It is a byproduct of how they handle the resolution switch. Windows supports a temporary switch which will not destroy all window & icon positions. Likely SDL does not support this method.
Even still, it is not hard to support every resolution, I myself have done it and it only took an hour or so to handle.
How much of that 50GB disc actually goes toward the movie? About 15-18GB. How much bandwidth does Netflix HD use? 3.5megabits/s. That's 163 hours of HD content. Not sure how much the SD movies use.
There aren't that many HD streams on Netflix, sadly. You'd run out of HD things to watch pretty quick, unless you like to watch the same thing over and over. Even if you were able to watch your full cap on just HD, it would be 6.7 days worth of content in a 30/31 day period. That's 1/5th of the total time of the month watching something in HD.
I guess you haven't priced DSL in the same area as Comcast, ever. These markets overlap very often, and you get exactly what you'd think. Higher price, but higher speed. In some places, much higher speeds.
Right click, properties, turn off desktop compositing & visual themes, run in 256 colors & 640x480, run in compatability mode for XP SP2.
This is all that is needed to run most old games, such as StarCraft. The 256 colors w/ 640x480 is not necessary for all games, but I found it helps StarCraft.
While I think the idea of getting stuff over time is fun, I agree about the balance issue here. For instance, my PS3 is out being fixed, unlikely to be back by the time this game is released. After I get my PS3, I will be only a couple weeks behind, but because of the unlocks I will likely not be able to climb my way up.
Gears 2 has really good local multiplayer options, but it's only 2 player splitscreen I think.
Halo 3 has 4 player splitscreen, but no bots.
DOOM on XBLA has 4 player local co-op.
It will, but there was a fiasco where videos you had previously from the iTunes store would not play through the VGA port, even though they did before an update. So if you wanted to watch them on a TV or a larger monitor you were hosed.
All your objections seem to be based in opinion and hearsay.
For instance, you can run XP as non-admin, but that doesn't make it easy. Lots of programs break, the program files folder is writeable for all, some things within the OS do not work if the user logged on is not an admin (installing services, video card drivers, etc).
IE7 without permissions on XP is still exploitable. IE in Vista runs as a dedicated IE user, seamlessly without having to enter info every single time. (therefor it is wife friendly).
You say you have Blu-Ray on XP, illegally I assume since there is no more info given here.
2000 indeed supported translucency, but it either had to be supported by the app or you used a hook to enable it. In 2000 the effec is all done in software, but in vista it is in hardware.
Vista's start menu is much faster to use than XP's. Click, start typing what you want to run and there it is (usually in 3 characters). Much faster for me than digging through XP's start menu. (Note: it will also find things not on the start menu, great for opening documents).
"However, I can't install Vista on the box, even without Aero"
"I have a translucent Aero interface on XP that runs faster than Vista." - you might have something similar, but it is definitely not the same as Aero. I've seen the transformation pack in action, and it often bogs the system down. A clean XP install is much smoother. An old Vista install on the same system runs smooth just the same.
"I don't automatically hate Microsoft or Microsoft products. I'm not a fanboy. I keep a Windows partition, and I work primarily as a SysAdmin on Windows boxes."
Vista has:
Much improved ability to run as non-admin. (life saver!)
IE in a sandbox (again, life saver)
Compositing in the video drivers instead of cpu
A much better start menu
The ability to recover from crashed video drivers
Legally supports Blu-Ray / other media.
Vista's Media Center abilities are far better than Windows MCE.
I disagree. Windows 2000 was good in some ways, but it was not a consumer OS. XP brought all the needed functionality and compatability that was needed to make it a consumer OS. Windows 2000's video drivers ran slower than XP's, so it was not as gamer friendly. Lots of older apps would not run in Win2K, but they will in XP because of the extra compatability layers.
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It is a byproduct of how they handle the resolution switch. Windows supports a temporary switch which will not destroy all window & icon positions. Likely SDL does not support this method. Even still, it is not hard to support every resolution, I myself have done it and it only took an hour or so to handle.
For shame people should actually want to get work done with a well maintained debug environment!
How much of that 50GB disc actually goes toward the movie? About 15-18GB.
How much bandwidth does Netflix HD use? 3.5megabits/s. That's 163 hours of HD content. Not sure how much the SD movies use.
There aren't that many HD streams on Netflix, sadly. You'd run out of HD things to watch pretty quick, unless you like to watch the same thing over and over. Even if you were able to watch your full cap on just HD, it would be 6.7 days worth of content in a 30/31 day period. That's 1/5th of the total time of the month watching something in HD.
