be better off using a simple text editor for your code, and focusing on the language itself and not trying to master a complex development editor/tool at the same time.-mouser (October 29, 2010, 07:49 AM)
Countless defeats + 1 win ... The math is the key.-Stephen66515 (October 28, 2010, 01:09 PM)
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The fact the RIAA has won 1 case doesnt say much
<snip />-Stephen66515 (October 28, 2010, 09:07 AM)
... but I didn't because it was very early in the morning and interfered with my swim team practice....-superboyac (October 26, 2010, 03:56 PM)
Who knows, one day your ability to swim might proof more useful than your (now non)ability to program Turbo Pascal!-phitsc (October 27, 2010, 05:21 AM)
Pascal has no float data type. No help there!-MilesAhead (October 27, 2010, 11:58 AM)
Hope they dont "sell out" or get "bought out"-SKA (October 27, 2010, 12:57 AM)
I'm still doing it, but I just can't get it done today.| Application Name | Backup Verification Utility |
| Version | 0 |
| Short Description | Utility that checks a series of files for backup specific verification rules. |
| Supported OSes | Windows |
| Web Page | - |
| Download Link | - |
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| Inspiration Credited To: | Justice from his Cancelled NANY 2011 Entry. |
| Author | wraith808 |
That would be least confusingHow did you guess I was using AHK
-justice (October 26, 2010, 03:56 AM)
wraith808, garbage collection is done entirely at the CLR's mercy; depending on win32 memory process and which heap generation your object is in, when it's collected can vary a lot. This is just one of the reasons why you shouldn't depend on finalizers being called. Furthermore, just because a bunch of your CLR objects are being collected doesn't mean the used win32 memory is released - this makes sense because allocating system memory is "slow", so (if you're thinking only of the running .NET process and not the entire system) it makes a lot of sense to hang on to the win32 memory even if it's no longer strictly needed.
There's several different GC profiles your app can use, with different heuristics for when and how the GC works. There's also manual GC interaction you can do, but you should be really careful about this since it can seriously pessimize your app performance.-f0dder (October 25, 2010, 04:14 PM)
Update: Though since I had to post to say that, let me just say when I say appear to use more, I mean because memory is still allocated to the application that is not actually in use; when you dispose of objects, the memory is not freed immediately. This can't rightly be said to be used by the application since the developer is not using the objects... the memory is still just in that application's space.The application might not be 'using' the memory, but the thing that counts wrt. memory footprint is the Win32 Private Bytes size, not the amount of CLR memory. Keep in mind that even after GC has run, the win32 memory used by the CLR isn't necessarily reduced.-wraith808 (October 25, 2010, 11:29 AM)-f0dder (October 25, 2010, 12:06 PM)
Could a moderator perhaps split out the whole stuff-about-.NET to a separate thread so it doesn't distract from LangOvers product announcement? - sorry for continuing the off-topicness-f0dder (October 25, 2010, 10:18 AM)
