Windows 7 being faster than Vista isn't much of an achievement. It's what Vista should have been in the first place. Like Apple with OS X.3, it's Microsoft fixing its previous mistake, not something praise-worthy.
Windows Mail isn't going away. It's going into the downloadable Live addons. The explanation is that by not integrating it into the release, Mail and the other bits of client software aren't tied into the Windows release cycle.
But is 10.3 and 10.4 being faster than 10.0 and 10.1 really an achievement? Early OS X releases, if we are to be fair, were crap. They shone only in comparison to OS 9, which was about on par with Windows 3.1. XP already had a good pedigree when it was released.
In a sense, Apple had nowhere to go but up, and Microsoft had nowhere to go but down.
Whoever plays Ed needs to look young, be energetic and willing and able to be kinda crazy. The best person I can think of for the role is Julianna Rose Mauriello.
The system integrity checks have got to have some overhead. I doubt that anybody outside the walls of Redmond know exactly.
A lot of early performance problems that were blamed on DRM were due to unoptimized drivers though. Vista completely changed the driver model and moved a lot of drivers into user space, and it took a while for driver quality to catch up to what it was with XP.
It does if you aren't using an administrator account. If you are using an administrator account, why does Vista need your password a second time? You've already entered your password, and the UAC dialog is isolated to prevent other programs hijacking the allow button.
Yes, if you ran Vista, you wouldn't have had any problems swapping the motherboard. MS overhauled the NT HAL so it wasn't locked to a particular chipset.
They also completely restructured the audio system so it can provide theatre quality audio, and use stereo microphone input to improve background noise elimination. They replaced the old graphics engine to implement window compositing and offload window drawing to the GPU and allow virtualization of GPU resources. The filesystem was upgraded to include file versioning so you can go back and undo changes to files. They added priviledge seperation (like sudo), a process sandboxing mechanism, address space layout randomization and NX support for security. They added a prefetching engine which intelligently knows what disk pages to cache. They added IPv6 and bluetooth support. They added an imaging based installer system which makes it infinitely easier to create and deploy system images.
And according to Slashdot, Vista adds nothing of value to XP. So is it any wonder Windows 7 is mostly focused on polish and user interface?
I suppose a really clever OS might note what times of day its user usually resumes using it, and could then for a re-page-in of all the user's data a few minutes before then....
I like how this got moderated to +5 Insightful then immediately moderated as 'Overrated' down to 0. Apparently the moderators know more about RF engineering than me.
But hey, if you don't believe me put the iPhone antenna into SEMCAD or any friendly EM modelling software and find out for yourself.
Any cell phone you can buy will meet regulatory requirements, including maximum SAR (specific absorption rate). However maximum is not typical or average, and the iPhone operates at average power levels much higher than you'd get from, say, a Motorola handset.
Apple might know a thing or two about industrial design, but they don't know anything about microwave engineering. The phone has a very badly designed antenna.
This is also one cause of the short battery life, since the phone has to broadcast at high power levels to make up for the poor gain. Talking on the iPhone is like sticking a microwave oven to your face.
I've never seen Vista require a reactivation after upgrading the graphics card. More importantly, I've had to do the phone activation thing myself a couple of times. It's annoying, yes, but I've called at all sorts of weird hours and never had a problem getting through to someone. The activation hotline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I have no clue about the rest of your post but frankly, if you're caught in one blatant lie, your credibility is shot.
Exactly, now that the legal threats are over they have to use their cash pile to keep their market value. Because stock market investors are investing in the STOCK market, not the money markets. If you're not investing a cash pile like that into new operations or disbursing it to the shareholders and the name of your company doens't include the word BANK, you fail as a company and deserve to be punished on the markets.
Umm, no. Microsoft would have every right to go after vendors who were including unlicensed, modified versions of Windows in their systems. How is this any different?
Psystar buys a license of OS X for each machine they sell? Apple may claim that the copies aren't licensed since they violate the EULA, but US copyright law doesn't limits copyright holders rights to prevent installation of software. Furthermore, the doctrine of first sale gives Psystar the right to resell OS X.
Completely wrong. This is industrial supercomputing, not random web applications. The applications IBM is targetting Cell at are things like seismic analysis for oil companies, and this requires highly tuned implementations and specialised algorithms. This is expensive. It takes a lot of developer hours, and those developers are top-rung, very highly paid, because this stuff is very hard. And it costs a lot in hardware.
Unfortunately for IBM, while Cell is fast, it's not fast enough to justify the cost for most companies. And it has a lot of competition from NVIDIA's Tesla platform, AMD/ATI's FireStream, and plain old clusters.
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Windows 7 being faster than Vista isn't much of an achievement. It's what Vista should have been in the first place. Like Apple with OS X.3, it's Microsoft fixing its previous mistake, not something praise-worthy.
Windows Mail isn't going away. It's going into the downloadable Live addons. The explanation is that by not integrating it into the release, Mail and the other bits of client software aren't tied into the Windows release cycle.
