An easier modifiable WIM image which is easier to insert drivers/patches into and a much higher baseline of drivers (just because it is newer) makes it much easier to deploy!
2. Data per square inch doesn't matter. I believe by all accounts, the DVD in the 360 is faster simply because DVD-ROMs have been around for ages and are well understood.
The Orange Box on PS3/XBox360 makes for a damning view, given how the 360 loads faster and isn't as jerky (watch for the boat scene).
Once really nice thing about Vista is though you can specify power settings by GPO directly, which is much nicer. It is much finer control than what the EPA tool allows also.
I really like it until the end, which I thought was stupid. So they "got to the choppa" and we think they are safe. Then the idiot pilot decides the best course of action is to fly parallel to where the monster is rather than flying away from it, and somehow it manages to jump and knock the down after getting a bunch of bombs dropped on it.
They survive the crash, yet they don't notice the monster's approach at all (even though you could hear it thumping around for large parts of the film, nice and atmoshperic) until it is literally standing above them. Then it only kills one of them, and lets the other two off.
Overall though, it thought it was good. Could be nasty if you are too close to the screen though with all the shaky-cam!
Define "work" - sure, it'll do IMAP/POP3 with an Exchange server. Outlook + Exchange is more than just email, especially in the corporate world.
If you've got a Windows Mobile 5 device it'll sync via outlook web access on the mobile network and will push email to you. The calender, contacts also get pushed/synced over the air.
That isn't quite, the G5 did not have this feature. This is why Virtual PC had to be updated to use the G5 PowerMacs. You are quite correctly with the previous versions of PPC chips of course.
For #3, you are certainly correct about the IOMMU issue. There is a good reason why they suffer more so in 64-bit mode, the Core 2 Duo chips support "macro-op fusion" (I think, something like that anyway!) in 32-bit mode ONLY, so this performance advantage is lost in 64-bit mode which further degrades performance.
Which games are running out of storage space? Even Oblivion's ISO image is only 7GB in size, so there is a couple of GB still available there. That hard disk could be used to buffer some data also if a 2nd disc is required.
Too many people this mistake, they just see 64-bit and think about the memory. Most of your points are valid, and are problems with running a 64-bit OS. However, you also fail to mention any benefits it provides. The most important being double the number of registers in 64-bit mode! This often makes up for the other problems with 64-bit.
Look more carefully. Symantec is the only one to get 100% for "On-demand detection of polymorphic viruses". For actual virus detection, it gets 97% & 98% depending on the situation.
I think F-Secure, G Data Security & Kaspersky Labs do the best as they get 99%+ in all situations.
That really isn't true - admin access is not required to write to everywhere in the registry.
To write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE you need admin rights, but you can happily write anything you like to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Yes, malware apps write to the registry but then again so do most other apps and yes corruption to the registry can often be fatal (although only HKLM).
Also apps DO NOT NEED to write data to the registry. It is there choice, although it is Microsoft's current recommendation. You can find versions of Firefox, Putty, Thunderbird, etc that all run off USB stick as they've been modified to write data locally and not the registry. I believe Vista is heading back this way.
In Windows I can install software in my own private applictations folder too, as long as the thing doesn't write to HKLM. I can install several pieces of software as a non-admin... it just so happens that iTunes isn't one of them. Perhaps Apple could practise would they preach and fix it?
Don't get me wrong, I don't like Windows but Apple isn't exactly doing anything to improve the situation (not that they have to, it probably isn't in their interest).
Oh come on! If it was illegal in Russia they'd have been taken down ages ago. They were some investigations early last year, but they came to nothing as they are within Russian law. There is a loop-hole there.
Dude, x86-64 is AMD's spec not Intel's. Google around, you'll even find an Intel bug due to AMD updating their orginal specs later on.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the rest of your post. However AMD made the Opteron with x86-64 and that forced Intel's hand to make the Xeon do the same, and has basically killed any chance of the Itanium ever succeeding.
