We are stuck with windows because this kind of cut throat bullshit is exactly what ALL of the major corporations want.
Microsoft is out to provide a system for which they can control and distribute anything, including movies, books, audio, software applications and games digitally.
They want to lock it all up first to prove that it is possible. To prove that you can not do anything they dont want you to do. Its just a matter of time.
Unfortunately there is no solution. Linux is not a solution until the major applications support linux.
Linux also needs support from the gaming industry as well BUT.. what linux needs first is a solid easy to use OS. Its a great os, but its got a lot of lose ends, none of which i'm willing to put up with until there is the software applications i need on running on linux.
While i grew up with and loved Robotech dearly... Macross is by far better, and of course it is, since Robotech is a raping of Macross by US distributor Harmony Gold.
Macross was, is and will ALWAYS be better.
How will this film be marketed in Japan where they only know of Macross?
The best thing about Robotech for me, as it is part of my childhood, the voices, themesong and the names... other than that.. i prefer Macross, but Robotech the tv series will always have a place in my heart.
Apple cant program. That is what i get from iTunes. IF anything would inspire me to not buy a mac, it would be iTunes on the PC. There isnt a 64bit native version, and the 36bit version is so ridiculously slow that i cant imagine how any pc before a QX6700 could run the dam thing:)
Sometimes i wonder how the hell i could run 3dsmax on 16megs of ram in NT351 years ago. It cant for the life of me see how computing has improved when all i see is applications getting fatter and slower. Are CPUs really getting faster? hehe
It simple. They have nuclear weapons and a bigger army that can kick our American asses. They also have cheap slave labor that puts toxic materials in the products they make for us, killing our dogs, our children, and even their own babies.
This is quite true. Libertarians run the gamut. Many are purely progressive... many are purely conservative... but what they all tend to agree on is liberty itself... and whatever subsets of libertarianism there is... Liberty and freedom, and the respect of each others subset... is quite unique.
I consider myself an independent. I'm not found of parties, but more so the solutions they present. Neither of the repubs and dems have presented any kind of solution to anything, and both seem incapable of doing something, either out of fear of failure and criticism, or out right corruption.
Either way... I'd like to see both parties run out of office immediately across the country, and the current leaders arrested for corruption and failing to represent the American public.
I'm running softimage xsi (64-bit) Mental Ray is also 64-bit. So it can address larger than 4GB. Its vista's cache that isnt releasing when the demand is needed. Now i agree it must release and work to some extent... but why did it allow my system to come to a crawl? Vista ate up 4gigs of ram just for the cache, that is a lot!
Maybe it couldnt release it fast enough?
Perhaps when it releases it swaps the cache into the swap file? Thats rather poor if you ask me because that would be the same as plane old swapping. Once you start writing 4 GIGS to the hdisk things are going to get slow! So i hope its not that...
It was rather odd behavior and i'm just not confident in seeing vista64 eat up 4 gigs of ram into a cache... and then having to worry if it will release it when i need it. So far, when i've needed it... i hit the page file. I was in swap hell... I should never have triggered the swap disk to a point that it made my pc crawl.
From the mental images web site (makers of mental ray)
"mental ray features the most advanced, patented and proprietary ray tracing and rasterizer algorithms. It supports 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and parallel computer architectures, including networks of computers, for maximum performance. mental ray is the first rendering software that combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual phenomenon."
"The problem here is that you clearly don't understand how computers work. Mentalray appearntly has no 64-bit versions for Windows"
I'm a professional in the field of 3d character animation and post production, been doing it for 12+ years profesionally and longer than that when you add in my teenage years... There is a 64-bit version of mental ray, and Softimage XSI. Most of, if not all of the major 3d applications have 64bit versions, and those that dont are working on it:) 64-bit is the future... actually its the past, we're just behind on the PC:(
Again there is a 64bit version of mental ray and that is why i upgraded to 64bit windows. I'm not new to this:)
You said "However Vista will happily give up its cache as apps need it." Vista DOES NOT GIVE UP THE CACHE! It starts swapping! It doesnt flush cache. In theory it should BUT... here is a specific case where it has not.
I have 8 gigs of ram.
I'm rendering in mental ray a high resolution output file. I have 4 gigs in vista's magical cache, and 4 gigs available. Mental ray eats up all of the 4gigs. Vista64 starts to swap. Cache remains at 4gigs, system comes to a crawl. I spend 20 minutes trying to click cancel in the mental ray window.