I guess you haven't priced DSL in the same area as Comcast, ever. These markets overlap very often, and you get exactly what you'd think. Higher price, but higher speed. In some places, much higher speeds.
With a 250GB cap per month, you would need to download 8.3GB every day for 30 days. Those 100s of MB per day are still within the cap.
Right click, properties, turn off desktop compositing & visual themes, run in 256 colors & 640x480, run in compatability mode for XP SP2.
This is all that is needed to run most old games, such as StarCraft. The 256 colors w/ 640x480 is not necessary for all games, but I found it helps StarCraft.
While I think the idea of getting stuff over time is fun, I agree about the balance issue here. For instance, my PS3 is out being fixed, unlikely to be back by the time this game is released. After I get my PS3, I will be only a couple weeks behind, but because of the unlocks I will likely not be able to climb my way up.
Gears 2 has really good local multiplayer options, but it's only 2 player splitscreen I think. Halo 3 has 4 player splitscreen, but no bots. DOOM on XBLA has 4 player local co-op.
There are probably more Vista users than Wine users, so I think the summary is inaccurate.
Why does everyone think you use OpenGL on the PS2/PS3/Wii? It's just not what is done. You write to the metal for that card using a thin layer.
MS paid a company to license it's zip technology, and it's very basic.
It will, but there was a fiasco where videos you had previously from the iTunes store would not play through the VGA port, even though they did before an update. So if you wanted to watch them on a TV or a larger monitor you were hosed.
All your objections seem to be based in opinion and hearsay.
For instance, you can run XP as non-admin, but that doesn't make it easy. Lots of programs break, the program files folder is writeable for all, some things within the OS do not work if the user logged on is not an admin (installing services, video card drivers, etc).
IE7 without permissions on XP is still exploitable. IE in Vista runs as a dedicated IE user, seamlessly without having to enter info every single time. (therefor it is wife friendly).
You say you have Blu-Ray on XP, illegally I assume since there is no more info given here.
2000 indeed supported translucency, but it either had to be supported by the app or you used a hook to enable it. In 2000 the effec is all done in software, but in vista it is in hardware.
Vista's start menu is much faster to use than XP's. Click, start typing what you want to run and there it is (usually in 3 characters). Much faster for me than digging through XP's start menu. (Note: it will also find things not on the start menu, great for opening documents).
"However, I can't install Vista on the box, even without Aero"
"I have a translucent Aero interface on XP that runs faster than Vista." - you might have something similar, but it is definitely not the same as Aero. I've seen the transformation pack in action, and it often bogs the system down. A clean XP install is much smoother. An old Vista install on the same system runs smooth just the same.
"I don't automatically hate Microsoft or Microsoft products. I'm not a fanboy. I keep a Windows partition, and I work primarily as a SysAdmin on Windows boxes."
Vista has:
Much improved ability to run as non-admin. (life saver!)
IE in a sandbox (again, life saver)
Compositing in the video drivers instead of cpu
A much better start menu
The ability to recover from crashed video drivers
Legally supports Blu-Ray / other media.
Vista's Media Center abilities are far better than Windows MCE.
How is the support for HDCP intrusive? It's only enabled while playing a file that requests that kind of DRM.
If you want to see real intrusive DRM, get a Macbook with just a vga port and try to play protected iTunes videos...
I disagree. Windows 2000 was good in some ways, but it was not a consumer OS. XP brought all the needed functionality and compatability that was needed to make it a consumer OS. Windows 2000's video drivers ran slower than XP's, so it was not as gamer friendly. Lots of older apps would not run in Win2K, but they will in XP because of the extra compatability layers.
We already had access to vote information. Such as Mr Obama likes to vote 'present' quite often.
I wonder if he even used the same ethernet cables... So many variables here...
Updated drivers since likely Ubuntu's drivers are newer.... etc.
That's less DRM related and more driver differences. Someone up above mentioned an ISO mounter that currently works under Windows 7.
Your problem sounds like a printer driver bug. You seem to have fallen into the common troll trap of blaming MS for a 3rd party problem.
Only USB in the Air and the MacBook. Only the Pro has firewire.
I have the WRT310N and have a valid IPv6 address from it. Make sure your computer hardware supports it also, as it must be supported on both ends.
WTF are you talking about? WRT54G had IPV6.
http://www.ipv6-to-standard.org/view_id.php?id=8675
I have an 800mhz FSB laptop and it has no troubles with Vista. I updated it to 4GB of RAM and it flies (2 2GB sticks are only $60 or less).