I would say what he said was dead on. Steam is the largest digital distributor in the world, and their surveys are likely to be a very good indicator of what is out there. If you use any software that doesn't "only officially runs on Windows", you are most likely looking at a company that highly embraces alternative OS's more so than is typical in the marketplace, and attracts like minded people -- much more likely to be negatively biased than steam would be biased in favor of a windows-only centric view.
At any rate, steam does show that in the month of January alone, Windows 7 gained 4% market share. In December it gained 5.7%. For a market this mature, those are insanely good numbers that anyone would be ecstatic to be getting.
Also of note, 48.94% of systems are surveyed are currently both running an OS and hardware that is capable of DirectX 10 (or better). An additional 27.21% has the hardware capable of supporting DirectX 10 with an OS upgrade. Considering that DirectX 11 is capable of running on any system that can run DirectX 10, it's effectively the same market.
Only if your application is running as an administrator. This is the reason that programs that use this feature (Vent, Logitech Profiler, etc) need to be run as admin in order to function correctly. If you are running your browser as admin... You deserve what you get.
a) Perhaps, but often not as efficiently or as quickly. b) Almost always not. OpenGL implementations often (or did) just make a few changes and then make calls DirectX, just adding another layer before actual rendering.
For the past 8 years or so OpenGL has been lagging behind DirectX in features and performance in some cases 3+ years or more. That's quite a huge difference in some cases.
From wikipedia: "JDK (Java Development Kit) 1.0 was released on (January 23, 1996)"
From mozilla: "15/12/2005
I have released a test version of the ActiveX plugin for Firefox 1.5 now available. If all goes well with no reported issues, this will become the release version."
From wikipedia: "Visual Basic 4.0 (August 1995) was the first version that could create 32-bit as well as 16-bit Windows programs. It also introduced the ability to write non-GUI classes in Visual Basic. Incompatibilities between different releases of VB4 caused installation and operation problems. While previous versions of Visual Basic had used VBX controls, Visual Basic now used OLE controls (with files names ending in.OCX) instead. These were later to be named ActiveX controls."
Seems you were right about the 1 year, but had them reversed. Not even considering at the time, the JDK couldn't do much, while activex could do so much more.
Nothing worse than someone who proclaims they know something, and they don't. You obviously don't grasp the rootkit concept, so I suggest you go do some research before someone relies on what you say and they get burned.
Sorry, I have to agree with the grand parent's post. Those are quite literally my biggest sources of income as well.
It is only racist (Although, I think you mean nationalist) if it's not based on statistics, or is unfairly biased. It's more likely caused my advertising, or nationalist culture than anything having to do with genetics. I'm sure someone of another race raised in india would be just as likely to cause the complete failures I've seen as well.
Anyhow, I'm in the Chicago Suburbs (#4), and comcast here offers a 100Mbps connection to the home, but it's pricey, and it's hard to find how to order it, but it's there. 50Mbs is the one they advertise the most, and with burst uploads of up to 20Mbps I believe, it's quite nice.
You would have been 4 when I started using 9600 bps modems, and 5 when I owned my first. So yes, at 27, you missed most of the theoretical discussions over the maximum rate we could transmit over POTS lines. I remember back when they said 1200 was it. The absolute maximum speed the phone lines could handle. Of course it wasn't. And with each new breakthrough, the new absolute limit was raised just above it.
Whoops, not here in Chicago (not exactly a small market). Comcast offers 100Mb/s down, 30Mb/s up (burst). More than enough to saturate all but the most stable 54g network.
I'm not going to dignify your FUD trolling with much of a response, but to answer your question, yes, win 7 was out of beta at that time, perhaps your kid, the Windows 7 beta tester, knows.
Firefox was the only application crashing, of all the ones I use daily, which includes four browsers (IE, Chrome, Opera, Firefox), Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Apache, and about 30 others. When it is only one application, and it crashess repeatedly everyday, it's pretty clear what the problem application is.
And seriously, as a web developer, I need those extensions, and I use the daily. I had all of them disabled for a while, and firefox still kept crashing. The.NET Framework add in isn't a known problem child, but zealots like you, hate it. Just because I didn't go into details on all the things I tried to resolve it, doesn't mean I didn't do any. See some of us are technically inclined, and some of us do this for a living.
No, there was no windows 7 patch, nor an nivida patch at the time the problem went away, but there was a firefox patch. Again, pretty clear what fixed it.
Nothing special about my system specs, really. Windows 7 64-bit Asus P5B Deluxe Motherboard E6600 CPU 4GB Corsair Back then was a 4x300GB Raid-0 array, switched to a 2x1000GB Raid-0 / Raid-1 Matrix array sometime in August, currently toss in a couple Intel SSD's as of a month ago Nvidia 295 video card External 1TB e-Sata drive
Number of tabs varies between 1 and 15 typically, sometimes as many as 20-25 though across 1-3 windows. Addons I use area Adblock Plus, FiddlerHook, Firebug, HtmlValidator, LogMeIn,.NET Framework, Move Media Player, Skype.
