Nope, because they're entirely different things, designed for entirely different purposes and with entirely different implementations.
WinFS is a layer that sits atop of the filesystem that collects metadata on the files on the system, defined by a specific schema. This data can then be used by various programs and such.
Libraries are a way for users to organise their own personal files, such as documents, music and such and makes it much easier to share that data with others on their network.
Yeah, but I meant if you were "upgrading" your OS (As in you were currently on Vista), you could still do a clean install. I was referring to those who were genuinely upgrading and not those who just want to get away with buying an upgrade copy.
Funny? Sorry, but I am an AVID windows user and I would never ever recommend "upgrading" to a newer version. To be honest, the upgrade procedure DOES work and it works quite well, but if you're going to change your OS, you may as well start fresh and avoid the potential errors that sometimes (although rarely) do crop up. This also applies to service packs, I learned that lesson the hard way when XP SP2 was released. I don't know if anyone remembers but a fresh, clean install of XP with SP2 slipstreamed onto the installation disk worked perfectly well, but those who installed SP2 on top of Vanilla XP or XP SP1 ran into some very strange problems with program compatibility and such.
That's a shame, with a (more or less) entirely new OS, they have a chance of designing it for entirely new hardware. But then again, BeOS is designed to run on very low-end hardware and that requires 32bit support. Catch-22 I suppose.
I think the key is that Windows 7 at least gives the illusion of greater responsiveness than Vista ever did. Thus, if what you say is true, that Ubuntu and Vista run about the same, then 7 should (in theory) feel faster than both.
I doubt the underlying OS is THAT extreme, it probably just shifts all UI stuff to the top of the priority queue. An application wont see its resources suddenly yoinked from it, it will just have to wait a few extra processor cycles before it gets its own turn on the CPU.
It does make sense to get it in line and before Apple did this, it WAS in line. If you go out and buy a hard drive, you'll see the capacity with a little asterisk beside it telling you the REAL capacity. Its been like that for a few years now, progress seemed to have been made until Apple went and brought us back about a decade. Besides, it has been like this for decades anyway, why the sudden change of heart? I'd prefer consistency over anything else.
Does it make a difference though? To the end user, it doesn't matter how many bytes are in a MB or a GB, be it 1000000 or 56125142, the end result is all they'll ever see. So the difference is going to be if they see 17MB or 16.2MB. To them, its just a number, they don't care where that number came from, all they know is that 17Mb is going to take up a certain percentage of the hard drive. The only people it actually poses a problem for are those that actually do know the difference, the ones that prefer to adhere to one standard and have been using that standard for years.
There must be some kind of famine or something in Nigeria, I've received about 15 emails in the last 3 months, all from people telling me their father/brother/uncle/etc. had "caught death". Terrible! And to make matters worse, they can't get the money that's rightfully theirs from the banks! Honestly, something should really be done about this.
I'd like to make a proposition to everyone on slashdot.
For the greater good of humanity, we need to employ some social engineering. I suggest that all of us stop referring to it as a "password" and start referring to it as a "passphrase". With a little luck, it'll catch on and people will start using phrases instead of just words. This tiny change should cause people to create easily remembered passes that are in excess of 10 characters long.
Never underestimate the power of complaining. Not buying their product doesn't tell them much. In all likelihood, they'll employ some asshat sales analyst who will come to the conclusion that sales are dropping because the products aren't marketed in the right way, or that it is because of the recession or some other stupid excuse, rather than work out that the product is actually perfectly fine and that the company itself is to blame for its shortcomings due to pissing off consumers previously.
Even if they do work it out, it'll take them 10 years to do it and by then the problem will be everywhere, so ingrained in that rather than fix it, they'll just re-brand themselves and target a newer, younger audience that's more tolerant of their bullshit.
If just 2% of the people reading this article sent off a quick email to SCEE Liverpool explaining their distaste at the new advertising, there's a good chance that Sony will at least have a meeting with some executives to decide if the revenue it generates is worth the lost customers and, with a bit of luck, they'll accidentally pass a motion to remove it.
But no matter what, always remember to stay positive, cynicism never got anyone anywhere!
Somebody once told me, and by somebody I mean someone that should actually be knowledgeable about the subject (Zoology expert), that apparently our DNA is close enough to some primates that it IS possible to have offspring with them, similar to how Lions and Tigers can have offspring (of course most animal hybrids are usually sterile), but nobody's ever tried it for a plethora of reasons (mostly moral ones).
Now this leads me to 2 points:
1) If anyone has any facts or data relating to this little tidbit of information that either proves or disproves it, please post a link or two! I'm very intrigued to know if he is actually right.
2) If this is IS true, then we can probably put this whole idea of someone fucking a Monkey and catching AIDS to rest, since by and large there would HAVE to have been a monkey/human hybrid born at some point, which I don't think has ever happened (despite supposedly being possible).
Presumably (and I'm making a lot of assumptions here, I don't know enough about the subject), you could just snip the file by however many bytes the process would append to it, so when it does all of the calculations and appends it, it ends up the same size. Also presumably, it would mean the last few bytes of the text file would be utter garbage.
Curious, why does this seem to be a US only thing? I understand the reasoning behind the date - 4th of July weekend, but I do not recall anything like this happening for any other part of the world. Surely us weird Europeans should get a chance to look at it, as well? It IS the INTERNATIONAL Space Station, after all.
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But then the radiation will get them!
Additionally, they have all the intelligence of a single-celled organism.
Nope, because they're entirely different things, designed for entirely different purposes and with entirely different implementations.
WinFS is a layer that sits atop of the filesystem that collects metadata on the files on the system, defined by a specific schema. This data can then be used by various programs and such.
