The OS running in the VM can't directly access the host hardware (except the CPU) so to run Linux, Windows, etc, VMs emulates a SVGA card, a network adapter and such. There's no guarantee that Mac OS X supports these emulated devices out of the box (I don't know). That's the biggest hurdle with running OS X on current VMs. With that solved they'll probably also want to add some 'vm tools' before releasing Mac OS X compatible products.
The problem VMware and others face in getting Mac OS X up an running in a VM is that the OS might not support the hardware they're emulating. Work that out an they'll have to OS up and running in no time.
Reviews have been fundamentally broken for years
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Reviews have been fundamentally broken for years and years. Ten years ago Gamepro gave Bubsy 3D an impossibly high score of 3.5 out of 5 - a score comparable with Screamer 2, tempest, Cruis'n USA and other playable games. Playing Bubsy is about as enjoyable as stabbing your eyes out, it's a turd among turds. Incidentally there was a full page add for, you guessed it, Bubsy 3D in that very issue.
Problem is that these magazines are at the mercy at the games they review. They need to get exclusives, interviews, previews and adds to stay in the game. They are therefore very reluctant to give out bad scores to games from well known publishers.
Once upon a time there was a magazine (Amiga Power?) that did just this, said things as they were, and they found themselves cahoots by devs like Team 17, etc, for simply stating their actual opinions.
The reason it was silly is because the CPU was very poorly utilized. If one loaded in a more intelligent prog into the C64 floppy CPU loading times could be halved, if not more. As it was, the dumb floppy drives of other 8-Biters were just as fast if not faster - cheaper too.
Nothing to it really. MNG is a huge complicated spec, APNG is simpler. They can afford the dev effort of implementing APNG, but not the dev effort of maintaining the previously working but orphaned MNG impl.
Meh, I bought 3 MS mice in a row, all different make and model, and they all suffered from the same flaw: A god-awful scroll wheel. Strangely, the crappiness of the wheel was proportional to the cost of the mouse.
Similarly my xbox 360 controller would have been perfect if not for the sloppy crosshair.
Both Xboxes suffer from high failure rates, for one reason or another.
As for your MS net gear, it's probably just MS branded.
"As the only manufacturer with DirectX 10 hardware, we had more work to do than any other hardware manufacturer because there were two drivers to develop (one for DX9 and one for DX10). In addition to that, we couldn't just stop developing XP drivers too, meaning that there were three development cycles in flight at the same time."
Didn't ATI kick out some DX10 hardware the other day? I'm sure the ATI x29xxx is DX10.
"Our research shows that PC gamers buy five or more games per year, and they're always looking for good games with great content.
Interesting, but makes me wonder what they lay in the definition PC gamer.
"Tony and David are right, there are API reductions, massive AA is 'almost free' with DX10. This is why we are able to offer CSAA [up to 16xAA] with new DX10 titles - the same thing with DX9 just isn't practical.
Also interesting, but I'm skeptical. Turning on AA is just one API call, how does AA affect overhead?
"So yes we will see big performance jumps in DX10 and Vista as we improve drivers but to keep looking at that area is to really miss the point about DX10. It's not about - and it was never about - running older games at faster frame rates.
Wait, rewind. Are he saying my DX7/8/9 games will run faster once Nivida gets their DX10 drivers together? Or is he saying games with DX9 level of graphics will run faster if ported to DX10?
"Five years from now, we want to be able to walk into a forest, set it on fire and for it to then rain (using a decent depth of field effect) and to then show the steam coming off the ashes when the fire is being put out."
No, I can do that in real life. A Pyromaniacs VS firefighters burn fest OTOH....
It would be false advertisement if MS said it ran on XP, because without the patch you'll only get an error dialog if you try to start it up - and even with the pach you miss out on some features.
As it happens, I bought the game and I don't see what all the fuzz is about. The graphics are cartoony and overal looks worse than number 1. On top of that it runs worse then Quake 4, a game that look much better.
Hell it looks worse than my retextured Resident Evil 4 install (thank God for modders), and that's practically a high rez PS2 game.
