Javascript is bad ass rockstart and webscale language. It invents this new thing called threading that no one has ever thought of before and introduces non-blocking async i/o. Wow this is sooo new and cool and writting it in javascript is a pleasure of all the languages.
Give the users what they want on the desktop. Give them what they loved about Windows 7 back and give it them for free. Maybe go so far as to offer a free copy of the previous version of Office to everyone who suffered through Windows 8.1 or 8.0.
Well if leaked screenshots of Windows 8.1 update 1 are true as well as the boot to desktop which every tech site but slashdot mentioned is coming I would say MS is doing just that.
AngelWZR leaked Windows 8.1 screenshots too before other betas hit the web and is fairly reputable. That screenshot looked almost identical to Windows 7 but with the metro apps acting like regular applications in it.
That would be pretty cool. Maybe then he'd also lobby for bringing back the non-retarded search interface from Win2k (that was available by a registry tweak in XP, byt not since).
You mean like hitting the Windows Key and typing whatever you want while the results come back instantly without that annoying dog diggings and taking a crap while c:\ is slowly indexed each and every time?
Could the second coming of Bill Gates be as monumentally transformative for MS as the second coming of Steve Jobs was for Apple? Or would it epically fail like most of Gates's attempts to be like Jobs? I doubt Gates would want to take that risk.
Why funny you should ask that.
As I will be the second in command I look forward to exciting times at Microsoft!
First things first yes I am better and my ego needs to be fed. I will do so by executing the following. Back in the good old days things worked best when I made them as proprietary as possible. I started making Xenix as non compatible as possible with Unix so the users can blame all the other unix vendors and programmers rather than me. I also had pure joy almost to an orgasmic sense with IE and using Word and Excel file formats as well to make them not work with anything else.
Balmer fucked up! First off IE works too well with standards recently. Before we know it we will have the communist and socialist unAmerican elements of the W3C tell us how to develop web pages!! Full alarm! Windows 7 just works and besides the gui in Windows 8 it is light and fast and can run on even a crappy ARM qualcomm very efficiently:-(
The next phase will introduce the following: 1. Documents will overwrite by default with autosave after each character. Grandma will appreciate this and we want to make this easy 2. No desktop. Multitasking is sooo 1990s. Multitasking in Metro will mean you need to go full screen and lose whatever you have in front of you and go closed door syndrome after ribbon. Since users only do one task at a time we will make Windows 9 have buttons where each ribbon should be and using rote memory will take up the whole screen and cover the document for each option etc. 3. IE will need to invent their own standards and stop supporting conditional statements for different browsers.:-( Webmasters how dare you write for other browsers! If you only wrote to our own DRM specificed CSS and XML (html is too opened) completed with binary encodings you will not have this problem. Webmasters you have a chose. 90% of all desktop users or socialist freeware browsers? I think you know which one you will choose.... and they tell me people use this foxfire thingie since I left CEO?! 4. Make word documents and our new language which is called C++ but will be totally different to encourage high cost and rewrites for porting mac and linux apps (sucks to be them hahah) used to make xml with binary encodings for internet pages. I mean executing code as administrator on all sites from God knows whom?? What could possible go wrong!!! 5. Man Windows was such as fine elegantly engineered and gorgeous product compared to the Mac back in the 1980s I could not possible see why no one would want to switch to this. I mean look at marketshare. I am sure the same truths hold sway today as people are gobling up Windows Phones and tablets because the brand is so well known. 6. Windows 9 certification will require signed operating systems and DRM executables to run. I can permit Linux apps if they are signed with the Windows Store and run as an applet in the new Metro 2.0 interface with HyperV. All the geeks on slashdot will be cheering and moaning my name for this. Just you see.
IE 4 - 6 were better browsers than NS 4. They were more standards compliant, faster, and stable.
Webmasters were the ones pushing IE 6. Ask any old timers? Shitty browsers were normal back around the turn of the century and people chose IE out of free will.
Your glasses are from 2014, not 1999 my friend. I tried to support NS out of principle but ancient IE was just better and supported Ajax and CSS hell of alot more.
