Windows Vista was a large rewrite. I wonder how much code percentage was from XP is even still there?
My guess is Microsoft wanted to be the first to include DRM at the driver level and come out with software audio and nice but crippled aero graphics. The move was to have hollywood ditch the macs for the pc. They are big enough where they can write their own kernels.
Windows 7 is not that bad as much of the older XP code was removed from Vista which slowed it down. It is more pure and its kernel is smaller and more modularized. It is not ideological more than practical to have full control and know how it works. MS is starting over and the compatibility is left for the "run as is" where Windows loads up old dll files from Windows old but they are only linking to that one program that needs it. Kind of semi virtual there
IIS a decade ago was TERRIBLE. It had more security holes than swiss cheese. IIS 3 and 4 tarnished its image for the poor saps who had to use it over Apache/Unix. However, under the same token many Linux users love to bash rpm files just because Redhat did a terrible job implementing dependencies a decade ago too even though with YUM rpms are superior to.deb files with apt-get. These people do not forgive past mistakes easily.
Powershell stems from the problem that not everything is a file. However, it is sweet to use the.NET framework. At that point that you might as well whip a whole program out. In Unix you can parse processes, logs, and system config files because everything is a file and can be run from the command line. In Windows it uses the horrible registry and you have to interface with WMI (I assume I never used powershell) with some.NET api, and programs do not leave text files for configuration. In Unix you run a shell script with awk or sed or even Perl if it is a newer script and could take care of most anything. That makes it rock for a server.
Windows search was crap under Vista. It kept killing my battery life and used a ton of disk usage on my old Toshiba with a 4200 RPM drive. I had to disable it regardless of the features it provided. Windows 7 seems much better but the bashing for it is much deserved unless MS did a whole rewipe of it. I use a fast desktop with Windows 7 so I do not know.
I wrote a post bashing Linux saying Windows 7 is better for desktops so I am not taking either side other than pointing out the pros and cons of both. I agree with you with UAC and remote management. But Windows does have its downsides and the only good thing going for it as a server is active directory. It is not bad but just not as good as Linux in my opinion for I.T. professionals.
How is hardware acceleration on Firefox 4? I was dissapointed in Firefox 4 in Linux. In Windows Firefox 4 is an improvement but the graphics seem to stutter more than IE 9. Firefox admitted not all of the HTML components are running in hardware yet. Hopefully 5 will fix that.
Anyway I assumed openGL or the lack of was the problem and the Mac would be an issue
Windows is very rock solid. It is no longer the POS it once was. I recently wiped Linux off my system and switched to Windows because of bugs as well as Chrome and Firefox sucking goatballs on it.
Linux is a reliable server and the kernel stays up but X, my ATI drivers, Gnome, and web browsers are buggy and unreliable. Firefox 4 sucks on Linux and is why. Go to www.msnbc.com under Windows 7 with Firefox 4 or Chrome? Now do the same under Linux? My 3 year old laptop freezes up on it now.
If you can think of an OS that is as stable (user app wise) then please tell.
The Japanese mentioned they have special filters to clean out water before it is released back into the environment from the Taurus. Is there a way to do this?
A desktop does not even need a quadcore for good performance. Let alone a cell phone??
I have a 6 core system that I am typing this on and it feels like a waste of money. Try I can launch an instance of Linux on Virtualbox that takes 2 cpus and I still have 4 left and I still have Word, World of Warcraft, Firefox, Eclipse, and Chrome open. World of Warcraft only uses 2 cpus as do all the games so not even gamers need this. I am atypical but if I could survive on 2cpu system if I did not have virtualbox and could run many apps with ease.
Infact, I remember running Linux on an old 1 cpu system and could still listen to music on 100% cpu utilization. How? Os kernels today do a great job of multitasking. 1 cpu can easily handle 4 threads. I prefer a 1 cpu phone because of battery life. It is not like I am going to run 15 - 20 applets at once. Only one cap appear on the screen at a time. The most I have open on my andriod phone are 5.
UPDATE: I have an old laptop 2007 era but it has 3d acceleration enabled. I have to say Firefox 4 for Linux is mediocre and lacks hardware acceleration. Chrome is smooth in comparison on Fedora Linux 13 when browsing slashdot. I go to www.msnbc.com which has huge javascript and graphics. I went into about:config with Firefox and enabled WebGL and it made it slower?.
Ok so maybe you are right with Firefox4 but it is an improvement over 3.6 on Windows. I wonder how the MacOSX version is? I may stick with IE 9 and Chrome.
