Defrag slow...
Yeah on XP, it can take almost 20 minutes on a 80gig drive. How could they make it so SLOW...
Satire, intentional.
Of course it could be a bit faster if it wasn't built on a file system that is object based with token permissioins and journaling.
Oh wait, those are the file system patches Unix users are always installing and bragging about.
Actually IE was rebuilt from scratch in a shorter amount of time. Version 3.0 of the browser was released in 1997, and Version 4.0 of the browser was released in 1998.
Version 4.0 was a complete rewrite, including a desktop shell replacement for Windows95 that was also added to Windows98.
The contest continues, "How to discredit Microsoft even if you have to make it up, but make it sound believable" - Round Two.
What kills me is that the "new" SP finally has a lighted screen and still the game quality doesn't pass on what TurboGrafix was doing in 1991.
I still have an 'old' TurboGrafix Express with lighted screen, TV Tuner, and the game quality is on the same level as what is offered on the 'new' GameBoy Advanced system.
Don't get me wrong, the SP is a nice design and a good system, but why in the world haven't they evolved the technology further. Nintendo would rather capitalize on existing mass appeal than develop something that has some real processing power.
Even the Pocket PCs have better processors and gaming abilities.
Why Nintendo, why?
I think Microsoft should make a pocket XBOX, then at least we would have the best technology at the time instead of what the console manufacturers think they can get by with and still sell units.
WindowsXP Embedded on a 640x480 screen and call it Pocket XBOX. LOL
And this makes you different from the Islamic militants how? It appears that the same ignorance and hatred is a world wide human nature and not just created from select cultures.
Humboldt University has successfully found a way to produce Hydrogen Fuel cells using only Solar Energy and Water. It doesn't get much cheaper than Sunlight and Water. So the current cost comparison you refer to is dated.
Gas guzzlers are for close minded fools, and have helped to further create our dependence on countries like Iraq.
I suppose you hail Saddam every time you get in your SUV?
Hydrogen fuel cells with electric motors will not only dust combustion based vehicles in performance and power, but will not pollute the world or create dependence on foreign countries.
Somehow people forget that Novel Server used to cost $3,000 for a 5 license site, and glorious Wordperfect 5.1 cost over $600 just for a word processor.
People also forget that the main Unix variants at the time NT was launched cost several thousand dollars for a solid server product.
Microsoft came to the market with technilogically advanced software for a better price.
And now people are complaining that Microsoft charges too much and doesn't advance the technology far enough.
Does anyone else here remember how many years it took Wordperfect to get off the butts to produce an upgraded version of Wordperfect 5.1? They thought they had and market and had no interest in producing a new version for a long time. It wasn't until 'market competition' from Microsoft and Microsoft Word that 'forced' Wordperfect to throw their users a bone and upgrade Wordperfect to even having WYSIWYG inferface. Geesh.
And this was a couple years after Microsoft was literally begging Wordperfect to produce a new version for Windows that was graphical, by even offering them free development and free development support. Which Wordperfect flat refused because they thought the 5.1 version would hold out for more years than it did.
I get so tired of the 'stupid' Microsoft bashing. Sure they aren't a perfect company, but they were trying to get software into people's hands 'cheaply' and not screwing them over like Wordperfect, Novell, and Lotus did for years.
But now that you mention it, I can find several ways to hack, create viruses, and security instabilities by reading the Linux source...
Open source is only as safe as the smartest person that understands the code and if they are malicious or not.
You are either a fool or arrogant to believe that by disclosing the source to something makes it more capable or secure.
There are smarter people out here than the ones writing the code for Linux and other open source projects, and it will always just take one smart person with malicious intent to read the code, find a flaw, and create an open source nightmare.
Keep bashing closed source projects and you might just start to anger these people enough that they will turn on your open source projects and completely kill the open source movement by riddling it with viruses and exploiting every security invulnerability.
So no, I haven't seen the NTFS source and don't want any one else to either.
"even Windows XP does now"
Actualy XP(NT) supports and has always supported partitions and file sizes up to 16 exabytes, which is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. A far cry above 2 and 4 TB partitions.
Anyone ever see www.terraserver.com, thanks to NTFS and NT, several TBs of information are easily searchable and viewable, and have been for several years now.
(The only exception to the partition limitation in the NT history, is that Windows NT 4.0 and earlier versions required the SYSTEM/BOOT partition to be under 7.8gb do to the boot hardware specifications of the time.)