They kept it under wraps for as long as possible, but I suspect as you say it was market pressure that made them release it.
The ON-GPU memory is really significant. 3MBs of in chip memory is more valuable than 15MBs of off chip memory. It immediatly means that the GPU is able to concurrently manipulate the 3MBs of memory as close to 'free of charge' as possible.
Yup, on-chip memory is always good. It should be also considered that the XBox 360 has a 10MB eDRAM cache for it's GPU!
Whilst the XBox 360 does render at 720p (interally, it downscales to 480p if you aren't using HDTV), as opposed to 480p for the Revolution, I still believe the XBox 360 has "effectively" more on-chip GPU memory per pixel than the Revolution.
The KT133 wasn't long for this world, it was replaced by the KT133a which was fine. But yeah, KT133 was a bit crap.
Which Nvidia ethernet driver are you using? nvnet was reverse engineered and was put in the kernel are forcedeth, which I believe Nvidia now maintain. I never had any problems with it. To be honest, I never touched their IDE drivers as the kernel ones seemed good enough.
It could be worse anyway, you could use ATi's Linux drivers.;)
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Really not difficult to stop this, we've done it already. Windows 7 has applocker:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/enterprise/products/windows-7/features.aspx#applocker
And prior to that Vista/XP had software restriction policies.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782792(WS.10).aspx
Avatar wasn't very good - the plot is weak and the characters are all one dimensional. The social commentary is blatantly one sided as well.
I'd suggest this review.
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia#p/u/21/JmUzoIENIXc
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia#p/u/6/dLzKwTcGO_0
This is for the previous Reader vulnerability. The new one is very much in the Javascript functions:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34736
Vista isn't popular, but it is very flexible with group policy. You can manage all power settings via GPO in Vista.
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/products/power_mgt/Vista_on_Win2000_2003.pdf
If you use group policy preferences (requires a Vista/2008 to manage the policy) you can use that to configure power settings on XP.
WSUS is also smart enough to wake the machine up at nighttime and apply patches that it detected during the day.
It is rubbish - I drove 200 miles on highway to Washington and got 36 MPG in my 2006 Accord. Even around town I'll get about 28-30MPG.
Harder than XP? You must be kidding!
Things like HAL detection:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905119.aspx
An easier modifiable WIM image which is easier to insert drivers/patches into and a much higher baseline of drivers (just because it is newer) makes it much easier to deploy!
In what way did you find it harder?
2. Data per square inch doesn't matter. I believe by all accounts, the DVD in the 360 is faster simply because DVD-ROMs have been around for ages and are well understood.
The Orange Box on PS3/XBox360 makes for a damning view, given how the 360 loads faster and isn't as jerky (watch for the boat scene).
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/14/todays-most-comparative-video-orange-box-ps3-vs-xbox-360/
EPA's tool is pretty good.
Once really nice thing about Vista is though you can specify power settings by GPO directly, which is much nicer. It is much finer control than what the EPA tool allows also.
I really like it until the end, which I thought was stupid. So they "got to the choppa" and we think they are safe. Then the idiot pilot decides the best course of action is to fly parallel to where the monster is rather than flying away from it, and somehow it manages to jump and knock the down after getting a bunch of bombs dropped on it.
They survive the crash, yet they don't notice the monster's approach at all (even though you could hear it thumping around for large parts of the film, nice and atmoshperic) until it is literally standing above them. Then it only kills one of them, and lets the other two off.
Overall though, it thought it was good. Could be nasty if you are too close to the screen though with all the shaky-cam!
Ask and you shall receive!
http://www.driverpacks.net/
You can slipstream all sorts of mass storage drivers into this, as well as other drivers (graphics, network, sound, wlan, etc).
Define "work" - sure, it'll do IMAP/POP3 with an Exchange server. Outlook + Exchange is more than just email, especially in the corporate world.
If you've got a Windows Mobile 5 device it'll sync via outlook web access on the mobile network and will push email to you. The calender, contacts also get pushed/synced over the air.
