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- I wonder if they're going to obfuscate the MSN protocol, though, those bastards >_<You can't reformat a car.You can, however, update it's firmware...
(I like that. I think I'm going to use that as a standard reply when a car analogy is bought up!)
Although I think we have now progressed to cat analogies-MrCrispy (September 13, 2007, 04:37 PM)
but I think that we just need to enforce some "taste". When a signature show up that will be unapproriated enough, I think one user or the other will find a polite way to notify it to the author and suggest changes.-Mark0 (September 14, 2007, 06:52 AM)
I hope the betas get better, or it'll go IE route pretty soon.IE7 is hardly any better than firefox... even seems slower to me, which I thought was impossible >_<-Lashiec (September 14, 2007, 09:40 AM)
. Oh yeah, and defrag has basically no interface anymore, not even a percent-done meter.I bought kaspersky a few years back and it polluted my NTFS drives forever. I know this was a temporary thing which is nowadays optional, but it kind of annoyed me! Especially as at no point did it ask whether i wanted to use this feature or what the consequences would be on utilities like defrag / disk checking tools...It asks at install time whether you want "use the iStreamsTM technology", and it also explains what it is. And at uninstall time it asks whether to remove that data... at least for 5.0.712 anyway.-iphigenie
To my mind the memory footprint issues with Firefox is less of a problem than the speed and CPU grabbing issues. With an Athlon64 X2 4600 CPU the browser shouldn't need to use up to 50% of CPU cycles fairly regularly during use. My last CPU was often pushed to 90-100% for extended periods.I only have that when there's FLASH stuff on a page - flash is notorious for being pretty cpu-greedy.-Carol Haynes (September 13, 2007, 03:51 AM)
Get on down the road, take the time to get familiar with Vista, spring for new hardware if what you use is not supported in Vista. But get with the 21st century.That's so lame - "get with the 21st century". Since everybody loves car analogies... would you buy a flimsy car that travels half the distance of your current car per gallon of gas, just because it's the new model?-GHammer (September 11, 2007, 06:26 PM)
I have 9mb, so it doesn't bother me in that regard, i just like to know what I'm downloading i guess.Would be nice indeed, even if the very-large downloads are being done through torrents, and I use FlashGet for things like linux isos or big game/movie trailers...-Ehtyar (September 11, 2007, 05:27 PM)
5TB ought to be enough for anybodyJust how puny is your-Lashiec (September 11, 2007, 12:04 PM)
But I think this is unavoidable — a flexible and low-entry extension system that doesn't need compiling will be fat and heavy resource-wise.Why? There's no law of nature requiring this... the coders just need to pay a bit more attention and focus on efficiency than eye-candy. More interesting anyway.-nontroppo (September 11, 2007, 06:00 AM)
You keep mentioning this is a good idea for HD video content. While I agree, why does this thing kick in when someone plays an MP3...a task that takes up 0.02% CPU load on a modern system?Because the thing wasn't designed well enough (seems to be a reocurring event with Vista), and probably because the designers didn't think people running fileservers would use the fileserver for media playback-Innuendo
(with normal framesize, it really shouldn't kick in unless you're on a >100mbit connection, so there's "something wrong" either with people's frame size or the ndis code handling throttling).why am I able to download HD video trailers from the internet, play them, and my network speed isn't affected at all?Well, try full 768p or (ouch!) 1080p H.264 playback... that's a bit different from the normal HD trailers, especially if it's a full-quality codec being used... apperantly the commercial (and fast!) CoreAVC codec does some tricks that speeds up stuff massively, but reduces quality somewhat.-Innuendo
No, while there's a lot right with Vista, there's a lot wrong with it, too, and the complaints about it on the internet go beyond the usual complaints that are common when MS releases a new OS.I fail to see much of what's right with Vista, to be honest-Innuendo
- I'd love to have some of the kernel improvements, but all the extra crap they added... well...