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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / dot Net complaints
« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2010, 09:22 AM »
<snip>
There's a few relevant issues with it, though:
  • .NET appsare more memory-hungry than native equivalents, and there's CPU-speed overhead as well - although it's not as easy as saying "always slower", but that's a topic on it's own.
</snip>
-f0dder (October 24, 2010, 04:05 PM)

Actually, with .NET the reason that it appears to use more memory is because of the way that memory is managed in the .NET framework, specifically with regard to GC.  The collection process requires resources. Garbage collection often derives information regarding an object’s use to make decisions on its future availability.  Garbage collection may occur at inopportune times. This can result in delays or slowdowns that may be unacceptable. Additionally, since garbage collection typically does not happen immediately upon when an object is no longer needed, the overall memory footprint of the application may be higher.  The GC in .NET also forces .NET programs to have poor locality, i.e. it interacts with local system resources in an often less-than-optimal manner, namely becasue they often consume more memory than they actually use.

Putting the long explanation behind a cut
Spoiler
The Simplified model of .NET GC
The rules:
  • All objects allocated from one contiguous range or memory (with one exception)
  • The heap is divided into generations (see diagram).
  • Objects in any generation should be roughly the same age.
  • Objects in higher generations are considered more likely to be stable.
  • The oldest objects are in the lowest addresses on the heap.
  • An allocation pointer marks the boundary between allocated and free memory.
  • Periodically, dead objects are removed and everything is “slid up” towards the lower address range on the heap.(eliminate fragmentation).
  • The order of objects on the heap is the order in which they were created (with one exception)
  • There are never any gaps between objects. (yes, another exception!)
  • Some of the free memory is committed, and when needed more memory is requested from the operating system for the reserved space.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome: Time for a Second Chance?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2010, 12:27 PM »
Speed dial would work better for me if the speed dials were synced to the other browsers you use, like the combination of xmarks and fast dial does on firefox. Having to set them up per browser is rather annoying.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: The Ball - Portal-like game with a err.. ball
« Last post by wraith808 on October 23, 2010, 10:45 AM »
Already pre-ordered. Thanks for the heads up on IRC lanux!
-Josh (October 20, 2010, 08:52 AM)

Me too!  Thanks!
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Living Room / Re: Welcome to Hell... iHell that is...
« Last post by wraith808 on October 23, 2010, 10:35 AM »
Anyways that will be the last time i'm visiting an apple thread on donationcoder, if you could please label them with apple then i can safely ignore the trolls. ;)
-justice (October 23, 2010, 09:00 AM)

I'm glad that I'm not the only one to have noticed that the attitude towards Apple for a board that's not supposed to be anti-Apple has gotten decisively trollish as of late.  I'm not an Apple apologist by any means, but the line between a serious discourse and a witch hunt was passed a while ago, I think...
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Developer's Corner / Re: Web Debate: Give Us Simplicity So We Can Ignore You
« Last post by wraith808 on October 23, 2010, 10:22 AM »
In any case, my point was simply that, without any precise aim, discussing form vs function becomes quickly a circular debate. "Software" is a large field and there is a huge variety of software consumer with incredibly various needs. What form and function for whom ? When ? Sure a shiny tool that doesn't work might be scrap metal, but that's taking the opposite end of the spectrum as a justification. It's a given : nobody wants something that's either "useless" (a least for them) or "incomprehensible" (for them).
-Armando (October 23, 2010, 01:14 AM)

Theory vs. Practice. In theory anything is possible, which is why academics tend to end up in circular discussions. Practice on the other hand, tends to rather clearly define the limitations that were being missed in conversation.

It's only circular if you have no context. Tools are devices that perform work that we want done. Sure, pretty gets it off the shelf and out of the stores into the garage. But if it don't work ... It's not going to stay in the garage...It's going out to the curb on its way to the dump.
-Stoic Joker (October 23, 2010, 09:32 AM)

The thing that gets me is that simplicity is in the eye of the beholder... umm... user.  What's simple to me might not be simple to someone else.  And what's simple to someone else might be a nightmare to me.  Same with form and function.  Even with user groups and usability testing and user acceptance- you're only dealing with a subset of users.  That's why there can never be a hard target for these things.  There's a reason that there's a saying that you can't please everyone all the time.  And it's one of the reasons that I think that *most* reviews/critiques are flawed- they don't say this outright and the sheeple that read them in most cases take these reviews at face value without taking this into consideration, which can reduce someone's bottom line undeservedly, just because one person that happens to have influence doesn't like it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome: Time for a Second Chance?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 22, 2010, 08:23 AM »
I forget about stars in address bars because nobody else uses it.
-MilesAhead (October 21, 2010, 06:54 PM)

Firefox uses a star in the address bar, too.

As someone who has never used Ctrl-D before, that shortcut doesn't even make sense to me. There's no D in "bookmark."

