Am I the only one not so uptight about it? Podcasting is becoming a general term for any sort of broadcast MP3 recording despite it existing before iPods, just like AJAX is referring to a bunch of technologies that existed years before Google Maps. It's just a common word to refer to a general idea so we know what people mean. If someone says they podcasted, you automatically know they recorded an MP3 and made it available.
You do realise that most if not all graphics card/chipset manufacturers provide their own implementations of OpenGL with their drivers, don't you? That this is only going to apply to the system default drivers that no-one who cares in the least about performance is going to be using?
Any use of an OpenGL ICD is going to turn off the accelerated Windows desktop unless you go through Microsoft's implementation of OpenGL.
This information came from the OpenGL BOF held at Siggraph 2005 in LA this last Wednesday evening. This was confirmed at the BOF by NVIDIA, ATI and us (3Dlabs).
As soon as an ICD is loaded the composited desktop is turned off on Windows Vista. If you want the composited desktop Aeroglass experience, you will need to make your application go through Microsoft's OpenGL implementation, which is layered on top of DirectX. As pointed out earlier, this layering can have performance implications. Their implementation supports OpenGL version 1.4 only, without extension support.
We believe it possible to provide an ICD with full composited desktop support while adhering to the stability and security requirements in Windows Vista. But we need Microsoft's help in doing so.
Therefore, as mentioned before, please let your contact in the ISV or IHV or OEM community know how you feel about this and spread the word.
For some more information, you can browse these Microsoft Winhec slides:
Here, read the linked article yourself. The submission says the reason for Monad's removal is the previous Slashdot story about the proof-of-concept "virus." But the article has no mention of that and merely points out that Monad won't be in Vista, which we knew months ago. The submitter made the connection up:
A virus for Windows Vista? Wrong.
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. There's been some commentary the past couple of days regarding a potential Windows Vista virus and we wanted to weigh in with some details. First of all, in examining the details of the reports, there is no Windows Vista virus described in them. Instead, the reports are regarding potential proof of concept viruses in the form of malicious scripts that are developed to affect a new interactive shell codenamed "Monad", which is currently in early phase of beta testing.
Now to be clear, these reports pose no risk for Microsoft customers. The viruses do not attempt to exploit a software vulnerability and do not encompass a new method of attack. Furthermore, "Monad" is not widely available for general use. It's a beta, and we do not recommend or support the use of beta software in a production environment. Microsoft continues to analyze the feedback from testers as Monad continues to be developed.
But most important, "Monad" is not included in the beta release of Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2003 R2.
Monad will not be included in the final version of Windows Vista and there is no relation between Monad and Windows Vista Beta 1. Monad is being considered for the Windows Operating System platform for the next three to five years. So these potential viruses do not affect Windows Vista or any other version of Windows if "Monad" has not been installed on the system.
It's hard to predict what type of malicious software criminals might develop to attack future versions of operating systems. But rest assured we're on the case! The MSRC will be here to investigate and provide the guidance to help protect customers no matter what attacks may impact customers.
I wouldn't apply anything about Slashdot to Wikipedia.
<Questions> erigol asks: Have you considered setting up a slashdot Wiki, since Wiki's are, like, the rage, and stuff. <CmdrTaco> Wiki is silly. Not scalalble. <hemos> Wiki's make me want to guage my eyes out. <hemos>gouge, even. <CmdrTaco> They're fun for small groups. <CmdrTaco> Slashdot is for millions. <hemos> And yeah, for smaller groups is great. <hemos>But we spent the 3 years scaling up to this level of users
Six months later, Wikipedia surpassed Slashdot's traffic.
You're comparing a fully shut down laptop to a G5 in suspend mode?
No. He mentioned his G5 boots in under a minute. My iBook G4 boots in 15 seconds.
Also, you can run windows "sans-AV". it's called "don't have services you don't need on" and "don't install software you don't trust".
