5. Go look up Quartz 2D Extreme, which moves OS X's Quartz drawing operations onto the GPU and will be enabled in OS X Leopard (disabled in Tiger as it's for developers only right now).
Unlike Windows, Quartz already runs well today in software, so machines with less powerful video cards won't miss out on the hardware effects like you will with Windows Vista when it downgrades to "Aero" mode.
Don't worry, Apple will further widen the gap between their visuals and Microsoft's by the time that blue-transluncency nightmare Vista comes out.
The hardware acceleration in OS X is using OpenGL for compositing, but the drawing operations are done in software. In Vista, the drawing and compositing are both done on the GPU. That's basically it.
However, Quartz 2D Extreme in OS X Tiger performs these Quartz operations using the GPU, but it's disabled by default because it's still buggy and slow and really intended for developers (as is the resolution-independent interface you can enable in Quartz Debug). Q2DE will, of course, be fully enabled in OS X Leopard, which will be Apple's answer to Windows Vista.
As of right now, Quartz is still fantastic and matches Avalon, which is a weird XML-based API written as.NET managed code. When Vista actually ships, Quartz will be running on the GPU, as GPUs will have caught up and all the bugs will have been worked out, and the time will be right. Since Quartz already runs today without GPU drawing acceleration, older machines with lesser graphics cards will still look the same, unlike in Vista where those machines will be forced to run with the lesser "Aero" style which won't have any of the pretty effects.
I think OS X will always be faster and use much less memory since it's going to be running natively and not in an arbitrary intermediate binary layer like.NET.
Bad things do happen even in the Apple world, but it's been my personal experience that with the few Macs I've used and been in contact with on a constant basis, they run for years without a hitch while the 1,000s of Windows-based PCs I've run across in my life inevitably hit some fault or snag based on hardware or software. So the myth should be that you have much less troubleshooting with a Mac.:) It's nice never having to "edit the registry" ever again.
However, in the case of Vista, Avalon is a managed vector-based graphics API utilizing XML, so basically, you've got this slow version 1.0.NET API running all over the place. We're starting to break 3Ghz and dual-core is becoming common, and what does Microsoft do? Introduce an intermediate binary layer all over the place and slow things down again, so they can controle perceived OS speed and make you upgrade your hardware.
If everything goes.NET on the Vista side, OS X benchmarks will always be ahead because they're native and actually taking advantage of processor speed!
That's actually the only example of an interface effect I know of that doesn't appear on the Mac mini due to lack of pixel shaders. On Vista, you have multiple levels of graphics going back to a Windows 2000-like skin based on your graphics card capabilities, but on OS X, the interface is always the same, even if you don't get ripple effects in Dashboard. My iBook G4 looks the same as my new iMac Core Duo.
That's fine they but they block and take legal action against those who extract that and run the content that users have purchased.
As is their right, and it's not an antitrust abuse.
They delibarately blocked RealPlayer from making content for the iPod. This is equivalent to Ford stipulating which brand of gas you choose and threatening legal action against anyone who tries to sell gas that works in Ford cars.
No, it's not! What the hell? You can use any MP3s you want with your iPod. You don't have to buy anything from the iTunes Store.
Furthermore deliberately altering their cars for the sole purpose of being incompatible with other gas brands. This goes further than merely banning spare part makers.
No, it doesn't, but even so, don't buy the iPod if you don't like it. Once again, a problem solved through personal choice!
Why is it the creators of JHymn have to remain anonymous? They shutdown the makers or PlayFair and sent C&D letters to Sarovar.
As is their right. People trying to crack FairPlay so they can pirate iTunes Store music should be stopped, and unfortunately, that means going after anybody cracking FairPlay. If it were up to Apple, there would be no DRM, but the record labels demanded it.
Also, you use the word "punish"..did MSFT deploy mercenaries to assasinate anyone? Stores had the CHOICE to sell any OS they want. They just wouldn't receive a discount.
Uh, did you see how much prices went up without the discount? It was specifically designed to punish companies who didn't comply as found by a court who ruled such.
Don't want a discount.. don't sell MSFT. You can't want to be a Subway franchise and sell McDonald's fries.
COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS AREN'T MICROSOFT FRANCHISES!
The point is that one of the big selling points is Vista's new OS X-alike interface. Vista is going to be a tough sell to the mainstream public. Microsoft makes the majority of its Windows sales through computer pre-installations, so they're going to try to work hard to get people to buy new Vista-based PCs despite having missed last year's hardware purchase cycle. A new interface was part of that.
