Then again, most of the things they have control of (the bitmaps) look pretty decent, while the things they don't have so much control of (all the standard controls, lists, etc.) look like shit. Because...most Free UIs look like shit! Widgets and windows, it doesn't matter - they all have horrible spacing, coloring, contrast, and form. It's like a model plane crafted from Lego versus balsa.
On the contrary, it's far easier to near the difference between MP3 and the source CD on good stereo equipment. Try ripping a CD track to your hard disk as alossless (WAV, for example) and creating copies of that file as MP3s of varying bitrates. Then burn them both back to an audio CD and listen to the result. See how much you can tell the difference...
The key problem with those comparos is what does the user want? You can say something is a great value, but unwanted features don't really give you any value do they? There are users that have no use for Wi-Fi. There are others that have no desire for DVD burning ability.
I personally have no other bluetooth hardware, and it's not looking likely as the cell phone market in the US sucks for such things, especially considering I refuse to spend $200 on a new phone when I can get one for free that makes phone calls just as well.
Wasted features have no inherent value for the user who does not want them, and so do not contribute to the value of a computer.
People could soon be inventing the most amazing things in their own homes on random weekends...each of us will become research and creation experts...
Nah, with the way things are going, they'll be DRMed out the wazoo and we'll have to pay a license fee to some media cartel (say a reasonable $2) for every item manufactured in this method. You know, to keep honest people honest.
Indeed, I've seen OmniBooks that've survived years of use by engine test engineers - that includes the occasional dose of motor oil to the keyboard, etc. Tough little laptops. The Dell Latitude CPi machines that replaced them, however, were shit. Numerous motherboard failures within a week. Screen hinges that were less-than-stellar.
At any rate, when I installed XP and 2003 on workstations and servers a like they all ran faster on the same hardware in much the same fashion you describe with OS X....because the years(s) of registry rot were cleaned away in one smooth motion.
Try a clean Win2k install versus XP, then we'll talk. By and large XP will be significantly slower. This isn't a fair comparison, though, since OS X had nowhere to GO but faster since it's intial 10.0 release a couple years ago. If Apple hadn't sped it up by now, I imagine they'd have nowhere near the sales numbers they have now.
Please stop perpetuating lies or misconceptions about an entire platform which happens to have 90%+ market share for desktop systems. There is a reason you know and its not marketing, that only works for a single generation of computers.
Pardon the French, but that line is FUCKING RETARDED. Once a monopoly, it takes quite a bit to unseat a product, or product family in this case. Explain to me why people still buy Celeron processors. They have been in no way better than Durons in the value segment for quite some time. Intel doesn't even bother to market them any more, but people still see that Intel logo (only good for one product gen, huh?) and figure it's the best. (Assuming you're in the US) Why don't you use metric for all your measurements, and buy your gas by the liter? Is marketing your excuse for that? Or maybe because the Gallon (with it's other imperial buddies) is inherently better than metric?
With a lack of actual information, people buy what they're used to. The monkey in the Best Buy aisle will most certianly presenting a person with a lack of information, at best. They're not going to sell a computer on its merits, they're going to sell a computer on comission.
Maybe a Thinkpad, but they have that horrible nipple mouse (not that I have anything against nipples mind you, just that they don't make very effective navigation devices).
Some would argue that a nipple is an excellent navigation device; probably the only such device an infant can use reliably.
"The only truly intuitive inteface is the nipple; everything else is learned" and all that. =P
An educated guess would lead me to believe that you don't have DMA enabled on your optical drive. That, or you've not been forthcoming with the fact your system is a Pentim 166.;)
I have a Lite-On LDW-411S, which is capable of burning at 48X for CD-Rs. The first burn I did was at 12X or so, thinking I wasn't in a hurry, might as well get a high-quality write. The audio CDs I burned had problems playing back in pretty much any player, until I burned at top speed on a whim. All playback problems disappeared. So now I burn fast/and/ reliably. =)
Publicity may have been a poor word to choose, but notoriety or fame may be better. How can a person be filled with terror (the art of terrorism, after all) without being aware of that which is supposed ot terrorize them?
