Comment Re:Sucks to be you, minimum hardware specs (Score 1) 554
GHz is a meaningless number these days. We do much more work per clock cycle.
Comment Re:Minimum specs mean nothing (Score 1) 554
Wine is not an emulator. The application code runs on bare CPU just like they do on Windows. However, if Wine implements faster API code than Windows, then we see performance improvement when we branch to those functions. I have heard that some games already run faster with Wine than under Windows.
Comment Re:Lost opportunity? I doubt it (Score 1) 554
It's not meaningless. The "committed" value does not include filesystem cache.
Comment Re:I don't think we are giving anything up. (Score 1) 554
Back in the day, a PowerMac 9300 with 64 MB RAM was a monster machine for Photoshop and Pro Tools.
Comment Re:hardware has hit a wall so leave it as is (Score 1) 554
And because of that there are still a bunch of low-end PCs being sold
This is the real reason. For example new chips like the AMD E1-6010 and Celeron N2830 are even slower than an Core 2 Duo.
Comment Re:Came here to say... (Score 1) 554
I just installed the Technical Preview on an LG LW25 laptop (T2400, 2GB, 945GM, 3945ABG) and it runs very smoothly. However carried from 8.x is a problem where this WiFi card causes audio buffer underruns.
Comment It is a valid strategy (Score 2) 81
the Xen project privately fixed the bug and waited until all the major Xen deployments were patched before any details were released. Isn't this the way that all open-source projects should fix security issues?
I do see value in that approach. When a vulnerability is found, it's better to report it discretely to the authors. Shouting the details to the world in the name of "openness" just causes script kiddies to go wild and nuke a bunch of machines which could have been otherwise avoided.
Comment Re:Compound Found In Beer Impairs Brain Function (Score 1) 119
Most studies would probably conclude that a case a day is "just fucking terrible".
Additionally, most studies would probably conclude that any kind of binge drinking is "just fucking terrible".
Comment Re:Compound Found In Beer Impairs Brain Function (Score 1) 119
Ahaa, I now found a way. Put "No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe" (in quotation marks) in Google and open the cached copy of that page.
In general the article talks about any amount of alcohol increasing cancer risk.
Comment Re:Yeah, but... (Score 1) 119
I always wonder the same when I hear about resveratrol in wine or vitamins and fluorides in beer. Ethanol and its cousin compounds will likely do more damage than the good stuff does good. Have one beer per day for the unwinding relaxation from the alcohol if you want to, but that's about it, I says.
Comment Re:Compound Found In Beer Impairs Brain Function (Score 1) 119
You might find this article which claims otherwise, interesting:
"No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe" http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824237
I would like to check it out, but it wants me to login. Can I see the article some other way?
Study: Compound Found In Beer Boosts Brain Function 119
An anonymous reader writes Researchers have found that a chemical found in hops may actually improve memory. Unfortunately, a person would need to drink 3,520 pints of beer a day to get a high enough dose of the chemical to boost their brain power. A daunting task for even the most enthusiastic Oktoberfest participant. From the article: "Researchers at Oregon State University discovered that doses of xanthohumol, a flavonoid found in hops, improved memory and thinking in a lucky group of mice. Flavonoids are a class of compounds present in plants, known to have numerous health benefits. Last year, researchers discovered that a flavonoid found in celery and artichokes could potentially fight pancreatic cancer. The researchers treated the mice with dietary supplements of xanthohumol over the course of eight weeks. Their goal was to determine if xanthohumol could affect palmitoylation, a naturally occurring process in animals (including humans) that's associated with memory degradation. The mice then went through a series of tests—including the popular Morris water maze—to gauge whether or not the treatments had improved their spatial memory and cognitive flexibility. For the younger mice in the group, it worked. But on the older mice, unfortunately, the xanthohumol didn't seem to have any effect."
Submission + - Unexplained out-of-band WIndows DVD patch
davidwr writes: Microsoft released September 2014 update for DVD playback in Windows 7 SP1
as an out-of-band "Important" update yesterday without explaining why it was rushed instead of waiting two weeks.
Microsoft knows that patching annoys system administrators and others and typically doesn't do out of band updates without a good reason. Unlike the recent out-of-band Russian Time Zone update, there isn't an obvious to be a "you must install this by a certain date or something will break" reason to rush this.
Does anyone know why Microsoft didn't either 1) wait two weeks or 2) provide a clearer explanation of why this is important enough to push out early?
Comment Re:If you exclude the parallel NT's...nope (Score 2) 399
windows me = ???
windows 10 = ???
Windows ME = 4.90
Windows 10 = 6.4
Comment Re:Not just 9 (Score 5, Informative) 399
Under the hood, the NT6 core actually is still the same. With Windows 10, we will see a platform update from NT 6.3 to NT 6.4, which brings some improvements to the kernel and things like that. But they have not done a complete rework to the deep internals (like they did with Vista) which would warrant a new major version number. The silly Start Screen, Modern UI, and things like that are related to just shuffling around middleware and userspace components.
