I doubt either uses code licensed from a company they couldn't crush -- If this were the real reason and they really wanted to, a little pressure could solve it quickly.
I think the real reason is they don't want to expose the code their spies stole from each other.
Swerving offtopic, but the graphics card's acceleration isn't the issue here. Any graphics card from the past 4 years (6, 8 even) has more than enough 2D acceleration to handle the desktop quickly, barring.
What the original poster is almost certainly describing is due to low memory, and not windows specific -- Put a large bitmap on the desktop, run something that takes a lot of memory, desktop isn't being seen therefore gets swapped out and appears slow to redraw because of seek & load time. Even with a jpg, display version is uncompressed - think 1280x1024x32bpp = 5.2 MB.
It would also be a smart optimization if they re-loaded/decompressed the original instead of swapping out & in the raw bits.
Turning off the desktop background or using a small tile is a good thing for performance on low ram boxes. (But people just get more %^# ram)
Using the 3D engine could admittedly help since the desktop background would typically stay bound as a texture.
Ok, but get your car going 156, open the door and put your head a few microns from the pavement (best with someone else driving). I bet it'll sure look supersonic.
I agree - while it may not solve everything (bombers can put the text into page bodies), it would be a very useful option.
Plus, their software already knows it, since cached pages will sometimes say at the top "the following words only appear on pages pointing to this one." (or something to that effect).
Perhaps even better than a toggle would be a % or small list of matched/unmatched words next to a result.
Hm, no, not really. They already have gmail, and calendering is already tied into mail all over the place.
Calendar doesn't surprise me a bit, nor will a follow-up that blends them tightly with an offering for (also common) small-business internal messaging packages.
Google's whole thing has been to take supposedly "tired" technologies and, oh god, "embrace and extend" them. So long as they keep doing it better (and without Microsoft's evilness), that's ok.
Hmm. I admit upfront I'm no Mac user (x86, WinXPee&Linux) but I respect what they are good/better at and try to stay up.
So, someone please explain the low latency audio bus (Hello, me).. Googled a bit and didn't find anything specific to Macs about this. Just curious, thx in advance.
I have cable and am fine with paying for it, but I did this for the first few weeks after I moved into this condo, before comcast got around to activating my taps.
There were 8 unsecured points with reasonble signal strength.. it's made me wonder how much effort it would be to bond several wap connections together for higher bandwidth, especially considering how cheap the hardware has become.
Would be an interesting model for apartment / condo communities - since not everyone will be using the net at the same time, join in and add your bandwidth to the 'community pool' - most of the time everyone would get better speeds.
The question is, how many of these players are using a Mac?
Don't get me wrong, bravo for Blizzard, but developers won't really take note without that info.
It would be an interesting statistic, not only for Mac development but Linux as well.. Does the classic theory hold true that, despite the small installed base, the dearth of available games means that a far larger % of the base will purchase the game?
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Sounds pretty familiar to me.. and you know, though it may have seemed to suck at the time, AFAIC(care), political correctness can go to %#@A, because it turned out pretty good kids.
PARENTS have the responsibility, not schools, government, etc..
Hmm, I have to disagree. TiVo has a great brand name, but to Joe Average, it is still little more than that. When 'Joe' can get the key functionality by paying his cable company an extra $5 per month, when coworkers start talking about some show at the water cooler the next day, he'll happly say "shhh.. don't tell me, I TiVo'ed it" while he actually recorded it with some other random DVR.
Plus, as DVR becomes a commodity, user interface will become more important.. and TiVo did great stuff, but they are falling behind - with DirecTV on the verge of dropping them for their in-house subsidiary NDS - they aren't in a great position.
UI will become especially important as the base DVR functionality becomes a commodity. For example, before you think no one is catching up with them, check out Digeo's Moxi UI, that just won an Emmy for technical achievement.. see AVSForum, those boxes are being deployed (with Motorola branding) with raves to select markets already.
Decades? Hardly. The iPod's life is short-lived without integration.. Within a few years, 5+g drives will be stuffed into cell phones and mp3 playback becomes a total commodity -- along with color screens, photo & video viewing, etc -- for (far) less $ than players today thanks to contract kickbacks.
Now, an Apple-Moto-iPod&Talk with a touch screen and virtual wheel, that'll take it forward.
Yeah, that's great, just wonderful. The gamecube can do that *only* because it uses a wall-wart style power supply, which are annoying as *^&#.
I, for one, far prefer the power supply being inside the box. It would be trivial to modify a PS2 to bypass/replace the power supply and work off a 12v feed.
Nice. Love those posts where I'm thinking "Yeah, this is just like me!"
Paper or (and!) whiteboarding is the base of my best stuff. (best by programmer standards, anyway;)
Given my logic-oriented head, I often wonder how I can think so vividly while dreaming or stoned, but can't translate that visually to other medium worth %#@.
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Early '06:
"Dell considering building machines with AMD thanks to new fab capacity"
Early '06 + 1 week:
"Dell sticking with Intel"
Well, at least it will help remove one of the theories (AMD supposedly not having the capacity).
Amen!
I doubt either uses code licensed from a company they couldn't crush -- If this were the real reason and they really wanted to, a little pressure could solve it quickly.
I think the real reason is they don't want to expose the code their spies stole from each other.
Swerving offtopic, but the graphics card's acceleration isn't the issue here. Any graphics card from the past 4 years (6, 8 even) has more than enough 2D acceleration to handle the desktop quickly, barring .
