My ChromeBook is fast, my older HP running Ubuntu is fast. My new high-end HP running Win 7-64 with 32GB RAM takes 5 minutes to boot...
I'm hoping that you get the boot time improved... But aside that, and just out of curiosity, for what purpose did you grab that monster? 32GB RAM sounds good for running very complex particle simulations or multiple virtual machines.
But he clearly talks about "Play Station 4", not "PlayStation 4". It has to be some upcoming black horse game console that will capture the market and rule it.
The professional video and TV editing biz got shafted by Apple during the great Final Cut Pro disaster a couple of years back and a lot of them have shifted to Avid and other non-proprietary OS-hardware-locked video solutions. They should have seen it coming after Xserve and Xsan got the bullet though.
Alongside the post-production tools, Avid has been making some inroads to the broadcast arena too, for example with their iNEWS product range.
If this feature catches wind, they can develop some "cool app" which uses the mood information, and which, surprise surprise, does the processing on the server side, giving yet another data point for sucking all data from my personal life.
Those simple old Sierra AGI games complete with the 16-color 160x200 graphics and text input were the best. If someone would make a new game with the same spirit and specs I would buy it immediately.
Do you have any idea how fast a modern computer is?
I have a nice gpu not utilizing and aero is nice because it frees the cpu and speeds the cpu up as the GPU can take care of its tasks. This is not 1993 anymore
Pressing a keyboard shortcut which brings a context menu out of nowhere to the corner of the screen filled with random administration tasks is nothing but an ugly hack.
The problem here is that the Win+X advanced user shortcut is increasingly becoming the standard answer to the question "how can I get to the Control Panel".
I got a response there: "It's called pseudoloc! It's what Microsoft uses to test localization. The biggest problem for localization is that sometimes it's hard-coded to be english (and obviously that's hard to detect for english speakers). To check for that, they put everything in pseudoloc (similar to leetspeak, as you say) - the idea being that if you're running in pseudoloc and you find something in plain english, it must be hardcoded and thus, a bug."
So maybe it's legit after all. Freaked me slightly anyway.
Ironically, launching Control Panel on Win8 is actually faster than on Win7 (by default). Right-click the Start button (yes it exists; it was just hidden by default) or hit Win+X, and select "Control Panel" from the menu that appears. Easy and straightforward.
Straightforward?! The Win+X menu is a horrible hack and not discoverable at all.
What I see is happening here is that Win8 has just learned people to use various keyboard shortcuts more effectively because in the new GUI many things have been placed in awkward positions.
I still don't think MSFT gets it. No one wants to see Metro, ever.
Agreed, the interest does not seem too high. I've noticed how on Slashdot a lot of the discussion focuses on the problems surrounding the Start screen, but no one even mentions the Metro apps, which for Microsoft is actual big thing with Windows 8.
I hate this trend with Windows 8 and Unity where instead of having your apps and files nicely organized in their respective folders, you have this chaotic jumble of icons which you have to be searching through all the time.
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Yes. It has its 9 year birthday this autumn.
This. Why does every app have to ship their own DirectX runtime libraries? Can't they be included with Windows?
How is the issue handled with OpenGL?
My ChromeBook is fast, my older HP running Ubuntu is fast. My new high-end HP running Win 7-64 with 32GB RAM takes 5 minutes to boot...
I'm hoping that you get the boot time improved... But aside that, and just out of curiosity, for what purpose did you grab that monster? 32GB RAM sounds good for running very complex particle simulations or multiple virtual machines.
They choose the facts for the summary by rolling a dice.
But he clearly talks about "Play Station 4", not "PlayStation 4". It has to be some upcoming black horse game console that will capture the market and rule it.
A bit clunky. Simply use Windows 8 which runs the older games too, and PowerShell for your command line needs.
The professional video and TV editing biz got shafted by Apple during the great Final Cut Pro disaster a couple of years back and a lot of them have shifted to Avid and other non-proprietary OS-hardware-locked video solutions. They should have seen it coming after Xserve and Xsan got the bullet though.
Alongside the post-production tools, Avid has been making some inroads to the broadcast arena too, for example with their iNEWS product range.
It's amazing how much DX9 stuff we still see. That version of the API is ancient...
Quite nice feature list, actually.
It's not a coincidence as Lynda.com sells online course videos for many, many other topics too.
Are they based on the same bot which is featured on the Deagostini Japan YouTube channel?
If this feature catches wind, they can develop some "cool app" which uses the mood information, and which, surprise surprise, does the processing on the server side, giving yet another data point for sucking all data from my personal life.
Those simple old Sierra AGI games complete with the 16-color 160x200 graphics and text input were the best. If someone would make a new game with the same spirit and specs I would buy it immediately.
His actual question in the title was "Can you upgrade from preview to final later?"
The file copying is much better now, and boot times seem better. That's mainly it though.
Both of those are just fine in Windows 7 too.
Aero is the composting layer of Windows. That STILL EXISTS in Windows 8 and is what's responsible for the GPU doing all the rendering work.
Even this is not completely accurate. Aero is just a theme. The compositing layer is called Desktop Window Manager.
Do you have any idea how fast a modern computer is?
I have a nice gpu not utilizing and aero is nice because it frees the cpu and speeds the cpu up as the GPU can take care of its tasks. This is not 1993 anymore
I wasn't stating otherwise. I agree with you.
Pressing a keyboard shortcut which brings a context menu out of nowhere to the corner of the screen filled with random administration tasks is nothing but an ugly hack.
The problem here is that the Win+X advanced user shortcut is increasingly becoming the standard answer to the question "how can I get to the Control Panel".
That is a good point.
I got a response there: "It's called pseudoloc! It's what Microsoft uses to test localization. The biggest problem for localization is that sometimes it's hard-coded to be english (and obviously that's hard to detect for english speakers). To check for that, they put everything in pseudoloc (similar to leetspeak, as you say) - the idea being that if you're running in pseudoloc and you find something in plain english, it must be hardcoded and thus, a bug."
So maybe it's legit after all. Freaked me slightly anyway.
Ironically, launching Control Panel on Win8 is actually faster than on Win7 (by default). Right-click the Start button (yes it exists; it was just hidden by default) or hit Win+X, and select "Control Panel" from the menu that appears. Easy and straightforward.
Straightforward?! The Win+X menu is a horrible hack and not discoverable at all.
What I see is happening here is that Win8 has just learned people to use various keyboard shortcuts more effectively because in the new GUI many things have been placed in awkward positions.
Windows 7 allows you to do the same thing.
I still don't think MSFT gets it. No one wants to see Metro, ever.
Agreed, the interest does not seem too high. I've noticed how on Slashdot a lot of the discussion focuses on the problems surrounding the Start screen, but no one even mentions the Metro apps, which for Microsoft is actual big thing with Windows 8.
I hate this trend with Windows 8 and Unity where instead of having your apps and files nicely organized in their respective folders, you have this chaotic jumble of icons which you have to be searching through all the time.