First, I'll admit that I'm currently using XP and not vista, due to horrible driver support from nvidia and creative. However, Vista is far superior for usability. You don't even need the start menu, for most things you either hit the quicklaunch icon or hit the windows key, type the first few letters of the program, then hit enter. I think OSX has a similar program called quicksilver. If someone knows a similar program for XP I would be grateful. Last, although vista suffers from "different names for the same thing" problem, for non power users it appears that things are more intuitive and easier to find (based on my limited anecdotal evidence from family members).
There is a command line for the full defragmenter, I don't recall it but a quick google should pull it up. Vista is much better than XP, however, I returned to XP due to the horrible driver support from creative and nvidia. I figure it will take them at least a year to get their act together, so I will upgrade then.
By slow I mean "doesnt load up pretty much everything instantly". A 500mhz or 1.6 doesn't meet that definition. While you may be fine with your pentium III, the rest of the U.S. insn't, and I'm tired of users complaining that their dell special is too slow.
Maybe you should try a core2duo sometime, or equivalent AMD. Everything after that will be painfully slow.
Anything would be slow on that laptop (well except for dos or stripped down linux distros). Recently purchased 1.6 ghz? Even dell's budget laptop is better than that. My pentium M 1.8ghz I bought a year ago runs XP slow. While I don't look down on those looking to be frugal, they can hardly complain about slow speed.
Anything non-budget will run vista fast. My core 2 duo runs vista noticeably faster than XP, wit the exception of games (which is mostly the fault of nvidia drivers, I'm seriously considering picking up an ATI card).
Sounds like you havn't used anything between 1979 and 2000s. I can clearly remember my commdore64 taking 10 minutes to load up an app I had written, about the same time for windows 95 to boot up on a 486.
The average consumer has seen mass improvement. Today I can simultaneously rip a DVD, listen to MP3s, browse the internet, and play a game with a core 2 duo. I was lucky to get 1 of these working at a time back in win95 days. It takes less than a second to load most apps (well, pretty much anything but adobe).
I agree that we have stopped caring about size/performance because in most cases it doesn't matter.
Huh, I should give debian a try. My first experience with linux was kubuntu and I uninstalled it for vista (which believe it or not is actually much faster for me). I thought it was KDE itself, but I guess I should try a different distro.
The only time I've encountered UACs is when installing programs, setting up a terminal server, writing over files, and changing things that I wouldn't want any random program doing, all of which are reasonable (well, perhaps not the writing over files). What the hell do you people do, randomly start deleting things on the start menu?
actually, at least in cali, MRI techs make about $25/hr, but otherwise you're right, it's the radiologist who reads them, who most likely makes 200+k/year if he is any good.
Thats great if you want to play 1-2 games per year. 3-4 great games have come just out within the past couple months (zelda, wario ware, final fantasy, neverwinter nights 2 [well, at least I would argue it is great], etc). Not only that but how many great games are coming out within the next year? At least 5 for the Wii, 5 for the 360 and 5 for the PC.
If each of these were 60 hour games (granted not all or even most are going to be this long) it would be a full time job just getting through them. Not only that, but if each were $30 instead of $60 it would be a significant savings.
Sure, I could only buy a couple games, but I don't get as much enjoyment from the 58th hour of final fantasy as I do from the 8th hour of trying out a different game.
The way I figure it, if I got 60 hours for games for the next 3 months, I'd rather finish 2-3 different types of games than finishing 1 long drawn-out game.
How many of us have time for 60 hour plus games anymore? I sure as hell don't. I'd be perfectly happy spending $30 for a 20 hour game that I'll actually at least somewhat finish than $60 for a 60 hour game, for which I'll never explore 50-70% of the content.
The newest zelda and final fantasy are awesome, but I had to put them down because I can't invest 60 hours into a game anymore. I much prefer a game like oblivion, where you can finish the main quest in 10 hours and then the rest is pretty much optional. Heh, I remember the good old days, where I finished final fantasy IV in a weekend. I respect those that want and have time for 60 hour games, but it gets to be annoying when the majority of games (other than FPS) seem to be moving in that direction.
No, but the problem would be solved, at least for you, if they allowed 3rd party apps, because then you could just port them yourself or ask the linux community.
..or at least emulated it. It can't be that expensive per device for a windows mobile or palm license. Run the main OS as OS X or whatever derivative they come up with, and have palm or windows mobile emulated/virtualized for "compatibility mode", and instantly have access to 1000s of apps. Yah, it's probably much harder than it sounds, but I run alot of medical apps on my pocket pc phone that I would not be willing to lose.
It's ridiculous. Slashdot is supposed to be full of IT competent people, yet most of them cant even understand simple concepts. Heck, I'm barely competent in IT, yet I understand how DRM is implemented in vista and the difference between different versions of Vista, yet I keep hearing this FUD. It's like I'm reading posts from people typing on a 486 using a 10 year old version of slackware.
