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Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista
PoliTech notes in a journal entry that "Vista is the gift that just keeps on giving." "Speaking during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings conference call, Chairman and [CEO] Eli Harari said that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid state drive makers. 'As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk,' he said... 'The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,' he said. 'Unfortunately, (SSDs) performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year.' Harari said this challenge alone is putting SanDisk behind schedule. "We have very good internal controller technology... That said, I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment.'"
For some reason 'rpm' from mandrake is surprisingly inefficient on SSD's. It makes mandrake practically unusable for me on my eeepc. Yet dpkg/apt-get/aptitude on debian and ubuntu is just zippy.
--jeffk++
An aptly named program, to be sure.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Compared to all the other things that are delayed because of Microsoft, SSDs are not at the top of my list to worry about: the main reason we're still using 1980's style window systems, programmed in 1970's style languages, running on top of 1960's style kernels and file systems is because Microsoft perpetuated that.
If Microsoft hadn't dragged the market to the bottom of the cesspool with the bad "standards" that they set, companies would actually have been able to produce innovative operating systems and user interfaces, and market forces could have led to a gradual improvement.
I think one or two of twitter's sockpuppets got mod points today.
Comment about Vista being a resource hog and unrunnable on the XY hardware?
Its a piece of Microsoft software. Criticizing Microsoft is the local sport and favorite pastime on slashdot.
Now, if you were to say something like...
"That Apple software/hardware isn't really all that cool as they advertise..." or god forbid try to say anything but praises about any Linux distro...
Now that would get you at least a troll + flamebait moderation. At which point it would be best to let it slide and move on.
If you tried to defend your position - you would get moderated to troll hell and your Freaks category would start to overflow.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
why does everyone jump on the bandwagon and hate vista? vista runs like a champ on my system... its nice to not have to manually defrag, i come home from work and my HD is in order. caching my apps mr. vista? SWEET THX LESS LOAD TIME FOR ME! if you just tweak the hell out of vista, its a rather nice OS. With 8gb of ram and no swapfile ;)
i'll continue to use BSD for my servers, but what a waste to use some unix style OS for my desktop... bleh!
Perhaps there are people like myself who after years of hearing freetards use every opportunity to take a shot at MS, are just sick and tired of the juvenile behavior. Most of the jokes are at the "BSOD!!! Insecure! LOL!!!" level, where windows stability has not been an issue since 2000. I am guessing that these same people are ignorant to the fact that in the early 90's *nix had a security model that was deemed broken/nonexistent as well.
Its the behavior of many Linux users that I feel is the biggest deterrent to Linux adoption on the desktop. To some people it is clear that their choice of OS is not about getting a job done, but is an ideology they subscribe to and a group they belong to. There is nothing wrong with this, but when you start to view criticisms as personal attacks on your beliefs and not constructive criticisms of things that should be improved upon, there is a problem. Some might accuse me of a lack of passion, but if you ever find yourself typing in all caps in a discussion about OS's, I can only recommend you take a step back and get a breathe of fresh air before hitting send.
Don't worry, I mod down similar idiots that still spout Linux!!! No Hardware Support!! LOL!!! or just take shots on Stallman or Reiser without anything intelligent to add.
I don't think there is any conspiracy, and aside from the reasons cited above, I think a more reasonable explanation is that slashdot has attracted more mass appeal as time goes on (which is at least partially due to the editors- you don't see articles about every little new release or project in the linux world anymore.)