But streaming from Windows Media Player or Zune is just shit. Try the alternatives.
From one who HAS tried the alternatives, Windows Media Center works rather well. The windows 7 edition is rather reliable and zipping forwards and backwards in video hasn't been faster. I do recall TVersity utterly failing when trying to fast forward or rewind, and even causing blue screens, but that was about a year ago that I last tried it.
FYI, I hate hearing money by itself. I really do feel that song loses all of its meaning when played outside the album
But no, the artists can say what they want and choose to sell their art in whatever manner they please. They can also tell you how to enjoy it.
But you. You are obviously not bound by the artists interpretation of their own work. If you disagree with it,agree with it, are apathetic towards the artists interpretation, its still art.
Well, the question is not did PF use this to stop EMI from selling it separately, but did they do it to try to get out of the contract and regain control over their songs?
They have control over their songs as defined in the contract. They were simply exercising this control by suing EMI.
One of the things I don't like about Mac (and there are a few) is that many games are not released for Mac or if they are, they are released way after they are released for everything else.
That's an argument against the games industry, not against the Mac.
Depends on how you look at it. Windows OS upgrades tend to be spaced farther apart then mac os upgrades. I've seen Mac OS upgrades destroy new and previously working applications, requiring a purchase of updated software who's sole new feature is that it can run on the new Mac OS. Maybe the games industry doesn't want to have to go back and rewrite thier code from scratch because apple is changing the way the OS handles something. Adobe ran into this and chose to strip 64-bit support from Photoshop for the current Mac OS release.
Valve is consolidating these issues with the source engine. Update source to run on the newest Mac OS, not x amount of individual games.
Click help, click the bright yellow button labeled "contact us" on the right side, then click the button simply labeled "phone". There you find the following: 1-866-216-1072 - Domestic, 1-206-266-2992 international It is on their main website, and it took me under a minute to find it. From that page, you can scroll down and click on "Investor Relations", and find the "Officers and Directors" link. Jeffrey P. Bezos is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
If you're going to make a comment, actually try to use real data, not stuff you made up because you're too lazy to try.
No offense but I'm going to side with the guy who appears to make his living testing these sorts of things... the guy who is offering me numbers.
Please remember that 95% of statistics are made up, and in this case, the guy offering numbers doesn't really know what 1% of them mean. He also doesn't mention how many actual windows 7 or windows xp machines he has in his testbed. He just throws out 23,000 plus machines. His website states they monitor workstations and servers. How many are windows 2000, vista, or a version of the Server OS? He could have 20,000 XP machines and be comparing them to 10-100 Windows 7 machines.
I'm all for useful data, but I don't think this guy is offering any. I declare shenanigans.
Please DO check out the fossil record. 100 million years is a long time, once life reaches a certain stage, to spread and diversify. Just look at the changes in the human genome in the last million. Or in domestic dogs in the last 10,000.
And while you're at it, show ONE piece of scientific evidence that the world was designed.
Religion has been the number 1 drawback of humans. Superstitious beliefs that have pandered to the basest instincts of the ignorant, giving people a license to hate.
And the worst offenders by far in the last 1,000 years have been the Christians. Justifying everything from owning slaves to hating gays, lesbians and transsexuals "because Gawd sez so." Sorry, but "because Gawd sez so" isn't acceptable any more.
So there are differences in the Genome. What has really changed since then?
As well, I agree that historical Christianity has been a blight. Then again, historical Christianity didn't follow the Bible. They bent it the same as Hitler bent science to promote the so-called superiority of the "aryan race".
But I notice how eager you are to attack my beliefs without stating your own. You've attempted to dodge the question twice now. Maybe you don't really know what you believe. Maybe you just know you hate those who believe in God. Or maybe you simply hate God. Not my problem. But it becomes everyone's problem when one group tries to replace one widely accepted (and currently unprovable) theory, with another (constantly adjusted and currently unprovable) theory.
Yes, maybe. And a marketing department of 5000 creative people. One needs it to sell soft for 999.-
But the rest is about the same, if not worse than in GIMP.
Sorry for grammar errors, by the way; English is a foreign language for me.
But I keep learning it. As the saying goes: "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me."
Fair enough on the foreign language. Where I work, everyone makes fun of eachother's grammar, and we're all primarily english speakers. Kudos to you for putting up with us.
As for Gimp, I've used it, actually on both windows and mac. The gimp brush engine makes me want to vomit. They have minor adjustments compared to what photoshop offers. Also, even with extra plugins, Gimp doesn't even come close to photoshop's simple, effective "High Pass" filter. Go ahead and use Gimp, but don't try to pass it off as a superior product. It's simply a cheaper (as in FREE), and for some, it's a better fit.
