Entice Designer 0.8.2 release

[Saaa]

I'm not sure this is the best place, my fault...

And I was thinking about writing a big reply, but as this is not the place 
:D

DRM doesn't bother me really, I won't use it unless I really need to buy 
media which uses it. (I'll even pay for it, I don't care about the extra 
100?euro)
I need Photoshop CS3, stopping me to talk like I know anything about Linux 
:D (except that its colour management isn't all that)

I didn't hear anything about drm being the cause of crappy creative drivers, 
I thought it was this:
http://www.openal.org/openal_vista.html

DirectX 10 is really great and it really seems to be made for the hardware 
iso the other way around.
I think http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=146749 gives really 
good examples of the same new approach.
(Its an interesting talk in itself although being a tad long ;)
These small differences are really hard to see and extremely hard to 
market...
Like HyperThreading: Its not always faster and even slower at times, but 
talking about system responsiveness it beats a single core without a doubt.

I didn't know where to move this discussion. But I would like to know the 
ideas of those who know more than me...
The choice of OS is important enough.


"Daniel Keep" <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f0k65t$2evs$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>
> Saaa wrote:
>> Are even programmers against vista?
>> Is it because of the price? Or maybe you think it isn't necessary?
>> You must understand that the real features of vista which are interesting
>> can't be shown in general commercials, right?
>>
>> No that I'm a fan.. I don't even run it but I could get excited when I 
>> get
>> my new computer.
>>
>> http://manodesign.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pRsSVBaAuwgFSti-clSJ6Ng!362.entry
>> DirectX 10 , software sound approach
>>
>> I  am just interested in the why it is that bad that you think because of 
>> it
>> to switch?
>>
>>
>> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message
>> news:f0gv1a$2jtf$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> freeagle wrote:
>>>> Charlie wrote:
>>>>> DFL and Entice are really under-appreciated IMO , an awesome piece of
>>>>> work.
>>>> I think this is because the project is hosted at www.dprogramming.com.
>>>> I'm not saying there's anything bad about it, but I think that first, 
>>>> and
>>>> probably the last, stop for any beginning D programmer is
>>>> www.dsource.org. That's why projects at dprogramming don't receive much
>>>> attention.
>>> It looks like a very nice project, but I think the fact that it's
>>> Windows-only is the reason for lack of widespread adoption.  Heck I'm a
>>> Windows-only user but I won't touch Windows-only libraries.  I value my
>>> own freedom to switch platforms at will too much, especially these days
>>> with Vista breathing uncomfortably down my neck.   I also value the
>>> ability to share with friends who don't use Windows.  So I never really
>>> gave DFL a second look.
>>>
>>> --bb
>
> Warning: rant follows.
> Summary: Vista sucks.
>
> I don't know about Bill, but I'm never going to be installing Vista for
> a lot of reasons.
>
> First of all is the DRM crap they've loaded the OS with.  MS has been
> pushing DRM more and more over the last few years, but this is going too
> far.  I absolutely refuse to support anything designed specifically to
> take away control over my own machine (also a reason why I will never
> buy a Mac so long as they have TPM chips in them).  See
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
>
> Let's also not forget that their shiny new DRM garbage also means all
> the cool stuff my Creative sound card does is worthless.
>
> Second is the fact that Vista is more bloated than Mr. Creosote[1] from
> The Meaning of Life.  Even if you turn off all the shiny flashy
> bling-bling, it still sucks down resources for them.  I neither want nor
> need all this garbage; I suffer more than enough aggravation from XP's
> "features" to want to have to deal with even more crap.
>
> Small example: whenever a system-tray "bubble" pops up, it locks the
> task bar in the shown position, and you can't get it to go away until
> you actually click on the icon that showed the bubble.  I mean, what was
> the point of putting a close button on the bubble if it's going to
> pester you until you click on it anyway?!
>
> Also, as a programmer, I'm seriously pissed off with the new stuff in
> Vista.  I mean, first they bring out .NET with SWForms, then almost
> immediately deprecate it for WPF.  How long before they bring out
> something else new that I need to re-learn?  Bugger it; I'm sticking to
> cross platform toolkits from now on, no exceptions.
>
> Finally is the fact that anything Vista can do, Linux can already do,
> and do it better.  I mean, the marketing push for Vista has been "The
> Wow starts Now": have you ever seen Beryl?  That thing completely blows
> Vista and OSX out of the water in terms of how shiny it is.
>
> Basically, I'm just completely fed up with Microsoft both as a user and
> as a developer.  Both myself and my parents been paying the MS tax and
> fighting Windows for over a decade now, and we're not playing their game
> any more.  Screw 'em.
>
> -- Daniel
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Creosote
>
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