I have a dual Pentium PC at work and I notice that it is a lot more responsive than a single CPU system. I.E: If I launch an app I don't have to wait for it to finish opening, I can immediately do other things. Hyperthreading trys to pretens that it's two CPUs, so it probably has this benifit as well.
Maybe this is a feature that is overlooked. All the reviewers seem to think speed is the only important thing.
Under Windows NT Outlook saves to this directory:
C:\WinNT\profiles\%username%\
I seem to remember that the "My documents" is used in Windows Me.
So, I think you just proved my origional point: it's a different directory for practiaclly every version of Windows.
Microsoft supposedly has already implemented the new licensing with PC manufactures according to the agreement. However according to Gateways testimony in March (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-868413.html) their current licensing allow MS to "grant or withhold market-development funds more or less at will". This seems to break the current agreement. Also in the article, "Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows." This seems to break the even the previous 1995 agreement!
So can Gateway complain? And how is an OEMs complaint going to be dealt with?
The application (word, office, whatever) saves your document in that loc by default, so when you need to copy it, you have to do a search on your harddrive to find whereever the hell the app decided to hide the file.
While we're on the topic (or off the topic, as the case maybe)... I want to know why they keep changing the default user directories:
In Windows 98 it's \Windows\Profiles\%Username% in Windows 2000 it's \Documents and Settings\%Username% in Windows NT it's \Winnt\Profiles\%Username% In Windows XP it's God knows what
After 5 releases you think they could make their minds up??
If you go to HPs website you can configure what SW you want on your PC. You save $100 if you choose WordPerfect instead of MS Word. Sounds good to me, if I'm buying a PC that only costs $500 to start with. Although I heard Coral make sweet f-all out out of this sale.
"Microsoft shall not retaliate against or threaten retaliation against an OEM... because it is known to Microsoft that the OEM is or is contemplating... shipping a Personal Computer that (a) includes both a Windows Operating System Product and a non-Microsoft Operating System, or (b) will boot with more than one Operating System
Good news for anyone who wants another chance at ordering a Linux-loaded Dell."
You will never see a _low cost_ Linux Dell machine.
My opinion is that Dell and Microsoft have a special agreement about this. Dell sells more PCs becuase of Microsoft and if they were to offer Linux they would just be hurting themselves.
As for other OEMs, remember that it only applies to the top 20. Microsoft is free to penialise the rest as before.
Yes, I thought that as well, but acording to Gateway's testmony (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-868413.html):
"Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows. To top it off, to qualify for market development funds, PC makers have to put a Microsoft OS on every PC. As a result, trying to sell non-Windows PCs, or even PCs without software, is a financial loser for computer makers."
And this is for the *new* agreement, which Microsoft has implemented ahead of time.
You are more or less right, but under certain circumstances Windows 2000 server doesn't take advantage of the Hyperthreading.
Read this:
http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/technology/ hyper-threading.html
"Windows.NET natively supports Hyper-Threading technology and is optimized to use with Hyper-Threading technology. Windows.NET is licensed by physical processor, but takes advantage of all logical processors and does not count logical processors against the license. For example, a 2P server with Intel Xeon(TM) processors running Windows.NET Server (2P support) will take advantage of four logical processors. Windows 2000 supports Hyper-Threading technology, but counts logical processors towards licensing. This means that the maximum number of logical processors available to the system is dependent upon the maximum number of physical processors that are supported by the operating system. For example, a 2P server running Windows 2000 Server (2P support) will only take advantage of two processors, even though 4 logical processors are available."
According to this artical:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/25774.html
Hyperthreading needs OS support and only Windows XP and Linux provide that
Another thing about Windows is that the user profile file (NTuser.dat for WinNT) progressively expands over time, which causes a degradation of performance, as this file is continuously accessed by the OS. Eventually after a couple of years the PC becomes so slow, that you are asking your boss for a new PC.