By 2004 it was then a move towards standards and Firefox finally become a challenger.
If MS made a release every other year like they do now back then then IE would not be so reviled here. Rumor has it IE 6.5 had tabs and a download manager complete with tabs CSS shadows back in 2002!! MS killed it so they could sell Windows and the rest is history. All catch up now
Netscape 1 - 3 beat IE hands down. IE 4 - 6 beat Netscape hands down. IE 6 did not require all the hacks to get a webpage working like Netscape. No you did not misread that. Netscape and IE both did not follow standards and the QA cared more about rapid releasing than bug fixing rendering issues. Netscape was so bad you could not even use a damn hyperlink without a workaround with a href.
IE 6 won because it was the superior browser if you could believe that. It was not until Firefox 1.5 did anything come close to IE 6. It comes to show we came a long way since the 1990s and why mindspring and geocities had such awful simplistic website design. Anything beyond some tables would produce rendering bugs regardless of browser.
Also Vista made XP look rock solid and stable and turned them into fanboys. Before Vista no one loved XP. But once you read WIN 7 ==VISTA SP 3 on slashdot a million times over you make up your mind that Windows 7 MUST BE SOOO bloated and suck too.
Over the next sets of years you fear change and get used to XP like ITS THE BEST OS EVER and the world did not end for you sticking with what you know.
Now years later you see a cell phone OS which confirms your suspicions that MS MUST have lost it after XP?! After all why would they do this and after the ribbon which forces you to change over menus in the newer versions of office reconfirms your opinion that XP is the best OS out there after all these years yet again etc.
Amazing what FUD can do and also using a great product in the midst of it. XP was great compared to Windows 98 and ME in 2001. So now webmsters have to keep using hacks for IE 8 as a result. Sigh.
How can you do HTML 5 and CSS 3 and animations with progressive enhancements back to IE 6?
Lets say you made your site old fashioned HTML 4 with CSS 2.1 could IE 6 render it bug free without any problems as you add later CSS features for Chrome?
It is not possible unless it is a very simple test page. You always will need to write just for each version of ancient IE to make your boss happy and let things like HTML 5 and cool animations for your smartphone users only so to make that 6% happy.
I did not like the menus in office 2003 as things became nested and it kept taking up time and felt like Windows 8 closed door syndrome to use an advanced function.
It took a week to adjust and probably a month to get really proficient. Hit the alt key if you like shortcuts? See the numbers and letters? You can use the ribbon without a mouse for any function!
I also like the ribbon because I can visually see the changes before selecting. It is really handy when cutting and pasting from browsers and word as different styles get interpreted differently. I can preview just with a mouse hover etc.
Some old people though do not like change and I can understand. I am not saying this is all the case with the hate. But I am visual so to me it makes sense as I am not contextual. Some who are might have to re-adjust a lot harder.
People now use more features out of Office than before which means by all measures it is a success. It comes down to attitude to learn new things and realize not all change is bad. While I hate Metro, I do like the ribbon and view menus as old school and messy if you have too many fuctions. I do not want to go back in time and lock things the way they were.
Also, I cannot find a citation for the Mantle support and find it odd that an office app would support something like that anyway. Also, it's not a CPU acceleration feature like the summary claims, although it frees up CPU time as being architecture-specific it is a much slimmer API than DX/GL.
..."Finally, the Catalyst 14.1 driver is also the first HSA-enabled driver, which allows Kaveri APUs to intelligently cooperate with a GPU to share the workload. The only supporting applications listed by AMD at this time are LibreOffice v4.2.0.1+ and Core AfterShot Pro v1.2.0.6+, but it says more will come online soon."
This begs to differ if LibreOffice uses GPU directwrite or OpenGL and does it work on platforms than Windows. Of course this is not critical unless you do multimedia heavy presentations I am somewhat curious. I wonder if anyone who develops it can care to comment?
Also I use LibreOffice in conjunction with MS Office. I can't afford publisher and it is nice to use it to repair office documents that MS Office says are corrupt. This is a highly recommended upgrade even if you use MS Office full time.
