Vista is definitely slower at copying, deleting, pretty-much all file processing commands. I can say this from my own experiences; God help you if you have thousands of files to process.
But you should check out the new animations they made for the copy/move/delete functions, whoa! They've got, like, flipping rectangles and shit, and the animations are so shiny!
At this rate, I bet the next service pack will bring a new 3D-accelerated BSOD too, complete with shiny and flippy messages to tell you your system is screwed, but man... check out that neat animation, that'll take the sting off at least!
(Oh, and to finally wrap up the karma bonus once and for all, Vista was the reason I finally converted to Linux. Huzaa!)
When a customer walks into a store what do you think most will ask for?
If there there for a laptop, they'll ask for a laptop. I'd like to think people care more about the laptop itself than what OS is running on it. I could be wrong; it'd be nice to have the choice however.
But Microsoft is the main reason. Once Vista shipped, they stopped selling XP to the OEMs. So even if a manufacturer wanted to keep XP on their system, they couldn't.
Makes sense I suppose. Doncha just love the way MS does business?
Not all new PCs are capable of running Vista with anything even remotely close to decent performance.
A couple of weeks ago I got my mum a fairly low-end notebook (1.73GHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD). Since she's not exactly much of a power user and only wanted to browse the web, extract pics from her camera and occasionally check her email, her needs were easy to satisfy with a cheaper computer. Only problem was, this notebook (like EVERY SINGLE ONE in the store) was pre-installed with Vista. I figured, hey, if they're running Vista on a brand-new PC then surely the manufacturer had chosen a decent configuration to ensure decent performance. Damn I was so naive.
It was slow to boot, slow to shutdown/hibernate, slow to run programs on, full of useless pre-installed crap (e.g. Norton with 30-day subscription). After Vista did some weird shit that caused this new PC to hang with massive non-stop disk accessing, I decided to blow Vista entirely away and stick an old copy of XP with Service Pack 2 on instead. Now, the system is faster to start, faster to shutdown/hibernate, faster to launch software, it has only the software it needs with no crap lying around after an uninstall, much more responsive, plus I freed about 8 GB of a hidden recovery partition. All in all, it was a win for us with absolutely no disadvantages and a shitload of positives. In the future I might even be tempted to install Ubuntu instead, but I won't push my luck just yet.:)
This shouldn't be particularly surprising I suppose, but I mention it because I was totally shocked how quickly and ruthlessly the manufacturers were in totally abandoning a perfectly-working OS like XP, and sticking Vista as their default setup on hardware that shouldn't have been running it to begin with. It really astounded me just how useful the system was... *without* Vista.
There is a small difference however. Downloading a Linux distro is free, Vista (assuming you get it legit) is not. Trying out a new distro won't cost you anything except for time, so he's questioning why people are rushing to put money down for Vista so soon.
$3,000 is the standard settlement offer, though cases have settled for as much as $5,000
Maybe the RIAA should advertise their pricing scheme to the students, give them some flexibility in their settlements.
"Now see, you can settle for the average $3,000, but if you wish to upgrade to our premium settlement plan of $5,000, we'll also throw in a one-month litigation immunity from our friends at the MPAA. Think of the savings!"
Correction: Linux supports more out of date and legacy devices 'out of the box' than any other operating system out there.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. When people are finding out that their existing hardware won't work in Vista due to the manufacturer abandoning support for perfectly good hardware, that hardware will still continue to work for a long time in Linux. Newer hardware, it can be a problem. Older hardware, potentially more luck in Linux than in newer versions of Windows.
The fact that your regular folk would have been F'd in the A for something like this while the corporate suits get off pretty lightly, is yet another reason why it's called the legal system as opposed to the justice system.
If you're using a Win 98 machine for gaming, I'd hazard a guess that the games that run on such a machine would be old enough to run sufficiently well in Wine anyway.
As for myself, a lot of games bore me these days, so a smaller selection of games like Q4/D3/NWN/UT2004 is plenty for me and since they work fine in Linux, I have no reason to complain. I'm learning to live without the really big-game stuff like BF2142 and Supreme Commander, the latter I can't even run in Windows due to its massive hardware requirements.
They'll probably just stick the money on Larry Ellison's jet, fly over Hyperion Solutions HQ and dump it into this really big bag with a dollar sign on it. It has to have a dollar sign you know. The number of vertical strike in the middle is discretionary.
And that's how you do high-level business. Or so I hear.
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Putting Chewbacca stamp on letter +
Tripping and falling on letter +
Realizing the letter (including stamp) has been crumpled
= "I bent my wookie."
There are quicker ways to shut down the brain.
Playing 'Russian Roulette' with a semi-automatic pistol is one idea.
I'm sure in 2015 plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 2007 it's a little hard to come by.