The movie is so predicable that it hurts and you'll be fighting to stay awake, but at least the ending is to your liking. I don't get why some many are cawing unhappy endings these days? When I watch movie I do it to be entertained, not to see characters suffer to the end.
When your paid good $$$ to code, wading through uncommented GPL code just to save a few minutes is not all that appealing. And copying a whole library or application is a bit too obvious if you want to hide it from the other devs, especially with the knowledge that all MS code will be scrutinized by third parties more so than most.
Granted, an insidious programmer might intentionally inject code just for the thrill of it, and MS might just have one of those in their employment.
Excepting some tech demos I've yet to see a GUI app written in.net that I'd consider "very fast". Hell, write me a.net app that can read in a 20MB BMP file faster than IrfanView can have it saved back as a jpeg and I'll applaud you. It must be possible, but I suspect one have to resort to unsafe code.
Java have somewhat of a bad rep, but it's every bit as fast as managed.net (Windows.Forms call out into native code). It might even have more of a future in our multiprocessing tomorrow thanks to Sun's push into that area, them having 16 core CPU's out right now.
The Kaypro computer had already begun to cut into sales of the Osborne 1 (a computer with a 5-inch (127 mm) screen for $1,995) but inventories of the Osborne 1 cleared out, and customers switched almost entirely to the Kaypro. --From Wikipedia
So the Osborne Effect is another urban legend. Why do I keep falling for these?
If you disable the indexing service it's by all means off or are you referring to the search box itself? It is not possible to remove the search box as far as I know, but if the index service is off it will only search the hard drive the old fashioned way (the Win95 way).
Can't say for sure, but since this disk is 'internal' Vista might disable the encryption/decryption overhead for it. On external drives they need to encrypt the data to prevent loss of sensitive information.
Most literature from the last 2000 years is garbage (to me anyway). Worse, we're forced to read and write about in in school in favor of stories that are actually fun to read. Travesty, that what it is, a travesty. If I ruled the world I'd burn all books, long live teh internet!
A MOD tune took up more than a little bandwidth and CPU time on 16-Bit Amigas, the ST OTOH had MIDI so you're right there. Now does that make the Atari ST > Amiga?
You motivated me to do a benchmark. On my comp IE7 take ~2 seconds to load, Firefox2 take ~3. Not a huge difference, anyone else willing to spit in with their browser loading benchmarks?
BTW, I benched with IE and Firefox already running.
Hmm, it's been a while since my console owning days but I recall most games having the option for remapping the buttons. If that has changed the industry have taken a step backwards. Perhaps the console operation systems should implement 'controller profiles' that allows for remapping button regardless of whenever games support it or not.
Intel should be applauded for supporting both DDR 2 and 3 on the same chipset, but this isn't anything like the i810 debacle is it? Where the memory controller ended up barely supporting RD-RAM, just so that you could plug in slower-than-anything SD-RAM.
It's like those 49.99 prices that somehow computes in your brain to $40.
With 1TB being 0.93TB the slack is actually becoming quite large. I remember when I thought 70GB was enormous, and now that just a rounding error? Damn, I'm going to be pissed the next time I fall for it. Just like I was when I lost 35GB on my current drive... damn I'm pissed again.
If you count Firefox with extensions IE7 doesn't stand a chance, so I'll keep it to the basics.
IE7 have a nice and clean user interface, but it is not as polished as the UI of Firefox. For casual browsing, such as I'm doing right now, IE7 is IMO ahead.
IE7's favorite menu is neat, Firefox could do worse than copy that, the history function is however a step down from IE6. You win some, you lose some, I guess.
Slashdot do not render correctly in IE7 (comments occasionally render on top of each other). Firefox have a wee bit of trouble with complicated pages on Wikipedia (table borders flicker in and out).
As for bloat, Firefox seem to be the slightly more bloated browser, but the additional functions are useful and I miss them in IE7.
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The OS running in the VM can't directly access the host hardware (except the CPU) so to run Linux, Windows, etc, VMs emulates a SVGA card, a network adapter and such. There's no guarantee that Mac OS X supports these emulated devices out of the box (I don't know). That's the biggest hurdle with running OS X on current VMs. With that solved they'll probably also want to add some 'vm tools' before releasing Mac OS X compatible products.
