Maybe they would let me trade media player, outlook express, and IE for this feature:)
I know, I am being idealistic, most people can't even change their default browser...
I dislike it when people use less crashes when arguing that someone should use Linux over windows. The kernel probably does crash less than windows, but when it comes to apps and some of the newish GUI config tools, they crash on me fairly often, and most people aren't going to separate application crashes and full blown OS crashes. And as much as I dislike XP it's rare that it completely dies on me. Same goes for 2000. Stability is not the best argument for Linux on the desktop.
No I don't think so. Just give the user the option of specifying what can and cannot be hibernated. So in the case of Windows there would be a Fast User Switching config applet in the control panel, and in there I could specify what applications the system can put to sleep when my account is switched. Swapping out hardware shouldn't affect that at all.
Or a better idea would be to give users the option of setting a parameter on an app by app basis that allows the process to be hibernated. System resources get saved and nobody aside from the OS vendor has to do any coding to deal with it.
I think that the best approach to FUS would be to hibernate processes that aren't needing an active network connection. So if I am running Word, Mozilla, and LimeWire and switch Word and Moz should hibernate but not LimeWire. That couldn't be that hard to do.
Yeah, same here. I am in middle Tennessee and we have pretty solid digital coverage. More often than not you get no signal rather than analog. I have a Cingular TDMA phone, and coverage is pretty good. Now Cingular GSM coverage on the other hand....
I agree totally. And what I think is odd about everyone on Slashdot whining about RFID and privacy violations, is that most of the people on here probably carry around a cell phone, which could be used to track you much more easily than RFID tags ever could.
I think speedpass works using RFID, but it might be something similar. Anyway I have one (well sorta, my credit card expired and I never updated my profile) and it needs to be really damn close to the reader thing to pick up. I don't see how people think this is going to invade privacy. It'd be one thing if they could be picked up from miles away, but if it works like Speedpass that won't be the case.
Yes, that's exactly what I hate about the expansions. It's like here you go, a collection of 650MB of crap you could download online for free. I wouldn't resent it as much if my gf's daughter didn't need to have every $30 bitmap collection they release though.
I could be wrong, but I believe most if not all of the expansions retailed at about $29.99.
And if this is the last expansion does that mean they are finally going to do some real work and produce a Sims 2, rather than milking the same damn game for years?
To that end they have done very well. And from what I hear.net not really a bad thing.
In fact I am kind of pleased that C# seems to be taking off. I'm almost finished with my associates degree in cis, and out of the classes I have taken(pascal, c, c++, 2 VBs, java) C++ is by far my favorite language, with java in second. So at least if I have to work in a MS dominated world I can use a language that is similar to the my two favs.
I thought the dropping of.net in marketing was really just reflecting that they figured out advertising what is basically a new development platform/api to everyone under the sun just led to confusion.
In a way it'd be like Apple running around pushing iChat.cocoa or Mac OS X Server.cocoa. Most people don't need to know it exists.
You mean Xbox +.net + investments in wifi and mesh networks = ubiqutious connectivity and single vendor lock-in for users, and maybe some subscription only software as well?
Wasn't that in a way how the PS3/cell thing was supposed to work, some huge distributed network powering massive online games? I thought it was a bit ambitious and destined to fail, but it's a nice idea.
Another interesting thing I have notice, and I could be making a blanket statement here, is that XBOX owners in general don't seem to be a) all that into gaming b) tech savvy. The number of people I have seen wandering around rental places asking how to make their XBOX be online is pretty high. The XBOX also seems to sell to a crowd of older males that seem to see gaming validated as not geeky because MS is making a console, and as you know MS is technology.
400k online is that domestic or worldwide? How many XBOX are there in customers hands?
And if I recall correctly the Live kit was $50ish, and that got you on for 12 months. I assme the cost there will rise eventually, it'll be interesting to see if they can maintain their subscriber base in the fact of a monthly fee. $50 a year has to be a loss leader, that network didn't come cheap.
yeah, but anyone who felt so inclined could run a quake3 server, which probably isn't going to be the case with console online games. Serving all has to be done by the publisher or whoever, and they aren't going to incur that cost for free.
