Same here. Both my notebook and desktop work without any problems with sleep and hibernation under vista. Sleep did not work on either of them under winxp. This sound like unfounded ms bashing by someone who got frustated.
if it's a Media Player decision, does that mean that this only matters if you use WMP? If that's the case, I'll continue using my vastly superior ZoomPlayer, thankyouverymuch. (Though I don't plan on ever buying HD-DVD or Blu Ray movies.)
It is probably not media player itself, but the hd codec. If this is implemented, how soon will the driver signing get hacked or bypassed so all drivers appear to be signed?
Given how Starforce works fine on some systems, then totally buggers others up, without knowing how Microsoft test it, I'm not convinced anything has changed. Starforce is still a damaging trojan.
Yes, but it is a 'Designed for windows XP' trojan now...
MS probably uses just a few test systems to run its test on. How many drivers are WHQL certified but are still crap? A lot of them. Certification of starforce is another example that their certification means absolutely nothing.
Just because your corporate PCs are from some time in the 90s, doesn't mean we all have that problem. My ThinkPad has Bluetooth and IR, has since I got it. ThinkPads are the laptop of choice for business, which makes both features pretty mainstream.
He was talking about desktops, not notebooks. How many new desktops have irda? None. How many have bluetooth? A few.
If you've bought the game, you already have a way to use it legitimately. Refusing to use that way and supporting pirates by using the cracked version of the game is still illegal. No matter how you try to spin it, it's still illegal. And, if you really did legally buy the game, it's also extremely pointless and stupid.
If you look at the various forums, you will see that is sometimes is needed to use a crack to be able to play a copy protected game you bought. It happens too often that 'compatibility issues' with the protection prevent a legally bought game from functioning on vcertain hardware. For some games, like unreal tournament 2004, the copy protection was removed in a later patch because of too much incompatibility issues.
I don't see why they don't fashion some sort of electrical disruption device, like those trident things out of "2 Fast, 2 Furious" that the cops just shot into a car. Not only were they effective (unless the drive manages to somehow lean out of the window far enough to reach the back of the car and prize the 2 foot spear out of the bodywork while travelling at 100mph), but they look cool too.
If the car is driving at a high speed and all electronics stop functioning, the car becomes uncontrollable and a crash will be unavoidable, which almost certainly means someone will die.
I, for one, think this is great. It now *forces* companies like Creative, NVidia, ATI, RealTek, and other big hardware vendors to make their drivers go through and pass Windows Hardware Quality Labs testing. I know that doesn't guarantee it 100% perfectly working driver, but in my experience it does mean generally better drivers, which in turn means a more stable system. That's a good thing for millions of consumers, coming at the cost of... $500/year for corporations.
WHQL testing does not lead to better drivers. I had a lot of problem with drivers that were WHQL tested and failed to work. That certification process means absolutely nothing.
If I use Qt to build a UI for my application, I can licence my app however I darn well please. I only need to include the GPL as an additional license for the Qt portion of my app.
Yes, but the QT code must be separate from the application for this to work. It may not be part of the applications executable, as stated in the LPGPL license:
When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work, a derivative of the original library. The ordinary General Public License therefore permits such linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria of freedom. The Lesser General Public License permits more lax criteria for linking other code with the library.
An application to balance my check book is not in any way, shape, or form derrived from Qt.
Looking at the above text, it is if you link it against the qt libraries.
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QT/w32 is believe is now GPL as are all version , but you may also purchase a commercial license if you so wish
Yes, QT for windows is GPL, but you must buy commercial licenses because it is GPL and not LGPL.
If you make an application using a GPL library your application is a derrived work, which means it is also GPL.
If you use a LGPL library, your application does not have to be open source, but it must mention somewhere it uses the library.
FPGAs tend to have a much lower clock speed than most CPUs. What tends to happen in mainstream hardware is first a function is done completely in software. As more and more users use those functions they get moved into hardware. FPGAs are sort of a halfway step. Functions that are not fast enough in software but not used by enough people to put into hardware.
Since when is an FPGA not hardware? You may have variations, like RAM based, ROM based, OTP (one time programmable) or mask ROM (programmed in the factory). It is still hardware.
The clock speed of an FPGA may be lower (nearing 1GHz) than a modern CPU, but they are a lot faster in throughput. A cpu is general purpose and conatains a lot of 'overhead' you do not need for a dedicated FPGA progrsm.
A CPU must fetch the instruction, decode it, stuff it in the right pipeline for use by the ALU, FPU, bus controoler, etc, and finaly executes it. On most FPGAs it is much simpler: fetch instruction and execute it. This makes the FPGAs lower clock speed not an issue.
Most functions don't get 'moved into hardware', but often in mask ROM FPGAs. In larger volumes they are cheaper than normal RAM or ROM based ones. Only a few companies (the larger chipset makers like intel, via, amd, etc) make a specializedc chip of their design, others use mask ROM FPGAs.
Probably lack of bandwidth or Microsoft Windows update isn't intuitive enough.