The problem VMware and others face in getting Mac OS X up an running in a VM is that the OS might not support the hardware they're emulating. Work that out an they'll have to OS up and running in no time.
Reviews have been fundamentally broken for years and years. Ten years ago Gamepro gave Bubsy 3D an impossibly high score of 3.5 out of 5 - a score comparable with Screamer 2, tempest, Cruis'n USA and other playable games. Playing Bubsy is about as enjoyable as stabbing your eyes out, it's a turd among turds. Incidentally there was a full page add for, you guessed it, Bubsy 3D in that very issue.
Problem is that these magazines are at the mercy at the games they review. They need to get exclusives, interviews, previews and adds to stay in the game. They are therefore very reluctant to give out bad scores to games from well known publishers.
Once upon a time there was a magazine (Amiga Power?) that did just this, said things as they were, and they found themselves cahoots by devs like Team 17, etc, for simply stating their actual opinions.
The reason it was silly is because the CPU was very poorly utilized. If one loaded in a more intelligent prog into the C64 floppy CPU loading times could be halved, if not more. As it was, the dumb floppy drives of other 8-Biters were just as fast if not faster - cheaper too.
Nothing to it really. MNG is a huge complicated spec, APNG is simpler. They can afford the dev effort of implementing APNG, but not the dev effort of maintaining the previously working but orphaned MNG impl.
Meh, I bought 3 MS mice in a row, all different make and model, and they all suffered from the same flaw: A god-awful scroll wheel. Strangely, the crappiness of the wheel was proportional to the cost of the mouse. Similarly my xbox 360 controller would have been perfect if not for the sloppy crosshair. Both Xboxes suffer from high failure rates, for one reason or another. As for your MS net gear, it's probably just MS branded.
"As the only manufacturer with DirectX 10 hardware, we had more work to do than any other hardware manufacturer because there were two drivers to develop (one for DX9 and one for DX10). In addition to that, we couldn't just stop developing XP drivers too, meaning that there were three development cycles in flight at the same time."
Didn't ATI kick out some DX10 hardware the other day? I'm sure the ATI x29xxx is DX10.
"Our research shows that PC gamers buy five or more games per year, and they're always looking for good games with great content.
Interesting, but makes me wonder what they lay in the definition PC gamer.
"Tony and David are right, there are API reductions, massive AA is 'almost free' with DX10. This is why we are able to offer CSAA [up to 16xAA] with new DX10 titles - the same thing with DX9 just isn't practical. Also interesting, but I'm skeptical. Turning on AA is just one API call, how does AA affect overhead?
"So yes we will see big performance jumps in DX10 and Vista as we improve drivers but to keep looking at that area is to really miss the point about DX10. It's not about - and it was never about - running older games at faster frame rates. Wait, rewind. Are he saying my DX7/8/9 games will run faster once Nivida gets their DX10 drivers together? Or is he saying games with DX9 level of graphics will run faster if ported to DX10?
"Five years from now, we want to be able to walk into a forest, set it on fire and for it to then rain (using a decent depth of field effect) and to then show the steam coming off the ashes when the fire is being put out."
No, I can do that in real life. A Pyromaniacs VS firefighters burn fest OTOH....
It would be false advertisement if MS said it ran on XP, because without the patch you'll only get an error dialog if you try to start it up - and even with the pach you miss out on some features. As it happens, I bought the game and I don't see what all the fuzz is about. The graphics are cartoony and overal looks worse than number 1. On top of that it runs worse then Quake 4, a game that look much better. Hell it looks worse than my retextured Resident Evil 4 install (thank God for modders), and that's practically a high rez PS2 game.
The movie is so predicable that it hurts and you'll be fighting to stay awake, but at least the ending is to your liking. I don't get why some many are cawing unhappy endings these days? When I watch movie I do it to be entertained, not to see characters suffer to the end.
When your paid good $$$ to code, wading through uncommented GPL code just to save a few minutes is not all that appealing. And copying a whole library or application is a bit too obvious if you want to hide it from the other devs, especially with the knowledge that all MS code will be scrutinized by third parties more so than most.
