I can imagine it was because they tested against XP 32-bit among the operating systems. This could in turn be because XP 64 is so poorly supported by driver developers that they couldn't get good matching 64-bit installs.
I'm sure the fact that this build of windows does not have tons of extra bells and whistles installed, thus leaving more system resources for doing benchmarking.
No, it has bells and whistles installed. I mean, if you called it that in Vista? It even has more bells and whistles than Vista, as expected, and these effects are enabled.
No, it really is fast for a beta and compared to Vista, even XP, this has been independently confirmed by now since beta 1 leaked. Really, you don't even care to check, and waste our time.
How often do you really have to move 100 MB or 2.5 GB of files around?
A benchmark like this still probably matters though, as if it's fast on moving 100 MB (a size more easily measurable than 10 MB), it's likely faster at 10 MB too. And it's at these ranges it starts creeping into everyday use and the "feel" you're talking of.
The storage system (not its own file system) called "WinFS" was released as Beta 1, but later cancelled, with components of it ending up in SQL Server 2008. It was later assumed to be dead for good, but Ballmer said in late 2006 that it was still being worked on, although he was not clear on in which products it would end up in. For all we know, the team could be working with the SQL Server team now.
I think most will be in this time around, unlike with Vista, part because Vista was a more significant release, and part because MS at least claims to have learnt from their mistakes with Longhorn/Vista. There's some info on this online, but in general, they're more careful with announcing features this time around.
Doh. Not the same role as political cartoons in particular. This is called political satire. Yes, cartoons, web games, caricatures, it's all part of it. Why the comparison to cartoons in specific? Watch the big picture, please.
These people don't seem aware that typefaces are usually available in many weights.
You can save much more than this by simply changing to a lighter weight.
(I am a typographer. But it shouldn't take one to figure this out.)
Exactly, I glanced their font home page, and saw they even *had* to use a heavier weight to make the "eco" part (in the new typeface) more readable. Eyeballing the looks of it, it seemed to only be lighter if using the same weight as a traditional font. But then this new font is far less readable. So... I'm not sure what's won.
I really don't see the light at the end of the tunnel with Windows 7, either.
Agreed. I mean, Windows 7 will be a better OS, higher performing than Windows Vista. I don't doubt this, because this has been a goal for Microsoft this time. "Don't do much to Vista, but we need to make it faster and earn a better reputation with it, and in the process, stop using the tainted Vista brand name". I think that's the idea.
But... This won't solve any issues Vista had with legacy applications -- it's still a major OS revision away from XP, because Vista was. Even worse, one of the more recent publicized builds of Windows 7 had a surprising amount of compatibility issues, for being a minor OS revision. (Windows 7 is internally really Windows 6.1 as for the kernel and shell) Oh sure, the popular apps having problems will be fixed probably by Microsoft cooperating with the companies and coming up with workarounds, but what about the rest?
The entire mechanism for building the OS is based on it being modular.
I think the parent was talking of making it modular for the user. To cut feature creep a user doesn't want. At least the subject was avoiding the weight of feature creep, and building a modular OS isn't the way of doing this, if there's no way for the user to make us of the modularization.
Everybody has limitations, and it would be better to get someone who can listen to scientists and engineers and also be a great administrator.
So you mean this one can't?
Just because scientists can be poor politicians, it doesn't mean all are, and this bright guy could just maybe have skills in both departments. These are things they may have found out before moving their eyes to this guy. I'm far from certain Obama in person looked at Nobel prize winners and said "Hey, let's try this guy!"
Seriously (surely no one missed the bad relativity joke in that title:-p) though, are black holes really still considered theoretical constructs? For example, Wikipedia starts with "A black hole is a theoretical region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that...". And for Wikipedia haters, this is repeated in literature too.
Meanwhile, in this article -- "the best empirical evidence that super-massive black holes do exist". And besides, I thought many scientific articles bring up black holes now and then without questioning, anyway.
No big improvement in their Javascript engine either.
It has much better performance in a Sunspider test than Opera 9.6x.
But nowadays they seem to fall behing other browsers
It's not feature complete, the website hint at more coming especially sometime during january 2009. Also, this summary and many comments here are missing out on major feature additions like SVG font and web font support, and the CSS improvements. Too much focus, as usual IMHO, is given on Acid3 scores.
I don't think DX10 was AoC's problem though.:p DX10 is just a technology, it doesn't even say anything about how it's used. Besides, I don't think the problem was even in the graphics. Just that it was boring. So, well, the only problem with missing DX10 was the one of less trust in the company. But I don't think that was why so many left the game either. Again, I think it was because the game was boring.
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That's because in Apple's case, it's more than a belief. Apple's success does depend on Steve Jobs, strangely enough. Remember John Sculley?
Hmm, I'm not following the logic in this argument.
Are you implying everyone but Steve Jobs will do a job like Sculley or worse?
What's to say Jobs' successor won't be better than Jobs himself at running the company?
I can imagine it was because they tested against XP 32-bit among the operating systems. This could in turn be because XP 64 is so poorly supported by driver developers that they couldn't get good matching 64-bit installs.
I'm sure the fact that this build of windows does not have tons of extra bells and whistles installed, thus leaving more system resources for doing benchmarking.
No, it has bells and whistles installed. I mean, if you called it that in Vista? It even has more bells and whistles than Vista, as expected, and these effects are enabled.
No, it really is fast for a beta and compared to Vista, even XP, this has been independently confirmed by now since beta 1 leaked. Really, you don't even care to check, and waste our time.