I find it very telling that OS X already surpasses Vista's current interface (what you see in the betas is mostly what you're going to get according to Microsoft) but runs on much less demanding machines, like a Mac mini. OS X Leopard is just going to widen the gap further between Microsoft and Apple in the interface department.
This just isn't true; price matches have been done that show you get much more value buying a new iMac, with Core Duo, Radeon x1600, dual-layer DVD burner, Firewire, and so on. iLife '06 alone is worth the purchase. And it's not the same "PC-based stuff." Half the price of the new iMac would be $650, and good luck matching the iMac Core Duo's specs on that.:)
Not to mention that you're paying for much higher quality. The Dells in our office break down every nine months, floppy drives go out, monitors go dark...you name it, it's happened. Our Mac department has been running flawlessly for the past two years. As someone pointed out, Dell uses flat panels that have been rejected by Apple quality control.
You just don't know what it's like to use a computer whose manufacturer thought of everything. The sleep light actually dims when you turn the lights out thanks to a built-in light sensor, so you can sleep at night if you have a Mac in your dorm room or apartment. Apple seems to be the only company actually treating their computers as a high-quality appliance and not a box of cobbled parts to run Office on. Now, stuff like dimming sleep lights sounds completely trivial, but it's one of 10,000 little great things that add up to a machine that you juts fall in love with and really enjoy using. You don't get that from Dell's gray Windows XP boxes.
Uh, no, there's not a fine line at all. A whore is doing things solely for the reward. A mate is there whether they receive the gifts or not, because they want to be.
Ugh, I bit the troll, sorry. I just can't let dumbass comments go.
So basically, you are telling me that if I spend hundreds of dollars on music for my iPod.. and then it dies in 4 or 5 years or whatever (flash or HD failure) I should buy an iPod again if I want to carry that music around??
Uh, how else will you carry that music around if you don't buy another music player?
Or, eat my investment in all the songs I'd bought. That's ridiculous.
God, you're being idiotic. If your iPod dies, you don't lose your music. Are you even aware of how the iTunes-iPod sync relationship works? Your music would still be on your computer.
You are telling me this isn't as bad as giving OEM's a discount for being an exclusive MSFT shop? Tell me, in 5 years, if someone else comes out with an mp3 player that's vastly superior in features and design.. people are going to have to THROW AWAY/re-buy their HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS in music investment in order to switch to it?
Yes. That's true for anything. If you don't like that idea, don't buy iTunes music. Anything else you'd like to whine about today that's easily solvable by personal choice?
And no, it's not as bad as punishing stores for selling alternatives, thereby preventing others from being able to compete. Apple has won fair and square.
In other words, because of Apple's propreitery file format lock in.. a better mp3 player will be locked out of the market. It would be illegal for the new mp3 player to "break" the format so that customers can use the iTunes music.
It won't be locked out of the free market. It will be locked out of Apple's iTunes market, yes. You and anyone else has the right to make a product and then sell stuff that only runs on that product.
Apple isn't being clear about the fact that when you buy music from iTunes your portable music player is going to be iPod forever unless you plan on re-purchasing your music. It's like getting a tattoo.. it's cool and fun now.. until 10 years from now.
It's not Apple's responsibility to tell people "Yeah, the Apple branded content you're buying in Apple's store will only run on Apple's player." Besides, you don't need an iPod to use iTunes, and you can rip the music to CD or WAV and re-encode it for your player of choice.
Basically all you wrote is just pure bullshit, and has little to no resemblance with what actully happened. But as the zealot you are you again change the truth to fit your twisted world.
Do you get a cookie or something if you use the word "zealot" a certain number of times? Regardless, what YOU wrote is bullshit.
What happened is that Apple was contributing back, but they were doing big patch dumps that took the KHTML devs a long time to sift through. Those devs were then getting annoyed with the KDE users who were asking why KHTML was taking so long to get code merged in from Apple. The devs were trying to tell people that it's not that they're lazy or technically unable, it's that they were getting these huge code dumps. So Apple open sourced WebKit and suggested the KDE folks just adopt WebKit so everybody is in sync. Those same complaining devs then refused Apple's offer.
But as an Apple-bashing zealot, you of course changed the truth to..."fit your twisted world."
He doesn't agree or disagree with the lawsuit; a judge simply asserts that the plaintiff has met the grounds for filing a valid lawsuit.
