I thought Shared Docs in XP is like Libraries in 7. It is a virtual location that doesn't really correspond to an actual directory (like My Computer). Anything that someone dragged into Shared Docs stayed in its actual real directory, but showed up as a shared resource.
The games I fought with yesterday were Icewind Dale, KOTOR, and KOTOR 2. KOTOR somewhat works now, only in a window, and with no sound. I had to replace a miles dll, had to set processor affinity to one core, had to run the setup in compatibility mode, and have to run the actual app in compatibility mode as well. I haven't tried Mass Effect yet (a Microsoft exclusive) but when I was googling for the patch, I saw results about the game not working in Vista, and the lack of a Vista patch. Also Dungeon Siege I installed yesterday, and again that is a Microsoft game that won't run in Vista or 7.
I haven't had much time to install or play games yet, as I'm mostly fighting with the box, but so far I'm only batting about 50%.
I will look into ShellExView, and I do appreciate the help. However, I don't think I've installed much that should be playing with explorer yet. When possible, I try to avoid options that add ten-million context options, file manager plugins, etc.
The weird thing is that in Linux I have to manually add a few I really want (extract options, open this rom with an emulator, open with root, etc) where as in Windows, every app ends up in a context menu eventually, which really slows down the ol' right click.
I built a new rig and installed Windows 7 and openSUSE 11.1. I don't have XP x64 installed currently, though I may move to it. So far, many of my games just won't work properly. UAC is not magically better now, though you are harassed less.
I was copying files from my old computer. I created a samba share to copy files from. I create a new folder in my Windows 7 machine that I have access to write to. I start copying a couple thousand songs, and it stops partially though saying I have no rights on the folder. I check, and I do. The songs I'm copying aren't read only, and I have rights to read from the samba share. Some files will copy, some won't. Same with my video files and e-books.
I switch over to my old box, and it will copy all the files to my Windows 7 machine just fine, but in Windows 7, I can't copy files.
Explorer not only crashes at least once a day, but it is also fairly slow and locks up for no apparent reason that I can tell. I'm running a Phenom II X4 940 and 8 gigs of ram, and the OS is far from snappy, but every blogger on the planet is telling me how fast Windows 7 is.
I like a few small things, such as the toolbar thumbnail shows all the windows, and I can hover over individual ones, which hide all my active windows, and just show that one. But overall, most of my complaints with Vista (horrid UI, three-step tasks and replaced with seven-step tasks) are still there.
And don't get me started on this Homegroup nonsense. Why add useless clutter around a workgroup and Samba?
The best aspect of 7 that no one talks about (and it may be in Vista, which I've used for only a couple of hours) is C:\Users\Public. Brilliant. If I want to share files across multiple user accounts on the same computer (such as mp3s), I now have a good place to put them. Linux should make note with a/home/public standard as well.
The screen won't get larger, but most rumors say the next iPhone (much like the G2 launching in April) will feature an OLED screen with much higher resolution. It will use less battery, and be slimmer.
I just had this conversation yesterday with our CTO. He was talking about how people weren't taking the Kindle seriously, and I was saying the Kindle will always be a niche product, but the Kindle store would soon appear on the iPhone and then become this huge beast.
Both Intel and AMD have contributed code before. You figure if anyone knows how to optimize code for specific processor instruction sets it would be them. It would be a neat way for them to contribute.
If they can manage to use it. I can't tell you how often my coworkers have been telling me they just can't figure out their home computer because of Vista. I've converted more people to Linux that way.
How about the litany of major usability issues that Windows has had for years that MS wants to constantly ignore? Especially given that Gates has sent memos out criticizing the Windows team, and they still don't address these issues.
Usability took a big step backwards with Vista, and most of those issues haven't been addressed in 7.
I'm not sure they were will. Is 7 better than Vista? Yes. Is 7 better for enterprise users when paired with Server 2008? Certainly. Is 7 better than XP for Home users? Not really. Don't believe the hype.
Plasmoids can be programmed in a whole slew of languages, such as Ruby, JS, Python, C++, etc. Someone made a proof-of-concept Firefox extension that ran plasmoids in your browser.
Chrome comes with Gears, and can't Gears widgets be programmed in a variety of languages?
Sorry, that isn't the case. Doing it right means designing it initially with a cross-platform framework. They've said it themselves that the devs who worked on Chrome were Windows only users, and it was the only way they knew how to make the browser.
Chrome should have been built on QT 4 from day 1, and it would have worked on Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. from day 1.
Now they're making a huge fork with GTK, and it isn't just widgets. I guess a whole bunch of the code is very Windows specific. So we'll have a Linux version built on GTK, except GTK is about to change significantly going forward into GTK 3, and GTK apps work horribly on Mac.