Firefox 4 is quite an improvement on my Windows 7 workstation over Firefox 3. There is always Chrome as well which is multiplatform and webkit based. I have not tested it on Linux yet but I am about too. Hardware acceleration is nice. Launch times are fast and tomshardware.com benchmarked IE 9 vs Firefox 3 and while IE looked better with 3 or 4 tabs the situation changes when all the tabs are maxed with heavy duty pages. Firefox had less bloat and memory usage
I am thinking it might be the newest cool thing to use that all the developers would want to use. It would help stop giving mono a bad name. I mean who wouldn't want to write an app once and run it anywhere! Hmm this sounds familiar?
Anyway, it is not cheap as another poster pointed out at $1,000 for just the compiler and more for Visual Studio plugins. Most apps never make money so hobbiests such as myself will keep using Eclipse and Google's free SDKs. While Iphone hackers will just pay $100 for Xcode.
If people did not prefer free maybe there could be a market for these tools but $2,99 at the most would mean you would need to sell hundreds if not thousands of apps just to break even to cover the costs of the tools.
Then it should be a beta or release candidate version. It feels rushed ala GnomeVista where they dick around for a long time trying to make the coolest up to date environment but never take it seriously. Then all of the sudden they try to rush to make it usable at the last minute. Sure Windows Vista had cool new features but overall the big picture was lost that had to be fixed with Windows 7.
I played with the beta version on Fedora 15 and let me tell you it is getting more useful by the day with rapid advances to fine touch it.
Gnome shell looked cool and I liked a few things about it but like Gnome 2 it lacked applets and the fine touches.
I think Redhat/Fedora and Ubuntu need to include a gnome 2 for now and wait until Gnome 3.1 or 3.2 until it catches up replacing what was lost. Overall it feels more like a tablet or smarphone UI and the number of mouse clicks and all the great usability studies donated by Sun were simply thrown out..
It would be cool if Android includes Java 7 lambda so more languages could be ported. Python is not officially supported but is a hack of Jython as it runs unmodified on android. Any app would have to include it to run.
They both glow goatballs with beautiful eye candy.
I am surprised KDe 3 didn't fork. For the survival of Linux on the desktop gnome 2.x needs to fork. Do not get me wrong I like the architectural changes and the more modern look to bring on par with MacOSX and Windows Vista/7. But Gnome through out all the free usability lab studies donated by Sun by overhealing it. What a shame.
You need less mouse clicks and not more. You have to click all over to do something simple like switch the windows pager. Opening an app you need to click several times to find it. Under gnome 2.x you select a menu and click on it. Maybe later versions of Gnome 3 will do this but for now it seems very alpha proof of concept framework but no real substance.
Gnome shell and Trinity both look like a cell phone or Tablet OS rather than a desktop.
The problem is HR needs you to have experience with Adobe products or your resume is thrown in the trash. Gimp who what??
I am starting a business and I hate and oppose piracy. I feel terrible and hypocritical owning a cracked version of Dreamweaver but I need experience in using it in order to not starve. I could try to use Vi and firebug only but if my business fails (90% chance it will, given statistics) then I need to have experience to fall back on. I could use paint.net and get away and *lie* about using photoshop (dishonest as well), but Illustrator is not something you can make up or do without if your future employer sits you in front of a mac with it and says do this by 12:00???
I am praying for the adoption of html 5 so we can get rid of flash. THis has hurt my ability to earn a living as a web programmer simply because all candidates pirate it and learn it that way and it is a job requirement now to have x years of experience using it for non flash sites. I believe free alternatives are the answer to piracy. Remember people pirating Oracle 12 years ago? How about today? Zelch. People use Mysql now. Also it frees us from Windows to use non propriteary alternatives. But nothing exists that is similiar to Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Gimp frankly sucks. Paint.net is promising but it shows how incompatible Mono is with.NET as it can not be ported to Linux easily.
Sure Sun made some money for a little while. Meanwhile in the end Microsoft and Linux killed it. Meego might be Linux.
When greed of mega telecoms and phone makers get in they will kill the whole market for a bigger slice of the pie and end up destroying the pie all together.
With AT&T's network they install the AT&T map apps. How they make money is if you click on it it will tell you that your phone can't do maps or GPS. BUt do not worry AT&T can fix that for $10/month to your phone bill for 2 years. Most people click on it not knowing about the Google apps and AT&T makes $240 from it. WOW
Can the newer browsers security features that check XSS help? My parents computer still uses Firefox 3.x and they get a weird spyware bar installed that an anti virus program caught. I wonder if this has anything to do with that
The PS3 is catching up. I laugh at Kinetics and Sony's version of the wiimote as cheap knockoffs.