And by the way, that lawsuit is old news from last year (look at the 2005 dates on the lawsuit and judgement). For some reason, news sites are reporting it again. Frustrated competitors tipping them off, maybe?
What the? Who's forcing you to buy a new iPod, and how does your current iPod lose any functionality just because a new one has been released? Since when is Apple telling you to replace anything just by keeping up with technology and releasing a new version of its product?
Sheesh, by April 1st, it will have been seven months since the last iPod. It's not like it's that recent. They haven't announced anything, and this is just a rumor from a notoriously inaccurate rumor site, and already the Apple-bashers are out in full force.
It's particularly amusing commentary coming from the likes of Slashdot, a tech news site that follows fast-paced technology, including computer hardware updates. Every month I read about new processors that make my current one obsolete, but nobody makes comments that companies are "screwing everyone" (another poster here) or that it's "getting out of hand."
What kind of goofy anti-capitlist drivel is this? How does a company "screw everyone" by releasing a product? How does that actually affect your life in any way? Seriously?
Come on, people, leave the anti-"consumerism" crap in the dorm rooms with the other kids where it belongs. Nobody's forcing you to buy a new iPod.
Not to say it isn't true, but beware of Thinksecret's predictions. They've had a long string of incorrect predictions lately. Either they have bad sources, or their sources are too good--purposely placed by Apple to misdirect the rumor sites.
In all honesty, it's kind of a bummer that these sites are so obsessed with breaking Apple secrets all the time. Imagine how cool it would have been if nobody knew this was coming out, and bam, suddenly it's announced...or if nobody knew Intel machines were going to be at MacWorld (we knew months ahead of time thanks to "sources"). It really ruins the amazing announcement to have all these months of speculative hype leading up to it.
Apple is taking advantage of their monopoly position disallowing the playing of itunes purchased music on non iPod players.
They're not taking advantage of a monopoly; this has been the case since the Music Store's introduction. As for "abusive monopoly" claims, get back to me when Apple is making deals that punish stores for selling alternatives to iPods, the way Microsoft did with Windows OEMs int he 90s. Consumers can choose any player and any format they want.
This means if you bought music for your iPod.. you have to stick to iPod or lose the ability to transport your music? Plus when your HDD dies.. you cant regain your music.
Yes, you can regain your music. Back it up (as iTunes prompts you to) or copy it from the iPod using a third-party utility. Obviously, if you buy music from Apple, it will play on Apple's player. Don't like it? Don't use an iPod or iTunes. You have a choice.
Furthermore, because Fairplay DRM is closed.. if you are a band and want to sell your music (with DRM).. you have to do it on the iTunes store.. or your music will not have the protection of DRM if it's to be put on iPods
So don't do it. Just because those are the options doesn't make Apple abusive. Life's tough.
The alternative is DRM free mp3.. but then you lose the ability to protect your music. I hate DRM as much as the next guy.. but this isnt helping the situation to have Apple doing this.
You don't explain how it's detrimental to the situation or what is so bad about Fairplay DRM to begin with (I forget it's even there, it's so lax in its "restrictions").
You suggested it would be some huge porting effort to bring Halo 2 to a pre-Vista environment. I pointed out that the X-Box already runs on a pre-Vista Windows--the stripped-down Windows 2000 kernel that runs the X-Box. There's nothing at all in Halo 2 that requires Windows Vista.
Clearly, you're just frustrated I owned your point.
Turns out popularity bred popularity, which explains why there's so much crap on the radio.
Crap to whom? The nerds on Slashdot?
I find Slashdotters' attitudes toward the other 98% of the mainstream population quite condescending. If you don't like popular music, that doesn't make it "crap."
At the very least, this officially means that any gamer today wanting to play Halo 2 will have to pay $250 instead of $50, give or take on the price of the version of Vista you're being forced to upgrade to.
Is Vista such a tough sell that Microsoft has to enforce arbitrary restrictions to get people to use it? Totally lame. Why would I want a resource-sucking OS with twice the hardware requirements of its previous version when I'm trying to run a lean, mean game machine?
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5. Go look up Quartz 2D Extreme, which moves OS X's Quartz drawing operations onto the GPU and will be enabled in OS X Leopard (disabled in Tiger as it's for developers only right now).
Unlike Windows, Quartz already runs well today in software, so machines with less powerful video cards won't miss out on the hardware effects like you will with Windows Vista when it downgrades to "Aero" mode.
Don't worry, Apple will further widen the gap between their visuals and Microsoft's by the time that blue-transluncency nightmare Vista comes out.
