March 2008 Entries
For the past little while I've really tried to give Vista another chance. I tried doing development, surfing, gaming--all the activities that I do on XP, and I've finally reached a decision: let's wait for Service Pack 2.
I honestly don't understand why it takes so long for Vista to copy things over the network that should be really quick. I don't understand why my games run slower even when I have all the pretty glass turned off. I don't understand how an operating system that's suppose to be new runs like I'm using something so old.
I'm sorry...
Today we got a phone call from FedEx saying that they had a package for us, but that the address on it was misspelled. They wanted to know if they should deliver it to our house or the office. This kinda piqued my interest since I wasn't expecting any sort of package from anyone. A million thoughts ran through my head on what it could possibly be and was completely shocked when FedEx arrived with this:
In it was a little note from Activision and Red Octane:
Rock on! I was a little ticked off over the whole affair, but this more...
Today I was able to sell my old 80GB iPod to subsidize the cost of buying a new 16GB iPod Touch. I'd been stewing ever since it came out last September, but really didn't get too excited until the SDK was announced earlier this year.
The one thing I really wish this thing had is Flash player. Many of the sites I frequent have Flash videos, so it kinda defeats the purpose of surfing the Internet without. Oh well, this is a pretty sweet piece of hardware, and I look forward to cruising the 'nEt with it.
So. I went to a Microsoft Developer Conference this past week and decided to give Vista (another) try. I've been using it for several days now and have some preliminary thoughts:
Great for email.
Great for surfing.
Not too shabby for coding.
Sucks for gaming.
The biggest gripe that I have is gaming. Because the Aero interface is using GPU resourcing to draw all the pretty glass, it's sapping those resources that could otherwise give games another 10fps. Even when the Aero interface is turned...