Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Feb 2010 22:52 UTC
Heck, Microsoft really weren't kidding when they said Windows 7 was the fastest-selling operating system in the world. NetApplications released its figures for January 2010, and it seems that after only three months of availability, Microsoft's latest baby has already hit the 10% market share mark.
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RE[3]: Why is this a supprise?
by umccullough on Wed 3rd Feb 2010 23:55
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Member since:2006-01-26
Ok Specific. Me and gonefishing tried to setup a printer on Vista the other day. HP Laserjet P4015N.
It was a pain to setup. Vista kept on crashing. Spooling was taking an age! Vista would not work with the vista driver supported.
About to give up and downloaded another Vista driver from HP. Now after 15minutes of install this driver finally it worked!
Why did it not work with the other driver? Why everytime we restarted the print spooler to empty the que did vista freeze up and have to hit the reset button? Why did it take 15 minutes to install a driver that was 15 meg?
You tell me if this is acceptable performance!
It was a pain to setup. Vista kept on crashing. Spooling was taking an age! Vista would not work with the vista driver supported.
About to give up and downloaded another Vista driver from HP. Now after 15minutes of install this driver finally it worked!
Why did it not work with the other driver? Why everytime we restarted the print spooler to empty the que did vista freeze up and have to hit the reset button? Why did it take 15 minutes to install a driver that was 15 meg?
You tell me if this is acceptable performance!
Wow, sounds like a problem you should be complaining to HP about
Seriously though, printer drivers and associated "management" software have become some of the worst software I've ever seen...
RE[4]: Why is this a supprise?
by Gone fishing on Fri 5th Feb 2010 13:18
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Member since:2006-02-22
It could be a crap HP driver that meant it didn't work?
However, it is Vistas fault if:
1 stopping the spooler crashes the box
2 It is impossible to remover the printer (OK we did manage to remove it after unplugging the printer rebooting the box and clicking delete repeatedly for 10 minutes.
3 Once the non functional driver is installed it is impossible to select another you plug in the USB and come hell or high water it WILL use the non working driver unless you format and reinstall.
4 You cannot manually install a USB printer
5 And every reboot takes about 5 minutes on fair hardware. Dual core 2 gig ram nvidia card PCBSD Opensuse, Ubuntu or any Linux (let alone Haiku) would fly on the Box.
6 Why does MS have to release an OS (Vista) that almost manages to be usable after 2 service packs is this acceptable?
RE[3]: Why is this a supprise?
by nt_jerkface on Thu 4th Feb 2010 04:31
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Member since:2009-08-26
Ok Specific. Me and gonefishing tried to setup a printer on Vista the other day. HP Laserjet P4015N.
It was a pain to setup. Vista kept on crashing. Spooling was taking an age! Vista would not work with the vista driver supported.
About to give up and downloaded another Vista driver from HP. Now after 15minutes of install this driver finally it worked!
Why did it not work with the other driver? Why everytime we restarted the print spooler to empty the que did vista freeze up and have to hit the reset button? Why did it take 15 minutes to install a driver that was 15 meg?
You tell me if this is acceptable performance!
Why is this the fault of Vista and not HP? I always try to download and install the driver directly first before messing with any wizards. In fact when installing a printer with Vista or 7 you should always just plug in the usb cable first to see if Windows recognizes it. I've installed over a dozen printers in Vista so I really don't think the problem is its printer management system. It sounds like you loaded some HP crapware that didn't run properly. Some of the worst install wizards I have ever used were from HP. D-link is pretty bad too. Oh and don't get me started on the crap that Sony comes up with.
Edited 2010-02-04 04:32 UTC
RE[3]: Why is this a supprise?
by nt_jerkface on Sun 7th Feb 2010 02:17
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Member since:2009-08-26
You said you use Vista every day in 'utter misery' and didn't explain this other than a printer problem you had which can happen with any OS. At the very least you should explain how the experience was improved in Windows 7.
Most of the complaints before SP1 centered around opengl and network transfer performance. Complaints related to printers had more to do with unsupported devices. I see no reason to believe that Vista has more of a problem with printing than XP or 7.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 13:17 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 12:06 UTC
"According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies service, global Android smartphone profits reached US$5 billion in total during the first quarter of 2013. Samsung dominated and captured an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits." Wow.More News »
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Ok Specific. Me and gonefishing tried to setup a printer on Vista the other day. HP Laserjet P4015N.
It was a pain to setup. Vista kept on crashing. Spooling was taking an age! Vista would not work with the vista driver supported.
About to give up and downloaded another Vista driver from HP. Now after 15minutes of install this driver finally it worked!
Why did it not work with the other driver? Why everytime we restarted the print spooler to empty the que did vista freeze up and have to hit the reset button? Why did it take 15 minutes to install a driver that was 15 meg?
You tell me if this is acceptable performance!