Vista does not release the memory when needed. Its supposed to, but i have yet to see that happen. I've been in photoshop, and have eaten up all 4 gigs that is free, and theres still 4 gigs in that dumb vista cache. What happens if i hit render in Softimage which is opened in another window?... Swap file, and system crawls to a halt.
Vista is not good at releasing that cache. And i cant for the life of me imagine what in the hell could be in 4gigs of cache? Dont say my porn, its far too large for that.
empty ram is not wasted ram. EMPTY ram is FREE ram... and When you're processing large files, in photoshop, editing video or rendering in a professional 3d animation package... you want free ram.
Vista decides to eat up all of your ram for you and it doesnt give it back. I dont care what people say. I've seen my system go into a swap crawl with 8gigs of ram cause vista ate 4gigs of the shit for no fucking reason.
I'm running 8 gigs of ram and vista 64. I've rendered things in softimage XSI that required more than 4gigs of ram. The problem is.. VISTA has already decided to cache 4 gigs of ram (FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK)... and then XSI's renderer (mentalray) says "I need more ram" Then the whole system starts to swap like mad because i dont have any available ram.
THANKS TO VISTA 64 !!! and its fucking ridiculous memory management. Why does it need to cache 4 gigs of ram? What the fuck is the point of having 8 gigs, if Vista is going to cache 4 fucking gigs of it!? Might as well run XP32bit.
I dont think MS really has their memory management figured out at all. It may cache for intelligent reasons, but it doesnt work. It causes the system to use the swap file and come to a crawl because it gobbles up all of your memory.
I've litterally been in photoshop, and have seen windows say 0 free for ram because Vista has cached 4gigs out of my total 8. I NEED those gigs... and Vista doesnt release them. It eats up ram like a mother fucker.
I was just thinking of going to XP64.. but the driver support is non existant on that platform.
I've run linux, and its not 100%, nor does it have the apps that i need. Sorry, stuck with MS and frankly Linux isnt there yet.
I'll only run a 64bit os. I cant run XP64 really because the driver support sucks. Companies refuse to support it.
Vista... luckily gets driver support for both Vist64 and 32bit versions.
I could run xp64, but i'd have problems with the lack of hardware drivers... So... Vista64 is it. It's quite good, but its also a bit bad. I cant run linux because its a huge headache to run especially when that headache isnt worth the end result. In the end, linux lacks all of the applications i need.
Vista 64 is OK. I'm not sure i'm a fan of the new memory management. I have 8 gigs of ram and do 3d animation etc. Vista loves to eat up all of the memory, and then when my apps need it, it slowly gives it to the app however it still triggers swapping as it does so. And it is frustrating and anoying.. not to mention SLOW.
The new file explorer UI is good, but it hides too much on its tree menu when you open a file explorer. Its hard to explain but it takes a few clicks to get to a drive, or to look through your "favorites".
The integrated search is very nice.
I'm not having too much difficulty with Vista. I'm liking it, although i have been feeling that file operations were slow... and now i noticed MS has an update that improves that dramatically. I dont like the DRM features, but none have been an issue for me yet.
The only real reason i'm running Vista is because XP 64 doesnt get enough driver support. Vista 64 has better driver support Otherwise i'd probably run XP 64 and install MS's desktop search addon...
The thing i dont like is the complete unstable nature of the PC DESKTOP. Suddenly things are quite messy, and i blaim microsoft.
Vista on a whole, usage wise... seems to work fine for the most part but... i'm not convinced that it is required.
Right because as we all know, that a man will only have one female sexual partner in his whole life...
It still is shocking that SOME people gave a dam. Most people fuck around all the time, and its probably the only reason to really be alive. I mean computers are nice folks but i'd rather have my fingers else where.
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What in the hell is going on. The sad thing is.. IT WILL happen and you wont be able to do a dam fucking thing because that is how America works.
I for one, welcome our regular censoring, anti american corporate overlords.
The system is broken, and the country is dead.
Who are you? Shemp Howard?
We are stuck with windows because this kind of cut throat bullshit is exactly what ALL of the major corporations want.
Microsoft is out to provide a system for which they can control and distribute anything, including movies, books, audio, software applications and games digitally.
They want to lock it all up first to prove that it is possible. To prove that you can not do anything they dont want you to do. Its just a matter of time.
Unfortunately there is no solution. Linux is not a solution until the major applications support linux.
