What are you talking about "forcing people off the older systems since all new programs will be written to only work with XP with SP2."? That is completely ludicrous and will not happen and you know it. Microsoft hasn't even abandoned Windows 98 yet.
You can disable NX if your CPU supports it and you're experiencing Java JIT compiler problems. This issue is TOTAL speculation right now; created by the/. crowd freaking out.
What does it matter if it's a service pack or if it's another major release of the OS? Both are just adding to and/or changing the code.
SP2 will ultimately be backwards compatible with the fact that you can choose NOT to install it on systems running things that it could break if they're critical old applications. However it doesn't really seem like it would break a lot of legacy apps from reading the article. You can always disable or punch holes in the firewall if need be. The only thing I can see being a problem network-wise is the increased security on COM and RPC for some old old network apps, but like I said you can always leave SP2 off if need be and still get the critical updates from Microsoft for future exploits. Besides, if you really needed something old running on the network and it actually broke in SP2 and you didn't want to leave it as XP SP1 couldn't you just run it on NT 4, the OS it was probably designed for? You could probably even use it on Windows 2000. People who can afford to run legit Microsoft network environments usually have more than one licensed version of Windows at their disposal. Hell even those who don't run legit operations just pirate them anyway so it doesn't matter.
NX can be disabled if your CPU supports it, so even if they tried to break the Java JIT compiler that way (note, _only_ JIT is possibly affected) then you could just disable NX.
"One small step forward for Microsoft, one giant leap backwards for mankind?"
When Apple broke compatibility there wasn't much of a negative reaction to that. Are we a little biased here?
I think it's good for MS to break backwards compatibility for some things at this point. Some of that legacy bloat will be stripped off of the OS at least.
Last time I checked there weren't any professional level (cubase, sonar, logic, motu, etc...) sequencing/recording/arranging packages available on Linux.:(
Most games that utilize this technology now have so much time put into the art that the rest of the game is terrible or the whole thing is only about 5 or 6 hours long and can be beaten with minimal effort in less than a week.
In short, unless there is a great effort by the industry to reduce the amount of effort developers spend on graphics for the same results, I fear that the games will suffer from this. High level shader languages might be key in accomplishing this but it remains a mystery or now.
I thought circumventing access controls was already illegal in The States under the DMCA. How is this turning up in Australia "extending" the terms of the DMCA? Can someone give me some info? Thanks.
What's the most distressing is that most of these people in the article appeared to just take it when they were told this. If more people had the spine to say "fuck you Mr. Manager" (literally) then I believe businesses would take issue sooner. You can't just agree to this shit, it makes the practice take off since you're giving them FREE training! I know it sounds harsh, but this is what needs to happen goddamnit. Fucking suits.
Yeah, I can see the argument about compatibility. However, sometimes you just need to sacrifice that for innovation. This is a big problem for Microsoft right now and the only company I've seen do it successfully lately has been Apple. If everyone could "pull an Apple" we might be looking at exciting prospects.
I don't think spatial desktop caters to newbies that much, but keep in mind that you HAVE to cater to newbies to an extreme level to come anywhere near close to competing with Microsoft.
Why do simple things like the file selector dialog box take FOREVER to get implemented anywhere near decently in GNOME/KDE? Simple things that really should be fixed almost immediately go on forever having horrendous interfaces.
At some point I'm going to get so pissed and just take up the code axe to them both.
I'm a computer science student who has always struggled with math but I'm sticking to it just because I love to fail and eventually get things right. I'll tell you though, nearly 9/10 people I talk to who have switched majors from mine have said it was because of the math!
I know when I started googling more it had nothing to do with "search technology" but with the relative nakedness of google's page compared with Yahoo's. The less you put on the search page besides the search itself, the more I'll love it!
There's plenty of good quality music, it just doesn't come from the top down anymore.:) In other words, don't look to Sony/BMG/Universal/etc... it's all about record labels like Metropolis (well, Metropolis if you like electronic).
http://www.metropolis-records.com/ (not an RIAA member!)