Well, you don't explain it so I will.
.NET managed code. When Vista actually ships, Quartz will be running on the GPU, as GPUs will have caught up and all the bugs will have been worked out, and the time will be right. Since Quartz already runs today without GPU drawing acceleration, older machines with lesser graphics cards will still look the same, unlike in Vista where those machines will be forced to run with the lesser "Aero" style which won't have any of the pretty effects.
.NET.
The hardware acceleration in OS X is using OpenGL for compositing, but the drawing operations are done in software. In Vista, the drawing and compositing are both done on the GPU. That's basically it.
However, Quartz 2D Extreme in OS X Tiger performs these Quartz operations using the GPU, but it's disabled by default because it's still buggy and slow and really intended for developers (as is the resolution-independent interface you can enable in Quartz Debug). Q2DE will, of course, be fully enabled in OS X Leopard, which will be Apple's answer to Windows Vista.
As of right now, Quartz is still fantastic and matches Avalon, which is a weird XML-based API written as
I think OS X will always be faster and use much less memory since it's going to be running natively and not in an arbitrary intermediate binary layer like
Bad things do happen even in the Apple world, but it's been my personal experience that with the few Macs I've used and been in contact with on a constant basis, they run for years without a hitch while the 1,000s of Windows-based PCs I've run across in my life inevitably hit some fault or snag based on hardware or software. So the myth should be that you have much less troubleshooting with a Mac. :) It's nice never having to "edit the registry" ever again.
However, in the case of Vista, Avalon is a managed vector-based graphics API utilizing XML, so basically, you've got this slow version 1.0 .NET API running all over the place. We're starting to break 3Ghz and dual-core is becoming common, and what does Microsoft do? Introduce an intermediate binary layer all over the place and slow things down again, so they can controle perceived OS speed and make you upgrade your hardware.
.NET on the Vista side, OS X benchmarks will always be ahead because they're native and actually taking advantage of processor speed!
If everything goes
That's actually the only example of an interface effect I know of that doesn't appear on the Mac mini due to lack of pixel shaders. On Vista, you have multiple levels of graphics going back to a Windows 2000-like skin based on your graphics card capabilities, but on OS X, the interface is always the same, even if you don't get ripple effects in Dashboard. My iBook G4 looks the same as my new iMac Core Duo.
Yeah, worm writers like it too. :)
That's fine they but they block and take legal action against those who extract that and run the content that users have purchased.
..did MSFT deploy mercenaries to assasinate anyone? Stores had the CHOICE to sell any OS they want. They just wouldn't receive a discount.
.. don't sell MSFT. You can't want to be a Subway franchise and sell McDonald's fries.
As is their right, and it's not an antitrust abuse.
They delibarately blocked RealPlayer from making content for the iPod. This is equivalent to Ford stipulating which brand of gas you choose and threatening legal action against anyone who tries to sell gas that works in Ford cars.
No, it's not! What the hell? You can use any MP3s you want with your iPod. You don't have to buy anything from the iTunes Store.
Furthermore deliberately altering their cars for the sole purpose of being incompatible with other gas brands. This goes further than merely banning spare part makers.
No, it doesn't, but even so, don't buy the iPod if you don't like it. Once again, a problem solved through personal choice!
Why is it the creators of JHymn have to remain anonymous? They shutdown the makers or PlayFair and sent C&D letters to Sarovar.
As is their right. People trying to crack FairPlay so they can pirate iTunes Store music should be stopped, and unfortunately, that means going after anybody cracking FairPlay. If it were up to Apple, there would be no DRM, but the record labels demanded it.
Also, you use the word "punish"
Uh, did you see how much prices went up without the discount? It was specifically designed to punish companies who didn't comply as found by a court who ruled such.
Don't want a discount
COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS AREN'T MICROSOFT FRANCHISES!
Basically, everything you said is balogna.
The point is that one of the big selling points is Vista's new OS X-alike interface. Vista is going to be a tough sell to the mainstream public. Microsoft makes the majority of its Windows sales through computer pre-installations, so they're going to try to work hard to get people to buy new Vista-based PCs despite having missed last year's hardware purchase cycle. A new interface was part of that.
I find it very telling that OS X already surpasses Vista's current interface (what you see in the betas is mostly what you're going to get according to Microsoft) but runs on much less demanding machines, like a Mac mini. OS X Leopard is just going to widen the gap further between Microsoft and Apple in the interface department.