But again I am a nintendo kid of the 80s and 90s so that is where my loyalties lie. It has games for everyone and is playable for more than the just click buttons faster market that Sony makes games for.
Reading this I feel the US is going to have some revolts very soon.
In America we are technically still better but we are falling very very fast. In China the country is much poorer but they rising and getting better. If wages fall people protest and the problems at home are always the issue that drives people first regardless if the government is a democracy or a dictatorship.
I am not a tea partier or anyone who hates Obama, but how many banks will we keep bailing out, how many more jobs must we outsource, how many more social services do we have to keep cutting. The unemployed and underemployed will have enough sooner or later.
I feel if the opportunity arouse for people to protest you could bet millions would join.
The problem at the plant is the extreme pressure in the reactors from the boiled water. Gravity might not be enough to let the water in. If you release the pressure then more water boils away making the problem worse. I am not a nuclear engineer but I assume you can never let the pressure reach 0 or sea level as the water would instantly boil away and create more steam pressure.
Deep sea vents have hot water over 600 Fahrenheit that stay in liquid form. I assume the reactors coolant stays liquid at this temperature by pressure.
They found no evidence of cracks. The company claims possible condensation is the cause of the water. Or maybe some of the pipes leading out of the reactor are leaking with cracked joints
With the American tax code taxing 35% of all profits it is no wonder why these American companies with mountains of cash want to invest in R&D rather than let it sit in Asian or Swiss vaults.
Maybe if we did not have such high taxes more science and R&D could be done in America.
"Dude, OS X gives you access to great development tools (XCode, Pixelmator, Adobe CS"
I can tell the guy that complained about MacOSX is not a real web developer... or a good one. In this day and age developers need IDEs to test out CSS. Dreamweaver is nice. Not to mention how do you test IE?
Infact, I just uninstalled Fedora on this machine and switched back to Windows. I was tired of running Dreamweaver in a VM in Fedora. I tried doing development with just Eclipse, postgresql, mysql, and Drupal. But that is only part of it.
To me its easier to run that on the backend with a Vm in Windows or MacOSX rather than vice versa.
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That left out ... the system came with Norton Anti Virus 2008 30 day trail so its secure
Windows Vista was a large rewrite. I wonder how much code percentage was from XP is even still there?
My guess is Microsoft wanted to be the first to include DRM at the driver level and come out with software audio and nice but crippled aero graphics. The move was to have hollywood ditch the macs for the pc. They are big enough where they can write their own kernels.
Windows 7 is not that bad as much of the older XP code was removed from Vista which slowed it down. It is more pure and its kernel is smaller and more modularized. It is not ideological more than practical to have full control and know how it works. MS is starting over and the compatibility is left for the "run as is" where Windows loads up old dll files from Windows old but they are only linking to that one program that needs it. Kind of semi virtual there
IIS a decade ago was TERRIBLE. It had more security holes than swiss cheese. IIS 3 and 4 tarnished its image for the poor saps who had to use it over Apache/Unix. However, under the same token many Linux users love to bash rpm files just because Redhat did a terrible job implementing dependencies a decade ago too even though with YUM rpms are superior to .deb files with apt-get. These people do not forgive past mistakes easily.
Powershell stems from the problem that not everything is a file. However, it is sweet to use the .NET framework. At that point that you might as well whip a whole program out. In Unix you can parse processes, logs, and system config files because everything is a file and can be run from the command line. In Windows it uses the horrible registry and you have to interface with WMI (I assume I never used powershell) with some .NET api, and programs do not leave text files for configuration. In Unix you run a shell script with awk or sed or even Perl if it is a newer script and could take care of most anything. That makes it rock for a server.
Windows search was crap under Vista. It kept killing my battery life and used a ton of disk usage on my old Toshiba with a 4200 RPM drive. I had to disable it regardless of the features it provided. Windows 7 seems much better but the bashing for it is much deserved unless MS did a whole rewipe of it. I use a fast desktop with Windows 7 so I do not know.
I wrote a post bashing Linux saying Windows 7 is better for desktops so I am not taking either side other than pointing out the pros and cons of both. I agree with you with UAC and remote management. But Windows does have its downsides and the only good thing going for it as a server is active directory. It is not bad but just not as good as Linux in my opinion for I.T. professionals.
How is hardware acceleration on Firefox 4? I was dissapointed in Firefox 4 in Linux. In Windows Firefox 4 is an improvement but the graphics seem to stutter more than IE 9. Firefox admitted not all of the HTML components are running in hardware yet. Hopefully 5 will fix that.
