We have a first gen Heidelberg 9110 with Version 4 software ON THE PRINTER. Can't upgrade since each version upgrade (currently 7.0) costs $$$$ which is a waste of money for a printer that's near it's EOL. We have used the same Dell PC with Windows 2000 SP2 since 2000 when the company purchased both products. Vista 64 bit drivers currently are available for the 7.0 version PC driver only. Version 4 is good for 2000, maybe XP.
So where did we spend our money? On THREE 250ppm b&w printers and a brand new Dell Studio PC with Intel Core i7 920, 6gb of ram, and Windows Vista 64bit OS. The problem is that this is to spool large files over as quickly as possible using PCL drivers. Variable addressing data per page. Times a few million, you get the idea of the number crunching. Only thing is we have a USB key with a license code to send this over to the printers for one PC. Can't use the old PC without ripping out the $30,000 license key and placing it back in the old PC to send files to the Heidelberg. Not an option at this point. Would Version 4.0 Win 2000 drivers work on Vista 64 bit? Haha, no. We could try the 7.0 64bit PC drivers (independent of the 4.0 software on the printer), but not sure they're all that compatible. Or downgrade to Windows XP 32 bit. Now you start to see the problem? We would lose half the ram on the PC if we downgraded and so a software hack might be useful in our case. Printer spool sizes do go up to 2gb from time to time and cause headaches with each page spooled around 100mb each. We can't wait 10 minutes sending files over. Personally, backwards compatibility is a dead issue if we get rid of the Heidelberg soon. Thrown over Niagara Falls preferably.:)
So, would all 6gb be helpful in this case? Would the hack help us spool large files?
I don't think one can expect all business PC's to connect to the internet at all, so those wouldn't count as web 'enabled'. Lots of firewalls and site blockers out there that could mess with the stats. However, I do think once someone uses the internet for 5 minute they'll eventually be asked to install flash to show a webpage properly. Youtube, Hulu... ect. Very important part of the web browser to have that installed.
Or you could just buy some newer hard drives out there with high ariel density. WD 640GB AAKS model & 1TB drives are practically dead silent. That or buy some SSD's. Really this noise issue is beginning to lose importance these days and that's the point I'm trying to make here.
Well since Apple doesn't do real updates to their software (only downloading the whole thing again), I uninstalled iTunes 7, rebooted, and THEN installed iTunes 8. Then I uninstalled Bonjour, Apple Software Update, and Apple mobile service. Had to click off a message box bitching that Bonjour wasn't installed properly but that's about it. Haven't seen any blue screens, just some screen corruption to some text once or twice. That's about it. No crashes or bluescreens for my 5G iPod.
What I do want them to fix is adding support for even LARGER text sizes in the program. I have a 24" monitor and have to lean forward to read user comments, tv show descriptions... ect. Any way I can fix that?
Granted, pre SP1 and the initial launch period Vista was pretty much a disaster. With more mature Nvidia drivers, copying file performance and other things on par with XP, it's just a good as XP in most respects.
Where it has a major advantage is surprisingly good app support for it's 64 bit versions. We have to move past 2gb at some point with ram prices as crazy low as they are. So it's nice to know what's out now works great (with a few caveats like no Vista 64bit emulation in Virtual PC... ect).
My main draw to Vista was it's font support. I have a 24" LCD monitor that I absolutely love but for the life of me I could not get the Windows XP fonts to look nice at all. I mean we're talking about the 'beefiness' of the font that's easier to read for LCD's, eliminating those 'red' edges on fonts, and those old system fonts. I tried like hell to find something I liked by using Office 2007 fonts but having tried Vista before, it just wasn't matching up at all. The small fonts (10pt or less) look HORRIBLE in XP due to the issues mentioned about. I tried changing all fonts (and system fonts) to Vista's SegoiUI font and it just looked too thin. Yeah sure I can try upping the DPI or whatnot but that breaks the start menu badly when using 3rd party themes on it (oh say VistaCG for example). So I can make all these changes and stuff but it still wouldn't look at nice as the out of box experience on Vista. I don't have to mess with any clear type settings or do anything for that matter. It just looks nice and was the dealbreaker about a week ago for me to switch to Vista.
Dreamscene is pretty cool too, heh.