This just isn't true; price matches have been done that show you get much more value buying a new iMac, with Core Duo, Radeon x1600, dual-layer DVD burner, Firewire, and so on. iLife '06 alone is worth the purchase. And it's not the same "PC-based stuff." Half the price of the new iMac would be $650, and good luck matching the iMac Core Duo's specs on that. :)
Not to mention that you're paying for much higher quality. The Dells in our office break down every nine months, floppy drives go out, monitors go dark...you name it, it's happened. Our Mac department has been running flawlessly for the past two years. As someone pointed out, Dell uses flat panels that have been rejected by Apple quality control.
You just don't know what it's like to use a computer whose manufacturer thought of everything. The sleep light actually dims when you turn the lights out thanks to a built-in light sensor, so you can sleep at night if you have a Mac in your dorm room or apartment. Apple seems to be the only company actually treating their computers as a high-quality appliance and not a box of cobbled parts to run Office on. Now, stuff like dimming sleep lights sounds completely trivial, but it's one of 10,000 little great things that add up to a machine that you juts fall in love with and really enjoy using. You don't get that from Dell's gray Windows XP boxes.
Uh, no, there's not a fine line at all. A whore is doing things solely for the reward. A mate is there whether they receive the gifts or not, because they want to be.
Ugh, I bit the troll, sorry. I just can't let dumbass comments go.
Mac bashing, emulation bashing, and Intel bashing! You really got it all packed in there, good sir.
So basically, you are telling me that if I spend hundreds of dollars on music for my iPod .. and then it dies in 4 or 5 years or whatever (flash or HD failure) I should buy an iPod again if I want to carry that music around??
.. people are going to have to THROW AWAY/re-buy their HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS in music investment in order to switch to it?
.. a better mp3 player will be locked out of the market. It would be illegal for the new mp3 player to "break" the format so that customers can use the iTunes music.
.. it's cool and fun now .. until 10 years from now.
Uh, how else will you carry that music around if you don't buy another music player?
Or, eat my investment in all the songs I'd bought. That's ridiculous.
God, you're being idiotic. If your iPod dies, you don't lose your music. Are you even aware of how the iTunes-iPod sync relationship works? Your music would still be on your computer.
You are telling me this isn't as bad as giving OEM's a discount for being an exclusive MSFT shop? Tell me, in 5 years, if someone else comes out with an mp3 player that's vastly superior in features and design
Yes. That's true for anything. If you don't like that idea, don't buy iTunes music. Anything else you'd like to whine about today that's easily solvable by personal choice?
And no, it's not as bad as punishing stores for selling alternatives, thereby preventing others from being able to compete. Apple has won fair and square.
In other words, because of Apple's propreitery file format lock in
It won't be locked out of the free market. It will be locked out of Apple's iTunes market, yes. You and anyone else has the right to make a product and then sell stuff that only runs on that product.
Apple isn't being clear about the fact that when you buy music from iTunes your portable music player is going to be iPod forever unless you plan on re-purchasing your music. It's like getting a tattoo
It's not Apple's responsibility to tell people "Yeah, the Apple branded content you're buying in Apple's store will only run on Apple's player." Besides, you don't need an iPod to use iTunes, and you can rip the music to CD or WAV and re-encode it for your player of choice.
Basically, all your complaints are just made-up.
Basically all you wrote is just pure bullshit, and has little to no resemblance with what actully happened. But as the zealot you are you again change the truth to fit your twisted world.
Do you get a cookie or something if you use the word "zealot" a certain number of times? Regardless, what YOU wrote is bullshit.
What happened is that Apple was contributing back, but they were doing big patch dumps that took the KHTML devs a long time to sift through. Those devs were then getting annoyed with the KDE users who were asking why KHTML was taking so long to get code merged in from Apple. The devs were trying to tell people that it's not that they're lazy or technically unable, it's that they were getting these huge code dumps. So Apple open sourced WebKit and suggested the KDE folks just adopt WebKit so everybody is in sync. Those same complaining devs then refused Apple's offer.
But as an Apple-bashing zealot, you of course changed the truth to..."fit your twisted world."
How is it a waste to replace a possession that was stolen? Aren't you being a little cantankerous, or are you always an iPod-basher?
I'm guessing you have one of those crummy rip-off Zen players...
He doesn't agree or disagree with the lawsuit; a judge simply asserts that the plaintiff has met the grounds for filing a valid lawsuit.