Could it be that MS left this bug in their OS, becuase it's in their interest to make users upgrade?
The Spanish bank I use, La Caixa, now supports Mozilla/Phoenix, (though it didn't work until Mozilla 0.97) ING direct Spain (http://www.ingdirect.es/) sort of works, but you can't make a transfer because there seems to be a bug in the javascript for that operation.
I never heard of OOo, but this only shows that OOo saves data in a more efficient manner than Word. Documents saved in Word XML will be bigger than normal Word documents
XML is a text format and therefore isn't suitable for encoding huge chunks of data. That's why JPEG, MPEG are in binary.
Users with 100 page documents are going to have to store them in the old Word format, either that or contend with gigabyte documents. You could try Compressing, but that would be a huge performace hit every time you try to save and open a document.
The 64-bit aspect of both the Itanium and Hammer processers is only really useful for applications that need to address more than 2 GB of RAM. For normal applications it has no advanatage.
Read this artical:
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=112
It's the other features of these processors that's really what's important
Hmm, if they really want acurate statistics maybe the should dectect the methods supported (document.all, layers, etc.) rather than the user agent string. Duh!
I remember reading something from Gateway's testimony in the recient court case, that Microsoft gets money for each PC that they sell, even if no MS OS is installed.
read here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename= article&node=&contentId=A17256-2002Mar25¬Found= true
"Among these, he said, is a prohibition on manufacturers from selling computers without any operating system, or a license for one. Fama said this forces computer makers to pay Microsoft royalties for the license regardless of whether its Windows operating system was installed."
Check out here: http://www.x86-64.org/faq/Port
There's no evidence at all to support that code compiled for 64-bit will run any faster, except for programs that address huge amounts of memory (but this is a very small percentage of the market)
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I have a dual Pentium PC at work and I notice that it is a lot more responsive than a single CPU system. I.E: If I launch an app I don't have to wait for it to finish opening, I can immediately do other things. Hyperthreading trys to pretens that it's two CPUs, so it probably has this benifit as well. Maybe this is a feature that is overlooked. All the reviewers seem to think speed is the only important thing.
By the way, forgot to mention, the default location is *not* customisable MS Outlook.
Under Windows NT Outlook saves to this directory: C:\WinNT\profiles\%username%\ I seem to remember that the "My documents" is used in Windows Me. So, I think you just proved my origional point: it's a different directory for practiaclly every version of Windows.
Microsoft supposedly has already implemented the new licensing with PC manufactures according to the agreement. However according to Gateways testimony in March (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-868413.html) their current licensing allow MS to "grant or withhold market-development funds more or less at will". This seems to break the current agreement. Also in the article, "Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows." This seems to break the even the previous 1995 agreement! So can Gateway complain? And how is an OEMs complaint going to be dealt with?
The application (word, office, whatever) saves your document in that loc by default, so when you need to copy it, you have to do a search on your harddrive to find whereever the hell the app decided to hide the file.
While we're on the topic (or off the topic, as the case maybe)...
I want to know why they keep changing the default user directories:
In Windows 98 it's
\Windows\Profiles\%Username%
in Windows 2000 it's
\Documents and Settings\%Username%
in Windows NT it's
\Winnt\Profiles\%Username%
In Windows XP it's God knows what
After 5 releases you think they could make their minds up??
If you go to HPs website you can configure what SW you want on your PC. You save $100 if you choose WordPerfect instead of MS Word. Sounds good to me, if I'm buying a PC that only costs $500 to start with. Although I heard Coral make sweet f-all out out of this sale.
"Microsoft shall not retaliate against or threaten retaliation against an OEM... because it is known to Microsoft that the OEM is or is contemplating... shipping a Personal Computer that (a) includes both a Windows Operating System Product and a non-Microsoft Operating System, or (b) will boot with more than one Operating System Good news for anyone who wants another chance at ordering a Linux-loaded Dell." You will never see a _low cost_ Linux Dell machine. My opinion is that Dell and Microsoft have a special agreement about this. Dell sells more PCs becuase of Microsoft and if they were to offer Linux they would just be hurting themselves. As for other OEMs, remember that it only applies to the top 20. Microsoft is free to penialise the rest as before.