"The IE7 update also sports a few tweaks: The menu bar is now visible by default,"
Now that the Office team is taking control of the next OS release, is this a sign of things to come? It's a minor but interesting backtrack on a design change. MS got it so right with Office 2007 and so wrong with Vista in terms of UI, that this one change raises a few eyebrows.
Go Office team!:)
One thing holding me back from testing it at all is that the most fabled "Font Smoothing" feature looks terrible on CRT's and makes all the letters look like BOLD fonts. I dunno about you guys, but it's much harder for me to read things if it's all in bold.:/
What's odd is that none of those patches or things mentioned going wrong is what I was dealing with. I was getting the click of death from my hard drives until I rebooted the computer.
I guess I can see this as very unfinished hardware drivers but for something as serious as this, Vista should have never been released in this pitiful state.
I had to sit back and give this some thought. To me, it makes sense to have an intranet because if the online website goes down(i.e. HP monitor for $10 price mistake), how will the retail stores assist their customers during that time for product information? As for the price mis-matching, I've been told I think from a sales rep at Best Buy or some other store brand that the website is a separate business from the retail chain. I mean, I did ask this before and got denied. So for so long I've assumed things this way. There's plenty of cheaper prices online at their website but has anyone looked to see if Best Buy actually allows price matching with their website in the sales policy? If so, dang, I've missed out on a few good deals.
The 'masses' are going on the internet and ditching newspapers, magazines, music cd's, dvd's, boxed games and applications. To me it seems silly to even bother buying porn on DVD. Porn is what is expanding the popularity of the internet and so must be considered the logical choice as the next major format.
Steve Jobs is absolutely right when he says that most music is ripped from CD. I have 1318 songs on my ipod and only 69 of those are from iTunes. So I paid $69 for DRM music? Ehh no. About 40 of em were from those Pepsi 1 free song giveaways the last few years. Also to note, I have paid for 26 TV show episodes & 5 ipod games. My real beef with iTunes isn't the DRM since it doesn't bother me at all. What does bother me is the low bitrate music songs that it offers. I literally pay upwards of $30-$40 per CD for some decent Japanese music that I am absolutely addicted to. Anything less than Apple Lossless would be a crime for the price that I paid for that music. I feel it's excellent quality music so therefore 128 kbs protected ACC encoding seems completely inferior than what I'm used to listening to. That and the fact the Japanese version of iTunes ain't got jack shit on it.:/
Oh and LOL, I am paying $30 per CD like the RIAA wants me to. Stupid Japanese music prices.:(
Great, would Creative Labs be will to go along with this or not? That or other onboard chipset manufacturers so they are up to date with the latest products out there?
I've seen a few Dell's get out of BIOS extremely quickly and into Windows boot loader part. My custom built PC with an Abit motherboard takes forever to get out of BIOS. It's a blank screen, it's a 'press F1 to run setup', it's a hardware IRQ screen and THEN shows the windows boot loader. Geez. How can I make it go as fast as the Dell PCs. What do they do differently?
That cool 'Areo Glass' GUI is totally ugly. You have a nice blue clear edges around the border of IE 7 when in a windowed size. When you fullscreen it, the boarder turns black.
You can change the color transparency for the borders but not for the start menu bar so the colors match up nicely?
Areo glass disables itself from time to time for whatever reason (usually Java).
I have no need for the 3D alt-tab window mode. I run like 2 or three things at any point in time so it's really not that hard to figure out what I'm looking for.
When typing in Firefox sometimes my mouse pointer rests on the taskbar on an application selection. That pops up the preview window which then in turn blocks you from typing in text boxes that are near it. Nice one MS! Be more annoying!
You have an IE 7 back button on the top left corner during the setup installation and a regular 'next' grey rectangle box in the lower right corner. Note: Next & Previous buttons were always grouped together so why the fuck are they so far apart now?
Then there's these huge ass popups with multiple lines of description information for coping/moving/deleting files and they all look the same forcing you to really read what option you're looking for. How the hell is that easy?
Copying/moving files is laggy at best and unresponsive at times.
There are these crazy disk thrashing background services running from time to time that I have not figured out the cause of since I do have all indexing or system maintenance disable.
There's no TweakUI out yet for Vista so I have these beautiful icons with these huge ass shortcut icons on top of them that I so dearly would love to get rid of. Why is this never part of the OS?
Clicking on a folder in list view and selecting that folder pane to scroll through those files should be easy, right? Nope when you do highlight that area and start scrolling one wheel click it'll move one column over and then back again by itself for no reason at all.
