I'm looking forward to DX10, lower CPU usage (because the UI is run on the GPU), the ability to prioritize I/O (no more 10 fps in games if you move big files around on your computer at the same time), SMB 2.0 (transfers should survive now if the network is disconnected for a moment), virtualized registry (programs run in their own little world = less fudging around with regedit to clean up broken stuff), improved windows APIs (this is mostly for us programmers), improved audio system (ability to mute/adjust sound per application instead), multitasking of GPUs, general bugfixes and improved stability. This was just off the top of my head.
A better question would be why some people (excluding mac & linux users:) are not looking forward to Vista? Aside from the DRM (which will be promptly cracked), that is.
The word "know" was poorly chosen, as we can never know the exact conditions that existed back then, but we already have a good model on how e.g. amino acids can spontaneously appear in the right environment. After the organic matter reaches a sufficient complexity, it starts to operate under the principles of evolution. Theories that life could have come from somewhere outside Earth have no bearing on this, as the same models apply to life from other planets as well.
Overly simplified? Yes. But good enough for the purposes of a slashdot post.:)
But there's a lot more to "the algorithm of life" than what Spore has to offer. From John Conway to Will Wright, you're not going to find 0.00001% of the algorithm in any one place.
While I agree that Spore is a simplified view on the "algorithm of life", I don't think one needs to exaggerate and start talking about that kind of percentages. Life isn't that complex in all honesty, and we already know how it came to be which surely accounts for more than 0.00001% of the "algorithm of life".
`(i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces); or
`(ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense."
This is what the GP meant by 'enemy combatant'. Note the addition of 'unlawful', the GP and a lot of other people seem to mix them up.
There are scene releases for all steam games so they can't completely die off, and if Valve ever closes their service they'll probably put out one last update to steam that allows everyone to play without steam being logged in. I think that if Valve ever closes it's doors there will be bigger problems to worry about than how your going to get your old steam games to function. Also, how many of your old games work today? There's a lot of classic games from the nineties that just refuse to function with WinXP and/or newer hardware, and Vista will only break even more games. This could be solved with emulators/virtual machines, but they don't support hardware 3d acceleration AFAIK, so that's not an option yet.
I think the GP is referring to the NX bit. It works on 32-bit WinXP though, so I don't think it is the reason for the kernel protection being 64-bit Vista exclusive.
Actually only the size of the frame buffer is multiplied, i.e. a scene at 1024x768x32 bit would take 3 MB without anti-aliasing, and at 1600x1200x32 bit 7.3 MB. With 4xFSAA those scenes would take 12 MB and 29.2 MB respectively. The rest of the memory is used for texture & vertex data, and other miscellaneous stuff like shaders. Those don't grow in size with the display resolution.
I decided to dig up a source for my claim and failed to produce one. Additionally, I found a source that makes it seem like SuperFetch does in fact swap cached data to the page file. Looks like me giving Microsoft the benefit of doubt has backfired, as I'm now looking forward to SuperFetch a lot less. I apologize for bashing you, I was the one being silly here.
Preloading applications into memory is called caching. And suggesting that these preloaded applications would be swapped into the page file when they could simply be discarded and reloaded from the HDD when more RAM becomes available is silly. The act of swapping running programs and their data into the page file is a different thing altogether, and has nothing to do with SuperFetch. SuperFetch won't prestart the applications, only copy their data into RAM, and then if you happen to start the application in question the cached copy will be loaded instead of the HDD copy.
AFAIK, the flash is only used for caching small files and for faster booting, all the data will eventually be stored on the HDD. Also, they assumably use algorithms that check the flash for bad sectors and marks them unusable if they stop functioning. HDDs also use similar methods, but a flash drive will be able to die more gracefully, as there is no mechanical parts that can fail abruptly.
Why on earth would it swap cache into the page file? That would be utterly pointless, and you are insulting their programmers for even suggesting that. If you want to bash Microsoft, at least come up with something realistic, as opposed to "the programmers of Vista are a bunch of retards who are unable to code anything properly".
You obviously haven't [verb]ed many [objective]s from the '80s. An [adjective] portion of them were just [verb]ing to get to [subjects] and avoid various objects. Take a look at the original [substantive]. Wikipedia article -- Relevance percentage: 0%
Nope. But making his subjects suffer and giving them a common enemy (the evil foreigners that are are putting economic sanctions in place) hardly helps. I think China is a good example of how to deal with a dictatorship, free trade benefits both parties and gradually makes the populace more informed of the outside world. This makes them harder to control which gradually leads to a more free country.
