Back in the Day, Microsoft's European DirectX 'evangelist' paid a visit to our game dev studio to try to sell us on the benefits of Direct X Retarded Mode. We had our engine running with D3DRM and Glide (I said, back in the Day), and the Glide framerate was easily twice that of D3DRM. He told us that that was impossible. We said "Look at the screen.". He literally refused to look. He just insisted that we were wrong, that there was no reason that D3DRM should be slower than Glide, and that we must therefore be doing something wrong. Did I mention that he wouldn't look at the screen?
Better yet, don't move until the last SP is out. I'm still happily installing 2K + SP4 on brand new machines (ClearType just makes LCDs look like blurry CRTs, IMO). I would consider XP as stable enough to switch to now, except for the DRM crap. Vista? Hah. Suck my balls, Redmond. Suck them hard.
ME's competitors were a too-smug-by-half MacOS running on crappy overpriced hardware, and smelly hippy Linux distros that only had support for crappy obsolete hardware. Vista has credible alternatives on the desktop: Ubuntu, Tiger/Panther, and XP (and my favourite ongoing install, 2K + SP4).
The best thing I've ever heard anyone say about Vista is that it's not as bad as you'd think. The worst is that it's not even worth pirating. I personally have seen Vista bork a user account and refuse to log it in. That's simply unforgivable, especially on a system that only sets up one (system privileged!) user account by default. That's as bad as, or worse than, anything ME ever did.
The only real reason to 'upgrade' is for DX10, and even that's not required.
Urg, to my eyes, it just makes an LCD look as fuzzy as a smeary CRT. Yes, I've tried the tuning power toy, but it always looks blurred and out of focus. Yes, I have 20:20 vision. Off, off, damn you.
Heh, tell that to the fresh new Windows 2000 + SP4 + DX9 install on my ZOMG SUPAR GAEMING RIG. What, really, does XP or Vista offer me over that, other than activation garbage, increased memory usage, ClearType that I can't see the difference with, and annoying animations that I'd just disable anyway?
That'll last me until DX10 is required, at which point I'll game on consoles, and lose Windows from the desktop altogether.
Excellent point. If those filthy savages living (if it can be called living) outside of the United States want to be treated like human beings, they can damn well apply to become a vassal of the Union. If we just give them basic human rights, then what's their incentive to knuckle under?
Ayup. It sounds to me as though the Wii version is actually going to be crippled, due to the need to cope with the legacy input systems of the other 'next gen' platforms.
You're not the customer, jackass. The customer is Charlie CTO, who needs to protect a network from idiot users who insist on slurping down yummy 'sploits right inside the firewall.
If your policy is that you shouldn't run any non-approved software (and if you're ISO 27001 compliant, then it should be) then there's no reason to allow users to do that.
I'll be suggesting to my employer that they adopt whitelisting. Although to be honest, it's because I'm looking for a new job and want to sabotage them. But at least they'll be ISO compliant.
Like threatening to squeal about exactly why Darl set up a brand new holdings company in the middle of July, and where all SCO's assets have suddenly gone?
Typical Computer User: What's that you jabbering, son? Gyro-what? Is y'all from the future?
The point remains that a windowing GUI that doesn't ship with built-in support for what's rapidly becoming the most common consumer input device is fundamentally lacking. In mid September 2007, you shouldn't have to google anything or install anything to be able to fiddle with your touchpad settings.
I'm so glad that my eyes 'evolved' since my birth to allow me to read it on an LCD screen rather than the primitive CRT screens that my parents 'evolved' with. I guess my DNA got mangled about the same time that my fingers 'evolved' the ability to press little square buttons in order to produce this post.
In other news, I'm still awaiting the mutation that will allow me to 'evolve' the ability to let pop science jargon slip by unchallenged. I pray to God every day that to reach in with with His Noodly Appendage and screw with my chromosomes.
I spoke with a comcast friend of mine who is at the executive level about two weeks ago on this
Well, just last week, I spoke to the guy who's the boss of the guy you spoke to, and he said that the guy you spoke to spends far too much time locked in a stall in the Executive Restroom, making rustling and moaning sounds, so I hardly think that he's a credible source. You can believe that, because my imaginary friend earns more imaginary money than your imaginary friend.
The parent poster claims that he's used to volunteer moderating some (doubtless free filthy hippy) forums. Comcast are running a business.
Yeah, I know you said the service would cost me $50 this month, but I've only got $45 on me. Don't be a dick about it, Comcast. You used to be so cool.
But he's being a total dick about it. And if he thinks that doesn't matter, then I've already seen code in the wild with a BSD-style license with the explicit caveat that it may not be relicensed as GPL/LGPL. How that for winning hearts and minds?
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Ooh, "a war chest of millions of dollars"? I bet Microsoft has more than that in their tea kitty.
The Red Sox and the Yankees are both baseball teams, so if you support the Red Sox, you support a baseball team, therefore you support the Yankees.
Calm down, Sparky. It's documented to their customers, i.e. the people who actually need to know about it.
IME, Audiophiles only hear the flaws. What a sad, sad, world they must live in.