Linux also needs support from the gaming industry as well BUT.. what linux needs first is a solid easy to use OS. Its a great os, but its got a lot of lose ends, none of which i'm willing to put up with until there is the software applications i need on running on linux.
While i grew up with and loved Robotech dearly... Macross is by far better, and of course it is, since Robotech is a raping of Macross by US distributor Harmony Gold.
Macross was, is and will ALWAYS be better.
How will this film be marketed in Japan where they only know of Macross?
The best thing about Robotech for me, as it is part of my childhood, the voices, themesong and the names... other than that.. i prefer Macross, but Robotech the tv series will always have a place in my heart.
TYPO ATTACK!
Apple cant program. That is what i get from iTunes. IF anything would inspire me to not buy a mac, it would be iTunes on the PC. There isnt a 64bit native version, and the 36bit version is so ridiculously slow that i cant imagine how any pc before a QX6700 could run the dam thing :)
Sometimes i wonder how the hell i could run 3dsmax on 16megs of ram in NT351 years ago. It cant for the life of me see how computing has improved when all i see is applications getting fatter and slower. Are CPUs really getting faster? hehe
K Street has more power than even a for the kids white wash.
So much for National Security. No flight plan filed?
It simple. They have nuclear weapons and a bigger army that can kick our American asses. They also have cheap slave labor that puts toxic materials in the products they make for us, killing our dogs, our children, and even their own babies.
I really hope we stop doing business with China. Our greed will be the end of us.
The Olympics dont mean a dam thing to anyone. I remember an opening ceremony but did the Olympics pass already? hehe I could careless.
This is quite true. Libertarians run the gamut. Many are purely progressive... many are purely conservative... but what they all tend to agree on is liberty itself... and whatever subsets of libertarianism there is... Liberty and freedom, and the respect of each others subset... is quite unique.
I consider myself an independent. I'm not found of parties, but more so the solutions they present. Neither of the repubs and dems have presented any kind of solution to anything, and both seem incapable of doing something, either out of fear of failure and criticism, or out right corruption.
Either way... I'd like to see both parties run out of office immediately across the country, and the current leaders arrested for corruption and failing to represent the American public.
I'm running softimage xsi (64-bit) Mental Ray is also 64-bit. So it can address larger than 4GB. Its vista's cache that isnt releasing when the demand is needed. Now i agree it must release and work to some extent... but why did it allow my system to come to a crawl? Vista ate up 4gigs of ram just for the cache, that is a lot!
Maybe it couldnt release it fast enough?
Perhaps when it releases it swaps the cache into the swap file? Thats rather poor if you ask me because that would be the same as plane old swapping. Once you start writing 4 GIGS to the hdisk things are going to get slow! So i hope its not that...
It was rather odd behavior and i'm just not confident in seeing vista64 eat up 4 gigs of ram into a cache... and then having to worry if it will release it when i need it. So far, when i've needed it... i hit the page file. I was in swap hell... I should never have triggered the swap disk to a point that it made my pc crawl.
I'm running 64-bit softimage XSI which has 64bit mental ray as its render server. Photoshop of course is still 32bit (stupid adobe).
From the mental images web site (makers of mental ray)
"mental ray features the most advanced, patented and proprietary ray tracing and rasterizer algorithms. It supports 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and parallel computer architectures, including networks of computers, for maximum performance. mental ray is the first rendering software that combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual phenomenon."
"The problem here is that you clearly don't understand how computers work. Mentalray appearntly has no 64-bit versions for Windows"
:) 64-bit is the future... actually its the past, we're just behind on the PC :(
:)
I'm a professional in the field of 3d character animation and post production, been doing it for 12+ years profesionally and longer than that when you add in my teenage years... There is a 64-bit version of mental ray, and Softimage XSI. Most of, if not all of the major 3d applications have 64bit versions, and those that dont are working on it
Again there is a 64bit version of mental ray and that is why i upgraded to 64bit windows. I'm not new to this
You said "However Vista will happily give up its cache as apps need it." Vista DOES NOT GIVE UP THE CACHE! It starts swapping! It doesnt flush cache. In theory it should BUT... here is a specific case where it has not.
... Swap file, and system crawls to a halt.
I have 8 gigs of ram.
I'm rendering in mental ray a high resolution output file. I have 4 gigs in vista's magical cache, and 4 gigs available. Mental ray eats up all of the 4gigs. Vista64 starts to swap. Cache remains at 4gigs, system comes to a crawl. I spend 20 minutes trying to click cancel in the mental ray window.
