Dunno about the OP but I have been able to watch 1080p h.264 encoded video on vista no probs using CoreAVC (tried using the one that bundles with CCCP but it is single threaded only and too slow).
As is pointed out elsewhere though, this only affects WMV HD compressed video, now I don't claim to be an expert, but I have downloaded quite a bit HD content, and NONE of it has been encoded in that, always h.264 with (usually) a matroska wrapper.
Not as new as you. (yup, time for all the sub 1k UID to spam replies again)
As for using miss-worded titles and badly interpreted articles to generate ad revenue, well, I don't know about others, but most of the people I know who read/. use ad blocks.
Does this site make money now? Last time I heard from the management (around the time they got absorbed by OSDN) they were losing about double what they were making.
And further reading would have shown that not only was utorrent closed source (and still is), but since this version it is also the "official" client, so...
Bit torrent have made a closed source client their mainline client, and have decided to fortify their rights to the protocol too (its closed, but an SDK can be requested).
Not only is this a non-issue, but its the type of sensationalism I would expect from a lot lower class of blog than/.
These would be perfect fodder for hardware classes.
Well, not really. Most school "old computers to get rid of" type machines that I have had the displeasure to behold are early era pentiums running a mix of windows nt 3.51 through windows 95 and 98, with the few lucky finds being a 2k box.
This hardware typically is so old that it barely resembles a modern machine let alone would be good to train on.
Place I work tends to see a fair few DIY computer people, a lot of them bring their machine in to be vetted (not the useless AV type), 99% would be guilty of leaving the "lock me at SATA1 speed" jumper on their Seagate drives, leaving the little red mica washers on things, despite the fact the case didn't come with them (they got them from a machine they brought from the "recycling yard"), forgetting of course atx, eps12v, pci-e, and don't even get me started on front panel hookups (ever seen what a USB fly-lead plugged into a firewire header on a MOBO will do to plugged in devices?).
The speed with which things change leave a 2-3 yr old PC "out of date" how do you expect to train someone with 10 yr old gear?
Fairly lucky to find a dud Seagate HDD, they run at about 1 in 250 odd doa so I have found:)
And for a techy article, it would have been nice to see things like, how the drive was found dead (not detect, fail on install, etc), have found with an OS as new as vista, a lot of these problems are hard to find (eg, machine locking up after vista generalize phase at the "estimating your PCs performance" thing, turning out to be a faulty DVD drive miss-reading the install media).
Its the most it can handle (well, with a vid card chewing up around half a gig of your memory map, it can't even handle that) in 32 bit mode, so, well, of course its the sweet spot.
Now Vista Ultimate 64bit, it has a sweet spot at around 128 GB then...
Oh, and don't even get me started on the "3 lines of text per page click-through" (wtf, that is 3 LINES OF CONTENT PER PAGE) crap site:/
Hrmm, tfa sounded more like he wanted something that was tamper proof, rather than tamper evident (although evident with knowledge of who changed it would at least give the company a scapegoat).
Best bet imho is dump it all to a large DVD storage machine (pioneer used to make these, not sure if they still do) and replace the load of DVDs when it gets full, choose good quality DVDs, they degrade over time remember:)
Hehe, the older machine I was trying to use for the router in question was a 533 celeron with an asus cusl2 mobo, but it seems the caps on said board just didn't have enough staying power.
The fact that from the time that I brought the board to the time I de-commissioned it (about 4 years) it ran 24/7 overclocking the core and overvolting what the socket could usually provide, had absolutely nothing to do with it./sillyness off
The board I have running atm is an old abit one, they were known, in that era of dodgy caps, for having a very low amount of bad caps.
Yup, wholeheartedly agree with both you and the parent, that is more than adequate for desktop publishing (shit, is that term even used any more?) web surfing, email, programming... damn near anything ANY average user wants a computer for.
The fact that it runs vista (400-500M ram used to boot, maybe 100M max for virus/malware scanner, plenty of headroom) and OOo is a good thing, we have been doing that on our stores systems for a while now (although, we load firefox, OOo, spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, windows updates: dotnetfx2 + 100 or so post sp2 patches, java, VLC media player, CCCP), the big peeps are starting to catch on that people just don't want crap.
Remember too, a lot of these people will buy a PS3/xbox360/Wii for games, rather than spend several thou on a pc, and more yearly to keep it up to specs.