In other words, your OS is so crappy and insecure that you have to go through services.msc disabling things so you don't get a virus.
And for the most part you can configure AV's not to do boot scans but just runtime scans.
Hey, that makes it better! Meanwhile, OS X has had zero trojans and viruses since its release five years ago.
So really you're bitching that your properly inconfigured
And here, you've completely invented a conclusion you had no basis of reaching. What makes his laptop properly inconfigured? Are you saying Windows isn't properly configured until you go through disabling all the services it ships on by default? Does that mean Windows ships inconfigured? What kind of phrase is "properly inconfigured," anyway? Don't you mean "improperly configured?"
totally turned off laptop
As opposed to the totally turned off G5 he already mentioned and you choose to ignore.
[which probably has way slower disk, memory and processing than your DESKTOP G5]
My iBook G4 1Ghz with 640MB of RAM boots faster than my 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 PC with 640MB of RAM and XP SP2 with no services I don't need. Next.
is slower to boot then your properly set up desktop G5 in suspend mode....
He already said the G5 boots cold in less than a min...ah, forget it. You're so deluded that you think a Windows machine should force its users to go through disabling services just so you don't have to run anti-virus (sorry, you'll still have to, along with your firewall, anti-spyware, registry cleaners, and so on). If by "properly set up desktop G5" you mean a computer that doesn't turn on services it doesn't need, doesn't open ports it doesn't need (which get exploited...hello, MSBlaster rebooting two-thirds of the world's computers), and actually institutes a security policy, then yes, you're right. The G5 has the properly configured operating system.
Have fun running in an admin account for the next two years.
The wording of the submission suggests the project is a specific reaction to the RIAA "polluting" networks with false files, but a visit to the website has no mention of the RIAA. The project is a reaction to pollution in general ranging from trojans to incomplete files.
Of course, the point that the #1 use for this technology would be for illegal piracy is valid. There are always going to be freeloaders ruining it for everyone else and justifying not paying artists, via artifically anti-RIAA scapegoat belief systems.
As a system for transferrence of legal files, the Credence system sounds nice but not entirely necessary, in my opinion. On networks like ed2k, for example, you can tell the validity of a file through its availability count. A valid Gentoo ISO might have 285 while a corrupt file would have 1. On systems like Bittorrent, this is even less of an issue.
WebKit, used in Safari, passed it months ago. Not in a shipping version of Safari yet (conflict testing), but free for download now at webkit.opendarwin.org.
Precisely. Icons, windows, menus, and the idea of the desktop metaphor were Apple. Lisa's GUI was already graphical in parallel to PARC, but the visit to Xerox impressed Steve Jobs to focus on the mouse for input, focus on scrolling "windows," and so on.
Whenever you use a pulldown menu, click a folder icon, move a window, or drag something to your virtual waste receptacle, Apple may as well stop by your house and say "You're welcome."
Originally, there was a cache of disk contents that appeared on the desktop when you inserted a floppy disk. You would eject a floppy, but then you also had to drag the cache to the trash can. These two actions were such a common sequence that they decided to integrate them for the convenience of the user at the time, so that you just dragged the floppy to the trash.
It should be noted that in OS X, you don't drag to the trash. The trash becomes an Eject symbol and you drag to that.
The funniest part is that all these movie companies using Linux to make movies wouldn't be able to legally play those DVD movies on their Linux machines.
Why lawsuits, plural? There's only one lawsuit in this story, and it "might" happen after talks with Microsoft (which means monetary payment).
No, no, NO--VHS was technically superior
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Back to the VHS Vs. Betamax days eh? If there's one thing that war proved, it's that technical sophistication is irrelevant: mindshare is what matters.
This urban myth needs to die.
VHS was the technically superior format. It provided running times longer than an hour (most movies are longer than an hour, you know), it had slightly superior audio quality, and by subtly lowering picture quality, you could record stuff for up to 8 hours!
The "Betamax was superior but died out due to mindshare" argument is wrong. VHS was superior, and therefore gained mindshare.
