are you seriously surprised by this? The PC industry has spent years and countless man hours making things easy to use, yet still powerful for users like us to do whatever we want with the tech. Then comes along apple and tells us that the great progress we've made is all worth shit, we need isolated apps and don't need to interconnect any which device we want, who needs that stuff? And the general population eats it up like its a free krsipy kreme donut! Sure apple perfected the touchscreen and snazzy animations, but I can't help but think they've set us back so far in terms of computing advancement, and will remain that way so long as their app store model maintains a foothold.
you realize that pressing Alt brings the full menu back into view right? and you can easily make it stay there permanently if you wanted to. I see no reason to keep it in the default view to take up screen real estate when most people use it so rarely.
Normally I would agree, the graphics card should be able to handle anything that is thrown at it, but there is something to this story. I have a radeon 4850 with one of these zalman coolers on it http://www.quietpcusa.com/images/vf1000-led.jpg and my case is big with lots of cooling. I have used this exact same configuration to play countless games over the last year, including MW2, BC2, etc. and never had a single crash. But now my system is crashing at the SC2 menus. My brother's machine is doing the exact same thing. Perhaps because the rendering is so simple, it's causing the card to go faster than the designers intended, causing extreme heat in one specific part of the pipeline. Anyhow, the fix mentioned in the article does solve the problem for me.
I'm posting from win3.1 because it uses so much less resources it is so much faster!
Even if you use contemporary hardware. I fired up an old Win95 box a few months ago, and was startled by how much more responsive it was compared to the modern WinXP system I use at work. We've all been given the frog-in-pot-of-water treatment, learning to expect gradually more sluggish UIs.
We're you also startled at how primitive it was? Sure the basics of launching programs has remained the same, but virtually everything else besides that has gotten better, both in the guts and on the interface. You can't do all those nifty new things and expect things not to use more resources and not slow down at all. You take advantage of the hardware you have afforded to you and I believe modern operating systems do just that.
The real reason why things feel sluggish at times is because most people are still using mechanical hard disks and they are the one single component that has not advanced nearly as fast as all the other components of a PC. Switch to an SSD and come back and talk to me about responsiveness.
This is a perfect example of what Linus described in a previous article about why Linux on the Desktop is failing. "better is worse if it's different." Just reading through this article it's very clear how stuck in his ways Bennett really is. By his own admission, nothing was fundamentally wrong with Vista in his experience, just that things were different from what he was used to.
Virtual PC runs just fine on Vista Home Premium edition. You just get nag boxes coming up telling you that it's unsupported, but it works just fine.
What crack are you smoking? With every release of windows that i can remember, it always requires a relatively beefy computer to run well. XP was no exception. Are you not remembering what kind of computers we had back in 2001?
It never ceases to amaze me how bad most people are at accurately remembering events, especially when it comes to time related functions like: speed, total time spent, etc.
My favorite is asking most people how long their commute is. most people will report it as 60-70% of what it actually is. Either they forget to include the parts at the beginning or end of their trip (ie. walking out the door, getting to the parking lot/bus station, traveling side streets, etc) or they lie to themselves to stay sane.
Are you kidding me? I am by no means suggesting that software is perfect and couldn't be a little tighter these days, but how can you honestly say that there have been no useful features added to windows since 3.1??!? This means one of two things, 1) that you are just dying for attention on slashdot because your comments are full of crap, or 2) you have no idea how to use a computer, or what useful things you can do with it. If you are really still using windows 3.1 on a 486 (which I highly doubt you are), please continue to do so, and stop complaining.
You don't have very creative uses for your PC do you?
The fact of the matter is, dual core processors help tremendously in many scenarios. Why should I wait while my 1 hour miniDV video is being transferred to my PC sucking up 10-15% CPU, when I can play a game during that time and not notice the slightest slowdown? How about those instances when I'm developing, compiling my app and my whole (single CPU) system slows down to a crawl... gone are those days with dual core. You have obviously never used a dual-CPU system for any extended period of time, otherwise you would not be saying such foolish things.
And which computer these days has only 1 optical drive? Even the cheap emachines from 4 years ago came with a DVD-ROM and CD-RW.
Why the recompile? How about Add in module, and go!.. sounds much better to me. If it's meant to be easy, there will be no recompiling at all.
I know this is off-topic, but one of the things that hardly ever gets mentioned in the windows and unix arguments is how well windows does at backwards compatibility. Granted, there are a few apps that are a pain in the ass to get to work, but overall almost any windows program will work on any windows version, and there is no recompiling ever! With linux distro's, virtually every time a new version of the distro is released, you have to either get a newly built rpm (or other similar packaging system), or recompile from the sources.. it just has to end, too much time is wasted trying to get programs up and running.