Yes, I thought that as well, but acording to Gateway's testmony (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-868413.html): "Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows. To top it off, to qualify for market development funds, PC makers have to put a Microsoft OS on every PC. As a result, trying to sell non-Windows PCs, or even PCs without software, is a financial loser for computer makers." And this is for the *new* agreement, which Microsoft has implemented ahead of time.
You are more or less right, but under certain circumstances Windows 2000 server doesn't take advantage of the Hyperthreading. Read this: http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/technology/ hyper-threading.html
"Windows.NET natively supports Hyper-Threading technology and is optimized to use with Hyper-Threading technology. Windows.NET is licensed by physical processor, but takes advantage of all logical processors and does not count logical processors against the license. For example, a 2P server with Intel Xeon(TM) processors running Windows.NET Server (2P support) will take advantage of four logical processors. Windows 2000 supports Hyper-Threading technology, but counts logical processors towards licensing. This means that the maximum number of logical processors available to the system is dependent upon the maximum number of physical processors that are supported by the operating system. For example, a 2P server running Windows 2000 Server (2P support) will only take advantage of two processors, even though 4 logical processors are available."
According to this artical: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/25774.html
Hyperthreading needs OS support and only Windows XP and Linux provide that
Another thing about Windows is that the user profile file (NTuser.dat for WinNT) progressively expands over time, which causes a degradation of performance, as this file is continuously accessed by the OS. Eventually after a couple of years the PC becomes so slow, that you are asking your boss for a new PC. Could it be that MS left this bug in their OS, becuase it's in their interest to make users upgrade?
The Spanish bank I use, La Caixa, now supports Mozilla/Phoenix, (though it didn't work until Mozilla 0.97)
ING direct Spain (http://www.ingdirect.es/) sort of works, but you can't make a transfer because there seems to be a bug in the javascript for that operation.
I never heard of OOo, but this only shows that OOo saves data in a more efficient manner than Word. Documents saved in Word XML will be bigger than normal Word documents
XML is a text format and therefore isn't suitable for encoding huge chunks of data. That's why JPEG, MPEG are in binary. Users with 100 page documents are going to have to store them in the old Word format, either that or contend with gigabyte documents. You could try Compressing, but that would be a huge performace hit every time you try to save and open a document.
Yeah, but he's ment to be addressing the *public*, (see the title of the artical), not a room full of lawers
The 64-bit aspect of both the Itanium and Hammer processers is only really useful for applications that need to address more than 2 GB of RAM. For normal applications it has no advanatage. Read this artical: http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=112
It's the other features of these processors that's really what's important
What about the India train disaster, 100 people died and it happened yesterday and hardly even got a mention becuase of the 9/11
"ligaments surrounding the median nerve are cut to relieve pressure on the nerve" Sounds like a case like the cure being worse than the disease to me
Ever go out to meet some friends and find that most of the night you're only listening to them talk on their mobiles to other friends?
Hmm, if they really want acurate statistics maybe the should dectect the methods supported (document.all, layers, etc.) rather than the user agent string. Duh!
I remember reading something from Gateway's testimony in the recient court case, that Microsoft gets money for each PC that they sell, even if no MS OS is installed. read here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename= article&node=&contentId=A17256-2002Mar25¬Found= true
"Among these, he said, is a prohibition on manufacturers from selling computers without any operating system, or a license for one. Fama said this forces computer makers to pay Microsoft royalties for the license regardless of whether its Windows operating system was installed."
Check out here: http://www.x86-64.org/faq/Port There's no evidence at all to support that code compiled for 64-bit will run any faster, except for programs that address huge amounts of memory (but this is a very small percentage of the market)