rec.autos.simulators

by **Olly Greenfiel** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:27:06

I just bought a new 1 ghz celeron pc for my sisters kids for christmas. It
came with XP, and as nice as XP looks, it is incredibly slow. Their old 466
mhz celeron is far faster at all of the basic applications ,or at just
getting windows XP to recognize your mouse clicks sometimes takes an extra
half second, making you think that you did not click the mouse correctly, so
you start clicking again just about the time it starts to respond to your
first mouse clicks. Thus a machine that is twice as fast in processor speed
feels less like a 1GHZ machine and more like a 300MHZ machine. I would hate
to bog my new athlon down with XP, knowing in the back of my mind that no
matter how well it ran under XP it would be a bit more nimble under windows
98 SE. While some applications seem to run about the same under either
version of windows, windows itself seems really ponderous and slow about
responding to your commands. This on top of the whole activation fiasco
makes me unlikely to buy XP for the next couple of years at least. As far as
videogames are concerned I am leaning more and more towards enjoying the
great pc games that are currently win 98 compatible , and eventually
migrating almost entirely to console games when win 98 is no longer
compatible with the best pc racing sims.
In the console world Sony's PS2 still kicks ***against even the more
powerful XBOX by microsoft in terms of sales, and that means that we will
likely not have a monopoly in the console world for many years to come if
ever.I own both xbox and ps2, and the biggest difference I tend to see is
that the xbox games have greatly superior antialiasing, but overall are not
much better graphically.
Also, with HDTV compatibility already present in the xbox, and likely in the
PS3, PC like resolutions will be available in the near future of console
***. So for me, there will be less and less reason to buy a Windows pc
for *** purposes, and as far as graphics applications and video
applications, which is my next most favorite use of a computer, a Macintosh
will do just fine I suspect, even though I have never used a MAC.
But to keep big brother Microsoft from telling me how much or how often I
can change my computer I will buy a MAC and learn to use it.

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> > >Keep in mind that during this whole process MICROSOFT had all of my
data
> > >locked up and held hostage by this stupid activation system.

> > Thus setting up a scenario where MS decide to raise the activation to
$400 or
> > something, just out of the blue. You'd have to pay the money, or lose
all
> your
> > data.
> > Sounds like extortion to me... :(

> It isn't. Just ask GWB's "Department of Justice XP"(TM).

> /Jens

by **Olly Greenfiel** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:39:33

Looks like we are stuck with a PRO Monopoly, PRO Big Business, Pro oil
company, Pro Defense weapons industry, consumer unfriendly President. I
think bill gates has a friend in the white house. Backed up by a Pro Big
Business Congress and Republican majority on the Supreme court, the U.S.
consumer ,and the rest of the world for that matter, are pretty much
screwed for the next 8 years.

\(The

> > >Keep in mind that during this whole process MICROSOFT had all of my
data
> > >locked up and held hostage by this stupid activation system.

> > Thus setting up a scenario where MS decide to raise the activation to
$400 or
> > something, just out of the blue. You'd have to pay the money, or lose
all
> your
> > data.
> > Sounds like extortion to me... :(

> It isn't. Just ask GWB's "Department of Justice XP"(TM).

> /Jens

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:22:13

If we make enough noise they *might*. But if we all just sit back and take
it up the ass then nothing will happen and next time they may try something
even worse. Like rentware.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:40:05

No one wants spyware or their privacy and security compromised. Or are you
going to tell me it's ok by you?

I wasn't talking about tech problems, I'm talking about *features* that are
just an annoyance to everyone.

Of course it wasn't intentional, but the fact is WPA doesn't always work as
advertised so it should have been left out and would have gone a long way to
improving customer relations.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:41:27

OK, but I read that url and XP doesn't do packet writing. You need 3rd party
software for that.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:44:13

Packet writing formats the cdrw and treats it like a slow HD. You can erase
and replace files just like on a floppy or HD. You can't do that with CDR.
You need cdrw media to do packet writing too. XP doens't do packet writing
natively. Packet wiriting is unreliable too so I never use it anymore
anyway.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:48:17

Oh geeze, so it's really Roxio Lite then. :-)

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:47:16

What's better about it? If using NTFS in XP you don't need to defragment
nearly as much as when using FAT32 so I expect XP's defragmenter is adequate
if using NTFS.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:52:47

I thought it was cool until I ran into this Win98 problem. I use CloneCD for
burning duplicate cd's though so no problem there. Used to use Nero but the
version I have is drive specific. I could load my Prassi software to
overcome the problem so long as it is XP compatible.

by **Uncle Feste** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:53:55

> You really want something to tinker with?

> Go download Linux. ;)

> "It's only free if you work for nothing..."

> Milhouse

At least with Open Source software, if a vendor *were* arrogant enough
to add a WPA-like feature, you'd have the power to remove it yourself.
Nothing wrong with The People possessing more power!

--

Fester

"Is it that we need a nobrainer Linux desktop OS for people with no
brains or should people do a little more reading and smarten up?"
from alt.linux.mandrake NG

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:04:47

True. I got a corrupted boot sector on XP just a few days ago and couldn't
boot into XP or use system restore from the boot menu. Had to run XP cdrom
and use the recovery console, after a bit of fishing around found a little
prog called "fixboot", ran that and found my boot sector had somehow become
corrupted and it wrote a new one. No problems since doing that but I have
never had that happen on any OS in the past.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:06:28

No, he's the broken record. Anti XP, anti Nvidia.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:08:37

You can download Sun Systems "Star Office" for free.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:11:02

Yea, I think Ghost is severely overpriced considering it only does one
thing.

by **Marc** » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:12:40

I should have stuck with FAT32 then I could still be using my *free* copy of
Ghost. Oh well, stuck with XP's system restore isn't too bad I guess.

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