But you forget the fact then when you are beginning the upgrade it ISN'T the operating system. When you are upgrading from say Windows 98 to Windows XP, Windows XP is NOT the operating system until the late stages of the install; it is just another application being installed, and has the same limitations of an application being installed. Most anti-virus related issues related to Windows XP occur before the first reboot. As for drivers being able to bring it down, well DUH, incompatibilitys with the software needed for the OS to communicate with the hardware causes problems, wow, that's so windows-centric (By the way, i'm being sarcastic).
As for having to uninstall software making 60k upgrades hard, I agree, but I never said upgrading was always the best solution to every situation, did I?
I disagree, although I am not talking about this in a server situation, 99% of the upgrades I've done with MS Operating Systems went flawlessly. The problem is, is that so many people do not do them properly. They don't uninstall anti-virus software (Disableing is not good enough, it still leaves filters and such in the registry), they try to upgrade from an unstable OS, they don't check application compatibility, they don't uninstall drivers where possible. Geeks do this as well.
I say this as someone who has done hundreds, if not thousands of windows upgrades and Windows installs.
I think the problem isn't so much that there is a lack of employees, as there is a lack of employees with experience. I've been looking for an IT job the past couple of months, as I quit my crappy help desk job, hopefully for something a touch more technically challanging. My problem, however, is that everywhere I apply to is looking for 5+ years of experence, and even entry level jobs are looking for 1-2 years of coding experience. If businesses would just be willing to give adequate time to people who are new to the IT workforce they wouldn't be seeing any kind of shortages.
After reading these benchmarks I feel the need to mention something many gamers already know. The D3 engine renders using OpenGL, which ATI's cards have never been good at and NVIDIA is known to be good at. If you were to take a look at benchmarks from a Direct3D game you would be seeing the X800XT blowing away the 6800. If you don't believe me take a look at this.Another point you may want to notice is that ID software is partnered with NVIDIA (Expect to see the the little way it's meant to be played logo). Also from what I have read about Carmack, he seems to be biased towards NVIDIA anyway.
But with that you need to remember that number is ALL of the consoles combined. So sure if you compare the sales of 3+ platforms to the sale of one platform you are going to get a higher number. If you look at the sales per major console(3, PS2, XBOX, and GC) that is about 1.9 Billion each. We also do not know what consoles they included in that total. (did they include the GBA, some forign console I never heard of?)
I tried to google for total games sales of just one of the consoles but I can't seem to find much.
I don't get this. PC gaming is already extremely mainstream and is far from a niche market. Even my freaking grandparents are PC Gamers, and it isn't like console games are grossly outselling PC games. The comment about bring PC gaming out to the family room instead of in a "computer room" is moot, who really cares if you play games in the family room or not? I am sure the gaming companies don't. Another point that has already been made by many slashdotters is that PC games are superior graphically on a monitor than on your standard TV.
This is just Alienware trying to make a demand for something when there really is none.
They are using a 64-bit processor, on 64-bit enabled Operating systems, and benchmarking using 32-bit code, which in most cases is going to be slower on the 64-bit platform. On top of that, they aren't even using any of the 64-bit memory addressing so what is the freaking point of any of it. On top of that they are benchmarking in incomplete version of Windows, which a previous poster pointed out probably still has a bunch of debuig code/optimizing to be done.
..That maybe these 2 are people in favour of filesharing and are using this as a method of thwarting the RIAA et al. I mean there is a college student involved, and how many college student do you know want to shut down P2P?
But until hard drives move on, all this CPU power is pretty pointless.
I disagree, ther bst example of this is when compressing or uncompressing large amounts of data. Take for example compressing an entire cd of data with a program such as winzip. It takes a lot longer to compress the data then it does to just copy it, meaning that when the file is being compressed it is obvious the transfer speed of the hard drive is not the limiting factor.
So by your logic, giving IE out for free was unfair to netscape, just to sum things up generally. Let's try applying this logic to some other products.
Linux/BSD is unfair because it is free, and MS has to charge for Windows Opera is unfair because you can get it for free Mozilla, konq, etc is also unfair Quicktime and Realplayer are also unfair because you can get them for free (Who really buys their paid versions)
This probably applies more to the NES then anything but...
I never understood why developers would release games that had obvious slow down problems in the first place. I mean if they did any kind of testing they should have noticed them.
Another thing I don't under stand is why didn't emulator authors ever consider upping the speed or the emulated processor to fix these type of things? I am not much of a programmer but could anyone maybe explain this to me.
If the spyware removal software you use is adaware (Which I am assuming due to the link in the article) then you getting a scanner rather than a blocker, I don't think even the paid version of adaware has real time scanning. Correct me if I am wrong
SiS- Dead
S3 - Dead
Matrox - Dead
Trident - Dead
There is a new up and coming one though that I guess has some of the engineers and such from SiS, Matrox, and Trident. They are based in Taiwan and are call XGI. There is more information including benchmarks on their beta board (keep in mind it is also with beta drivers).
The gross things about their cards is that their high end model will require TWO!!!!!! molex connections. Considering the past failures of their engineers I can't say I have big hopes for this company.
You got to love the way he(or she I guess) tries to milk this "story" (Fairy-tale perhaps), for every little bit of sob they can. It sounds more like someone eitehr feeding us a load of BS, which is likey, or someone looking for a scapegoat due to their failed business and miserable life.
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But you forget the fact then when you are beginning the upgrade it ISN'T the operating system. When you are upgrading from say Windows 98 to Windows XP, Windows XP is NOT the operating system until the late stages of the install; it is just another application being installed, and has the same limitations of an application being installed. Most anti-virus related issues related to Windows XP occur before the first reboot. As for drivers being able to bring it down, well DUH, incompatibilitys with the software needed for the OS to communicate with the hardware causes problems, wow, that's so windows-centric (By the way, i'm being sarcastic).
