You're still thinking in a 1983 mentality where that's all the the OS was supposed to do. Windows isn't just an operating system. The kernel is the operating system, but the whole of Windows offers much more. Windows includes applications. Superfetch, file indexing, the WDM, Aero, and the driver stacks can all be considered applications in their own right. Don't like them? Fine. Go to services.msc and disable them permanently and leave yourself with just the "operating system." I myself prefer having these applications work behind the scenes for me under the umbrella of "Windows" branding.
If you buy it regardless of the DRM, what incentive does that give the publishers to stop using it?
You've now become a customer. While it is, indeed, true that these companies do anything but listen to paying customers, there's certainly more incentive for them to listen to your suggestions rather than the suggestions of a pirate.
I personally don't like DRM in the way that it exists today. In most circumstances it's too restrictive. However, I'm all for protecting intellectual property with it if used properly and used with common sense.
...is that Nvidia is saying that Intel is ignoring years of GPU development.
Umm, wait. Isn't a GPU basically a mini-computer/CPU by itself that exclusively handles graphics calculations?
By making this statement, I think they've forgotten who Intel is. Intel has more than enough experience in the field to go off on their own and make GPUs.
Is it something to be scared of? Probably not, because as he correctly points out, a dedicated GPU will be more powerful. However, it's not something that can be ignored.
We'll just have to wait and see.
In a perfect world this would actually work. But then we'd run into pirating like crazy and companies being sued all of the the place. I certainly support a more liberal approach to what employees are allowed to use on their machines, but restrictions certainly need to be in place.
It might be that Apple just doesn't want to take the time to write software for Windows that works properly. Can't say I blame them...
If Apple wants to have any respect in the overall industry (which they're slowly losing from me), making crap software for platforms they don't like isn't going to get them anywhere. You know, it's really not that difficult to make proper software for Windows. Granted, everything will be vulnerable from time to time and I really could care less about the vulnerabilities.
Safari is marketed as the perfect browser for Windows, without flaw, without question. They have the gall to assume that everyone who uses iTunes would prefer Safari simply because it has an Apple logo on it.
And when Safari falls victim to Security vulnerabilities just like every program out there, those of us who know what we're talking about don't blame Apple for their complete incompetence as programmers. Security vulnerabilities happen. It's the way of programming. It's virtually unavoidable. Yet fanboys turn around and say Apple isn't obligated as a company to produce secure software and back up their own marketing hype simply because Windows is a crap platform.
It sickens me. And they get away with it.
When I don't have to leave 30 minutes earlier for work or when it doesn't take me 30 minutes longer to get home from work, I'll take public transportation. That's an hour of my day gone, and 24 hours already isn't enough for me...
I'm actually impressed with how dead on a lot of the predictions are. Most predictions from the 60s and 70s were outrageous. One thing I think we've gotten much better at is figuring out the technological limitations of the near future so as to not make such outrageous predictions... sort of. Supposedly we're all going to be in flying and/or driverless cars by 2015.
There must be some way for Google to allow web designers and retailers to give exclusions, just like they do with Adsense. It's a good idea and practice, but hopefully the bugs are worked out.
At no point did Microsoft ever say you couldn't use another browser than IE when they shipped it bundled. The comparison between Apple's tactics here and Microsoft's is spot on. Shall we set the lawyers on Apple? Oh, that's right, we wouldn't want to tarnish their sacred reputation.
The file transferring typically only relates to two things: 1) faster prediction of the ETA, and 2) faster file copying over the network. Correct me if I'm wrong, but SP1 didn't address file copying on the same machine. In fact, I really haven't experienced any slowness with file copying on the same machine
I'm more interested to see how this affects the adoption rate... or doesn't. It's been said businesses have been waiting for SP1 to make the move. The question is: was that all just talk or is it going to actually happen?
I really don't see how this is news. I can do the same thing by booting into a Windows PE or Linux environment off of a CD. Physical access to a machine isn't nor ever has been a true "security issue." If you have physical access to the machine, you can literally do anything you want unless all data on the disk is entirely encrypted.
Why not be able to run both at the same time?.NET is great in that it allows you to access an insane variety of services and applications which weren't originally written with the web in mind. PHP is great in that it is geared directly at web-based applications. I can imagine a few scenarios where I'd love to be able to run both at the same time and pass information between them. PHP running better on Windows based systems only helps. Microsoft is trying to make Windows Server more friendly towards all types of applications, and so far they've made massive improvements.
If I have a magazine with 15 bullets, and I decide to only fire 13 into my target, the target is still freaking dead. I think what the OP is trying to say is that when you're using many kW of electricity every month, knocking off a few doesn't make that much of a difference in ratio to what you're going to use anyway.