What the original poster is almost certainly describing is due to low memory, and not windows specific -- Put a large bitmap on the desktop, run something that takes a lot of memory, desktop isn't being seen therefore gets swapped out and appears slow to redraw because of seek & load time. Even with a jpg, display version is uncompressed - think 1280x1024x32bpp = 5.2 MB.
It would also be a smart optimization if they re-loaded/decompressed the original instead of swapping out & in the raw bits.
Turning off the desktop background or using a small tile is a good thing for performance on low ram boxes. (But people just get more %^# ram)
Using the 3D engine could admittedly help since the desktop background would typically stay bound as a texture.
Ok, but get your car going 156, open the door and put your head a few microns from the pavement (best with someone else driving). I bet it'll sure look supersonic.
Hey, it's not so bad -- With logic like this, Duke Nuke'em Forever might actually come out in my lifetime!
Yeah, I mean, WTF?! Hello, everyone knows g1/\/\p r00lz over all
LOL, That is classic.
Ohh, aren't you special!
Ok, so perhaps you are just lucky. So, what do you think, how is it? Any 'real user' impressions in Linux and/or XP?
I'll throw in my geek rating at 3735928559 -
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I agree - while it may not solve everything (bombers can put the text into page bodies), it would be a very useful option.
Plus, their software already knows it, since cached pages will sometimes say at the top "the following words only appear on pages pointing to this one." (or something to that effect).
Perhaps even better than a toggle would be a % or small list of matched/unmatched words next to a result.
Hm, no, not really. They already have gmail, and calendering is already tied into mail all over the place.
Calendar doesn't surprise me a bit, nor will a follow-up that blends them tightly with an offering for (also common) small-business internal messaging packages.
Google's whole thing has been to take supposedly "tired" technologies and, oh god, "embrace and extend" them. So long as they keep doing it better (and without Microsoft's evilness), that's ok.
Hmm. I admit upfront I'm no Mac user (x86, WinXPee&Linux) but I respect what they are good/better at and try to stay up.
.. Googled a bit and didn't find anything specific to Macs about this. Just curious, thx in advance.
So, someone please explain the low latency audio bus (Hello, me)
Hm, clever idea.
Besides just the player understanding it, it would be nice for it to track it and upload when you connect.
An open source extension api for both the iPod & iTunes would be sweet, Apple.
I have cable and am fine with paying for it, but I did this for the first few weeks after I moved into this condo, before comcast got around to activating my taps.
There were 8 unsecured points with reasonble signal strength.. it's made me wonder how much effort it would be to bond several wap connections together for higher bandwidth, especially considering how cheap the hardware has become.
Would be an interesting model for apartment / condo communities - since not everyone will be using the net at the same time, join in and add your bandwidth to the 'community pool' - most of the time everyone would get better speeds.
Hey, I like the bad breath one -- what a great way to sell products.. imagine a "breathe here to test" sticker on every bottle of Listerene, etc.
Of course, then it would need an antiseptic wipe attached to get all the crap off from people who breathed (i.e. spit) on it..
Oh, then some government regulations on what level of smelly-ness is proper so companies can't cheat with false-positives..
Ok, scratch that. Forget this idea. Please.
The question is, how many of these players are using a Mac?
Don't get me wrong, bravo for Blizzard, but developers won't really take note without that info.
It would be an interesting statistic, not only for Mac development but Linux as well.. Does the classic theory hold true that, despite the small installed base, the dearth of available games means that a far larger % of the base will purchase the game?
Sounds pretty familiar to me.. and you know, though it may have seemed to suck at the time, AFAIC(care), political correctness can go to %#@A, because it turned out pretty good kids.
PARENTS have the responsibility, not schools, government, etc..
Hmm, I have to disagree. TiVo has a great brand name, but to Joe Average, it is still little more than that. When 'Joe' can get the key functionality by paying his cable company an extra $5 per month, when coworkers start talking about some show at the water cooler the next day, he'll happly say "shhh.. don't tell me, I TiVo'ed it" while he actually recorded it with some other random DVR.
Plus, as DVR becomes a commodity, user interface will become more important.. and TiVo did great stuff, but they are falling behind - with DirecTV on the verge of dropping them for their in-house subsidiary NDS - they aren't in a great position.
UI will become especially important as the base DVR functionality becomes a commodity. For example, before you think no one is catching up with them, check out Digeo's Moxi UI, that just won an Emmy for technical achievement.. see AVSForum, those boxes are being deployed (with Motorola branding) with raves to select markets already.
Decades? Hardly. The iPod's life is short-lived without integration.. Within a few years, 5+g drives will be stuffed into cell phones and mp3 playback becomes a total commodity -- along with color screens, photo & video viewing, etc -- for (far) less $ than players today thanks to contract kickbacks.
Now, an Apple-Moto-iPod&Talk with a touch screen and virtual wheel, that'll take it forward.
In a hot segment it might actually work to release after xmas, especially considering that gift card sales are up a lot this year.
Between those and returns, people may see something new and think "ohh a (better,cooler,simply different) one than my friends got!"
http://bugmenot.com/
Yeah, that's great, just wonderful. The gamecube can do that *only* because it uses a wall-wart style power supply, which are annoying as *^&#.
I, for one, far prefer the power supply being inside the box. It would be trivial to modify a PS2 to bypass/replace the power supply and work off a 12v feed.
How perfect: http://www.gucomics.com/
Nice. Love those posts where I'm thinking "Yeah, this is just like me!"
;)
Paper or (and!) whiteboarding is the base of my best stuff. (best by programmer standards, anyway
Given my logic-oriented head, I often wonder how I can think so vividly while dreaming or stoned, but can't translate that visually to other medium worth %#@.