PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce3 Ti500. A simple menu that pops up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including sophisticated color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls.
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News source: M3DZone
Download: PowerStrip 3.15 Beta Build 262
Changed/Fixed in this version:
- Added ability to be run as a service
- Refined support for XP themes
- Added support for 27.xx NVidia drivers and GeForce4
- Further improved multilanguage support
- Fixed up Riva128 pixel clock jitter
- Added support for Xfree86 modelines as parameters
- Improved support for Radeon VE/7500/8500/M6 2nd CRTC
- Fixed up i740 pixel clock control
- Improved monitor enumeration
- Added lock scan frequency option
News source: M3DZone Download: PowerStrip 3.15 Beta Build 262
Edwards did concede that Visual Basic programmers are also numerous, but pointed out that although that language is suitable for client-server applications, "you do have to adapt the programming model for .Net." For some, he said, this may not be a big change, but for those who are client-server oriented programmers it is a massive change.
"Even Microsoft tells programmers it will take anything from six months to two years (to adapt)," he said. Microsoft's C# also came in for a barrage of criticism, with Edwards saying the language exists only "to emulate what Java already supplies."
Whatever choice developers make there is a transition, he said: whether they move from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .Net; learn C#, or lean Java. "The Java skills are already there, so if you have to make a transition, why not transition to an open framework that allows me to run programs anywhere?"
Countering IBM's argument, Hutson said Microsoft's stance is that one language does not fit all. "We are letting third parties build support for Cobol, Java and all the other languages in .Net," said Hutson. He added that there are a huge number of Visual Basic developers, and that C# is not difficult to learn since it is based on current languages.
"C# is based on Java and C++," he said. "But it bases functionality on what needs to be in a new language for the future. It hasn't taken me long to adopt as a programming language."
Edwards did stress that IBM will support Microsoft's .Net Framework where it makes sense. "But what is not going to happen," he said, "is that applications that companies have invested in over the past 30 years will be thrown away." The IBM approach, he said, is that companies need to build Web services on an open framework that can be completely extensible. "J2EE gives complete programming independence any time on any hardware platform," he said.
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