People abroad don't have the same kind of connection of those in developped countries, and MS Windows XP SP2 is big.
Do you mean that, except for yours, every country is undeveloped?
Same people don't have the same amount of information from the press, about viruses, worms and other security menances. Because only a small percentage of the population have computers. So the people aren't aware of those menances and don't care about them.
The amount of information is not the problem. The type of information is. Most non-technical people don't understand most of the stuff about virusses, troyans, spyware, etc. It is not the problem that they don't care, it is just that they don't know. Experienced it first hand: friends did not see spyware as a bad thing until I told them what spyware actually does.
I have the 533 MHz model with a gig of ram and quite like it as well. So far it runs win 2k though that could stand to be replaced. How do you find X works with the onboard graphics?
I run it as a moatly headless network server, so I don't have X running on it, but it should perform nicely for normal tasks (* or 16 MB video, SVGA resolution). 3D graphics will probably don't work well.
Probably VIA EPIA would do the trick. Maybe something like this:
I have an EPIA M10000 running linux at home as a fileserver (samba, nfs, ftp), mailserver (imap + webmail) and internet gateway. It does not use much power and it is small. With its 1GHz CPU and 256MB DDR RAM it perfect for this use.
Just because fairly ubiquitous bandwidth makes it *less* of a nuisance than it was not too many years ago doesn't make it any less not his bandwidth and disk space, and cpu cycles, etc.
Indeed. Most of the damage is not done to the user, but to the ISP, backbone providers and hosting providers. For the user it might be an annoyance, but for them it costs money.
An easy way to protect against lots of Malware would be a dialog that asks the user for confirmation whenever a program wants to use any of the numerous ways to start itself on every Windows boot.
Yes, but the problem is that most not-so-technical computer users just click without knowing what the question is about. It happens a lot with spyware nowadays. A message is shown on a web page to click accept if a certain dialog appears. Most users will just do this and get infected.
It is neither; it is IP, TCP, UDP, DNS and so on. These were all invented in the US. And the specific item in question is not the internet at large, but DNS in particular.
MS and Intel have a lot of weight. This will probably cause both standards to be released, and then the superior marketing will win.
These new technologies will probably be launched in asian countries first. Microsoft and intel both have an image problem there, which can be a big disadvantage for them.
With MS and Intel backing, superior marketing will likely be HD-DVD, and again we will be left with the inferior format.
Looking at the list of supporters for Blu-ray and HD DVD you will see that most of the big players in audio / video hardware market are on the side of blu-ray. Both intel and microsoft are not considered big players in that market.
Don't forget that there are a lot of companies building A/V hardware, but there a a few that manufacture the internals of those devices.
I would rather concentrate on building technology and common sense (don't build a city below water level - for example)
You must build strong buildings, not cardboard houses. That's for sure.
Building a city below sea level should not be a problem if you protect it properly. I live in the Netherlands where most part of the country is below sea level.
Except that they are removing the GDI functionality. All GDI calls will just act as special wrapers back to the vector display calls. MS is not making this OS to be a simple upgrade from XP.
where did you get this 'info'? Sounds totally bogus.
They started from scratch and they are compartmentalizing or outright removing a lot of legacy stuff (which is good, it leads to better design overall). The GDI is one such module that has been removed.
hmm, lets see:
Windows '95 was written from scratch
Windows NT4 was written from scratch
Windows XP was written from scratch
Those were not written from scratch, neither is vista. It is based on windows XP.
We have to admit, Windows XP is very much superior to Linux and *BSD on notebooks for ease of use of Infrared, PCMCIA stuff, Bluetooth and USB.
I actually have a triple boot notebook (Windows XP Pro, Fedora Core 4 and FreeBSD 5.4). The things I can say is that windows is not superior on this machine. Lets name a few:
Wifi: under windows the signal is fluctuating like crazy, sometimes I have a very poor signal, even when the notebook is almost touching the access point. Sometimes I have disable and reenable the wifi adapter to get a better signal. I don't see these problems under linux.
Power management: Notebooks runs a lot cooler and quieter than under windows. CPU frequency scaling is a lot better, which improves battery life.
Hot pluggable devices like USB and PCMCIA work without problems on all three operating systems.
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Someone Did that years ago.
Bu seriously: Why do we need yet another programming language?
Same here. Both my notebook and desktop work without any problems with sleep and hibernation under vista.
Sleep did not work on either of them under winxp.
This sound like unfounded ms bashing by someone who got frustated.
It is probably not media player itself, but the hd codec.
If this is implemented, how soon will the driver signing get hacked or bypassed so all drivers appear to be signed?
Yes, but it is a 'Designed for windows XP' trojan now...
MS probably uses just a few test systems to run its test on.
How many drivers are WHQL certified but are still crap? A lot of them.
Certification of starforce is another example that their certification means absolutely nothing.
He was talking about desktops, not notebooks.
How many new desktops have irda? None.
How many have bluetooth? A few.
