CobraA1

[quote]Ubuntu Linux (and a dozen other distros) can be used without touching the command line. As you play around with Linux, you'll find that terminal commands make certain tasks, such as burning .iso files, incredibly easy and efficient.[/quote] As incredibly fast and efficient as double clicking a file? Because that's all I need to do in my current OS. To be honest, there's nothing really "slow" about drag and drop. The only time when it can be slow is when you have to auto

[quote]a friend of mine owns a local computer shop and he refuses to sell or install vista.[/quote] That's an amazingly poor way to run a business. Just because he doesn't like it doesn't mean he shouldn't sell it. That's pretty much shooting yourself in the foot, especially if there's a demand for the product. [quote]In the Mojave commercials, none of the "converted" are nerds. That's as simple as I can state it.[/quote] I have to break it to you, but Microsoft's tar

Of course, this leads to the question of what types of games you play. Sure, it'll play 2D games, emulate games for ancient OSes, and perhaps even play some of the older 3D games. But it won't be able to play the latest 3D games.

[quote]XP eat your heart out, no upgrade from XP to 7, [/quote] Do we know this for sure? In any case, sometimes it's good to reinstall anyways. Especially since you'll likely want to upgrade to the 64 bit version, which I'd highly recommend for future memory expansion and increased security measures such as PatchGuard. [quote]and others, it would seem, are afraid they don't have the mental capacity to learn a new OS.[/quote] With Seniors, this could certainly

[quote]Best way to learn....from doing, not from reading.[/quote] Amen. That's the way I've learned much of what I know :). That's also why I don't follow the opinion of the crowd when it comes to Vista. I now have Windows 7 installed for dual booting. Had to go to low resolution mode because it didn't set up my monitor right the first time, but installing the latest drivers and setting the resolution manually fixed it :). Looks very nice so far, no complaints

[quote]And to confirm, I could care less aout graphics.[/quote] Depends on the games you play. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to play a game at [quote]I wonder how the Nvidia Ion will run games.[/quote] From the specs, I'd say about as poorly as a low end gaming laptop, perhaps a bit less. I'd say the Ion is mostly for video rather than gaming. The CPU (Atom) is certainly going to be quite weak, and I wouldn't count on having much memory. Take the or

[quote]Surely it keeps the good aspects of vista[/quote] It does, because it's based on Vista. The rumors that Microsoft was going back to XP's code turned out to be completely false. [quote]when is Windows 7 set for release?[/quote] So far everybody is guessing 2009, but Microsoft officially has their lips sealed.

No. You must have a decent graphics card to run games, and a netbook is pretty much defined by stripping it down to the bare essentials. It's a re-invention of the dumb terminal, for all intents and purposes. It's designed to connect to the Internet, and that's about it. It may be able to play 2D games decently, but it'll likely give you a slideshow on all except the oldest 3D games. Even notebooks are generally poor at gaming. I wouldn't trust anything that didn't have dedica

Note to those whe want the QuickLaunch toolbar back: You can still do it :). Windows 7 does allow you to create new toolbars! What this basically means is that if you really wanted to, you can indeed make it act just like previous versions of Windows. You'll have to create a new toolbar, unlock the task bar, move it, change the settings to not show the text/title if you desire, lock the taskbar again, and if you so desire unpin the existing items and

[quote]Vista drivers seem to work on Windows 7! Installed nvidia drivers wiithout any issues.[/quote] Yup :). Unlike the XP to Vista transition, they didn't change the basic driver model this time. That means less compatibility complaints :). Well, not entirely true . . . they did add some new features to the driver model to allow a unified device management center - which is intended to allow device driver makers to put all of their custom settings in one central location, ra

[quote]What app? Where?[/quote] Hard to say, something asked for flash.ocx and I guess I clicked too fast to check it out. I think it was Impulse?

Note to Stardock: Check for Flash before installing applications that require Flash! Remember: Flash, although extrememly popular, is not installed by default on a clean Windows install.