Including it as a feature in 3.0 certainly would require you to upgrade, and most extensions probably would break. I'm pretty sure these features won't be backported to 1.0.
Could it just be bluffing? If so, does this mean the sanctions and all are going to make the lives of the North Koreans even more miserable while Mr. Kim (Dear Leader) Jong Il continues to live in luxury? Can't see that going down too well. Losing something for nothing and making Japan more militaristic, after all these years. Nope, can't see anyone as a winner if that's their game.
Actually the poster who you refer to didn't actually say that his wife is a gamer, I assumed he is the one doing the gaming. The poster who suggested that games are not a problem seemed to be implying that because his son doesn't play "serious" games, all gamers could easily switch to Linux and ditch the windows games. When I said "we", I meant all "serious" gamers, I don't really think casual gamers are gamers, and when people talk about games being an issue in switching, they do not mean casual games, because casual games are plentiful on Linux.
No, but those who can't switch to Linux because of games are. Casual gamers (people who play flash games, solitaire and other small games) are not the ones locked into Windows. The GPP claimed that games are not a problem when switching to Linux, because casual games are widely available. Obviously that is a non sequitur, as casual gamers and "real" gamers play very different games.
Eh, yeah. No offense, but you must be joking. Are you actually suggesting that we switch away from the likes of BF2, Crysis, WoW etc in favor of games like Runescape and free games on synaptic? When I read the title of your post I expected something about Cedega, which albeit not a realistic option due to it's slowness, is at least an option.
Dude, cheetahs will go extinct in our lifetime. They were doing fine as long as there were plenty of gazelles to eat. But soon, no more gazelles. And no more oil.
So you are proposing we start to mass-produce cloned gazelles as a solution to peak oil? That's brilliant! Now we only need to figure out how to increase the number of pirates to offset the CO2-emissions from the added oil production.
That's still a hell of a large download for a dial-up user.
It's about time Microsoft released a fresh update package i.e. Windows XP SP3 (or is that Vista?)
SP3 will be released sometime in the second half of 2007.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm looking forward to DX10, lower CPU usage (because the UI is run on the GPU), the ability to prioritize I/O (no more 10 fps in games if you move big files around on your computer at the same time), SMB 2.0 (transfers should survive now if the network is disconnected for a moment), virtualized registry (programs run in their own little world = less fudging around with regedit to clean up broken stuff), improved windows APIs (this is mostly for us programmers), improved audio system (ability to mute/adjust sound per application instead), multitasking of GPUs, general bugfixes and improved stability. This was just off the top of my head.
:) are not looking forward to Vista? Aside from the DRM (which will be promptly cracked), that is.
A better question would be why some people (excluding mac & linux users
The word "know" was poorly chosen, as we can never know the exact conditions that existed back then, but we already have a good model on how e.g. amino acids can spontaneously appear in the right environment. After the organic matter reaches a sufficient complexity, it starts to operate under the principles of evolution. Theories that life could have come from somewhere outside Earth have no bearing on this, as the same models apply to life from other planets as well.
:)
Overly simplified? Yes. But good enough for the purposes of a slashdot post.
But there's a lot more to "the algorithm of life" than what Spore has to offer. From John Conway to Will Wright, you're not going to find 0.00001% of the algorithm in any one place.
While I agree that Spore is a simplified view on the "algorithm of life", I don't think one needs to exaggerate and start talking about that kind of percentages. Life isn't that complex in all honesty, and we already know how it came to be which surely accounts for more than 0.00001% of the "algorithm of life".
This is what the GP meant by 'enemy combatant'. Note the addition of 'unlawful', the GP and a lot of other people seem to mix them up.
There are scene releases for all steam games so they can't completely die off, and if Valve ever closes their service they'll probably put out one last update to steam that allows everyone to play without steam being logged in. I think that if Valve ever closes it's doors there will be bigger problems to worry about than how your going to get your old steam games to function. Also, how many of your old games work today? There's a lot of classic games from the nineties that just refuse to function with WinXP and/or newer hardware, and Vista will only break even more games. This could be solved with emulators/virtual machines, but they don't support hardware 3d acceleration AFAIK, so that's not an option yet.
I think the GP is referring to the NX bit. It works on 32-bit WinXP though, so I don't think it is the reason for the kernel protection being 64-bit Vista exclusive.
Of course not. It's a very useful feature and was added because of that.
