I'm sure you'll be modded to hell (who knows, maybe me too), but I agree with you entirely.
Take design advice from the people who brought us "magic quotes" and a configurability that makes it such a pain in the ass to write websites that will work the same on different servers? No thanks!
I definately don't want to just watch random people play games - G4 already had stuff like that, last time I flipped to them (many years ago). Does anyone actually watch their midnight run of "playing games to techno" filler?
I wouldn't mind seeing some of the big competition matches occasionally - Fatal1ty, et al. Players who actually have some strategy can be pretty entertaining. Given the amount of high profile competitions that go on these days, they should have no shortage of footage.
Since that law was passed it seems one company every 2 or 3 months ends up announcing a huge amount of SSNs, credit card numbers, or otherwise private info has been "misplaced" etc.
Makes me wonder how much crap was lost before that law and were never told about.
If it takes you 10x longer to design the content and the person viewing the page can find what they want 10x faster then is it really a net gain?
Maybe it won't make sense if only a single person is viewing it, but with hundreds, the gain could be very useful. Not just to the readers, but the writer too - if 100 people view the doc and 75% of them are able to understand it better thanks to this, that's much less questions the writer will have to waste time answering.
I havn't had much problems with it either, other than the driver signing crap. There are little quirks here and there but those should all be fixed pretty quickly considering how much people they've got working there.
I also did page loading benchmarks using FireFox in XP and IE7 in Vista. I found IE7 rendered pages at least twice as fast in most cases.
That is hardly a benchmark of Vista - Firefox (on Windows at least) has always been *much* slower at rendering compared to IE.
1) Does this matter? I don't need Microsoft being big brother - why can't I get the choice to turn it off? The very people who would actually care about signing are probably smart enough to be sure what they are installing is safe!
2) You don't need to pay any money to develop on Vista - all the tools needed are free.
3) Signing does not mean code will be stable. It does not mean it won't be malicious, or that it won't have hidden backdoors ie Sony. It just means you will be able to verify something is from who it says it's from. Saying that you trust some random company with your system because they payed $500 for a license is just stupid.
4) I do not hate Microsoft. I have a few friends who work there and in fact I like Vista very much. This is the only thing that bothers me about it, both as a user and an Open Source developer.
The fact that you can't turn this off is proof enough that Microsoft didn't make it because it cares about its users. It's all for DRM.
And it still has the ridiculus mandatory driver signing, forcing freeware/open source developers to shell out $500 for a certificate if they want to make drivers that work on x64. All for their precious trusted computing. Wouldn't want those evil x64 criminals installing drivers to rip hd-dvds would they?
If you want the IT guys to steal lunch, you've got to bait them with something caffeinated and something sugary. Try some Bawls, Mt. Dew, and Skittles.
I love to use and code Open Source stuff as much as the next guy, but shouldn't schools/governments be worrying about the best tool for the job instead of making blanket statements like "100% open source by 20xx"?
Maybe lack of driver support? Then again, even though its feature set moves like molasses and causes developers extension headaches, I still prefer the OpenGL API over DirectX9 even though I use C++ a lot more than C. DX10 is supposed to have an entirely different API so maybe I'll give it another chance.
If someone did make an Open Source implementation, I wonder if Microsoft would pounce with patents. I feel like they only tolerate Cedega because it's far from perfect and in a way helps put out a message (be the message true or not) that Linux isn't ready for gaming.
If you have that many access databases, you are probably misusing it. Import all that data into SQL Server, and start from there.
There is no magic way to make sense of a database schema.. the best you'll do is grabbing a GUI that visualizes it.
I remember older Geforce cards could be turned into a Quatro just by uploading new firmware to the card's flash. They were essentially the same cards but with some features disabled on the Geforce. I wonder if is can still be done?
I have to say, this would be pretty neat - take all of the images on Google Images for instance and be able to take a high-def virtual tour of places around the world.
Be sure to check out PlayAnywhere too - another neat tech that's being made over at Microsoft Research.
Hmm? The Office beta is still under private testing - and testers get it for free. They are there to provide input. I'm sure people using the public release can provide input but I doubt Microsoft ever intended it as more of a preview to get people talking.
Apparently my dad was put on this a while ago when he flew into Las Vegas.
Nobody bothered him that day, but a few days later when he was checking in to go back home he was told he was put on a watch list. I guess the checkin person probably shouldn't have told him that, but she said it only meant a little extra attention on him at the airport and not to worry.
Since then, no one at checkin has mentioned him being on a list. However after that he hasn't been allowed to go back into the terminal to pick up my younger brother (which he had done several times before).
I think the *AA need to burn just as much as the next guy, but downloading a movie over services like bittorrent means you are also uploading too. So while it's not immoral to download it for yourself, you might be helping spread it to people who are getting it illegally (if you are using P2P).
Regardless of who owns it, I think YouTube demonstrates that if you build a big enough tube it won't be clogged. Proof enough against the new ISP moneygrab, if you ask me!
I'd say it is much different from copying files because it has to test for all kinds of hardware, generate a lot of configs and other file structures.
The alternative to the image based install? Up until recently the betas have used the traditional installer and it was like watching paint dry - literally, it took 2 to 3 hours (with a non-working progress bar to boot). The latest beta took about 20min to install and an extra 10min to do first boot configuration.
Compared to XP's install, Vista takes maybe 10 minutes longer and that's not bad considering the astounding 12GiB (for the x64 version. I think x86 takes 8GiB) it copies to the HDD.