Firefox has a rewritten JS engine that they've worked on for the past few years. If I recall, it got kickstarted by Adobe donating a bunch of code that they used in Flash for handling JS.
Because Chrome is more than just JS performance. It is also about security and sandboxing. And frankly if Google approached Mozilla and said "we want to gut over a decade of spaghetti code and write something completely different, do you want to call that Firefox", Mozilla wouldn't have liked that very much.
Except you're not buying an iPhone to serve only as an e-book reader. You're buying it is a phone, MP3 player, GPS device, camera, internet tablet, reader, portable gaming device, etc.
Most people are already paying cell phone fees, so those are not new fees associated with an e-book reader.
BTW, Google will directly sell you a Google phone that is unlocked, with no contract requirements, and hand you the root password. However, it is $400 for the device. And knowing several people who work in the cell phone industry, that isn't really markup.
Mind you these are rumors, but Apple is supposedly developing an iPhone HD with an OLED screen with a much higher resolution. The G2 phone is supposed to have a similar OLED screen with higher resolution.
It is thinner, uses less power, and yet provides a much nicer picture. I believe an HTC exec basically outed the feature, even though it is still supposed to be a secret.
The G2 was supposed to launch at the end of January for T-Mobile only, but HTC and Google ended up striking deals with Sprint and Verizon. The HTC CEO said look for it in April now. That's fine with me. I can't leave AT&T until May.
I can pay $359 for a dedicated gadget that is one more thing to carry.
Or I can drop $200 on a new G2 phone which will be an MP3 player, internet tablet, GPS-enabled camera, email checker, phone, e-reader, etc. I carry one gadget that does everything.
Maybe you're talking about my cell phone bill. I have a cell phone regardless. Any even then, we're talking about adding $30 a month for an overall data plan, which comes to $720 after two years. Not three grand.
Except that data plan isn't the cost of an e-reader. It is the cost of a data plan I'd have regardless.
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The Phenom II X4 940 supports HT 3.0 and a 5200MHz bus.
Why keep duplicates? Just put your music collection in C:\Users\Public\Music as opposed to C:\Users\foo\Music\ if you want to share it.
Windows Explorer, not IE. I don't use IE if I can help it.
I thought Shared Docs in XP is like Libraries in 7. It is a virtual location that doesn't really correspond to an actual directory (like My Computer). Anything that someone dragged into Shared Docs stayed in its actual real directory, but showed up as a shared resource.
The games I fought with yesterday were Icewind Dale, KOTOR, and KOTOR 2. KOTOR somewhat works now, only in a window, and with no sound. I had to replace a miles dll, had to set processor affinity to one core, had to run the setup in compatibility mode, and have to run the actual app in compatibility mode as well. I haven't tried Mass Effect yet (a Microsoft exclusive) but when I was googling for the patch, I saw results about the game not working in Vista, and the lack of a Vista patch. Also Dungeon Siege I installed yesterday, and again that is a Microsoft game that won't run in Vista or 7.
I haven't had much time to install or play games yet, as I'm mostly fighting with the box, but so far I'm only batting about 50%.
I will look into ShellExView, and I do appreciate the help. However, I don't think I've installed much that should be playing with explorer yet. When possible, I try to avoid options that add ten-million context options, file manager plugins, etc.
The weird thing is that in Linux I have to manually add a few I really want (extract options, open this rom with an emulator, open with root, etc) where as in Windows, every app ends up in a context menu eventually, which really slows down the ol' right click.
I built a new rig and installed Windows 7 and openSUSE 11.1. I don't have XP x64 installed currently, though I may move to it. So far, many of my games just won't work properly. UAC is not magically better now, though you are harassed less.
I was copying files from my old computer. I created a samba share to copy files from. I create a new folder in my Windows 7 machine that I have access to write to. I start copying a couple thousand songs, and it stops partially though saying I have no rights on the folder. I check, and I do. The songs I'm copying aren't read only, and I have rights to read from the samba share. Some files will copy, some won't. Same with my video files and e-books.
I switch over to my old box, and it will copy all the files to my Windows 7 machine just fine, but in Windows 7, I can't copy files.
Explorer not only crashes at least once a day, but it is also fairly slow and locks up for no apparent reason that I can tell. I'm running a Phenom II X4 940 and 8 gigs of ram, and the OS is far from snappy, but every blogger on the planet is telling me how fast Windows 7 is.
I like a few small things, such as the toolbar thumbnail shows all the windows, and I can hover over individual ones, which hide all my active windows, and just show that one. But overall, most of my complaints with Vista (horrid UI, three-step tasks and replaced with seven-step tasks) are still there.
And don't get me started on this Homegroup nonsense. Why add useless clutter around a workgroup and Samba?