If they can see a list of your files then they've got you. What "hardcore" file sharers would prevent their files from being shared with firewalls? It doesn't make any sense!
There isn't any proof that file sharing caused the increase in sales. As a matter of fact the article says that it can be most strongly attributed to the lowering of prices.
I noticed that if you go to www.there.com with Mozilla 1.6 and click the "Free Trial" button it loads the page correctly and then quickly takes you to a page explaining that you must use Internet Exporer. If you press the stop button before the refresh the page will show up just fine.
"Neither X1, nor Windows XP's built in search would find your wedding photos. Why? Because they have useless names like DSC0001.jpg and there's no metadata that says they are wedding photos."
Metadata will NEVER improve searching in this way unless the things that generate the content FORCE you to put it in before they can snap pictures, etc...
Even if people were forced to put metadata into all their files there is a big chance that typos and other errors in entering the info would occur. This will make the metadata totally useless in a search!
It's good that they have delayed the release so much because it gives them more time for people to update their graphics cards to be able to play this monster. The sad thing is, it will probably be a very short game because of all the work that went into the graphics, physics, and AI stuff. I'd rather have another full-length half-life 1 style adventure than a very short half-life 2.
This is boring! It's all BSD and Linux! It would be really interesting to see how some of the new and completely from scratch open source stuff does too.
I work at an ISP in Maine and nearly everything I've done this morning has been related to helping people clean up MyDoom infections so we can unfilter their PCs. Our e-mail server admin has better things to do than cut people's access and clean SMTP queues when he sees MyDoom floating around. It's wasted time that amounts to the high costs! You're not really getting much of anything done that could advance your business when you're dealing with worms all the time.
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What are you talking about "forcing people off the older systems since all new programs will be written to only work with XP with SP2."? That is completely ludicrous and will not happen and you know it. Microsoft hasn't even abandoned Windows 98 yet.
You can disable NX if your CPU supports it and you're experiencing Java JIT compiler problems. This issue is TOTAL speculation right now; created by the /. crowd freaking out.
You're not being very clear in explaining what happened. Did SP2 break VMWare? Or were you running Linux and SP2 broke the MS JVM?
What does it matter if it's a service pack or if it's another major release of the OS? Both are just adding to and/or changing the code.
SP2 will ultimately be backwards compatible with the fact that you can choose NOT to install it on systems running things that it could break if they're critical old applications. However it doesn't really seem like it would break a lot of legacy apps from reading the article. You can always disable or punch holes in the firewall if need be. The only thing I can see being a problem network-wise is the increased security on COM and RPC for some old old network apps, but like I said you can always leave SP2 off if need be and still get the critical updates from Microsoft for future exploits. Besides, if you really needed something old running on the network and it actually broke in SP2 and you didn't want to leave it as XP SP1 couldn't you just run it on NT 4, the OS it was probably designed for? You could probably even use it on Windows 2000. People who can afford to run legit Microsoft network environments usually have more than one licensed version of Windows at their disposal. Hell even those who don't run legit operations just pirate them anyway so it doesn't matter.
NX can be disabled if your CPU supports it, so even if they tried to break the Java JIT compiler that way (note, _only_ JIT is possibly affected) then you could just disable NX.
"One small step forward for Microsoft, one giant leap backwards for mankind?"
When Apple broke compatibility there wasn't much of a negative reaction to that. Are we a little biased here?
I think it's good for MS to break backwards compatibility for some things at this point. Some of that legacy bloat will be stripped off of the OS at least.
Last time I checked there weren't any professional level (cubase, sonar, logic, motu, etc.. .) sequencing/recording/arranging packages available on Linux. :(
They say 2006, Longhorn probably won't be out until 2007. By then who knows what the average PC will be like.
Most games that utilize this technology now have so much time put into the art that the rest of the game is terrible or the whole thing is only about 5 or 6 hours long and can be beaten with minimal effort in less than a week.