Anyway I assumed openGL or the lack of was the problem and the Mac would be an issue
Windows is very rock solid. It is no longer the POS it once was. I recently wiped Linux off my system and switched to Windows because of bugs as well as Chrome and Firefox sucking goatballs on it.
Linux is a reliable server and the kernel stays up but X, my ATI drivers, Gnome, and web browsers are buggy and unreliable. Firefox 4 sucks on Linux and is why. Go to www.msnbc.com under Windows 7 with Firefox 4 or Chrome? Now do the same under Linux? My 3 year old laptop freezes up on it now.
If you can think of an OS that is as stable (user app wise) then please tell.
The Japanese mentioned they have special filters to clean out water before it is released back into the environment from the Taurus. Is there a way to do this?
A desktop does not even need a quadcore for good performance. Let alone a cell phone??
I have a 6 core system that I am typing this on and it feels like a waste of money. Try I can launch an instance of Linux on Virtualbox that takes 2 cpus and I still have 4 left and I still have Word, World of Warcraft, Firefox, Eclipse, and Chrome open. World of Warcraft only uses 2 cpus as do all the games so not even gamers need this. I am atypical but if I could survive on 2cpu system if I did not have virtualbox and could run many apps with ease.
Infact, I remember running Linux on an old 1 cpu system and could still listen to music on 100% cpu utilization. How? Os kernels today do a great job of multitasking. 1 cpu can easily handle 4 threads. I prefer a 1 cpu phone because of battery life. It is not like I am going to run 15 - 20 applets at once. Only one cap appear on the screen at a time. The most I have open on my andriod phone are 5.
UPDATE:
I have an old laptop 2007 era but it has 3d acceleration enabled. I have to say Firefox 4 for Linux is mediocre and lacks hardware acceleration. Chrome is smooth in comparison on Fedora Linux 13 when browsing slashdot. I go to www.msnbc.com which has huge javascript and graphics. I went into about:config with Firefox and enabled WebGL and it made it slower?.
Ok so maybe you are right with Firefox4 but it is an improvement over 3.6 on Windows. I wonder how the MacOSX version is? I may stick with IE 9 and Chrome.
Firefox 4 is quite an improvement on my Windows 7 workstation over Firefox 3. There is always Chrome as well which is multiplatform and webkit based. I have not tested it on Linux yet but I am about too. Hardware acceleration is nice. Launch times are fast and tomshardware.com benchmarked IE 9 vs Firefox 3 and while IE looked better with 3 or 4 tabs the situation changes when all the tabs are maxed with heavy duty pages. Firefox had less bloat and memory usage
I am thinking it might be the newest cool thing to use that all the developers would want to use. It would help stop giving mono a bad name. I mean who wouldn't want to write an app once and run it anywhere! Hmm this sounds familiar?
Anyway, it is not cheap as another poster pointed out at $1,000 for just the compiler and more for Visual Studio plugins. Most apps never make money so hobbiests such as myself will keep using Eclipse and Google's free SDKs. While Iphone hackers will just pay $100 for Xcode.
If people did not prefer free maybe there could be a market for these tools but $2,99 at the most would mean you would need to sell hundreds if not thousands of apps just to break even to cover the costs of the tools.
Then it should be a beta or release candidate version. It feels rushed ala GnomeVista where they dick around for a long time trying to make the coolest up to date environment but never take it seriously. Then all of the sudden they try to rush to make it usable at the last minute. Sure Windows Vista had cool new features but overall the big picture was lost that had to be fixed with Windows 7.
I played with the beta version on Fedora 15 and let me tell you it is getting more useful by the day with rapid advances to fine touch it.
Gnome shell looked cool and I liked a few things about it but like Gnome 2 it lacked applets and the fine touches.
I think Redhat/Fedora and Ubuntu need to include a gnome 2 for now and wait until Gnome 3.1 or 3.2 until it catches up replacing what was lost. Overall it feels more like a tablet or smarphone UI and the number of mouse clicks and all the great usability studies donated by Sun were simply thrown out..
Google released C and C++ tools as well.
It would be cool if Android includes Java 7 lambda so more languages could be ported. Python is not officially supported but is a hack of Jython as it runs unmodified on android. Any app would have to include it to run.
They both glow goatballs with beautiful eye candy.
I am surprised KDe 3 didn't fork. For the survival of Linux on the desktop gnome 2.x needs to fork. Do not get me wrong I like the architectural changes and the more modern look to bring on par with MacOSX and Windows Vista/7. But Gnome through out all the free usability lab studies donated by Sun by overhealing it. What a shame.