People are either being unbelievably stupid, have only 1 gig of RAM installed, or this is FUD. Example: I'm currently running Windows 7 64 bit. On my secondary monitor, I have a bunch of system monitoring widgets... hard drive space, CPU load and temp, video card load and temp, memory usage, etc. Just last night I was playing Bioshock 2, all settings at max. Even with those widgets running, with Aqua Teen Hunger Force playing in MPC on the secondary monitor in a window, and Bioshock 2 running full bore, I was still using only 52-58% of my available 4 gigs of ram. I call BS on this article.
Here are my system specs, to back up my claims. As you can see, nothing special (copy and pasted from my [H]ard|Forum sig):
This, ladies and gentleman, is a nerd. He will take any opportunity to post his home system specs. Never mind the fact that TFA does a good job of contradicting itself.
Mod parent up. I going to post the same if I didn't find it in the comments. Glad to see I'm not the only person who reads.
"This is alarming," Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. "For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is."
Barth acknowledged that XPnet's data couldn't determine whether the memory usage was by the operating system itself, or an increased number of applications, but said that Devil Mountain would start working on finding which is the dominant factor in increased memory use.
Barth contradicts himself within 3 adjacent paragraphs. He has no idea what is causing the increased memory usage. What is alarming is how often people will believe sensationalistic stories like this one. Of course, I'm sure companies such as Corsair and Kingston don't mind.
Ahhhh, I think you're right. I forgot the exact terming. It's been too long since my last starcraft fix. (got into the large battles of supreme commander)
This is why I've held on to my copy of PS6. Works great on lower end systems, and still has all of the useful tools.
It's surprising how subjective that statement is. I couldn't even imagine trying to use the brush engine from photoshop 6. I actually tried on a friend's old computer and gave up ten minutes later. PS7 has full vector fonts, which allow lossless resize and transform effects. There's more to be sure, but this is just off the top of my head.
A more accurate statement is that it still has all the tools that *you* find useful.
Please feel free to show where the Bible gives a calculation suggesting Pi equaling 3. Specifics please. The Bible has been proven remarkably accurate not through vagueness, but with specific dates and names that have been backed up with archeological finds over the ages.
Simplistic quotations as the "circle" of the earth, or the earth "hanging upon nothing" fit well for the people at the time, who likely barely grasped what they were recording.
Vague and true is better then overly detailed falsity. If science has figured out how the universe was created, lets see the test results. Blow something up, see if it causes a universe that ends up with the perfect balance for life. Feel free to try more then once. If you can't, you're stuck in your own biases, as you admit above.
And for art appreciation showing up in Math class, if done correctly, it probably would be a benefit. Might have helped me to focus better through the middle school years.
It feels like an updated version of Amiga Deluxe Paint to use. Although it's not as powerful as Photoshop, it's faster, cheaper and much nicer to use. Unfortunately, it's been discontinued apparently due to piracy.
You are complaining about losses due to piracy on Slashdot? You must be an RIAA/MPAA/**AA shill! Go away shill!
My job used to require me to know everything about some Adobe programs. They paid me to become an Adobe Certified Expert in several. For versions CS, CS2 and CS3 of Adobe Illustrator I could tell you with complete accuracy and certainty what EVERY FEATURE did. You could pick a random item from a random menu and I could tell you what it did and why.
Now, please, tell me exactly which of those items is bloatware? Just because *YOU* don't know what something is for, does not mean it has no reason for being there.
I do get a kick out of the *bloat* complainers. If Adobe stripped some functionality and moved it to a different application, the same people would be up in arms over Adobe trying to get more money for the same thing, and then complaining about having to close photoshop and open another application just to do a couple things. Some people complain, simply to complain.
Then again, here I am complaining about the complainers...
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But streaming from Windows Media Player or Zune is just shit. Try the alternatives.
From one who HAS tried the alternatives, Windows Media Center works rather well. The windows 7 edition is rather reliable and zipping forwards and backwards in video hasn't been faster. I do recall TVersity utterly failing when trying to fast forward or rewind, and even causing blue screens, but that was about a year ago that I last tried it.
It's as if they said "fuck it, lets just put this alpha out"
Isn't that EA's creed?
What does your screen look like while a program like this is running?
Why do you assume that the screen looks different.
He is still running a Voodoo series add-on card that takes over the video output when it is in use?
