I remember when people who ran Dos and Dos apps, were claiming Windows 3.0 was a lethargic, fat cow of a desktop, and anyone that would choose it over Dos, was insane. (Yes, I know, back when Dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.)
It seems Microsoft desperately needs a new Windows release, to get past all the negative press of Vista, and to get the business market to consider upgrading from XP.
Some people say that Windows 7 is really more like a service pack for Vista. However, that won't sell as well as a "new version of Windows" might, and as we have seen, most people are not choosing Vista directly. It is being forced on them for most of the current sales of new computers, since XP is still good enough for most people and businesses that use it.
Will this move from Microsoft work? In the long run, probably, but I think it will still be 1-2 years before any significant number of buyers choose it.
Unless you live way up north or play games only in the winter, dealing with 840 Watts of heat is going to be problematic for a dual GTX295 setup. Summer is worse in that you now have to pump out that heat through the AC system.
People often will bitch about their cable/DSL bill, but have they ever tried to calculate the monthly cost of electricity their gaming rig racks up alone?
DOS?? I wish we had DOS. In my day, we didn't even have monitors!! We had to print each screen on paper. So games like the very old Star Trek game, was VERY expensive to play even one time! We had to save for weeks, just to play for 2 hours.
Those terms as you stated, were created before P2P existed, and are no longer accurate, and should be changed to include new technologies and methodologies.
It's doubtful that using the old "This is what they terms have always meant." will fly in a court of law. I am convinced that most ISP's will agree, that P2P users are absolultely "uploading". All networking equipment I have managed calls it that.
As was said upthread, if want you want is a workstation that doesn't use all the Vista services, it's easier and cheaper to just turn off the services you don't want:).
But that would require actual learning! Everyone on Slashdot should know that RTFx is way too much work.
I think is refreshing to see a company actually listening to their customers, and providing the services the customers request.
Yes, it's true, all the companies should do this, but many see that other companies can still make money even when they try to "tax" their customers, or try to force the customer to choose products they don't want. Yet others even call their customers criminals and insist the government make the customers pay, regardless of service.
So, when a company like Netflix does a good thing, I am going to tell them I appreciate good service.
I use a Linksys multi-wan router. The 8-port, RV082 will support dual wan's for failover, or load balancing. The Linksys 16-port, RV016, will support up to 7 wan circuits. I have tried both, and used 3 wan circuits before, on different ISP's. There are similar units from other manufacturers.
I am testing out the beta version of VMWare Workstation 6.5
This version does still buffer the video card, but it seems on par with DirectX 9.x and pixel Shader 2.0
I started testing with older games so far, such as Diablo II, which work fine. Soon I will try newer games. However, since it does not yet report the actual physical video card, some games will not work with it.
This is improved greatly over the past version, for use with Direct3D games.
Also, it seems WINE has improved greatly as well.
However, if you like to play power 3D games, then native Windows is probably the best choice for most games.
I think the original, first Star Wars movie, shown in 1977, was the longest running movie in theater history.
In the city where I lived, at the largest theater in town, with 1100 seats, this movie had every showtime sold out for 4 months, and lasted for more than a year (56 weeks), at the same theater.
I have never heard of any other film doing that before, or since.
We have 2 of these computers at work. One of them is used to run PowerPoint presentations from OpenOffice on our projector, using the VGA out port.
The 2nd one I use with a serial-to-usb adapter to work on Cisco Network equipment. It works very well with the standard configuration. I upgraded my ram to 2 GB, although the Xandros Linux that is installed is compiled to only use 1 GB. I am considering installing Fedora or Ubuntu. Also, the SD port will use a 16 GB SDHC card just fine.
Overall, it's great. Small, light, very portable. Does just what it's designed for, very well.
Many of the newest Operating Systems, applications, and games are multi-threaded. Multiple cpu cores just allow modern systems to take advantage of them, when available.
I have a dual quad-core computer, that dual boots Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, and Fedora 8 Linux, 64-bit. Many programs do take advantage of this system, including modern PC games, such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3. UT3 does use all 8 cpu cores during parts of the game.
So, even though multiple cores are not necessary, I find it helps in many ways, and many programs. The system seems to perform very smoothly.
Many of the newest Operating Systems, applications, and games are multi-threaded. Multiple cpu cores just allow modern systems to take advantage of them, when available.
Can all of these be enjoyed on a single-core cpu? Absolutely.
I have a dual quad-core computer, similar to Intel Skulltrail system, that dual boots Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, and Fedora 8 Linux, 64-bit. Many programs do take advantage of this system, including modern PC games, such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3. UT3 does use all 8 cpu cores during parts of the game.
So, even though multiple cores are not necessary, I find it helps in many ways, and many programs. The system seems to perform very smoothly for all the uses that I need.
Standard motherboards are typically limited to 8 GB of ram, since they are designed for home users and gamers. Server/workstation motherboards are the best solution at this time to go beyond this. Most people are only running 32-bit software, with 1-3 GB of ram, so it's not a problem for them.