I'm so tired of people randomly mentioning Sophia Stewart on various messageboards, especially Matrix ones.
She has never offered a single bit of proof. The pages she has offered had nothing to do with The Matrix and were bizarre fantasy stories with weird character names.
The only link people ever give is to this "playahata" site, which has an agenda of positioning it as a racial thing because Sophia Stewart is black.
And when people say "It's obvious they didn't write the first movie because it was so much better than the sequels!" they're proving their ignorance. The original Matrix screenplays were as convoluted as the sequels, but the Wachowskis had less control. For instance, the Matrix was a parallel processing computer using humans as processing cells. The studio made them change it to the "power plant" scenario, and changed various other things. Also, it's not so unusual for sequels to suck and the original not to even when done by the same guys.
Consumers preferred VHS, which allowed longer than an hour running time. In addition, you could record up to 8 hours with minor quality loss and had higher quality audio.
The "beta was better" idea is a myth. VHS actually was better.
Yes, they do. Appleinsider, MacRumors, and all the major sites have already written about this. In addition, the Intel-based Macs available on display at the WWDC had iLife on them. iLife '05 ships with the Macs as Universal Binary versions.
The Power Macs on display at the show run a one-off build of Mac OS X 10.4.1 that incorporates the few necessary changes that were required to get the operating system running on the Intel hardware. This build includes Apple's bundled iLife '05 suite of applications.
Now are you going to accept that, yes, indeed, iLife '05 ships on the Intel-based developer Macs? If you were really at the keynote, you'd know that they had these Intel Macs on display to play with, and they had iLife installed.
What makes you think these dev kits have either iDVD or Firefox installed on them? Did you see iDVD in use during Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote?
The fact that it's already been confirmed that iLife '05 ships on the Intel Macs? Did you even watch the WWDC keynote you're referring to? Jobs' entire presentation was done on the Intel Mac.
Uh, Doom 3 wasn't how the original Doom was "meant to be but scaled back due to technical limitations." Doom was packed with monsters in bright open areas in which you could actually SEE. The weapons had the perfect sound effects and reload times, and the control is still the smoothest FPS control to this day, with the possible exception of HL2. The levels had actual variety. Doom and Doom 2 are exactly as they were intended. Doom 3 is intended to be a tech engine demo.
Longhorn will be to XP what XP was to 95. An in-depth architectural redesign, with the same familiar user interface.
Except that this isn't true. Windows 95 compared to Windows XP is an entire kernel architecture change. Longhorn is still using the NT kernel. All that's changing is the addition of some new APIs that will also be made availalbe for XP. And Longhorn's shell is being replaced.
If intellectual property isn't a valid concept, then the GPL no longer has a leg to stand on.
This is the fundamental contradiction--fight against copyright law and intellectual property, but then fight against companies that violate the copyright and intellectual property of GPL code.
It looks like Windows XP but with a transparent Luna. Most of Longhorn's dialogs continue XP's trend toward making everything look like a hyperlink-ridden webpage and not an elegant interface for human interaction.
I don't know if you've ever picked up OS X, but Longhorn is finally catching up to a visual look that was already established five years ago with Aqua. But they're doing it poorly.
The ability for humans to drink milk is, as you pointed out, a mutation. You're not supposed to be able to tolerate it, and those who are "lactose intolerant" like myself are, amusingly, the "normal" ones. Your body is supposed to reject milk after infancy.
There are some benefits of drinking milk, but there are a lot of disadvantages. The aforementioned growth hormones are real, and milk is also pretty fatty.
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Am I the only one not so uptight about it? Podcasting is becoming a general term for any sort of broadcast MP3 recording despite it existing before iPods, just like AJAX is referring to a bunch of technologies that existed years before Google Maps. It's just a common word to refer to a general idea so we know what people mean. If someone says they podcasted, you automatically know they recorded an MP3 and made it available.
