Unfortunately this has been clarified to be false. Metro start menu is going to be mandatory, period. Microsoft confirmed it quite a while ago, and a google search will bring you a boatload of arguments for and against the issue.
Which doesn't make it any better unfortunately. Metro's sole purpose is to streamline phone and PC interface, so that MS can market "exactly same interface for both smartphones and desktop, you don't have to learn new interface!".
Marketing-wise it's a genius move. As a PC power user though, it's going to be shit for me because I don't want a forced tablet interface (start menu at least), hell I don't even like wizard menus of 7. And there is no option to downgrade to XP/classic 95 style menus even in 7 without installing third party stuff like classic shell.
Well, linux actually has a shot here, and a good one. We have intel with meego, ubuntu with... umm, community(?) and android is technically linux (not really, it's just embedded OS but still).
I suppose with a bit of stretching of the facts you can say that linux is very well off in tablet world.
I'm glad it works for you, the private person with one machine. Now go ahead and try to make it work in a large organization like a school, with myriad of different computers, weird networks, new and old mixed up.
You'll find out why most organizations do not roll out puppy linux, or any other linux for that matter to replace windows except for few pilot projects. As I said in the other thread of the GP's discussion, what we need to get linux workable in that environment is something of a "unified" distro, that includes everything from working on older hardware and good support for exotic stuff to modern functionality all in one. Along with proper support when something doesn't work.
So far, many of the roll outs of corp/organization-wide linux on desktop were failures, usually for reasons directly related to either support or functionality. That needs to be addressed, instead of outright denial which is sadly common, and usually based around "but it works for me you noob!"-argument.
Have you seriously given any thought on what happens, when one distro works but other one doesn't? The scenario is fairly common in linux world, and RTFM-style answer is almost always "just try the other distro".
Which pretty much kills viability for corporate/organizational world. That's why big distros like red hat and ubuntu try to make it all in one solution the best the can - that's a requirement to get organizations to even consider taking you on.
And you just know that with school having a dozens of different specs, weird networking solutions, specialized teaching requirements and so on, you will never really find one distro to suit them all. Even windows, with its much better corporate support and much greater resources stumbles on this.
Honestly, if this is something you'd want to happen, you'd have to have essentially a one big unified linux distro supported by most of the community AND hardware makers. A linux that works like windows in that regard essentially. Which would have been REALLY nice, because having that one holy grail of a linux would solve a whole lot of other problems that stand in front of wide linux adaptation on desktop as well, such as compatibility as well as give one big platform for hardware manufacturers to write drivers and optimize hardware for.
Nothing about it is FUD, and you prove the point yourself. Need to maintain different distros over different machines will force the (already very small) amount of IT support that can properly support desktop linux to utterly explode - this in addition to much of stuff still not working. You'll likely end up saving even paying full list price for proprietary software if you want to go down that path with ridiculous IT overhead it will generate.
In general, when rolling out linux in any organization, it's fairly complex even when using a big, well supported distro, and using only THAT ONE DISTRO across all machines involved. If you start using different distros depending on which one supports which hardware layout, you will utterly fuck up the organizations' IT. Even if by some miracle you'll actually be able to get the entire infrastructure to work with all the different distros (doubtful but possible provided extremely high levels of expertise), the need for maintenance will be extremely costly.
If you do not understand this, you should not be talking about rolling out OS's for big organizations. Their needs, and the need of a private person who just want to get his old PC last a bit longer are completely different.
Honestly that depends on a couple of factors even with windows only gaming. First of all, there are games that use opengl (rage for example) and for those games, it's nvidia or ati driver hell. No real choice there sadly.
Second is CUDA. It's used for quite a lot of stuff including some rather nice looking physics (alice 2, upcoming batman game, mirror's edge...).
I moved from 4870 to 560Ti, and honestly, I didn't notice driver settings or driver quality per se being significantly different. What I did notice though is that I could get all those nice looking effects in mirror's edge and alice 2, and I could run rage the day it came out. My old ATI machine could not, and neither could newer ones without a massive array of game breaking graphical bugs.
