I am running RC2 (freshly installed taking 20 minutes) on a onboard integrated 6150 graphics chip that will run HL2 at low quality and low resolution barely passably.
Dragging around windows is not laggy at all. And it's nice that I can do that with the contents visible without spiking the CPU usage to 100% (uses about 25% CPU).
So you're either lying or you've simply installed the wrong drivers (I'm using the ones that came with RC2).
Yes, the reboot is the most irritating part of it. However, turning off UAC itself is easy since the option is right under User Properties in the control panel.
While I personally feel RC1 (rather pre-RC1) is really Beta3, it is quite feature-complete, stable and very useable as a replacement for XP already.
While trying to use Vista on a machine with less than 512MB of RAM is insanity, if you have 1GB of RAM, it's very likely that you'd have a smoother experience with Vista than XP at this point (rather surprising for me considering the dismal performance of 5472.5).
Strange. I'm running 5536 on a 3.0GHz P4 w/HT, 1GB of RAM and a GMA900 graphics chip. It's smoother than XP was on the same machine. Compatibility is WAY up compared to 5472.5 as well. Of course, I can't use Aero Glass, but Aero Basic is quite snappy. Even the Sidebar is behaving itself (makes for a horrible wait for the desktop to show up after boot but I guess that's why MS wants us to use Standby more:rollseyes:), although I'm just keeping it on as a curiousity and as a tester.
That said, I also don't think RC1 (or rather, pre-RC1 for me) is quite ready to be released. Someone else mentioned the UI inconsistencies and I personally also think that is the only real showstopper right now. Much of the OS works as advertised now; just don't install it on a machine with less than 512MB of RAM and it's likely to be a decent experience. Not everything is bad of course, some things like the new Start Menu I really like, but inconsistencies and odd placements just make for irritation.
Took about 25 minutes to install pre-RC1, from bootup to desktop fully loaded. Seems like they've seriously improved that installation time.
The test computer I put it on is only mid-ranged at best (and maybe even lower-end by now).
So far it's quite snappy. Too bad IE7 mucks up rendering/. randomly.
If by latest you mean integrated graphics like the Intel GMA950, you'd be correct. Areo Glass doesn't require that much _power_. It just needs some features that have been around for a few years now and have been moved to the integrated.
You can either be a limited user or an "administrator". By default in the current beta you're an "administrator".
What this means is that everytime an action is undertaken that actually requires administrative rights, Vista will pop up a dialogue (a la security warnings in Internet Explorer) and make sure you really wanted to do that. If you think this would be annoying (and would just train users to click yes) let me tell you that it was actually worse in Beta1.
There it popped up ALL the time and even if a background task does something that requires it, the entire system would stop and pop up the dialogue. At least now it'll just block and wait for you to notice the new task button and deal with it.
If you're on a limited account, you'll have to run whatever it was you were trying to run with the context menu "Run as admin" item. Then you'll have to type the admin password. Then when the program does something that actually requires the rights, it may or may not pop up the UAC dialogue.
At least MS is putting hoops for us to jump through.
Easy way to continue. 3D storage. We're still storing the bits on a platter surface. While we have multiple platters, that's not quite the same. In any case, if we actually get the physical bits down to atomic sizes, even in 2D it'd be pretty immense.
Can someone do a back of the napkin calculation for this?
If you're running the ESX-class virtual machines, there's a number of things you can do besides isolation.
For example, Vmotion allows you to move a virtual machine from one physical machine to another while it's still running without interruption. The newest versions will even automagically load balance virtual machines.
It's all really amazing technology that makes you think that it should've been done this way in the first place.
Powerful magnets do rather little to wipe hard drives (besides, there's a fearsomely powerful permanent magnet inside HDs already). I heard about this test where magnets powerful enough to bend the platters still weren't able to wipe the data off.
I personally am not convinced that the tactical depth in TA is as high as a game like Starcraft, but your description of TA seems overly simplistic.
