Yes, the statusbar is bigger than ever, and probably enabled by default. And yes, all it does is redundantly display the same information that is allready in the list. This is definetely worthy of screen space.
Now, lets switch our viewpoint two seconds. Our new subject is Internet Explorer. Here the statusbar is disabled by default, and the information it does show if enabled is not redundant, but informative as to what you are about to visit. For security reasons, not knowing this makes me insane. But for unknown reasons presenting this information to the user is not considered worthy of screen space.
Yes, I see, Microsoft clearly have their priorities right and Windows is moving even further in a good direction.
While XP was a big step forward in terms of appearance and a small step forward in terms of usability
I happen to disagree. To a pro user knowing what does what, everything technical was hidden deeper in the user interface in Windows XP, compared to Windows 2000. This makes me as a tech-savy user lose control.
In fact, these changes made me not install Windows XP until I had to. That is until I needed USB2.0 support, as Microsoft made sure never functioned properly in Windows 2000. First thing I did after upgrading to Windows XP, was in fact to turn everything I could back to the way things worked in Windows 2000. Let me make my statement as clear as possible: I only upgraded to Windows XP because Microsoft's intentional lack of support for Windows 2000.
And as far as I can see, what made not want to upgrade to Windows XP is taken even further in Longhorn. With all the crucial technology (Avalon & Indigo and so on) being backported to Windows XP, what incentive do I have to make this upgrade?
This upgrade, as far as I can see, is merely a new themed UI with even less contact or control of what actually happens on the computer.
I don't like it, and if it is possible, I will do everything in my power to avoid this "upgrade".
Got to agree on that part. Although I suspect that the non-flashy version you are looking for is called Windows XP with theme set to Classic mode, as it seems like most of the Longhorn technology is being backported to XP.
But regarding looks, have anyone else noticed how they seemingly have removed the titlebar of all the windows? Where there should be (in my books) a titlebar, there is now a combined info/task-bar and a very IE-like back button.
I want my OS to have Windows with titles damnit, not some fudged explorer interface where the actual applications loses all focus.
Probalby no-one here, but there's a bunch of avarage users out there (the people who open email attachments named.jpg.pif) who like to know as little as possible about how computers work.
To these people, all of this is improvement, if not even a revolution in computer-human interfacing. Just face it, the clueless wants to remain clueless.
Call me stupid, but I thought that the store using closed & DRMed formats were the ones doing the locking in, not the player that didn't support the locked format.
After all, had they used a open format, I would be able use it on any fscking device wouldn't I?
The solution is for that jackass to stop being a jackass
Does that include that the record industry should stop extending the copyright period? Because as far as jackasses go, thats the biggest one I can see.
*cough*limted period*cough* is all Im saying. In the meantime, fuck copyright.
I was in Utah at a conference this fall, and I'm not even a US resident.
I don't know how things work in the rest of the state, but this was in some shitty place named Logan, with two bars and that was it.
Entering the bar, we had to show ID, and that was it. We could drink as much as we liked, and me being Norwegian and all, I got pretty hammered without anyone giving me a hard time.
If there's any restrictions on bars in Utah, I really wouldn't know.
If anyone has tried the new release allready... Are the Gnome-team doing anything to reduce the amount of bloat?
Not trolling or anything, I love Gnome, but the amount of resources required almost makes my P4 seem slow, and I find that kinda strange. I'd love to see the developers try to optimize the code a little bit better, and maybe even add the option to deactivate/remove unwanted components.
Because, even as much as I like Gnome, it's huge a resource hogging beast, and I can't really see the reason why it should need to be.
I just feel I want to try this exploit so bad now.
I'm this close to compiling and trying it out on one of my friends with WinXP:)
But look on the bright side. Now RIAA wont have to send out cease & disist letters anymore. If the k1dd13s haven't done it allready, now all they need to do is one simple command line to get the content off-line:)
You know this is just plain stupid. Comparing Opera with Suns JRE bundled and Mozilla FireFox without any Java just isn't reasonable.
At you are going to do a comparison, at least compare the proper versions to each other. That is Firefox (& JRE) vs. Opera (& JRE) or Firefox (bare) vs Opera (bare). And in any of those comparisons Operas footprint is indeed smaller (at least last time I checked).
Please note that I am indeed using Firefox myself, but lets at least keep our facts somewhat reasonable.
Microsoft is patenting an operation which basicly is CMP at assembly level. This means that Microsoft is patenting something they are using obvious prior art to acomplish.