The new Start Menu is stupidly restrictive. When digging through multiple folders for applications, you lose space for the application name with each subfolder so that Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes Microsoft In.... which loses the whole point of what a start menu should do.
The games menu is nice that it downloads the box art & categorizes automatically the games it finds on your system. It could be improved greatly if one could edit the game into a category of our own choice, create subfolders for groups of games, find games from Valve's Steam, allow old games like Doom 1 & 2 to be searched for properly, change the icon of the game because the box art is only good at large & extra large settings and the small icons look like crap, and if it downloads the box art why not suitable smaller icons as well?
The default option when shutting the system down is to shut it down to a low power mode instead of completely off. When I go to work, I don't want my PC left on. At all. Period. It just wastes electricity to save a few seconds of boot time? Whoop-de-do.
Power saving the hard drives causes them to 'click' repeatedly after it turns on and off after a week or so of use. I've never seen a Maxtor hard drive work properly with this feature on. It always screws things up for me. So it stays disabled and I never have a problem with my drives failing.
Plus one should wait a year or so for PowerDVD, Steam, iTunes, Nero, Roxio, NOD32, uTorrent, Filezilla... ect to fully support Vista. That, in addition, to not being an early adopter to play with constant 'not beta but still it's really a beta' drivers for Nvida, ATI, Creative.. ect.
Nvidia's settings panel looks like crap. Can't they invest some time in some nice looking icons?
BitTorrent apps like uTorrent & BitComet regularly crash because of MS's new network sta
Listed reasons as to why Vista sucks:
That cool 'Areo Glass' GUI is totally ugly. You have a nice blue clear edges around the border of IE 7 when in a windowed size. When you fullscreen it, the boarder turns black.
You can change the color transparency for the borders but not for the start menu bar so the colors match up nicely?
Areo glass disables itself from time to time for whatever reason (usually Java).
I have no need for the 3D alt-tab window mode. I run like 2 or three things at any point in time so it's really not that hard to figure out what I'm looking for.
When typing in Firefox sometimes my mouse pointer rests on the taskbar on an application selection. That pops up the preview window which then in turn blocks you from typing in text boxes that are near it. Nice one MS! Be more annoying!
You have an IE 7 back button on the top left corner during the setup installation and a regular 'next' grey rectangle box in the lower right corner. Note: Next & Previous buttons were always grouped together so why the fuck are they so far apart now?
Then there's these huge ass popups with multiple lines of description information for coping/moving/deleting files and they all look the same forcing you to really read what option you're looking for. How the hell is that easy?
Copying/moving files is laggy at best and unresponsive at times.
There are these crazy disk thrashing background services running from time to time that I have not figured out the cause of since I do have all indexing or system maintenance disable.
There's no TweakUI out yet for Vista so I have these beautiful icons with these huge ass shortcut icons on top of them that I so dearly would love to get rid of. Why is this never part of the OS?
Clicking on a folder in list view and selecting that folder pane to scroll through those files should be easy, right? Nope when you do highlight that area and start scrolling one wheel click it'll move one column over and then back again by itself for no reason at all.
The new Start Menu is stupidly restrictive. When digging through multiple folders for applications, you lose space for the application name with each subfolder so that Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes Microsoft In.... which loses the whole point of what a start menu should do.
The games menu is nice that it downloads the box art & categorizes automatically the games it finds on your system. It could be improved greatly if one could edit the game into a category of our own choice, create subfolders for groups of games, find games from Valve's Steam, allow old games like Doom 1 & 2 to be searched for properly, change the icon of the game because the box art is only good at large & extra large settings and the small icons look like crap, and if it downloads the box art why not suitable smaller icons as well?
The default option when shutting the system down is to shut it down to a low power mode instead of completely off. When I go to work, I don't want my PC left on. At all. Period. It just wastes electricity to save a few seconds of boot time? Whoop-de-do.
Power saving the hard drives causes them to 'click' repeatedly after it turns on and off after a week or so of use. I've never seen a Maxtor hard drive work properly with this feature on. It always screws things up for me. So it stays disabled and I never have a problem with my drives failing.
Plus one should wait a year or so for PowerDVD, Steam, iTunes, Nero, Roxio, NOD32, uTorrent, Filezilla... ect to fully support Vista. That, in addition, to not being an early adopter to play with constant 'not beta but still it's really a beta' drivers for Nvida, ATI, Creative.. ect.
