These are still normal applications you install on your computer. The only "Cloud" is the online storage, and you install the application from the web. The software complains every 30 days for you to authenticate it, but it will run for three months without re-authentication. But you can run it day to day without an Internet connection.
Spending $2k and getting four years of usage isn't a very good deal compared to this new offer.
CS6 Master Collection retails for $2,600, though it's on sale for $2,100 on Amazon. $50/month x 48 = $2,400 so $300 more over those four years. Spreading out the cost of the purchase and getting all updated versions seems like the better deal.
That's true, but they do offer a 30-day trial if you just wanted to check out the software. That $75 for the single month is also access to the whole creative suite, not just a single app.
If they are using Student pricing they should use the $30/month Student pricing on the cloud version though it's on a special for $20/month right now.
This includes access to everything, not just Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign which make up Creative Suite Design and costs the same as the yearly cloud price.
The Tesla cards were never video cards though. They were just for computing, so there wasn't a reason for them to support DirectX. The Titans on the other hand are amazing cards.
So you don't like features such as vastly superior multi-core support, SSD trim support, being able to use >3.5GB RAM on a consumer supported OS. Not to mention being design around actual security.
When XP came out people hated it and stuck with 98. It wasn't until XP SP2 that people really started coming around to it and for some reason choose to stick with it.
Vista was mainly a flop because it required people to upgrade their old systems to take advantage of all of the features. 7 had the fortune of coming out three years later and more people were upgraded to modern tech. It was also lighter on it's resource usage.
Besides the much hated metro interface, 8 is actually even better than 7. It's even lighter on it's resources, has faster booting (8 sec from hard off to useable desktop with SSD). And it has a fixed scheduler that makes it so threads don't get stuck running on a hyperthread core which would happen in 7.
What does XP have besides "running" on 12 year old hardware?
How do you run this classic interface on Server 2012? I'm running it right now and it has the start screen rather than a start button just like Windows 8.
Totally Games still exists at least on paper. There last game was an iPhone game in 2010 though.
Chris Roberts is also still around, and just did a Kickstarter where he raised more than 8 million dollars to make a new game. It will contain a single player campaign that will be Wing Commander in everything but its name. The game will also have a Buy to Play online multiplayer component that might be any Wing Commander Privateer fans biggest wish.
There have been a few idie space combat games released recently like SOL: Exdous, and Strike Suit Zero. Who knows if Lawrence Holland suddenly pops up out of no where, most of the old Sierra adventure games designers all have new crowd funded projects in development right now.
Yup, you get to wait a year from when it's aired for subscribers.
With many people cutting the cord, subscribing to HBO isn't an option, thankfully it looks like they are open to the idea of allowing a digital only subscription to access HBO-Go.
Your options are currently: 1) Subscribe to cable and HBO and watch on Live TV, HBO OnDemand, DVR, or online via HBO-Go 2) Wait a year for the Blu-Ray and DVD boxset 3) Click the torrent for the new episode posted 5-10 minutes after it finishes airing, and wait 10-15 minutes for the download and play it on any hardware you have.
It might not be legit, but you aren't really giving the consumer choices, having it available on Amazon Instant Video where you purchase each episode or the full season and have a one to two week delay would be reasonable. But waiting for a whole year when illegal option is available all that time?
This same practice hurt the movie industry where a movie would come out and then be available in its country of origin on DVD before it heads across the global for release in theaters. Or PC games released 8 months later due to translation/localization. What happens when the global release is within a few weeks of one another? There is less piracy as people can get their fix.
That just moves the MyDocs folder. There are more folders than that, and not all of them have a GUI set target folder option. My method has all files and folders with the account on the new drive.
That's true, and if you are worried enough to encrypt your user data partition, you should do your system partition as well to make sure everything is being properly encrypted.
This post was to address the fact that that it isn't difficult to separate the users directory from the C: drive. Software throwing files all over the place isn't new, but thankfully most are following recommend procedure which puts everything in the user's directory.
I've kept my system drive and "home" separate on Windows since I've used XP over ten years ago.
The process I used in XP, Vista, 7 and 8 is as follows. 1) Install Windows with only one drive connected to make sure bootldr is on the system drive. 2) During installation, setup a temporary throw away administrative account. 3) Connect another other hard drives to your system and boot into the throw away account 4) Setup the drive / partition you want to have user data on. I recommend creating a root "Documents and Settings" or "Users" folder but you can call it whatever you want, and place it anywhere you want. 5) Open regedit and modify the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList - Change the ProfilesDirectory key from "%SystemDrive%\Users" to "d:\Users" or where you want user data to go. 6) Create a new administrator account that you will keep. 7) Log out of the throw away account and into your new main account. Your "home" directory will be placed under D:\Users\username or where ever you setup for key. 8) Delete the throw away account, and delete user files for it.