Most programs should run as expected, except perhaps the shell integration stuff. For the "not working" stuff, could there be a description of what happens? Problems can take a variety of forms, ranging from minor graphical glitches to blue screens. Sometimes something can be done, like enabling a compatibility mode or adjusting a setting in the application.

I've installed it on a virtual machine on my computer. No hardware accelerated stuff, so I can't test any games and I don't get the fancy desktop stuff, but so far the OS itself seems to work fine.

[quote]Yes, because you're saying "I don't like it" and that's the definition of subjectivity.[/quote] I am saying that certain features do not work as expected, if at all. Just because one portion of my posts refers to personal tases does not automatically mean the entire post is about personal tastes. You're cherry picking invalid arguments and ignoring valid ones. Just because I have some personal opinions does not mean my entire line of reasoning is based on personal opinion.

Not gonna bother reading the whole thread, just gonna state my opinion: I don't think we have enough data yet. The Earth is pretty old, and we have direct, accurate measurements for only a small slice of time. I really don't think we have enough statistical confidence in our data and predictions yet.

[quote]You can get by that by using the "stretch" mode on the TV, but some HD channels also inject bars with graphics into the picture when brodcasting SD content within an HD program.[/quote] I noticed that. Was with some relatives over Christmas, and they had an HDTV. One of the shows was looking a little weird and didn't act like the others, even after playing with the zoom a bit - then it struck me, the black bars weren't being added by the TV, the broadcast station itself was add

[quote](Have you tried KDE? XFCE? Enlightenment? Fluxbox?)[/quote] Recently, KDE, and a long time ago Enlightenment. KDE is better for the Wiindows user, but seems very incomplete, with many keyboard shortcuts not assigned. [quote]It's not windows enough for you, fine, don't use it. That's subjective though and has nothing to do with how good the system is.[/quote] In other words when it doesn't work for me, I'm being subjective, but when it conveniently fits your (cur

[quote]and you're trying to do things as if it was windows. It's not.[/quote] . . . which is why adoption, even though it's happening, is slow. People who try to use Linux for the first time aren't going to change their habits on the spot. Like it or not, they'll judge the platform on how well it reflects their previous experiences. If Linux seems to be stubborn about drag and drop, they'll judge it on that. [quote]You're hardly pointing out any objective flaw other than sayin

Larger scale than Sins? Even on small maps, the games seem to take all day to finish . . . [quote]Hmmm, you know what would be sweet? A space-based MMORPG.[/quote] [quote]You mean like Eve online?[/quote] I can't speak for RandallFlagg, but I'd want soemthing like Eve online, but with real PvE. I'm considering trying EVE, but from what I've heard it's pretty weak on PvE, and it's practically an anarchy in there. I'm waiting for something like EVE but with a much strong

I'm gonna be blunt: Virtualization just isn't gonna cut it. I want my games to run natively stable, and I want them to run natively fast. I've tried WINE several times, and have never had a positive experience with it. Always seems to be crashing or not working or can't find the right files or something. If improving WINE is Linux's best hope, they have no hope. In addition, I think the "free" points are pretty valid. Most Linux users are in a world of their own, and even though they

Yeah, all of the doom and gloomers were predicting the worst, and it turns out he was just seeing a doc for a worrisome hormone imbalance. Amazing how much out of control speculation can get. I'd like to add to the list DNSSEC or some other form of secure DNS. We would get so many benefits from such a system: Not just DNS, but email and other technologies could use the system to add greater security to themselves.

The moderators are strongly discouraging the creation of threads that are overtly controversial.

bootcamp == dual boot. It's XP running natively. [quote]the forum search function is broken since a very long time ...[/quote] Heh - to be honest, the search on nearly all of the forums on the Internet is broken, and amusingly enough a lot of foums out there encourage their users to use their search function. The specs look good - but I've learned that laptops tend to be weaker than desktops. In many cases, by an order of magnitude. The 9400M has 16 shader cores, while

[quote]PS: hey guys, please don't make this thread a compression debate[/quote]