Vista does not release the memory when needed. Its supposed to, but i have yet to see that happen. I've been in photoshop, and have eaten up all 4 gigs that is free, and theres still 4 gigs in that dumb vista cache. What happens if i hit render in Softimage which is opened in another window?
Vista is not good at releasing that cache. And i cant for the life of me imagine what in the hell could be in 4gigs of cache? Dont say my porn, its far too large for that.
empty ram is not wasted ram. EMPTY ram is FREE ram... and When you're processing large files, in photoshop, editing video or rendering in a professional 3d animation package... you want free ram.
Vista decides to eat up all of your ram for you and it doesnt give it back. I dont care what people say. I've seen my system go into a swap crawl with 8gigs of ram cause vista ate 4gigs of the shit for no fucking reason.
"when you're not using your computer" is complete bullshit. I have 8gigs.. and Vista caches 4 gigs ALL the time and unfortunately when i need it!
Vista does not release that 4gigs, it instead allows the app your running to run out of memory and then the system goes in to swap hell!
Vista's memory management blows. I dont know why ANY fucking os would need to cache 4gigs out of 8gigs of ram.
BULLSHIT!
I'm running 8 gigs of ram and vista 64. I've rendered things in softimage XSI that required more than 4gigs of ram. The problem is.. VISTA has already decided to cache 4 gigs of ram (FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK)... and then XSI's renderer (mentalray) says "I need more ram" Then the whole system starts to swap like mad because i dont have any available ram.
THANKS TO VISTA 64 !!! and its fucking ridiculous memory management. Why does it need to cache 4 gigs of ram? What the fuck is the point of having 8 gigs, if Vista is going to cache 4 fucking gigs of it!? Might as well run XP32bit.
I dont think MS really has their memory management figured out at all. It may cache for intelligent reasons, but it doesnt work. It causes the system to use the swap file and come to a crawl because it gobbles up all of your memory.
I've litterally been in photoshop, and have seen windows say 0 free for ram because Vista has cached 4gigs out of my total 8. I NEED those gigs... and Vista doesnt release them. It eats up ram like a mother fucker.
I was just thinking of going to XP64.. but the driver support is non existant on that platform.
I've run linux, and its not 100%, nor does it have the apps that i need. Sorry, stuck with MS and frankly Linux isnt there yet.
I'll only run a 64bit os. I cant run XP64 really because the driver support sucks. Companies refuse to support it.
Vista... luckily gets driver support for both Vist64 and 32bit versions.
I could run xp64, but i'd have problems with the lack of hardware drivers... So... Vista64 is it. It's quite good, but its also a bit bad. I cant run linux because its a huge headache to run especially when that headache isnt worth the end result. In the end, linux lacks all of the applications i need.
Just wait until you cant afford to purchase those food supplies... you'll know why :)
bingo. We're doomed because we really dont care about our country. Oh we sit around and say its the best at everything.... when its not.
Vista 64 is OK. I'm not sure i'm a fan of the new memory management. I have 8 gigs of ram and do 3d animation etc. Vista loves to eat up all of the memory, and then when my apps need it, it slowly gives it to the app however it still triggers swapping as it does so. And it is frustrating and anoying.. not to mention SLOW.
The new file explorer UI is good, but it hides too much on its tree menu when you open a file explorer. Its hard to explain but it takes a few clicks to get to a drive, or to look through your "favorites".
The integrated search is very nice.
I'm not having too much difficulty with Vista. I'm liking it, although i have been feeling that file operations were slow... and now i noticed MS has an update that improves that dramatically. I dont like the DRM features, but none have been an issue for me yet.
The only real reason i'm running Vista is because XP 64 doesnt get enough driver support. Vista 64 has better driver support Otherwise i'd probably run XP 64 and install MS's desktop search addon...
The thing i dont like is the complete unstable nature of the PC DESKTOP. Suddenly things are quite messy, and i blaim microsoft.
Vista on a whole, usage wise... seems to work fine for the most part but... i'm not convinced that it is required.
If you install it... install VISTA 64.
Right because as we all know, that a man will only have one female sexual partner in his whole life...
It still is shocking that SOME people gave a dam. Most people fuck around all the time, and its probably the only reason to really be alive. I mean computers are nice folks but i'd rather have my fingers else where.