Nvidia's settings panel looks like crap. Can't they invest some time in some nice looking icons?
BitTorrent apps like uTorrent & BitComet regularly crash because of MS's new network stack protocol they wrote from scratch.
Internet services like AOL's movie download service will only work in IE 6.0 with Windows XP.
Halo 2 for Vista at $60? No thanks. I like playing my old games and will wait til
We know Microsoft is abandoning their partners and creating their own store & music players. Was this done to hurt their competition? What will Zune's license restrictions be because it doesn't use WMP 11. To me, it seems like this was done for the competition because most of them are subscription services and not to permanently own anyway. That and WMP11 is in beta. Or its because MS can't fix their security holes. Who knows, who cares. I use iTunes for a few songs here and their and rip my music from CD's.
Has anyone bothered to make a Glide Emulator for some of those games that only supported Glide.
There's got to be 1 or 2 Montezuma's Return fans out there:/
Eh? Is it too damn hard to double-click on the active menu tab to hide it? Geeez. This sounds like such a minor adjustment, I don't see what the big deal is.:/
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I'm sure Thome's wife mind it much these days with so much crap in it.:)
No if HT works up to 2ghz and a new GPU comes out and needs 3ghz, well... see the point? it's about point to point speed with HT being the bottleneck for upgrades.
Not the same thing. What companies (legit that is) does this prevent from being apart of system componets? I'm talking hardware, not software. Besides there'll be a hack to bypass that HDCP stuff anyway. Most likely the printscreen key, a magic marker, or something like that:)
Here's what I don't get. If they do that, how do you upgrade the memory bus bandwidth so that it's futureproof to a degree? Memory on graphics cards changes all the time. It's not just a GPU and Memory. It's everything in-between as well. Power voltages... ect.
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We have a first gen Heidelberg 9110 with Version 4 software ON THE PRINTER. Can't upgrade since each version upgrade (currently 7.0) costs $$$$ which is a waste of money for a printer that's near it's EOL. We have used the same Dell PC with Windows 2000 SP2 since 2000 when the company purchased both products. Vista 64 bit drivers currently are available for the 7.0 version PC driver only. Version 4 is good for 2000, maybe XP.
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So where did we spend our money? On THREE 250ppm b&w printers and a brand new Dell Studio PC with Intel Core i7 920, 6gb of ram, and Windows Vista 64bit OS. The problem is that this is to spool large files over as quickly as possible using PCL drivers. Variable addressing data per page. Times a few million, you get the idea of the number crunching. Only thing is we have a USB key with a license code to send this over to the printers for one PC. Can't use the old PC without ripping out the $30,000 license key and placing it back in the old PC to send files to the Heidelberg. Not an option at this point. Would Version 4.0 Win 2000 drivers work on Vista 64 bit? Haha, no. We could try the 7.0 64bit PC drivers (independent of the 4.0 software on the printer), but not sure they're all that compatible. Or downgrade to Windows XP 32 bit. Now you start to see the problem? We would lose half the ram on the PC if we downgraded and so a software hack might be useful in our case. Printer spool sizes do go up to 2gb from time to time and cause headaches with each page spooled around 100mb each. We can't wait 10 minutes sending files over. Personally, backwards compatibility is a dead issue if we get rid of the Heidelberg soon. Thrown over Niagara Falls preferably.
So, would all 6gb be helpful in this case? Would the hack help us spool large files?
I don't think one can expect all business PC's to connect to the internet at all, so those wouldn't count as web 'enabled'. Lots of firewalls and site blockers out there that could mess with the stats. However, I do think once someone uses the internet for 5 minute they'll eventually be asked to install flash to show a webpage properly. Youtube, Hulu... ect. Very important part of the web browser to have that installed.
Or you could just buy some newer hard drives out there with high ariel density. WD 640GB AAKS model & 1TB drives are practically dead silent. That or buy some SSD's. Really this noise issue is beginning to lose importance these days and that's the point I'm trying to make here.
Well since Apple doesn't do real updates to their software (only downloading the whole thing again), I uninstalled iTunes 7, rebooted, and THEN installed iTunes 8. Then I uninstalled Bonjour, Apple Software Update, and Apple mobile service. Had to click off a message box bitching that Bonjour wasn't installed properly but that's about it. Haven't seen any blue screens, just some screen corruption to some text once or twice. That's about it. No crashes or bluescreens for my 5G iPod.