In short, unless there is a great effort by the industry to reduce the amount of effort developers spend on graphics for the same results, I fear that the games will suffer from this. High level shader languages might be key in accomplishing this but it remains a mystery or now.
I thought circumventing access controls was already illegal in The States under the DMCA. How is this turning up in Australia "extending" the terms of the DMCA? Can someone give me some info? Thanks.
What's the most distressing is that most of these people in the article appeared to just take it when they were told this. If more people had the spine to say "fuck you Mr. Manager" (literally) then I believe businesses would take issue sooner. You can't just agree to this shit, it makes the practice take off since you're giving them FREE training! I know it sounds harsh, but this is what needs to happen goddamnit. Fucking suits.
Yeah, I can see the argument about compatibility. However, sometimes you just need to sacrifice that for innovation. This is a big problem for Microsoft right now and the only company I've seen do it successfully lately has been Apple. If everyone could "pull an Apple" we might be looking at exciting prospects.
I don't think spatial desktop caters to newbies that much, but keep in mind that you HAVE to cater to newbies to an extreme level to come anywhere near close to competing with Microsoft.
Why do simple things like the file selector dialog box take FOREVER to get implemented anywhere near decently in GNOME/KDE? Simple things that really should be fixed almost immediately go on forever having horrendous interfaces.
At some point I'm going to get so pissed and just take up the code axe to them both.
I'm a computer science student who has always struggled with math but I'm sticking to it just because I love to fail and eventually get things right. I'll tell you though, nearly 9/10 people I talk to who have switched majors from mine have said it was because of the math!
Who else thinks this is bullshit?
I know when I started googling more it had nothing to do with "search technology" but with the relative nakedness of google's page compared with Yahoo's. The less you put on the search page besides the search itself, the more I'll love it!
There's plenty of good quality music, it just doesn't come from the top down anymore. :) In other words, don't look to Sony/BMG/Universal/etc... it's all about record labels like Metropolis (well, Metropolis if you like electronic).
http://www.metropolis-records.com/ (not an RIAA member!)
If they can see a list of your files then they've got you. What "hardcore" file sharers would prevent their files from being shared with firewalls? It doesn't make any sense!
There isn't any proof that file sharing caused the increase in sales. As a matter of fact the article says that it can be most strongly attributed to the lowering of prices.
Ok I was a little to quick to post, looks like they require a javascript function only supported by IE :(
I noticed that if you go to www.there.com with Mozilla 1.6 and click the "Free Trial" button it loads the page correctly and then quickly takes you to a page explaining that you must use Internet Exporer. If you press the stop button before the refresh the page will show up just fine.
"Neither X1, nor Windows XP's built in search would find your wedding photos. Why? Because they have useless names like DSC0001.jpg and there's no metadata that says they are wedding photos."
Metadata will NEVER improve searching in this way unless the things that generate the content FORCE you to put it in before they can snap pictures, etc...
Even if people were forced to put metadata into all their files there is a big chance that typos and other errors in entering the info would occur. This will make the metadata totally useless in a search!
A great idea, C++ is useless unless you've done at least some basic programs in assembler.
It's good that they have delayed the release so much because it gives them more time for people to update their graphics cards to be able to play this monster. The sad thing is, it will probably be a very short game because of all the work that went into the graphics, physics, and AI stuff. I'd rather have another full-length half-life 1 style adventure than a very short half-life 2.
This is boring! It's all BSD and Linux! It would be really interesting to see how some of the new and completely from scratch open source stuff does too.
I work at an ISP in Maine and nearly everything I've done this morning has been related to helping people clean up MyDoom infections so we can unfilter their PCs. Our e-mail server admin has better things to do than cut people's access and clean SMTP queues when he sees MyDoom floating around. It's wasted time that amounts to the high costs! You're not really getting much of anything done that could advance your business when you're dealing with worms all the time.