You're absolutely right. In fact, 64-bit code can slow down the application because memory pointers are now 64bit and accessing and moving them will take twice as much bandwidth as earlier. The real speed up comes from the extra registers that AMD introduced in AMD64 and the ability for huge apps to address more than 2GB at a time.
It's $30. You're not forced to upgrade. You're not being asked for $400 for Business Ultimate Platinum edition.
It's more comparable to XP SP2 than Vista Ultimate. And SP2 was free and probably had more new features than Snow Leopard.
Just because Apple isn't competing in the $200 netbook category doesn't mean they are screwing up. It means they care about the customer experience.
You mean a company that gives a good customer experience on a 3" inch can't on a 8" or 10" inch screen? You know that the real reason is margins and bottomline. Not to mention cannibalizing the sales of higher margin Macbooks by people who want the Mac experience.
The trick might be to smuggle it in as part of another app - like a plug-in/add-on to Safari. Anybody for Firefox on your iPhone?
And btw, even if they won't sell it for the iPhone because AT&T told them not to (it's my phone, not Apple's, not AT&T's), why can't you have a torrent app for your iPod Touch? Don't tell me that AT&T owns that too!
Browsers are banned in the app store. And if you jailbreak the phone and install it, what's the point in the plugin again?
The difference with WM is that you can go to any website on a non hacked phone and download and install and run any program you want. Try doing that on a iPhone. So MS 'telling you what to run' doesn't mean jack squat.
They get fined for bundling their software with their own software, but it's ok for them to simply not allow other company's software on their stuff? Isn't this the same as Microsoft not allowing Firefox on Windows?
You can simply go to othercompany.com and download the setup.exe/.cab and install it. Unlike the iPhone on which you have to jailbreak it to do that. So 'not allow' just means it won't be sold from their online store.
netsh interface ipv4 set address name=â€<ID>†source=static address=<StaticIP> mask=<SubnetMask> gateway=<DefaultGateway>
Where: ID is the name of the LAN Connection StaticIP is the static IP address that you are setting SubnetMask is the subnet mask for the IP address DefaultGateway is the default gateway
So (to game developers), stop depending on DirectX! Use abstraction layers between DirectX and OpenGL. UnrealEngine 3 works with both, and considering how advanced it is, I don't want to hear shit about how OpenGL is not as good.
I am sorry but you do have to hear shit about how OpenGL is not as good. Where's a demo video(or example of a game) of Unreal Engine 3 running on OpenGL? And no, support for PS3's OpenGL ES is not the same as support for OpenGL that runs on Linux/BSD.
And there are lot other problems with developing games on Linux, like sound and mouse events. Take a look here http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364 if you're interested(Read the comments too).
So instead of telling developers to abandon tools which make their job and life easy, how about requesting Linux developers to make game development a little easier?
That sounds like your own mistake. XP install allows you to format only one partition. You must have messed up by not choosing the proper options during the install.
What's wrong with that? 400ms is a long time if you factor in the number of users of Windows. A billion times 400ms is nothing to be sneezed at. And every bit counts.
I know I shouldn't be replying to someone calling MS M$, as it reflects on their maturity level, but even Windows 7 beta is pretty bug free. I installed it on my laptop to test it out, but it worked surprisingly well and impressed me, so I am using it as the main OS for the past few months without encountering any major bugs.
And looks like you have idea whatsoever, and have failed to refute my idea.
Second, if Apple was the only player, there is no reason for them not to make a cheap computer. Since the are a small player, they have to ahve a niche.
If Apple were the only player, you could expect a 30% tax on all the software that needs to run on a computer, ala the iPhone. THe only reason cheap computers exist are because of cut throat competition among the hardware makers. If Apple was the only player, all we would have is the IBM/Motorola chips crammed down our throat at high prices, Jobs being the control freak that he is. Even Apple enjoys the fruits of the x86 clones market by switching to it and dumping Motorola/IBM architecture.
MS DOS was a blight, and it was picked only becasue his mother is a good friend of the then VP of IBM.
the single biggest reason computers are cheap is becasue the IBM BIOS was clean roomed.
Learn some history.