Of course this post is written on such a gaming PC monster, but there is still a 2400+ with 1G of ram and a fx5700 churning packets in the corner running MONOWall (freeBSD) ^_^
Well, as an OEMer that has wrestled with microsoft techs over installing this piece of crap, I would personally steer clear of "office 2007 ready PCs".
The biggest 2 problems microsoft has made:
1 home and student versions of office 2007 cannot be activated if any other version has been pre-installed, and vice versa.
2 retail purchased copies of ANY version cannot be installed over the top, beside or activated as the pre-installed one, the first 2 will kill your windows the last is just plain annoying.
As a retailer we have to guess what version of office a client is likely to want to purchase in a months time?
Needless to say we dumped the "office ready" microsoft scam and are pre-installing OOo 2.2 now, it comes as a nice msi file (rather than an executable with no command line options) and most of all, people can actually sit down and start using it (unlike 2007 office).
No, they can't, gator is gone and finished, it was spy ware and it was bad.
Now this new thing called claria... that must be ok, it sounds legit.
In all honesty though, at a guess they will introduce this on a cheaper version of windows, thus using advertising money to subsidies the selling, plus they can give them away in 3rd world countries and be seen to be doing humanitarian work, when in actual fact it is cruel and vicious to inflict on people, maybe they could use it at Guantanamo on "clients" that regular torture methods aren't as effective on?
Well, evilness should be strived for, it can't be just brought, although buying evil and then suing the company that sold it to you because it was evil (maybe you thought it was like cute puppies, when in actual fact it was a bag of puppies being dropped in a river with a brick tied to the bag, when you actually did know some cute animals were about to go down screaming, but brought it anyway)... that is a damn fine bit of evil right there.
The most important thing about it, how many more such companies will ever sign a contract with Sony again, fearing that if the big S find their work lacking "IT'S LITIGATION TIME!".
Yup, not to mention of course that since SLI doesn't work with dx10 currently, the 8800ultra is the fastest card to drive these games, now my gtx is no slouch, but it struggles on high detail (note there are memory problems with ultra texture detail in vista) textures in dx10 mode at just 1920x1200.
Compare this performance to being able to run ANY dx9 game at that res, with all features (except AA of course, thats not really needed at that rez) on and fraps it at decent frame rate to boot and you see that DX10 hardware just isn't "there" yet.
Not really NV or AMD fault, they make the hardware to the best of their abilities, its up to the game makers to keep their games from bloating (2G process barrier anyone?).
Maybe we are throwing too much work at video cards, one of the big touted features of DX10 (and indeed CoH) is the video card handled physics, could NV (and indeed AMD) have been wrong claiming that their current cards (or near future ones for that matter) could "take care of this as well"?
In living in Victoria myself, and have in fact taken a "found wallet" to the police before with no id in it, they gave me a call a few months later(well, a friend who works there did at least) to advise me that since it hadn't been claimed I could submit a request for claiming the funds.
Its not always a bad thing to help, but check your local laws first (remember, ignorance of the law is not a defense).
Hehe, not overly eloquent but you are spot on the mark.
I am not a "leader" or someone who enjoys leading in MMOG, however I do know a cubic arseload about the games I play, I will gladly (and have in the past, and will in the future) follow someone's lead if they are competent in it, age has very little bearing.
If the original story poster can't deal with following someone competent but younger than them, they are going to have a great difficulty reaching the top tier of any MMOG.
You will of course note, the PA massacre in Australia was only possible with semi-automatic weapons, which are illegal:)
The way America seems to work is that if there are enough guns around, someone should be able to take down the crazies before they kill too many. Maybe each teacher should have a m4 behind their desk, loaded, round chambered, safety off.... just in case.
By botting I assume you mean using multiple accounts controlled by scripts?
In DaoC "botting" is commonly referred to the practice of just having a second account for buffing purposes (and in that game it is all but required you do so).
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Dunno about the OP but I have been able to watch 1080p h.264 encoded video on vista no probs using CoreAVC (tried using the one that bundles with CCCP but it is single threaded only and too slow).
As is pointed out elsewhere though, this only affects WMV HD compressed video, now I don't claim to be an expert, but I have downloaded quite a bit HD content, and NONE of it has been encoded in that, always h.264 with (usually) a matroska wrapper.