Now, if this goes trough, Intel and AMD will have to pay Microsoft royalties, for Microsoft to have an OS on the x86 platform!
As far as patent abuse and patent chaos goes, this is without a doubt the best, the most stupid and most tailbiting shit I've seen so far.
So far, because I don't rule out the possibility that even more moronic things may come up in the future. *sigh*
Seriously, why do you have to buy (for instance) Star Trek TOS? Isn't the copyright long expired? Oh that's right, copyright law has been perverted to solely benfit corperations and not society as it was intended to.
I guess my respect for copyright went down in the same drain as the original intent of the law.
And when some <sarcasm>1337 h4x0rs</sarcasm> can rig better distribution than big corporations, with next to no expenses, I guess it's just another sign of what we have known for some time: media distribution companies belongs in the same part of the historybooks as the steam engine.
At least I dont want law to codify a technological standstill. Which from my point of view seems increasingly to be the case.
8 registers increased to 16 (it still sucks compared to SPARC's 128).
Wow. I guess the IA-32 platform really does suck. Even my Amiga 500 with an old Motorola 68k CPU way back in the nineties had this.
Not being a troll or anything, but back in the days, any Motorola-based computer with a similar speed of an Intel-based machine beat the crap out of the Intel-based machine since most of the instructions was actually processing data and not loading and unloading registers. If the compiler supports the additional registers, this does way more for performance than adding a few 100 MHz every now and then. I just can't believe Intel still haven't made anything better than this.
Granted, gcc would need som reprogramming to work this, but I think with a decent compiler-rewrite any standard c-code should be able to run on chips like this with at least some parallellization-benefits.
Maybe a new Star Wars series would be better. I dunno
Yeeeeeah right. The only one who would be alloved to do that, would be mr. Lucas himself, and seriously... Just how many hours of Jar-jar can you endure, or slightly more important, enjoy?
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Yes, the statusbar is bigger than ever, and probably enabled by default. And yes, all it does is redundantly display the same information that is allready in the list. This is definetely worthy of screen space.
Now, lets switch our viewpoint two seconds. Our new subject is Internet Explorer. Here the statusbar is disabled by default, and the information it does show if enabled is not redundant, but informative as to what you are about to visit. For security reasons, not knowing this makes me insane. But for unknown reasons presenting this information to the user is not considered worthy of screen space.
Yes, I see, Microsoft clearly have their priorities right and Windows is moving even further in a good direction.
I happen to disagree. To a pro user knowing what does what, everything technical was hidden deeper in the user interface in Windows XP, compared to Windows 2000. This makes me as a tech-savy user lose control.
In fact, these changes made me not install Windows XP until I had to. That is until I needed USB2.0 support, as Microsoft made sure never functioned properly in Windows 2000. First thing I did after upgrading to Windows XP, was in fact to turn everything I could back to the way things worked in Windows 2000. Let me make my statement as clear as possible: I only upgraded to Windows XP because Microsoft's intentional lack of support for Windows 2000.
And as far as I can see, what made not want to upgrade to Windows XP is taken even further in Longhorn. With all the crucial technology (Avalon & Indigo and so on) being backported to Windows XP, what incentive do I have to make this upgrade?
This upgrade, as far as I can see, is merely a new themed UI with even less contact or control of what actually happens on the computer. I don't like it, and if it is possible, I will do everything in my power to avoid this "upgrade".
Got to agree on that part. Although I suspect that the non-flashy version you are looking for is called Windows XP with theme set to Classic mode, as it seems like most of the Longhorn technology is being backported to XP.
But regarding looks, have anyone else noticed how they seemingly have removed the titlebar of all the windows? Where there should be (in my books) a titlebar, there is now a combined info/task-bar and a very IE-like back button.
I want my OS to have Windows with titles damnit, not some fudged explorer interface where the actual applications loses all focus.
Probalby no-one here, but there's a bunch of avarage users out there (the people who open email attachments named .jpg.pif) who like to know as little as possible about how computers work.
To these people, all of this is improvement, if not even a revolution in computer-human interfacing. Just face it, the clueless wants to remain clueless.
Call me stupid, but I thought that the store using closed & DRMed formats were the ones doing the locking in, not the player that didn't support the locked format.
After all, had they used a open format, I would be able use it on any fscking device wouldn't I?
Does that include that the record industry should stop extending the copyright period? Because as far as jackasses go, thats the biggest one I can see.
*cough*limted period*cough* is all Im saying. In the meantime, fuck copyright.