I haven't heard much about either XBOX Live or the PS2 online stuff since they launched. I would be interested to see the numbers of XBox in the wild, and the number of those that are using XBOX Live. It seems to me that that the service has a pretty narrow audience. You have to have the XBOX, have to have broadband, have to be willing to get hardware to get it online (cable, hub, WiFi, etc), possibly run cable, and then buy the Live kit. How many people are actually doing this? Same goes for the PS2 network except I would think the audience is a bit wider there since some games will deal with dial-up.
I myself couldn't care less about online gaming, and I think Nintendo is right at this point. For many people it's to much bother, all to get your ass handed to you by somebody who lives to play xyz Online.
And offtopic but I think it'd be awesome if Rockstar used the PS2 network to stream new radio station content in GTA5(or whatever it'll be called). Radio stations were the best feature of that game, and that would be a nifty use of the PS2's online capability.
Actually more to the point here is why I think Linux on the desktop is doomed to fail. Linux is built on idealism, it's built by geeks for geeks, and it's flexibility doesn't lend to easy deployment for commercial software vendors. It also doesn't offer any useless wizbang features like OSX does. Quartz isn't really terribly useful, but it looks damn cool. Damn cool looking brings attention and users. More users brings more commercial development. And in the case of OSX you have the BSD foundation, which makes getting what you liked from Linux onto OSX easy. OSX is the best of both worlds. I like Linux, I think it has potential in the server arena, but give up on the desktop.
I think it's going to happen, they are going to completely rip off Apple's business model, and it's not going to be a good thing for anyone. And it will work unless they make Windows a subscription service type deal, which I don't think they are dumb enough to do.
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Maybe they would let me trade media player, outlook express, and IE for this feature:) I know, I am being idealistic, most people can't even change their default browser...
I dislike it when people use less crashes when arguing that someone should use Linux over windows. The kernel probably does crash less than windows, but when it comes to apps and some of the newish GUI config tools, they crash on me fairly often, and most people aren't going to separate application crashes and full blown OS crashes. And as much as I dislike XP it's rare that it completely dies on me. Same goes for 2000. Stability is not the best argument for Linux on the desktop.
No I don't think so. Just give the user the option of specifying what can and cannot be hibernated. So in the case of Windows there would be a Fast User Switching config applet in the control panel, and in there I could specify what applications the system can put to sleep when my account is switched. Swapping out hardware shouldn't affect that at all.
Or a better idea would be to give users the option of setting a parameter on an app by app basis that allows the process to be hibernated. System resources get saved and nobody aside from the OS vendor has to do any coding to deal with it.
Hey I can dream.
I think that the best approach to FUS would be to hibernate processes that aren't needing an active network connection. So if I am running Word, Mozilla, and LimeWire and switch Word and Moz should hibernate but not LimeWire. That couldn't be that hard to do.
Yeah, same here. I am in middle Tennessee and we have pretty solid digital coverage. More often than not you get no signal rather than analog. I have a Cingular TDMA phone, and coverage is pretty good. Now Cingular GSM coverage on the other hand....
I agree totally. And what I think is odd about everyone on Slashdot whining about RFID and privacy violations, is that most of the people on here probably carry around a cell phone, which could be used to track you much more easily than RFID tags ever could.
I think speedpass works using RFID, but it might be something similar. Anyway I have one (well sorta, my credit card expired and I never updated my profile) and it needs to be really damn close to the reader thing to pick up. I don't see how people think this is going to invade privacy. It'd be one thing if they could be picked up from miles away, but if it works like Speedpass that won't be the case.
Yes, that's exactly what I hate about the expansions. It's like here you go, a collection of 650MB of crap you could download online for free. I wouldn't resent it as much if my gf's daughter didn't need to have every $30 bitmap collection they release though.
That's not good enough. I want to decapitate my neighbors wife and put her head on a pole in his yard, and then throw his dog on the grill.
