Get real. the US is NOT the 'top captian' of anything except the competion for who can be the most fat,greedy, ignorant and self-centered people on the earth.
You must be mad to buy this. You could get 2 256Mb GeForce 6800 ultra's and SLI them together for cheaper than the cost of a single 512MB card.
That would still give you 512Mb video memory in total (256*2) but in addition you get twice as much processing power, 4 DVI connectors, and maybe even save some money too.
that this is a kneejerk announcement by Microsoft in response to the PS3.
There's probably lots of Microsoft engineers now trying to figure out how to hack backwards compatability into an almost-finished product, after a 'just make it happen but don't change the deadline' directive from the boss yesterday.
Like all projects with that mandate, quality is the first to go. To the end user, that means many old games will probably not work well, if at all.
that especially in the US, most companies are driven by bean-counters who can't put a price on the lack of something (in this case, the lack of future support/rework/expansion costs because software was well designed/implemented in the first place ).
Companies repeatedly hire cheap labour because the direct costs are less, but end up paying massively more in hidden money and time later to straighten stuff out that experienced developers wouldn't have done.
We engineers have also allowed management and ourselves to devolve the whole job description of a qualified/experienced software engineer into the term 'coder'. I've noticed many posters here use that word too. We shouldn't do that to ourseves, at least, and should work to change that attitude in the management of our own companies.
You're a visitor to the US so have no citizens rights. Get over it.
Hey its a free world, and you chose to come here. If you don't like the conditions in the US then go home. There's not many unemployed US engineers that would be sorry to see you leave.
I suspect whatever earnings you're left with in the US are still significantly higher than you'd make in India, otherwise you wouldn't have come or stayed in the first place. Just be grateful you had the option and understand that no one is going to feel sorry for you.
....and this is their revolutionary new product? Its clearly just a further dumbed-down higher bloat-factor version of Windows XP. Nothing new or revolutionary to see here. Same old "pile on the extra redundant layers" Microsoft mentality.
Oh joy that even the "My Documents" folder is becoming uber-complex in the name of trying to over-classify everything. I wonder how many more gigahertz, gigabytes, and licencing fees this new monstrosity will suck out of an already overpriced Windows PC budget?
The funniest thing is that most people still just use windows as a GUI for launching other apps. Which means it doesn't actually provide any more useful functionality than Windows 3.11 that came on 3 floppies.
This has made my day. Perhaps this will make it even harder for the movie industry to continue their ludicrous DRM crap.
As a Brit now living in the USA, I feel totally ripped off by the movie industry. They have prevented me from even fair use with their artificial region restrictions.
While in the UK I spent a LOT of money on a big DVD collection, which is now totally unuseable/uplayable since I emigrated to the USA just because of region-specifc encryption.
This change does not mean you have to move to cable or satellite. You can get digital tv with an antenna/rabbit ears, including HDTV, if your local stations provide it.
Its just that to demodulate/decode the signal you will need hardware not found in traditional analog-only tvs, therefore you will need to either 1) just bite the bullet and buy a new tv or 2) keep your old analog set alive by buying a box (probably costing as much as a new tv) that goes between it and your antenna.
>> They run about 35-37 degrees C as opposed to almost 50 degrees C without it.
Umm so what? 50C is probalby well within spec of your HD's anyway. Cooling them down won't make them perform better or last longer so why bother? Especially as more fans = more noise.
Why would anyone run Linux under windows? Apart from the performance degradation, you still have all the security/bloat/performance issues of having an MS OS somewhere in the loop.
Also its probably too good an opportunity for Microsoft not to miss to engineer their virtualisation software to make Linux appear to perform worse/less stably than Windows.
Yep. Reference the requirements document from the design document, showing how aspects of the design address each particular requirement.
You may also find it useful to split the design document into a hierarchy of many; one or more high-level documents for module-level descriptions, each having one or more low-level design documents for stuff like unusual algorithms or other non-obvious aspects of the design of a particular module.
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Get real.
the US is NOT the 'top captian' of anything except the competion for who can be the most fat,greedy, ignorant and self-centered people on the earth.
Microsoft will just use/create/buy a chinese company as a front to sell their products through.
You must be mad to buy this. You could get 2 256Mb GeForce 6800 ultra's and SLI them together for cheaper than the cost of a single 512MB card.
That would still give you 512Mb video memory in total (256*2) but in addition you get twice as much processing power, 4 DVI connectors, and maybe even save some money too.
>> ...cheerleaders being paranoid crackpot leftovers from the waning days of Amiga...
Suits me. I loved my Amiga. It was a great machine for its time and got me through university just fine.
that this is a kneejerk announcement by Microsoft in response to the PS3.
There's probably lots of Microsoft engineers now trying to figure out how to hack backwards compatability into an almost-finished product, after a 'just make it happen but don't change the deadline' directive from the boss yesterday.
