Windows 8 doesn't require a Microsoft email account. It merely highly recommends a Microsoft account that doesn't have to be tied to Microsoft email services (mine is tied to GMail). You're still welcome to use a local account and skip the cloud features of Windows 8.
"A few years ago" and "years before that happened" implies 5+ years. I'm going to be lenient and go with 4+ years.
You're implying that 8GB was pretty standard more than 4 years ago? Vista was still fairly new, SP1 was only just being introduced, so 64bit was not overly common in midrange systems. Even if you try to assert the bold claim that anything less than 8GB "years before 4GB DDR3 sticks became dirt cheap" was budget, 6GB is still plenty of RAM, there's not a lot of stuff that requires 8GB that'll fail at 6GB. "Extremely low" is reserved for situations when RAM capacity becomes a bottleneck, and 4GB is still plenty for pretty much any modern video game even today.
I'm still also not convinced that a single 4GB stick of DDR3 RAM was $20 "a few years ago". Especially not the non-budget variety.
Active Directory, MS Office to name a couple. Perhaps you meant Windows RT instead? Well, it's still got Office... but I don't see it being popular with businesses.
If self-driving vehicles appear in dealerships, do you know what kind of "rich people" will be buying them? Old people who cannot drive anymore because of health problems.
And rich people who like to drink when they're out.
Notice how Steam followed a series of periods (specifically from your comment)? You're technically correct about it being a proper noun, but on my phone at least, it would consider that a new sentence and auto-capitalise it even if it wasn't a proper noun. Also note that "steam engine" as a full phrase certainly is an engine.
It was clear that they meant Source engine instead of Steam engine, they even used the correct term in the first sentence. Ergo, your comment was either unnecessarily pedantic or was a joke that also fell flat in the humour department. Considering your nitpick attack on my obvious (but supposedly poor) attempt of humour, I'm going to side with unnecessary pedantry.
On the other hand, new OpenGL versions depend on driver support, and its in the best interests of card manufacturers to not artificially limit it, as that would be shooting their own sales on the foot.
NVIDIA has a habit of crippling their OpenGL support on GeForce cards so they have a reason to sell Quadro hardware.
I believe the reference device is only installed when you have the DirectX SDK installed. The WARP software driver is faster but isn't present on XP or Vista (unless Vista has the platform update installed).
My point was that a company can't just claim that the license is no longer BSD and is now some proprietary thing preventing existing users from using the original BSD codebase. If a company makes a proprietary fork, the OSS users can just ignore the fork.
They are using Office to try to leverage into the ARM tablet market (you can't get the ARM version without Office preinstalled), but I don't think it's going to work well due to the poor touch support. It also has nothing to do with Secure Boot, so targeting Office won't fix the underlying problem TFA is complaining about.
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And TortoiseSVN even integrates with it to some extent (for diff, not merge).
Windows 8 doesn't require a Microsoft email account. It merely highly recommends a Microsoft account that doesn't have to be tied to Microsoft email services (mine is tied to GMail). You're still welcome to use a local account and skip the cloud features of Windows 8.
"A few years ago" and "years before that happened" implies 5+ years. I'm going to be lenient and go with 4+ years.
You're implying that 8GB was pretty standard more than 4 years ago? Vista was still fairly new, SP1 was only just being introduced, so 64bit was not overly common in midrange systems. Even if you try to assert the bold claim that anything less than 8GB "years before 4GB DDR3 sticks became dirt cheap" was budget, 6GB is still plenty of RAM, there's not a lot of stuff that requires 8GB that'll fail at 6GB. "Extremely low" is reserved for situations when RAM capacity becomes a bottleneck, and 4GB is still plenty for pretty much any modern video game even today.
I'm still also not convinced that a single 4GB stick of DDR3 RAM was $20 "a few years ago". Especially not the non-budget variety.
Another problem people had was running it on a pc with extremely low memory (less than 8GB).
Since when was 4-6GB of RAM considered "extremely low"?
The website was hacked. The Linux source was not compromised.
But the MicroSD card and port can be 100% encapsulated in metal under the battery cover
What battery cover? The battery is non-removable.
It's also a portable music player. And a computing device with installable applications.
Except they already have, and it's bundled with Windows RT. However, you won't be able to use other desktop apps.
Active Directory, MS Office to name a couple. Perhaps you meant Windows RT instead? Well, it's still got Office... but I don't see it being popular with businesses.
Whatever, fuck it, and if you defend it, fuck you too. The sheer attitude of the devs is so hard to explain.
I'm not much of a fan of your attitude either.
If self-driving vehicles appear in dealerships, do you know what kind of "rich people" will be buying them? Old people who cannot drive anymore because of health problems.
And rich people who like to drink when they're out.
Why you think rich people are professional drivers is beyond me.
What? No. Rich people hire people to drive them around.
PCs for example, don't have "app stores" and the ecosystem for them is absolutely fantastic.
You're ignoring the Mac App Store and the Windows Store and Ubuntu Software Center.
It used to be that the barrier to entry for programming was nil.
You still had to buy a computer, which back then was less ubiquitous than it is today.
Notice how Steam followed a series of periods (specifically from your comment)? You're technically correct about it being a proper noun, but on my phone at least, it would consider that a new sentence and auto-capitalise it even if it wasn't a proper noun. Also note that "steam engine" as a full phrase certainly is an engine.
It was clear that they meant Source engine instead of Steam engine, they even used the correct term in the first sentence. Ergo, your comment was either unnecessarily pedantic or was a joke that also fell flat in the humour department. Considering your nitpick attack on my obvious (but supposedly poor) attempt of humour, I'm going to side with unnecessary pedantry.
On the other hand, new OpenGL versions depend on driver support, and its in the best interests of card manufacturers to not artificially limit it, as that would be shooting their own sales on the foot.
NVIDIA has a habit of crippling their OpenGL support on GeForce cards so they have a reason to sell Quadro hardware.
the.... Steam engine? Steam isn't an engine.
Sure it is.
I believe the reference device is only installed when you have the DirectX SDK installed. The WARP software driver is faster but isn't present on XP or Vista (unless Vista has the platform update installed).
My point was that a company can't just claim that the license is no longer BSD and is now some proprietary thing preventing existing users from using the original BSD codebase. If a company makes a proprietary fork, the OSS users can just ignore the fork.
The thing about BSD is any part of it can be turned proprietary.
Only the modified versions can be turned proprietary. The original version can't have the license revoked.
The only freedom the GPL takes away is the freedom to take the other freedoms away.
It takes away my freedom to mix different open source libraries.
They are using Office to try to leverage into the ARM tablet market (you can't get the ARM version without Office preinstalled), but I don't think it's going to work well due to the poor touch support. It also has nothing to do with Secure Boot, so targeting Office won't fix the underlying problem TFA is complaining about.
The post fails to mention if old GDI+ apps are accelerated too? (In Vista they were, but not in W7)
GDI/GDI+ is not accelerated at all in Vista. Windows 7 reintroduced some of the acceleration in GDI (mostly blitting if I recall correctly).
Windows Server 2012 (server version of Windows 8) comes with a new filesystem (ReFS). Just not the one that was promised in Longhorn (WinFS).
Right....lets do random crap to solve a problem that may not exist.
This is NOT SCIENCE!
This is a RELIGIOUS CULT!
Science tends to include a lot of trial and error in the quest for a better understanding.