Yea I was surprised to see a canvas-heavy app I'm writing is actually running faster in IE11 than in Chrome. My worldview was shattered and I was left despondent, my only choice - to sadly pick up the pieces and cut myself with them. These are my last words, my dying hope - that others will see my plight and be warned.
Be cheerful even if you hate IE. The more we can get corps to upgrade the more we can just write to standards. Starting with IE 9 MS really did try to say we are sorry and make up for it. IE 9 compared to Firefox 4 was a better browser but lacked a few things. A different world than IE 8 - 6.
IE 10 can crash but made it modern. IE 11 finally uses edge javascript but unfortunately it breaks many intranet corporate sites which rely on ancient non standard behavior and even public ones like Monster.com which uses jscript for its flash creation in which IE 11 is too standards complaint for it to work properly:-)
Less work for all of us if people at least ran a recent IE.
g.statcounter.com make sure you select North America as China is such a HUUGGEE outliner with IE 6 compared to every other country. However it produces results that conflict with everyone else such as Chrome #1 browser, while IE 8 is the worlds most popular browser according to netmarketshare and others.
Worse if these customers are vendors, suppliers, or retailers, then they also demand each B2B company to also use IE 6.
So now the trucking company has IE 6, supplier has IE 6, retailer has IE 6, and trucking company has IE 6. Now they have their other customers but ooops now these 4 or 5 companies that use IE 6 tell the others to use IE 6 etc.
The damn thing is a virus! Like herpes is spreads and even when they upgrade and appear to have the dinosuar behind it is still there if you peel deep within the skin as departments and individual workstations use it for that one app only 12 at the company use etc.
Windows 7 would have killed XP back in 2011 if it were not for this browser... you know the browser that was used and picked so to avoid vendor and platform lockin?! Turns out it created more lockin than XP itself.
Now is the time to put the javascript from IE6countdown to remind users to upgrade. Modify it so IE 7 displays the same message. Since XP is going EOL it is something their IT departments should be working on anyway.
I know it is about money and reaching out, but it is time to move on. You should be phasing out IE 8 as well as it is keeping HTML 5 out. Google docs no longer even works with that anymore and many other websites are leaving it out. Corps are being lazy because you enable them.
IE 9, 10, and 11 can run in IE 8 mode too FYI easily with a GPO push for particular site zones. Their IT departments are lazy.l
What I do mind is old IE and wanting that to go down to single digit marketshare.
Why can't we all have nice websites that look as good as your apps on your phone? IE the fact that users never ever upgrade!
Shit IE 8 is 5 years old now and we can't have HTML 5 outside our crappy tiny phones. Inexecusable. Let this dinosaur die and I hope the intranet developers die a horrible death who still do not know what ECMA script is and think Jscript is javascript.... and that statistic is BS. If IE 9 and early hits single digit it is time we stop making business sites that work in HTML 4 and CSS 2. They wont upgrade until websites stop working and websites wont stop working until users upgrade. Now it is 2014 and we are living 10 years in the past due to the same old BS.
Some games which were really slow on my system like Star Wars the old republic have improved in later patches as they now spread the tasks across all 6 cpu cores.
However there is lag sometimes when the cpu usage is at only 40%. This is because of synchronization between all the cores waiting on the other to finish something etc. That is one of the drawbacks of parallelization and why Intel's Itanium failed. Great for servers but anything where data needs to be exchanged between the different parts of the program via threads hits bottlenecks.
So the icore7 uses crazy mathematical algorithms to execute data before it even arrives to save bandwidth to get insane IPC which is why AMD can't compete. But if you have a heavily threaded app that is latency intensive like a game it can be choppy even with low cpu utilization.
MaximumPC paints this a little bit different. Where only lower end cpu's get a big boost in conjecture with higher end AMD cards.
I guess we will wait and see with benchmarks later today when 14.1 is released.
This is great news for those like me on older Phenom II 2.6 ghz systems who can afford to upgrade the ram, video card, and to an ssd but not the cpu without a whole damn new system. I use VMWare and this obsolete system has a 6 core cpu and hardware virtualization support. Otherwise I would upgrade but only an icore7 or higher end AMD FX-8350s have the same features for non gaming tasks. I can play Battlefiend 4 on this soon with high settings at 1080p would be great!
