I don't think the answer is to provide yet another windows version. Having a "new" and "legacy" version is only going to make the problem worse. Imagine if Microsoft came out now and said they were going to support XP for 5 more years with fixes as the "legacy" version. Now no one will be forced to upgrade. Many people like XP better but accept the fact that eventually they will need to go to Vista. For Microsoft, they want to keep people at their latest version because it is easier to support the newer and hopefully "better" code than the old.
I think a a better way is to do smaller incremental releases. Sure MS may only want to make people drop the 200$ every 4-5 years, but they could make make their service packs yearly and include more new features (similar to XP SP 2). Then when it comes to the next Windows release it hopefully will not be such a drastic change for users.
I went to the University of New Brunswick (A Canadian School). We were not allowed to take a Math Minor at all. The reason being that the degree essentially contained a Mathematics minor and more. Half of my CS courses were really Math courses (Like Numerial Methods and Discrete Structures).
At the University of Waterloo, there is no CS department. Those who take CS get a Mathematics degree in Computer Science.
The difference between the select/middle-click paste and the Control-C/Control-V paste is because they each use different Clipboards. For instance if you are using KDE, The Control-C will copy to the KDE clipboard and the select with mouse will copy to the X-Windows clipboard.
I think the reason for the two different Clipboards is because the KDE (Or gnome? Not sure if it works the same way) clipboard handles copying content other than plain text and the X-Windows one not.
Mozilla already has this. You can set your email to threaded view and it looks just like it does when viewing a newsgroup. Newsgroups are really email meets forums. Forums just seem to be gaining more ground today instead of newsgroups.
There is nothing new here. Move along people, nothing to see.
Since when does flame articles posted by anonymous cowards constitute news. I'm a windows user, and a mac user and a Linux user. They all have their uses. The article reads like marketing technobable. Well, enough said, Don't want to feed the flame.
The entire article is AMD this, Athlon that with as side of Intel... I'm not even sure why they included the G5s in the benchmarks.
All of the mac systems only have 128 MB of ram. That's not even enough to comfortably run my iBook, let alone a dual processor G5. Plus 64-bit applications are bigger and use more ram (every int is 64 bits).
Are they even benchmarking 64-bit applications? Premiere, Photoshop, Word and Quake III are benchmarked... But nowhere does it say it's the 64-bit version of these. Also, Most of these products are completely different between Mac and PC versions making the benchmark essentially pointless.
Did you really think that 'PCWorld' would publish a benchmark that gave any favor to a mac? That's what I thought.
From what I've heard the windows.forms of.NET is a windows specific GUI toolkit. It has only been through the efforts of wine that it has started to make its way to Linux.
I'd say we should wait a little while longer before seriously considering.NET for cross-platform GUI development.
I think he totally missed the point. The Lord of the Rings was not a social commentary about WWI. Surely the things of the World Wars influenced his writing but ultimately it was a story about Good vs. Evil and how the Good eventually triumphs.
Tolkien was a strong Christian and a friend/peer of C. S. Lewis. Lewis's Narnia book, "the lion, the witch and the wardrobe" is an alegory of the Christian faith. Tolkien didn't do the same thing with his writing, but he heavily used Christian ideals in portraying the Good vs. Evil.
However, that said. The book was a story, created for his children for entertainment purposes. Take it for what it is, a fantasy story.
So for $200, you get the upgraded version of windows which you can make work exactly like the old version of windows. Every new feature you turn off is one you paid for. I feel Microsoft should focus on the features people actually want and need.
There are a few major flaws with all these new systems.
- Until you can readily get SACD or watever in the music store, you won't find people jumping to sign up. Plus if there is no significant improvement over a regular CD, then people will stick with CDs. What will the price be? Will they cost more than CDs? That will certainly deter people.
- I don't get this watermarking crap. Yes, watermark will not let you make unauthorized SACD (or insert other format here). So that just means that there will be no independent artists which can use this new format. They will be stuck with the old CDs.
- Also, a watermark won't stop someone copying the disc, it will just stop them making a disc with the same content. Look at the Dreamcast. Why would I need the disc anyway when I can play it on my computer, on an iPod, or throw it on a regular CD.
And they can't try and convince me that putting only Analog outputs will stop copying. Analog to digital is no big deal. Some quality will be lost but whatever people will still do this to be able to listen to their disc elsewhere.
