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Since it seems to be some sort of pressing issue with you, this is my replacement for television ———- TV sucks. Most of it is Lowest Common Denominator garbage. Like a intoxicated walk over an overflowing Detroit sewer at night, I could just puke and never think about it again.

AG — As to the Bayer comment, when was the last time you tried to take a medication from your lab to animal trials through human trials Phase I thru Phase IV, then market and manufacture it? What a great thought! Those digital bits are very easily cloned, very easily transported, and if reassembled in order they make remake an item of value. Rights management will become a the? These benchmarked are surely rigged in an attempt to persuade us to buy Windows XP. There is no way from personal experience that anything would run faster on XP.

It was consistently faster under SE. Since I have SE, I will be keeping it for games. I might dual boot win, but feel no need to buy into MS's new leasing model for software. Win pro can be had for a better price than XP pro. I think its clear that you need 98 to support older games anyway, then you must decide which NT kernal OS best meets other needs.

XP home is really gutted with a large chunk of real functionality removed. XP pro vrs pro is very similar except for more fluff and less bug fixes in xp pro.

That plus activation agravation and a higher price. Win seems like the clear way to go to me. Transman88 — You can remember a login and password for your Hotmail, and one for your Mac card, and one for just about everything else in the world, but asking you to remember one for TR is just too much to ask? It makes it a matter of trivial difficulty for anyone to impersonate you. It also makes it just a little bit more challenging for someone else to make me look like an ass.

AG — Not sure how to respond to that. I never got into the philosophy of it, much. Trident, There is a huge difference: -A car dealer actually loses money! I get the feeling that warez-hounds like myself are being shunned. But it is time for people to start thinking! Go, team, go! Not so bad as you thought… and BTW, cookies manage the login for me, and registration is a small price to pay for a face — which goes a long way with me when it comes to respect.

BTW, my post was to answer the question you indirectly asked — why were the InfoWorld results different from yours? There is a big difference between mala in se and mala prohibida crimes — and delaring an action mala prohibida does not necessarily make it mala in se. In fact, the danger of making too many actions mala prohibida is that it undermines respect for the law across the board. As for licensing, the legal basis for the enforceabilty of licenses traditionally was a fictional bargain between two willing parties of equal power.

Hence the civil disobedience. I will, however, scour the net for the activation crack or a non-authenticating copy after I buy XP. And I will install it on both of my machines at home. And yes, if everybody makes up their own rules, we have anarchy and uncertainty. Which leads me back to why a captive legislature is a bad deal for everyone, not just the consumer. Most courts have laughed it out of the courtroom. Listen, just to wrap things up here if you are killed by a deranged monkey with an ice-pick or if you die of a heart attack while eating dinner you are still dead right?

So what if Windows XP runs a little slower or faster if you are going to die someday just enjoy the damned view! For our first multitasking scenario, we used the same OfficeBench script running in parallel with a single instance of the Database, Multimedia and Workflow load simulators. Each simulation used an underdemanding workload: 50 records per database transaction, one Windows Media clip, and one MAPI Messaging API folder object with just under 5MB of mixed message and attachment data, respectively.

Scenario 2 used three concurrent instances of each load simulator. The workload was increased to database records and three different MAPI folder objects. Finally, scenario 3 executed five concurrent instances of the load simulators, and increased the workload to records per database transaction and five MAPI folder objects totaling almost 25MB of data. SysMark's multitasking pales next to what IW did Dissonance, I'm not trying to bust your chops.

I'm just pointing out that the two tests were worlds apart, and the results dont disagree that much: when you account for the fact that you ran with System Restore disabled, with more capable machines, with more memory in the high-end systems, and with a lighter multitasking workload, the outcome isn't inconsistent And from my experiences in the business world, what IW did isn't far off the mark: the biz world useage is far to complex to sum up in a single test, and their multiple scenarios cover a decent range.

I trust those results. Go read their test results carefully, diss -- I think you'll agree. The beauty of criminal acts is that their definitions are created by money and defined by people that are a law unto themselves.

No way. The licenses are legal, and every big piece of software you have ever gotten off the shelves comes with similar license agreements. Oh, and upon reading that article a while back that you put a link in shortbread to, which slammed the p4 badly… I remember coming across a little thing somewhere about the compiling of OSes….