Currently at work, I use a Tyan Tempest i5000XT (S2696) motherboard, with dual quad-core Intel Xeon cpu's, and 8 GB of ram. I will expand to 16 GB in 2008. This board can upgrade to 32 GB of ram, with 4 GB Dimms, which should be available sometime in the future.
I dual boot with 64-bit Fedora 8 Linux, and 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate. I run Fedora 8 for all my productive work, and use VMWare with different versions of Linux and Windows, for testing and standard Windows work. I dual boot into 64-bit Vista Ultimate when I need Windows with direct hardware support for some multimedia apps and gaming. 64-bit Vista Ultimate seems a lot more compatible with current apps than 64-bit Windows XP Pro.
For my next home computer, I will choose a similar, but different Tyan Server/workstation motherboard. The Tyan Tempest i5400PW (S5397) is also a dual socketed motherboard for dual quad-core Xeon cpus. It has 16 memory sockets and can be expanded up to 128 GB of ram, with future dimms of 8 GB each. I believe this is the best long-term solution for those that really need a lot of ram, at a reasonable price. Even with just reasonable priced 2 GB dimms, it can hold 32 GB ram, which is a lot, even for large 64-bit apps.
While $450 for these motherboards is fairly expensive, they provide a lot of value, and good quality desktop motherboards cost $150-400, so it's not really that much more.
I remember when this started, I believe it was 1992.
It was at the time of the 120 MB hard drives. Most manufactures would sell a drive larger than 120 MB, such as 124 MB, which was the nearest size of the drive, that matched the platers total, and was at least 120 MB. For example: 124 MB = 130,023,424. Well, one brand, I think Maxtor, called that 130 MB.
IIRC there was a threat of a lawsuit, and soon Maxtor stated on the boxes of their drives, that 1 MB = 1,000,000. Soon after that, it seemed all the hard drive manufacturers did the same.
I think the confusion continues today, because other types of memory, such as 1 GB ram is a true binary Gigabyte = 1,073,741,824. Plus, as many have stated already, when a hard drive is formatted on a computer, it shows binary Gigabytes, and does not use the marketing-speak of a decimal gigabyte.
Since the hard drives are used in computers, which use binary numbers for all types of memory, all manufacturers should be required to use the same.
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I remember when people who ran Dos and Dos apps, were claiming Windows 3.0 was a lethargic, fat cow of a desktop, and anyone that would choose it over Dos, was insane. (Yes, I know, back when Dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.)
It seems Microsoft desperately needs a new Windows release, to get past all the negative press of Vista, and to get the business market to consider upgrading from XP.
Some people say that Windows 7 is really more like a service pack for Vista. However, that won't sell as well as a "new version of Windows" might, and as we have seen, most people are not choosing Vista directly. It is being forced on them for most of the current sales of new computers, since XP is still good enough for most people and businesses that use it.
Will this move from Microsoft work? In the long run, probably, but I think it will still be 1-2 years before any significant number of buyers choose it.
Well, if the bare Geeks were women, that would be ok.
Unless you live way up north or play games only in the winter, dealing with 840 Watts of heat is going to be problematic for a dual GTX295 setup. Summer is worse in that you now have to pump out that heat through the AC system.
People often will bitch about their cable/DSL bill, but have they ever tried to calculate the monthly cost of electricity their gaming rig racks up alone?
Some of us don't care. :D
DOS?? I wish we had DOS. In my day, we didn't even have monitors!! We had to print each screen on paper. So games like the very old Star Trek game, was VERY expensive to play even one time! We had to save for weeks, just to play for 2 hours.
Those terms as you stated, were created before P2P existed, and are no longer accurate, and should be changed to include new technologies and methodologies.
It's doubtful that using the old "This is what they terms have always meant." will fly in a court of law. I am convinced that most ISP's will agree, that P2P users are absolultely "uploading". All networking equipment I have managed calls it that.
He lives in a different timezone, of course.
As was said upthread, if want you want is a workstation that doesn't use all the Vista services, it's easier and cheaper to just turn off the services you don't want :).
But that would require actual learning!
Everyone on Slashdot should know that RTFx is way too much work.
I think is refreshing to see a company actually listening to their customers, and providing the services the customers request.
Yes, it's true, all the companies should do this, but many see that other companies can still make money even when they try to "tax" their customers, or try to force the customer to choose products they don't want. Yet others even call their customers criminals and insist the government make the customers pay, regardless of service.
So, when a company like Netflix does a good thing, I am going to tell them I appreciate good service.
I use a Linksys multi-wan router. The 8-port, RV082 will support dual wan's for failover, or load balancing. The Linksys 16-port, RV016, will support up to 7 wan circuits. I have tried both, and used 3 wan circuits before, on different ISP's. There are similar units from other manufacturers.
At my school we had to WASH windows!
I am testing out the beta version of VMWare Workstation 6.5
This version does still buffer the video card, but it seems on par with DirectX 9.x and pixel Shader 2.0
I started testing with older games so far, such as Diablo II, which work fine. Soon I will try newer games. However, since it does not yet report the actual physical video card, some games will not work with it.
This is improved greatly over the past version, for use with Direct3D games.