True, it adds up, but most of the electricity used by computers is on the data center level. These machines are usually designed with raw power capability in mind. Reducing their power footprint would be stupid. Home usage is different: you don't need an 800W PSU to check your email. But compared to data centers and internet-routing hubs, home usage is a relatively small amount, and, in my opinion, not worth the cost of trying to reduce its footprint.
You do realize Bill Gates was referring to computer users and not computer administrators. There's a huge difference. Provided speech recognition gets absolutely perfected, I can see myself inputting a term paper by it rather than a keyboard. Programming and administration are different and will always require a keyboard as far as I can see.
You know, header checking does work. If whoever browses the site doesn't have Silverlight, prompt them to download. If they're on an unsupported OS (at this point), display standard HTML content. It's really not that difficult, and I can't imagine the LoC is going Silverlight exclusively.
I Sony just as much as the next guy who's actually informed about the industry. Don't get me wrong, Sony makes good products. But Sony's business practices combined with their utter disregard for any other technology out there makes me hate them with an utter passion.
I still own several Sony products. Why? Because when I bought them, they were by far the best product out there at the time.
What really ticks me about this is that Blu-ray was not a better format. The only advantage to it is the storage capacity. HD DVD typically had a better picture, better contrast, better compression, better sound quality, and a cheaper method of production. HD DVD was a better format. If Blu-ray was better in these areas, I'd stand behind it immediately.
And THAT'S why this whole thing sucks. The superior product lost.
Actually, I think your so-called "changing FOSS" world is already over. That was 2005. From what I've seen, people have realized that FOSS (or OSS, for that matter) doesn't and never will have all the answers. People are realizing that you can have proprietary software and sell it for a price and it will be both something the community appreciates and a good business model.
Now, don't get me wrong. Microsoft certainly has problems with their current business model. But in recent years, Microsoft has at least been making slight progress towards opening up to the community a bit more.
I hate to break it to you: Microsoft isn't going anywhere. They've changed business models many times in the past and they'll simply do it again to adapt to the market. The reason they haven't done it yet this time around is because they have way too much money to even realize they're taking a hit financially.
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There's a lot larger of a difference between a 3G iPhone and one that isn't than, say, between an 8800GT or 8800GTS. If this is, indeed, coming out, it would definitely be a good idea to hold off for a bit.
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You're still thinking in a 1983 mentality where that's all the the OS was supposed to do. Windows isn't just an operating system. The kernel is the operating system, but the whole of Windows offers much more. Windows includes applications. Superfetch, file indexing, the WDM, Aero, and the driver stacks can all be considered applications in their own right. Don't like them? Fine. Go to services.msc and disable them permanently and leave yourself with just the "operating system." I myself prefer having these applications work behind the scenes for me under the umbrella of "Windows" branding.
I personally don't like DRM in the way that it exists today. In most circumstances it's too restrictive. However, I'm all for protecting intellectual property with it if used properly and used with common sense.
Actually, I was more thinking about hearing: "Hello, and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer aided enrichment center." - Adam
...is that Nvidia is saying that Intel is ignoring years of GPU development. Umm, wait. Isn't a GPU basically a mini-computer/CPU by itself that exclusively handles graphics calculations? By making this statement, I think they've forgotten who Intel is. Intel has more than enough experience in the field to go off on their own and make GPUs. Is it something to be scared of? Probably not, because as he correctly points out, a dedicated GPU will be more powerful. However, it's not something that can be ignored. We'll just have to wait and see.
Okay, that jingle seriously made me want some Bob's Deli right about now.
In a perfect world this would actually work. But then we'd run into pirating like crazy and companies being sued all of the the place. I certainly support a more liberal approach to what employees are allowed to use on their machines, but restrictions certainly need to be in place.
Safari is marketed as the perfect browser for Windows, without flaw, without question. They have the gall to assume that everyone who uses iTunes would prefer Safari simply because it has an Apple logo on it.
And when Safari falls victim to Security vulnerabilities just like every program out there, those of us who know what we're talking about don't blame Apple for their complete incompetence as programmers. Security vulnerabilities happen. It's the way of programming. It's virtually unavoidable. Yet fanboys turn around and say Apple isn't obligated as a company to produce secure software and back up their own marketing hype simply because Windows is a crap platform. It sickens me. And they get away with it.
When I don't have to leave 30 minutes earlier for work or when it doesn't take me 30 minutes longer to get home from work, I'll take public transportation. That's an hour of my day gone, and 24 hours already isn't enough for me...