But it was. So too bad. The courts have ruled touch luck in such cases. While Oracle can certainly claim later versions are proprietary which are true it is not illegal to keep distributing older sources that have a more liberal license. Oracle lost the IP by open sourcing it if you ask any lawyer.... notice I did not say copyright. Just the IP part of sole ownership or patching.
The source code was freely available after the purchase by Oracle under a liberal license.
So sorry Oracle can claim later iterations are HANDS OFF, but patching open sourced software is not. The courts have ruled that open sourcing an app does indeed imply that people can alter and redistribute it under the original license.
Slashdot covered this last decade in another court case where a company bought an open sourced app and made it closed and tried to sue everyone into an oblivion. The court said NOPE you open sourced it.
So yes Oracle is acting hypocritical as OpenSolaris and its Express offspring were open sourced and yes it is no different than Redhat.
I was looking at MIPS specs for modern CPU's the other day.
Shoot the UltraSparcs are sooo behind it not even funny. Even with a 32 cpu system it barely is as fast as a 10 year old dual core because each core is 1999 era performance.
The only thing going for it is it has hardware based threading so if the system is overwhelmed it can still function unlike a x86 but still it is woefully in adaquite for all but I/O and nill cpu intensive tasks. I realize for a server it is I/O and not cpu as the limiting factor but still having 32 pentium II's vs a xeon with 12 cores all performing 900% faster makes the lintel/wintel a no brainer for 1/10th the cost.
Oracle is going to kill Solaris if it sticks with the outdated SPARC.
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Worse?!
Javascript is bad ass rockstart and webscale language. It invents this new thing called threading that no one has ever thought of before and introduces non-blocking async i/o. Wow this is sooo new and cool and writting it in javascript is a pleasure of all the languages.
But Node.js invented threading and is a webscale and a rockstar language!! non blocking async/IO was invented by javascript. I can get code and can piece it together in parts and run it in parallel. Amazing this was never invented before.
Give the users what they want on the desktop. Give them what they loved about Windows 7 back and give it them for free. Maybe go so far as to offer a free copy of the previous version of Office to everyone who suffered through Windows 8.1 or 8.0.
Well if leaked screenshots of Windows 8.1 update 1 are true as well as the boot to desktop which every tech site but slashdot mentioned is coming I would say MS is doing just that.
AngelWZR leaked Windows 8.1 screenshots too before other betas hit the web and is fairly reputable. That screenshot looked almost identical to Windows 7 but with the metro apps acting like regular applications in it.
Also he should bring back that Add Fonts dialog box that survived from Windows 3.1 to Windows 7. I have MINUTES invested in training on that dialog.
Sigh if only I had mod points on that one.
That would be pretty cool. Maybe then he'd also lobby for bringing back the non-retarded search interface from Win2k (that was available by a registry tweak in XP, byt not since).
You mean like hitting the Windows Key and typing whatever you want while the results come back instantly without that annoying dog diggings and taking a crap while c:\ is slowly indexed each and every time?
Could the second coming of Bill Gates be as monumentally transformative for MS as the second coming of Steve Jobs was for Apple? Or would it epically fail like most of Gates's attempts to be like Jobs? I doubt Gates would want to take that risk.
Why funny you should ask that.
As I will be the second in command I look forward to exciting times at Microsoft!
First things first yes I am better and my ego needs to be fed. I will do so by executing the following. Back in the good old days things worked best when I made them as proprietary as possible. I started making Xenix as non compatible as possible with Unix so the users can blame all the other unix vendors and programmers rather than me. I also had pure joy almost to an orgasmic sense with IE and using Word and Excel file formats as well to make them not work with anything else.