Granted, an insidious programmer might intentionally inject code just for the thrill of it, and MS might just have one of those in their employment.
Excepting some tech demos I've yet to see a GUI app written in .net that I'd consider "very fast". Hell, write me a .net app that can read in a 20MB BMP file faster than IrfanView can have it saved back as a jpeg and I'll applaud you. It must be possible, but I suspect one have to resort to unsafe code.
.net (Windows.Forms call out into native code). It might even have more of a future in our multiprocessing tomorrow thanks to Sun's push into that area, them having 16 core CPU's out right now.
Java have somewhat of a bad rep, but it's every bit as fast as managed
The Kaypro computer had already begun to cut into sales of the Osborne 1 (a computer with a 5-inch (127 mm) screen for $1,995) but inventories of the Osborne 1 cleared out, and customers switched almost entirely to the Kaypro.
--From Wikipedia
So the Osborne Effect is another urban legend. Why do I keep falling for these?
If you disable the indexing service it's by all means off or are you referring to the search box itself? It is not possible to remove the search box as far as I know, but if the index service is off it will only search the hard drive the old fashioned way (the Win95 way).
Can't say for sure, but since this disk is 'internal' Vista might disable the encryption/decryption overhead for it. On external drives they need to encrypt the data to prevent loss of sensitive information.
Most literature from the last 2000 years is garbage (to me anyway). Worse, we're forced to read and write about in in school in favor of stories that are actually fun to read. Travesty, that what it is, a travesty. If I ruled the world I'd burn all books, long live teh internet!
A MOD tune took up more than a little bandwidth and CPU time on 16-Bit Amigas, the ST OTOH had MIDI so you're right there. Now does that make the Atari ST > Amiga?
Don't forget that. Although that's more true for Linux servers than desktops.
You motivated me to do a benchmark. On my comp IE7 take ~2 seconds to load, Firefox2 take ~3. Not a huge difference, anyone else willing to spit in with their browser loading benchmarks?
BTW, I benched with IE and Firefox already running.
Study finding Vista more secure then XP = X hits.
Study finding XP more secure than Vista = Y hits.
if (x > y)
post Vista more secure than XP
else
post Vista less secure than XP
What is the worst thing that can happen?
Hmm, it's been a while since my console owning days but I recall most games having the option for remapping the buttons. If that has changed the industry have taken a step backwards. Perhaps the console operation systems should implement 'controller profiles' that allows for remapping button regardless of whenever games support it or not.
I duno about how many colors the eye can perceive, but a monitor with around 65 thousand colors only have 64 shades of gray, red, green and blue.
A "millions of colors" monitor has ~256 shades of gray/etc.
An artist probably wants 1024 shades, as some SGI workstation has/had?
So the "Thousands/Millions of colors" phrase is misleading, not that we ordinary mortals care.
Intel should be applauded for supporting both DDR 2 and 3 on the same chipset, but this isn't anything like the i810 debacle is it? Where the memory controller ended up barely supporting RD-RAM, just so that you could plug in slower-than-anything SD-RAM.
I know the difference, but I still fall for it!
It's like those 49.99 prices that somehow computes in your brain to $40.
With 1TB being 0.93TB the slack is actually becoming quite large. I remember when I thought 70GB was enormous, and now that just a rounding error? Damn, I'm going to be pissed the next time I fall for it. Just like I was when I lost 35GB on my current drive... damn I'm pissed again.
If you count Firefox with extensions IE7 doesn't stand a chance, so I'll keep it to the basics.
IE7 have a nice and clean user interface, but it is not as polished as the UI of Firefox. For casual browsing, such as I'm doing right now, IE7 is IMO ahead.
IE7's favorite menu is neat, Firefox could do worse than copy that, the history function is however a step down from IE6. You win some, you lose some, I guess.
Slashdot do not render correctly in IE7 (comments occasionally render on top of each other). Firefox have a wee bit of trouble with complicated pages on Wikipedia (table borders flicker in and out).
As for bloat, Firefox seem to be the slightly more bloated browser, but the additional functions are useful and I miss them in IE7.