And by the way, that lawsuit is old news from last year (look at the 2005 dates on the lawsuit and judgement). For some reason, news sites are reporting it again. Frustrated competitors tipping them off, maybe?
Bravo! I love that you ended with "I listen to hardcore." :)
What the? Who's forcing you to buy a new iPod, and how does your current iPod lose any functionality just because a new one has been released? Since when is Apple telling you to replace anything just by keeping up with technology and releasing a new version of its product?
Sheesh, by April 1st, it will have been seven months since the last iPod. It's not like it's that recent. They haven't announced anything, and this is just a rumor from a notoriously inaccurate rumor site, and already the Apple-bashers are out in full force.
It's particularly amusing commentary coming from the likes of Slashdot, a tech news site that follows fast-paced technology, including computer hardware updates. Every month I read about new processors that make my current one obsolete, but nobody makes comments that companies are "screwing everyone" (another poster here) or that it's "getting out of hand."
What kind of goofy anti-capitlist drivel is this? How does a company "screw everyone" by releasing a product? How does that actually affect your life in any way? Seriously?
Come on, people, leave the anti-"consumerism" crap in the dorm rooms with the other kids where it belongs. Nobody's forcing you to buy a new iPod.
What nerve? I listen to non-mainstream music like Uni Vers and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. I'm just tired of condescending attitudes from nerds.
What's wrong with liking "My Humps" in the shower? Would that make me bad?
Not to say it isn't true, but beware of Thinksecret's predictions. They've had a long string of incorrect predictions lately. Either they have bad sources, or their sources are too good--purposely placed by Apple to misdirect the rumor sites.
In all honesty, it's kind of a bummer that these sites are so obsessed with breaking Apple secrets all the time. Imagine how cool it would have been if nobody knew this was coming out, and bam, suddenly it's announced...or if nobody knew Intel machines were going to be at MacWorld (we knew months ahead of time thanks to "sources"). It really ruins the amazing announcement to have all these months of speculative hype leading up to it.
Apple is taking advantage of their monopoly position disallowing the playing of itunes purchased music on non iPod players.
.. you have to stick to iPod or lose the ability to transport your music? Plus when your HDD dies .. you cant regain your music.
.. if you are a band and want to sell your music (with DRM) .. you have to do it on the iTunes store .. or your music will not have the protection of DRM if it's to be put on iPods
.. but then you lose the ability to protect your music. I hate DRM as much as the next guy .. but this isnt helping the situation to have Apple doing this.
They're not taking advantage of a monopoly; this has been the case since the Music Store's introduction. As for "abusive monopoly" claims, get back to me when Apple is making deals that punish stores for selling alternatives to iPods, the way Microsoft did with Windows OEMs int he 90s. Consumers can choose any player and any format they want.
This means if you bought music for your iPod
Yes, you can regain your music. Back it up (as iTunes prompts you to) or copy it from the iPod using a third-party utility. Obviously, if you buy music from Apple, it will play on Apple's player. Don't like it? Don't use an iPod or iTunes. You have a choice.
Furthermore, because Fairplay DRM is closed
So don't do it. Just because those are the options doesn't make Apple abusive. Life's tough.
The alternative is DRM free mp3
You don't explain how it's detrimental to the situation or what is so bad about Fairplay DRM to begin with (I forget it's even there, it's so lax in its "restrictions").
Huh?! Your post doesn't even make sense.
You suggested it would be some huge porting effort to bring Halo 2 to a pre-Vista environment. I pointed out that the X-Box already runs on a pre-Vista Windows--the stripped-down Windows 2000 kernel that runs the X-Box. There's nothing at all in Halo 2 that requires Windows Vista.
Clearly, you're just frustrated I owned your point.
Turns out popularity bred popularity, which explains why there's so much crap on the radio.
Crap to whom? The nerds on Slashdot?
I find Slashdotters' attitudes toward the other 98% of the mainstream population quite condescending. If you don't like popular music, that doesn't make it "crap."
Perhaps they don't want to compromise the quality of Halo 2 to make it run on pre-Vista systems.
It already runs on a pre-Vista system called the X-Box. Next.
At the very least, this officially means that any gamer today wanting to play Halo 2 will have to pay $250 instead of $50, give or take on the price of the version of Vista you're being forced to upgrade to.
Is Vista such a tough sell that Microsoft has to enforce arbitrary restrictions to get people to use it? Totally lame. Why would I want a resource-sucking OS with twice the hardware requirements of its previous version when I'm trying to run a lean, mean game machine?
I think Vista will be the Windows swansong.