You do realise that most if not all graphics card/chipset manufacturers provide their own implementations of OpenGL with their drivers, don't you? That this is only going to apply to the system default drivers that no-one who cares in the least about performance is going to be using?
Any use of an OpenGL ICD is going to turn off the accelerated Windows desktop unless you go through Microsoft's implementation of OpenGL.
Quote from the site:
You do know the X-Box has about 15% console marketshare, don't you? They're tied with the Gamecube.
No. He mentioned his G5 boots in under a minute. My iBook G4 boots in 15 seconds.
In other words, your OS is so crappy and insecure that you have to go through services.msc disabling things so you don't get a virus.
Hey, that makes it better! Meanwhile, OS X has had zero trojans and viruses since its release five years ago.
And here, you've completely invented a conclusion you had no basis of reaching. What makes his laptop properly inconfigured? Are you saying Windows isn't properly configured until you go through disabling all the services it ships on by default? Does that mean Windows ships inconfigured? What kind of phrase is "properly inconfigured," anyway? Don't you mean "improperly configured?"
As opposed to the totally turned off G5 he already mentioned and you choose to ignore.
My iBook G4 1Ghz with 640MB of RAM boots faster than my 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 PC with 640MB of RAM and XP SP2 with no services I don't need. Next.
He already said the G5 boots cold in less than a min...ah, forget it. You're so deluded that you think a Windows machine should force its users to go through disabling services just so you don't have to run anti-virus (sorry, you'll still have to, along with your firewall, anti-spyware, registry cleaners, and so on). If by "properly set up desktop G5" you mean a computer that doesn't turn on services it doesn't need, doesn't open ports it doesn't need (which get exploited...hello, MSBlaster rebooting two-thirds of the world's computers), and actually institutes a security policy, then yes, you're right. The G5 has the properly configured operating system.
Have fun running in an admin account for the next two years.
The wording of the submission suggests the project is a specific reaction to the RIAA "polluting" networks with false files, but a visit to the website has no mention of the RIAA. The project is a reaction to pollution in general ranging from trojans to incomplete files.
Of course, the point that the #1 use for this technology would be for illegal piracy is valid. There are always going to be freeloaders ruining it for everyone else and justifying not paying artists, via artifically anti-RIAA scapegoat belief systems.
As a system for transferrence of legal files, the Credence system sounds nice but not entirely necessary, in my opinion. On networks like ed2k, for example, you can tell the validity of a file through its availability count. A valid Gentoo ISO might have 285 while a corrupt file would have 1. On systems like Bittorrent, this is even less of an issue.
WebKit, used in Safari, passed it months ago. Not in a shipping version of Safari yet (conflict testing), but free for download now at webkit.opendarwin.org.
Precisely. Icons, windows, menus, and the idea of the desktop metaphor were Apple. Lisa's GUI was already graphical in parallel to PARC, but the visit to Xerox impressed Steve Jobs to focus on the mouse for input, focus on scrolling "windows," and so on.
Whenever you use a pulldown menu, click a folder icon, move a window, or drag something to your virtual waste receptacle, Apple may as well stop by your house and say "You're welcome."
Originally, there was a cache of disk contents that appeared on the desktop when you inserted a floppy disk. You would eject a floppy, but then you also had to drag the cache to the trash can. These two actions were such a common sequence that they decided to integrate them for the convenience of the user at the time, so that you just dragged the floppy to the trash.
It should be noted that in OS X, you don't drag to the trash. The trash becomes an Eject symbol and you drag to that.
The funniest part is that all these movie companies using Linux to make movies wouldn't be able to legally play those DVD movies on their Linux machines.
"Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits"
Why lawsuits, plural? There's only one lawsuit in this story, and it "might" happen after talks with Microsoft (which means monetary payment).
Back to the VHS Vs. Betamax days eh? If there's one thing that war proved, it's that technical sophistication is irrelevant: mindshare is what matters.
