Agreed - and this was one of the things I got fed up of putting up with (I just want sound to work, its 2007 for chrissakes...)
In this instance though I'd disagree; MS are absolutely getting the blame and perception of Vista is v.poor as a result (among non-techie people anyway).
What I'm seeing is a fear of Vista - the same MS-bashing that happened when XP came out. But what joe-public aren't seeing is that most of the faults are just poor drivers and that vista really *is* a large step up!
I think once the dust has settled and there are more success-cases around then momentum will rapidly pick up!
(example #1 = me. I've used Linux on the desktop for the last 5 years - and it's Vista that's making me change back to Windows. Can't even be arsed to repair my aging Mac Powerbook. Yes it is still windows, but its such a giant leap forward...)
This is obviously a fairly big event so something else may be afoot, but..
where I live in sunny old England local.live.com used to have more up-to-date pictures of the estate I live in; its still being built so fairly easy to date when pictures were taken.
Now though for some reason they've reverted to an older set of pictures and my whole area is just grassland!! (images >3 years old! the previous ones were ~1 year old)!
Just to make the point that this happens elsewhere for (presumably) non-political reasons as well.
Hmm - rail is more [energy] efficient in the purest sense; weight transported per unit/mile - but cars are far more efficient in most real-world scenarios - better for ad-hoc, door-to-door journeys with no waiting around, no need for advance sceduling, no indirect routes because thats where the tracks lie.
Rail is only more big-picture efficient in highly dense environments (city metro systems), or situations with regular pre-determined routes (heavy commercial traffic)
I love my Wii - I think its a fantastic addition to the world of gaming as a whole; my grandparents now understand why its fun to play!
but lets not forget that more 'serious' gamers need more serious games; with mature themes. Why is everyone's first thought at the mention of Doom, Quake, Gears of War, etc just "oooh but the children..." - sod the children that's what the ratings and parental controls are for!
Just strikes me as weird that there can be this dualism to it all - and a total inability for people to draw parallels between films with their ratings systems and games (even though it was video nasties everyone was complaining about 20 years ago...)
aw no thats hardly fair - I feel the richness and immersion into Oblivion's environment would be significantly better with some higher-res textures (anything to make the mid-distance terrain look un-lame!)
and I don't really mind the footprint growing toward 50Gb to make that happen..
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Agreed - and this was one of the things I got fed up of putting up with (I just want sound to work, its 2007 for chrissakes...)
In this instance though I'd disagree; MS are absolutely getting the blame and perception of Vista is v.poor as a result (among non-techie people anyway).
What I'm seeing is a fear of Vista - the same MS-bashing that happened when XP came out. But what joe-public aren't seeing is that most of the faults are just poor drivers and that vista really *is* a large step up!
I think once the dust has settled and there are more success-cases around then momentum will rapidly pick up!
(example #1 = me. I've used Linux on the desktop for the last 5 years - and it's Vista that's making me change back to Windows. Can't even be arsed to repair my aging Mac Powerbook. Yes it is still windows, but its such a giant leap forward...)
This is obviously a fairly big event so something else may be afoot, but..
where I live in sunny old England local.live.com used to have more up-to-date pictures of the estate I live in; its still being built so fairly easy to date when pictures were taken.
Now though for some reason they've reverted to an older set of pictures and my whole area is just grassland!! (images >3 years old! the previous ones were ~1 year old)!
Just to make the point that this happens elsewhere for (presumably) non-political reasons as well.
Hmm - rail is more [energy] efficient in the purest sense; weight transported per unit/mile - but cars are far more efficient in most real-world scenarios - better for ad-hoc, door-to-door journeys with no waiting around, no need for advance sceduling, no indirect routes because thats where the tracks lie.
Rail is only more big-picture efficient in highly dense environments (city metro systems), or situations with regular pre-determined routes (heavy commercial traffic)
I love my Wii - I think its a fantastic addition to the world of gaming as a whole; my grandparents now understand why its fun to play!
but lets not forget that more 'serious' gamers need more serious games; with mature themes. Why is everyone's first thought at the mention of Doom, Quake, Gears of War, etc just "oooh but the children..." - sod the children that's what the ratings and parental controls are for!
Just strikes me as weird that there can be this dualism to it all - and a total inability for people to draw parallels between films with their ratings systems and games (even though it was video nasties everyone was complaining about 20 years ago...)
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aw no thats hardly fair - I feel the richness and immersion into Oblivion's environment would be significantly better with some higher-res textures (anything to make the mid-distance terrain look un-lame!) and I don't really mind the footprint growing toward 50Gb to make that happen..