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I'm sure you'll be modded to hell (who knows, maybe me too), but I agree with you entirely.
Take design advice from the people who brought us "magic quotes" and a configurability that makes it such a pain in the ass to write websites that will work the same on different servers? No thanks!
I definately don't want to just watch random people play games - G4 already had stuff like that, last time I flipped to them (many years ago). Does anyone actually watch their midnight run of "playing games to techno" filler?
I wouldn't mind seeing some of the big competition matches occasionally - Fatal1ty, et al. Players who actually have some strategy can be pretty entertaining. Given the amount of high profile competitions that go on these days, they should have no shortage of footage.
Since that law was passed it seems one company every 2 or 3 months ends up announcing a huge amount of SSNs, credit card numbers, or otherwise private info has been "misplaced" etc.
Makes me wonder how much crap was lost before that law and were never told about.
but it's application-level for most things. Nothing you can do about it through Windows.
1) Does this matter? I don't need Microsoft being big brother - why can't I get the choice to turn it off? The very people who would actually care about signing are probably smart enough to be sure what they are installing is safe!
2) You don't need to pay any money to develop on Vista - all the tools needed are free.
3) Signing does not mean code will be stable. It does not mean it won't be malicious, or that it won't have hidden backdoors ie Sony. It just means you will be able to verify something is from who it says it's from. Saying that you trust some random company with your system because they payed $500 for a license is just stupid.
4) I do not hate Microsoft. I have a few friends who work there and in fact I like Vista very much. This is the only thing that bothers me about it, both as a user and an Open Source developer.
The fact that you can't turn this off is proof enough that Microsoft didn't make it because it cares about its users. It's all for DRM.
And it still has the ridiculus mandatory driver signing, forcing freeware/open source developers to shell out $500 for a certificate if they want to make drivers that work on x64. All for their precious trusted computing. Wouldn't want those evil x64 criminals installing drivers to rip hd-dvds would they?
If you want the IT guys to steal lunch, you've got to bait them with something caffeinated and something sugary. Try some Bawls, Mt. Dew, and Skittles.
I love to use and code Open Source stuff as much as the next guy, but shouldn't schools/governments be worrying about the best tool for the job instead of making blanket statements like "100% open source by 20xx"?
Just wait until they hit the turbo button- then it will use 2x the MHz to spit out a 2x faster car!
So if I threaten to sue game companies I can get free prerelease copies of their games? Bring in the lawyers!!
Maybe lack of driver support? Then again, even though its feature set moves like molasses and causes developers extension headaches, I still prefer the OpenGL API over DirectX9 even though I use C++ a lot more than C. DX10 is supposed to have an entirely different API so maybe I'll give it another chance.
If someone did make an Open Source implementation, I wonder if Microsoft would pounce with patents. I feel like they only tolerate Cedega because it's far from perfect and in a way helps put out a message (be the message true or not) that Linux isn't ready for gaming.
If you have that many access databases, you are probably misusing it. Import all that data into SQL Server, and start from there. There is no magic way to make sense of a database schema.. the best you'll do is grabbing a GUI that visualizes it.
duh? Isn't it common knowledge that machines with many choices that appeal to a broader audience will come out on top?
I remember older Geforce cards could be turned into a Quatro just by uploading new firmware to the card's flash. They were essentially the same cards but with some features disabled on the Geforce. I wonder if is can still be done?
I have to say, this would be pretty neat - take all of the images on Google Images for instance and be able to take a high-def virtual tour of places around the world.
Be sure to check out PlayAnywhere too - another neat tech that's being made over at Microsoft Research.
Hmm? The Office beta is still under private testing - and testers get it for free. They are there to provide input. I'm sure people using the public release can provide input but I doubt Microsoft ever intended it as more of a preview to get people talking.
I wonder if that was a marketing-friendly "our architecture can not scale to 8 cores, so desktops have no use for that"
Apparently my dad was put on this a while ago when he flew into Las Vegas.
Nobody bothered him that day, but a few days later when he was checking in to go back home he was told he was put on a watch list. I guess the checkin person probably shouldn't have told him that, but she said it only meant a little extra attention on him at the airport and not to worry.
Since then, no one at checkin has mentioned him being on a list. However after that he hasn't been allowed to go back into the terminal to pick up my younger brother (which he had done several times before).
I think the *AA need to burn just as much as the next guy, but downloading a movie over services like bittorrent means you are also uploading too. So while it's not immoral to download it for yourself, you might be helping spread it to people who are getting it illegally (if you are using P2P).
Regardless of who owns it, I think YouTube demonstrates that if you build a big enough tube it won't be clogged. Proof enough against the new ISP moneygrab, if you ask me!
Enough with Battlefront, bring back the Jedi! Jedi Academy (the last Knights game) was great, I really wish they would start it up again.
I'd say it is much different from copying files because it has to test for all kinds of hardware, generate a lot of configs and other file structures.
The alternative to the image based install? Up until recently the betas have used the traditional installer and it was like watching paint dry - literally, it took 2 to 3 hours (with a non-working progress bar to boot). The latest beta took about 20min to install and an extra 10min to do first boot configuration.
Compared to XP's install, Vista takes maybe 10 minutes longer and that's not bad considering the astounding 12GiB (for the x64 version. I think x86 takes 8GiB) it copies to the HDD.
I was under the impression that the ratings are supposed to measure about how much faster the CPU is than the original Athlon.