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Comment: Re:Good luck (Score 2) 324

by AaronLawrence (#39800399) Attached to: Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients

Perhaps I'm being naive, but Steam only solves one part of the "problem" of games on Linux. Many other difficult technical problems remain, such as the fragmentation of distros, poor 3D video drivers/performance, fragmented APIs such as audio.
And then there all the "marketing" problems, such as that many Linux users are not interested in paying for games, or want open source, or also run Windows for games.

Comment: Re:An x86 pocket PC (Score 1) 66

by AaronLawrence (#39800289) Attached to: Review of the First Medfield Phone

imagine using all your favorite desktop apps on your phone

No thanks, that would suck. The success of iPhone followed by Android shows that people want new software (or at least software with a new UI) suited to the form factor. In any case, my favourite desktop apps now consist of a web browser, and ... um. An IDE? Good luck using that on a phone.

Comment: Re:Optical? (Score 1) 502

by AaronLawrence (#38388658) Attached to: What Microsoft Should and Shouldn't Do For the Xbox 720

As a game artist myself, you can never have textures with too much resolution [...] or models with too much detail.

As a player, I stopped caring about improved resolution some time ago. Current PS3 games have enough. It would be a minor nicety to have more resolution, but only if it was free (ie. didn't hurt framerates, load times, effort put into gameplay, etc).

Comment: Hybrid works if the SSD is good, but ... (Score 1) 311

by AaronLawrence (#38222822) Attached to: Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives?

We are using Intel's "Smart Response Technology" which uses a small 20GB mSATA SSD on the motherboard in conjunction with a regular hard drive.
It can cache both reads and [optionally] writes.
In read/write cache mode, it gives about 80% of the performance boost of using the pure SSD, for our Visual Studio 2010 disk thrashing.

However, these are good quality Intel SSDs, not the "cheapest flash chip I could find to bung in my hard disk" that the all-in-one hybrid drives seem to use.

Comment: Re:Deliberately behind the times (Score 1) 362

by AaronLawrence (#37684680) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Standard Software Development Environments?

I would also add that TFS feels a bit unfinished. The basic design is pretty good, but certain small but very useful things are missing in the UI, e.g.:
the merge/compare tools cannot ignore case or whitespace (!)
there is no rollback in the GUI (until a recent Powertools addon, which is flakey)
In some places you can get to the history of a file, in others not
There is no easy way to search your bugs (work items)!

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