Libraries are a way for users to organise their own personal files, such as documents, music and such and makes it much easier to share that data with others on their network.
Well I was more referring to this article: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/11/10/1522246.shtml
Yeah, but I meant if you were "upgrading" your OS (As in you were currently on Vista), you could still do a clean install. I was referring to those who were genuinely upgrading and not those who just want to get away with buying an upgrade copy.
You can perform a clean install, even with an "upgrade" copy. I think it takes some fiddling, though.
Most likely its because of Windows 7's new "libraries" feature, that restructures all of your documents and stuff.
On decidedly antiquated hardware.
Funny? Sorry, but I am an AVID windows user and I would never ever recommend "upgrading" to a newer version. To be honest, the upgrade procedure DOES work and it works quite well, but if you're going to change your OS, you may as well start fresh and avoid the potential errors that sometimes (although rarely) do crop up.
This also applies to service packs, I learned that lesson the hard way when XP SP2 was released. I don't know if anyone remembers but a fresh, clean install of XP with SP2 slipstreamed onto the installation disk worked perfectly well, but those who installed SP2 on top of Vanilla XP or XP SP1 ran into some very strange problems with program compatibility and such.
That's a shame, with a (more or less) entirely new OS, they have a chance of designing it for entirely new hardware. But then again, BeOS is designed to run on very low-end hardware and that requires 32bit support. Catch-22 I suppose.
I think the key is that Windows 7 at least gives the illusion of greater responsiveness than Vista ever did. Thus, if what you say is true, that Ubuntu and Vista run about the same, then 7 should (in theory) feel faster than both.
I doubt the underlying OS is THAT extreme, it probably just shifts all UI stuff to the top of the priority queue. An application wont see its resources suddenly yoinked from it, it will just have to wait a few extra processor cycles before it gets its own turn on the CPU.
It does make sense to get it in line and before Apple did this, it WAS in line. If you go out and buy a hard drive, you'll see the capacity with a little asterisk beside it telling you the REAL capacity. Its been like that for a few years now, progress seemed to have been made until Apple went and brought us back about a decade.
Besides, it has been like this for decades anyway, why the sudden change of heart? I'd prefer consistency over anything else.
Does it make a difference though?
To the end user, it doesn't matter how many bytes are in a MB or a GB, be it 1000000 or 56125142, the end result is all they'll ever see. So the difference is going to be if they see 17MB or 16.2MB. To them, its just a number, they don't care where that number came from, all they know is that 17Mb is going to take up a certain percentage of the hard drive.
The only people it actually poses a problem for are those that actually do know the difference, the ones that prefer to adhere to one standard and have been using that standard for years.
There must be some kind of famine or something in Nigeria, I've received about 15 emails in the last 3 months, all from people telling me their father/brother/uncle/etc. had "caught death". Terrible!
And to make matters worse, they can't get the money that's rightfully theirs from the banks! Honestly, something should really be done about this.
I'd like to make a proposition to everyone on slashdot.
For the greater good of humanity, we need to employ some social engineering. I suggest that all of us stop referring to it as a "password" and start referring to it as a "passphrase". With a little luck, it'll catch on and people will start using phrases instead of just words. This tiny change should cause people to create easily remembered passes that are in excess of 10 characters long.
Is it just me, or is Apple more Evil than Microsoft these days?
Never underestimate the power of complaining. Not buying their product doesn't tell them much. In all likelihood, they'll employ some asshat sales analyst who will come to the conclusion that sales are dropping because the products aren't marketed in the right way, or that it is because of the recession or some other stupid excuse, rather than work out that the product is actually perfectly fine and that the company itself is to blame for its shortcomings due to pissing off consumers previously.
Even if they do work it out, it'll take them 10 years to do it and by then the problem will be everywhere, so ingrained in that rather than fix it, they'll just re-brand themselves and target a newer, younger audience that's more tolerant of their bullshit.
If just 2% of the people reading this article sent off a quick email to SCEE Liverpool explaining their distaste at the new advertising, there's a good chance that Sony will at least have a meeting with some executives to decide if the revenue it generates is worth the lost customers and, with a bit of luck, they'll accidentally pass a motion to remove it.
But no matter what, always remember to stay positive, cynicism never got anyone anywhere!
"How to recover lost/corrupted files from an SSD?"
Somebody once told me, and by somebody I mean someone that should actually be knowledgeable about the subject (Zoology expert), that apparently our DNA is close enough to some primates that it IS possible to have offspring with them, similar to how Lions and Tigers can have offspring (of course most animal hybrids are usually sterile), but nobody's ever tried it for a plethora of reasons (mostly moral ones).
Now this leads me to 2 points:
1) If anyone has any facts or data relating to this little tidbit of information that either proves or disproves it, please post a link or two! I'm very intrigued to know if he is actually right.
2) If this is IS true, then we can probably put this whole idea of someone fucking a Monkey and catching AIDS to rest, since by and large there would HAVE to have been a monkey/human hybrid born at some point, which I don't think has ever happened (despite supposedly being possible).
Presumably (and I'm making a lot of assumptions here, I don't know enough about the subject), you could just snip the file by however many bytes the process would append to it, so when it does all of the calculations and appends it, it ends up the same size.
Also presumably, it would mean the last few bytes of the text file would be utter garbage.
+1 thanks
Slashdotting the site really isn't helping to keep it online.
I want lots of buttons and dials! And flashing lights!
Curious, why does this seem to be a US only thing? I understand the reasoning behind the date - 4th of July weekend, but I do not recall anything like this happening for any other part of the world. Surely us weird Europeans should get a chance to look at it, as well? It IS the INTERNATIONAL Space Station, after all.