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are you seriously surprised by this? The PC industry has spent years and countless man hours making things easy to use, yet still powerful for users like us to do whatever we want with the tech. Then comes along apple and tells us that the great progress we've made is all worth shit, we need isolated apps and don't need to interconnect any which device we want, who needs that stuff? And the general population eats it up like its a free krsipy kreme donut! Sure apple perfected the touchscreen and snazzy animations, but I can't help but think they've set us back so far in terms of computing advancement, and will remain that way so long as their app store model maintains a foothold.
you realize that pressing Alt brings the full menu back into view right? and you can easily make it stay there permanently if you wanted to. I see no reason to keep it in the default view to take up screen real estate when most people use it so rarely.
I vacuum and dust my case frequently, probably once a month. It's pristine inside.
Normally I would agree, the graphics card should be able to handle anything that is thrown at it, but there is something to this story. I have a radeon 4850 with one of these zalman coolers on it http://www.quietpcusa.com/images/vf1000-led.jpg and my case is big with lots of cooling. I have used this exact same configuration to play countless games over the last year, including MW2, BC2, etc. and never had a single crash. But now my system is crashing at the SC2 menus. My brother's machine is doing the exact same thing. Perhaps because the rendering is so simple, it's causing the card to go faster than the designers intended, causing extreme heat in one specific part of the pipeline. Anyhow, the fix mentioned in the article does solve the problem for me.
Even if you use contemporary hardware. I fired up an old Win95 box a few months ago, and was startled by how much more responsive it was compared to the modern WinXP system I use at work. We've all been given the frog-in-pot-of-water treatment, learning to expect gradually more sluggish UIs.
We're you also startled at how primitive it was? Sure the basics of launching programs has remained the same, but virtually everything else besides that has gotten better, both in the guts and on the interface. You can't do all those nifty new things and expect things not to use more resources and not slow down at all. You take advantage of the hardware you have afforded to you and I believe modern operating systems do just that.
The real reason why things feel sluggish at times is because most people are still using mechanical hard disks and they are the one single component that has not advanced nearly as fast as all the other components of a PC. Switch to an SSD and come back and talk to me about responsiveness.
This is a perfect example of what Linus described in a previous article about why Linux on the Desktop is failing. "better is worse if it's different." Just reading through this article it's very clear how stuck in his ways Bennett really is. By his own admission, nothing was fundamentally wrong with Vista in his experience, just that things were different from what he was used to.
Virtual PC runs just fine on Vista Home Premium edition. You just get nag boxes coming up telling you that it's unsupported, but it works just fine.
What crack are you smoking? With every release of windows that i can remember, it always requires a relatively beefy computer to run well. XP was no exception. Are you not remembering what kind of computers we had back in 2001?
It never ceases to amaze me how bad most people are at accurately remembering events, especially when it comes to time related functions like: speed, total time spent, etc.
My favorite is asking most people how long their commute is. most people will report it as 60-70% of what it actually is. Either they forget to include the parts at the beginning or end of their trip (ie. walking out the door, getting to the parking lot/bus station, traveling side streets, etc) or they lie to themselves to stay sane.
lol the razor blade part made me laugh ... I remember my hands getting cut to shreds back in the day .. the most frustrating thing ever.
Are you kidding me? I am by no means suggesting that software is perfect and couldn't be a little tighter these days, but how can you honestly say that there have been no useful features added to windows since 3.1??!? This means one of two things, 1) that you are just dying for attention on slashdot because your comments are full of crap, or 2) you have no idea how to use a computer, or what useful things you can do with it. If you are really still using windows 3.1 on a 486 (which I highly doubt you are), please continue to do so, and stop complaining.
You don't have very creative uses for your PC do you?
... gone are those days with dual core. You have obviously never used a dual-CPU system for any extended period of time, otherwise you would not be saying such foolish things.
The fact of the matter is, dual core processors help tremendously in many scenarios. Why should I wait while my 1 hour miniDV video is being transferred to my PC sucking up 10-15% CPU, when I can play a game during that time and not notice the slightest slowdown? How about those instances when I'm developing, compiling my app and my whole (single CPU) system slows down to a crawl
And which computer these days has only 1 optical drive? Even the cheap emachines from 4 years ago came with a DVD-ROM and CD-RW.
Why the recompile? How about Add in module, and go! .. sounds much better to me. If it's meant to be easy, there will be no recompiling at all.
.. it just has to end, too much time is wasted trying to get programs up and running.
I know this is off-topic, but one of the things that hardly ever gets mentioned in the windows and unix arguments is how well windows does at backwards compatibility. Granted, there are a few apps that are a pain in the ass to get to work, but overall almost any windows program will work on any windows version, and there is no recompiling ever! With linux distro's, virtually every time a new version of the distro is released, you have to either get a newly built rpm (or other similar packaging system), or recompile from the sources
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