But even when people post screenshots it still looks perfectly fine on my computer... which is why I'm guessing it might have to do with color calibration and/or gamma of the monitor itself? After all, it's using essentially more of a sub-pixel grid than before... so if anything, on a well calibrated monitor, it should look better...
How on earth was Windows "UNIX" based? Home windows (the line beginning with 1.0) certainly wasn't, and if anything NT was OS/2 based. If you are referring to the POSIX subsystem... you can still install the UNIX Subsystem in Windows 7...
And you damn well can migrate to another OS easily, so long as your data is readible in both systems. Which largely is going to depend on software, but it's not exactly surprising if some niche software you depend on isn't avaliable. Especially if you're dealing with a closed-source blob, your rant on UNIX compatibility (assuming that you are talking about the same POSIX subsystem/UNIX subsystem that actually exists) wouldn't even help you because POSIX compatibility doesn't mean binary compatibility.
I honestly don't understand this - I'm only seeing the complaint from certain people. I have Windows 7, running on Intel, ATi, and nVidia graphics cards, all with the latest drivers, and all with Direct2D rendering turned on. I've tested all three computers as hooked up to three displays - a dying Acer 20" LCD, a new LG 22" LCD, and my 24" IBM CRT. All were set to native resolution. (1680x1050, 1920x1080, and 2048x1536 respectively). Fonts in Firefox 4 looks clearer than Firefox 3 on all of them. The only thing that I can possibly think might be different is that I've tuned cleartype on all of my machines, and I've calibrated all of my screens... but even on uncalibrated "default" settings on my LCDs, it still looks not just "better" but clearer...
Get a new OS. Or a new computer.
Seriously, I'm running Windows 7 on an 8 year old laptop right now, with 1GB of RAM. It's a 1.3 Celeron, and it runs just as good as XP did on the same machine. The laptop is so old that the screen hinges broke off, so it's hooked up to my CRT on input #2. Yes I have all the visual glitz turned off, but I still get the fancy new audio stack out of the bargain, plus it's running IE9. I pretty much just use that computer for web browsing, CD-burning, and some other basic tasks, but it does the job.
It's not ignored. CANDU reactors can use Thorium. That means, for example, all of Ontario, Canada's reactors (which provide more than 50% of Ontario's power mix) could switch to Thorium without problems.
Seriously! It did! The Hobbit is sitting on my DVD shelf right now... oh you mean they're making a version that ISN'T animated? Well how on earth is The Hobbit supposed to keep my attention for a few hours without constant breaking in to song?
For music, audio books, podcasts, and most videos, I use MediaMonkey 4 (still in beta testing). It crashes quite a bit right now, but it has some great tagging abilities, which leads to great searching abilities.
It also has a pretty powerful ability to organize files, which makes it easier to find stuff when you aren't in the software.
It doesn't work great for full DVD rips though - by which I mean VIDEO_TS folders/ISOs. Those I just have in a folder. I don't have too many of those. MediaMonkey has a "VirtualCD" concept for media you don't have ripped but own in a physical form, and I hope they eventually extend this to video, because then it would be a great database to extend to my physical media collection as well (All of my music is ripped, but not most of my DVD/BluRay collection, so for now it depends more on my just knowing what I'm looking for, occasionally guided by an IMDB search if I'm looking for a specific episode of something)
For ebooks I just use a directory structure. There's probably some metadata I could attatch to files if I really needed to in Windows to make it easier to use Windows to search, but it hasn't reaely come up yet.
I don't have a photo collection, so I can't recommend anything there...
Not to mention assuming that the people with smartphones have are allowed to install third party apps by the corporation that lends them to them, in the case of company phones. I'm sure my banker friends who all have their own smartphones, but also company phones, aren't going to put business related data on their personal phones. Separation between the personal and the work life is why they HAVE two phones. (Of course, all the work phones are blackberries, still pretty common in Canada, so no amount of iPhone/Android apps are actually a reasonable solution...)
How does scaling back the powers of the CRTC help the consumer though? If the complaint is that the CRTC swings too much in the direction of the major powers, I don't see how handing all power over to those major powers by virtue of their entrenched market position wouldn't be actually quite a bit worse...
Which back then involved things as technical as the use of certain musical intervals.
So, essentially, looking backwards as a solution to supporting oneself as a musician is obviously not going to work, as even historically, it didn't work great.