But other partitions are and have only been limited by hardware capabilities, at least until you hit the 16 exabyte NTFS limit.
Windows 2000 and XP (NT) can have a 16 exabyte boot/system partition if hardware supports it.
(This is why the NT Team that were some of the lead UNIX programmers of the era chose to create something that wasn't UNIX and therefore leave behind all the UNIX limitations, giving birth to NT with Subsystems, NTFS, etc, etc.)
However, recent studies have found that the reversal can happen almost instantly. And this could be very catastrophic.
By studying cooled lava flows in the Pacific, scientists were able to see many times in history, due to the quick generation of the lava flow layers, that the change can happen in a day or two, not the 1,000 years that was previously estimated by previous studies.
If it does happen in a day or two, then this could send the modern world back several generations. Many people don't realize how much of our world is dependant upon the existance and testing of magnetic north. It is used in everything from aircraft guidance systems, to satellite stabilization.
Also don't underestimate its effect on the world, or in areas that have not been studied or considered. How do we know how animals will react, or the mental acuity of humans? Remember that we have magnetically stimulated deposits throughout our body and especially concentrated in our brains. This could cause effects from disorientation to depression in a majority of the populace.
Who in the world is *Still* using a computer that has problems playing 720x486 full resolution video?
I have a 200mhz 80mb *OLD* Laptop with WindowsXP and can play videos uncompressed at this resolution without any dropped frames.
I understand your argument, but I don't know of a computer made since 1997 that can't pull data from the hard drive fast enough to display this video. (And I am just referencing a 5gb 4200rpm laptop drive here)
The SDRAM hard drive does not hardly have any practical uses, espeically when RAM is cheap.
If you are needing faster IO for video editing then simply drop more RAM in your system. Most OSes will use the extra RAM for the Cache to speed things up.
And If you need a RAM Drive to do video editing, buy more RAM, or a new CPU, Mainboard, and RAM; then run free RAMDrive drivers that are available for almost any OS. This will give you an EVEN faster Hard Drive.
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Defrag slow... Yeah on XP, it can take almost 20 minutes on a 80gig drive. How could they make it so SLOW... Satire, intentional. Of course it could be a bit faster if it wasn't built on a file system that is object based with token permissioins and journaling. Oh wait, those are the file system patches Unix users are always installing and bragging about.
Actually IE was rebuilt from scratch in a shorter amount of time. Version 3.0 of the browser was released in 1997, and Version 4.0 of the browser was released in 1998.
Version 4.0 was a complete rewrite, including a desktop shell replacement for Windows95 that was also added to Windows98.
The contest continues, "How to discredit Microsoft even if you have to make it up, but make it sound believable" - Round Two.
What kills me is that the "new" SP finally has a lighted screen and still the game quality doesn't pass on what TurboGrafix was doing in 1991. I still have an 'old' TurboGrafix Express with lighted screen, TV Tuner, and the game quality is on the same level as what is offered on the 'new' GameBoy Advanced system. Don't get me wrong, the SP is a nice design and a good system, but why in the world haven't they evolved the technology further. Nintendo would rather capitalize on existing mass appeal than develop something that has some real processing power. Even the Pocket PCs have better processors and gaming abilities. Why Nintendo, why? I think Microsoft should make a pocket XBOX, then at least we would have the best technology at the time instead of what the console manufacturers think they can get by with and still sell units. WindowsXP Embedded on a 640x480 screen and call it Pocket XBOX. LOL
And this makes you different from the Islamic militants how? It appears that the same ignorance and hatred is a world wide human nature and not just created from select cultures.
Cocksucking is Anti-American? Since when?
Humboldt University has successfully found a way to produce Hydrogen Fuel cells using only Solar Energy and Water. It doesn't get much cheaper than Sunlight and Water. So the current cost comparison you refer to is dated.
Gas guzzlers are for close minded fools, and have helped to further create our dependence on countries like Iraq. I suppose you hail Saddam every time you get in your SUV? Hydrogen fuel cells with electric motors will not only dust combustion based vehicles in performance and power, but will not pollute the world or create dependence on foreign countries.
"Crushed"
Somehow people forget that Novel Server used to cost $3,000 for a 5 license site, and glorious Wordperfect 5.1 cost over $600 just for a word processor.