I'm holding out out for the Sims Serial Killer and/or the Sims Dysfunctional Family, the possibilities there are numerous.
I could be wrong, but I believe most if not all of the expansions retailed at about $29.99.
And if this is the last expansion does that mean they are finally going to do some real work and produce a Sims 2, rather than milking the same damn game for years?
I'm an information systems major at Nashville State Technical whatever, and many of the people I am taking programming courses with are this clueless.
To that end they have done very well. And from what I hear .net not really a bad thing.
In fact I am kind of pleased that C# seems to be taking off. I'm almost finished with my associates degree in cis, and out of the classes I have taken(pascal, c, c++, 2 VBs, java) C++ is by far my favorite language, with java in second. So at least if I have to work in a MS dominated world I can use a language that is similar to the my two favs.
I thought the dropping of .net in marketing was really just reflecting that they figured out advertising what is basically a new development platform/api to everyone under the sun just led to confusion.
.cocoa. Most people don't need to know it exists.
In a way it'd be like Apple running around pushing iChat.cocoa or Mac OS X Server
You mean Xbox + .net + investments in wifi and mesh networks = ubiqutious connectivity and single vendor lock-in for users, and maybe some subscription only software as well?
Wasn't that in a way how the PS3/cell thing was supposed to work, some huge distributed network powering massive online games? I thought it was a bit ambitious and destined to fail, but it's a nice idea.
Another interesting thing I have notice, and I could be making a blanket statement here, is that XBOX owners in general don't seem to be a) all that into gaming b) tech savvy. The number of people I have seen wandering around rental places asking how to make their XBOX be online is pretty high. The XBOX also seems to sell to a crowd of older males that seem to see gaming validated as not geeky because MS is making a console, and as you know MS is technology.
400k online is that domestic or worldwide? How many XBOX are there in customers hands?
And if I recall correctly the Live kit was $50ish, and that got you on for 12 months. I assme the cost there will rise eventually, it'll be interesting to see if they can maintain their subscriber base in the fact of a monthly fee. $50 a year has to be a loss leader, that network didn't come cheap.
Last I checked, Quake3 didn't have a monthly fee.
yeah, but anyone who felt so inclined could run a quake3 server, which probably isn't going to be the case with console online games. Serving all has to be done by the publisher or whoever, and they aren't going to incur that cost for free.
I haven't heard much about either XBOX Live or the PS2 online stuff since they launched. I would be interested to see the numbers of XBox in the wild, and the number of those that are using XBOX Live. It seems to me that that the service has a pretty narrow audience. You have to have the XBOX, have to have broadband, have to be willing to get hardware to get it online (cable, hub, WiFi, etc), possibly run cable, and then buy the Live kit. How many people are actually doing this? Same goes for the PS2 network except I would think the audience is a bit wider there since some games will deal with dial-up.
I myself couldn't care less about online gaming, and I think Nintendo is right at this point. For many people it's to much bother, all to get your ass handed to you by somebody who lives to play xyz Online.
And offtopic but I think it'd be awesome if Rockstar used the PS2 network to stream new radio station content in GTA5(or whatever it'll be called). Radio stations were the best feature of that game, and that would be a nifty use of the PS2's online capability.
See why you should sell that Powerbook and buy a NGSCB complient Wintel laptop as soon as they are avail. :-)
Actually more to the point here is why I think Linux on the desktop is doomed to fail. Linux is built on idealism, it's built by geeks for geeks, and it's flexibility doesn't lend to easy deployment for commercial software vendors. It also doesn't offer any useless wizbang features like OSX does. Quartz isn't really terribly useful, but it looks damn cool. Damn cool looking brings attention and users. More users brings more commercial development. And in the case of OSX you have the BSD foundation, which makes getting what you liked from Linux onto OSX easy. OSX is the best of both worlds. I like Linux, I think it has potential in the server arena, but give up on the desktop.
I think it's going to happen, they are going to completely rip off Apple's business model, and it's not going to be a good thing for anyone. And it will work unless they make Windows a subscription service type deal, which I don't think they are dumb enough to do.