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Comment Re:A Chapter of Microsoft's Marketing Team (Score 2, Insightful) 383

In Microsoft's defense (dangerous here I know) the vast majority of Vista problems HAVE been resolved months if not years ago. Further, most of those were hardware issues (nVidia..) and sloppy programming of other programs and thus NOT Microsofts fault. The single biggest obstacle it faces now are uninformed customers who heard "their computer guy" tell them two years ago that vista = evil and now refuse to listen to anything otherwise.

Sure there are some that still have problems, but most of them would have problems on a computer no matter the OS. Vista as it is today and during the mojave ads is actually very nice.

Microsoft acknowledged their problems (even though they weren't actually at fault), resolved them, and then tried to inform consumers that they had been fixed. Apple is rather just saying its not our fault to begin with.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 144

I take it you've missed the last twenty Slashdot articles about this. The problem is that many of these books are rare (so the library won't have a physical copy) and still in copyright (so the library can't provide a digital copy legally). Google gets around the second point by having settled a class-action lawsuit which allows them to copy any books that they like. No other organisation has this, and until copyright law is sufficiently reformed or the settlement is thrown out under antitrust legislation (it's currently under review) this will continue to be a problem.

Comment Re:Vista reserves 1 GB (Score 1) 983

Who modded parent up? Totally misleading.

Windows /3GB switch controls amount of virtual memory available to a process. Not physical. Virtual. The rest of virtual memory space goes to OS. Low memory (2 or 3 GB) is user process visible (ring3) memory. The upper 2 or 1 GB are ring0 memory. No need to change memory mapping (no need to flush TLB) on a simple syscall that goes back to the same process. Linux does the same thing. [OSX prefers to give userland 4GB virtual memory]

The fact you need /3GB switch illustrates that there are applications that need more than 2GB of virtual space per process. What if you run a number of these apps? Does 4GB look like a lot of memory now?

In fact, Crysis on 64bit Vista with very high settings and res can start swapping to disk because it outgrows 4GB. This is a single app plus graphics drivers.

And, the #1 reason to have virtual memory: memory-mapped files.

United States

House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney 1033

An anonymous reader writes "Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday successfully moved articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney to the House Judiciary committee. 'Today's resolution from Kucinich (D-Ohio) was essentially the same as the legislation he introduced earlier this year, which included three articles of impeachment against Cheney based largely on allegations that he manipulated intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. The last article accuses Cheney of threatening "aggression" against Iran "absent any real threat."'"
Space

Submission + - GLONASS v2.0

milsoRgen writes: "The New York Times reports that Russia's space agency is preparing to launch a constellation of eight satellites that will nearly complete a system designed to compete directly with the existing global positioning system technology of the United States.
It shall be interesting to see what the world considers the lesser of two evils."
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - PS3 With Linux = 800mhz Pentium III

An anonymous reader writes: German website Heise Online [bad google translation] claims Playstation 3 may be a computer — but it's an awfully slow one at the moment. After claiming to run multiple tests they have determined the PS3 loaded with GNU/Linux runs at the equivalent of Pentium III at 800Mhz. If that's the case, you might as well put GNU/Linux on the Xbox and save the money.

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