Is anyone surprised?

It uses the SAME kernel and lower-level internals as Vista, and the same technology for the higher levels - user interface Aero stuff, APIs, etc.

What they did in order to make it seem faster was remove some of the fat that waas running on Vista by default. It's 99% the same OS, but running less crap on top of the OS, so of course it seems faster.

If you do a few easy tweaks (disabling the right services etc.) to Vista it will run just like 7. Conversely, if you enable much of the crap that was disabled or missing in the BETA, and may or may not be enabled by default in the final release, you get Vista.

Seriously, they are the same thing, only with different things running by default.

This is typical Microsoft - selling the old technology as dramatically better than itself. Great marketing, no doubt. They got the mainstream to believe 7 was fundamentally faster, which it never was.

Is THAT what it meant? And I thought they were already shipping the game! Damn.

Such as?

blame yourself

You expect far too much from the average person.

Yes, yes, and yes. Flawless argument. It's just that when you're there and taken by surprise, the adrenalime won't let the logic kick in, much less leave it alone for its 10 seconds of observation.

Apparently the Windows 8 kernel is being reworked to provide dramatic performance improvements.

Sure, why not.

You know, if I bought an Internet access contract and they blocked anything at all, I'd sue them for false advertising.

I recently deployed an open-source solution (Solaris) to an organization (my home) and the cost/benefit analysis goes like this:
1) cost of software = $0 (free to download and mostly open-source)
2) cost of support = $0 (all the support I have required was online documentation)
3) cost of time required to deploy = $400 (calculated using my current employment rate)
4) cost of know-how required to deploy = -$2200
Total cost: -$1800
Wait a minute, I hear you saying, why is the training cost negative? Because I learnt the system myself, saving myself the $2200 it would have cost me to get Sun training (web course, which is the cheapest option). I could also use this $2200-worth of knowledge to deploy Solaris for others and get paid for it. (This would not be possible if the only possible support vendor were the software vendor.) So deploying this particular free solution to this particular organization cost me $-1800, which reflects the kowledge value I got out of it.

Overall pretty cheap, eh?

I have two questions for you:

1) What happens to ZFS now? Is it more or less likely now to see it come to Linux (the kernel) one day?
2) In general, is this a better outcome than IBM buying Sun?

Ca you get the patchset for free? I thought you needed a support contract for any patches.

...stem cell therapy that can treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...

A spokesman for Intel expressed great interest in the technology:

"AMD has been a problem we've tried to combat for years, but until now, no matter how much we tried to suppress it, it always managed to survive. Not anymore."

NVIDIA declined to comment on this news story.

So a good scientist dies and all Slashdotters can do is attempt whoring out a +5 Funny with lame jokes?

My high regard for the Slashdot community is obviously misguided.

It's a great loss for the research community and my condolences go to his family. And really, that's a nasty way to go... :(

Not trivial.

Which is why they are free to copyright their own implementation of not trivial. But if I go and make that work for my own software, Apple and the broken American patent system can suck my virtual dick.

I do agree that English should be among the tools used by every serious programmer. (I am not a native English speaker.)

I do not agree that pragmatism is the most virtuous of all hacker traits.

Vulcans are hot!