Next thing you'll suggest is that parents take advantage of parental controls on game consols and not buy their kids games rated R if they don't want their kids playing those games.
You people and your logic and common sense. Honestly, what has the world come to that solving problems through avaliable means is encouraged...:)
Or the patron was a religious group that raised the funds for such patronage through a variety of means, none of which, I would expect, the GP would deem acceptable...
If Canada's federal government would get off it's Privitize Everything binge, AECL could go back to selling it's thorium based reactor designs en masse.
I appoligize for my ignorant country mates that thought that voting for the party that limited AECL's maximum contract value while trying to sell it was a good thing for the nuclear industry internationally, or my country.
That is genuinely un-true. Just last month, I was talking to a friend who was shifting his home studio from Windows to OSX (not as expensive as some might claim - he had made sure all of his software was dual-liscenced before he bought anything, and all of his studio hardware still worked with the Mac.)
He was upgrading anyway, because his PC was old enough not to be able to handle some of the work he was doing.
I asked why he was switching to Mac, and the reason he gave was that "On the mac, I don't ever have to worry about security."
That was the main "selling point" that was making him switch. No longer caring about security.
He's not the only person I've talked to that either considered going Mac for that reason, or did.
This is not to say that there aren't security concious mac users, or Windows users who don't care about security at all - just anecdotal evidence that - especially among creative professionals, rather than IT professionals, or even perhaps general users, there is a percieved benefit to "not having to care about security, not running a firewall, not having to run antivirus" in terms of performance (which isn't entirely untrue - having very limited security can be helpful for performance) - combined with the notion that MacOS is invulnerable, because there are "no exploits for OSX."
Not to mention that they had great on-device software development, adding any software features that were released with new models to the older devices. Had a zune ever come out with 160GB capacity (or higher), I would have got one, quite likely... except:
It's a device tied to one desktop client, and so far no one has been able to crack that. And it's a desktop client that does not serve my needs for music management, including limitations to fields that are arbitrary and significantly more restrictive than the ID3v2 spec allows for.
Studio recordings are done in 24-bit 192KHz (probably not actually at 192 if they're targeting CD - they'll probably go with 176.4KHz) because in the studio you do a lot of processing after you have recorded the raw track - things like adding track effects, or even doing things like changing the volume of an automated track. In fact, most audio engines for professional DAW software record to 24-bit, but do all the processing in 64-bit floating point. So even 24-bit mixdowns aren't "studio quality" if you want to be really technical about it... it won't sound better to you but gosh that's what they use in studios so it MUST sound better....
You almost certainly can't tell the difference between the same mix, through the same mastering process, whether that file is 44.1/16 bit (CDs aren't 48KHz), and something like 24/96. Audio for records is mixed and mastered DIFFERENTLY. It's not simply a matter of format comparison, but actually comparing two different mixes. Same, for the most part, with DVD-Audio mixes, and SACD mixes. Take the same mix, master with the same settings, but change the target bit-rate and sample-rate and you will not be able to tell the difference.
OK, but instead of that tedium, you have to maintain an active backup of your digital music collection, which is, at the very least, an added expense, if not tedious in terms of setting that up in the first place... Sticking a CD in my drive while I'm browsing the web doesn't seem very tedious to me... significantly less tedious than scanning a document... but I suppose I do have a fairly automated set up that most people don't have...
CDs definitely aren't that expensive in Canada... well, they can be... but yes, they are more expensive I suppose than fully digital. Yes I prefer to pay that premium for a relatively indestructable copy of my music I can immediately convert to FLAC. If there's any premium applied to an upgrade to FLAC quality, I'm already paying $15 including tax for most of my CDs direct from the artists... I'm even not sure buying a digital copy that I still have to back up somehow is going to beat that if it's a premium on top of the $10 a lossy album typically sells for on stores that don't already offer FLAC...
Or, expect to get 20 times slower speed... or somewhere in the middle perhaps? And when other people aren't using the capacity, they could let other connections use it, like they do now, but instead of selling that potential maximum speed, they could sell the guarenteed minimum instead, and use the appropriate technology to deliver that minimum, instead of griping about electrons moving across the cable?
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But even when people post screenshots it still looks perfectly fine on my computer... which is why I'm guessing it might have to do with color calibration and/or gamma of the monitor itself? After all, it's using essentially more of a sub-pixel grid than before... so if anything, on a well calibrated monitor, it should look better...