This urban myth needs to die.
VHS was the technically superior format. It provided running times longer than an hour (most movies are longer than an hour, you know), it had slightly superior audio quality, and by subtly lowering picture quality, you could record stuff for up to 8 hours!
The "Betamax was superior but died out due to mindshare" argument is wrong. VHS was superior, and therefore gained mindshare.
I'm so tired of people randomly mentioning Sophia Stewart on various messageboards, especially Matrix ones.
She has never offered a single bit of proof. The pages she has offered had nothing to do with The Matrix and were bizarre fantasy stories with weird character names.
The only link people ever give is to this "playahata" site, which has an agenda of positioning it as a racial thing because Sophia Stewart is black.
And when people say "It's obvious they didn't write the first movie because it was so much better than the sequels!" they're proving their ignorance. The original Matrix screenplays were as convoluted as the sequels, but the Wachowskis had less control. For instance, the Matrix was a parallel processing computer using humans as processing cells. The studio made them change it to the "power plant" scenario, and changed various other things. Also, it's not so unusual for sequels to suck and the original not to even when done by the same guys.
Sigh.
It's fortunate that the vast majority of people won't hear about this or something like it.
Would you say this if it was an Internet Explorer community site run by Microsoft's IE group using IIS?
Consumers preferred VHS, which allowed longer than an hour running time. In addition, you could record up to 8 hours with minor quality loss and had higher quality audio.
The "beta was better" idea is a myth. VHS actually was better.
Yes, they do. Appleinsider, MacRumors, and all the major sites have already written about this. In addition, the Intel-based Macs available on display at the WWDC had iLife on them. iLife '05 ships with the Macs as Universal Binary versions.
I Googled for this and found it all over the place. Here's just one example:
Now are you going to accept that, yes, indeed, iLife '05 ships on the Intel-based developer Macs? If you were really at the keynote, you'd know that they had these Intel Macs on display to play with, and they had iLife installed.
What makes you think these dev kits have either iDVD or Firefox installed on them? Did you see iDVD in use during Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote?
The fact that it's already been confirmed that iLife '05 ships on the Intel Macs? Did you even watch the WWDC keynote you're referring to? Jobs' entire presentation was done on the Intel Mac.
Uh, Doom 3 wasn't how the original Doom was "meant to be but scaled back due to technical limitations." Doom was packed with monsters in bright open areas in which you could actually SEE. The weapons had the perfect sound effects and reload times, and the control is still the smoothest FPS control to this day, with the possible exception of HL2. The levels had actual variety. Doom and Doom 2 are exactly as they were intended. Doom 3 is intended to be a tech engine demo.
You might be a fanboi if...
Except that this isn't true. Windows 95 compared to Windows XP is an entire kernel architecture change. Longhorn is still using the NT kernel. All that's changing is the addition of some new APIs that will also be made availalbe for XP. And Longhorn's shell is being replaced.
If intellectual property isn't a valid concept, then the GPL no longer has a leg to stand on.
This is the fundamental contradiction--fight against copyright law and intellectual property, but then fight against companies that violate the copyright and intellectual property of GPL code.
It's a very silly contradiction.
It looks like Windows XP but with a transparent Luna. Most of Longhorn's dialogs continue XP's trend toward making everything look like a hyperlink-ridden webpage and not an elegant interface for human interaction.
I don't know if you've ever picked up OS X, but Longhorn is finally catching up to a visual look that was already established five years ago with Aqua. But they're doing it poorly.
Now, you're remotely fixing someone's machine all the time. How does this prove Linux's desktop usability?
The ability for humans to drink milk is, as you pointed out, a mutation. You're not supposed to be able to tolerate it, and those who are "lactose intolerant" like myself are, amusingly, the "normal" ones. Your body is supposed to reject milk after infancy.
There are some benefits of drinking milk, but there are a lot of disadvantages. The aforementioned growth hormones are real, and milk is also pretty fatty.