If it does fly, it will probably end up with way of the DVD. Great technology, but not fulfilling its purpose (ie the non-copying).
The reason why Limewire is slow is because its Java. Java has a tendancy of being slower than a normal compiled program anyway, but I have heard a lot of people complaining about the performance of the JVM on OS X. I have heard the 1.4.1 is in developer preview. I havn't downloaded it yet. but I'm sure it will fix up some of the performance issues.
MSN Messanger starts fairly quickly for me. It takes a second or two to log in though. iChat same thing. Here's a theory. I don't know how they are rendering the text with the emoticons. It could be html or an enhanced version of the rich text control. That could be the source for lost speed.
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I have almost the same configuration but the G3 600MHz iBook. For the most part the only slow things are graphic related. If I had a better video card and could run QuartzExtreme, then I probably wouldn't have much of a problem.
Window resizing is slow. It always has been. Don't know why but it just is. Programs load fairly quickly though.
The key is to have at least 256 MB of ram. If not, you're swapping as soon as you boot. When I went from 128 to 384, I noticed a huge performance gain.
I wish I was a recording artist. I would go to BMG and ask them if I could release an enhanced CD. That would be great, a CD made to use in a computer that can't be used in a computer.
Now I can share the one movie with anyone I want, anywhere in the world for the next 24 hours. Doesn't sound that secure to me. IP is never a good way to check security.
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I don't think the answer is to provide yet another windows version. Having a "new" and "legacy" version is only going to make the problem worse. Imagine if Microsoft came out now and said they were going to support XP for 5 more years with fixes as the "legacy" version. Now no one will be forced to upgrade. Many people like XP better but accept the fact that eventually they will need to go to Vista. For Microsoft, they want to keep people at their latest version because it is easier to support the newer and hopefully "better" code than the old.
I think a a better way is to do smaller incremental releases. Sure MS may only want to make people drop the 200$ every 4-5 years, but they could make make their service packs yearly and include more new features (similar to XP SP 2). Then when it comes to the next Windows release it hopefully will not be such a drastic change for users.
You obviously must be an emacs user. A true vi user would understand.
MSN Search: 97,751,005 containing linux (0.18 seconds)
Google Search: 224,000,000 for linux [definition]. (0.11 seconds)
Google is faster and returns more results. Plus MSN only shows 8 per page instead of 10.
I went to the University of New Brunswick (A Canadian School). We were not allowed to take a Math Minor at all. The reason being that the degree essentially contained a Mathematics minor and more. Half of my CS courses were really Math courses (Like Numerial Methods and Discrete Structures).
At the University of Waterloo, there is no CS department. Those who take CS get a Mathematics degree in Computer Science.
Now if only they would stop neglecting Canada...
I still don't understand why they don't have iTMS in Canada yet.
The difference between the select/middle-click paste and the Control-C/Control-V paste is because they each use different Clipboards. For instance if you are using KDE, The Control-C will copy to the KDE clipboard and the select with mouse will copy to the X-Windows clipboard.
I think the reason for the two different Clipboards is because the KDE (Or gnome? Not sure if it works the same way) clipboard handles copying content other than plain text and the X-Windows one not.
Mozilla already has this. You can set your email to threaded view and it looks just like it does when viewing a newsgroup. Newsgroups are really email meets forums. Forums just seem to be gaining more ground today instead of newsgroups.
There is nothing new here. Move along people, nothing to see.
Since when does flame articles posted by anonymous cowards constitute news. I'm a windows user, and a mac user and a Linux user. They all have their uses. The article reads like marketing technobable. Well, enough said, Don't want to feed the flame.
Dead or Alive?
Yeah, you're right... Was just looking at the chart at the end.
The entire article is AMD this, Athlon that with as side of Intel... I'm not even sure why they included the G5s in the benchmarks.
All of the mac systems only have 128 MB of ram. That's not even enough to comfortably run my iBook, let alone a dual processor G5. Plus 64-bit applications are bigger and use more ram (every int is 64 bits).
Are they even benchmarking 64-bit applications? Premiere, Photoshop, Word and Quake III are benchmarked... But nowhere does it say it's the 64-bit version of these. Also, Most of these products are completely different between Mac and PC versions making the benchmark essentially pointless.
Did you really think that 'PCWorld' would publish a benchmark that gave any favor to a mac? That's what I thought.