Bill Gates' mother knowing the VP might have helped him get a chance to present his stuff to IBM, but insinuating that it's the only reason that MS-DOS was picked just shows your bias, not your knowledge of history.
I think they ARE aware of that. After a while she starts defending the guy, not unlike the pro-MS posters here on Slashdot that you swear must be shills except they're probably not actually getting paid. Seriously, those people just can't understand that Microsoft is not your buddy, when you stick up for Microsoft like a loyal little sycophant it's not like they are capable of appreciating it, they are a mindless faceless corporation without any sort of feeling.
I think you're confusing MS fanboys with people who like to point out inconvenient facts. Some uninformed people start ranting about some DRM in Vista or other untrue crap and how can you label the people refuting them arguing facts as MS fanboys? There's a lot of stuff to bash MS on, there's no need to make up BS and then call the people who point it out as 'pro-MS posters' or sycophants. Slashdot is losing credibility because of anti-MS zealots. And the mainstream media is catching on too. Just read this article.
Bill Gates took a common good, walled it off and called it his property. He wasn't a shrewd businessman. He was a thief who destroyed massive amounts of value, created chaos, misunderstanding and distrust among technical workers and set both ethics and technology back decades. There are few if any individuals in the history of mankind who have caused more damage to our species than Bill Gates did. He ought to be shot in the face and forced to apologize to the person who shot him.
Wait... maybe that was Dick...
What would've been the alternative if Gates didn't do what he did? Either it would be chaos in the marketplace with different incompatible and expensive computers or Apple would have a monopoly and would be selling $3000 computers to this day, both of which are way worse than today. Microsoft licensing DOS to Compaq's IBM clones was the biggest reason that computers are as cheap and affordable as they are today. Even Linux became popular because of inexpensive x86 machines. Imagine having to buy a Apple machine with a compulsory Apple tax to run Linux on.
This is about netbooks, not notebooks with 4 GB RAM, a dual core 2.8 GHz CPU, and two fast SSD drives. Try to read before getting your panties in a twist. Or maybe you were just karma whoring to get on the MS bashing bandwagon.
Microsoft might have a sniffy disdain for Chrome's clean design, but it's borrowed one of the browser's other innovations: dedicating a separate system process to each tab. Microsoft says this will make IE8 more robust, and an automatic crash recovery system, for example, retains text typed into webmail so that users don't have to retype lengthy messages if a tab crashes. We've been unable to replicate that in our tests, but we haven't experienced any problems with the browser's stability in the brief time we've had to test the final code.
Security has also been beefed up: domains are highlighted in the address bar (another Chrome steal) to help prevent phishing attacks
Since IE8 has been in development for a really long time and Chrome was shrouded in total secrecy, can anyone with information about their timelines tell us who stole from whom, or if they were parallelly developed? I don't think it's as straightforward as the author says it is.
Insightful? Are you and the mods on crack? Where does it say that the competition doesn't used cached content? If anything, the word SYSTEMS in the last time you copy pasted indicates that even the other browsers used the cached version of the page.
I see the trolls, shills, and professional astroturfers are in rare form and out in full force today.
Listen up, Microsoft swine, we don't want the fucking DRM, okay? You see, we have sense enough to realize that if it isn't included, eventually the media conglomerates will cave and stop using DRM due to simple market forces. Of course, Microsoft can't have that, because then, how would they control the electronic distribution? Because, that's what it is really about right? Presenting a false spurious choice to keep consumers locked in and Microsoft's hand firmly in the pie. You people are pathetic and you will lose in the end.
Simple market forces will not work in this case because PCs are not a big market for the big media for music and bluray.
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You're absolutely right. In fact, 64-bit code can slow down the application because memory pointers are now 64bit and accessing and moving them will take twice as much bandwidth as earlier. The real speed up comes from the extra registers that AMD introduced in AMD64 and the ability for huge apps to address more than 2GB at a time.
It's $30. You're not forced to upgrade. You're not being asked for $400 for Business Ultimate Platinum edition.
It's more comparable to XP SP2 than Vista Ultimate. And SP2 was free and probably had more new features than Snow Leopard.