Balmer fucked up! First off IE works too well with standards recently. Before we know it we will have the communist and socialist unAmerican elements of the W3C tell us how to develop web pages!! Full alarm! Windows 7 just works and besides the gui in Windows 8 it is light and fast and can run on even a crappy ARM qualcomm very efficiently :-(
The next phase will introduce the following: :-( Webmasters how dare you write for other browsers! If you only wrote to our own DRM specificed CSS and XML (html is too opened) completed with binary encodings you will not have this problem. Webmasters you have a chose. 90% of all desktop users or socialist freeware browsers? I think you know which one you will choose. ... and they tell me people use this foxfire thingie since I left CEO?!
1. Documents will overwrite by default with autosave after each character. Grandma will appreciate this and we want to make this easy
2. No desktop. Multitasking is sooo 1990s. Multitasking in Metro will mean you need to go full screen and lose whatever you have in front of you and go closed door syndrome after ribbon. Since users only do one task at a time we will make Windows 9 have buttons where each ribbon should be and using rote memory will take up the whole screen and cover the document for each option etc.
3. IE will need to invent their own standards and stop supporting conditional statements for different browsers.
4. Make word documents and our new language which is called C++ but will be totally different to encourage high cost and rewrites for porting mac and linux apps (sucks to be them hahah) used to make xml with binary encodings for internet pages. I mean executing code as administrator on all sites from God knows whom?? What could possible go wrong!!!
5. Man Windows was such as fine elegantly engineered and gorgeous product compared to the Mac back in the 1980s I could not possible see why no one would want to switch to this. I mean look at marketshare. I am sure the same truths hold sway today as people are gobling up Windows Phones and tablets because the brand is so well known.
6. Windows 9 certification will require signed operating systems and DRM executables to run. I can permit Linux apps if they are signed with the Windows Store and run as an applet in the new Metro 2.0 interface with HyperV. All the geeks on slashdot will be cheering and moaning my name for this. Just you see.
Thanks for your interest.
IE 4 - 6 were better browsers than NS 4. They were more standards compliant, faster, and stable.
Webmasters were the ones pushing IE 6. Ask any old timers? Shitty browsers were normal back around the turn of the century and people chose IE out of free will.
Your glasses are from 2014, not 1999 my friend. I tried to support NS out of principle but ancient IE was just better and supported Ajax and CSS hell of alot more.
By 2004 it was then a move towards standards and Firefox finally become a challenger.
If MS made a release every other year like they do now back then then IE would not be so reviled here. Rumor has it IE 6.5 had tabs and a download manager complete with tabs CSS shadows back in 2002!! MS killed it so they could sell Windows and the rest is history. All catch up now
You how IE invented Ajax and CSS?
Netscape 1 - 3 beat IE hands down. IE 4 - 6 beat Netscape hands down. IE 6 did not require all the hacks to get a webpage working like Netscape. No you did not misread that. Netscape and IE both did not follow standards and the QA cared more about rapid releasing than bug fixing rendering issues. Netscape was so bad you could not even use a damn hyperlink without a workaround with a href.
IE 6 won because it was the superior browser if you could believe that. It was not until Firefox 1.5 did anything come close to IE 6. It comes to show we came a long way since the 1990s and why mindspring and geocities had such awful simplistic website design. Anything beyond some tables would produce rendering bugs regardless of browser.
People do not like change.
Also Vista made XP look rock solid and stable and turned them into fanboys. Before Vista no one loved XP. But once you read WIN 7 ==VISTA SP 3 on slashdot a million times over you make up your mind that Windows 7 MUST BE SOOO bloated and suck too.
Over the next sets of years you fear change and get used to XP like ITS THE BEST OS EVER and the world did not end for you sticking with what you know.
Now years later you see a cell phone OS which confirms your suspicions that MS MUST have lost it after XP?! After all why would they do this and after the ribbon which forces you to change over menus in the newer versions of office reconfirms your opinion that XP is the best OS out there after all these years yet again etc.
Amazing what FUD can do and also using a great product in the midst of it. XP was great compared to Windows 98 and ME in 2001. So now webmsters have to keep using hacks for IE 8 as a result. Sigh.
How can you do HTML 5 and CSS 3 and animations with progressive enhancements back to IE 6?
Lets say you made your site old fashioned HTML 4 with CSS 2.1 could IE 6 render it bug free without any problems as you add later CSS features for Chrome?