What I do want them to fix is adding support for even LARGER text sizes in the program. I have a 24" monitor and have to lean forward to read user comments, tv show descriptions... ect. Any way I can fix that?
Granted, pre SP1 and the initial launch period Vista was pretty much a disaster. With more mature Nvidia drivers, copying file performance and other things on par with XP, it's just a good as XP in most respects. Where it has a major advantage is surprisingly good app support for it's 64 bit versions. We have to move past 2gb at some point with ram prices as crazy low as they are. So it's nice to know what's out now works great (with a few caveats like no Vista 64bit emulation in Virtual PC... ect). My main draw to Vista was it's font support. I have a 24" LCD monitor that I absolutely love but for the life of me I could not get the Windows XP fonts to look nice at all. I mean we're talking about the 'beefiness' of the font that's easier to read for LCD's, eliminating those 'red' edges on fonts, and those old system fonts. I tried like hell to find something I liked by using Office 2007 fonts but having tried Vista before, it just wasn't matching up at all. The small fonts (10pt or less) look HORRIBLE in XP due to the issues mentioned about. I tried changing all fonts (and system fonts) to Vista's SegoiUI font and it just looked too thin. Yeah sure I can try upping the DPI or whatnot but that breaks the start menu badly when using 3rd party themes on it (oh say VistaCG for example). So I can make all these changes and stuff but it still wouldn't look at nice as the out of box experience on Vista. I don't have to mess with any clear type settings or do anything for that matter. It just looks nice and was the dealbreaker about a week ago for me to switch to Vista. Dreamscene is pretty cool too, heh.
"The IE7 update also sports a few tweaks: The menu bar is now visible by default," Now that the Office team is taking control of the next OS release, is this a sign of things to come? It's a minor but interesting backtrack on a design change. MS got it so right with Office 2007 and so wrong with Vista in terms of UI, that this one change raises a few eyebrows. Go Office team! :)
One thing holding me back from testing it at all is that the most fabled "Font Smoothing" feature looks terrible on CRT's and makes all the letters look like BOLD fonts. I dunno about you guys, but it's much harder for me to read things if it's all in bold. :/
Deep sleep/hibernate problems? Oh wow I didn't see this coming except for the RC1 release I tried and reviewed months ago. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209542&cid= 17088628
What's odd is that none of those patches or things mentioned going wrong is what I was dealing with. I was getting the click of death from my hard drives until I rebooted the computer.
I guess I can see this as very unfinished hardware drivers but for something as serious as this, Vista should have never been released in this pitiful state.
I had to sit back and give this some thought. To me, it makes sense to have an intranet because if the online website goes down(i.e. HP monitor for $10 price mistake), how will the retail stores assist their customers during that time for product information? As for the price mis-matching, I've been told I think from a sales rep at Best Buy or some other store brand that the website is a separate business from the retail chain. I mean, I did ask this before and got denied. So for so long I've assumed things this way. There's plenty of cheaper prices online at their website but has anyone looked to see if Best Buy actually allows price matching with their website in the sales policy? If so, dang, I've missed out on a few good deals.
"Will AMD dethrone Intel again?" Dear AMD, meet Larrabee. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37 548
AMD might kick Intel in the nuts a little but definitely not dethrone.
The 'masses' are going on the internet and ditching newspapers, magazines, music cd's, dvd's, boxed games and applications. To me it seems silly to even bother buying porn on DVD. Porn is what is expanding the popularity of the internet and so must be considered the logical choice as the next major format.
They don't have any of the opening/ending theme songs to anime shows that I like. Like... at all. None, zip, zilch.
Steve Jobs is absolutely right when he says that most music is ripped from CD. I have 1318 songs on my ipod and only 69 of those are from iTunes. So I paid $69 for DRM music? Ehh no. About 40 of em were from those Pepsi 1 free song giveaways the last few years. Also to note, I have paid for 26 TV show episodes & 5 ipod games. My real beef with iTunes isn't the DRM since it doesn't bother me at all. What does bother me is the low bitrate music songs that it offers. I literally pay upwards of $30-$40 per CD for some decent Japanese music that I am absolutely addicted to. Anything less than Apple Lossless would be a crime for the price that I paid for that music. I feel it's excellent quality music so therefore 128 kbs protected ACC encoding seems completely inferior than what I'm used to listening to. That and the fact the Japanese version of iTunes ain't got jack shit on it. :/
Oh and LOL, I am paying $30 per CD like the RIAA wants me to. Stupid Japanese music prices. :(
Great, would Creative Labs be will to go along with this or not? That or other onboard chipset manufacturers so they are up to date with the latest products out there?
