This is probably off-topic, but I'm actually amazed that so many people still care about Quake of any stripe. I kind of assumed, I guess, the entire world moved on to Unreal Tourney like my own group of friends... the news that they're making a web-based Quake III blows me away.
It's quite possible you'll *decrease* performance by turning Aero off, since you'll be offloading work from the GPU back to the CPU. That's not a given, however, it depends on the quality of your video hardware and drivers... I do know that on my Wind, Windows 7 feels faster when Aero is on. (And no, I haven't objectively measured it.)
Since nobody's going to, for example, transcode long videos using a netbook, for this discussion it doesn't matter whether it runs faster. For the record, yes it does feel faster on my MSI Wind as well. "Feeling" faster is better for productivity, anyway, since "running faster" is only, at best, 5% difference for CPU-intensive tasks.
The article is full of crap. It runs great on my Wind, much better than Vista did. Either I have some magic version of Windows 7, or they are reviewing the wrong thing. Honestly, I'm really happy with it on my netbook, and I'm definitely going to replace XP when it comes out for reals.
(The one netbook quirk: it requires 11 GB of drive space. If you have a SSD, make sure it's a big SSD or it's basically a hopeless cause. My Wind has a HD, so it doesn't apply to me.)
Windows can do font-zoom, and it can invert colors (check the "usability" color schemes.) It doesn't do zoom-zoom (with all apologies to Mazda) because that breaks too many applications, but yeah... I don't think it's nearly as far "behind" as you assume it is.
You obviously have never worked in Healthcare IT. This is a group of people who think Lotus Notes is a pretty good email program. Who think that HL7 is a good way of transmitting information. Whose idea of "redundancy" is buying another IBM AS/400 in another building across the alley...
Seriously, my stint in Healthcare was worse than government work. And that's really saying something!
You see, I'm Google's brand designer. I was totally stumped when they told me they wanted a new logo, but then I thought: hey! There's that printing company in Austin!
I didn't think anybody would see the connection! *sob*
That's retarded. If I send to a mailing list with 998 Exchange users and 2 internet users, you're saying Exchange should disallow the feature because it doesn't apply to 0.2% of the people on the list? Seriously? That doesn't make any goddamned sense to me.
(Especially since there's a fallover for people who don't use Exchange, which is the same as the fallover for people who do use Exchange but have already read the recalled message. So the internet users just get treated the exact same way as Exchange users in that case...)
Well, I ended up using a USB HD to do the install, once my brain turned on and I realized there's no (practical) difference between a USB HD and a 200 gb thumb drive. It's on my Wind now, and it runs AMAZINGLY!
The G5 sitting on my floor as my media server might have a PATA DVD drive in it, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't and far too lazy to pull it apart to check in any case.
Well, obviously it won't work if the receiver has already seen the email, in that case they just get a note in Outlook that says "hey the original sender has recalled this message, but you've already read it so... yah." (It's not worded that way.)
But in the majority of cases, it does work. Depending on how crazy your staff is about checking emails the millisecond they enter the inbox.
How do you know it's a non-event if you haven't tried it? Vista added a ton of game-related functionality that's not in XP, I'm not talking just about DirectX 10, but the Games folder with box arts, permissions (so you can restrict your kid's user account from playing AO games), and performance measurement.
I think those Vista features are relevant to gamers. Maybe you can argue HOW relevant, but you can't just take it as a given that Windows 7 has nothing for you.
The problem is the morons who send email with "everybody.all.everwhere" (or whatever) in the To: or CC: list. If they were smart enough to put them in the BCC: field, it would be impossible for people to clog up the system with Reply All. Alas.
You're smoking crack. From a strategic standpoint, why would Microsoft do *anything* to prevent the creation of solid drivers for their OS? Can you think of a single reason, you paranoid loon?
No, what happened is that companies like nVidia, Canon (my personal thorn-in-the-side: the LiDE scanner works, where's the fucking driver?!) wanted to save time and money, and possibly get more hardware sales, by being shitty to their customers. That's all there is to it.
I personally think it's a terrible idea. Linux users like it because Linux users are ubernerds. If it was in Windows, you'd disable it the first time your mom or grandma or non-technical boss managed to switch to another desktop without intending to, and now was panicking because all of this applications disappeared.
A lot of things that can make geeks more productive are detrimental to general usage, for example, being able to move/hide the menu bars in Office caused a lot more problems for normal users who accidentally displaced them than they solved for expert Office users maximizing their window space, so MS tore them out. (And none too soon, IMO.)
