Why vista should have been an expansionpack

[Urza]

Don't you have others things to do besides trolling? Why don't you two carry this out via PM instead of ruining this thread.

Because most of my posts haven't been trolling, and are on topic?

 

[Hiratai]

Don't you have others things to do besides trolling? Why don't you two carry this out via PM instead of ruining this thread.

Because most of my posts haven't been trolling, and are on topic?

Your past 3 have. If I hadn't posted and he were top post again, you would've continued to carry an idiotic argument here.

 

[Urza]

Your past 3 have. If I hadn't posted and he were top post again, you would've continued to carry an idiotic argument here.

And yet here you are, continuing that very conversation.

 

[Hiratai]

Your past 3 have. If I hadn't posted and he were top post again, you would've continued to carry an idiotic argument here.

And yet here you are, continuing that very conversation.

Your point is...? If you didn't act like a smartass all the time, you wouldn't have to worry about why you always seem to get on someones bad side EVERYTIME you log onto a forum.

 

[ZeWarrior]

Your past 3 have. If I hadn't posted and he were top post again, you would've continued to carry an idiotic argument here.

And yet here you are, continuing that very conversation.

Your point is...? If you didn't act like a smartass all the time, you wouldn't have to worry about why you always seem to get on someones bad side EVERYTIME you log onto a forum.

FINALLY someone I can agree with. Urza thinks he has to argue against everything. He thinks he knows everything.

 

[Urza]

FINALLY someone I can agree with. Urza thinks he has to argue against everything. He thinks he knows everything.

You have yet to disprove anything I've said, and insist on attacking my personality instead.

 

[ZeWarrior]

FINALLY someone I can agree with. Urza thinks he has to argue against everything. He thinks he knows everything.

You have yet to disprove anything I've said, and insist on attacking my personality instead.

Get to the point. What do you think I'm gonna do? Cry? Tell you '' Sorry Urza I'm inferior to you in everyway, sorry for questioning anything

'' Really. Grow up.

 

[Urza]

Get to the point. What do you think I'm gonna do? Cry? Tell you '' Sorry Urza I'm inferior to you in everyway, sorry for questioning anythingÂ

 '' Really. Grow up.

Get to the point. What do you think I'm gonna do? Rethink the meaning of my life? Tell you " Sorry Zewaroiraskd, I should be a nicer person and not intervene when someone is making up things, sorry for hurting your feelings

" Really. Grow up.

 

[ZeWarrior]

Get to the point. What do you think I'm gonna do? Cry? Tell you '' Sorry Urza I'm inferior to you in everyway, sorry for questioning anythingÂ

 '' Really. Grow up.

Get to the point. What do you think I'm gonna do? Rethink the meaning of my life? Tell you " Sorry Zewaroiraskd, I should be a nicer person and not intervene when someone is making up things, sorry for hurting your feelings

" Really. Grow up.

When was I making up things? Link me to a post right now. Oh wait you can't.

 

[Urza]

When was I making up things? Link me to a post right now. Oh wait you can't.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=647...ndpost&p=845998

You made three things up in that sentence alone.

 

[ZeWarrior]

When was I making up things? Link me to a post right now. Oh wait you can't.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=647...ndpost&p=845998

You made three things up in that sentence alone.

Name them. You really don't need VM if your PC has enough Physical RAM. My Laptop that has 2GB of RAM has NEVER needed to use Virtual memory from the HDD. SSDs ARE faster than 5400 RPM Drives for Writting AND Reading. And it IS a fair comparison. Show me an SSD made for a Desktop.

 

[mthrnite]

Stop it, get back on the real topic, or get warns, or worse.

 

[Salamantis]

Microsoft shouldn't have ever made Vista. It sucks big time. Well, at least maybe SP1 will make it a little better... heck, we'll probably be waiting for it like the Wiikey update!

 

[ZeWarrior]

Stop it, get back on the real topic, or get warns, or worse.

Sorry. Mthr. Back on topic Vista should not have been an expansion pack. But IMHO XP should've had a patch of some sort so it can have DX10. Microsoft made a big move making DX10 only for Vista and I think that will cost them in the long run.

 

[Hiratai]

Stop it, get back on the real topic, or get warns, or worse.

Whta happens at 40%?

Anyways, I think Vista is a completely different make of the Windows variants. It does basically the same things, in an easier way, like all OS updates should do.

 

[notnarb]

Stop it, get back on the real topic, or get warns, or worse.


Sorry. Mthr. Back on topic Vista should not have been an expansion pack. But IMHO XP should've had a patch of some sort so it can have DX10. Microsoft made a big move making DX10 only for Vista and I think that will cost them in the long run.

but Microsoft needs a good reason for people to upgrade. They are, after all, a software company

 

[juggernaut911]

nice...

well, the couple should go make out somewhere.

uh... why would vista need to be an expansion when (I THINK) a XP SP3 is being made... ?

 

[ZeWarrior]

nice...

well, the couple should go make out somewhere.

uh... why would vista need to be an expansion when (I THINK) a XP SP3 is being made... ?

It is being made but it won't have DX10.

And you better not be talking about me or or or I'll do this

 

[juggernaut911]

fart... DX11?

 

[Lukeage]

Big Post!

Hooray, someone who actually has some decent knowledge on computing!

Just a few points I'd like to add.

Memory: Vista (and XP too from memory, maybe not as in depth though) allows you to display active/inactive memory plus a bunch of other stuff through the task manager. It isn't viewable by default, but you can add the columns to the display for all sorts of stuff related to processes.

Security & backwards compatibility: I'm lumping these together because in windows these are actually closely related (from a Windows point of view). Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to these. While I agree there are better solutions than what they are doing, they are in the awkward position of offering full backwards compatibility so their big customers remain happy, while trying to introduce a better security model, often at the expense of backwards compatibility. While I am sure there are plenty of people that would like to give away a large amount of BC for security, many of these customers aren't buying 1000s of windows licenses.

Kernel: Just a side note, the next installment of windows is supposed to be a complete overhaul to have a genuine microkernel (once again).

Managed Code: I'm unsure what you mean by MS will be unable to check code is safe to run if it is managed. In a correctly managed environment, buffer overflows etc... are not an issue because the (should) VM handles these problems.

64bit: Just add, the minimal slowdown which occurs when running 32bit apps in a 64bit environment is usually due to the processor switching from long mode to protected mode (and vice versa). And to nitpick, the directories you have (while thats how they should be) are wrong. System32 is where the 64 bit dlls go, and SysWow64 are where the 32bit dlls are stored. Retarded much? This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen.

DX10: I'm surprised you'd still be having issues these days. A lot of the issues before were because ATI and nVidia's drivers were absolutely terrible under Vista. While there still may be the odd slowdown due to dx9 called being wrapped, there shouldn't be any major issues. While I still have XP installed on my system, I pretty much do all my gaming under Vista now (I have a 7900GS) and get more than acceptable framerates.