Well, they couldn't fuck it up any worse than they did transformers movie, still trying to work out WHY they had so many actual actors in it...
Sorry, but I gotta say it, RTFA
:)
These are all AV solutions running on *nix.
Yeah yeah, mod me down, but I had to do it
Not as new as you. (yup, time for all the sub 1k UID to spam replies again)
/. use ad blocks.
As for using miss-worded titles and badly interpreted articles to generate ad revenue, well, I don't know about others, but most of the people I know who read
Does this site make money now? Last time I heard from the management (around the time they got absorbed by OSDN) they were losing about double what they were making.
And further reading would have shown that not only was utorrent closed source (and still is), but since this version it is also the "official" client, so...
/.
Bit torrent have made a closed source client their mainline client, and have decided to fortify their rights to the protocol too (its closed, but an SDK can be requested).
Not only is this a non-issue, but its the type of sensationalism I would expect from a lot lower class of blog than
Hrmm, maybe the new Sun chip? since it has the memory controllers and 10gig-E built in already?
:P
Why would they want to use a chip known for its bad interconnecting tech (fsb is so last century)
The late Mr Adams I believe :)
Well, not really. Most school "old computers to get rid of" type machines that I have had the displeasure to behold are early era pentiums running a mix of windows nt 3.51 through windows 95 and 98, with the few lucky finds being a 2k box.
This hardware typically is so old that it barely resembles a modern machine let alone would be good to train on.
Place I work tends to see a fair few DIY computer people, a lot of them bring their machine in to be vetted (not the useless AV type), 99% would be guilty of leaving the "lock me at SATA1 speed" jumper on their Seagate drives, leaving the little red mica washers on things, despite the fact the case didn't come with them (they got them from a machine they brought from the "recycling yard"), forgetting of course atx, eps12v, pci-e, and don't even get me started on front panel hookups (ever seen what a USB fly-lead plugged into a firewire header on a MOBO will do to plugged in devices?).
The speed with which things change leave a 2-3 yr old PC "out of date" how do you expect to train someone with 10 yr old gear?
Fairly lucky to find a dud Seagate HDD, they run at about 1 in 250 odd doa so I have found
And for a techy article, it would have been nice to see things like, how the drive was found dead (not detect, fail on install, etc), have found with an OS as new as vista, a lot of these problems are hard to find (eg, machine locking up after vista generalize phase at the "estimating your PCs performance" thing, turning out to be a faulty DVD drive miss-reading the install media).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292245,00.html
:)
Ask and ye shall receive
A bit anti-climactic really.
4GB?
:/
How is it the sweet spot?
Its the most it can handle (well, with a vid card chewing up around half a gig of your memory map, it can't even handle that) in 32 bit mode, so, well, of course its the sweet spot.
Now Vista Ultimate 64bit, it has a sweet spot at around 128 GB then...
Oh, and don't even get me started on the "3 lines of text per page click-through" (wtf, that is 3 LINES OF CONTENT PER PAGE) crap site
Hrmm, tfa sounded more like he wanted something that was tamper proof, rather than tamper evident (although evident with knowledge of who changed it would at least give the company a scapegoat).
:)
Best bet imho is dump it all to a large DVD storage machine (pioneer used to make these, not sure if they still do) and replace the load of DVDs when it gets full, choose good quality DVDs, they degrade over time remember
Failed attempt at web2.0?
Any user could have logged in and modified the content...
Why didn't they advertise the feature?
Hehe, the older machine I was trying to use for the router in question was a 533 celeron with an asus cusl2 mobo, but it seems the caps on said board just didn't have enough staying power.
/sillyness off
The fact that from the time that I brought the board to the time I de-commissioned it (about 4 years) it ran 24/7 overclocking the core and overvolting what the socket could usually provide, had absolutely nothing to do with it.
The board I have running atm is an old abit one, they were known, in that era of dodgy caps, for having a very low amount of bad caps.
Yup, but do you think that I could get any mobo for an older machine to run stable for more than 1 month?
Yup, wholeheartedly agree with both you and the parent, that is more than adequate for desktop publishing (shit, is that term even used any more?) web surfing, email, programming... damn near anything ANY average user wants a computer for.