How on earth was Windows "UNIX" based? Home windows (the line beginning with 1.0) certainly wasn't, and if anything NT was OS/2 based. If you are referring to the POSIX subsystem... you can still install the UNIX Subsystem in Windows 7... And you damn well can migrate to another OS easily, so long as your data is readible in both systems. Which largely is going to depend on software, but it's not exactly surprising if some niche software you depend on isn't avaliable. Especially if you're dealing with a closed-source blob, your rant on UNIX compatibility (assuming that you are talking about the same POSIX subsystem/UNIX subsystem that actually exists) wouldn't even help you because POSIX compatibility doesn't mean binary compatibility.
I honestly don't understand this - I'm only seeing the complaint from certain people. I have Windows 7, running on Intel, ATi, and nVidia graphics cards, all with the latest drivers, and all with Direct2D rendering turned on. I've tested all three computers as hooked up to three displays - a dying Acer 20" LCD, a new LG 22" LCD, and my 24" IBM CRT. All were set to native resolution. (1680x1050, 1920x1080, and 2048x1536 respectively). Fonts in Firefox 4 looks clearer than Firefox 3 on all of them. The only thing that I can possibly think might be different is that I've tuned cleartype on all of my machines, and I've calibrated all of my screens... but even on uncalibrated "default" settings on my LCDs, it still looks not just "better" but clearer...
Get a new OS. Or a new computer. Seriously, I'm running Windows 7 on an 8 year old laptop right now, with 1GB of RAM. It's a 1.3 Celeron, and it runs just as good as XP did on the same machine. The laptop is so old that the screen hinges broke off, so it's hooked up to my CRT on input #2. Yes I have all the visual glitz turned off, but I still get the fancy new audio stack out of the bargain, plus it's running IE9. I pretty much just use that computer for web browsing, CD-burning, and some other basic tasks, but it does the job.
I'd be OK with that... lots of variety here in Southern Ontario, though the winter could get a little bland...
It's not ignored. CANDU reactors can use Thorium. That means, for example, all of Ontario, Canada's reactors (which provide more than 50% of Ontario's power mix) could switch to Thorium without problems.
It's not at all like there is a natural monopoly in running cables to my house... no not at all... (rolls eyes)
Seriously! It did! The Hobbit is sitting on my DVD shelf right now... oh you mean they're making a version that ISN'T animated? Well how on earth is The Hobbit supposed to keep my attention for a few hours without constant breaking in to song?
For music, audio books, podcasts, and most videos, I use MediaMonkey 4 (still in beta testing). It crashes quite a bit right now, but it has some great tagging abilities, which leads to great searching abilities. It also has a pretty powerful ability to organize files, which makes it easier to find stuff when you aren't in the software. It doesn't work great for full DVD rips though - by which I mean VIDEO_TS folders/ISOs. Those I just have in a folder. I don't have too many of those. MediaMonkey has a "VirtualCD" concept for media you don't have ripped but own in a physical form, and I hope they eventually extend this to video, because then it would be a great database to extend to my physical media collection as well (All of my music is ripped, but not most of my DVD/BluRay collection, so for now it depends more on my just knowing what I'm looking for, occasionally guided by an IMDB search if I'm looking for a specific episode of something) For ebooks I just use a directory structure. There's probably some metadata I could attatch to files if I really needed to in Windows to make it easier to use Windows to search, but it hasn't reaely come up yet. I don't have a photo collection, so I can't recommend anything there...
Not to mention assuming that the people with smartphones have are allowed to install third party apps by the corporation that lends them to them, in the case of company phones. I'm sure my banker friends who all have their own smartphones, but also company phones, aren't going to put business related data on their personal phones. Separation between the personal and the work life is why they HAVE two phones. (Of course, all the work phones are blackberries, still pretty common in Canada, so no amount of iPhone/Android apps are actually a reasonable solution...)
How does scaling back the powers of the CRTC help the consumer though? If the complaint is that the CRTC swings too much in the direction of the major powers, I don't see how handing all power over to those major powers by virtue of their entrenched market position wouldn't be actually quite a bit worse...
Which back then involved things as technical as the use of certain musical intervals. So, essentially, looking backwards as a solution to supporting oneself as a musician is obviously not going to work, as even historically, it didn't work great.