As for having to uninstall software making 60k upgrades hard, I agree, but I never said upgrading was always the best solution to every situation, did I?
How does the anti-virus == the operating system?
How do the drivers == the operating system?
I disagree, although I am not talking about this in a server situation, 99% of the upgrades I've done with MS Operating Systems went flawlessly. The problem is, is that so many people do not do them properly. They don't uninstall anti-virus software (Disableing is not good enough, it still leaves filters and such in the registry), they try to upgrade from an unstable OS, they don't check application compatibility, they don't uninstall drivers where possible. Geeks do this as well.
I say this as someone who has done hundreds, if not thousands of windows upgrades and Windows installs.
I think the problem isn't so much that there is a lack of employees, as there is a lack of employees with experience. I've been looking for an IT job the past couple of months, as I quit my crappy help desk job, hopefully for something a touch more technically challanging. My problem, however, is that everywhere I apply to is looking for 5+ years of experence, and even entry level jobs are looking for 1-2 years of coding experience. If businesses would just be willing to give adequate time to people who are new to the IT workforce they wouldn't be seeing any kind of shortages.
Windows installer issues are usually a snap to fix.
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Method 1 fixed 99% of the installer issues I've dealt with.
I personally love them, Mine came with a BFG-9000.
After reading these benchmarks I feel the need to mention something many gamers already know. The D3 engine renders using OpenGL, which ATI's cards have never been good at and NVIDIA is known to be good at. If you were to take a look at benchmarks from a Direct3D game you would be seeing the X800XT blowing away the 6800. If you don't believe me take a look at this.Another point you may want to notice is that ID software is partnered with NVIDIA (Expect to see the the little way it's meant to be played logo). Also from what I have read about Carmack, he seems to be biased towards NVIDIA anyway.
But with that you need to remember that number is ALL of the consoles combined. So sure if you compare the sales of 3+ platforms to the sale of one platform you are going to get a higher number. If you look at the sales per major console(3, PS2, XBOX, and GC) that is about 1.9 Billion each. We also do not know what consoles they included in that total. (did they include the GBA, some forign console I never heard of?)
I tried to google for total games sales of just one of the consoles but I can't seem to find much.
I don't get this. PC gaming is already extremely mainstream and is far from a niche market. Even my freaking grandparents are PC Gamers, and it isn't like console games are grossly outselling PC games. The comment about bring PC gaming out to the family room instead of in a "computer room" is moot, who really cares if you play games in the family room or not? I am sure the gaming companies don't. Another point that has already been made by many slashdotters is that PC games are superior graphically on a monitor than on your standard TV.
This is just Alienware trying to make a demand for something when there really is none.
They are using a 64-bit processor, on 64-bit enabled Operating systems, and benchmarking using 32-bit code, which in most cases is going to be slower on the 64-bit platform. On top of that, they aren't even using any of the 64-bit memory addressing so what is the freaking point of any of it. On top of that they are benchmarking in incomplete version of Windows, which a previous poster pointed out probably still has a bunch of debuig code/optimizing to be done.
And despite all of that, it is still far, far, cheaper than an ipod.
And that still makes it far, far cheaper than an ipod.
Wow...all of that and they didn't blame it on Microsoft yet, that is actually better than most 2nd rate ISPs.
..That maybe these 2 are people in favour of filesharing and are using this as a method of thwarting the RIAA et al. I mean there is a college student involved, and how many college student do you know want to shut down P2P?
...the parent never heard of PCI steering either. Last time I heard of an IRQ conflict was with an ISA modem and sound card in Windows 95.
But until hard drives move on, all this CPU power is pretty pointless.
I disagree, ther bst example of this is when compressing or uncompressing large amounts of data. Take for example compressing an entire cd of data with a program such as winzip. It takes a lot longer to compress the data then it does to just copy it, meaning that when the file is being compressed it is obvious the transfer speed of the hard drive is not the limiting factor.
I've been playing FFXI since october when it was released. Since then my computer has gone through several iterations, and consequently many formats.
After about 5 months my CD key still works fine.
This probably applies more to the NES then anything but... I never understood why developers would release games that had obvious slow down problems in the first place. I mean if they did any kind of testing they should have noticed them. Another thing I don't under stand is why didn't emulator authors ever consider upping the speed or the emulated processor to fix these type of things? I am not much of a programmer but could anyone maybe explain this to me.
If the spyware removal software you use is adaware (Which I am assuming due to the link in the article) then you getting a scanner rather than a blocker, I don't think even the paid version of adaware has real time scanning. Correct me if I am wrong
SiS- Dead S3 - Dead Matrox - Dead Trident - Dead There is a new up and coming one though that I guess has some of the engineers and such from SiS, Matrox, and Trident. They are based in Taiwan and are call XGI. There is more information including benchmarks on their beta board (keep in mind it is also with beta drivers). The gross things about their cards is that their high end model will require TWO!!!!!! molex connections. Considering the past failures of their engineers I can't say I have big hopes for this company.
Well this is slashdot, I though we all know it was unsafe, I mean it _IS_ Microsoft after all. Wait.....you mean ISS, nevermind
Intelligent Indian programmers? Man have you actually ever had to work with some of those people.
(Not intended to troll, just tired of having to fix messes our people in India make)
+5, Funny. Need I say more.
You got to love the way he(or she I guess) tries to milk this "story" (Fairy-tale perhaps), for every little bit of sob they can. It sounds more like someone eitehr feeding us a load of BS, which is likey, or someone looking for a scapegoat due to their failed business and miserable life.