Is saltishist russia......ah, never mind
FYI, I hate hearing money by itself. I really do feel that song loses all of its meaning when played outside the album
But no, the artists can say what they want and choose to sell their art in whatever manner they please. They can also tell you how to enjoy it.
But you. You are obviously not bound by the artists interpretation of their own work. If you disagree with it,agree with it, are apathetic towards the artists interpretation, its still art.
Art is in the ears of the behearer...
Well, the question is not did PF use this to stop EMI from selling it separately, but did they do it to try to get out of the contract and regain control over their songs?
They have control over their songs as defined in the contract. They were simply exercising this control by suing EMI.
One of the things I don't like about Mac (and there are a few) is that many games are not released for Mac or if they are, they are released way after they are released for everything else.
That's an argument against the games industry, not against the Mac.
Depends on how you look at it. Windows OS upgrades tend to be spaced farther apart then mac os upgrades. I've seen Mac OS upgrades destroy new and previously working applications, requiring a purchase of updated software who's sole new feature is that it can run on the new Mac OS. Maybe the games industry doesn't want to have to go back and rewrite thier code from scratch because apple is changing the way the OS handles something. Adobe ran into this and chose to strip 64-bit support from Photoshop for the current Mac OS release.
Valve is consolidating these issues with the source engine. Update source to run on the newest Mac OS, not x amount of individual games.
But where do all the calculators go?
Nowhere, they just die.
Unless they're solar powered!
Why is this apartment on the market in the first place? Did someone drop dead in the apartment?
Good grief, are you an internet newb?
Click help, click the bright yellow button labeled "contact us" on the right side, then click the button simply labeled "phone". There you find the following: 1-866-216-1072 - Domestic, 1-206-266-2992 international
It is on their main website, and it took me under a minute to find it. From that page, you can scroll down and click on "Investor Relations", and find the "Officers and Directors" link. Jeffrey P. Bezos is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
If you're going to make a comment, actually try to use real data, not stuff you made up because you're too lazy to try.
Wow, you just believe what someone says because they insinuate homophobia. Gullible much?
Slashdot is a collection of individuals. Some of them tell you one thing, others tell you something different.
We are Slashcutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.
I come for the discussions. I for one, welcome our XKCD overlords.
You must be new here. Welcome!
I think there is only one thing we can agree on. That being that we disagree.
No offense but I'm going to side with the guy who appears to make his living testing these sorts of things ... the guy who is offering me numbers.
Please remember that 95% of statistics are made up, and in this case, the guy offering numbers doesn't really know what 1% of them mean. He also doesn't mention how many actual windows 7 or windows xp machines he has in his testbed.
He just throws out 23,000 plus machines. His website states they monitor workstations and servers. How many are windows 2000, vista, or a version of the Server OS? He could have 20,000 XP machines and be comparing them to 10-100 Windows 7 machines.
I'm all for useful data, but I don't think this guy is offering any. I declare shenanigans.
Please DO check out the fossil record. 100 million years is a long time, once life reaches a certain stage, to spread and diversify. Just look at the changes in the human genome in the last million. Or in domestic dogs in the last 10,000.
And while you're at it, show ONE piece of scientific evidence that the world was designed.
Religion has been the number 1 drawback of humans. Superstitious beliefs that have pandered to the basest instincts of the ignorant, giving people a license to hate.
And the worst offenders by far in the last 1,000 years have been the Christians. Justifying everything from owning slaves to hating gays, lesbians and transsexuals "because Gawd sez so." Sorry, but "because Gawd sez so" isn't acceptable any more.
So there are differences in the Genome. What has really changed since then?
As well, I agree that historical Christianity has been a blight. Then again, historical Christianity didn't follow the Bible. They bent it the same as Hitler bent science to promote the so-called superiority of the "aryan race".
But I notice how eager you are to attack my beliefs without stating your own. You've attempted to dodge the question twice now. Maybe you don't really know what you believe. Maybe you just know you hate those who believe in God. Or maybe you simply hate God. Not my problem. But it becomes everyone's problem when one group tries to replace one widely accepted (and currently unprovable) theory, with another (constantly adjusted and currently unprovable) theory.
Yes, maybe. And a marketing department of 5000 creative people. One needs it to sell soft for 999.-
But the rest is about the same, if not worse than in GIMP.
Sorry for grammar errors, by the way; English is a foreign language for me.
But I keep learning it. As the saying goes: "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me."
Fair enough on the foreign language. Where I work, everyone makes fun of eachother's grammar, and we're all primarily english speakers. Kudos to you for putting up with us.
