That is: I leave Aero on now, but I have transparency disabled, and I've turned off all of the things that make you wait for animations before anything happens. It feels like you actually have a fast 21st century computer when you click and have windows appear *right away*.
I'm this way. Unfortunately, in Vista the 'classic' look is actually slower than Aero for some reason. The entire UI becomes far less responsive than XP's classic-look UI. There's horrendous tearing whenever you drag a window, for instance. I think that in Vista, classic must not even be 2D accelerated or something.
If we're really picking nits here, strictly a "pronounceable acronym" is redundant. Abbreviations like BBC, CD, and FBI are initialisms, if you want a special word for them. I'm surprised that the BBC isn't anal about that usage also.
Or with a command-click. Oh, yes, that's far more user-friendly! Whenever someone would click the right mouse button in Windows, let's make them hold a button on the keyboard while left-clicking. And let's have the mouse behave differently when you press on the right side of it depending on whether or not your finger is still resting on the left side!
I think maybe the problem is that 'right click' and 'left click' aren't intuitive concepts, even though pressing two different buttons is. Maybe index-finger-click and middle-finger-click would be better, since that doesn't require any preconceived notions about the computer or mouse, as long as you teach the person how to hold it.
The key thing to being able to use Vista is to disable all of the graphical trash and the "Wait 500 ms after receiving a click to do anything" registry key. On a dual-core 4GB ram 512-meg 8800 GT system it was horrible to use for me until I did that. It is entirely true that it's only slow because
I have had the opposite experience. I don't have a single video on my computer that my PS3 could stream without transcoding. I have a lot of mkvs, ogms, avis... But now everyone will say "Those are just containers, not the codecs!" I don't know what codecs they use. But, the PS3 can't play 'em!
Don't let your coked up daughter steal your sports car and go on a joyride if you don't want people to remind you that you're a terrible parent every day for the rest of your life.
Please ban Atlas Shrugged. The world needs fewer 15-year-old newly-enlightened libertarians; some of them never outgrow it, and then we have to deal with them on Slashdot for all of eternity.
...it is customers organizing to display their dismay at the changes. If the customers don't care one way or another, they don't participate. If Amazon is more profitable with the changes and without the angry customers' business, then they are free to keep the changes.
Whoa, really? On my t61p I get about 4 hours in XP but only 2-3 in Ubuntu 8.10. It's bad enough that I'm considering dumping linux and going back to Windows.
Thesepeople disagree. Both say most Amish do vaccinate, and both agree that the autism rate amongst the Amish is lower than in the general population (though present). It would seem likely that either 1) the Amish hide/do not diagnose autism or 2) there is something else about modern society other than vaccinations that cause autism. Maybe the Amish have children younger (it's known that older fathers have a higher chance of autistic children), or maybe it's something dietary, or maybe it's something chemical. The differences between the lifestyles of the Amish and the rest of the country are so multitudinous that I don't know how you could immediately correlate any health differences with vaccinations.
Computer scientist Arthur Boran was ecstatic. A few minutes earlier, he had programmed a basic mathematical problem into his prototypical Akron I computer. His request was simply, "Give me the sum of every odd number between zero and ten." The computer's quick answer, 157, was unexpected, to say the least. With growing excitement, Boran requested an explanation of the computer's reasoning. The printout read as follows: THE TERM "ODD NUMBER" IS AMBIGUOUS. I THEREFORE CHOOSE TO INTERPRET IT AS MEANING "A NUMBER THAT IS FUNNY LOOKING." USING MY AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT, I PICKED THE NUMBERS 3, 8, AND 147, ADDED THEM UP, AND GOT 157.
A few moments later there was an addendum: I GUESS I MEANT 158.
Followed shortly thereafter by: 147 IS MORE THAN 10, ISN'T IT? SORRY.
q[X2's 64bit performance not so terrific.]q
I've never seen any claims or evidence of this before you.
They are on different hard drives. XP is installed on an old 160GB 7200rpm SATA Samsung. Vista is on a newer, and by all rights faster, 500GB 7200rpm SATA Samsung.
It's a Chaintech nForce4 Socket 939 VNF4 motherboard. Yes, it's old. Yes, it sucks. It probably has better Vista drivers than XP drivers since nVidia bailed out on the XP versions of them pretty early.
The claim was still that with more than a gig of ram Vista should always be faster than XP. Well, on mine it's not.
It's a not-new but reasonably-modern system. It has 3GB DDR400, an Athlon64 X2 3800 (old, but it's a dual-core 2GHz processor), and an 8800 GT. There is essentially nothing installed in Vista aside from the drivers and a few other programs (Office 2k7, a couple of games, Firefox), whereas the XP partition has a couple of years of cruft caked in.
It's less-responsive on the desktop. It's slower to boot. It takes longer to load everything into memory after booting. Office is (subjectively) slower. Games are objectively slower, whether using DX9, DX10, or OpenGL.
Actually, I was incorrect when I suggested that an "easy" way to do it was going in a straight line. This is going to allow you to (generally) hit a decent number of keys. Different combinations will fail faster, though. I can make mine fail with just qwz. qwas is a notorious one. It has to do with the matrices that the keys are set up in.
Gamers seem to be the ones most affected, and I know I've hit the problem before. Try to strafe, move forward, duck, jump, and chuck a grenade at the same time, get a beep instead
Go somewhere where you can type text. Hold down "A." Now, with that down, hold down S. Add D. Then add F. Then add G. At some point in there it's going to freak out and stop accepting input.
To me, changing the spelling in such a fundamental way would, in fact, be necessarily and fundamentally altering the language. The spellings carry with them etymologies (historical or invented) and nuances in connotation that would be lost by standardizing them.
