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Thursday, January 25, 2007
A few notes as I read CNet's review of Vista: Rather than upgrade, we recommend you perform a clean installation. With a clean installation, you keep all your current on the Windows XP drive and install only the data and applications you want to run on Windows Vista. A clean install can be accomplished by buying a new PC with Windows Vista already installed, partitioning an existing Windows XP machine to dual-boot into Windows Vista, or adding a new hard drive to an existing Windows XP machine. This paragraph is more confusing than it is helpful and full of things
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Great run down by Chris Lanier about what content will be crippled when output in Vista. I've seen a few people freak out about Vista and it's multimedia content protection scheme and Chris does a great job of laying out the different multimedia scenarios you may encounter and how Vista will or won't change that experience. Technorati tags: Vista, Content Protection, HD-DVD, HDCP, DRM
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Interesting thing I've noticed, anytime someone gets a new Mac they spend about three paragraphs gushing about the hardware; how sleek, how sexy, the packaging, the screen, etc. Often they'll compare it to their old PC and list off all the short-comings it had, then in a wonderful bit of Apple mind control you'll see something like, "Microsoft could learn a lesson or two from Apple". At this point I either start foaming at the mouth, give a despairing laugh or simply shake my head. For those that haven't already picked up on the source of my ire it's the
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
I'm amazed that anyone thinks the new Apple TV product from Apple is all that wonderful. It has fewer features than the XBox 360 which can do all the same things PLUS with the XBox you get the ability to play an amazing amount of games. Feature Apple TV XBox 360 Stream Photos x x Stream Video x x Stream Pictures x x iTunes x - Marketplace - x PC Streaming ? x Mac Streaming x x (using Connect360) HMDI x - 720p x x 1080i - x 1080p - x IPTV - x (Fall 2007) DVD Player - x Games
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Seems I'm reinstalling all the time and I commonly forget my global ignore pattern for svn. Here it is for future me: *bin *obj RECYCLER Bin *.user *.suo *.dcu __history ModelSupport_* *.rsm thumbs.db This pattern is useful for Visual Studio and Delphi development, though if you're checking in third-party Delphi components be sure you have the full source, otherwise you may need to pull the *.dcu part of the pattern.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Wired has a great little piece about Apple's lawsuit and I've seen a few people fireback with the classic, "If you don't like it, go somewhere else" line. While I'm tempted to agree with this I see two issues that give me pause: 1. Does the iPod have a monopoly and if so, does that mean so does iTunes? The iPod is the everywhere but not everyone uses iTunes, you don't have to use it to purchase new music. It plays MP3's just fine yet Apple's marketing department has done such a great job of binding the two that many people aren't even aware
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Almost anyone that follows software development blogs will have stumbled across Joel Spolsky and many refer to his blog posts as some kind of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Software World. He recently weighs in on the whole bloggers accepting gifts from vendors debate that is making bloggers draw lines in the sand and is on the side that disagrees that bloggers should accept such gifts. Joel Spolsky is wrong. The whole thing boils down to bribes. A bribe is a secret agreement that is simultaneously advantages and disadvantages to both parties. Accept money secretly to promote a product and both you and the