I'm all for something like Expose, which keeps the spatial aspects of the GUI in-place, but virtual desktops without a major redesign are a usability nightmare for the general public. Of course, this is Slashdot, so nobody gives a whit about usability, but Microsoft has to.
All that blog says is that they looked at Virtual Desktops worked when they were designing the taskbar. Nothing about lots of people requesting it. Either that or you linked me to the wrong site.
I was going by the "I have so much computer shit in this house I must have SOMETHING I can use."
Then I smartened up, and realized there's no difference between USB thumb drive and a USB hard drive, and I have the latter... so I'm doing that. Thanks for the help though.
Unfortunately, the biggest USB drive I have is 2 GB, and the ISO is 2.6. I thought about taking the DVD drive out of my desktop and putting it in the CD enclosure, but the enclosure only has IDE and the desktop uses SATA... so I think I'm sunk, without a trip to an electronics store.
They're using an Akamai download manager, which sucks ass... depending on your Firefox configuration, it won't even show up at all (not even a "Firefox blocked this application" bar.) I think you need Java to get it to run... but I'm not sure since I refuse to install Java. (I got it downloading correctly in IE, but it uses an ActiveX widget which is almost as irritating as Java.)
Anyway, blame Akamai, not Microsoft. Although I guess blame Microsoft for picking Akamai...
That's because nobody's asked for them. It's not some grand conspiracy against you, and its not as if Microsoft doesn't have the technical resources to provide it, it's just not a very popular feature. Sorry.
Or are you just cherry-picking one of the (extremely few) GUI features Linux has that Windows doesn't have as some way of boosting your Linux-using cred? I guess that's more likely.
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Try wearing a 3-piece suit to orientations, and see if that helps?
This is probably off-topic, but I'm actually amazed that so many people still care about Quake of any stripe. I kind of assumed, I guess, the entire world moved on to Unreal Tourney like my own group of friends... the news that they're making a web-based Quake III blows me away.
It's quite possible you'll *decrease* performance by turning Aero off, since you'll be offloading work from the GPU back to the CPU. That's not a given, however, it depends on the quality of your video hardware and drivers... I do know that on my Wind, Windows 7 feels faster when Aero is on. (And no, I haven't objectively measured it.)
Since nobody's going to, for example, transcode long videos using a netbook, for this discussion it doesn't matter whether it runs faster. For the record, yes it does feel faster on my MSI Wind as well. "Feeling" faster is better for productivity, anyway, since "running faster" is only, at best, 5% difference for CPU-intensive tasks.
The article is full of crap. It runs great on my Wind, much better than Vista did. Either I have some magic version of Windows 7, or they are reviewing the wrong thing. Honestly, I'm really happy with it on my netbook, and I'm definitely going to replace XP when it comes out for reals.
(The one netbook quirk: it requires 11 GB of drive space. If you have a SSD, make sure it's a big SSD or it's basically a hopeless cause. My Wind has a HD, so it doesn't apply to me.)
Windows can do font-zoom, and it can invert colors (check the "usability" color schemes.) It doesn't do zoom-zoom (with all apologies to Mazda) because that breaks too many applications, but yeah... I don't think it's nearly as far "behind" as you assume it is.
You obviously have never worked in Healthcare IT. This is a group of people who think Lotus Notes is a pretty good email program. Who think that HL7 is a good way of transmitting information. Whose idea of "redundancy" is buying another IBM AS/400 in another building across the alley...
Seriously, my stint in Healthcare was worse than government work. And that's really saying something!
Damn! You caught me!
You see, I'm Google's brand designer. I was totally stumped when they told me they wanted a new logo, but then I thought: hey! There's that printing company in Austin!
I didn't think anybody would see the connection! *sob*
Windows is such a thrown together mess that changing anything takes a huge amount of staff time.
Possibly true, but at least it doesn't have a dozen different sound subsystems and two completely different windowing environments. :P
(I know, for Linux, "thrown together mess" is a *feature*, not a bug. It's only a bug when we're talking about Windows.)
Don't believe anything anybody on this forum says about Windows-- especially Vista. The FUD flows both ways.
That's retarded. If I send to a mailing list with 998 Exchange users and 2 internet users, you're saying Exchange should disallow the feature because it doesn't apply to 0.2% of the people on the list? Seriously? That doesn't make any goddamned sense to me.