Just because Apple isn't competing in the $200 netbook category doesn't mean they are screwing up. It means they care about the customer experience.
You mean a company that gives a good customer experience on a 3" inch can't on a 8" or 10" inch screen? You know that the real reason is margins and bottomline. Not to mention cannibalizing the sales of higher margin Macbooks by people who want the Mac experience.
The trick might be to smuggle it in as part of another app - like a plug-in/add-on to Safari. Anybody for Firefox on your iPhone? And btw, even if they won't sell it for the iPhone because AT&T told them not to (it's my phone, not Apple's, not AT&T's), why can't you have a torrent app for your iPod Touch? Don't tell me that AT&T owns that too!
Browsers are banned in the app store. And if you jailbreak the phone and install it, what's the point in the plugin again?
The difference with WM is that you can go to any website on a non hacked phone and download and install and run any program you want. Try doing that on a iPhone. So MS 'telling you what to run' doesn't mean jack squat.
Huh... You can still go to randomwebsite.com and install software they provide... just try that with an iPhone without jailbreaking it...
They get fined for bundling their software with their own software, but it's ok for them to simply not allow other company's software on their stuff? Isn't this the same as Microsoft not allowing Firefox on Windows?
You can simply go to othercompany.com and download the setup .exe/.cab and install it. Unlike the iPhone on which you have to jailbreak it to do that. So 'not allow' just means it won't be sold from their online store.
http://www.windowsreference.com/networking/how-to-set-staticdhcp-ip-address-from-command-line/
Lookup netsh in Windows.
netsh interface ipv4 set address name=â€<ID>†source=static address=<StaticIP> mask=<SubnetMask> gateway=<DefaultGateway>
Where:
ID is the name of the LAN Connection
StaticIP is the static IP address that you are setting
SubnetMask is the subnet mask for the IP address
DefaultGateway is the default gateway
Best of both worlds, no?
You hit it right on the head with "getting a PC without Windows."
The cost of most of what makes Windows legitimately complex is borne by the hardware manufacturers. Microsoft's job is mostly just to be glue.
Huh? The hardware manufacturers just write the drivers.
So (to game developers), stop depending on DirectX! Use abstraction layers between DirectX and OpenGL. UnrealEngine 3 works with both, and considering how advanced it is, I don't want to hear shit about how OpenGL is not as good.
I am sorry but you do have to hear shit about how OpenGL is not as good. Where's a demo video(or example of a game) of Unreal Engine 3 running on OpenGL? And no, support for PS3's OpenGL ES is not the same as support for OpenGL that runs on Linux/BSD.
And OpenGL sucks on a number of levels, like was covered on Slashdot here http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/2135259&from=rss
And there are lot other problems with developing games on Linux, like sound and mouse events. Take a look here http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364 if you're interested(Read the comments too).
So instead of telling developers to abandon tools which make their job and life easy, how about requesting Linux developers to make game development a little easier?
That sounds like your own mistake. XP install allows you to format only one partition. You must have messed up by not choosing the proper options during the install.
What's wrong with that? 400ms is a long time if you factor in the number of users of Windows. A billion times 400ms is nothing to be sneezed at. And every bit counts.
How is this embrace and extend?
I know I shouldn't be replying to someone calling MS M$, as it reflects on their maturity level, but even Windows 7 beta is pretty bug free. I installed it on my laptop to test it out, but it worked surprisingly well and impressed me, so I am using it as the main OS for the past few months without encountering any major bugs.
First: You have no idea if it would be worse.
And looks like you have idea whatsoever, and have failed to refute my idea.
Second, if Apple was the only player, there is no reason for them not to make a cheap computer. Since the are a small player, they have to ahve a niche.
If Apple were the only player, you could expect a 30% tax on all the software that needs to run on a computer, ala the iPhone. THe only reason cheap computers exist are because of cut throat competition among the hardware makers. If Apple was the only player, all we would have is the IBM/Motorola chips crammed down our throat at high prices, Jobs being the control freak that he is. Even Apple enjoys the fruits of the x86 clones market by switching to it and dumping Motorola/IBM architecture.