Next thing you'll suggest is that parents take advantage of parental controls on game consols and not buy their kids games rated R if they don't want their kids playing those games. You people and your logic and common sense. Honestly, what has the world come to that solving problems through avaliable means is encouraged... :)
Or the patron was a religious group that raised the funds for such patronage through a variety of means, none of which, I would expect, the GP would deem acceptable...
If Canada's federal government would get off it's Privitize Everything binge, AECL could go back to selling it's thorium based reactor designs en masse. I appoligize for my ignorant country mates that thought that voting for the party that limited AECL's maximum contract value while trying to sell it was a good thing for the nuclear industry internationally, or my country.
That is genuinely un-true. Just last month, I was talking to a friend who was shifting his home studio from Windows to OSX (not as expensive as some might claim - he had made sure all of his software was dual-liscenced before he bought anything, and all of his studio hardware still worked with the Mac.) He was upgrading anyway, because his PC was old enough not to be able to handle some of the work he was doing. I asked why he was switching to Mac, and the reason he gave was that "On the mac, I don't ever have to worry about security." That was the main "selling point" that was making him switch. No longer caring about security. He's not the only person I've talked to that either considered going Mac for that reason, or did. This is not to say that there aren't security concious mac users, or Windows users who don't care about security at all - just anecdotal evidence that - especially among creative professionals, rather than IT professionals, or even perhaps general users, there is a percieved benefit to "not having to care about security, not running a firewall, not having to run antivirus" in terms of performance (which isn't entirely untrue - having very limited security can be helpful for performance) - combined with the notion that MacOS is invulnerable, because there are "no exploits for OSX."
And your solution to this is?
Not to mention that they had great on-device software development, adding any software features that were released with new models to the older devices. Had a zune ever come out with 160GB capacity (or higher), I would have got one, quite likely... except: It's a device tied to one desktop client, and so far no one has been able to crack that. And it's a desktop client that does not serve my needs for music management, including limitations to fields that are arbitrary and significantly more restrictive than the ID3v2 spec allows for.
Studio recordings are done in 24-bit 192KHz (probably not actually at 192 if they're targeting CD - they'll probably go with 176.4KHz) because in the studio you do a lot of processing after you have recorded the raw track - things like adding track effects, or even doing things like changing the volume of an automated track. In fact, most audio engines for professional DAW software record to 24-bit, but do all the processing in 64-bit floating point. So even 24-bit mixdowns aren't "studio quality" if you want to be really technical about it... it won't sound better to you but gosh that's what they use in studios so it MUST sound better....
Because the added sample rate and the added bit-depth don't help when the mix doesn't actually take advantage of either?
You almost certainly can't tell the difference between the same mix, through the same mastering process, whether that file is 44.1/16 bit (CDs aren't 48KHz), and something like 24/96. Audio for records is mixed and mastered DIFFERENTLY. It's not simply a matter of format comparison, but actually comparing two different mixes. Same, for the most part, with DVD-Audio mixes, and SACD mixes. Take the same mix, master with the same settings, but change the target bit-rate and sample-rate and you will not be able to tell the difference.
OK, but instead of that tedium, you have to maintain an active backup of your digital music collection, which is, at the very least, an added expense, if not tedious in terms of setting that up in the first place... Sticking a CD in my drive while I'm browsing the web doesn't seem very tedious to me... significantly less tedious than scanning a document... but I suppose I do have a fairly automated set up that most people don't have...
CDs definitely aren't that expensive in Canada... well, they can be... but yes, they are more expensive I suppose than fully digital. Yes I prefer to pay that premium for a relatively indestructable copy of my music I can immediately convert to FLAC. If there's any premium applied to an upgrade to FLAC quality, I'm already paying $15 including tax for most of my CDs direct from the artists... I'm even not sure buying a digital copy that I still have to back up somehow is going to beat that if it's a premium on top of the $10 a lossy album typically sells for on stores that don't already offer FLAC...
I'm using Windows 7 and I don't see it... that's why I was wondering... everything looks exactly the same as other applications on Windows 7...
Or, expect to get 20 times slower speed... or somewhere in the middle perhaps? And when other people aren't using the capacity, they could let other connections use it, like they do now, but instead of selling that potential maximum speed, they could sell the guarenteed minimum instead, and use the appropriate technology to deliver that minimum, instead of griping about electrons moving across the cable?