How often do you really have to move 100 MB or 2.5 GB of files around?
A benchmark like this still probably matters though, as if it's fast on moving 100 MB (a size more easily measurable than 10 MB), it's likely faster at 10 MB too. And it's at these ranges it starts creeping into everyday use and the "feel" you're talking of.
Heh, WinFS... It's such an easy troll target... ;)
The storage system (not its own file system) called "WinFS" was released as Beta 1, but later cancelled, with components of it ending up in SQL Server 2008. It was later assumed to be dead for good, but Ballmer said in late 2006 that it was still being worked on, although he was not clear on in which products it would end up in. For all we know, the team could be working with the SQL Server team now.
This is among the last pieces of good actual info on this project:
http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/23/644706.aspx
Windows 7 will not include WinFS, and it was never announced for it.
I think most will be in this time around, unlike with Vista, part because Vista was a more significant release, and part because MS at least claims to have learnt from their mistakes with Longhorn/Vista. There's some info on this online, but in general, they're more careful with announcing features this time around.
Exactly! Let me know when Microsoft decides to compete rather than create a monopoly.
There are dozens and dozens of examples. I'm sitting here with VMware running, so that's an easy target. Virtual PC.
Oh, and the obvious addition: It's not evil to compete, either. (not even if you're Microsoft)
I think we're about to see if Google really isn't evil.
Just remember that it's not evil to not support a competitor.
Doh. Not the same role as political cartoons in particular. This is called political satire. Yes, cartoons, web games, caricatures, it's all part of it. Why the comparison to cartoons in specific? Watch the big picture, please.
These people don't seem aware that typefaces are usually available in many weights.
You can save much more than this by simply changing to a lighter weight.
(I am a typographer. But it shouldn't take one to figure this out.)
Exactly, I glanced their font home page, and saw they even *had* to use a heavier weight to make the "eco" part (in the new typeface) more readable. Eyeballing the looks of it, it seemed to only be lighter if using the same weight as a traditional font. But then this new font is far less readable. So... I'm not sure what's won.
Isn't it time Firefox supported the Mac Keychain? :-/
This was an easy article to find, that's following up this story... Being on Space.com, it was on Slashdot's side bar... ;)
http://www.space.com/news/081211-nasa-obama-transition.html
I really don't see the light at the end of the tunnel with Windows 7, either.
Agreed. I mean, Windows 7 will be a better OS, higher performing than Windows Vista. I don't doubt this, because this has been a goal for Microsoft this time. "Don't do much to Vista, but we need to make it faster and earn a better reputation with it, and in the process, stop using the tainted Vista brand name". I think that's the idea.
But... This won't solve any issues Vista had with legacy applications -- it's still a major OS revision away from XP, because Vista was. Even worse, one of the more recent publicized builds of Windows 7 had a surprising amount of compatibility issues, for being a minor OS revision. (Windows 7 is internally really Windows 6.1 as for the kernel and shell) Oh sure, the popular apps having problems will be fixed probably by Microsoft cooperating with the companies and coming up with workarounds, but what about the rest?
Agreed, this release is much about clearing the bad name of Vista, this was confirmed to be a problem by the "Mojave Experiment".
The entire mechanism for building the OS is based on it being modular.
I think the parent was talking of making it modular for the user. To cut feature creep a user doesn't want. At least the subject was avoiding the weight of feature creep, and building a modular OS isn't the way of doing this, if there's no way for the user to make us of the modularization.
Yes, sometimes they slow page loads, yes, sometimes they're annoying, but they keep sites free.
So Slashdot's ads give them revenue on merely viewing them?
Because I sure never go around and click on ads. Anywhere.
Everybody has limitations, and it would be better to get someone who can listen to scientists and engineers and also be a great administrator.
So you mean this one can't?
Just because scientists can be poor politicians, it doesn't mean all are, and this bright guy could just maybe have skills in both departments. These are things they may have found out before moving their eyes to this guy. I'm far from certain Obama in person looked at Nobel prize winners and said "Hey, let's try this guy!"
Why can't the same be said about nebulae though?
Empirical evidence and theories seem to work there.
Seriously (surely no one missed the bad relativity joke in that title :-p) though, are black holes really still considered theoretical constructs? For example, Wikipedia starts with "A black hole is a theoretical region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that ...". And for Wikipedia haters, this is repeated in literature too.
Meanwhile, in this article -- "the best empirical evidence that super-massive black holes do exist". And besides, I thought many scientific articles bring up black holes now and then without questioning, anyway.
No. Maybe Firefox 3.2. *shrug*
More interesting that talking about numbers in the Acid3 test is about the features lacking though. And a major part lacking here would be SVG fonts.
Dude, we aren't talking about a note taking program.
No, but Windows vs Xbox 360. And game development.
No big improvement in their Javascript engine either.
It has much better performance in a Sunspider test than Opera 9.6x.
But nowadays they seem to fall behing other browsers
It's not feature complete, the website hint at more coming especially sometime during january 2009. Also, this summary and many comments here are missing out on major feature additions like SVG font and web font support, and the CSS improvements. Too much focus, as usual IMHO, is given on Acid3 scores.
I don't think DX10 was AoC's problem though. :p DX10 is just a technology, it doesn't even say anything about how it's used. Besides, I don't think the problem was even in the graphics. Just that it was boring. So, well, the only problem with missing DX10 was the one of less trust in the company. But I don't think that was why so many left the game either. Again, I think it was because the game was boring.