As for Gimp, I've used it, actually on both windows and mac. The gimp brush engine makes me want to vomit. They have minor adjustments compared to what photoshop offers. Also, even with extra plugins, Gimp doesn't even come close to photoshop's simple, effective "High Pass" filter. Go ahead and use Gimp, but don't try to pass it off as a superior product. It's simply a cheaper (as in FREE), and for some, it's a better fit.
People are either being unbelievably stupid, have only 1 gig of RAM installed, or this is FUD. Example: I'm currently running Windows 7 64 bit. On my secondary monitor, I have a bunch of system monitoring widgets... hard drive space, CPU load and temp, video card load and temp, memory usage, etc. Just last night I was playing Bioshock 2, all settings at max. Even with those widgets running, with Aqua Teen Hunger Force playing in MPC on the secondary monitor in a window, and Bioshock 2 running full bore, I was still using only 52-58% of my available 4 gigs of ram. I call BS on this article.
Here are my system specs, to back up my claims. As you can see, nothing special (copy and pasted from my [H]ard|Forum sig):
Display: Asus VH236H | Dell 2005FPW Foundation: Cooler Master Storm Scout | OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w System: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM | AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ | Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2 800 | ATI 4850 Internal Storage: Diamondmax 21 system | WD15EADS archives External Storage: 1.25TB in a KINGWIN DK-32U-S | WDMER1600TN Input: Kensington 64325 Expert Mouse | Saitek Eclipse II | M-Audio Axiom 25 Audio: Logitech Z4 2.1 | Audio Technica ATH-AD700
This, ladies and gentleman, is a nerd. He will take any opportunity to post his home system specs. Never mind the fact that TFA does a good job of contradicting itself.
"This is alarming," Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. "For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is."
Barth acknowledged that XPnet's data couldn't determine whether the memory usage was by the operating system itself, or an increased number of applications, but said that Devil Mountain would start working on finding which is the dominant factor in increased memory use.
Barth contradicts himself within 3 adjacent paragraphs. He has no idea what is causing the increased memory usage. What is alarming is how often people will believe sensationalistic stories like this one.
Of course, I'm sure companies such as Corsair and Kingston don't mind.
Spawn more overlords.
Ahhhh, I think you're right. I forgot the exact terming. It's been too long since my last starcraft fix. (got into the large battles of supreme commander)
This is why I've held on to my copy of PS6. Works great on lower end systems, and still has all of the useful tools.
It's surprising how subjective that statement is. I couldn't even imagine trying to use the brush engine from photoshop 6. I actually tried on a friend's old computer and gave up ten minutes later. PS7 has full vector fonts, which allow lossless resize and transform effects. There's more to be sure, but this is just off the top of my head.
A more accurate statement is that it still has all the tools that *you* find useful.
Why should I tell you when you said it yourself?
Please feel free to show where the Bible gives a calculation suggesting Pi equaling 3. Specifics please. The Bible has been proven remarkably accurate not through vagueness, but with specific dates and names that have been backed up with archeological finds over the ages.
Simplistic quotations as the "circle" of the earth, or the earth "hanging upon nothing" fit well for the people at the time, who likely barely grasped what they were recording.
Vague and true is better then overly detailed falsity. If science has figured out how the universe was created, lets see the test results. Blow something up, see if it causes a universe that ends up with the perfect balance for life. Feel free to try more then once. If you can't, you're stuck in your own biases, as you admit above.
And for art appreciation showing up in Math class, if done correctly, it probably would be a benefit. Might have helped me to focus better through the middle school years.
Has anyone ever used ArtGem here?
It feels like an updated version of Amiga Deluxe Paint to use. Although it's not as powerful as Photoshop, it's faster, cheaper and much nicer to use. Unfortunately, it's been discontinued apparently due to piracy.
You are complaining about losses due to piracy on Slashdot? You must be an RIAA/MPAA/**AA shill! Go away shill!
*wink*
What PS has what GIMP does not have?
A grammar check?
My job used to require me to know everything about some Adobe programs. They paid me to become an Adobe Certified Expert in several. For versions CS, CS2 and CS3 of Adobe Illustrator I could tell you with complete accuracy and certainty what EVERY FEATURE did. You could pick a random item from a random menu and I could tell you what it did and why.
Now, please, tell me exactly which of those items is bloatware? Just because *YOU* don't know what something is for, does not mean it has no reason for being there.
I do get a kick out of the *bloat* complainers. If Adobe stripped some functionality and moved it to a different application, the same people would be up in arms over Adobe trying to get more money for the same thing, and then complaining about having to close photoshop and open another application just to do a couple things. Some people complain, simply to complain.
Then again, here I am complaining about the complainers...