This process keeps the Default and Public user folders on the C: drive, but it is possible to move them and modify the registry keys for them in the same location as the ProfilesDirectory key if you want. I never have anything under them so I leave them on the system drive.
I've never ran into any software that doesn't behave correctly while having my user data on a secondary partition. Other instructions to move a user directory have you changing the path in multiple keys in the registry. This method causes the user account to be setup with all of the paths already pointing to the desired location.
What backup software are you using that requires imaging the whole drive with every backup? You will need to do a single full backup for the initial backup, and then only changes are synced over on whatever backup schedule you do, I have my backups setup to do the incrementals daily. You would then configure your backup software how it you want it to keep data, maybe keep the first of the month snapshot for three months, with a yearly that rotates out every other year.
TrueCrypt encrypting a drive has no effect on the backup process. You're running Windows 7 and backups in Windows will use Volume Shadow Copy which access the drive after TrueCrypt decrypts it. For example you fully encrypt your system partition, after booting into Windows you create a backup of the drive. You restore the backup to another drive. The restored backup will not be encrypted. You might be able to find some software that would do a low level raw read of an HDD and backup each sector, but that's horribly inefficient in both backup speed, and required amount of storage for each backup.
Check out Microsoft OneNote. It gives you greater flexibility than just using Outlook at a note keeping tool. The hardest part will be adjusting your workflow, OneNote is free form so it's difficult to jump into as you are learning what organization method works best for you versus adjusting to one imposed by the application you are using.
How is this insightful? These people obvious have never dealt with snow and ice. It's easy to be going 15MPH and stepping on the brake (/w anti-lock brakes) 75ft from a stop sign, and still slide out into the intersection is you are on an un-treated road, and there is a invisible thin layer of ice forming on the road.
It's also been proved that red light cameras cause more accidents since people freak out over them and drive like idiots around them.
I noticed the same thing moving from a Q6600 to a Sandybridge i7 2600K. Most games double their frame rates with the same GTX 480 I was using in the Q6600.
Yes your GPU is a very large factor, but don't discount the CPU entirely.
SQL Reporting Services is limited when it comes to highly formatted data in Excel. You have more control when outputting a PDF, but you can't get near the level of customization as you can with Crystal Reports. Then again your reporting guy might be lazy, most of us are when we look at some of the extremely complex reports. Then you try making it and have something complaining how formatting might be a pixel or two off. That kills most of our productivity.
You still may be able to retire your current solution by porting the Applescript formatting to an Excel macro that executes when the file is opened. Then you can update the data in the file in one of three ways.
1) Setup the Excel file to pull from the database as an external data source. When the file is opened it will pull data from the database and apply formatting. To lock this down you would have the file pull from a View and you can then lock down to the people who have access to the data.
2) Setup the Excel file to pull from an external data source that is a file. You would schedule the SQL server to generate a few data file and place it somewhere network accessible. This is useful if the query to pull the data takes a long time to run. You would lock this down by placing permissions on the network share.
3) Setup a scheduled task on the SQL server to modify the Excel file. You can have a hidden tab where you data is placed. Then have a T-SQL program that opens the file and overwrites the tab with new data. You can then have the task email out the new file.
Look into OPENROWSET if you are interested in SQL -> Excel.
UPDATE OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;DATABASE=c:\MySpreadsheet.xls', 'Select * from MyTable') SET Field1='Value1' WHERE Field2 = 'Value2'
What formattimg are you performing on the reports? Couldn't you perform it in t-sql and email right from sql server? If it's very complex why not us sql reporting services? This would give you on demand reports as well as handle the automatically emailed reports.
The Nexus 7 supports USB OTG. You just need a MicroUSB -> Female Fullsize USB.OTG adapter. You'll be able to connect a keyboard, mouse, thumb drive, etc. I'm sure there is some things it can't do, but it's far more than charging and connecting as mass storage.
The game could be configured to stream textures. Normally you'd see a difference with pop-in or noticeable LOD where you have a low res texture replaced by a high res one.
Or as you said, the game's code is really shotty, and it's constantly writing to the disk or something.
Did you do this upgrade yet? It would be trivial to run off integrated graphics, and then test again with the GPU(s). Since you were running SLI, you should get better performance. But it would be interesting to compare a single 9800GT to a 4000HD.
That doesn't really return anything stating your point. Any bias doesn't change the fact that an i3 will keep up with a bulldozer for many games. It's only when something can make sure of more than the two cores that you'll see a difference.
AMD used to own the low-mid range, but Intel came out of their slump and have been delivering great price/performance parts.
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If the boxed versions of CS weren't DRM'd to hell and didn't require periodic calls back to the mothership you might have a point.