I've seen a few Dell's get out of BIOS extremely quickly and into Windows boot loader part. My custom built PC with an Abit motherboard takes forever to get out of BIOS. It's a blank screen, it's a 'press F1 to run setup', it's a hardware IRQ screen and THEN shows the windows boot loader. Geez. How can I make it go as fast as the Dell PCs. What do they do differently?
Sorry. Here's the easier to read version:
Listed reasons as to why Vista sucks:
That cool 'Areo Glass' GUI is totally ugly. You have a nice blue clear edges around the border of IE 7 when in a windowed size. When you fullscreen it, the boarder turns black.
You can change the color transparency for the borders but not for the start menu bar so the colors match up nicely?
Areo glass disables itself from time to time for whatever reason (usually Java).
I have no need for the 3D alt-tab window mode. I run like 2 or three things at any point in time so it's really not that hard to figure out what I'm looking for.
When typing in Firefox sometimes my mouse pointer rests on the taskbar on an application selection. That pops up the preview window which then in turn blocks you from typing in text boxes that are near it. Nice one MS! Be more annoying!
You have an IE 7 back button on the top left corner during the setup installation and a regular 'next' grey rectangle box in the lower right corner. Note: Next & Previous buttons were always grouped together so why the fuck are they so far apart now?
Then there's these huge ass popups with multiple lines of description information for coping/moving/deleting files and they all look the same forcing you to really read what option you're looking for. How the hell is that easy?
Copying/moving files is laggy at best and unresponsive at times.
There are these crazy disk thrashing background services running from time to time that I have not figured out the cause of since I do have all indexing or system maintenance disable.
There's no TweakUI out yet for Vista so I have these beautiful icons with these huge ass shortcut icons on top of them that I so dearly would love to get rid of. Why is this never part of the OS?
Clicking on a folder in list view and selecting that folder pane to scroll through those files should be easy, right? Nope when you do highlight that area and start scrolling one wheel click it'll move one column over and then back again by itself for no reason at all.
The new Start Menu is stupidly restrictive. When digging through multiple folders for applications, you lose space for the application name with each subfolder so that Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes Microsoft In.... which loses the whole point of what a start menu should do.
The games menu is nice that it downloads the box art & categorizes automatically the games it finds on your system. It could be improved greatly if one could edit the game into a category of our own choice, create subfolders for groups of games, find games from Valve's Steam, allow old games like Doom 1 & 2 to be searched for properly, change the icon of the game because the box art is only good at large & extra large settings and the small icons look like crap, and if it downloads the box art why not suitable smaller icons as well?
The default option when shutting the system down is to shut it down to a low power mode instead of completely off. When I go to work, I don't want my PC left on. At all. Period. It just wastes electricity to save a few seconds of boot time? Whoop-de-do.
Power saving the hard drives causes them to 'click' repeatedly after it turns on and off after a week or so of use. I've never seen a Maxtor hard drive work properly with this feature on. It always screws things up for me. So it stays disabled and I never have a problem with my drives failing.
Plus one should wait a year or so for PowerDVD, Steam, iTunes, Nero, Roxio, NOD32, uTorrent, Filezilla... ect to fully support Vista. That, in addition, to not being an early adopter to play with constant 'not beta but still it's really a beta' drivers for Nvida, ATI, Creative.. ect.
Nvidia's settings panel looks like crap. Can't they invest some time in some nice looking icons?