Of course, there's no J in "Downloads" either but I still remember that Ctrl-J brings up the Downloads list. So I guess I just contradicted myself. <shrugs>
-Deozaan (October 21, 2010, 08:49 PM)

I don't tend to use either of them.  I use keyboard shortcuts a lot when using anything else.  In the browser, my habits seem to change, and I always use the mouse, to the point of despising when I have to type in a url or search.
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Living Room / Re: GOG.com confuses everyone including themselves!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 21, 2010, 09:16 AM »
Did anyone already have it?  I was just wondering what the alternative gift was...
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Living Room / Re: Welcome to Hell... iHell that is...
« Last post by wraith808 on October 21, 2010, 09:16 AM »
If you don't like it don't use it.
-justice (October 21, 2010, 07:53 AM)

+1
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Living Room / Re: I have a very hard announcement to make
« Last post by wraith808 on October 14, 2010, 10:24 AM »
:D Just couldn't resist that~!
-Renegade (October 14, 2010, 07:21 AM)

Isn't that lack of resistance (:deal:) the reason that you ended up where you are now?   :harhar:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome: Time for a Second Chance?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 14, 2010, 09:40 AM »
Oops - almost forgot: one of the most exasperating missing features in Chrome........... NO PRINT PREVIEW!! What are they thinking with that??
-J-Mac (October 13, 2010, 09:35 PM)

Didn't even notice that, b/c I don't use it.  If you want to sort of replicate print preview from *any* program, try fine print.  The trial is unlimited, and if you don't want to use the features, just click bypass, and voila, you have print preview.
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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 7-BETA
« Last post by wraith808 on October 14, 2010, 09:37 AM »
Have you tried either of the companion products from JGsoft - RegEx Buddy and RegEx Magic?

Both are directly available in EditPad Pro search pane and the Magic version requires no RegEx syntax knowledge! All the power of RegEx without the pain.
-Carol Haynes (October 14, 2010, 03:28 AM)

How's regex magic?  I have to do an increasing amount with regex, and regex buddy has saved me more than once.  I got regex buddy on the cheap on a special, and Regex magic is pretty pricey though, so I haven't dropped the money yet...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome: Time for a Second Chance?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 13, 2010, 09:22 PM »
It is annoying when something I'm used to in FF is not available in chrome. CheckPlaces can fetch favicons without opening a zillion tabs as example.  otoh I have about 23 AddOns in FF and I can only do a couple more things than chrome with 7.  And one of the 7 is Foxmarks, just to sync to FF now and then.  Getting by with a 1/2 dozen extensions ain't bad. :)

-MilesAhead (October 13, 2010, 03:37 PM)

Foxmarks became xmarks, and is available on Chrome.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Check Gmail using C#
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2010, 07:13 PM »
Isn't it open source?  If not, you could take a look at http://www.codeproje.../IP/imaplibrary.aspx.  I haven't tried it, but the source is there.  Or http://xemail-net.sourceforge.net/.  Maybe they'll have support for callback delegates.
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General Software Discussion / Re: ObjectDock 2.0 (Stardock)
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2010, 06:55 PM »
I'm really glad, because mine had started crashing for no reason I could discern.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Check Gmail using C#
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2010, 01:17 PM »
If you look in your code at line 28, you have a delegate added for what to do when the process completes.  Hopefully, there is also a delegate for progress; you'd add your progress bar actions in that delegate.  You'll also need to check invokerequired on whatever UI elements that you are updating, as it's possible that it will be on a separate thread.

As for the delete, I'm not sure- you'd probably have to check the library that you're using to see how to do that.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by wraith808 on October 06, 2010, 02:29 PM »
I've actually seen quite a few success stories that get marginalized because of the fact that they are not overwhelming successes.  This one, however, can't readily be ignored...
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by wraith808 on October 06, 2010, 06:43 AM »
I'm just quoting from what was said in the interview.  Maybe it was an average, which would (I think) be going down by now?
-wraith808 (October 05, 2010, 09:40 PM)

I don't mean to be nitpicky, but what you wrote wasn't in quotes and you didn't mention an interview. That said, I'm not trying to argue about it. I think I made myself clear previously that I didn't doubt what you said was true--at some point in time--but it doesn't seem to be the case as of now.
-Deozaan (October 05, 2010, 10:24 PM)

Which is why I mentioned it after the fact... sorry if it made it confusing.

http://www.mcvuk.com...r-earning-350k-a-day

but apparently someone made the same observation as you did

http://www.techdirt....50-000-per-day.shtml

Though who knows?  All I know is that it is a success story contrary to what the industry shills say, and that was my only point.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: STEAM: Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2 - US$10.19 for both
« Last post by wraith808 on October 05, 2010, 10:07 PM »
I've played TF2 at LAN Parties before, so it's doable.  Everyone has to be on the same versions- it's best to patch your games, then set to offline right before going to the LAN location.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by wraith808 on October 05, 2010, 09:40 PM »
2.  The developer, with no copy protection, no distribution channel, and none of the BS that the software industry says is 'necessary' is making $350,000 a day.  Yes... that's a day, as in one sold per 3 seconds.
-wraith808 (October 05, 2010, 03:51 PM)

That's a bit high. He probably did make that much in one day, for perhaps a few days even, but I don't think it's accurate to say he does that every day.

