When I moved to C++ about 20 years ago, I had a very good book called something like "From C to C++" which outlined the basic bottlenecks/problems etc in C one at a time and then showed how C++ could be used to overcome them.
I remember starting work on Monday fired up with my shiney new C++ knowledge and was really able to push the project I was working on to a new level. It took about a week to convert the project to compile with C++ (sans classes) and then another week to make a big step forward by encapsulating some of the code into classes.
Part of the attraction of consoles is that it is immediate entertainment. Unlike most other forms of entertainment (going out, going and renting a movie etc), consoles provide entertainment RIGHT NOW.
That is what many gamers want, right now.
So is anybody really surprised that having to wait for games to be released isn't satisfying some gamers?
> Actually (and if you go up a ways in the thread, somebody links to the Apple TIL explaining it) modern Macs do a "sleep+suspend" at the same time. When they go to sleep, they also write the contents of RAM to a file on the disk.
So after the battery is expired it can awaken from disk? If so then that is a new feature in OS/X I haven't come across before.
My 5 year old Dell goes into standby when I close the lid and then hibernates 3 hours later. I've not seen our office MBP's do anything differently, but then I don't leave them sleeping for two weeks;)
We currently have 4 systems running Vista RTM and a not one of them has any problem waking up from hibernate. They are a mix of P4, AMD XP, and Athlons.
We had Vista RC1 & 2 on other systems, both desktops & laptops, and they behaved perfectly as well.
They all respond perfectly to Wake-On-LAN too. I know this because our tape backup system sends WOL packets to the systems to do the backups.
Just the kind of incentive for capture-the-flag games.
Whoever gets the flag aims the robot. You can target enemy players at their PCs to distract them... or your own players who aren't pulling their weight:)
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The subject says it all. Sadly.
Yes, this place is that dead. There are far to many articles that are 'bullshiticles' (even duped
/. can't find anything more substantial to attack Vista on then they are basically saying that MS have actually got it right.
If the anti MS brigade on
And no, Vista isn't that locked down.
... we can counter global warming with nuclear winter!
...... oh wait ....
Yay, the planet is saved
Our test machines are AMD XP 1700+, 512MB, FX-5200 & 7200RPM IDE drives.
:)
They run vista fine (including Glass) and at comparable speeds to XP. They are running VS2005 & Office 2003 plus all the usual apps like Firefox etc.
I'd be surprised if your company doesn't have some systems of that calibre.
Apologies for the Monty Python reference
When I moved to C++ about 20 years ago, I had a very good book called something like "From C to C++" which outlined the basic bottlenecks/problems etc in C one at a time and then showed how C++ could be used to overcome them.
I remember starting work on Monday fired up with my shiney new C++ knowledge and was really able to push the project I was working on to a new level. It took about a week to convert the project to compile with C++ (sans classes) and then another week to make a big step forward by encapsulating some of the code into classes.
Part of the attraction of consoles is that it is immediate entertainment. Unlike most other forms of entertainment (going out, going and renting a movie etc), consoles provide entertainment RIGHT NOW.
That is what many gamers want, right now.
So is anybody really surprised that having to wait for games to be released isn't satisfying some gamers?
I think that is how it is pronounced ;)
... the right two words are of course - 'end users'.
> I am amazed that so few slashdotters (reading the first 10 posts or so) are unfamiliar with that term. (Do you all live under rocks or something?)
They may not live under rocks, but it would be interesting to know where they do live.
Here in Australia, 'sex worker' is a fairly common pseudonym for prostitute.
> Nothing PC about it.
An ironic comment from someone with a web address of http://whineymacfanboy.googlepages.com/ !
How boring our world has become.
;)
Old maps used to claim "Here be dragons", but today it is "Unallocated blocks".
Where has the mystery gone?
> Actually (and if you go up a ways in the thread, somebody links to the Apple TIL explaining it) modern Macs do a "sleep+suspend" at the same time. When they go to sleep, they also write the contents of RAM to a file on the disk.
;)
So after the battery is expired it can awaken from disk? If so then that is a new feature in OS/X I haven't come across before.
My 5 year old Dell goes into standby when I close the lid and then hibernates 3 hours later. I've not seen our office MBP's do anything differently, but then I don't leave them sleeping for two weeks
> you shut the lid on your iBook, and five seconds later, it's in zzz mode (with a battery life of about two weeks - I tested that once)
Welcome to standby, where the contents of your RAM are kept in RAM and the devices are still initialised.
Hibernate copies the RAM to hard disk along with the device state information. This is a lot slower, but lasts 'forever'.
> Linux: It doesn't suck. Indeed. Ubuntu 6.10 wakes up from hibernation just fine, and quickly, even on my old computers. How hard can it be?
How hard? Very!
Linux has had 2 (3?) separate attempts to get hibernate support working properly and while it is pretty good now it still isn't perfect.
Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
MacVista does murder sleep
We currently have 4 systems running Vista RTM and a not one of them has any problem waking up from hibernate. They are a mix of P4, AMD XP, and Athlons.
We had Vista RC1 & 2 on other systems, both desktops & laptops, and they behaved perfectly as well.
They all respond perfectly to Wake-On-LAN too. I know this because our tape backup system sends WOL packets to the systems to do the backups.
Yet Another NaN? ;)
Vista works fine on that config .. about the same as XP. Some things are a bit faster, some a bit slower, overall it's about the same.
;)
This must be the shortest review I've ever written
... that /. can find about Vista then Microsoft have won.
Just the kind of incentive for capture-the-flag games.
... or your own players who aren't pulling their weight :)
... if you are that way inclined ... yourself!
Whoever gets the flag aims the robot. You can target enemy players at their PCs to distract them
Or
Coming home in the car today, one of the radio news readers made a slip up and said that Bill Gates would be replacing Rumsfeld :)
... as I'd imagine the packages would have to fire at supersonic speeds to reach orbit.
... ugh!
A sonic boom every 5 minutes for 10 years
.... snnnnnzzzzzzzzzz
;)
I haven't seen any of them but the title alone is enough to induce somnolence.
Now if it was called Debbie Does Debian or something like that it might be a best seller
They don't love XP because it is an operating system, not a loved one!
If you feel you need to love an operating system, get therapy NOW!
Human ones.
;)
Have you never had a bug in software you've released?
If yes, you are human and fallible just like the poor sods who should get their bums kicked for this stuff up.
If no, then either you aren't telling the whole truth or I have to welcome you as our new alien overlord etc etc etc
Somehow I don't think Sony will be too pleased to have the PS3's success measured in flops ;)