That isn't quite, the G5 did not have this feature. This is why Virtual PC had to be updated to use the G5 PowerMacs. You are quite correctly with the previous versions of PPC chips of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPC970
For #3, you are certainly correct about the IOMMU issue. There is a good reason why they suffer more so in 64-bit mode, the Core 2 Duo chips support "macro-op fusion" (I think, something like that anyway!) in 32-bit mode ONLY, so this performance advantage is lost in 64-bit mode which further degrades performance.
Which games are running out of storage space? Even Oblivion's ISO image is only 7GB in size, so there is a couple of GB still available there. That hard disk could be used to buffer some data also if a 2nd disc is required.
Ah, don't you mean the index to your porn collection with be complete? ;)
Not to be silly, but the Intel Mac Mini starts at $599 these days. The PPC based Mini was $499, but didn't have front row either (remote control).
Too many people this mistake, they just see 64-bit and think about the memory. Most of your points are valid, and are problems with running a 64-bit OS. However, you also fail to mention any benefits it provides. The most important being double the number of registers in 64-bit mode! This often makes up for the other problems with 64-bit.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64#Architectural_
You know it is bad when Norton produce an uninstaller for their own tools!
N RT_d4749.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Norton_Removal_Tool_Sym
Works nicely, although it can't be scripted.
Look more carefully. Symantec is the only one to get 100% for "On-demand detection of polymorphic viruses". For actual virus detection, it gets 97% & 98% depending on the situation.
I think F-Secure, G Data Security & Kaspersky Labs do the best as they get 99%+ in all situations.
That really isn't true - admin access is not required to write to everywhere in the registry.
To write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE you need admin rights, but you can happily write anything you like to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Yes, malware apps write to the registry but then again so do most other apps and yes corruption to the registry can often be fatal (although only HKLM).
Also apps DO NOT NEED to write data to the registry. It is there choice, although it is Microsoft's current recommendation. You can find versions of Firefox, Putty, Thunderbird, etc that all run off USB stick as they've been modified to write data locally and not the registry. I believe Vista is heading back this way.
In Windows I can install software in my own private applictations folder too, as long as the thing doesn't write to HKLM. I can install several pieces of software as a non-admin... it just so happens that iTunes isn't one of them. Perhaps Apple could practise would they preach and fix it?
Don't get me wrong, I don't like Windows but Apple isn't exactly doing anything to improve the situation (not that they have to, it probably isn't in their interest).
Ha - perhaps you can explain to my why iTunes on Windows require admin permissions to install then?!
Oh come on! If it was illegal in Russia they'd have been taken down ages ago. They were some investigations early last year, but they came to nothing as they are within Russian law. There is a loop-hole there.
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Perhaps this may help:
[url]http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3faq.htm[/u
Dude, x86-64 is AMD's spec not Intel's. Google around, you'll even find an Intel bug due to AMD updating their orginal specs later on.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the rest of your post. However AMD made the Opteron with x86-64 and that forced Intel's hand to make the Xeon do the same, and has basically killed any chance of the Itanium ever succeeding.
They kept it under wraps for as long as possible, but I suspect as you say it was market pressure that made them release it.
Yup, on-chip memory is always good. It should be also considered that the XBox 360 has a 10MB eDRAM cache for it's GPU!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#Graphics_pr
Whilst the XBox 360 does render at 720p (interally, it downscales to 480p if you aren't using HDTV), as opposed to 480p for the Revolution, I still believe the XBox 360 has "effectively" more on-chip GPU memory per pixel than the Revolution.
The KT133 wasn't long for this world, it was replaced by the KT133a which was fine. But yeah, KT133 was a bit crap.
;)
Which Nvidia ethernet driver are you using? nvnet was reverse engineered and was put in the kernel are forcedeth, which I believe Nvidia now maintain. I never had any problems with it. To be honest, I never touched their IDE drivers as the kernel ones seemed good enough.
It could be worse anyway, you could use ATi's Linux drivers.