Like all projects with that mandate, quality is the first to go. To the end user, that means many old games will probably not work well, if at all.
...but by downsampling it to 1280*720 you're losing some of the HD resolution anyway. HD is 1920*1080 I think.
A wifi version :-)
that especially in the US, most companies are driven by bean-counters who can't put a price on the lack of something (in this case, the lack of future support/rework/expansion costs because software was well designed/implemented in the first place ).
Companies repeatedly hire cheap labour because the direct costs are less, but end up paying massively more in hidden money and time later to straighten stuff out that experienced developers wouldn't have done.
We engineers have also allowed management and ourselves to devolve the whole job description of a qualified/experienced software engineer into the term 'coder'. I've noticed many posters here use that word too. We shouldn't do that to ourseves, at least, and should work to change that attitude in the management of our own companies.
You're a visitor to the US so have no citizens rights. Get over it.
Hey its a free world, and you chose to come here. If you don't like the conditions in the US then go home. There's not many unemployed US engineers that would be sorry to see you leave.
I suspect whatever earnings you're left with in the US are still significantly higher than you'd make in India, otherwise you wouldn't have come or stayed in the first place. Just be grateful you had the option and understand that no one is going to feel sorry for you.
Microsoft don't want you to realise how little has Lonhghorn has changed from XP until you've bought and installed it.
From what I understand, according to Turing's Halting Problem, what the Java Pathfinder is trying to do isn't actually a computeable problem.
....and this is their revolutionary new product? Its clearly just a further dumbed-down higher bloat-factor version of Windows XP. Nothing new or revolutionary to see here. Same old "pile on the extra redundant layers" Microsoft mentality.
Oh joy that even the "My Documents" folder is becoming uber-complex in the name of trying to over-classify everything. I wonder how many more gigahertz, gigabytes, and licencing fees this new monstrosity will suck out of an already overpriced Windows PC budget?
The funniest thing is that most people still just use windows as a GUI for launching other apps. Which means it doesn't actually provide any more useful functionality than Windows 3.11 that came on 3 floppies.
I am growing to love Microsoft. These sorts of moves mean Microsoft are doing more for Linux advocacy than any other company.
This has made my day. Perhaps this will make it even harder for the movie industry to continue their ludicrous DRM crap.
As a Brit now living in the USA, I feel totally ripped off by the movie industry. They have prevented me from even fair use with their artificial region restrictions.
While in the UK I spent a LOT of money on a big DVD collection, which is now totally unuseable/uplayable since I emigrated to the USA just because of region-specifc encryption.
This change does not mean you have to move to cable or satellite. You can get digital tv with an antenna/rabbit ears, including HDTV, if your local stations provide it.
Its just that to demodulate/decode the signal you will need hardware not found in traditional analog-only tvs, therefore you will need to either 1) just bite the bullet and buy a new tv
or
2) keep your old analog set alive by buying a box (probably costing as much as a new tv) that goes between it and your antenna.
>>> (remember the Pocket Concert?).
Sure. I have one. Anyone wanna buy it?
>> They run about 35-37 degrees C as opposed to almost 50 degrees C without it.
Umm so what? 50C is probalby well within spec of your HD's anyway. Cooling them down won't make them perform better or last longer so why bother? Especially as more fans = more noise.
HD's dont need cooling. I've never cooled my HD's and not ever had a HD problem in 20+ years I've had a computer.
This cooling fad is just another way of companies selling you expensive crap you don't technically need (such as fans with leds).
The author is probably one of those people who pay 200 bucks for gold speaker cables too.
Yeah I'd agree windows just (bearly) works too.
Upgrade to linux... it just works better...
>>> I'm a Christian and I think you're a fucking dickhead.
well you're not a very GOOD christian then, are you?
wow.
Because GOD says so isn't good enough for you?
For all religious people its more than enough, and GOD is an ACTUAL reason.
>>> but how can anyone be against the prevention of discrimination?
There is such a thing as beneficial discrimination, unless you wouldn't discriminate against, say, murderers or rapists either.
On that basis, like most christians, I think discrimination against gays is a good thing.
Why would anyone run Linux under windows? Apart from the performance degradation, you still have all the security/bloat/performance issues of having an MS OS somewhere in the loop.
Also its probably too good an opportunity for Microsoft not to miss to engineer their virtualisation software to make Linux appear to perform worse/less stably than Windows.
Yep. Reference the requirements document from the design document, showing how aspects of the design address each particular requirement.
You may also find it useful to split the design document into a hierarchy of many; one or more high-level documents for module-level descriptions, each having one or more low-level design documents for stuff like unusual algorithms or other non-obvious aspects of the design of a particular module.
I got my 1920x1200 monitor working, all it required was adding a suitable entry into xorg.conf. Very easy.