Am I the only one who thinks that Vista is actually faster than XP or KDE? I just set up a triple boot with a fresh install of XP, kubuntu, and Vista RTM. Hardware: intel 6400, 2 gig ram, nvidia 7900. Oddly enough, Vista overall was much faster than XP and KDE (regarding OS response times and app load times. I have no idea about network performance). Fast enough that going back to XP or KDE is painful.
Contrary to what someone mentioned, no, WMP does not automatically add DRM if you select the mp3 option. Also try the ffdshow codec, it may allow you to play divx content within media center (as within vista I am currently viewing a divx video within windows media player).
Contrary to all the FUD, the only DRM you have to worry about is on "next-gen" media, and it looks like until they put the analog protection flag up it can apparently be broken (if this article is correct).
You can still rip all your mp3s or FLAC (with a supported player) off CDs and copy DVDs (with DVD shrink or similar programs). So I really don't see what all the fuss is about [yes, I would prefer no DRM, but at this point it is not very likely. For instance, you are unlikely to see a commercial HD-DVD/blu-ray player (that supports the copy protection flag) for linux, unless linux can provide some means of a protected path for content].
...and it is incredibly addicting. Xbox live media download has serious flaws (lack of content, lack of chapters, etc.) but it is incredibly easy to use. I've already spent $60 on there due to just being bored and having instant (well, within 5 minutes) gratification. I've since toned down my purchases, but that $60 is more than I've spent all year on DVDs and CDs.
I believe once content providers use and improve on this model pay pay to download content will approach or surpass illegal downloads.
Although slightly offtopic (wizard's crown was released in 1985), it is one of my favorite crpgs of all time, and it is obvious from the article where they got some of their ideas from. I still havn't beat the game.
My fujitsu t4010, with a modular battery (ie swap out the CD drive) gets on average 7.5 hours without wireless and 6.5 with wi-fi turned on. It's slightly slow by today's standards (pentium m 2.1) but it is worth it for the battery life.
JRPGs are like classical while oblivion is like avant garde. I prefer hard bop myself (mostly linear gameplay with a good amount of choices that affect at least some gameplay (baldur's gate II chapter 2, for example). Any of the extremes sort of ruin the fun for me.
Neverwinter Nights 2 has come close, I'm just waiting another month or 2 so they can fix most of the bugs.
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First, I'll admit that I'm currently using XP and not vista, due to horrible driver support from nvidia and creative. However, Vista is far superior for usability. You don't even need the start menu, for most things you either hit the quicklaunch icon or hit the windows key, type the first few letters of the program, then hit enter. I think OSX has a similar program called quicksilver. If someone knows a similar program for XP I would be grateful. Last, although vista suffers from "different names for the same thing" problem, for non power users it appears that things are more intuitive and easier to find (based on my limited anecdotal evidence from family members).
There is a command line for the full defragmenter, I don't recall it but a quick google should pull it up. Vista is much better than XP, however, I returned to XP due to the horrible driver support from creative and nvidia. I figure it will take them at least a year to get their act together, so I will upgrade then.
He was the one complaining that it was slow, so it OBVIOUSLY was not a core2duo.
If so then he was lying that it ran vista slow, unless he crippled it somehow. There is no way a duocore with a gig of ram runs vista slow.
By slow I mean "doesnt load up pretty much everything instantly". A 500mhz or 1.6 doesn't meet that definition. While you may be fine with your pentium III, the rest of the U.S. insn't, and I'm tired of users complaining that their dell special is too slow.
Maybe you should try a core2duo sometime, or equivalent AMD. Everything after that will be painfully slow.
If he has a core2duo then he is flat out lying, as there is no way vista would be slow.
BTW, the cheapo home model is a 1.8 solo processor.
I should clarify that I know that benchmarks show XP is faster, but for some reason launching apps and day to day tasks seem faster in vista.
Anything would be slow on that laptop (well except for dos or stripped down linux distros). Recently purchased 1.6 ghz? Even dell's budget laptop is better than that. My pentium M 1.8ghz I bought a year ago runs XP slow. While I don't look down on those looking to be frugal, they can hardly complain about slow speed.
Anything non-budget will run vista fast. My core 2 duo runs vista noticeably faster than XP, wit the exception of games (which is mostly the fault of nvidia drivers, I'm seriously considering picking up an ATI card).
Sounds like you havn't used anything between 1979 and 2000s. I can clearly remember my commdore64 taking 10 minutes to load up an app I had written, about the same time for windows 95 to boot up on a 486.
The average consumer has seen mass improvement. Today I can simultaneously rip a DVD, listen to MP3s, browse the internet, and play a game with a core 2 duo. I was lucky to get 1 of these working at a time back in win95 days. It takes less than a second to load most apps (well, pretty much anything but adobe).
I agree that we have stopped caring about size/performance because in most cases it doesn't matter.
Huh, I should give debian a try. My first experience with linux was kubuntu and I uninstalled it for vista (which believe it or not is actually much faster for me). I thought it was KDE itself, but I guess I should try a different distro.
