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rom the good old 386 days, to the been cribbing about the same bloat. Mac users multi-core monsters today, we’ve have complained about sluggish performance, all watched excitedly as Moore’s especially irritating when it’s everyday tasks law, or interpretations of it, held that you’re doing, like searching for files. Even steadfastly and stubbornly true. It Linus Torvalds himself has complained about all got crazy about five years ago, bloat in the Linux kernel. when each time we upgraded our hardware, Thankfully, Windows 7 and Apple’s Snow Fa few months later a friend or acquaintance Leopard, both, seem to be a step in the right would outdo us, and have a better rig. But that direction, with reduced bloat, and better wasn’t the only irritating bit, what really got optimised code. This is exactly what we need on our nerves was that said friend spent way from OSes — to stay light. less than us, for something way better. “Ahh, Considering that the future is obviously technology!” we’d say, nodding our heads in portable, OSes have no choice but to stay light. disappointment, and move on... slowly, thanks The lighter the better, in fact, considering that to our already outdated machines. battery technology hasn’t really done anything Robert Sovereign-Smith, Editor The one industry that is the epitome of to speak of in recent times. Portable hardware, this trend is gaming. That’s one area where in fact, has become more energy efficient to hardware has been left far behind. As all those compensate for this, and as a result, slower than of you who have played games like Crysis will the average desktop. testify to, no matter how new your PC is, some Although we’re all wow-ed by the new games will just bring it to its knees. Some call looking OSes and all their eye-candy, we should it future-proofing the game engine, I just call it be looking for usability, and functionality. showing off. Take for example the whole touch thing. OSes cannot afford The one vertical that shouldn’t follow It’s rumoured that Windows 7 will cause a that trend, however, is the operating system major shift in device design, with new touch- to “show-off” the industry. It’s acceptable to us to have hardware centric gadgets hogging the spotlight. We’ve way the gaming that will not allow us to play the latest games. heard about all these upcoming “multi-touch” industry can We’re even fine, for example, with running devices, and yet none of them really seem to Adobe’s CS 1 suite instead of the latest CS4. be exploiting the possibilities that exist. If However, it’s not acceptable for an OS to you don’t believe me, watch Jeff Han’s multi- “require” a major hardware upgrade. touch demonstration at TED (http://tinyurl. Windows 7 launched a little while ago, and com/45jz4a). I know I’ve spoken of him before, of course I’ve been using the pre-release version but can you blame me for repeating it, when on one of my non-critical computers for some what we have today, over three and a half years time now. One stark difference between Vista after that demo, is still nowhere close? and 7 that struck me was the performance. I certainly hope OSes get out of the identity I’m not talking about benchmarks on super- crises they’re in, and stick to improving high-end hardware that less than 1 per cent functionality, only, leaving the eye-candy, and of the computing population can afford; I’m the attempt to be everything to everyone on the talking about the everyday, run-of-the-mill back-burner. Let the “Ultimate” versions of the hardware that most of us own. On mid-range OS come with all the bells and whistles, but configurations, Windows 7 actually seems to do let’s not stop focusing on the innovations and better than Vista. Sure you don’t get to use any advances in usability. Enough with our eyes, it’s of the eye-candy that those with gaming rigs can now time to start designing for the other senses, show off, but at least it works! starting with our fingers. I remember people cribbing about the insane (at the time) requirements of XP, and sticking to Windows 98, just to be able to have a usable PC, instead of a good-looking UI that crawled through everyday tasks. It was no different for the switch from XP to Vista, with a lot of people turning their noses up at Vista – me included. Some say Vista was ahead of its time, and I’m inclined to agree. However, the OS industry cannot afford to do that. OSes cannot afford [email protected] to “show-off” the way the gaming industry can. I’m not talking just about Microsoft here, because those who use alternates have also

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rom the good old 386 days, to the been cribbing about the same bloat. Mac users multi-core monsters today, we’ve have complained about sluggish performance, all watched excitedly as Moore’s especially irritating when it’s everyday tasks law, or interpretations of it, held that you’re doing, like searching for files. Even steadfastly and stubbornly true. It Linus Torvalds himself has complained about all got crazy about five years ago, bloat in the Linux kernel. when each time we upgraded our hardware, Thankfully, Windows 7 and Apple’s Snow Fa few months later a friend or acquaintance Leopard, both, seem to be a step in the right would outdo us, and have a better rig. But that direction, with reduced bloat, and better wasn’t the only irritating bit, what really got optimised code. This is exactly what we need on our nerves was that said friend spent way from OSes — to stay light. less than us, for something way better. “Ahh, Considering that the future is obviously technology!” we’d say, nodding our heads in portable, OSes have no choice but to stay light. disappointment, and move on... slowly, thanks The lighter the better, in fact, considering that to our already outdated machines. battery technology hasn’t really done anything Robert Sovereign-Smith, Editor The one industry that is the epitome of to speak of in recent times. Portable hardware, this trend is