These are still normal applications you install on your computer. The only "Cloud" is the online storage, and you install the application from the web. The software complains every 30 days for you to authenticate it, but it will run for three months without re-authentication. But you can run it day to day without an Internet connection.
Spending $2k and getting four years of usage isn't a very good deal compared to this new offer.
CS6 Master Collection retails for $2,600, though it's on sale for $2,100 on Amazon. $50/month x 48 = $2,400 so $300 more over those four years. Spreading out the cost of the purchase and getting all updated versions seems like the better deal.
That's true, but they do offer a 30-day trial if you just wanted to check out the software. That $75 for the single month is also access to the whole creative suite, not just a single app.
If they are using Student pricing they should use the $30/month Student pricing on the cloud version though it's on a special for $20/month right now.
This includes access to everything, not just Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign which make up Creative Suite Design and costs the same as the yearly cloud price.
Unfortunate? Anyone who doesn't get the reference should be happy they are fortunate enough to not have watched Dinosaurs.
The Tesla cards were never video cards though. They were just for computing, so there wasn't a reason for them to support DirectX. The Titans on the other hand are amazing cards.
So you don't like features such as vastly superior multi-core support, SSD trim support, being able to use >3.5GB RAM on a consumer supported OS. Not to mention being design around actual security.
When XP came out people hated it and stuck with 98. It wasn't until XP SP2 that people really started coming around to it and for some reason choose to stick with it.
Vista was mainly a flop because it required people to upgrade their old systems to take advantage of all of the features. 7 had the fortune of coming out three years later and more people were upgraded to modern tech. It was also lighter on it's resource usage.
Besides the much hated metro interface, 8 is actually even better than 7. It's even lighter on it's resources, has faster booting (8 sec from hard off to useable desktop with SSD). And it has a fixed scheduler that makes it so threads don't get stuck running on a hyperthread core which would happen in 7.
What does XP have besides "running" on 12 year old hardware?
How do you run this classic interface on Server 2012? I'm running it right now and it has the start screen rather than a start button just like Windows 8.
Totally Games still exists at least on paper. There last game was an iPhone game in 2010 though.
Chris Roberts is also still around, and just did a Kickstarter where he raised more than 8 million dollars to make a new game. It will contain a single player campaign that will be Wing Commander in everything but its name. The game will also have a Buy to Play online multiplayer component that might be any Wing Commander Privateer fans biggest wish.
There have been a few idie space combat games released recently like SOL: Exdous, and Strike Suit Zero. Who knows if Lawrence Holland suddenly pops up out of no where, most of the old Sierra adventure games designers all have new crowd funded projects in development right now.
Yup, you get to wait a year from when it's aired for subscribers.
With many people cutting the cord, subscribing to HBO isn't an option, thankfully it looks like they are open to the idea of allowing a digital only subscription to access HBO-Go.
Your options are currently:
1) Subscribe to cable and HBO and watch on Live TV, HBO OnDemand, DVR, or online via HBO-Go
2) Wait a year for the Blu-Ray and DVD boxset
3) Click the torrent for the new episode posted 5-10 minutes after it finishes airing, and wait 10-15 minutes for the download and play it on any hardware you have.
It might not be legit, but you aren't really giving the consumer choices, having it available on Amazon Instant Video where you purchase each episode or the full season and have a one to two week delay would be reasonable. But waiting for a whole year when illegal option is available all that time?
This same practice hurt the movie industry where a movie would come out and then be available in its country of origin on DVD before it heads across the global for release in theaters. Or PC games released 8 months later due to translation/localization. What happens when the global release is within a few weeks of one another? There is less piracy as people can get their fix.
That just moves the MyDocs folder. There are more folders than that, and not all of them have a GUI set target folder option. My method has all files and folders with the account on the new drive.
That's true, and if you are worried enough to encrypt your user data partition, you should do your system partition as well to make sure everything is being properly encrypted.
This post was to address the fact that that it isn't difficult to separate the users directory from the C: drive. Software throwing files all over the place isn't new, but thankfully most are following recommend procedure which puts everything in the user's directory.
I've kept my system drive and "home" separate on Windows since I've used XP over ten years ago.
The process I used in XP, Vista, 7 and 8 is as follows.
1) Install Windows with only one drive connected to make sure bootldr is on the system drive.
2) During installation, setup a temporary throw away administrative account.
3) Connect another other hard drives to your system and boot into the throw away account
4) Setup the drive / partition you want to have user data on. I recommend creating a root "Documents and Settings" or "Users" folder but you can call it whatever you want, and place it anywhere you want.
5) Open regedit and modify the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList - Change the ProfilesDirectory key from "%SystemDrive%\Users" to "d:\Users" or where you want user data to go.
6) Create a new administrator account that you will keep.