Christ, yes. Propagandist is more accurate.
Back in the Day, Microsoft's European DirectX 'evangelist' paid a visit to our game dev studio to try to sell us on the benefits of Direct X Retarded Mode. We had our engine running with D3DRM and Glide (I said, back in the Day), and the Glide framerate was easily twice that of D3DRM. He told us that that was impossible. We said "Look at the screen.". He literally refused to look. He just insisted that we were wrong, that there was no reason that D3DRM should be slower than Glide, and that we must therefore be doing something wrong. Did I mention that he wouldn't look at the screen?
Needless to say, we didn't even offer him lunch.
Better yet, don't move until the last SP is out. I'm still happily installing 2K + SP4 on brand new machines (ClearType just makes LCDs look like blurry CRTs, IMO). I would consider XP as stable enough to switch to now, except for the DRM crap. Vista? Hah. Suck my balls, Redmond. Suck them hard.
ME's competitors were a too-smug-by-half MacOS running on crappy overpriced hardware, and smelly hippy Linux distros that only had support for crappy obsolete hardware. Vista has credible alternatives on the desktop: Ubuntu, Tiger/Panther, and XP (and my favourite ongoing install, 2K + SP4).
The best thing I've ever heard anyone say about Vista is that it's not as bad as you'd think. The worst is that it's not even worth pirating. I personally have seen Vista bork a user account and refuse to log it in. That's simply unforgivable, especially on a system that only sets up one (system privileged!) user account by default. That's as bad as, or worse than, anything ME ever did.
The only real reason to 'upgrade' is for DX10, and even that's not required.
Urg, to my eyes, it just makes an LCD look as fuzzy as a smeary CRT. Yes, I've tried the tuning power toy, but it always looks blurred and out of focus. Yes, I have 20:20 vision. Off, off, damn you.
Heh, tell that to the fresh new Windows 2000 + SP4 + DX9 install on my ZOMG SUPAR GAEMING RIG. What, really, does XP or Vista offer me over that, other than activation garbage, increased memory usage, ClearType that I can't see the difference with, and annoying animations that I'd just disable anyway?
That'll last me until DX10 is required, at which point I'll game on consoles, and lose Windows from the desktop altogether.
Excellent point. If those filthy savages living (if it can be called living) outside of the United States want to be treated like human beings, they can damn well apply to become a vassal of the Union. If we just give them basic human rights, then what's their incentive to knuckle under?
Not 'partisan'. Republican.
They are also free to go out of business for being such retarded protectionist asshats. In a free market, it's really their choice.
Ayup. It sounds to me as though the Wii version is actually going to be crippled, due to the need to cope with the legacy input systems of the other 'next gen' platforms.
You're not the customer, jackass. The customer is Charlie CTO, who needs to protect a network from idiot users who insist on slurping down yummy 'sploits right inside the firewall.
If your policy is that you shouldn't run any non-approved software (and if you're ISO 27001 compliant, then it should be) then there's no reason to allow users to do that.
I'll be suggesting to my employer that they adopt whitelisting. Although to be honest, it's because I'm looking for a new job and want to sabotage them. But at least they'll be ISO compliant.
Yes, I'm sure people will flock to the 'Randall Kennedy' kernel. Say, how many patches has he submitted?
Consise Counterpoint: yes it is.
In the version I saw, he didn't get tasered until he called a cop "Bro". If that doesn't deserve a tasering, then nothing does.
Like threatening to squeal about exactly why Darl set up a brand new holdings company in the middle of July, and where all SCO's assets have suddenly gone?
Typical Computer User: What's that you jabbering, son? Gyro-what? Is y'all from the future?
The point remains that a windowing GUI that doesn't ship with built-in support for what's rapidly becoming the most common consumer input device is fundamentally lacking. In mid September 2007, you shouldn't have to google anything or install anything to be able to fiddle with your touchpad settings.
I'm so glad that my eyes 'evolved' since my birth to allow me to read it on an LCD screen rather than the primitive CRT screens that my parents 'evolved' with. I guess my DNA got mangled about the same time that my fingers 'evolved' the ability to press little square buttons in order to produce this post.
In other news, I'm still awaiting the mutation that will allow me to 'evolve' the ability to let pop science jargon slip by unchallenged. I pray to God every day that to reach in with with His Noodly Appendage and screw with my chromosomes.
Well, just last week, I spoke to the guy who's the boss of the guy you spoke to, and he said that the guy you spoke to spends far too much time locked in a stall in the Executive Restroom, making rustling and moaning sounds, so I hardly think that he's a credible source. You can believe that, because my imaginary friend earns more imaginary money than your imaginary friend.
The parent poster claims that he's used to volunteer moderating some (doubtless free filthy hippy) forums. Comcast are running a business.
Yeah, I know you said the service would cost me $50 this month, but I've only got $45 on me. Don't be a dick about it, Comcast. You used to be so cool.
But he's being a total dick about it. And if he thinks that doesn't matter, then I've already seen code in the wild with a BSD-style license with the explicit caveat that it may not be relicensed as GPL/LGPL. How that for winning hearts and minds?