(Especially since there's a fallover for people who don't use Exchange, which is the same as the fallover for people who do use Exchange but have already read the recalled message. So the internet users just get treated the exact same way as Exchange users in that case...)
Well, I ended up using a USB HD to do the install, once my brain turned on and I realized there's no (practical) difference between a USB HD and a 200 gb thumb drive. It's on my Wind now, and it runs AMAZINGLY!
The G5 sitting on my floor as my media server might have a PATA DVD drive in it, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't and far too lazy to pull it apart to check in any case.
Well, obviously it won't work if the receiver has already seen the email, in that case they just get a note in Outlook that says "hey the original sender has recalled this message, but you've already read it so... yah." (It's not worded that way.)
But in the majority of cases, it does work. Depending on how crazy your staff is about checking emails the millisecond they enter the inbox.
How do you know it's a non-event if you haven't tried it? Vista added a ton of game-related functionality that's not in XP, I'm not talking just about DirectX 10, but the Games folder with box arts, permissions (so you can restrict your kid's user account from playing AO games), and performance measurement.
I think those Vista features are relevant to gamers. Maybe you can argue HOW relevant, but you can't just take it as a given that Windows 7 has nothing for you.
Why is that funny?
Exchange has a feature your email client didn't support. Ha ha ha!! IT'S HILARIOUS!!!!
The problem is the morons who send email with "everybody.all.everwhere" (or whatever) in the To: or CC: list. If they were smart enough to put them in the BCC: field, it would be impossible for people to clog up the system with Reply All. Alas.
You're smoking crack. From a strategic standpoint, why would Microsoft do *anything* to prevent the creation of solid drivers for their OS? Can you think of a single reason, you paranoid loon?
No, what happened is that companies like nVidia, Canon (my personal thorn-in-the-side: the LiDE scanner works, where's the fucking driver?!) wanted to save time and money, and possibly get more hardware sales, by being shitty to their customers. That's all there is to it.
So... why are you even reading this topic, again? And why did someone mod you up for being off-topic?
I personally think it's a terrible idea. Linux users like it because Linux users are ubernerds. If it was in Windows, you'd disable it the first time your mom or grandma or non-technical boss managed to switch to another desktop without intending to, and now was panicking because all of this applications disappeared.
A lot of things that can make geeks more productive are detrimental to general usage, for example, being able to move/hide the menu bars in Office caused a lot more problems for normal users who accidentally displaced them than they solved for expert Office users maximizing their window space, so MS tore them out. (And none too soon, IMO.)
I'm all for something like Expose, which keeps the spatial aspects of the GUI in-place, but virtual desktops without a major redesign are a usability nightmare for the general public. Of course, this is Slashdot, so nobody gives a whit about usability, but Microsoft has to.
All that blog says is that they looked at Virtual Desktops worked when they were designing the taskbar. Nothing about lots of people requesting it. Either that or you linked me to the wrong site.
I was going by the "I have so much computer shit in this house I must have SOMETHING I can use."
Then I smartened up, and realized there's no difference between USB thumb drive and a USB hard drive, and I have the latter... so I'm doing that. Thanks for the help though.
Thanks, I actually found instructions for installing it using an external USB hard drive which I'm following right now.
Directions are at: http://garyshortblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/how-to-install-windows-7-beta-on-an-acer-aspire-one-netbook/
Unfortunately, the biggest USB drive I have is 2 GB, and the ISO is 2.6. I thought about taking the DVD drive out of my desktop and putting it in the CD enclosure, but the enclosure only has IDE and the desktop uses SATA... so I think I'm sunk, without a trip to an electronics store.
They're using an Akamai download manager, which sucks ass... depending on your Firefox configuration, it won't even show up at all (not even a "Firefox blocked this application" bar.) I think you need Java to get it to run... but I'm not sure since I refuse to install Java. (I got it downloading correctly in IE, but it uses an ActiveX widget which is almost as irritating as Java.)
Anyway, blame Akamai, not Microsoft. Although I guess blame Microsoft for picking Akamai...
That's because nobody's asked for them. It's not some grand conspiracy against you, and its not as if Microsoft doesn't have the technical resources to provide it, it's just not a very popular feature. Sorry.
Or are you just cherry-picking one of the (extremely few) GUI features Linux has that Windows doesn't have as some way of boosting your Linux-using cred? I guess that's more likely.