I show the same results. Fonts are messed up horribly, but the rest of the tests mainly pass. I only did the first 25, and 1,2,13,21,22,23,24 fail. The rest pass.
Imagine if you could be at a business conference with a large video projector and hundreds of businesspeople all with laptops that were capable of wirelessly connecting to the projector to display their slide presentations, graphs, or videos, and if anyone in the audience could do this without even leaving their seat.
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I can imagine using my laptop to temporarily over ride the presenter's when his back is turned, and displaying all kinds of nice and informative messages about the presenter. Like oh... "I like the sound of my own voice", "I have no idea what I am talking about", etc.
C. Blizzard may, with or without notice to you, disclose your Internet Protocol (IP) address(es), personal information, Chat logs, and other information about you and your activities: (a) in response to a request by law enforcement, a court order or other legal process; or (b) if Blizzard believes that doing so may protect your safety or the safety of others.
Note: "in response to a request by law enforcement". Pretty clear.
MODEMs at 2400baud or less did not require flow control -- they worked at serial line speed, and did not buffer. Modems at 4800bps and higher did buffering and would do various flow-control techniques.
That all depends on what you were trying to achieve. There certainly were modems that did flow control and buffering with speeds below 2400, however, it became more prevalent around that time because error correction, and data compression became wide spread. Most reputable manufacturers doing 2400 baud all supported flow control, error correction, and data compression in their 2400 baud models (Hayes, USR). There were error correcting 1200 baud modems, and there was specialty modems that did end-to-end flow control as well.
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I would say what he said was dead on. Steam is the largest digital distributor in the world, and their surveys are likely to be a very good indicator of what is out there. If you use any software that doesn't "only officially runs on Windows", you are most likely looking at a company that highly embraces alternative OS's more so than is typical in the marketplace, and attracts like minded people -- much more likely to be negatively biased than steam would be biased in favor of a windows-only centric view.
At any rate, steam does show that in the month of January alone, Windows 7 gained 4% market share. In December it gained 5.7%. For a market this mature, those are insanely good numbers that anyone would be ecstatic to be getting.
Also of note, 48.94% of systems are surveyed are currently both running an OS and hardware that is capable of DirectX 10 (or better). An additional 27.21% has the hardware capable of supporting DirectX 10 with an OS upgrade. Considering that DirectX 11 is capable of running on any system that can run DirectX 10, it's effectively the same market.
Only if your application is running as an administrator. This is the reason that programs that use this feature (Vent, Logitech Profiler, etc) need to be run as admin in order to function correctly. If you are running your browser as admin... You deserve what you get.
Tesselation.
(Better) Texture Compression (BC6/BC7).
Larger texture sizes.
Early Z-occulsion.
Better multithreading rendering support.
Ubershader logic.
etc
a) Perhaps, but often not as efficiently or as quickly.
b) Almost always not. OpenGL implementations often (or did) just make a few changes and then make calls DirectX, just adding another layer before actual rendering.
For the past 8 years or so OpenGL has been lagging behind DirectX in features and performance in some cases 3+ years or more. That's quite a huge difference in some cases.
Here's one of the better write ups on the subject that goes into much more detail than I can afford to in this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opengl-directx,2019.html
Ignore the quote from mozilla, it should have been removed before posting
You need to recheck your time lines.
From wikipedia:
"JDK (Java Development Kit) 1.0 was released on (January 23, 1996)"
From mozilla:
"15/12/2005
I have released a test version of the ActiveX plugin for Firefox 1.5 now available. If all goes well with no reported issues, this will become the release version."
From wikipedia: .OCX) instead. These were later to be named ActiveX controls."
"Visual Basic 4.0 (August 1995) was the first version that could create 32-bit as well as 16-bit Windows programs. It also introduced the ability to write non-GUI classes in Visual Basic. Incompatibilities between different releases of VB4 caused installation and operation problems. While previous versions of Visual Basic had used VBX controls, Visual Basic now used OLE controls (with files names ending in
Seems you were right about the 1 year, but had them reversed. Not even considering at the time, the JDK couldn't do much, while activex could do so much more.
Nothing worse than someone who proclaims they know something, and they don't. You obviously don't grasp the rootkit concept, so I suggest you go do some research before someone relies on what you say and they get burned.
I'd sign that contract. No changes, and I wish others were forced to as well.
Now that I think about it, the two effect/affects are switched as well. Somehow with all the mistakes in the correction, I think I missed a joke, lol.
Sorry, I have to agree with the grand parent's post. Those are quite literally my biggest sources of income as well.
It is only racist (Although, I think you mean nationalist) if it's not based on statistics, or is unfairly biased. It's more likely caused my advertising, or nationalist culture than anything having to do with genetics. I'm sure someone of another race raised in india would be just as likely to cause the complete failures I've seen as well.
Actually, you were right the first time. However, in your correction, it should have been "knew" not "new".
You live in Mexico City?
Anyhow, I'm in the Chicago Suburbs (#4), and comcast here offers a 100Mbps connection to the home, but it's pricey, and it's hard to find how to order it, but it's there. 50Mbs is the one they advertise the most, and with burst uploads of up to 20Mbps I believe, it's quite nice.