And finally, I like WoW. And sadly, when it comes to WoW, I have come to the conclusion that ATI is either being hamstrung by blizzard on purpose, or there is some very serious incompetence between the two companies. There are several well known bugs (such as max quality shadows being bugged) that have official statements from both companies blaming each other and promising no fixes (as they can't, only the other party can). Which sucks, quite frankly. No problems on nvidia cards in those regards either, and frankly I'm borderline convinced that nvidia is paying blizzard off, because you just can't keep graphics bugs like that in a game as polished as WoW for years on end without purposefully wanting to keep them.
But if you are purely in it for bang for a buck and don't care that much if you have no CUDA or that some games may not be functional on release (i.e. you may need to wait for a few days for new fixes), or play WoW, ATI is a better choice. It is usually in the lead when it comes to FPS/money.
Copyright grants a monopoly on the product. If you feel you need to get the product, you cannot choose alternative venues, and are indeed "forced" to acquire it by infringing on someone's copyright.
Of course, this gets us into a philosophical discussion about entitlements. But that doesn't change the fact that there is no competition for the product itself under the current regime, and that you are indeed forced to use illegal means to acquire the product if the terms set by monopolist are too harsh.
School hardware is OLD. We're talking REALLY old, in some cases over a decade. They not only don't want their computers to run any kind of non-educational software, but I've actually seen teachers actively argue that updating hardware to modern standards would enable their students to waste more school time playing various games on them.
Because there is simply no way in hell you will be able to lock those computers down hard enough not to allow inquisitive young nerds to get to play their favorite games on them without making them borderline useless for educational purposes as well.
As a result, you can expect a MASSIVE amount of problems when introducing FOSS. Linux et al are not known for their great hardware compatibility even in modern systems, much less in really old ones that have most components in EOL for a long time.
I bought nvidia for CUDA and better openGL, fully aware that I will be getting slightly less bang for a buck. Moved from 4070 to 560Ti. Not regretting it, especially after the whole rage fiasco.
You missed the whole "vehicle" sound, obvious driver on the right, and "thought it's a helicopter"?..
Another thing to note, COD tends to pretty up cutscenes, and even so both resolution and textures were visibly crap in comparison to BF3. In BF3, what you get in cutscenes is what you get in the game itself.
Ordering isn't "crap" once you get used to it. You just need to function like an actual squad leader, stand a bit back and issue orders like attack, defend and so on.
Takes a while to get used to, but becomes easier once you learn, like most things in the game. Lack of proper in-game voice (for PUGs) is pretty annoying though.
OLED is the first technology we have that is actually better then CRT quality-wise. When world moved from CRT tubes to LCD in monitors, the drop in image quality was very noticeable to those of us with keen eyes.
I just wish mass-produced 24" and above OLED monitors would get pushed down to reasonable price range soon, because I'm buying.
The main sign of failure in pre-WW1 and pre-WW2 Europe has been copyright crackdown, while New World has been blatantly copying and pirating everything.
Look at how that story ended up. Truly history keeps repeating itself, and every time we do not learn.
No offense, but Elops says a lot of things. Most of them are utterly stupid, like bitching about symbian that has carried a company through last year, and is still growing in spite of CEO telling everyone who bothered to listen to him how much it sucked.
Want a recent example? Nokia unveils it's new phones. Stock jumps up.
Elop steps on stage and starts talking. Stock plummets.
I'm not kidding. It's hilarious just how bad of a speaker he is.
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Unfortunately this has been clarified to be false. Metro start menu is going to be mandatory, period. Microsoft confirmed it quite a while ago, and a google search will bring you a boatload of arguments for and against the issue.
Err, how are you going to make x86 software work on ARM platform? That's the problem, not the interface.
Or did you refer to something else?
Which doesn't make it any better unfortunately. Metro's sole purpose is to streamline phone and PC interface, so that MS can market "exactly same interface for both smartphones and desktop, you don't have to learn new interface!".