It is not possible unless it is a very simple test page. You always will need to write just for each version of ancient IE to make your boss happy and let things like HTML 5 and cool animations for your smartphone users only so to make that 6% happy.
I am in the minority here I guess.
I did not like the menus in office 2003 as things became nested and it kept taking up time and felt like Windows 8 closed door syndrome to use an advanced function.
It took a week to adjust and probably a month to get really proficient. Hit the alt key if you like shortcuts? See the numbers and letters? You can use the ribbon without a mouse for any function!
I also like the ribbon because I can visually see the changes before selecting. It is really handy when cutting and pasting from browsers and word as different styles get interpreted differently. I can preview just with a mouse hover etc.
Some old people though do not like change and I can understand. I am not saying this is all the case with the hate. But I am visual so to me it makes sense as I am not contextual. Some who are might have to re-adjust a lot harder.
People now use more features out of Office than before which means by all measures it is a success. It comes down to attitude to learn new things and realize not all change is bad. While I hate Metro, I do like the ribbon and view menus as old school and messy if you have too many fuctions. I do not want to go back in time and lock things the way they were.
Also, I cannot find a citation for the Mantle support and find it odd that an office app would support something like that anyway. Also, it's not a CPU acceleration feature like the summary claims, although it frees up CPU time as being architecture-specific it is a much slimmer API than DX/GL.
It is the second link from MaximumPC.
I submitted the story.
While ATI has listed LibreOffice for one of the few programs that use Mantle I can not find any other information on this?
This begs to differ if LibreOffice uses GPU directwrite or OpenGL and does it work on platforms than Windows. Of course this is not critical unless you do multimedia heavy presentations I am somewhat curious. I wonder if anyone who develops it can care to comment?
Also I use LibreOffice in conjunction with MS Office. I can't afford publisher and it is nice to use it to repair office documents that MS Office says are corrupt. This is a highly recommended upgrade even if you use MS Office full time.
It was made in reverse polish notation.
Yea I was surprised to see a canvas-heavy app I'm writing is actually running faster in IE11 than in Chrome. My worldview was shattered and I was left despondent, my only choice - to sadly pick up the pieces and cut myself with them. These are my last words, my dying hope - that others will see my plight and be warned.
Be cheerful even if you hate IE. The more we can get corps to upgrade the more we can just write to standards. Starting with IE 9 MS really did try to say we are sorry and make up for it. IE 9 compared to Firefox 4 was a better browser but lacked a few things. A different world than IE 8 - 6.
IE 10 can crash but made it modern. IE 11 finally uses edge javascript but unfortunately it breaks many intranet corporate sites which rely on ancient non standard behavior and even public ones like Monster.com which uses jscript for its flash creation in which IE 11 is too standards complaint for it to work properly :-)
Less work for all of us if people at least ran a recent IE.
g.statcounter.com make sure you select North America as China is such a HUUGGEE outliner with IE 6 compared to every other country. However it produces results that conflict with everyone else such as Chrome #1 browser, while IE 8 is the worlds most popular browser according to netmarketshare and others.
Worse if these customers are vendors, suppliers, or retailers, then they also demand each B2B company to also use IE 6.
So now the trucking company has IE 6, supplier has IE 6, retailer has IE 6, and trucking company has IE 6. Now they have their other customers but ooops now these 4 or 5 companies that use IE 6 tell the others to use IE 6 etc.
The damn thing is a virus! Like herpes is spreads and even when they upgrade and appear to have the dinosuar behind it is still there if you peel deep within the skin as departments and individual workstations use it for that one app only 12 at the company use etc.
Windows 7 would have killed XP back in 2011 if it were not for this browser ... you know the browser that was used and picked so to avoid vendor and platform lockin?! Turns out it created more lockin than XP itself.
Now is the time to put the javascript from IE6countdown to remind users to upgrade. Modify it so IE 7 displays the same message. Since XP is going EOL it is something their IT departments should be working on anyway.