Also, it seems WINE has improved greatly as well.
However, if you like to play power 3D games, then native Windows is probably the best choice for most games.
I think the original, first Star Wars movie, shown in 1977, was the longest running movie in theater history.
In the city where I lived, at the largest theater in town, with 1100 seats, this movie had every showtime sold out for 4 months, and lasted for more than a year (56 weeks), at the same theater.
I have never heard of any other film doing that before, or since.
With all the incredibly stupid statements made by Darl McBride, I am starting to wonder if:
"Darl's brain is a copy of a rock."
Is there anybody home inside his head??
At first, I thought he was just a good lier, and perhaps he still is, but some of the words from his mouth are beyond basic lying and stupidity.
Yes, I know, back when the Dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
We have 2 of these computers at work. One of them is used to run PowerPoint presentations from OpenOffice on our projector, using the VGA out port.
The 2nd one I use with a serial-to-usb adapter to work on Cisco Network equipment. It works very well with the standard configuration. I upgraded my ram to 2 GB, although the Xandros Linux that is installed is compiled to only use 1 GB. I am considering installing Fedora or Ubuntu. Also, the SD port will use a 16 GB SDHC card just fine.
Overall, it's great. Small, light, very portable. Does just what it's designed for, very well.
What if I want a different color than green for my I.T.?
They would have figured this out sooner, but the 12,000 light year measuring tape had not been invented yet. Now we know for sure!
As I have stated before:
Many of the newest Operating Systems, applications, and games are multi-threaded. Multiple cpu cores just allow modern systems to take advantage of them, when available.
I have a dual quad-core computer, that dual boots Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, and Fedora 8 Linux, 64-bit. Many programs do take advantage of this system, including modern PC games, such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3. UT3 does use all 8 cpu cores during parts of the game.
So, even though multiple cores are not necessary, I find it helps in many ways, and many programs. The system seems to perform very smoothly.
Many of the newest Operating Systems, applications, and games are multi-threaded. Multiple cpu cores just allow modern systems to take advantage of them, when available.
Can all of these be enjoyed on a single-core cpu? Absolutely.
I have a dual quad-core computer, similar to Intel Skulltrail system, that dual boots Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, and Fedora 8 Linux, 64-bit. Many programs do take advantage of this system, including modern PC games, such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3. UT3 does use all 8 cpu cores during parts of the game.
So, even though multiple cores are not necessary, I find it helps in many ways, and many programs. The system seems to perform very smoothly for all the uses that I need.
I installed Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, on a dual-quad computer, that has 8 GB ram, without any issue.
Standard motherboards are typically limited to 8 GB of ram, since they are designed for home users and gamers.
Server/workstation motherboards are the best solution at this time to go beyond this. Most people are only running 32-bit software, with 1-3 GB of ram, so it's not a problem for them.
Currently at work, I use a Tyan Tempest i5000XT (S2696) motherboard, with dual quad-core Intel Xeon cpu's, and 8 GB of ram. I will expand to 16 GB in 2008. This board can upgrade to 32 GB of ram, with 4 GB Dimms, which should be available sometime in the future.
I dual boot with 64-bit Fedora 8 Linux, and 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate. I run Fedora 8 for all my productive work, and use VMWare with different versions of Linux and Windows, for testing and standard Windows work. I dual boot into 64-bit Vista Ultimate when I need Windows with direct hardware support for some multimedia apps and gaming. 64-bit Vista Ultimate seems a lot more compatible with current apps than 64-bit Windows XP Pro.
For my next home computer, I will choose a similar, but different Tyan Server/workstation motherboard.
The Tyan Tempest i5400PW (S5397) is also a dual socketed motherboard for dual quad-core Xeon cpus.
It has 16 memory sockets and can be expanded up to 128 GB of ram, with future dimms of 8 GB each.
I believe this is the best long-term solution for those that really need a lot of ram, at a reasonable price.
Even with just reasonable priced 2 GB dimms, it can hold 32 GB ram, which is a lot, even for large 64-bit apps.
While $450 for these motherboards is fairly expensive, they provide a lot of value, and good quality desktop motherboards cost $150-400, so it's not really that much more.
I remember when this started, I believe it was 1992.
It was at the time of the 120 MB hard drives.
Most manufactures would sell a drive larger than 120 MB, such as 124 MB, which was the nearest size of the drive, that matched the platers total, and was at least 120 MB.
For example: 124 MB = 130,023,424.
Well, one brand, I think Maxtor, called that 130 MB.
IIRC there was a threat of a lawsuit, and soon Maxtor stated on the boxes of their drives, that 1 MB = 1,000,000.
Soon after that, it seemed all the hard drive manufacturers did the same.
I think the confusion continues today, because other types of memory, such as 1 GB ram is a true binary Gigabyte = 1,073,741,824.
Plus, as many have stated already, when a hard drive is formatted on a computer, it shows binary Gigabytes, and does not use the marketing-speak of a decimal gigabyte.
Since the hard drives are used in computers, which use binary numbers for all types of memory, all manufacturers should be required to use the same.