Marketing-wise it's a genius move. As a PC power user though, it's going to be shit for me because I don't want a forced tablet interface (start menu at least), hell I don't even like wizard menus of 7. And there is no option to downgrade to XP/classic 95 style menus even in 7 without installing third party stuff like classic shell.
Well, linux actually has a shot here, and a good one. We have intel with meego, ubuntu with... umm, community(?) and android is technically linux (not really, it's just embedded OS but still).
I suppose with a bit of stretching of the facts you can say that linux is very well off in tablet world.
I'm glad it works for you, the private person with one machine. Now go ahead and try to make it work in a large organization like a school, with myriad of different computers, weird networks, new and old mixed up.
You'll find out why most organizations do not roll out puppy linux, or any other linux for that matter to replace windows except for few pilot projects. As I said in the other thread of the GP's discussion, what we need to get linux workable in that environment is something of a "unified" distro, that includes everything from working on older hardware and good support for exotic stuff to modern functionality all in one. Along with proper support when something doesn't work.
So far, many of the roll outs of corp/organization-wide linux on desktop were failures, usually for reasons directly related to either support or functionality. That needs to be addressed, instead of outright denial which is sadly common, and usually based around "but it works for me you noob!"-argument.
Have you seriously given any thought on what happens, when one distro works but other one doesn't? The scenario is fairly common in linux world, and RTFM-style answer is almost always "just try the other distro".
Which pretty much kills viability for corporate/organizational world. That's why big distros like red hat and ubuntu try to make it all in one solution the best the can - that's a requirement to get organizations to even consider taking you on.
And you just know that with school having a dozens of different specs, weird networking solutions, specialized teaching requirements and so on, you will never really find one distro to suit them all. Even windows, with its much better corporate support and much greater resources stumbles on this.
Honestly, if this is something you'd want to happen, you'd have to have essentially a one big unified linux distro supported by most of the community AND hardware makers.
A linux that works like windows in that regard essentially. Which would have been REALLY nice, because having that one holy grail of a linux would solve a whole lot of other problems that stand in front of wide linux adaptation on desktop as well, such as compatibility as well as give one big platform for hardware manufacturers to write drivers and optimize hardware for.
Nothing about it is FUD, and you prove the point yourself. Need to maintain different distros over different machines will force the (already very small) amount of IT support that can properly support desktop linux to utterly explode - this in addition to much of stuff still not working. You'll likely end up saving even paying full list price for proprietary software if you want to go down that path with ridiculous IT overhead it will generate.
In general, when rolling out linux in any organization, it's fairly complex even when using a big, well supported distro, and using only THAT ONE DISTRO across all machines involved. If you start using different distros depending on which one supports which hardware layout, you will utterly fuck up the organizations' IT. Even if by some miracle you'll actually be able to get the entire infrastructure to work with all the different distros (doubtful but possible provided extremely high levels of expertise), the need for maintenance will be extremely costly.
If you do not understand this, you should not be talking about rolling out OS's for big organizations. Their needs, and the need of a private person who just want to get his old PC last a bit longer are completely different.
Honestly that depends on a couple of factors even with windows only gaming. First of all, there are games that use opengl (rage for example) and for those games, it's nvidia or ati driver hell. No real choice there sadly.
Second is CUDA. It's used for quite a lot of stuff including some rather nice looking physics (alice 2, upcoming batman game, mirror's edge...).
I moved from 4870 to 560Ti, and honestly, I didn't notice driver settings or driver quality per se being significantly different. What I did notice though is that I could get all those nice looking effects in mirror's edge and alice 2, and I could run rage the day it came out. My old ATI machine could not, and neither could newer ones without a massive array of game breaking graphical bugs.
And finally, I like WoW. And sadly, when it comes to WoW, I have come to the conclusion that ATI is either being hamstrung by blizzard on purpose, or there is some very serious incompetence between the two companies. There are several well known bugs (such as max quality shadows being bugged) that have official statements from both companies blaming each other and promising no fixes (as they can't, only the other party can). Which sucks, quite frankly.
No problems on nvidia cards in those regards either, and frankly I'm borderline convinced that nvidia is paying blizzard off, because you just can't keep graphics bugs like that in a game as polished as WoW for years on end without purposefully wanting to keep them.
