What the bloody hell? What sort of dependence is there between making sound & transmitting network data?GORDON wrote:So do you want to play music, or use your network at more than 10% efficiency?
Because you can't do both.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Extremely dumb:Malcolm wrote:What the bloody hell? What sort of dependence is there between making sound & transmitting network data?GORDON wrote:So do you want to play music, or use your network at more than 10% efficiency?
Because you can't do both.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=724
“Please note that some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of it is not. In certain circumstances Windows Vista will trade off network performance in order to improve multimedia playback. This is by design.”
Most IT peeps I know would be fired if they wrote an app that hogged all the hardware resources, and then put it into production.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
By design? Are you fistfucking me? My thruput is killed cos you intentionally divert resources from it? What fucking hooka were the developers smoking?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Too bad that a bunch of nerds can't get together & design a decent OS w\o shit turning into a Chinese fighting fish melee. Unless there' assloads of profit involved. Apparently, that motivates them just enough.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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All I'm saying is that in 1998 on a Win95 and a Pentium2 333MHz CPU (and 128MB RAM...) I was listening to mp3's, burning a CD, and moving a 1.6GB backup file over the LAN, ALL AT THE SAME TIME, just to see if I could.
And now, Vista can't do that with 4GHz CPU's? What the fuck?
Something else is happening. DRM phoning home, or something. They can't possibly be that incompetent.
And now, Vista can't do that with 4GHz CPU's? What the fuck?
Something else is happening. DRM phoning home, or something. They can't possibly be that incompetent.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
GORDON wrote:They can't possibly be that incompetent.
Are you sure you want to bank on that?
I know about half a dozen folk that work for Macroshaft -- all code monkeys, too. I'm getting more & more convinced that big tech-heavy companies just lend themselves to needing a particular sort of manager to keep the nerds in line once said company reaches some critical bloat point. Those managers' goals tend to be completely incompatible w\ reasonable code.
I believe this to be the case w\ Google, thought they're still churning out working code for the time being. But the seeds of insane logic have already been sown there. Just a matter of time till the tendrils wrap themselves around everything.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Vista is #10 on CNet's top 10 worst tech of 2007.
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-10,00.htm
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-10,00.htm
Its incompatibility with hardware, its obsessive requirement of human interaction to clear security dialogue box warnings and its abusive use of hated DRM, not to mention its general pointlessness as an upgrade, are just some examples of why this expensive operating system earns the final place in our terrible tech list.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Only good reason to upgrade to Vista was gamers for DX10... but it turns out DX10 doesn't look as nice as it did in the press releases.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=176533
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=176533
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Vista SP1 will not reduce functionality when system is non-genuine.
The change was announced in a presentation by WGA senior product manger, Alex Kochis, who said, "Based on customer feedback, we will not reduce user functionality on systems determined to be non-genuine."
It's not me, it's someone else.
Reloaded Vista again recently. Seems to run okay. I really didn't have any show stopping problems with it before.
Honestly, I think the biggest problem Vista had going against it was a sense of hysteria akin the perceived wide spread panic that occured after Orson Wells did the "War of The Worlds" radio show. There really weren't a massive number of people that thought it was real. But the more people talked about the people thinking it was real, the greater the number of perceived "fooled" people.
The data transfer problems been an issue for a while. Doesn't have anything to do with media playing specific. Just apparently one of the areas where the issue arises.
I think I've actually seen more specific issues raised about Leopard than I have about Vista.
One kind of neat thing I've seen and liked in Vista: when you bring up the sound mixer from the speaker icon in the sys tray, it allows you to individually adjust the volume for each open window individually. Nice when I'm gaming and listening to music.
Honestly, I think the biggest problem Vista had going against it was a sense of hysteria akin the perceived wide spread panic that occured after Orson Wells did the "War of The Worlds" radio show. There really weren't a massive number of people that thought it was real. But the more people talked about the people thinking it was real, the greater the number of perceived "fooled" people.
The data transfer problems been an issue for a while. Doesn't have anything to do with media playing specific. Just apparently one of the areas where the issue arises.
I think I've actually seen more specific issues raised about Leopard than I have about Vista.
One kind of neat thing I've seen and liked in Vista: when you bring up the sound mixer from the speaker icon in the sys tray, it allows you to individually adjust the volume for each open window individually. Nice when I'm gaming and listening to music.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
Vista is #1 worst tech disappointment: PC World.GORDON wrote:Vista is #10 on CNet's top 10 worst tech of 2007.
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-10,00.htm
Its incompatibility with hardware, its obsessive requirement of human interaction to clear security dialogue box warnings and its abusive use of hated DRM, not to mention its general pointlessness as an upgrade, are just some examples of why this expensive operating system earns the final place in our terrible tech list.
http://www.engadget.com/2007....pc-worl
Won't ANYONE chime in and stick up for poor, unfairly abused Vista???
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I'll readily admit it was a disappointment. After seven years of development you'd expect something substantially better than XP. You'd expect a leap up from XP. It's barely a small step up.
But that's a far cry from it being a horribly flawed OS.
But that's a far cry from it being a horribly flawed OS.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
I'll readily admit it was a disappointment. After seven years of development you'd expect something substantially better than XP. You'd expect a leap up from XP. It's barely a small step up.
But that's a far cry from it being a horribly flawed OS.
I would argue that it was a step backwards, not forwards.
Microsoft tried to get really cute with Vista and turn it into a graphically pleasing (Apple), super secure (special interests), customizable (businesses) OS that has kick ass gaming (home users). They failed on EVERY level.
Sure initially, any OS is going to have problems out of the gate, but this was above and beyond typical glitches, bugs, and security holes. You can't expect corporate America to switch to an OS that has PCs booting up with errors out of the box. You can't expect home users to upgrade to an OS that will tell them what Microsoft believes they should and shouldn't be allowed to do.
Everything about Vista, and even more so, Microsoft's public relations in terms of it's failures and public acceptance has been fucked. Vista was a colossal mistake that could've easily been avoided had Microsoft bothered to find out what their CONSUMERS actually wanted instead of what their special interests and Microsoft themselves wanted shoved down everyone's throats.
So maybe Vista isn't a horribly flawed OS, but it's not a well designed one and Microsoft's handling of it HAS been horribly flawed.
As someone else here stated, Leopard may very well be a worse OS, but you don't hear about it. Sure, Apple is a smaller market segment, and sure, their users are brainwashed retards, but Apple is far more likely to handle issues with their consumers rather than tell them to accept it and go fuck themselves as Microsoft has done with Vista.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
It's the first new OS without Bill and the first Microsoft OS that wasn't DOS based. (or something to that effect)
I remember someone saying it was the first true OS exclusively developed by Microsoft.
I remember someone saying it was the first true OS exclusively developed by Microsoft.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell