One thing which has interested me is that between the very first games and now, the human interaction part of games has barely changed at all!
I mean, with the exception of rumbling joypads which do little else for gameplay but pleasure the misses on bored nights in, bugger all is different!
I played a virtual reality shooter once, years ago. It involved shooting orange polygons at red polygons in a bizarre 3d, pre-doom 1 style game. It rocked! Just looking around with my head and not a mouse at the glorious untextured enivronment was flippin' ace!
Why o why can we not have something like that for Doom 3/Quake 4/[insert fav game here]?
Microsoft will allways have an advantage in this area - they wrote the system from the ground up, so having absolute and complete control over each desktop is: A - very easy, and B - what system admins want in the first place.
As good as Novell is/was, it allways was a layer ontop of the client OS - not an OS in itself, so by design, in my opinion, Windows AD is superior in that respect.
Plus, AD is very easy to administer. I can't speak for Novell, but in Win2003 with the right GPOs in place; user, department, machine, and entire network controls are very easy to put in place & change at a click of a button.
'Automatic updates' consists of downloading a 35Mb new iTunes setup package each month or so...
The library doesn't update itself automatically...
There's no concept of 'checking for existing entries on import' - importing the same folder will just give you each track twice...
It doesn't work very well at all with keyboard shortcuts...
No plugin facility...
It's weighty as hell in memory...
but yet, after all these sore points, somehow, it's way cooler than WMP, RealPlayer, and sod it...anything else I've seen.
If Apple were a woman, she'd be a sexy slim figure - and you'd buy anything shite from her, just because she was so damn fine! Not like the fat moose of a wreck a Microsoft woman would be - she could be selling the moon on a stick, and you wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!
And on that note, perhaps I should mingle with real people some more.
Vista is hardly going to be the next 3DMark in terms of horse-power required. Basically any 3d capable card made within the last 5 years will do just fine.
Otherwise, you'll get the "not so shiny" mode. That's assuming you won't turn it off anyway and go back to the classic look.
Failing that, just keep Windows XP/2000 - they work just fine & dandy still.
Personally, I won't be upgrading until Vista's been on the market for a good 6 months or so - it'll just be a world of hurts with driver availability otherwise, not to mention stability issues of new-release code.
You'd be amazed how much shite you have to define (especially in CSS) to get a page to look uniform across most browsers - every one seems to have it's own interpretations of defaults if not specified - margins for instance, so it's all got to be tightly defined.
Normally the CSS would be ripped out into a seperate file to save bandwidth, but I'm guessing Google's didn't think it was worth the extra hassle.
...my first proper machine was a 486 (dx2 no less WITH maths co-processor). Yes that's right folks; I've allways been used to having CPU cycles to piss away. Perhaps this is why I'm now a.NET programmer.
I don't wipe my arse with any less than 2Gb RAM./coat
I don't quite understand why a lot of people here allways assume the worst the minute Microsoft announce something new. Sure they've not had a perfect record in terms of security, etc (and then some), but really people...give them a chance - things are getting better (slowly).
This new product can only be good for the consumer; the more protection they get, the better; no OS is secure without protection. If they'd provided it as part of Windows, there'd be another uproar with people saying MS are again being anti-competitive.
I moved to Spain to head up dot-net development for an up & comming consultancy firm down here. It's not so much the work itself that I love; rather the my bosses attitude that "whatever it takes, however long it takes, take you time & do it properly - no hacks". It's the tits!
Oh, also the weather here is several times better than the UK. And the women. Er...and the food too.
I guess we are more or less.
I think I can sum it up with a conversation I had with a director once...
him: What back-end are we using for this [insert big system-name here]?
me: Well, there's two which spring to mind - Oracle or mySql
him: Oracle - i've heard of them! Who makes the other one?
me: Well, it's open-source, but it's supported by the MySql company....
him: [blank look]
me: It's much cheaper!
him: Do I give a shit? I see the Oracle building every day going to work! They must be good!
And with that, we 'chose' Oracle.
This argument is as old as the hills. UNIX is good to nobody if they can't use it. - more secure or otherwise.
Windows has the usability; UNIX has better security. Security in Windows isn't perfect, but not too bad either these days. Windows can talk to my digi-cam with a kernel recompile. Fedora core can't. Shame.
Fair enough. It's all about what you feel comfortable with. There's a lot of justification in using an open-source dbms of course, but there's also a point where I wouldn't want to push my luck.
The point is, if my system breaks because of thier screw-up, I'll want to know heads will roll higher up than R&D. It's the execs which ultimately suffer for screw-ups in paid software rather than geeks.
I think most businesses crave accountability & reliability more than anything.
I'd be more comfortable running a system running a vendor dbms rather than an Open Source implementation - just because when shit hits the fan (which it invariably does), at least there's ultimately someone responsible for it.
Don't get me wrong; we run mySql for all small-midsize operations, but the bigger systems run Oracle purely because of this reason.
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One thing which has interested me is that between the very first games and now, the human interaction part of games has barely changed at all!
I mean, with the exception of rumbling joypads which do little else for gameplay but pleasure the misses on bored nights in, bugger all is different!
I played a virtual reality shooter once, years ago. It involved shooting orange polygons at red polygons in a bizarre 3d, pre-doom 1 style game. It rocked! Just looking around with my head and not a mouse at the glorious untextured enivronment was flippin' ace!
Why o why can we not have something like that for Doom 3/Quake 4/[insert fav game here]?
Microsoft will allways have an advantage in this area - they wrote the system from the ground up, so having absolute and complete control over each desktop is: A - very easy, and B - what system admins want in the first place.
As good as Novell is/was, it allways was a layer ontop of the client OS - not an OS in itself, so by design, in my opinion, Windows AD is superior in that respect.
Plus, AD is very easy to administer. I can't speak for Novell, but in Win2003 with the right GPOs in place; user, department, machine, and entire network controls are very easy to put in place & change at a click of a button.
iTunes is sorely lacking in so many areas too!
'Automatic updates' consists of downloading a 35Mb new iTunes setup package each month or so...
The library doesn't update itself automatically...
There's no concept of 'checking for existing entries on import' - importing the same folder will just give you each track twice...
It doesn't work very well at all with keyboard shortcuts...
No plugin facility...
It's weighty as hell in memory...
but yet, after all these sore points, somehow, it's way cooler than WMP, RealPlayer, and sod it...anything else I've seen.
If Apple were a woman, she'd be a sexy slim figure - and you'd buy anything shite from her, just because she was so damn fine! Not like the fat moose of a wreck a Microsoft woman would be - she could be selling the moon on a stick, and you wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!
And on that note, perhaps I should mingle with real people some more.
That'll be the MS licensing team scanning your pc.
Find that tinfoil hat!
The British find it hard enough building a railway that works, but yet finds the time to invent flying saucer!
Anyone else seeing a link here?
You know the 'beep' command works just as faithfully as it did, way back in the glory days of BASIC?
Yes, but better (or worse depending on how you look at it).....
"on error resume next" is still alive and kicking! w00t!
Vista is hardly going to be the next 3DMark in terms of horse-power required. Basically any 3d capable card made within the last 5 years will do just fine.
Otherwise, you'll get the "not so shiny" mode. That's assuming you won't turn it off anyway and go back to the classic look.
Failing that, just keep Windows XP/2000 - they work just fine & dandy still.
Personally, I won't be upgrading until Vista's been on the market for a good 6 months or so - it'll just be a world of hurts with driver availability otherwise, not to mention stability issues of new-release code.
You'd be amazed how much shite you have to define (especially in CSS) to get a page to look uniform across most browsers - every one seems to have it's own interpretations of defaults if not specified - margins for instance, so it's all got to be tightly defined.
Normally the CSS would be ripped out into a seperate file to save bandwidth, but I'm guessing Google's didn't think it was worth the extra hassle.
It's amazing how many other people do
...my first proper machine was a 486 (dx2 no less WITH maths co-processor). Yes that's right folks; I've allways been used to having CPU cycles to piss away. Perhaps this is why I'm now a .NET programmer.
/coat
I don't wipe my arse with any less than 2Gb RAM.
http://www.google.es/search?q=10+euros+in+pounds
:p
Keep pressing F5 and watch it grow!
Actually, it's a love/hate relationship.
Have 5.
*sends*
"I love Linux. It's great."
Serious or sarcastic? 10 euros for correct guess.
I don't quite understand why a lot of people here allways assume the worst the minute Microsoft announce something new. Sure they've not had a perfect record in terms of security, etc (and then some), but really people...give them a chance - things are getting better (slowly).
This new product can only be good for the consumer; the more protection they get, the better; no OS is secure without protection. If they'd provided it as part of Windows, there'd be another uproar with people saying MS are again being anti-competitive.
Anyway, flame away....
I wonder what delightful number would be produced should something like the Blaster virus be unleashed on the network?
A death metal remix of Mozart perhaps?
Yet another reason to not run Windows Servers folks - think of your poor ears!
"All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography."
Sounds like a normal turn of events to me.
Oh, also the weather here is several times better than the UK. And the women. Er...and the food too.
i've got a very clever digi-cam
I guess we are more or less. I think I can sum it up with a conversation I had with a director once... him: What back-end are we using for this [insert big system-name here]? me: Well, there's two which spring to mind - Oracle or mySql him: Oracle - i've heard of them! Who makes the other one? me: Well, it's open-source, but it's supported by the MySql company.... him: [blank look] me: It's much cheaper! him: Do I give a shit? I see the Oracle building every day going to work! They must be good! And with that, we 'chose' Oracle.
This argument is as old as the hills. UNIX is good to nobody if they can't use it. - more secure or otherwise. Windows has the usability; UNIX has better security. Security in Windows isn't perfect, but not too bad either these days. Windows can talk to my digi-cam with a kernel recompile. Fedora core can't. Shame.
Fair enough. It's all about what you feel comfortable with. There's a lot of justification in using an open-source dbms of course, but there's also a point where I wouldn't want to push my luck. The point is, if my system breaks because of thier screw-up, I'll want to know heads will roll higher up than R&D. It's the execs which ultimately suffer for screw-ups in paid software rather than geeks.
I think most businesses crave accountability & reliability more than anything.
I'd be more comfortable running a system running a vendor dbms rather than an Open Source implementation - just because when shit hits the fan (which it invariably does), at least there's ultimately someone responsible for it.
Don't get me wrong; we run mySql for all small-midsize operations, but the bigger systems run Oracle purely because of this reason.