It's significantly faster than Vista, might not be huge changes under the hood, but the changes that are there are definitely for the better. It certainly feels like what a new OS should feel like.
Probably because people get confused with ownership, i.e. Becky's, Steve's, David's, Slashdot's, etc. "It" is still an object, so although it's gramatically wrong, it does make logical sense.
I think the problem is that quite a lot of people believe that Apple will die without Steve Jobs. It's well known that he takes meticulous detail with just about every successful product they've ever shipped. I don't think Apple is going anywhere, Jobs or no Jobs, but it will certainly be worse-off without him.
This is the first thing I thought as well. Find a way to compromise systems and rather than do your usual dirty work, just get them all to report that the legitimate, "Secure" devices are the ones causing all the trouble. There you go, you've DDOS'd the secure computers without ever having to touch them yourself.
I'd just like to point out (at the cost of Karma, probably, but fuck it) that I love the mods on slashdot. Only the/. community would be crazy enough to mod the above comment as "informative". Thank you, mods, for giving me a giggle.
Yeah but the force of gravity is a constant, so it should be theoretically possible to calculate it's direction when it's tilted. The problem is, if you tilt it away from the sensor bar, it's partially blinded.
I wouldn't say it's "fairly accurate" at all, it can only determine where it's pointing on screen relevant to the size of the sensor bar. So if you have an insanely large screen, your movements become much more pronounced. It's also not very accurate in terms of motion. Move too quickly (and it's not that quickly at all) and it gets confused. This is why a lot of games only require tiny movements to make huge movements on screen, the only thing it knows are the velocity and the direction it's moving in.
Since we have Gravity, it knows it's orientation in most directions. Turn the Wiimote upside down and it knows about it, because gravity has went from -1 to +1 on the Y axis, however if you rotate it left and right, the direction of gravity has not changed and thus it doesn't know about it. This is the real reason why we have the sensor bar and why it's not accurately depicting where it's pointing at the screen.
So the download didn't work and it's proof that ALL microsoft products are rubbish? I think you'll find that Linux has issues as well, so does MacOSX, so does just about every piece of software ever written and when you have a company as large as Microsoft, with literally thousands of people working on different projects, it's not a big surprise when something, somewhere breaks. In this case, it's the team that maintains the site. They have little, if anything, to do with the team that built Windows 7, so why put the Windows 7 team down for it? Go get the ISO elsewhere and see if, in this one area at least, Microsoft did a decent job. Otherwise it's like complaining that Linux is a rubbish desktop OS because Vi isn't very user-friendly.
Don't forget, XP is 5.1 and Windows 2000 is 5.0. Maybe in the grand scheme of things, it's pretty "minor", but that doesn't mean that a lot of work has been done on the OS. I'm not sure how much you've used Vista, but 7 is definitely leaps and bounds ahead of it in terms of performance. Everything else may seem somewhat of a minor tweak and undeserving of the "7" branding, but from a User's point of view, the difference really is night and day. It may look a bit like Vista, it may act a bit like Vista, but it feels like a completely different OS, it feels like how Vista should have been.
I'm sure you didn't mean to, but you imply that Vista didn't actually change a lot (Referring to the "Vista was to be a big rewrite and ended up falling short" line), but it really did, it's easily the biggest rewrite to the NT Kernel, it's just a shame that all the improvements got overshadowed by the problems it had at launch. For a lot of People, Vista probably seemed like a couple of steps back from XP (Which itself got plenty of Flak on release), so perhaps Windows 7 really does deserve a better Moniker than "Vista SP2" as some are calling it.
One final point: It's a bit strange to say that 7 is a quick fix to Vista, when it's due out in 2009. Vista was released in 2006. Why is that significant? Because Windows 95 was released in (strangely enough) 1995 and even discounting the bugfix releases a couple of years later, Windows 98 was...1998 (that's 3 years). And don't forget, 98 pretty much had the same criticism Vista has been getting, but Microsoft released 98SE a year later. Lets forget about that for a second, though. XP was 2001, as we all know. Notice a pattern?