For example, two basic units, the AK and the Peewee.
One had a rotating turrent rapid-firing short-ranged plasma rounds. Not too bad for shooting other kbots and can definitely do tricks like circle strafing.
The other had a short ranged missile. Perhaps not so great at tracking a target while moving, but then it has more range and better accuracy.
You can then quickly move on to units that utilize the height of the terrain (artillery) that can lob shells over terrain.
Of course there's the difference between kbots, vehicles (not to mention the different types of vehicles) and air-craft.
Nope. They patented the use of two unbalanced weighted motors in a video game controller. This was a very specific patent. Nintendo uses a single unbalanced weighted motor so they're okay. Microsoft paid the licensing fee. Sony didn't.
Probably because First Contact takes place during DS9. A surprisingly real-life reason too since they had to shift from peace-time uniforms to war-time uniforms.
Over here in Vancouver it's pouring down the snow too =/
Anyways, I'm already taking steps to move my family over to gmail accounts (away from our shaw.ca email accounts) such that we could switch to Telus. Shaw's service has simply been abysmal for us. Latency during the evening is sometimes in the seconds with very high packet loss.
I don't even ask for too much. I don't need mega-bandwidth for downloading. I'm perfectly happy with 150kb/s even. I just want to be able to play some online games during the evening since I'm out during the day.
Since Shaw can't give me this, I'll look to Telus. Such is the way of competition.
Anandtech does precisely that kind of article every few months.
They just released the lastest one.
http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2714
Three pages. High End, Medium Range, Low End.
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I am running RC2 (freshly installed taking 20 minutes) on a onboard integrated 6150 graphics chip that will run HL2 at low quality and low resolution barely passably.
Dragging around windows is not laggy at all. And it's nice that I can do that with the contents visible without spiking the CPU usage to 100% (uses about 25% CPU).
So you're either lying or you've simply installed the wrong drivers (I'm using the ones that came with RC2).
The point is that UAC applies to the highest security level an user can have, Administrator.
Yes, the reboot is the most irritating part of it. However, turning off UAC itself is easy since the option is right under User Properties in the control panel.
But the default colours are a nice pale blue. It's only the taskbar that's glossy black.
Are you actually using RC1?
While I personally feel RC1 (rather pre-RC1) is really Beta3, it is quite feature-complete, stable and very useable as a replacement for XP already.
While trying to use Vista on a machine with less than 512MB of RAM is insanity, if you have 1GB of RAM, it's very likely that you'd have a smoother experience with Vista than XP at this point (rather surprising for me considering the dismal performance of 5472.5).
Strange. I'm running 5536 on a 3.0GHz P4 w/HT, 1GB of RAM and a GMA900 graphics chip. It's smoother than XP was on the same machine. Compatibility is WAY up compared to 5472.5 as well. Of course, I can't use Aero Glass, but Aero Basic is quite snappy. Even the Sidebar is behaving itself (makes for a horrible wait for the desktop to show up after boot but I guess that's why MS wants us to use Standby more :rollseyes:), although I'm just keeping it on as a curiousity and as a tester.
That said, I also don't think RC1 (or rather, pre-RC1 for me) is quite ready to be released. Someone else mentioned the UI inconsistencies and I personally also think that is the only real showstopper right now. Much of the OS works as advertised now; just don't install it on a machine with less than 512MB of RAM and it's likely to be a decent experience. Not everything is bad of course, some things like the new Start Menu I really like, but inconsistencies and odd placements just make for irritation.
Took about 25 minutes to install pre-RC1, from bootup to desktop fully loaded. Seems like they've seriously improved that installation time. The test computer I put it on is only mid-ranged at best (and maybe even lower-end by now). So far it's quite snappy. Too bad IE7 mucks up rendering /. randomly.
Might want to check those connections then. On my 100MBit LAN, it's possible to watch videos using RDP much less just streaming it directly.
