I am (GASP!) a home user who uses Win2k as my primary OS. I did the upgrade from Windows 98SE (and didn't have any of the problems upgrading from 9x to NT as everyone insisted I would). ALL my hardware still works, ALL my software still works. Except now my system is much more stable. I think bashing MS has become popular and people do it regardless of the facts. Win2k is a nice piece of coding, and for all the people calling it crap (and I suspect half of you have never even used it) don't knock it untill you've really sat down with it and compared it to previous MS efforts.
The console market will be crowded enough as is, we wont need a 5th contender. I easily ee another crash in the videogame industy like the one in the early 80's.
Yeeeeah, I'm actually surprised that DVDs have not been reverse-engineered yet. It obviously can be done in software, as you say, very quickly (realtime or faster).
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I am (GASP!) a home user who uses Win2k as my primary OS. I did the upgrade from Windows 98SE (and didn't have any of the problems upgrading from 9x to NT as everyone insisted I would). ALL my hardware still works, ALL my software still works. Except now my system is much more stable. I think bashing MS has become popular and people do it regardless of the facts. Win2k is a nice piece of coding, and for all the people calling it crap (and I suspect half of you have never even used it) don't knock it untill you've really sat down with it and compared it to previous MS efforts.
The console market will be crowded enough as is, we wont need a 5th contender. I easily ee another crash in the videogame industy like the one in the early 80's.
With all the supposed improved net code, i still can't get on a server with 60 ping on my cablemodem. =(
maybe the CPU overhead is too high.
Uh, you don't need to use the built in compression... it's off by default.
Really, it doesn't say ANYTHING about the quality of win9x! Couldn't this sort of thing be written for ANY OS?
I dunno, the BeOS is a good OS, but it suffers the same problem as any OS not widely used: no apps. Will an IPO really solve this?
Yeeeeah, I'm actually surprised that DVDs have not been reverse-engineered yet. It obviously can be done in software, as you say, very quickly (realtime or faster).
Yes, I heard of this a long time ago, too.