gaming. That’s one area where in fact, has become more energy efficient to hardware has been left far behind. As all those compensate for this, and as a result, slower than of you who have played games like Crysis will the average desktop. testify to, no matter how new your PC is, some Although we’re all wow-ed by the new games will just bring it to its knees. Some call looking OSes and all their eye-candy, we should it future-proofing the game engine, I just call it be looking for usability, and functionality. showing off. Take for example the whole touch thing. OSes cannot afford The one vertical that shouldn’t follow It’s rumoured that Windows 7 will cause a that trend, however, is the operating system major shift in device design, with new touch- to “show-off” the industry. It’s acceptable to us to have hardware centric gadgets hogging the spotlight. We’ve way the gaming that will not allow us to play the latest games. heard about all these upcoming “multi-touch” industry can We’re even fine, for example, with running devices, and yet none of them really seem to Adobe’s CS 1 suite instead of the latest CS4. be exploiting the possibilities that exist. If However, it’s not acceptable for an OS to you don’t believe me, watch Jeff Han’s multi- “require” a major hardware upgrade. touch demonstration at TED (http://tinyurl. Windows 7 launched a little while ago, and com/45jz4a). I know I’ve spoken of him before, of course I’ve been using the pre-release version but can you blame me for repeating it, when on one of my non-critical computers for some what we have today, over three and a half years time now. One stark difference between Vista after that demo, is still nowhere close? and 7 that struck me was the performance. I certainly hope OSes get out of the identity I’m not talking about benchmarks on super- crises they’re in, and stick to improving high-end hardware that less than 1 per cent functionality, only, leaving the eye-candy, and of the computing population can afford; I’m the attempt to be everything to everyone on the talking about the everyday, run-of-the-mill back-burner. Let the “Ultimate” versions of the hardware that most of us own. On mid-range OS come with all the bells and whistles, but configurations, Windows 7 actually seems to do let’s not stop focusing on the innovations and better than Vista. Sure you don’t get to use any advances in usability. Enough with our eyes, it’s of the eye-candy that those with gaming rigs can now time to start designing for the other senses, show off, but at least it works! starting with our fingers. I remember people cribbing about the insane (at the time) requirements of XP, and sticking to Windows 98, just to be able to have a usable PC, instead of a good-looking UI that crawled through everyday tasks. It was no different for the switch from XP to Vista, with a lot of people turning their noses up at Vista – me included. Some say Vista was ahead of its time, and I’m inclined to agree. However, the OS industry cannot afford to do that. OSes cannot afford [email protected] to “show-off” the way the gaming industry can. I’m not talking just about Microsoft here, because those who use alternates have also

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I received my second of writing and because of its versatile content At last I thank all the Digit team for not only subscription copy today with and intellectual sections, Digit is my technology providing us top class content but the whole a disappointment of the PLAY navigator. The QnA section helped me a lot in Tech-World in 160 pages. Digit is the best disc missing. tackling day to day computer related problems available source of tech-gyaan that a human can I love Digit since I was in and How Stuff Works is like a teacher to me. ever dream of. class 8th, that was the time Diwali’s Special Edition Digit was nothing less when I dint even know about than a surprise to me which helped many of my Jaydeep Chakrabarty computers and today I am a proud reader and a tech guru among my friends. This I realized that I cannot pretend be printed but, anyways... We always appreciate those is something all the readers anymore that I can miss an 1. 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There are Linksys Wi- me where I can get it? :-D outdated, the competition offers even further, and we always Fi 2.5 GHz routers on each of Regards, latest reviews. for instance take made sure that our quality of the three floors. His Mac pulls Kaustuv intel’s core i5, there was no content was better than the in all the three connections. sign of it in your diwali issue, quality of paper it was printed Digit inspired me a lot about You got us there! We missed competition has a full fledged on. However, we have upped our open source and I removed my out on a zero. review on it with benchmark paper quality recently, and it is Pirated Windows and Installed Aditya tests. now comparable to any maga- Ubuntu. I wanted to know 3. My favourite section in zine out there. is there a trick in Linux or u Hi, your magazine was Agent001. We did get the core i5 on Windows to do the same. 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I’ve never run your dvd since particular street I frequent. from a magazine stall all these Now I’m 21 pursuing final past 2years. I think readers like We did pilot a few news stand years, because I used to think year in Engineering. I’d been me will praise your move. versions of the magazine, where that I may not want to buy a a loyal reader till an year ago. I have a soft corner for ur only the magazine was sold. particular issue. Days went Yes, I stopped buying your magazine because, all that Reader’s demand just the Fast by and it became increasingly magazine and I bought this I know is because of your Track, or just the DVDs. Our difficult for me to miss even a issue viz. october after an magazine. Please take my letter core product will always be the single issue (I even asked one interval of 11months. 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