7) Log out of the throw away account and into your new main account. Your "home" directory will be placed under D:\Users\username or where ever you setup for key.
8) Delete the throw away account, and delete user files for it.
This process keeps the Default and Public user folders on the C: drive, but it is possible to move them and modify the registry keys for them in the same location as the ProfilesDirectory key if you want. I never have anything under them so I leave them on the system drive.
I've never ran into any software that doesn't behave correctly while having my user data on a secondary partition. Other instructions to move a user directory have you changing the path in multiple keys in the registry. This method causes the user account to be setup with all of the paths already pointing to the desired location.
What backup software are you using that requires imaging the whole drive with every backup? You will need to do a single full backup for the initial backup, and then only changes are synced over on whatever backup schedule you do, I have my backups setup to do the incrementals daily. You would then configure your backup software how it you want it to keep data, maybe keep the first of the month snapshot for three months, with a yearly that rotates out every other year.
TrueCrypt encrypting a drive has no effect on the backup process. You're running Windows 7 and backups in Windows will use Volume Shadow Copy which access the drive after TrueCrypt decrypts it. For example you fully encrypt your system partition, after booting into Windows you create a backup of the drive. You restore the backup to another drive. The restored backup will not be encrypted. You might be able to find some software that would do a low level raw read of an HDD and backup each sector, but that's horribly inefficient in both backup speed, and required amount of storage for each backup.
Check out Microsoft OneNote. It gives you greater flexibility than just using Outlook at a note keeping tool. The hardest part will be adjusting your workflow, OneNote is free form so it's difficult to jump into as you are learning what organization method works best for you versus adjusting to one imposed by the application you are using.
How is this insightful? These people obvious have never dealt with snow and ice. It's easy to be going 15MPH and stepping on the brake (/w anti-lock brakes) 75ft from a stop sign, and still slide out into the intersection is you are on an un-treated road, and there is a invisible thin layer of ice forming on the road.
It's also been proved that red light cameras cause more accidents since people freak out over them and drive like idiots around them.
I noticed the same thing moving from a Q6600 to a Sandybridge i7 2600K. Most games double their frame rates with the same GTX 480 I was using in the Q6600.
Yes your GPU is a very large factor, but don't discount the CPU entirely.
SQL Reporting Services is limited when it comes to highly formatted data in Excel. You have more control when outputting a PDF, but you can't get near the level of customization as you can with Crystal Reports. Then again your reporting guy might be lazy, most of us are when we look at some of the extremely complex reports. Then you try making it and have something complaining how formatting might be a pixel or two off. That kills most of our productivity.
You still may be able to retire your current solution by porting the Applescript formatting to an Excel macro that executes when the file is opened. Then you can update the data in the file in one of three ways.
1) Setup the Excel file to pull from the database as an external data source. When the file is opened it will pull data from the database and apply formatting. To lock this down you would have the file pull from a View and you can then lock down to the people who have access to the data.
2) Setup the Excel file to pull from an external data source that is a file. You would schedule the SQL server to generate a few data file and place it somewhere network accessible. This is useful if the query to pull the data takes a long time to run. You would lock this down by placing permissions on the network share.
3) Setup a scheduled task on the SQL server to modify the Excel file. You can have a hidden tab where you data is placed. Then have a T-SQL program that opens the file and overwrites the tab with new data. You can then have the task email out the new file.
Look into OPENROWSET if you are interested in SQL -> Excel.
UPDATE OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;DATABASE=c:\MySpreadsheet.xls', 'Select * from MyTable') SET Field1='Value1' WHERE Field2 = 'Value2'
What formattimg are you performing on the reports? Couldn't you perform it in t-sql and email right from sql server? If it's very complex why not us sql reporting services? This would give you on demand reports as well as handle the automatically emailed reports.
Are you using Start8 or Classic Shell? Both have options to disable the charm bar.
The Nexus 7 supports USB OTG. You just need a MicroUSB -> Female Fullsize USB.OTG adapter. You'll be able to connect a keyboard, mouse, thumb drive, etc. I'm sure there is some things it can't do, but it's far more than charging and connecting as mass storage.
The game could be configured to stream textures. Normally you'd see a difference with pop-in or noticeable LOD where you have a low res texture replaced by a high res one.
Or as you said, the game's code is really shotty, and it's constantly writing to the disk or something.
Did you do this upgrade yet? It would be trivial to run off integrated graphics, and then test again with the GPU(s). Since you were running SLI, you should get better performance. But it would be interesting to compare a single 9800GT to a 4000HD.
That doesn't really return anything stating your point. Any bias doesn't change the fact that an i3 will keep up with a bulldozer for many games. It's only when something can make sure of more than the two cores that you'll see a difference.
AMD used to own the low-mid range, but Intel came out of their slump and have been delivering great price/performance parts.