1995 -> 1998 -> 2001
And I'm sure I don't need to point out that 95 -> 98 was a huge leap forward and 98 -> XP was an even bigger leap forward. Vista is the exception here.
Each Consumor/Desktop OS has typically been 3 years apart, Vista is the exception to this rule, probably due to the code reset it had, but 7 is right on track to be released (roughly) 3 years after Vista.
The Beta is available for free to anyone that wants it. Why not go download and test it instead of making crazy speculations?
I mean, heaven forbid Microsoft bases a future operating system on an existing one, that's just stupid, they should start everything from scratch, right?
I've used Vista a LOT. Enough to know that it's definitely not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, I mean it has issues, but it's not that bad. And right this second, I'm posting this from a Windows 7 installation and I can assure you that it's not just a new lick of paint, whatever they've done under the hood, it's definitely faster (than XP even). It boots faster, it shuts down (a lot) faster, general performance is faster, it even moved some of the various config windows back to where they should be, or at least made getting to them easier. Overall, as someone who actually doesn't mind Vista, I can assure you that 7 is indeed a very fine piece of work.
I can confirm it definitely does, but Windows (not sure about other OS's) is a little picky about when it decides to detect if that device has been connected or not. It's not a major issue, a quick device manager refresh is all you need to do, but it's still an extra step current USB drives don't have. Of course, it's probably windows' fault more than anything, but still.
The Athlon (I assume you mean the Athlon 64, the older athlons were a bit...hot...and prone to melting if the heatsink failed) was never a "decent" Chip, per se, it just so happens that netburst was shit and AMD happened to get more things right than they usually do.
I don't know how Intel managed to become so disorganised, but they've shown how powerful they really are as of late.
Here's a better suggestion: If you go into the new taskbar properties, you can set it to display the window name as well (basically, the way windows currently does it), so there's an even better distinction between pinned Apps (that only show the icon) and running apps (that now have a rectangular shape, complete with text). Best about it is that you can set it to only do this if there's space, so when you do end up with 30-odd windows open, they condense back down to the icon-only approach, so no space is wasted. It's certainly made me consider dropping my taskbar back down to 1 level instead of the current default of two that I use.
Have you ever written a piece of software? Ever? I mean something a bit more than "hello world". It's next to impossible to find every single possible bug there is. Some bugs are easier to find than others, but it's just impractical to try to find them all. Now scale that up to super huge projects like Linux and Windows and it's insane the amount of bugs that will crop up. You're being unrealistic to say the least. It's the equivalent to you demanding that every single corn flake in a packet of corn flakes is the exact same size and shape and has no broken-off bits or anything.
My bias is only apparent due to the stark contrast of what I'm saying to trolltalk, since I'm taking a direct stance against him and his stance is quite clearly biased against Microsoft, my stance is going to appear to be biased towards Microsoft, that's all.
I was only using Apple as an example of another company that has done stuff quite similar to this (Perhaps the circumstances were vastly different, but the outcome was more or less the same - inoperable devices that someone has legitimately bought and paid for), yet still Microsoft were the big bad guys. I'm not saying the bug wasn't a stupid one, I'm just saying that it WAS a bug and there was absolutely no reason to throw about the "OMG Microsoft is deliberately bricking devices! Bet they do it again to make us upgrade to Windows 7" card.
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See, this is why you always get ignored =P
The rule applies to federal agencies. Last I checked, youtube wasn't a federal agency, so it's not really much of a story. Slow news day?
Surface for a picnic?
It's significantly faster than Vista, might not be huge changes under the hood, but the changes that are there are definitely for the better. It certainly feels like what a new OS should feel like.
Oh I know that, I'm just pointing out why people get it wrong so much.