People also forget that the main Unix variants at the time NT was launched cost several thousand dollars for a solid server product.
Microsoft came to the market with technilogically advanced software for a better price.
And now people are complaining that Microsoft charges too much and doesn't advance the technology far enough.
Does anyone else here remember how many years it took Wordperfect to get off the butts to produce an upgraded version of Wordperfect 5.1? They thought they had and market and had no interest in producing a new version for a long time. It wasn't until 'market competition' from Microsoft and Microsoft Word that 'forced' Wordperfect to throw their users a bone and upgrade Wordperfect to even having WYSIWYG inferface. Geesh.
And this was a couple years after Microsoft was literally begging Wordperfect to produce a new version for Windows that was graphical, by even offering them free development and free development support. Which Wordperfect flat refused because they thought the 5.1 version would hold out for more years than it did.
I get so tired of the 'stupid' Microsoft bashing. Sure they aren't a perfect company, but they were trying to get software into people's hands 'cheaply' and not screwing them over like Wordperfect, Novell, and Lotus did for years.
Arrogance is a result of ignorance.
Sexist and expectedly ignorant.
So do you normally attack all creativity when you don't understand it?
Sure, right from the source... Geesh...
But now that you mention it, I can find several ways to hack, create viruses, and security instabilities by reading the Linux source...
Open source is only as safe as the smartest person that understands the code and if they are malicious or not.
You are either a fool or arrogant to believe that by disclosing the source to something makes it more capable or secure.
There are smarter people out here than the ones writing the code for Linux and other open source projects, and it will always just take one smart person with malicious intent to read the code, find a flaw, and create an open source nightmare.
Keep bashing closed source projects and you might just start to anger these people enough that they will turn on your open source projects and completely kill the open source movement by riddling it with viruses and exploiting every security invulnerability.
So no, I haven't seen the NTFS source and don't want any one else to either.
"even Windows XP does now" Actualy XP(NT) supports and has always supported partitions and file sizes up to 16 exabytes, which is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. A far cry above 2 and 4 TB partitions. Anyone ever see www.terraserver.com, thanks to NTFS and NT, several TBs of information are easily searchable and viewable, and have been for several years now. (The only exception to the partition limitation in the NT history, is that Windows NT 4.0 and earlier versions required the SYSTEM/BOOT partition to be under 7.8gb do to the boot hardware specifications of the time.) But other partitions are and have only been limited by hardware capabilities, at least until you hit the 16 exabyte NTFS limit. Windows 2000 and XP (NT) can have a 16 exabyte boot/system partition if hardware supports it. (This is why the NT Team that were some of the lead UNIX programmers of the era chose to create something that wasn't UNIX and therefore leave behind all the UNIX limitations, giving birth to NT with Subsystems, NTFS, etc, etc.)
However, recent studies have found that the reversal can happen almost instantly. And this could be very catastrophic.
By studying cooled lava flows in the Pacific, scientists were able to see many times in history, due to the quick generation of the lava flow layers, that the change can happen in a day or two, not the 1,000 years that was previously estimated by previous studies.
If it does happen in a day or two, then this could send the modern world back several generations. Many people don't realize how much of our world is dependant upon the existance and testing of magnetic north. It is used in everything from aircraft guidance systems, to satellite stabilization.
Also don't underestimate its effect on the world, or in areas that have not been studied or considered. How do we know how animals will react, or the mental acuity of humans? Remember that we have magnetically stimulated deposits throughout our body and especially concentrated in our brains. This could cause effects from disorientation to depression in a majority of the populace.
Who in the world is *Still* using a computer that has problems playing 720x486 full resolution video? I have a 200mhz 80mb *OLD* Laptop with WindowsXP and can play videos uncompressed at this resolution without any dropped frames. I understand your argument, but I don't know of a computer made since 1997 that can't pull data from the hard drive fast enough to display this video. (And I am just referencing a 5gb 4200rpm laptop drive here) The SDRAM hard drive does not hardly have any practical uses, espeically when RAM is cheap. If you are needing faster IO for video editing then simply drop more RAM in your system. Most OSes will use the extra RAM for the Cache to speed things up. And If you need a RAM Drive to do video editing, buy more RAM, or a new CPU, Mainboard, and RAM; then run free RAMDrive drivers that are available for almost any OS. This will give you an EVEN faster Hard Drive.