I was in Utah at a conference this fall, and I'm not even a US resident. I don't know how things work in the rest of the state, but this was in some shitty place named Logan, with two bars and that was it.
Entering the bar, we had to show ID, and that was it. We could drink as much as we liked, and me being Norwegian and all, I got pretty hammered without anyone giving me a hard time.
If there's any restrictions on bars in Utah, I really wouldn't know.
It's all on the Internet, and thus CyberTerrorism(TM), which is to be dealt by with RIAA/MPAA's Cuban Department.
What? Me, trolling?
Knowing nothing else about you "I just called to say I love you"!
Like it matters. This is after all slashdot, and no-one reads the fscking articles :)
Maybe not entirely threadrelevant but still, this seems like the correct story to post this link.
Microsoft's fix for cross-browser problems.
Not to mention that with one simple googlebomb, which was my first and only attempt ever, I got first result at google for what I wanted.
Serach engines are way to easily manipulated.
You mean you havent noticed until now? Jeez, the kids today...
Because that's the only thought that keeps popping in my head.
If anyone has tried the new release allready... Are the Gnome-team doing anything to reduce the amount of bloat?
Not trolling or anything, I love Gnome, but the amount of resources required almost makes my P4 seem slow, and I find that kinda strange. I'd love to see the developers try to optimize the code a little bit better, and maybe even add the option to deactivate/remove unwanted components.
Because, even as much as I like Gnome, it's huge a resource hogging beast, and I can't really see the reason why it should need to be.
I just feel I want to try this exploit so bad now.
I'm this close to compiling and trying it out on one of my friends with WinXP :)
But look on the bright side. Now RIAA wont have to send out cease & disist letters anymore. If the k1dd13s haven't done it allready, now all they need to do is one simple command line to get the content off-line :)
You know this is just plain stupid. Comparing Opera with Suns JRE bundled and Mozilla FireFox without any Java just isn't reasonable.
At you are going to do a comparison, at least compare the proper versions to each other. That is Firefox (& JRE) vs. Opera (& JRE) or Firefox (bare) vs Opera (bare). And in any of those comparisons Operas footprint is indeed smaller (at least last time I checked).
Please note that I am indeed using Firefox myself, but lets at least keep our facts somewhat reasonable.
Seems like we slashdotted the tracker as well, as the torrent is now banned! At least thats the message Im getting.
From the tracker: "ERROR: rejected by tracker - This torrent is not authorized on this tracker."
First time for everything I guess.
You forget the most humerous part.
Microsoft is patenting an operation which basicly is CMP at assembly level. This means that Microsoft is patenting something they are using obvious prior art to acomplish. Now, if this goes trough, Intel and AMD will have to pay Microsoft royalties, for Microsoft to have an OS on the x86 platform!
As far as patent abuse and patent chaos goes, this is without a doubt the best, the most stupid and most tailbiting shit I've seen so far.
So far, because I don't rule out the possibility that even more moronic things may come up in the future. *sigh*
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Oh, and I said use, not abuse :)
Seriously, why do you have to buy (for instance) Star Trek TOS? Isn't the copyright long expired? Oh that's right, copyright law has been perverted to solely benfit corperations and not society as it was intended to.
I guess my respect for copyright went down in the same drain as the original intent of the law.
And when some <sarcasm>1337 h4x0rs</sarcasm> can rig better distribution than big corporations, with next to no expenses, I guess it's just another sign of what we have known for some time: media distribution companies belongs in the same part of the historybooks as the steam engine.
At least I dont want law to codify a technological standstill. Which from my point of view seems increasingly to be the case.
According to some *ahem* backup-sites I've seen, Windows 64 is allready out on the internet and has SP1 embedded.
Wow. I guess the IA-32 platform really does suck. Even my Amiga 500 with an old Motorola 68k CPU way back in the nineties had this.
Not being a troll or anything, but back in the days, any Motorola-based computer with a similar speed of an Intel-based machine beat the crap out of the Intel-based machine since most of the instructions was actually processing data and not loading and unloading registers. If the compiler supports the additional registers, this does way more for performance than adding a few 100 MHz every now and then. I just can't believe Intel still haven't made anything better than this.
be parallellizeable to some extent?
Granted, gcc would need som reprogramming to work this, but I think with a decent compiler-rewrite any standard c-code should be able to run on chips like this with at least some parallellization-benefits.
Yeeeeeah right. The only one who would be alloved to do that, would be mr. Lucas himself, and seriously... Just how many hours of Jar-jar can you endure, or slightly more important, enjoy?