Plus, then all homophones would become homographs as well, which would be obnoxious. There, their, and they're, all spelled the same! Here and hear, heir and air, hire and higher, metal/meddle/mettle/medal!
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That is: I leave Aero on now, but I have transparency disabled, and I've turned off all of the things that make you wait for animations before anything happens. It feels like you actually have a fast 21st century computer when you click and have windows appear *right away*.
I'm this way. Unfortunately, in Vista the 'classic' look is actually slower than Aero for some reason. The entire UI becomes far less responsive than XP's classic-look UI. There's horrendous tearing whenever you drag a window, for instance. I think that in Vista, classic must not even be 2D accelerated or something.
If we're really picking nits here, strictly a "pronounceable acronym" is redundant. Abbreviations like BBC, CD, and FBI are initialisms, if you want a special word for them. I'm surprised that the BBC isn't anal about that usage also.
Or with a command-click. Oh, yes, that's far more user-friendly! Whenever someone would click the right mouse button in Windows, let's make them hold a button on the keyboard while left-clicking. And let's have the mouse behave differently when you press on the right side of it depending on whether or not your finger is still resting on the left side!
I think maybe the problem is that 'right click' and 'left click' aren't intuitive concepts, even though pressing two different buttons is. Maybe index-finger-click and middle-finger-click would be better, since that doesn't require any preconceived notions about the computer or mouse, as long as you teach the person how to hold it.
Haha, yup. I guess sometimes it's beneficial when the computer gives you a (half) second to second guess yourself.
The key thing to being able to use Vista is to disable all of the graphical trash and the "Wait 500 ms after receiving a click to do anything" registry key. On a dual-core 4GB ram 512-meg 8800 GT system it was horrible to use for me until I did that. It is entirely true that it's only slow because
I have had the opposite experience. I don't have a single video on my computer that my PS3 could stream without transcoding. I have a lot of mkvs, ogms, avis... But now everyone will say "Those are just containers, not the codecs!" I don't know what codecs they use. But, the PS3 can't play 'em!
???
Please ban Atlas Shrugged. The world needs fewer 15-year-old newly-enlightened libertarians; some of them never outgrow it, and then we have to deal with them on Slashdot for all of eternity.
...it is customers organizing to display their dismay at the changes. If the customers don't care one way or another, they don't participate. If Amazon is more profitable with the changes and without the angry customers' business, then they are free to keep the changes.
Whoa, really? On my t61p I get about 4 hours in XP but only 2-3 in Ubuntu 8.10. It's bad enough that I'm considering dumping linux and going back to Windows.
Also, Battlefield 2 is $20 as well.
These people disagree. Both say most Amish do vaccinate, and both agree that the autism rate amongst the Amish is lower than in the general population (though present). It would seem likely that either 1) the Amish hide/do not diagnose autism or 2) there is something else about modern society other than vaccinations that cause autism. Maybe the Amish have children younger (it's known that older fathers have a higher chance of autistic children), or maybe it's something dietary, or maybe it's something chemical. The differences between the lifestyles of the Amish and the rest of the country are so multitudinous that I don't know how you could immediately correlate any health differences with vaccinations.
That's because I have a patent on patenting business processes.
So that's what melted the girders!
Woo. Mixed my html and forum tags. That's what preview is for...
q[X2's 64bit performance not so terrific.]q I've never seen any claims or evidence of this before you.
They are on different hard drives. XP is installed on an old 160GB 7200rpm SATA Samsung. Vista is on a newer, and by all rights faster, 500GB 7200rpm SATA Samsung.
It's a Chaintech nForce4 Socket 939 VNF4 motherboard. Yes, it's old. Yes, it sucks. It probably has better Vista drivers than XP drivers since nVidia bailed out on the XP versions of them pretty early.
The claim was still that with more than a gig of ram Vista should always be faster than XP. Well, on mine it's not.
It's a not-new but reasonably-modern system. It has 3GB DDR400, an Athlon64 X2 3800 (old, but it's a dual-core 2GHz processor), and an 8800 GT. There is essentially nothing installed in Vista aside from the drivers and a few other programs (Office 2k7, a couple of games, Firefox), whereas the XP partition has a couple of years of cruft caked in.
It's less-responsive on the desktop. It's slower to boot. It takes longer to load everything into memory after booting. Office is (subjectively) slower. Games are objectively slower, whether using DX9, DX10, or OpenGL.
It's Vista Ultimate 64-bit.
Is that better?
I have 3GB of Ram. Vista is far slower than XP on my machine.
Actually, I was incorrect when I suggested that an "easy" way to do it was going in a straight line. This is going to allow you to (generally) hit a decent number of keys. Different combinations will fail faster, though. I can make mine fail with just qwz. qwas is a notorious one. It has to do with the matrices that the keys are set up in.
Gamers seem to be the ones most affected, and I know I've hit the problem before. Try to strafe, move forward, duck, jump, and chuck a grenade at the same time, get a beep instead
Go somewhere where you can type text. Hold down "A." Now, with that down, hold down S. Add D. Then add F. Then add G. At some point in there it's going to freak out and stop accepting input.
I think "Whoosh!" is my favorite thing about Slashdot. Googling for "whoosh" with various numbers of os gives so many awesome comment threads.
Time Warner does not require you to have basic cable to get Internet access. At least, in Cincinnati it doesn't.
To me, changing the spelling in such a fundamental way would, in fact, be necessarily and fundamentally altering the language. The spellings carry with them etymologies (historical or invented) and nuances in connotation that would be lost by standardizing them.
Plus, then all homophones would become homographs as well, which would be obnoxious. There, their, and they're, all spelled the same! Here and hear, heir and air, hire and higher, metal/meddle/mettle/medal!