Probably because people get confused with ownership, i.e. Becky's, Steve's, David's, Slashdot's, etc. "It" is still an object, so although it's gramatically wrong, it does make logical sense.
I think the problem is that quite a lot of people believe that Apple will die without Steve Jobs. It's well known that he takes meticulous detail with just about every successful product they've ever shipped.
I don't think Apple is going anywhere, Jobs or no Jobs, but it will certainly be worse-off without him.
This is the first thing I thought as well. Find a way to compromise systems and rather than do your usual dirty work, just get them all to report that the legitimate, "Secure" devices are the ones causing all the trouble. There you go, you've DDOS'd the secure computers without ever having to touch them yourself.
That's a lot of BIG companies to be suing. I surely hope they have good lawyers or they're going to get a jolly-rodgering!
I'd just like to point out (at the cost of Karma, probably, but fuck it) that I love the mods on slashdot. Only the /. community would be crazy enough to mod the above comment as "informative". Thank you, mods, for giving me a giggle.
Yeah but the force of gravity is a constant, so it should be theoretically possible to calculate it's direction when it's tilted.
The problem is, if you tilt it away from the sensor bar, it's partially blinded.
I wouldn't say it's "fairly accurate" at all, it can only determine where it's pointing on screen relevant to the size of the sensor bar. So if you have an insanely large screen, your movements become much more pronounced.
It's also not very accurate in terms of motion. Move too quickly (and it's not that quickly at all) and it gets confused. This is why a lot of games only require tiny movements to make huge movements on screen, the only thing it knows are the velocity and the direction it's moving in.
Since we have Gravity, it knows it's orientation in most directions. Turn the Wiimote upside down and it knows about it, because gravity has went from -1 to +1 on the Y axis, however if you rotate it left and right, the direction of gravity has not changed and thus it doesn't know about it. This is the real reason why we have the sensor bar and why it's not accurately depicting where it's pointing at the screen.
So the download didn't work and it's proof that ALL microsoft products are rubbish?
I think you'll find that Linux has issues as well, so does MacOSX, so does just about every piece of software ever written and when you have a company as large as Microsoft, with literally thousands of people working on different projects, it's not a big surprise when something, somewhere breaks.
In this case, it's the team that maintains the site. They have little, if anything, to do with the team that built Windows 7, so why put the Windows 7 team down for it? Go get the ISO elsewhere and see if, in this one area at least, Microsoft did a decent job.
Otherwise it's like complaining that Linux is a rubbish desktop OS because Vi isn't very user-friendly.
Don't forget, XP is 5.1 and Windows 2000 is 5.0. Maybe in the grand scheme of things, it's pretty "minor", but that doesn't mean that a lot of work has been done on the OS.
I'm not sure how much you've used Vista, but 7 is definitely leaps and bounds ahead of it in terms of performance. Everything else may seem somewhat of a minor tweak and undeserving of the "7" branding, but from a User's point of view, the difference really is night and day.
It may look a bit like Vista, it may act a bit like Vista, but it feels like a completely different OS, it feels like how Vista should have been.
I'm sure you didn't mean to, but you imply that Vista didn't actually change a lot (Referring to the "Vista was to be a big rewrite and ended up falling short" line), but it really did, it's easily the biggest rewrite to the NT Kernel, it's just a shame that all the improvements got overshadowed by the problems it had at launch. For a lot of People, Vista probably seemed like a couple of steps back from XP (Which itself got plenty of Flak on release), so perhaps Windows 7 really does deserve a better Moniker than "Vista SP2" as some are calling it.
One final point: It's a bit strange to say that 7 is a quick fix to Vista, when it's due out in 2009. Vista was released in 2006. Why is that significant? Because Windows 95 was released in (strangely enough) 1995 and even discounting the bugfix releases a couple of years later, Windows 98 was...1998 (that's 3 years). And don't forget, 98 pretty much had the same criticism Vista has been getting, but Microsoft released 98SE a year later. Lets forget about that for a second, though. XP was 2001, as we all know. Notice a pattern?