How do you reward them for those ideas so your culture will remain dominant? The broad majority are owned by companies, and the majority of those are owned by 10 really big companies. An example of this would be when Disney extended the copyright falloff period so it could keep Mickey. The transference of copyright from individuals which is what the system was designed to protect to companies has also created a negative shift in the value of the property itself.

My product, my computer, stay the hell away. I am not sure what the answer is to the copyright dilemma in a general sense. I have no problem paying for software, fair enough, but I will definitely speak with my dollars if a company thinks it has the audacity of trying to own me.

At that point I had no problem with DVD piracy ironically, I would have been able to watch the movies fine had I pirated them. You tech enthusiasts are really out of touch with the real world. Six different people have joined the linux channel on my favorite IRC server and spontaneously started spouting off about how wonderful XP is.

When quizzed as to why they would join an obviously unreceptive channel and start singing, they all clammed up and split. One guy seemed to realize what he was doing, and apologized before parting. I wonder how many of these people were gifted with copies of XP in exchange for their evangelism? Why is is that there are so many bogus scams going on about XP? One site says its great and yet another shows benchmarks that show XP being slower all the way around when compared to Win2k.

Whats true? I dont know, but I know this. I will be using Linux as my primary OS actually have been for some time MS has tried to force users to use there browser — if remeber less then a month ago users of other browsers could not access MSN.

Its time for the money hungry giant to let it go. For those that say they have the power — remember this — it is only when such power is exerted and a corporation tries to push their realm on others that there is a noticeably threat to that very corporations business — meaning — MS is getting scared. Randall Kennedy 80 , as InfoWorld Test Director do you have any specific insights into the differences between the IW tests and the ones here?

Oh God. XP just went from sluggish to worthless. Even with all the GUI crap disabled angryfruitsalad. Hey Colin — Sounds liek you and I had almost the same last easy install, though mine was a A. Sold that because it worked too well. Been running Athlons ever since… Well, up till yesterday.

Know where I can get a BP6 cheap? Our testbed runs Win2k but our desktops will probably not be moved until Q3 of next year. Business use is a different animal than home use though. I do not hate Win2k, actually it will make my business life much easier, but I have different expectations for my home use. I do enough office stuff in the office, at home I want to play video games.

By no means is W2K out to pasture. Any corporate By corporate I mean enterprise, entity that rolls out XP would be foolish. I think the smaller the shop the better idea it makes. One: they ran only Intel processors 1. Two: they did not turn off the System Restore utility in XP for the baseline tests, while diss did. This alone makes the test configurations different. When they turned off some of the eyecandy System Restore in XP, font smoothing and UI animation in both OSes , the performance delta was hugely smaller — as expected, and as dissonance showed.

Three: they ran versions of Office, because they were investigating typical business use. The IW sidebar makes this very clear, as does the article itself. Dissonance tested like a gamer, InfoWorld tested like a heavy business user… no mystery at all.

It only asks for a key like the old style. Turn them all off, and compare what the system can really handle. Here, I expect XP would shine even more. That sounds bad but that just has not been my experience. I was sceptical before jumping in to but aside from early incompatibilities, it is by far the best Windows OS I have worked with Accounting machines, programming machines, dually servers, dually CAD workstattions.

I am just dissapointed that after NT 4. Is that a record for short lifespan anyone? I think they should do another comparison onces drivers mature for winxp because it is still fairly new. Ive run win98, win2k andn winxp in that order and all have been fairly stable for me but i have to say that 2k and up are the most stable. However, all that being said, I still believe — based on personal experience on a couple of different systems — that Win98SE is far more stable and efficient than WinME.

In my own experience i. Have I installed SP2? I spent 8 months trying to live with Win2k on the gaming side. I then added a second hard drive to my machine and set up dual boot with 98SE does anyone else remember hearing all the sites talk about how much of a dog WinME was? Compare Windows 10 Home vs. Pro Find the right fit for your needs. Windows Security Windows 10 changes the game for security by protecting user identities, devices, and information with a comprehensive solution driven by intelligence that only Microsoft offers.

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In short we see no change, or virtually no change in L1, L2 or L3 cache performance with the Intel processors. Where we do see a notable performance difference is when looking at DRAM latency The Blender Open Data is very similar to what was seen with Cinebench. The margins were slightly larger with the K and we found that Windows 10 provided the best results.