MS DOS was a blight, and it was picked only becasue his mother is a good friend of the then VP of IBM.
the single biggest reason computers are cheap is becasue the IBM BIOS was clean roomed.
Learn some history.
Bill Gates' mother knowing the VP might have helped him get a chance to present his stuff to IBM, but insinuating that it's the only reason that MS-DOS was picked just shows your bias, not your knowledge of history.
I think they ARE aware of that. After a while she starts defending the guy, not unlike the pro-MS posters here on Slashdot that you swear must be shills except they're probably not actually getting paid. Seriously, those people just can't understand that Microsoft is not your buddy, when you stick up for Microsoft like a loyal little sycophant it's not like they are capable of appreciating it, they are a mindless faceless corporation without any sort of feeling.
I think you're confusing MS fanboys with people who like to point out inconvenient facts. Some uninformed people start ranting about some DRM in Vista or other untrue crap and how can you label the people refuting them arguing facts as MS fanboys? There's a lot of stuff to bash MS on, there's no need to make up BS and then call the people who point it out as 'pro-MS posters' or sycophants. Slashdot is losing credibility because of anti-MS zealots. And the mainstream media is catching on too. Just read this article.
Are you for real?!?
Bill Gates took a common good, walled it off and called it his property. He wasn't a shrewd businessman. He was a thief who destroyed massive amounts of value, created chaos, misunderstanding and distrust among technical workers and set both ethics and technology back decades. There are few if any individuals in the history of mankind who have caused more damage to our species than Bill Gates did. He ought to be shot in the face and forced to apologize to the person who shot him.
Wait... maybe that was Dick...
What would've been the alternative if Gates didn't do what he did? Either it would be chaos in the marketplace with different incompatible and expensive computers or Apple would have a monopoly and would be selling $3000 computers to this day, both of which are way worse than today. Microsoft licensing DOS to Compaq's IBM clones was the biggest reason that computers are as cheap and affordable as they are today. Even Linux became popular because of inexpensive x86 machines. Imagine having to buy a Apple machine with a compulsory Apple tax to run Linux on.
This is about netbooks, not notebooks with 4 GB RAM, a dual core 2.8 GHz CPU, and two fast SSD drives. Try to read before getting your panties in a twist. Or maybe you were just karma whoring to get on the MS bashing bandwagon.
By auto-attacking people who don't install OS updates.
Microsoft might have a sniffy disdain for Chrome's clean design, but it's borrowed one of the browser's other innovations: dedicating a separate system process to each tab. Microsoft says this will make IE8 more robust, and an automatic crash recovery system, for example, retains text typed into webmail so that users don't have to retype lengthy messages if a tab crashes. We've been unable to replicate that in our tests, but we haven't experienced any problems with the browser's stability in the brief time we've had to test the final code. Security has also been beefed up: domains are highlighted in the address bar (another Chrome steal) to help prevent phishing attacks
Since IE8 has been in development for a really long time and Chrome was shrouded in total secrecy, can anyone with information about their timelines tell us who stole from whom, or if they were parallelly developed? I don't think it's as straightforward as the author says it is.
Insightful? Are you and the mods on crack? Where does it say that the competition doesn't used cached content? If anything, the word SYSTEMS in the last time you copy pasted indicates that even the other browsers used the cached version of the page.
I see the trolls, shills, and professional astroturfers are in rare form and out in full force today.
Listen up, Microsoft swine, we don't want the fucking DRM, okay? You see, we have sense enough to realize that if it isn't included, eventually the media conglomerates will cave and stop using DRM due to simple market forces. Of course, Microsoft can't have that, because then, how would they control the electronic distribution? Because, that's what it is really about right? Presenting a false spurious choice to keep consumers locked in and Microsoft's hand firmly in the pie. You people are pathetic and you will lose in the end.
Simple market forces will not work in this case because PCs are not a big market for the big media for music and bluray.
WTF is this draconian DRM in Vista and Windows 7 that you keep talking about? WTF does it stop you from doing that Ubuntu/Mac OS X will?
Uh how do you figure so? A lot of the DMCA will apply directly to the case unless they can prove it was a honest mistake.