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X-626 said:
I am. I'm actually using it right now. It's been pretty great so far.
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I know, it's great, but I decided to temporarily downgrade to XP because of compatability issues with most of my software...and Vista being crap.

I'll definitely upgrade when the first release comes out.
 
I don't find Vista to be as bad as most people say it is. I think most of my memory usage was due to some start-up programs running that I didn't know about. If you compare Aero on Vista to how it performs on Windows 7, it's definitely better, though. I had to go to classic mode in Vista because of the memory usage. I haven't had any issues with it yet in 7.
 
But since I use a lot of software that is not updated much, I really need to stick to this moderate OS, because regardless of W7 being very good, compatability with my games make me cry hard ;_;.

But memory isn't an issue with me. I think 2GB is good right?
 
Yeah, that's enough. That's how much I have. I think Aero was hogging so much of my memory because of my crappy video card (Intel). It has to use some of my actual RAM for the video card. (Yuck! I'm not much of a gamer, though.)
 
X-626 said:
Yeah, that's enough. That's how much I have. I think Aero was hogging so much of my memory because of my crappy video card (Intel). It has to use some of my actual RAM for the video card. (Yuck! I'm not much of a gamer, though.)
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I find Aero itself completely hideous in an appearance standpoint. Vista Basic, which might as be Aero without the transparency and extra features like thumbnails and all of that available. It does just what it needs to do and still manages to maintain a beautiful appearance. It doesn't exactly drain my PC as much as it used to.

I have off days where my computer lags like crazy, but as far as that goes, it hasn't happened in a while and I haven't updated with anything since Service Pack 1. With that said, I reinstalled Vista a few weeks ago, and still haven't installed Service Pack 1. So, I really find no need to do so. Updates isn't really a concern with me to be honest. Regardless of what may happen.

This is coming from someone who runs a machine with a limited amount of RAM consisting of 510 MBs.
 
But I game too much. It's all Call of Duty with me when I'm boored.

And when i'm REEEALLY boored....I play with Visual Basic to come up with something that will serve as a good April Fools prank (besides infinite popups).
 
Patchisou Yutohru said:
I find Aero itself completely hideous in an appearance standpoint. Vista Basic, which might as be Aero without the transparency and extra features like thumbnails and all of that available. It does just what it needs to do and still manages to maintain a beautiful appearance. It doesn't exactly drain my PC as much as it used to.

I have off days where my computer lags like crazy, but as far as that goes, it hasn't happened in a while and I haven't updated with anything since Service Pack 1. With that said, I reinstalled Vista a few weeks ago, and still haven't installed Service Pack 1. So, I really find no need to do so. Updates isn't really a concern with me to be honest. Regardless of what may happen.

This is coming from someone who runs a machine with a limited amount of RAM consisting of 510 MBs.
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I know what you mean. Aero kinda got on my nerves after a while. My computer came with Vista Home Premium on it. I've never actually seen what features aren't available in Basic, but if I had to buy Vista, that would be the version I'd want. For some reason, the engineering school here recommends Vista Ultimate, which I think is a complete waste. Wow, that is a limited amount of RAM. I'm amazed that you don't lag more than that.
ΩGodotΩ said:
But I game too much. It's all Call of Duty with me when I'm boored.

And when i'm REEEALLY boored....I play with Visual Basic to come up with something that will serve as a good April Fools prank (besides infinite popups).
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That can be a problem for gaming. Windows 7 works with all of the older apps that I use, but like I said, they're not games. I like messing with C/C++/PHP whenever I get really bored. That infinite popups thing sounds really fun (and evil).
 
X-626 said:
I know what you mean. Aero kinda got on my nerves after a while. My computer came with Vista Home Premium on it. I've never actually seen what features aren't available in Basic, but if I had to buy Vista, that would be the version I'd want. For some reason, the engineering school here recommends Vista Ultimate, which I think is a complete waste. Wow, that is a limited amount of RAM. I'm amazed that you don't lag more than that.

That can be a problem for gaming. Windows 7 works with all of the older apps that I use, but like I said, they're not games. I like messing with C/C++/PHP whenever I get really bored. That infinite popups thing sounds really fun (and evil).
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C and C++? I've been hearing a lot about those and I'm just wondering what the waffles is the difference between all these C, C+,C++,C#, and such languages.
 
ΩGodotΩ said:
C and C++? I've been hearing a lot about those and I'm just wondering what the waffles is the difference between all these C, C+,C++,C#, and such languages.
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C+ isn't a language. XD
C# is mainly a Microsoft-standard. It's also not machine-compiled like C and C++ are. C++ is an improved version of C (it even says so in its name: C++ means "add one to C"). There are syntax differences, new features, and some other things. It's better than C in my opinion, but I mostly write code in C.
 
X-626 said:
C+ isn't a language. XD
C# is mainly a Microsoft-standard. It's also not machine-compiled like C and C++ are. C++ is an improved version of C (it even says so in its name: C++ means "add one to C"). There are syntax differences, new features, and some other things. It's better than C in my opinion, but I mostly write code in C.
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So If I am learning Visual Basic at the moment do you think I could make a drum tab program with C++ in under 6 months? :3
 
ΩGodotΩ said:
So If I am learning Visual Basic at the moment do you think I could make a drum tab program with C++ in under 6 months? :3
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It's quite possible, but the syntax of the two languages are very different. (I had Visual Basic in high school. I wanted to take Java, but was never able to!) One thing that will really get on your nerves is memory management. I think that was made a little easier in C++, but it's still a big pain.
 
.Sublime said:
I really have no clue what you guys are talking about :D

But, you should visit the Leave/Absence thread.
Just letting everyone know I'm..You know.
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Aww. :(
HTML: 
<javascript>If {Booloan = True}
(Cry like there is no tomorrow on  this)</javascript>

X-626 said:
It's quite possible, but the syntax of the two languages are very different. (I had Visual Basic in high school. I wanted to take Java, but was never able to!) One thing that will really get on your nerves is memory management. I think that was made a little easier in C++, but it's still a big pain.
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I'm not that far into learning Visual Basic, so guess I could start with C++ this late at night to pump my brain on it when I sleep XD.
 
If you do get into using it, you definitely want to remember to initialize your variables. Something as simple as this:
Code: 
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
 int some_var;

 if(some_var > 0) {
   printf("Variable: %d\n", some_var);
 }
 return 0;
}
Can cause you major problems. The value of some_var could be anything, because it will use whatever was previously stored at that location to base its decision. Just changing the some_var to:
Code: 
int some_var = 1;
would fix that problem.
Note: That code is very crappy, I can't do variable names, and I was just showing a quick example. All it does is checks if the variable (some_var) is greater than 0, if it is, it will print its value and exit.

By the way, that was C code, not C++. I don't know enough of C++ to give an example.

Haha...perhaps we should get into another topic so we don't scare anyone away. XD
Yep, I think it scared people away. How about going back to the Pokémon topic?
 
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Haha...yeah, it is too late. XD
It's funny how posting just little bit of code will do that. Well, at least I know how to repel people if I ever wanted to do that.
 
You have the power ._.

Well, this is my last post for tonight. And probably for a few weeks.
And I felt like going out with a bang

So...
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Haha...you went out with a bang all right. Well, bye Limey. I hate that you will get grounded.
 
Visual Basic? Oh my. C++ is by far the superior language, really. -_- Go for that; although that's my opinion.

ATM I'm learning Actionscript 2.0 with Flash, whee.
 
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