But is 10.3 and 10.4 being faster than 10.0 and 10.1 really an achievement? Early OS X releases, if we are to be fair, were crap. They shone only in comparison to OS 9, which was about on par with Windows 3.1. XP already had a good pedigree when it was released.
In a sense, Apple had nowhere to go but up, and Microsoft had nowhere to go but down.
And what technology is available for Ogg Theora (not Vorbis) that can encode and stream a live event to hundreds of millions of people?
Or do you expect the White House to code that up in a couple of weeks?
No. Ed is young, not anorexic.
Whoever plays Ed needs to look young, be energetic and willing and able to be kinda crazy. The best person I can think of for the role is Julianna Rose Mauriello.
The system integrity checks have got to have some overhead. I doubt that anybody outside the walls of Redmond know exactly.
A lot of early performance problems that were blamed on DRM were due to unoptimized drivers though. Vista completely changed the driver model and moved a lot of drivers into user space, and it took a while for driver quality to catch up to what it was with XP.
XP introduced wifi support, amongst other things.
It does if you aren't using an administrator account. If you are using an administrator account, why does Vista need your password a second time? You've already entered your password, and the UAC dialog is isolated to prevent other programs hijacking the allow button.
Yes, if you ran Vista, you wouldn't have had any problems swapping the motherboard. MS overhauled the NT HAL so it wasn't locked to a particular chipset.
They also completely restructured the audio system so it can provide theatre quality audio, and use stereo microphone input to improve background noise elimination. They replaced the old graphics engine to implement window compositing and offload window drawing to the GPU and allow virtualization of GPU resources. The filesystem was upgraded to include file versioning so you can go back and undo changes to files. They added priviledge seperation (like sudo), a process sandboxing mechanism, address space layout randomization and NX support for security. They added a prefetching engine which intelligently knows what disk pages to cache. They added IPv6 and bluetooth support. They added an imaging based installer system which makes it infinitely easier to create and deploy system images.
And according to Slashdot, Vista adds nothing of value to XP. So is it any wonder Windows 7 is mostly focused on polish and user interface?
I suppose a really clever OS might note what times of day its user usually resumes using it, and could then for a re-page-in of all the user's data a few minutes before then....
You mean, what Vista does? :-)
Birds migrate north/south, prevailing winds go east/west.
I don't think I can take 'Young Star Trek' seriously. In TOS, Kirk was already a youthful commander. What a joke.
$120? You must be joking. A professional license of Mathematica is more like $2500.
I like how this got moderated to +5 Insightful then immediately moderated as 'Overrated' down to 0. Apparently the moderators know more about RF engineering than me. But hey, if you don't believe me put the iPhone antenna into SEMCAD or any friendly EM modelling software and find out for yourself.
Any cell phone you can buy will meet regulatory requirements, including maximum SAR (specific absorption rate). However maximum is not typical or average, and the iPhone operates at average power levels much higher than you'd get from, say, a Motorola handset.
Apple might know a thing or two about industrial design, but they don't know anything about microwave engineering. The phone has a very badly designed antenna.
This is also one cause of the short battery life, since the phone has to broadcast at high power levels to make up for the poor gain. Talking on the iPhone is like sticking a microwave oven to your face.
Really? You do? How do you know someone hasn't pulled out your HD and replaced your copy of GRUB with a trojaned copy which logs all your keystrokes?
I think you're lying.
I've never seen Vista require a reactivation after upgrading the graphics card. More importantly, I've had to do the phone activation thing myself a couple of times. It's annoying, yes, but I've called at all sorts of weird hours and never had a problem getting through to someone. The activation hotline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I have no clue about the rest of your post but frankly, if you're caught in one blatant lie, your credibility is shot.
Exactly, now that the legal threats are over they have to use their cash pile to keep their market value. Because stock market investors are investing in the STOCK market, not the money markets. If you're not investing a cash pile like that into new operations or disbursing it to the shareholders and the name of your company doens't include the word BANK, you fail as a company and deserve to be punished on the markets.
I should say US copyright law LIMITS copyright holder's rights to prevent installation of software.
Umm, no. Microsoft would have every right to go after vendors who were including unlicensed, modified versions of Windows in their systems. How is this any different?
Psystar buys a license of OS X for each machine they sell? Apple may claim that the copies aren't licensed since they violate the EULA, but US copyright law doesn't limits copyright holders rights to prevent installation of software. Furthermore, the doctrine of first sale gives Psystar the right to resell OS X.
The windows desktop search from Microsoft was released some months before Google's...
Except a pair of entangled particles don't actually communicate information, since you can't control how the superposition collapses.
Completely wrong. This is industrial supercomputing, not random web applications. The applications IBM is targetting Cell at are things like seismic analysis for oil companies, and this requires highly tuned implementations and specialised algorithms. This is expensive. It takes a lot of developer hours, and those developers are top-rung, very highly paid, because this stuff is very hard. And it costs a lot in hardware. Unfortunately for IBM, while Cell is fast, it's not fast enough to justify the cost for most companies. And it has a lot of competition from NVIDIA's Tesla platform, AMD/ATI's FireStream, and plain old clusters.