Actually only the size of the frame buffer is multiplied, i.e. a scene at 1024x768x32 bit would take 3 MB without anti-aliasing, and at 1600x1200x32 bit 7.3 MB. With 4xFSAA those scenes would take 12 MB and 29.2 MB respectively. The rest of the memory is used for texture & vertex data, and other miscellaneous stuff like shaders. Those don't grow in size with the display resolution.
I decided to dig up a source for my claim and failed to produce one. Additionally, I found a source that makes it seem like SuperFetch does in fact swap cached data to the page file. Looks like me giving Microsoft the benefit of doubt has backfired, as I'm now looking forward to SuperFetch a lot less. I apologize for bashing you, I was the one being silly here.
Preloading applications into memory is called caching. And suggesting that these preloaded applications would be swapped into the page file when they could simply be discarded and reloaded from the HDD when more RAM becomes available is silly. The act of swapping running programs and their data into the page file is a different thing altogether, and has nothing to do with SuperFetch. SuperFetch won't prestart the applications, only copy their data into RAM, and then if you happen to start the application in question the cached copy will be loaded instead of the HDD copy.
AFAIK, the flash is only used for caching small files and for faster booting, all the data will eventually be stored on the HDD. Also, they assumably use algorithms that check the flash for bad sectors and marks them unusable if they stop functioning. HDDs also use similar methods, but a flash drive will be able to die more gracefully, as there is no mechanical parts that can fail abruptly.
Why on earth would it swap cache into the page file? That would be utterly pointless, and you are insulting their programmers for even suggesting that. If you want to bash Microsoft, at least come up with something realistic, as opposed to "the programmers of Vista are a bunch of retards who are unable to code anything properly".
The site seems to be cloaked from the HTTP spectrum.
This would be solved by using IR cameras, or even pressure sensors.
You obviously haven't [verb]ed many [objective]s from the '80s. An [adjective] portion of them were just [verb]ing to get to [subjects] and avoid various objects. Take a look at the original [substantive]. Wikipedia article -- Relevance percentage: 0%
You fail.
Nope. But making his subjects suffer and giving them a common enemy (the evil foreigners that are are putting economic sanctions in place) hardly helps. I think China is a good example of how to deal with a dictatorship, free trade benefits both parties and gradually makes the populace more informed of the outside world. This makes them harder to control which gradually leads to a more free country.
But it's electronic, so it must be better!
Including it as a feature in 3.0 certainly would require you to upgrade, and most extensions probably would break. I'm pretty sure these features won't be backported to 1.0.
Could it just be bluffing? If so, does this mean the sanctions and all are going to make the lives of the North Koreans even more miserable while Mr. Kim (Dear Leader) Jong Il continues to live in luxury? Can't see that going down too well. Losing something for nothing and making Japan more militaristic, after all these years. Nope, can't see anyone as a winner if that's their game.
Fixed that typo for you.
Actually the poster who you refer to didn't actually say that his wife is a gamer, I assumed he is the one doing the gaming. The poster who suggested that games are not a problem seemed to be implying that because his son doesn't play "serious" games, all gamers could easily switch to Linux and ditch the windows games. When I said "we", I meant all "serious" gamers, I don't really think casual gamers are gamers, and when people talk about games being an issue in switching, they do not mean casual games, because casual games are plentiful on Linux.
No, but those who can't switch to Linux because of games are. Casual gamers (people who play flash games, solitaire and other small games) are not the ones locked into Windows. The GPP claimed that games are not a problem when switching to Linux, because casual games are widely available. Obviously that is a non sequitur, as casual gamers and "real" gamers play very different games.
Eh, yeah. No offense, but you must be joking. Are you actually suggesting that we switch away from the likes of BF2, Crysis, WoW etc in favor of games like Runescape and free games on synaptic? When I read the title of your post I expected something about Cedega, which albeit not a realistic option due to it's slowness, is at least an option.
Dude, cheetahs will go extinct in our lifetime. They were doing fine as long as there were plenty of gazelles to eat. But soon, no more gazelles. And no more oil.
So you are proposing we start to mass-produce cloned gazelles as a solution to peak oil? That's brilliant! Now we only need to figure out how to increase the number of pirates to offset the CO2-emissions from the added oil production.
How will the peers review it before it is publicised?
That's still a hell of a large download for a dial-up user. It's about time Microsoft released a fresh update package i.e. Windows XP SP3 (or is that Vista?)
SP3 will be released sometime in the second half of 2007.