ActiveWin has an article that compares MacOS X to Windows XP. There are a lot of good points in the article and a lot of his findings are based on pretty solid and reasonable analysis. But I take issue with an underlying "ground rule" with a lot of these comparisons -- he is comparing what comes with Windows XP with what comes with MacOS X. Considering that a Mac machine costs a great deal mo
I'm reserving judgement until I see it. I know the background of the people involved in its making but it would be insane for them to release somethign that is a hatchet job.
Wow thanks for all the kind words. I can honestly say that the people here at Stardock really appreciate the warm wishes. It's been a great 10 years and it will be exciting to see what the next 10 years brings.
Log of Microsoft/Neowin/Stardock chat regarding PDC and Longhorn.. On the last day of the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, Stardock's Brad Wardell, Jed and Jana from Microsoft and Creamhackered from Neowin hosted a Neowin.net live chat to answer questions and provide information on Longhorn, the next version of Windows due out in 2006. Introduction: [Brad Wardell] This week is PDC. This is a show where Microsoft is showing off the big te
Well in my case I was referring to things that currently don't exist. NOT things provided by Avalon feature-wise but things that Avalon may make possible. If I come up with some new metaphor for managing windows or displaying data, Avalon gives me the flexibility to create that IF Microsoft doesn't cripple WinFX (the API) so that you can't add your own views and effects system wide. I must confess though a certain amusement for Mac fanatics who always think they're inventing t
Precisely. It's not doing anything special for something that's a 3d game. Though compared to other strategy games, it is doing something unusual -- it doesn't make the units smaller when you increase resolution, it simply makes them more detailed. Rise of Nations, Total Annihilation, and other strategy games tend to simply add more area to the playing field when you increase resolution.
Today was the 4th and final day of the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference in LA. If you were there, things were a lot quieter than previously. Most sessions had to do with creating software with all the new goodies. There's a myriad of new techs to make it both easier for the developer and more convenient for the user with regards to software. There's what I believe was called "One-Click" which, all hype around it is really about trying to make it much cleaner to
Your ignorance is impressive. Were you aware that the userbase of WindowBlinds alone (around 7 million users) is about the same as MacOS X's? Perhaps slightly larger? So if our market is "so ultra small" then what point is there in even discussing Linux on the desktop or MacOS? It's called the law of percentages. Only a few percent of people do enhance their computers in interesting ways. But a few percent of a few hundred million people adds up. Your second mistake
WindowBlinds is just one example. Let me give you another examle, my iFeel mouse, i.e. the Logitech mouse that gives of a slight vibration when you move it over items. Right now, it's very early so it's tough to tell what will and won't be easy to do. What I am worried about is seeing it so locked down that it's really hard for developers to add new OS-wide features.
LOL. Feel free to "Educate" me.
I know what you mean. I always keep a DOS boot disk handy...just in case. ;)
Over as OSNews.com they linked to my article on the PDC. OSNews.com is one of my favorite sites but it tends to have more than its fair share of "Wannabes". That is, developers who are probably pretty good but exceed their reach by making software development judges beyond their experience. Linux users in particular fall prey to this. But it's not that specific to a platform. What amazes m
Well one quick counter example: WindowBlinds does that.
Today was the third day of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC). The day was mostly broken up into sessions where developers could learn more about specific technologies. Today I'll talk about two of those technologies into more detail. Now, my understanding about the advantages of some of this is sketchy and incomplete since we are, after all, talking about an OS that won't ship for 3 years. Anyway, those two technologies are: WinFS and managed code in
I have quite a few portable MP3 players and each one has its pros and cons. For those of you who like to listen to music when you work out, the Sports MP3 player available at CoolNewGadgets.Com might be exactly what you're looking for. This portable MP3 player also plays .WMA files as well (though it doesn't seem to play Digi
I'll be thankful once the World Trade League replaces the WTO completely! ;)
heh. Well, what I was getting at is that it's aways tempting to just "blow your wad" when you come into money. Whereas if you can save some of it for a longer term goal it builds up quicker than one might think.
My brain is dangerously small. So I can't do the things in that step. What I've tried to do is prioritize the material things that I really want and focus only on that while saving the rest. For instance, I have a really nice house (i think anyway). How did that happen? Mainly, because back in 1995, I made a licensing deal with IBM for a game I wrote that brought in $400k. I took half that money and invested it into Stardock. That left me with $200k. Now, I could have bought a reall
I bathe every week whether I need to or not. Well, usually I bathe every week.
Today was the second day of the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) where Microsoft is showing off some of the technologies that will make up the next version of Windows code-named Longhorn (due out in 3 years). And there's some really exciting stuff from a developer's point of view. There's so much to digest that it's hard to get handle on exactly what all the goals are. This is my interpretation of events but I think they're pretty on target in this case.
Well, it is my blog site so yea, I feature things that I think people will be interested in reading. I feature things by other people that I think others will find interesting too. A big criteria is obviously that it has to be original content. For example, your blog "Evidence" fits the criteria of having interesting things written on it but all the content seems to be copied/pasted from other places.
People on the right do it too. But having debated for many years on the net, re-direction is a favorite tactic of the left. Right wingers have their own obnoxious habits. ;)
It's not THAT bad. ;)
I checked in on the user account stuff. I had his score fixed to 300 and changed the commentin system so that negative marks to trolling only become a factor when it's many people doing it. Previously, one dedicated person could really zap a person's score which is unfair.
Sharpton is to the Democrats what David Duke is to the Republicans. The difference is that Republicans had enough principle to condemn Duke.
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