The best aspect of 7 that no one talks about (and it may be in Vista, which I've used for only a couple of hours) is C:\Users\Public. Brilliant. If I want to share files across multiple user accounts on the same computer (such as mp3s), I now have a good place to put them. Linux should make note with a /home/public standard as well.
In all fairness, I'm not a Mac fan, but Mac wins here. You uninstall an app by deleting the folder. End of story. It's gone.
The screen won't get larger, but most rumors say the next iPhone (much like the G2 launching in April) will feature an OLED screen with much higher resolution. It will use less battery, and be slimmer.
I just had this conversation yesterday with our CTO. He was talking about how people weren't taking the Kindle seriously, and I was saying the Kindle will always be a niche product, but the Kindle store would soon appear on the iPhone and then become this huge beast.
It's almost like I predicted this.
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Both Intel and AMD have contributed code before. You figure if anyone knows how to optimize code for specific processor instruction sets it would be them. It would be a neat way for them to contribute.
I've always wondered if anyone has spent time trying to develop optimizations for the kernel if various specific instruction sets are detected?
If they can manage to use it. I can't tell you how often my coworkers have been telling me they just can't figure out their home computer because of Vista. I've converted more people to Linux that way.
How about the litany of major usability issues that Windows has had for years that MS wants to constantly ignore? Especially given that Gates has sent memos out criticizing the Windows team, and they still don't address these issues.
Usability took a big step backwards with Vista, and most of those issues haven't been addressed in 7.
I'm not sure they were will. Is 7 better than Vista? Yes. Is 7 better for enterprise users when paired with Server 2008? Certainly. Is 7 better than XP for Home users? Not really. Don't believe the hype.
Plasmoids can be programmed in a whole slew of languages, such as Ruby, JS, Python, C++, etc. Someone made a proof-of-concept Firefox extension that ran plasmoids in your browser.
Chrome comes with Gears, and can't Gears widgets be programmed in a variety of languages?
And Java is still around, etc.
"because they are taking the time to do it right"
Sorry, that isn't the case. Doing it right means designing it initially with a cross-platform framework. They've said it themselves that the devs who worked on Chrome were Windows only users, and it was the only way they knew how to make the browser.
Chrome should have been built on QT 4 from day 1, and it would have worked on Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. from day 1.
Now they're making a huge fork with GTK, and it isn't just widgets. I guess a whole bunch of the code is very Windows specific. So we'll have a Linux version built on GTK, except GTK is about to change significantly going forward into GTK 3, and GTK apps work horribly on Mac.
So how are they doing this right?
Firefox has a rewritten JS engine that they've worked on for the past few years. If I recall, it got kickstarted by Adobe donating a bunch of code that they used in Flash for handling JS.
Because Chrome is more than just JS performance. It is also about security and sandboxing. And frankly if Google approached Mozilla and said "we want to gut over a decade of spaghetti code and write something completely different, do you want to call that Firefox", Mozilla wouldn't have liked that very much.
You don't wear anything for that either. A camera just tracks your movement.
Except you're not buying an iPhone to serve only as an e-book reader. You're buying it is a phone, MP3 player, GPS device, camera, internet tablet, reader, portable gaming device, etc.
Most people are already paying cell phone fees, so those are not new fees associated with an e-book reader.
BTW, Google will directly sell you a Google phone that is unlocked, with no contract requirements, and hand you the root password. However, it is $400 for the device. And knowing several people who work in the cell phone industry, that isn't really markup.
Mind you these are rumors, but Apple is supposedly developing an iPhone HD with an OLED screen with a much higher resolution. The G2 phone is supposed to have a similar OLED screen with higher resolution.
It is thinner, uses less power, and yet provides a much nicer picture. I believe an HTC exec basically outed the feature, even though it is still supposed to be a secret.
The G2 was supposed to launch at the end of January for T-Mobile only, but HTC and Google ended up striking deals with Sprint and Verizon. The HTC CEO said look for it in April now. That's fine with me. I can't leave AT&T until May.
I'm assume they could give it away for free. However, I'd be willing to pay up to $20 for such an app.
3 grand? Where do you get those numbers?
I can pay $359 for a dedicated gadget that is one more thing to carry.
Or I can drop $200 on a new G2 phone which will be an MP3 player, internet tablet, GPS-enabled camera, email checker, phone, e-reader, etc. I carry one gadget that does everything.
Maybe you're talking about my cell phone bill. I have a cell phone regardless. Any even then, we're talking about adding $30 a month for an overall data plan, which comes to $720 after two years. Not three grand.
Except that data plan isn't the cost of an e-reader. It is the cost of a data plan I'd have regardless.
Will I pay $359 for a dedicated e-book reader? Not likely.
Would I pay $20 for an app on the iPhone or G-phone that would allow me access to the Amazon e-book store. Sure I would.