1995 -> 1998 -> 2001
And I'm sure I don't need to point out that 95 -> 98 was a huge leap forward and 98 -> XP was an even bigger leap forward. Vista is the exception here.
Each Consumor/Desktop OS has typically been 3 years apart, Vista is the exception to this rule, probably due to the code reset it had, but 7 is right on track to be released (roughly) 3 years after Vista.
Don't blame me, if you'll notice that was a quote, taken from the wikimedia article linked above.
The Beta is available for free to anyone that wants it. Why not go download and test it instead of making crazy speculations?
I mean, heaven forbid Microsoft bases a future operating system on an existing one, that's just stupid, they should start everything from scratch, right?
I've used Vista a LOT. Enough to know that it's definitely not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, I mean it has issues, but it's not that bad. And right this second, I'm posting this from a Windows 7 installation and I can assure you that it's not just a new lick of paint, whatever they've done under the hood, it's definitely faster (than XP even). It boots faster, it shuts down (a lot) faster, general performance is faster, it even moved some of the various config windows back to where they should be, or at least made getting to them easier.
Overall, as someone who actually doesn't mind Vista, I can assure you that 7 is indeed a very fine piece of work.
You'll be glad to know that it does, but I'm not sure if it's enough to run a 3.5" Magnetic Hard drive.
"Maximum bus power is increased to 150mA per unit load (+50% over USB 2.0)."
A solid State drive, on the other hand...
I can confirm it definitely does, but Windows (not sure about other OS's) is a little picky about when it decides to detect if that device has been connected or not.
It's not a major issue, a quick device manager refresh is all you need to do, but it's still an extra step current USB drives don't have.
Of course, it's probably windows' fault more than anything, but still.
I didn't know computers could have sexual preferences. So THAT'S why I only seem to get lesbian porn popups...
There IS an OS boot string to let processes address up to 4Gb of RAM (or more)...
The Athlon (I assume you mean the Athlon 64, the older athlons were a bit...hot...and prone to melting if the heatsink failed) was never a "decent" Chip, per se, it just so happens that netburst was shit and AMD happened to get more things right than they usually do.
I don't know how Intel managed to become so disorganised, but they've shown how powerful they really are as of late.
Here's a better suggestion: If you go into the new taskbar properties, you can set it to display the window name as well (basically, the way windows currently does it), so there's an even better distinction between pinned Apps (that only show the icon) and running apps (that now have a rectangular shape, complete with text). Best about it is that you can set it to only do this if there's space, so when you do end up with 30-odd windows open, they condense back down to the icon-only approach, so no space is wasted.
It's certainly made me consider dropping my taskbar back down to 1 level instead of the current default of two that I use.
Have you ever written a piece of software? Ever? I mean something a bit more than "hello world". It's next to impossible to find every single possible bug there is. Some bugs are easier to find than others, but it's just impractical to try to find them all.
Now scale that up to super huge projects like Linux and Windows and it's insane the amount of bugs that will crop up. You're being unrealistic to say the least. It's the equivalent to you demanding that every single corn flake in a packet of corn flakes is the exact same size and shape and has no broken-off bits or anything.
My bias is only apparent due to the stark contrast of what I'm saying to trolltalk, since I'm taking a direct stance against him and his stance is quite clearly biased against Microsoft, my stance is going to appear to be biased towards Microsoft, that's all.
I was only using Apple as an example of another company that has done stuff quite similar to this (Perhaps the circumstances were vastly different, but the outcome was more or less the same - inoperable devices that someone has legitimately bought and paid for), yet still Microsoft were the big bad guys. I'm not saying the bug wasn't a stupid one, I'm just saying that it WAS a bug and there was absolutely no reason to throw about the "OMG Microsoft is deliberately bricking devices! Bet they do it again to make us upgrade to Windows 7" card.