Let the stats speak for themselves:

1103443 registered users, of which 334312 (30.29%) have bought the game.

In the last 24 hours, 28007 people registered, and 10753 people bought the game.
-http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp

A sale every three seconds would be 28,800 purchases per day. And as stated above, in the past 24 hours, it's been just over 1/3 of that.

Even still, 10,000 sales per day is about $150,000 USD every day. I wouldn't complain about that. :)
-Deozaan (October 05, 2010, 04:12 PM)

I'm just quoting from what was said in the interview.  Maybe it was an average, which would (I think) be going down by now?
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Minecraft - An Incredible Indie Game
« Last post by wraith808 on October 05, 2010, 03:51 PM »
Also note two amazing things.

1.  Someone made a working ALU in Minecraft (and is working on making a whole CPU)
2.  The developer, with no copy protection, no distribution channel, and none of the BS that the software industry says is 'necessary' is making $350,000 a day.  Yes... that's a day, as in one sold per 3 seconds.
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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 05, 2010, 09:36 AM »
You can't do this without a database linking your data (songs etc), hardware and customer info.

I'm not implying that they collect other data (I've no idea whether they do or not). Clearly their systems aren't good enough to detect the copying from one computer to another.
-Dormouse (October 05, 2010, 12:21 AM)

Actually, they do.  They use a hardware key in regards to music... that's the DRM part.  But that's DRM in general- they have to have *something* to lock it to, and in most cases hardware (and an account in the case of multiple hardware profiles), is that thing.  That doesn't imply that they have a big brother level of awareness of your habits... just that (like any other online distribution scheme) they link your purchase to an account.  But in the case of music, for my wife to listen to the songs that I copy (and for me to listen to hers) the machine has to be authorized.  They just don't have the same scheme in place for apps- they're able to be used on all devices that you have linked to your account.
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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2010, 07:32 PM »
@wraith808 -- Apple will let you buy an app oon your iTouch, then also put it on your iPhone, and put it on your iPad, without charging you each time?

THAT sounds VERY out of character...
-Renegade (October 03, 2010, 06:37 PM)

But it is the case.  Any app can be downloaded to as many devices as you want (well - not sure about that.  Currently my apps are on my iPhone, my wife's iPhone, my old iPod touch which my son has, and my iPad... so at least 4), and if there is a + beside the price, you get the HD and the regular version for the same cost.

Songs on the other hand... you can only get those to another device if you d/l then u/l them, i.e. I d/l a song on my iPhone, then did the same on my wife's, and it charged me twice.  I can, however, d/l it, then sync, then copy it to my wife's computer, then she syncs and it be on both devices... if that isn't strange, I don't know what is...
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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2010, 10:30 AM »

I disagree.  Once you've bought apps, if they won't work on an OS, then you'll pretty much stick to it unless something catastrophic happens.  So the OS locks you in.  That's one of the reasons it took me forever to get an iPhone- I had too many apps on windows mobile (or whatever it was then).
-wraith808 (October 03, 2010, 08:31 AM)

But it didn't stop you, did it? And just look at how much the market shares have changed in just a few years. How many WM users are sticking with WM? And WM7 won't be compatible with WM6 anyway.

I miss Agenda Fusion /Pocket Informant and ListPro. But there should be an android version of Pocket Informant very soon. I will otherwise just use apps that do what I want.

Next time, I will look at everything available (except iPhone - I won't buy any Apple product because they are so monopolistic) and make my decision at the time. I expect my next phone to work differently anyway, so a new OS won't be an issue. The change this time has been a delight.

Maybe switching from an iPhone would be harder. Apple control a lot of the data and datalinks as well as the OS and hardware so it might be harder to break free. I don't know; I can't see any such problem with Android.
-Dormouse (October 03, 2010, 10:02 AM)

It didn't stop me (nothing can stop you... hardware, os, software...), it's always a choice.  But it can *deter* you.  The OS and hardware are the central driving factors- apps go on top of that, and I daresay that you can find an equivalent on any platform *if you're willing to re-invest.*  I stayed with MS in regards to phones through crashes, lack of forward progress, lack of a real roadmap, and other such inconveniences all because of the OS/platform- and how much I had invested already.  I only changed once I got into the iOS- first through the iPod, then I was able to use what I had already bought on my iPhone... and all of that works on the iPad, with no more buy in.  That's a major incentive, and it's all around all of them using the same OS... not the apps themselves.
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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who finds the new Apps-based world boring?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2010, 08:31 AM »
Of course, the thing about smartphones in that the OS is not where the action is: users will switch from one to another without a second thought.
-Dormouse (October 03, 2010, 04:15 AM)

I disagree.  Once you've bought apps, if they won't work on an OS, then you'll pretty much stick to it unless something catastrophic happens.  So the OS locks you in.  That's one of the reasons it took me forever to get an iPhone- I had too many apps on windows mobile (or whatever it was then).
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Living Room / Re: OMFG! Beauty of the Web...
« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2010, 08:27 AM »
Not sure if this is a spoiler... but...

Spoiler
Yeah... there's a downside.  No XP.

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