The only time I've encountered UACs is when installing programs, setting up a terminal server, writing over files, and changing things that I wouldn't want any random program doing, all of which are reasonable (well, perhaps not the writing over files). What the hell do you people do, randomly start deleting things on the start menu?
Playing as a monster sounds awesome, but even then do they have to agree to a duel? It sort of defeats the purpose of playing a monster.
actually, at least in cali, MRI techs make about $25/hr, but otherwise you're right, it's the radiologist who reads them, who most likely makes 200+k/year if he is any good.
Thats great if you want to play 1-2 games per year. 3-4 great games have come just out within the past couple months (zelda, wario ware, final fantasy, neverwinter nights 2 [well, at least I would argue it is great], etc). Not only that but how many great games are coming out within the next year? At least 5 for the Wii, 5 for the 360 and 5 for the PC.
If each of these were 60 hour games (granted not all or even most are going to be this long) it would be a full time job just getting through them. Not only that, but if each were $30 instead of $60 it would be a significant savings.
Sure, I could only buy a couple games, but I don't get as much enjoyment from the 58th hour of final fantasy as I do from the 8th hour of trying out a different game.
The way I figure it, if I got 60 hours for games for the next 3 months, I'd rather finish 2-3 different types of games than finishing 1 long drawn-out game.
How many of us have time for 60 hour plus games anymore? I sure as hell don't. I'd be perfectly happy spending $30 for a 20 hour game that I'll actually at least somewhat finish than $60 for a 60 hour game, for which I'll never explore 50-70% of the content.
The newest zelda and final fantasy are awesome, but I had to put them down because I can't invest 60 hours into a game anymore. I much prefer a game like oblivion, where you can finish the main quest in 10 hours and then the rest is pretty much optional. Heh, I remember the good old days, where I finished final fantasy IV in a weekend. I respect those that want and have time for 60 hour games, but it gets to be annoying when the majority of games (other than FPS) seem to be moving in that direction.
No, but the problem would be solved, at least for you, if they allowed 3rd party apps, because then you could just port them yourself or ask the linux community.
..or at least emulated it. It can't be that expensive per device for a windows mobile or palm license. Run the main OS as OS X or whatever derivative they come up with, and have palm or windows mobile emulated/virtualized for "compatibility mode", and instantly have access to 1000s of apps. Yah, it's probably much harder than it sounds, but I run alot of medical apps on my pocket pc phone that I would not be willing to lose.
Now I have no doubts about picking this up.
It's ridiculous. Slashdot is supposed to be full of IT competent people, yet most of them cant even understand simple concepts. Heck, I'm barely competent in IT, yet I understand how DRM is implemented in vista and the difference between different versions of Vista, yet I keep hearing this FUD. It's like I'm reading posts from people typing on a 486 using a 10 year old version of slackware.
Am I the only one who thinks that Vista is actually faster than XP or KDE? I just set up a triple boot with a fresh install of XP, kubuntu, and Vista RTM. Hardware: intel 6400, 2 gig ram, nvidia 7900. Oddly enough, Vista overall was much faster than XP and KDE (regarding OS response times and app load times. I have no idea about network performance). Fast enough that going back to XP or KDE is painful.
Contrary to what someone mentioned, no, WMP does not automatically add DRM if you select the mp3 option. Also try the ffdshow codec, it may allow you to play divx content within media center (as within vista I am currently viewing a divx video within windows media player).
Contrary to all the FUD, the only DRM you have to worry about is on "next-gen" media, and it looks like until they put the analog protection flag up it can apparently be broken (if this article is correct).
You can still rip all your mp3s or FLAC (with a supported player) off CDs and copy DVDs (with DVD shrink or similar programs). So I really don't see what all the fuss is about [yes, I would prefer no DRM, but at this point it is not very likely. For instance, you are unlikely to see a commercial HD-DVD/blu-ray player (that supports the copy protection flag) for linux, unless linux can provide some means of a protected path for content].
...and it is incredibly addicting. Xbox live media download has serious flaws (lack of content, lack of chapters, etc.) but it is incredibly easy to use. I've already spent $60 on there due to just being bored and having instant (well, within 5 minutes) gratification. I've since toned down my purchases, but that $60 is more than I've spent all year on DVDs and CDs.
I believe once content providers use and improve on this model pay pay to download content will approach or surpass illegal downloads.
Although slightly offtopic (wizard's crown was released in 1985), it is one of my favorite crpgs of all time, and it is obvious from the article where they got some of their ideas from. I still havn't beat the game.
My fujitsu t4010, with a modular battery (ie swap out the CD drive) gets on average 7.5 hours without wireless and 6.5 with wi-fi turned on. It's slightly slow by today's standards (pentium m 2.1) but it is worth it for the battery life.
JRPGs are like classical while oblivion is like avant garde. I prefer hard bop myself (mostly linear gameplay with a good amount of choices that affect at least some gameplay (baldur's gate II chapter 2, for example). Any of the extremes sort of ruin the fun for me.
Neverwinter Nights 2 has come close, I'm just waiting another month or 2 so they can fix most of the bugs.