Stay out of Australia then. We have shitloads. Heck we're about to start selling it to the Chinese.
/hears artillery in the distance
Did I say that out-loud? Damn...
Paid bloggers are almost as trustworthy as, I dunno, fake critics from even larger corporations..
Vista is definitely slower at copying, deleting, pretty-much all file processing commands. I can say this from my own experiences; God help you if you have thousands of files to process.
But you should check out the new animations they made for the copy/move/delete functions, whoa! They've got, like, flipping rectangles and shit, and the animations are so shiny!
At this rate, I bet the next service pack will bring a new 3D-accelerated BSOD too, complete with shiny and flippy messages to tell you your system is screwed, but man... check out that neat animation, that'll take the sting off at least!
(Oh, and to finally wrap up the karma bonus once and for all, Vista was the reason I finally converted to Linux. Huzaa!)
Makes sense I suppose. Doncha just love the way MS does business?
This article is worthless without some kind of reference to tubes.
Not all new PCs are capable of running Vista with anything even remotely close to decent performance.
:)
A couple of weeks ago I got my mum a fairly low-end notebook (1.73GHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD). Since she's not exactly much of a power user and only wanted to browse the web, extract pics from her camera and occasionally check her email, her needs were easy to satisfy with a cheaper computer. Only problem was, this notebook (like EVERY SINGLE ONE in the store) was pre-installed with Vista. I figured, hey, if they're running Vista on a brand-new PC then surely the manufacturer had chosen a decent configuration to ensure decent performance. Damn I was so naive.
It was slow to boot, slow to shutdown/hibernate, slow to run programs on, full of useless pre-installed crap (e.g. Norton with 30-day subscription). After Vista did some weird shit that caused this new PC to hang with massive non-stop disk accessing, I decided to blow Vista entirely away and stick an old copy of XP with Service Pack 2 on instead. Now, the system is faster to start, faster to shutdown/hibernate, faster to launch software, it has only the software it needs with no crap lying around after an uninstall, much more responsive, plus I freed about 8 GB of a hidden recovery partition. All in all, it was a win for us with absolutely no disadvantages and a shitload of positives. In the future I might even be tempted to install Ubuntu instead, but I won't push my luck just yet.
This shouldn't be particularly surprising I suppose, but I mention it because I was totally shocked how quickly and ruthlessly the manufacturers were in totally abandoning a perfectly-working OS like XP, and sticking Vista as their default setup on hardware that shouldn't have been running it to begin with. It really astounded me just how useful the system was... *without* Vista.
There is a small difference however. Downloading a Linux distro is free, Vista (assuming you get it legit) is not. Trying out a new distro won't cost you anything except for time, so he's questioning why people are rushing to put money down for Vista so soon.
Maybe the RIAA should advertise their pricing scheme to the students, give them some flexibility in their settlements.
"Now see, you can settle for the average $3,000, but if you wish to upgrade to our premium settlement plan of $5,000, we'll also throw in a one-month litigation immunity from our friends at the MPAA. Think of the savings!"
Dude, is there like a prize for the "Pun of the Century" on Slashdot or something?
I'd feel concerned for any creature which DID end up having sex after 100 million years.
Given all that pent-up need, they probably blow with enough force to launch the space shuttle.
Who ever said nerds couldn't get drunk, Mr. Coward?
And who the hell modded my post "Interesting"? Don't know how that worked out
I must be drunk myself. I immediately thought the title was referring to Wine the software instead of the beverage.
"These fashionable dresses are sure to impress, as they are made from a compatibility layer released under the GNU Lesser General Public License."
Forget the Children!
Won't somebody please think of the ponies!
The fact that your regular folk would have been F'd in the A for something like this while the corporate suits get off pretty lightly, is yet another reason why it's called the legal system as opposed to the justice system.
Make them Star Wars comics. Extra credit in an exam for explaining the internal mechanics of a lightsaber.
A full scholarship for anyone who builds a working lightsaber.
I've wasted my life!
is for Windows Defender in Vista to stuff up and flag IE7 as spyware. That would be most amusing. :)
If you're using a Win 98 machine for gaming, I'd hazard a guess that the games that run on such a machine would be old enough to run sufficiently well in Wine anyway.
As for myself, a lot of games bore me these days, so a smaller selection of games like Q4/D3/NWN/UT2004 is plenty for me and since they work fine in Linux, I have no reason to complain. I'm learning to live without the really big-game stuff like BF2142 and Supreme Commander, the latter I can't even run in Windows due to its massive hardware requirements.
They'll probably just stick the money on Larry Ellison's jet, fly over Hyperion Solutions HQ and dump it into this really big bag with a dollar sign on it. It has to have a dollar sign you know. The number of vertical strike in the middle is discretionary.
And that's how you do high-level business. Or so I hear.
Obviously they don't have the lobes for Linux.