BitTorrent apps like uTorrent & BitComet regularly crash because of MS's new network sta
Listed reasons as to why Vista sucks: That cool 'Areo Glass' GUI is totally ugly. You have a nice blue clear edges around the border of IE 7 when in a windowed size. When you fullscreen it, the boarder turns black. You can change the color transparency for the borders but not for the start menu bar so the colors match up nicely? Areo glass disables itself from time to time for whatever reason (usually Java). I have no need for the 3D alt-tab window mode. I run like 2 or three things at any point in time so it's really not that hard to figure out what I'm looking for. When typing in Firefox sometimes my mouse pointer rests on the taskbar on an application selection. That pops up the preview window which then in turn blocks you from typing in text boxes that are near it. Nice one MS! Be more annoying! You have an IE 7 back button on the top left corner during the setup installation and a regular 'next' grey rectangle box in the lower right corner. Note: Next & Previous buttons were always grouped together so why the fuck are they so far apart now? Then there's these huge ass popups with multiple lines of description information for coping/moving/deleting files and they all look the same forcing you to really read what option you're looking for. How the hell is that easy? Copying/moving files is laggy at best and unresponsive at times. There are these crazy disk thrashing background services running from time to time that I have not figured out the cause of since I do have all indexing or system maintenance disable. There's no TweakUI out yet for Vista so I have these beautiful icons with these huge ass shortcut icons on top of them that I so dearly would love to get rid of. Why is this never part of the OS? Clicking on a folder in list view and selecting that folder pane to scroll through those files should be easy, right? Nope when you do highlight that area and start scrolling one wheel click it'll move one column over and then back again by itself for no reason at all. The new Start Menu is stupidly restrictive. When digging through multiple folders for applications, you lose space for the application name with each subfolder so that Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes Microsoft In.... which loses the whole point of what a start menu should do. The games menu is nice that it downloads the box art & categorizes automatically the games it finds on your system. It could be improved greatly if one could edit the game into a category of our own choice, create subfolders for groups of games, find games from Valve's Steam, allow old games like Doom 1 & 2 to be searched for properly, change the icon of the game because the box art is only good at large & extra large settings and the small icons look like crap, and if it downloads the box art why not suitable smaller icons as well? The default option when shutting the system down is to shut it down to a low power mode instead of completely off. When I go to work, I don't want my PC left on. At all. Period. It just wastes electricity to save a few seconds of boot time? Whoop-de-do. Power saving the hard drives causes them to 'click' repeatedly after it turns on and off after a week or so of use. I've never seen a Maxtor hard drive work properly with this feature on. It always screws things up for me. So it stays disabled and I never have a problem with my drives failing. Plus one should wait a year or so for PowerDVD, Steam, iTunes, Nero, Roxio, NOD32, uTorrent, Filezilla... ect to fully support Vista. That, in addition, to not being an early adopter to play with constant 'not beta but still it's really a beta' drivers for Nvida, ATI, Creative.. ect. Nvidia's settings panel looks like crap. Can't they invest some time in some nice looking icons? BitTorrent apps like uTorrent & BitComet regularly crash because of MS's new network stack protocol they wrote from scratch. Internet services like AOL's movie download service will only work in IE 6.0 with Windows XP. Halo 2 for Vista at $60? No thanks. I like playing my old games and will wait til
We know Microsoft is abandoning their partners and creating their own store & music players. Was this done to hurt their competition? What will Zune's license restrictions be because it doesn't use WMP 11. To me, it seems like this was done for the competition because most of them are subscription services and not to permanently own anyway. That and WMP11 is in beta. Or its because MS can't fix their security holes. Who knows, who cares. I use iTunes for a few songs here and their and rip my music from CD's.
Has anyone bothered to make a Glide Emulator for some of those games that only supported Glide. There's got to be 1 or 2 Montezuma's Return fans out there :/
Eh? Is it too damn hard to double-click on the active menu tab to hide it? Geeez. This sounds like such a minor adjustment, I don't see what the big deal is. :/
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I'm sure Thome's wife mind it much these days with so much crap in it.
Would you pay $5.4 billion for a southbridge? AMD already has the northbridge slapped on thier CPU.
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Oh and Intel won't renew ATI's chipset license. So no chipsets for Intel anymore. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=3
AMD always had the capability to make thier own chipsets, they have choosen not to, that's all.
No if HT works up to 2ghz and a new GPU comes out and needs 3ghz, well... see the point? it's about point to point speed with HT being the bottleneck for upgrades.
Not the same thing. What companies (legit that is) does this prevent from being apart of system componets? I'm talking hardware, not software. Besides there'll be a hack to bypass that HDCP stuff anyway. Most likely the printscreen key, a magic marker, or something like that :)
Here's what I don't get. If they do that, how do you upgrade the memory bus bandwidth so that it's futureproof to a degree? Memory on graphics cards changes all the time. It's not just a GPU and Memory. It's everything in-between as well. Power voltages... ect.