The fact that it runs vista (400-500M ram used to boot, maybe 100M max for virus/malware scanner, plenty of headroom) and OOo is a good thing, we have been doing that on our stores systems for a while now (although, we load firefox, OOo, spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, windows updates: dotnetfx2 + 100 or so post sp2 patches, java, VLC media player, CCCP), the big peeps are starting to catch on that people just don't want crap.
Remember too, a lot of these people will buy a PS3/xbox360/Wii for games, rather than spend several thou on a pc, and more yearly to keep it up to specs.
Of course this post is written on such a gaming PC monster, but there is still a 2400+ with 1G of ram and a fx5700 churning packets in the corner running MONOWall (freeBSD) ^_^
Or original cds... aparently
Well, as an OEMer that has wrestled with microsoft techs over installing this piece of crap, I would personally steer clear of "office 2007 ready PCs".
The biggest 2 problems microsoft has made:
1 home and student versions of office 2007 cannot be activated if any other version has been pre-installed, and vice versa.
2 retail purchased copies of ANY version cannot be installed over the top, beside or activated as the pre-installed one, the first 2 will kill your windows the last is just plain annoying.
As a retailer we have to guess what version of office a client is likely to want to purchase in a months time?
Needless to say we dumped the "office ready" microsoft scam and are pre-installing OOo 2.2 now, it comes as a nice msi file (rather than an executable with no command line options) and most of all, people can actually sit down and start using it (unlike 2007 office).
No, they can't, gator is gone and finished, it was spy ware and it was bad.
Now this new thing called claria... that must be ok, it sounds legit.
In all honesty though, at a guess they will introduce this on a cheaper version of windows, thus using advertising money to subsidies the selling, plus they can give them away in 3rd world countries and be seen to be doing humanitarian work, when in actual fact it is cruel and vicious to inflict on people, maybe they could use it at Guantanamo on "clients" that regular torture methods aren't as effective on?
Well, evilness should be strived for, it can't be just brought, although buying evil and then suing the company that sold it to you because it was evil (maybe you thought it was like cute puppies, when in actual fact it was a bag of puppies being dropped in a river with a brick tied to the bag, when you actually did know some cute animals were about to go down screaming, but brought it anyway)... that is a damn fine bit of evil right there.
The most important thing about it, how many more such companies will ever sign a contract with Sony again, fearing that if the big S find their work lacking "IT'S LITIGATION TIME!".
Yup, not to mention of course that since SLI doesn't work with dx10 currently, the 8800ultra is the fastest card to drive these games, now my gtx is no slouch, but it struggles on high detail (note there are memory problems with ultra texture detail in vista) textures in dx10 mode at just 1920x1200.
Compare this performance to being able to run ANY dx9 game at that res, with all features (except AA of course, thats not really needed at that rez) on and fraps it at decent frame rate to boot and you see that DX10 hardware just isn't "there" yet.
Not really NV or AMD fault, they make the hardware to the best of their abilities, its up to the game makers to keep their games from bloating (2G process barrier anyone?).
Maybe we are throwing too much work at video cards, one of the big touted features of DX10 (and indeed CoH) is the video card handled physics, could NV (and indeed AMD) have been wrong claiming that their current cards (or near future ones for that matter) could "take care of this as well"?
Interesting.
In living in Victoria myself, and have in fact taken a "found wallet" to the police before with no id in it, they gave me a call a few months later(well, a friend who works there did at least) to advise me that since it hadn't been claimed I could submit a request for claiming the funds.
Its not always a bad thing to help, but check your local laws first (remember, ignorance of the law is not a defense).
Hehe, not overly eloquent but you are spot on the mark.
I am not a "leader" or someone who enjoys leading in MMOG, however I do know a cubic arseload about the games I play, I will gladly (and have in the past, and will in the future) follow someone's lead if they are competent in it, age has very little bearing.
If the original story poster can't deal with following someone competent but younger than them, they are going to have a great difficulty reaching the top tier of any MMOG.
You will of course note, the PA massacre in Australia was only possible with semi-automatic weapons, which are illegal :)
The way America seems to work is that if there are enough guns around, someone should be able to take down the crazies before they kill too many. Maybe each teacher should have a m4 behind their desk, loaded, round chambered, safety off.... just in case.
Please, think of the children.
Arm the teachers!
By botting I assume you mean using multiple accounts controlled by scripts?
In DaoC "botting" is commonly referred to the practice of just having a second account for buffing purposes (and in that game it is all but required you do so).