You need less mouse clicks and not more. You have to click all over to do something simple like switch the windows pager. Opening an app you need to click several times to find it. Under gnome 2.x you select a menu and click on it. Maybe later versions of Gnome 3 will do this but for now it seems very alpha proof of concept framework but no real substance.
Gnome shell and Trinity both look like a cell phone or Tablet OS rather than a desktop.
The problem is HR needs you to have experience with Adobe products or your resume is thrown in the trash. Gimp who what??
I am starting a business and I hate and oppose piracy. I feel terrible and hypocritical owning a cracked version of Dreamweaver but I need experience in using it in order to not starve. I could try to use Vi and firebug only but if my business fails (90% chance it will, given statistics) then I need to have experience to fall back on. I could use paint.net and get away and *lie* about using photoshop (dishonest as well), but Illustrator is not something you can make up or do without if your future employer sits you in front of a mac with it and says do this by 12:00???
I am praying for the adoption of html 5 so we can get rid of flash. THis has hurt my ability to earn a living as a web programmer simply because all candidates pirate it and learn it that way and it is a job requirement now to have x years of experience using it for non flash sites. I believe free alternatives are the answer to piracy. Remember people pirating Oracle 12 years ago? How about today? Zelch. People use Mysql now. Also it frees us from Windows to use non propriteary alternatives. But nothing exists that is similiar to Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Gimp frankly sucks. Paint.net is promising but it shows how incompatible Mono is with .NET as it can not be ported to Linux easily.
A better example would be Unix.
Sure Sun made some money for a little while. Meanwhile in the end Microsoft and Linux killed it. Meego might be Linux.
When greed of mega telecoms and phone makers get in they will kill the whole market for a bigger slice of the pie and end up destroying the pie all together.
With AT&T's network they install the AT&T map apps. How they make money is if you click on it it will tell you that your phone can't do maps or GPS. BUt do not worry AT&T can fix that for $10/month to your phone bill for 2 years. Most people click on it not knowing about the Google apps and AT&T makes $240 from it. WOW
In the theaters I laughed when he ran top and I saw XOrg running from the 1986 computer. HA.
Try running that on a machine from 2004 and see how much resources it eats up.
Can the newer browsers security features that check XSS help? My parents computer still uses Firefox 3.x and they get a weird spyware bar installed that an anti virus program caught. I wonder if this has anything to do with that
Wii has more marketshare than anyone else.
The PS3 is catching up. I laugh at Kinetics and Sony's version of the wiimote as cheap knockoffs.
But again I am a nintendo kid of the 80s and 90s so that is where my loyalties lie. It has games for everyone and is playable for more than the just click buttons faster market that Sony makes games for.
Reading this I feel the US is going to have some revolts very soon.
In America we are technically still better but we are falling very very fast. In China the country is much poorer but they rising and getting better. If wages fall people protest and the problems at home are always the issue that drives people first regardless if the government is a democracy or a dictatorship.
I am not a tea partier or anyone who hates Obama, but how many banks will we keep bailing out, how many more jobs must we outsource, how many more social services do we have to keep cutting. The unemployed and underemployed will have enough sooner or later.
I feel if the opportunity arouse for people to protest you could bet millions would join.
The problem at the plant is the extreme pressure in the reactors from the boiled water. Gravity might not be enough to let the water in. If you release the pressure then more water boils away making the problem worse. I am not a nuclear engineer but I assume you can never let the pressure reach 0 or sea level as the water would instantly boil away and create more steam pressure.
Deep sea vents have hot water over 600 Fahrenheit that stay in liquid form. I assume the reactors coolant stays liquid at this temperature by pressure.
They found no evidence of cracks. The company claims possible condensation is the cause of the water. Or maybe some of the pipes leading out of the reactor are leaking with cracked joints
No it done not survive. The reactors initially but not the backup power units or the wiring. It failed.
With the American tax code taxing 35% of all profits it is no wonder why these American companies with mountains of cash want to invest in R&D rather than let it sit in Asian or Swiss vaults.
Maybe if we did not have such high taxes more science and R&D could be done in America.
"Dude, OS X gives you access to great development tools (XCode, Pixelmator, Adobe CS"
I can tell the guy that complained about MacOSX is not a real web developer ... or a good one. In this day and age developers need IDEs to test out CSS. Dreamweaver is nice. Not to mention how do you test IE?
Infact, I just uninstalled Fedora on this machine and switched back to Windows. I was tired of running Dreamweaver in a VM in Fedora. I tried doing development with just Eclipse, postgresql, mysql, and Drupal. But that is only part of it.
To me its easier to run that on the backend with a Vm in Windows or MacOSX rather than vice versa.