But if you are purely in it for bang for a buck and don't care that much if you have no CUDA or that some games may not be functional on release (i.e. you may need to wait for a few days for new fixes), or play WoW, ATI is a better choice. It is usually in the lead when it comes to FPS/money.
Copyright grants a monopoly on the product. If you feel you need to get the product, you cannot choose alternative venues, and are indeed "forced" to acquire it by infringing on someone's copyright.
Of course, this gets us into a philosophical discussion about entitlements. But that doesn't change the fact that there is no competition for the product itself under the current regime, and that you are indeed forced to use illegal means to acquire the product if the terms set by monopolist are too harsh.
School hardware is OLD. We're talking REALLY old, in some cases over a decade. They not only don't want their computers to run any kind of non-educational software, but I've actually seen teachers actively argue that updating hardware to modern standards would enable their students to waste more school time playing various games on them.
Because there is simply no way in hell you will be able to lock those computers down hard enough not to allow inquisitive young nerds to get to play their favorite games on them without making them borderline useless for educational purposes as well.
As a result, you can expect a MASSIVE amount of problems when introducing FOSS. Linux et al are not known for their great hardware compatibility even in modern systems, much less in really old ones that have most components in EOL for a long time.
I bought nvidia for CUDA and better openGL, fully aware that I will be getting slightly less bang for a buck. Moved from 4070 to 560Ti. Not regretting it, especially after the whole rage fiasco.
You missed the whole "vehicle" sound, obvious driver on the right, and "thought it's a helicopter"?..
Another thing to note, COD tends to pretty up cutscenes, and even so both resolution and textures were visibly crap in comparison to BF3. In BF3, what you get in cutscenes is what you get in the game itself.
Ordering isn't "crap" once you get used to it. You just need to function like an actual squad leader, stand a bit back and issue orders like attack, defend and so on.
Takes a while to get used to, but becomes easier once you learn, like most things in the game. Lack of proper in-game voice (for PUGs) is pretty annoying though.
Conquest has the same problem - Russia locks down point B and lets no one through. Game, set, match, and a huge RPG hell in between.
It's not about the mode, it's about the fact that map doesn't scale up with player numbers nearly as well as open maps.
Killing stuff with very few hits is still present - on hardcore mode.
Driving submarines and carriers makes little sense gameplay-wise. The game is about flag control and assault/defense, not "fapping around with tech".
Granted someone could tell that to people who take jets and helicopters, only to discover that they can't pilot them beyond the first wall.
OLED is the first technology we have that is actually better then CRT quality-wise. When world moved from CRT tubes to LCD in monitors, the drop in image quality was very noticeable to those of us with keen eyes.
I just wish mass-produced 24" and above OLED monitors would get pushed down to reasonable price range soon, because I'm buying.
According to many of the "market researches", apple is in clear lead for one simple reason: qualifications needed to fit "smartphone" niche.
Since these aren't clearly defined, you can adjust these according to your employer's needs.
The main sign of failure in pre-WW1 and pre-WW2 Europe has been copyright crackdown, while New World has been blatantly copying and pirating everything.
Look at how that story ended up. Truly history keeps repeating itself, and every time we do not learn.
WHOOSH
Funny part: I mistyped the above comment, was supposed to say "N9 has proper multitasking in addition to less overhead".
48 hours of working with no sleep in the end project crunch does that to you.
Not the first or the last time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero
One of the advantages of having a proper OS - you need less RAM for OS overhead.
No offense, but Elops says a lot of things. Most of them are utterly stupid, like bitching about symbian that has carried a company through last year, and is still growing in spite of CEO telling everyone who bothered to listen to him how much it sucked.
Want a recent example? Nokia unveils it's new phones. Stock jumps up.
Elop steps on stage and starts talking. Stock plummets.
I'm not kidding. It's hilarious just how bad of a speaker he is.
Take a look at the nice horse on the top.
I'm sorry for english being my third language. I bow to your hardline german superiority, and will do my best to be born pureblooded aryan in next life!