I'm actually impressed with how dead on a lot of the predictions are. Most predictions from the 60s and 70s were outrageous. One thing I think we've gotten much better at is figuring out the technological limitations of the near future so as to not make such outrageous predictions ... sort of. Supposedly we're all going to be in flying and/or driverless cars by 2015.
My laptop actually is slower with a standard Ubuntu install than with Vista...
There must be some way for Google to allow web designers and retailers to give exclusions, just like they do with Adsense. It's a good idea and practice, but hopefully the bugs are worked out.
At no point did Microsoft ever say you couldn't use another browser than IE when they shipped it bundled. The comparison between Apple's tactics here and Microsoft's is spot on. Shall we set the lawyers on Apple? Oh, that's right, we wouldn't want to tarnish their sacred reputation.
The file transferring typically only relates to two things: 1) faster prediction of the ETA, and 2) faster file copying over the network. Correct me if I'm wrong, but SP1 didn't address file copying on the same machine. In fact, I really haven't experienced any slowness with file copying on the same machine
I'm more interested to see how this affects the adoption rate ... or doesn't. It's been said businesses have been waiting for SP1 to make the move. The question is: was that all just talk or is it going to actually happen?
I like how you think. Do you have a podcast? I want to put you on my iPod. Oh wait, MP3 player...
I really don't see how this is news. I can do the same thing by booting into a Windows PE or Linux environment off of a CD. Physical access to a machine isn't nor ever has been a true "security issue." If you have physical access to the machine, you can literally do anything you want unless all data on the disk is entirely encrypted.
Why not be able to run both at the same time? .NET is great in that it allows you to access an insane variety of services and applications which weren't originally written with the web in mind. PHP is great in that it is geared directly at web-based applications. I can imagine a few scenarios where I'd love to be able to run both at the same time and pass information between them. PHP running better on Windows based systems only helps. Microsoft is trying to make Windows Server more friendly towards all types of applications, and so far they've made massive improvements.
If I have a magazine with 15 bullets, and I decide to only fire 13 into my target, the target is still freaking dead. I think what the OP is trying to say is that when you're using many kW of electricity every month, knocking off a few doesn't make that much of a difference in ratio to what you're going to use anyway.
True, it adds up, but most of the electricity used by computers is on the data center level. These machines are usually designed with raw power capability in mind. Reducing their power footprint would be stupid. Home usage is different: you don't need an 800W PSU to check your email. But compared to data centers and internet-routing hubs, home usage is a relatively small amount, and, in my opinion, not worth the cost of trying to reduce its footprint.
Nice try. We all saw the video 6 years ago.
You do realize Bill Gates was referring to computer users and not computer administrators. There's a huge difference. Provided speech recognition gets absolutely perfected, I can see myself inputting a term paper by it rather than a keyboard. Programming and administration are different and will always require a keyboard as far as I can see.
You know, header checking does work. If whoever browses the site doesn't have Silverlight, prompt them to download. If they're on an unsupported OS (at this point), display standard HTML content. It's really not that difficult, and I can't imagine the LoC is going Silverlight exclusively.
I Sony just as much as the next guy who's actually informed about the industry. Don't get me wrong, Sony makes good products. But Sony's business practices combined with their utter disregard for any other technology out there makes me hate them with an utter passion.
I still own several Sony products. Why? Because when I bought them, they were by far the best product out there at the time.
What really ticks me about this is that Blu-ray was not a better format. The only advantage to it is the storage capacity. HD DVD typically had a better picture, better contrast, better compression, better sound quality, and a cheaper method of production. HD DVD was a better format. If Blu-ray was better in these areas, I'd stand behind it immediately.
And THAT'S why this whole thing sucks. The superior product lost.
Actually, I think your so-called "changing FOSS" world is already over. That was 2005. From what I've seen, people have realized that FOSS (or OSS, for that matter) doesn't and never will have all the answers. People are realizing that you can have proprietary software and sell it for a price and it will be both something the community appreciates and a good business model.
Now, don't get me wrong. Microsoft certainly has problems with their current business model. But in recent years, Microsoft has at least been making slight progress towards opening up to the community a bit more.
I hate to break it to you: Microsoft isn't going anywhere. They've changed business models many times in the past and they'll simply do it again to adapt to the market. The reason they haven't done it yet this time around is because they have way too much money to even realize they're taking a hit financially.
There's a lot larger of a difference between a 3G iPhone and one that isn't than, say, between an 8800GT or 8800GTS. If this is, indeed, coming out, it would definitely be a good idea to hold off for a bit.
Who cares? I've always wanted to render hours of high definition video while playing Crysis. It's a beautiful thing.