Here is a link to show your boss about a website that finds it cheaper to pay users to upgrade rather than support IE 7. :-)
I know it is about money and reaching out, but it is time to move on. You should be phasing out IE 8 as well as it is keeping HTML 5 out. Google docs no longer even works with that anymore and many other websites are leaving it out. Corps are being lazy because you enable them.
IE 9, 10, and 11 can run in IE 8 mode too FYI easily with a GPO push for particular site zones. Their IT departments are lazy.l
I own a Windows Phone. Marketshare has doubled in North America late last year. In Italy and other countries it represents over 10% of the market!
With that said IE 10 mobile is a great standards compliant browser. It is the ancient IE's like 8 and 6 that have serious issues.
What I do mind is old IE and wanting that to go down to single digit marketshare.
Why can't we all have nice websites that look as good as your apps on your phone? IE the fact that users never ever upgrade!
Shit IE 8 is 5 years old now and we can't have HTML 5 outside our crappy tiny phones. Inexecusable. Let this dinosaur die and I hope the intranet developers die a horrible death who still do not know what ECMA script is and think Jscript is javascript. ... and that statistic is BS. If IE 9 and early hits single digit it is time we stop making business sites that work in HTML 4 and CSS 2. They wont upgrade until websites stop working and websites wont stop working until users upgrade. Now it is 2014 and we are living 10 years in the past due to the same old BS.
Some games which were really slow on my system like Star Wars the old republic have improved in later patches as they now spread the tasks across all 6 cpu cores.
However there is lag sometimes when the cpu usage is at only 40%. This is because of synchronization between all the cores waiting on the other to finish something etc. That is one of the drawbacks of parallelization and why Intel's Itanium failed. Great for servers but anything where data needs to be exchanged between the different parts of the program via threads hits bottlenecks.
So the icore7 uses crazy mathematical algorithms to execute data before it even arrives to save bandwidth to get insane IPC which is why AMD can't compete. But if you have a heavily threaded app that is latency intensive like a game it can be choppy even with low cpu utilization.
MaximumPC paints this a little bit different. Where only lower end cpu's get a big boost in conjecture with higher end AMD cards.
I guess we will wait and see with benchmarks later today when 14.1 is released.
This is great news for those like me on older Phenom II 2.6 ghz systems who can afford to upgrade the ram, video card, and to an ssd but not the cpu without a whole damn new system. I use VMWare and this obsolete system has a 6 core cpu and hardware virtualization support. Otherwise I would upgrade but only an icore7 or higher end AMD FX-8350s have the same features for non gaming tasks. I can play Battlefiend 4 on this soon with high settings at 1080p would be great!
But it was. So too bad. The courts have ruled touch luck in such cases. While Oracle can certainly claim later versions are proprietary which are true it is not illegal to keep distributing older sources that have a more liberal license. Oracle lost the IP by open sourcing it if you ask any lawyer. ... notice I did not say copyright. Just the IP part of sole ownership or patching.
The source code was freely available after the purchase by Oracle under a liberal license.
So sorry Oracle can claim later iterations are HANDS OFF, but patching open sourced software is not. The courts have ruled that open sourcing an app does indeed imply that people can alter and redistribute it under the original license.
Slashdot covered this last decade in another court case where a company bought an open sourced app and made it closed and tried to sue everyone into an oblivion. The court said NOPE you open sourced it.
So yes Oracle is acting hypocritical as OpenSolaris and its Express offspring were open sourced and yes it is no different than Redhat.
I was looking at MIPS specs for modern CPU's the other day.
Shoot the UltraSparcs are sooo behind it not even funny. Even with a 32 cpu system it barely is as fast as a 10 year old dual core because each core is 1999 era performance.
The only thing going for it is it has hardware based threading so if the system is overwhelmed it can still function unlike a x86 but still it is woefully in adaquite for all but I/O and nill cpu intensive tasks. I realize for a server it is I/O and not cpu as the limiting factor but still having 32 pentium II's vs a xeon with 12 cores all performing 900% faster makes the lintel/wintel a no brainer for 1/10th the cost.
Oracle is going to kill Solaris if it sticks with the outdated SPARC.