If by latest you mean integrated graphics like the Intel GMA950, you'd be correct. Areo Glass doesn't require that much _power_. It just needs some features that have been around for a few years now and have been moved to the integrated.
This is the way it works:
You can either be a limited user or an "administrator". By default in the current beta you're an "administrator".
What this means is that everytime an action is undertaken that actually requires administrative rights, Vista will pop up a dialogue (a la security warnings in Internet Explorer) and make sure you really wanted to do that. If you think this would be annoying (and would just train users to click yes) let me tell you that it was actually worse in Beta1.
There it popped up ALL the time and even if a background task does something that requires it, the entire system would stop and pop up the dialogue. At least now it'll just block and wait for you to notice the new task button and deal with it.
If you're on a limited account, you'll have to run whatever it was you were trying to run with the context menu "Run as admin" item. Then you'll have to type the admin password. Then when the program does something that actually requires the rights, it may or may not pop up the UAC dialogue.
At least MS is putting hoops for us to jump through.
UAC can be turned off with a number of methods including the Control Panel.
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http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vis
Except it's already been patched.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1999241,00.a
So Microsoft is finally getting with the program and doing something right? Well, it's about time.
Easy way to continue. 3D storage. We're still storing the bits on a platter surface. While we have multiple platters, that's not quite the same. In any case, if we actually get the physical bits down to atomic sizes, even in 2D it'd be pretty immense. Can someone do a back of the napkin calculation for this?
Um, Nvidia developed the RSX GPU for the PS3. The comments made here have a bit of the conflict-of-interest aspect to them.
If you're running the ESX-class virtual machines, there's a number of things you can do besides isolation.
For example, Vmotion allows you to move a virtual machine from one physical machine to another while it's still running without interruption. The newest versions will even automagically load balance virtual machines.
It's all really amazing technology that makes you think that it should've been done this way in the first place.
Powerful magnets do rather little to wipe hard drives (besides, there's a fearsomely powerful permanent magnet inside HDs already). I heard about this test where magnets powerful enough to bend the platters still weren't able to wipe the data off.
I personally am not convinced that the tactical depth in TA is as high as a game like Starcraft, but your description of TA seems overly simplistic.
For example, two basic units, the AK and the Peewee.
One had a rotating turrent rapid-firing short-ranged plasma rounds. Not too bad for shooting other kbots and can definitely do tricks like circle strafing.
The other had a short ranged missile. Perhaps not so great at tracking a target while moving, but then it has more range and better accuracy.
You can then quickly move on to units that utilize the height of the terrain (artillery) that can lob shells over terrain.
Of course there's the difference between kbots, vehicles (not to mention the different types of vehicles) and air-craft.
Wait, the PSP is outselling the DS? Where is this and what is your source on that? Last time I checked, the DS was outselling everything.
I've mapped one of the buttons on my MX310 to ctrl+F4 which closes tabs nicely =)
And at least one Canadian since I know how they love their spam.
Nope. They patented the use of two unbalanced weighted motors in a video game controller. This was a very specific patent. Nintendo uses a single unbalanced weighted motor so they're okay. Microsoft paid the licensing fee. Sony didn't.
Probably because First Contact takes place during DS9. A surprisingly real-life reason too since they had to shift from peace-time uniforms to war-time uniforms.
Over here in Vancouver it's pouring down the snow too =/ Anyways, I'm already taking steps to move my family over to gmail accounts (away from our shaw.ca email accounts) such that we could switch to Telus. Shaw's service has simply been abysmal for us. Latency during the evening is sometimes in the seconds with very high packet loss. I don't even ask for too much. I don't need mega-bandwidth for downloading. I'm perfectly happy with 150kb/s even. I just want to be able to play some online games during the evening since I'm out during the day. Since Shaw can't give me this, I'll look to Telus. Such is the way of competition.
Anandtech does precisely that kind of article every few months. They just released the lastest one. http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2714 Three pages. High End, Medium Range, Low End.