Sorry, your rootkit is currently incompatible with this version of windows. Please contact the manufacturer of your rootkit for an updated version.
You fail at understanding rootkits.
You would have been 4 when I started using 9600 bps modems, and 5 when I owned my first. So yes, at 27, you missed most of the theoretical discussions over the maximum rate we could transmit over POTS lines. I remember back when they said 1200 was it. The absolute maximum speed the phone lines could handle. Of course it wasn't. And with each new breakthrough, the new absolute limit was raised just above it.
I'd rather it not. That way when I upgrade the hard drive, I can toss the old HD and keep the more expensive SSD part.
Whoops, not here in Chicago (not exactly a small market). Comcast offers 100Mb/s down, 30Mb/s up (burst). More than enough to saturate all but the most stable 54g network.
I'm not going to dignify your FUD trolling with much of a response, but to answer your question, yes, win 7 was out of beta at that time, perhaps your kid, the Windows 7 beta tester, knows.
Firefox was the only application crashing, of all the ones I use daily, which includes four browsers (IE, Chrome, Opera, Firefox), Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Apache, and about 30 others. When it is only one application, and it crashess repeatedly everyday, it's pretty clear what the problem application is.
And seriously, as a web developer, I need those extensions, and I use the daily. I had all of them disabled for a while, and firefox still kept crashing. The .NET Framework add in isn't a known problem child, but zealots like you, hate it. Just because I didn't go into details on all the things I tried to resolve it, doesn't mean I didn't do any. See some of us are technically inclined, and some of us do this for a living.
No, there was no windows 7 patch, nor an nivida patch at the time the problem went away, but there was a firefox patch. Again, pretty clear what fixed it.
Sorry, it's a E6700, not E6600. And I switched the corsair ram out for OCZ a while ago, don't remember when.
Nothing special about my system specs, really.
Windows 7 64-bit
Asus P5B Deluxe Motherboard
E6600 CPU
4GB Corsair
Back then was a 4x300GB Raid-0 array, switched to a 2x1000GB Raid-0 / Raid-1 Matrix array sometime in August, currently toss in a couple Intel SSD's as of a month ago
Nvidia 295 video card
External 1TB e-Sata drive
Number of tabs varies between 1 and 15 typically, sometimes as many as 20-25 though across 1-3 windows. .NET Framework, Move Media Player, Skype.
Addons I use area Adblock Plus, FiddlerHook, Firebug, HtmlValidator, LogMeIn,
I don't. Here's a list of my firefox crashes from one week:
7/27/2009 9:21 PM 9:31 PM 9:34 PM 9:34 PM 9:36 PM 9:44 PM 9:53 PM 9:54 PM 10:12 PM
7/28/2009 1:16 AM 4:05 AM 4:36 AM 12:29 PM 1:41 PM 1:55 PM 5:44 PM 6:55 PM
7/29/2009 11:17 AM 12:28 PM 1:39 PM 6:19 PM 8:24 PM 8:25 PM
7/30/2009 12:24 AM 12:58 PM 1:14 PM 5:22 PM 6:49 PM 7:01 PM 7:30 PM
7/31/2009 11:24 AM 5:35 PM 8:29 PM 8:32 PM 8:44 PM 8:55 PM 9:02 PM
8/1/2009 2:50 AM 11:36 AM 1:31 PM 9:48 PM 9:58 PM
This continued up until 10/9/2009, when the crashes just stopped happening. Since then, I average 1-2 crashes a month.
I show the same results. Fonts are messed up horribly, but the rest of the tests mainly pass. I only did the first 25, and 1,2,13,21,22,23,24 fail. The rest pass.
Imagine if you could be at a business conference with a large video projector and hundreds of businesspeople all with laptops that were capable of wirelessly connecting to the projector to display their slide presentations, graphs, or videos, and if anyone in the audience could do this without even leaving their seat.
>
I can imagine using my laptop to temporarily over ride the presenter's when his back is turned, and displaying all kinds of nice and informative messages about the presenter. Like oh... "I like the sound of my own voice", "I have no idea what I am talking about", etc.
Here is the terms of service agreement, that you must click "I agree" before you are even allowed to play:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html
C. Blizzard may, with or without notice to you, disclose your Internet Protocol (IP) address(es), personal information, Chat logs, and other information about you and your activities: (a) in response to a request by law enforcement, a court order or other legal process; or (b) if Blizzard believes that doing so may protect your safety or the safety of others.
Note: "in response to a request by law enforcement". Pretty clear.
MODEMs at 2400baud or less did not require flow control -- they worked at serial line speed, and did not buffer. Modems at 4800bps and higher did buffering and would do various flow-control techniques.
That all depends on what you were trying to achieve. There certainly were modems that did flow control and buffering with speeds below 2400, however, it became more prevalent around that time because error correction, and data compression became wide spread. Most reputable manufacturers doing 2400 baud all supported flow control, error correction, and data compression in their 2400 baud models (Hayes, USR). There were error correcting 1200 baud modems, and there was specialty modems that did end-to-end flow control as well.