If you look at the various forums, you will see that is sometimes is needed to use a crack to be able to play a copy protected game you bought.
It happens too often that 'compatibility issues' with the protection prevent a legally bought game from functioning on vcertain hardware.
For some games, like unreal tournament 2004, the copy protection was removed in a later patch because of too much incompatibility issues.
If the car is driving at a high speed and all electronics stop functioning, the car becomes uncontrollable and a crash will be unavoidable, which almost certainly means someone will die.
WHQL testing does not lead to better drivers.
I had a lot of problem with drivers that were WHQL tested and failed to work.
That certification process means absolutely nothing.
Maybe they are paid to stop creating software. That will improve security
Yes, but the QT code must be separate from the application for this to work. It may not be part of the applications executable, as stated in the LPGPL license:
Looking at the above text, it is if you link it against the qt libraries.
Yes, QT for windows is GPL, but you must buy commercial licenses because it is GPL and not LGPL.
If you make an application using a GPL library your application is a derrived work, which means it is also GPL.
If you use a LGPL library, your application does not have to be open source, but it must mention somewhere it uses the library.
Since when is an FPGA not hardware? You may have variations, like RAM based, ROM based, OTP (one time programmable) or mask ROM (programmed in the factory). It is still hardware.
The clock speed of an FPGA may be lower (nearing 1GHz) than a modern CPU, but they are a lot faster in throughput.
A cpu is general purpose and conatains a lot of 'overhead' you do not need for a dedicated FPGA progrsm.
A CPU must fetch the instruction, decode it, stuff it in the right pipeline for use by the ALU, FPU, bus controoler, etc, and finaly executes it.
On most FPGAs it is much simpler: fetch instruction and execute it.
This makes the FPGAs lower clock speed not an issue.
Most functions don't get 'moved into hardware', but often in mask ROM FPGAs. In larger volumes they are cheaper than normal RAM or ROM based ones.
Only a few companies (the larger chipset makers like intel, via, amd, etc) make a specializedc chip of their design, others use mask ROM FPGAs.
Do you mean that, except for yours, every country is undeveloped?
The amount of information is not the problem. The type of information is.
Most non-technical people don't understand most of the stuff about virusses, troyans, spyware, etc.
It is not the problem that they don't care, it is just that they don't know.
Experienced it first hand: friends did not see spyware as a bad thing until I told them what spyware actually does.
I run it as a moatly headless network server, so I don't have X running on it, but it should perform nicely for normal tasks (* or 16 MB video, SVGA resolution). 3D graphics will probably don't work well.
I have an EPIA M10000 running linux at home as a fileserver (samba, nfs, ftp), mailserver (imap + webmail) and internet gateway.
It does not use much power and it is small. With its 1GHz CPU and 256MB DDR RAM it perfect for this use.
Indeed. Most of the damage is not done to the user, but to the ISP, backbone providers and hosting providers. For the user it might be an annoyance, but for them it costs money.
Yes, but the problem is that most not-so-technical computer users just click without knowing what the question is about.
It happens a lot with spyware nowadays. A message is shown on a web page to click accept if a certain dialog appears.
Most users will just do this and get infected.
Look at the list of DNS root servers. The majority of them is located outside of the US.
It is not important who invented the internet. It is more important who pays to keep it up and running.
These new technologies will probably be launched in asian countries first.
Microsoft and intel both have an image problem there, which can be a big disadvantage for them.
Looking at the list of supporters for Blu-ray and HD DVD you will see that most of the big players in audio / video hardware market are on the side of blu-ray. Both intel and microsoft are not considered big players in that market.
Don't forget that there are a lot of companies building A/V hardware, but there a a few that manufacture the internals of those devices.
You must build strong buildings, not cardboard houses. That's for sure.
Building a city below sea level should not be a problem if you protect it properly.
I live in the Netherlands where most part of the country is below sea level.
where did you get this 'info'? Sounds totally bogus.
They started from scratch and they are compartmentalizing or outright removing a lot of legacy stuff (which is good, it leads to better design overall). The GDI is one such module that has been removed.
hmm, lets see:
Those were not written from scratch, neither is vista. It is based on windows XP.
Why not? AFAIK an EULA is still not a legal binding document (like a signed contract), so what will macromedia be able to do about it?
I actually have a triple boot notebook (Windows XP Pro, Fedora Core 4 and FreeBSD 5.4). The things I can say is that windows is not superior on this machine. Lets name a few:
Wifi: under windows the signal is fluctuating like crazy, sometimes I have a very poor signal, even when the notebook is almost touching the access point. Sometimes I have disable and reenable the wifi adapter to get a better signal. I don't see these problems under linux.
Power management: Notebooks runs a lot cooler and quieter than under windows. CPU frequency scaling is a lot better, which improves battery life.
Hot pluggable devices like USB and PCMCIA work without problems on all three operating systems.
It was reported it was a exhaustion induced heart attack.
So the most logical conclusion is that it is not playing the game that killed him, but playing it for 50 hours.
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