10 Jan
2012
10 Jan
'12
6:07 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:44 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
- It's patently absurd that Windows 7 64-bit
won't let me develop my own
drivers without having to put the system in a special mode that disables
some media playback because I just might be loading a driver to capture DVD
output.
Windows Vista/7 could have been *wonderful* operating systems, with
advanced file systems and a fantastic driver architecture. Unfortunately,
the requirements of HDCP blew everything out of the water. WDM - a mature
and decent driver architecture, was thrown out of the Window just for HDCP
support. It broke hardware audio acceleration to the point that sound card
manufacturers had to come up with their own audio API, bypassing
DirectAudio completely (OpenAL) The stupidly onerous, and
consumer-device-centric, security requirements that armor the HDMI media
stream are, I'm convinced, the single reason Windows Vista was a steaming
pile of junk, and why there are still Windows 7 still has problems.
All so you can watch a Blu-ray on Windows. And it was all for nothing -
HDCP encryption was bad to begin with, and was cracked in 2010.
- The registry is just abuse. Yes, we could debate endlessly about how
bad text files are in comparison. No, it's not going to change my mind.
Hear hear. At least there are more standardized, sane places to put
system-wide (ProgramData) and User (AppData) config files. Places that you
don't need to be an administrator to access.