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Monday, July 25, 2011

Visual Studio Express

I had been making good progress on project Unison, getting about three-fourths of the messages out of the game successfully. I had noticed a particular one fairly early, but decided to delay tackling it until later because it looked to be a symptom of other, smaller bugs. Finally, I had to tackle this bug; for some reason, a message would completely stop in the middle, but only after several messages had been sent in quick succession, and it would fix itself a few messages later. It's probably something to do with a loop condition or data integrity check; however, I can't figure it out because Visual Studio C# Express 2010 doesn't support multi-threaded debugging.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

wuts up?

I can't stand that phrase when it is used as a greeting. I can never figure out whether the speaker means it literally or merely using the phrase as a greeting. Normally, I try to strike a middle ground with a one sentence overview of what I'm doing, but that frequently seems awkward, especially when the speaker keeps walking on or focuses on something else immediately after uttering that phrase.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Traditional phone lines and TV going the way of the dodo?

Are we approaching the day when TV and phone lines are obsolete? Phone landlines are on the way to being obsolete. TV still has a significant amount of inertia to overcome, especially with DVRs so prevalent, but it could happen. I can already get all the services I would normally get from TV and a phone line from the Internet. They sometimes aren't as polished—if that can truly be said about some of the service my provider, Comcast, gives—as services that the incumbent companies give, but the Internet is increasingly approaching it.