Mod PCWorld +1 Flamebait
From what I've heard the windows.forms of .NET is a windows specific GUI toolkit. It has only been through the efforts of wine that it has started to make its way to Linux.
.NET for cross-platform GUI development.
I'd say we should wait a little while longer before seriously considering
+1 interesting
I'm not sure if I agree, but I'm sure that is part of his motovation.
Wish I had mod points.
I think he totally missed the point. The Lord of the Rings was not a social commentary about WWI. Surely the things of the World Wars influenced his writing but ultimately it was a story about Good vs. Evil and how the Good eventually triumphs.
Tolkien was a strong Christian and a friend/peer of C. S. Lewis. Lewis's Narnia book, "the lion, the witch and the wardrobe" is an alegory of the Christian faith. Tolkien didn't do the same thing with his writing, but he heavily used Christian ideals in portraying the Good vs. Evil.
However, that said. The book was a story, created for his children for entertainment purposes. Take it for what it is, a fantasy story.
I don't know much about Solaris x86 but I do know about Solaris versioning.
Solaris 6 = Solaris 2.6 = SunOS 5.6
Solaris 7 = Solaris 2.7 = SunOS 5.7
Solaris 8 = Solaris 2.8 = SunOS 5.8
I assume it would follow for 9 as well.
So for $200, you get the upgraded version of windows which you can make work exactly like the old version of windows. Every new feature you turn off is one you paid for. I feel Microsoft should focus on the features people actually want and need.
Windows 2000 was origionally called NT 5 and was supposed to come out in 1999.
So, Technically it was late.
I don't agree. They've done it in Canada. It's called a Federal tax. From what I've heard though they'd never put one in in the US though.
E-commerce is big in Canada too, and we are taxed.
Learn how to be an Rocket scientist in 24 hours.
You can't get experience in a book. In my opinion you can learn way more from an experienced sysadmin then you can from a book.
Most 1U racks don't support Raid 5. Dell's 1Us don't (low end). That is the line I see Apple's product competing with.
There are a few major flaws with all these new systems.
- Until you can readily get SACD or watever in the music store, you won't find people jumping to sign up. Plus if there is no significant improvement over a regular CD, then people will stick with CDs. What will the price be? Will they cost more than CDs? That will certainly deter people.
- I don't get this watermarking crap. Yes, watermark will not let you make unauthorized SACD (or insert other format here). So that just means that there will be no independent artists which can use this new format. They will be stuck with the old CDs.
- Also, a watermark won't stop someone copying the disc, it will just stop them making a disc with the same content. Look at the Dreamcast. Why would I need the disc anyway when I can play it on my computer, on an iPod, or throw it on a regular CD.
And they can't try and convince me that putting only Analog outputs will stop copying. Analog to digital is no big deal. Some quality will be lost but whatever people will still do this to be able to listen to their disc elsewhere.
If it does fly, it will probably end up with way of the DVD. Great technology, but not fulfilling its purpose (ie the non-copying).
The reason why Limewire is slow is because its Java. Java has a tendancy of being slower than a normal compiled program anyway, but I have heard a lot of people complaining about the performance of the JVM on OS X. I have heard the 1.4.1 is in developer preview. I havn't downloaded it yet. but I'm sure it will fix up some of the performance issues.
MSN Messanger starts fairly quickly for me. It takes a second or two to log in though. iChat same thing. Here's a theory. I don't know how they are rendering the text with the emoticons. It could be html or an enhanced version of the rich text control. That could be the source for lost speed.
I have almost the same configuration but the G3 600MHz iBook. For the most part the only slow things are graphic related. If I had a better video card and could run QuartzExtreme, then I probably wouldn't have much of a problem.
Window resizing is slow. It always has been. Don't know why but it just is. Programs load fairly quickly though.
The key is to have at least 256 MB of ram. If not, you're swapping as soon as you boot. When I went from 128 to 384, I noticed a huge performance gain.
I wish I was a recording artist. I would go to BMG and ask them if I could release an enhanced CD. That would be great, a CD made to use in a computer that can't be used in a computer.
I should file a patent on the paradoxical CD.
too easy...
VPN + NAT.
Now I can share the one movie with anyone I want, anywhere in the world for the next 24 hours. Doesn't sound that secure to me. IP is never a good way to check security.