It's also in the Windows iTunes.exe, though it looks a little different from the other file type icons. As another person mentioned, there's a WMA icon as well.
There are a few decent labels on there (Barsuk and Epitaph, to name a couple) that carry some higher-profile artists. It's not the so-indie-it-hurts kind of indie, at least. =)
Just the same, you'll find many many copies of cracks online that are NOT the full game. There's almost always a couple-meg file that's just the.NFO file and the cracked game.exe. I make it a habit to download the crack as soon as I install any purchased game - I *hate* having to put in a CD just to play. Hence places like GameCopyWorld and the like.
[I would like to know how you woudl start a modern car without a starter, but that's not the real issue here.]
I guess our definitions of "failure" are different.
From above link: "1 a: omission of occurrence or performance; specifically: a failing to perform a duty or expected action b: a state of inability to perform a normal function"
Passport-auth'd services were definitely deficient in function, therefore had failed.
Just because a specific "server" didn't fail, doesn't mean the "system" did not.
Hotmail (and other Passport-auth'd services) were unavailable to users who were not already authenticated. That's like saying a car doesn't entirely fail if it's just the starter that's out. It's still not working, regardless of how well the majority of the system checks out.
This makes perfect sense to me - it's fairly well-documented that PAL SNES games run slower than their NTSC counterparts, due to the 50/60 fps difference.
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Then again, most of the things they have control of (the bitmaps) look pretty decent, while the things they don't have so much control of (all the standard controls, lists, etc.) look like shit. Because...most Free UIs look like shit! Widgets and windows, it doesn't matter - they all have horrible spacing, coloring, contrast, and form. It's like a model plane crafted from Lego versus balsa.
On the contrary, it's far easier to near the difference between MP3 and the source CD on good stereo equipment. Try ripping a CD track to your hard disk as alossless (WAV, for example) and creating copies of that file as MP3s of varying bitrates. Then burn them both back to an audio CD and listen to the result. See how much you can tell the difference...
The key problem with those comparos is what does the user want? You can say something is a great value, but unwanted features don't really give you any value do they? There are users that have no use for Wi-Fi. There are others that have no desire for DVD burning ability.
;)
I personally have no other bluetooth hardware, and it's not looking likely as the cell phone market in the US sucks for such things, especially considering I refuse to spend $200 on a new phone when I can get one for free that makes phone calls just as well.
Wasted features have no inherent value for the user who does not want them, and so do not contribute to the value of a computer.
Not that I don't want a G4, because I do.
People could soon be inventing the most amazing things in their own homes on random weekends...each of us will become research and creation experts...
Nah, with the way things are going, they'll be DRMed out the wazoo and we'll have to pay a license fee to some media cartel (say a reasonable $2) for every item manufactured in this method. You know, to keep honest people honest.
Indeed, I've seen OmniBooks that've survived years of use by engine test engineers - that includes the occasional dose of motor oil to the keyboard, etc. Tough little laptops. The Dell Latitude CPi machines that replaced them, however, were shit. Numerous motherboard failures within a week. Screen hinges that were less-than-stellar.
...because the years(s) of registry rot were cleaned away in one smooth motion.
At any rate, when I installed XP and 2003 on workstations and servers a like they all ran faster on the same hardware in much the same fashion you describe with OS X.
Try a clean Win2k install versus XP, then we'll talk. By and large XP will be significantly slower. This isn't a fair comparison, though, since OS X had nowhere to GO but faster since it's intial 10.0 release a couple years ago. If Apple hadn't sped it up by now, I imagine they'd have nowhere near the sales numbers they have now.
Please stop perpetuating lies or misconceptions about an entire platform which happens to have 90%+ market share for desktop systems. There is a reason you know and its not marketing, that only works for a single generation of computers.
Pardon the French, but that line is FUCKING RETARDED. Once a monopoly, it takes quite a bit to unseat a product, or product family in this case. Explain to me why people still buy Celeron processors. They have been in no way better than Durons in the value segment for quite some time. Intel doesn't even bother to market them any more, but people still see that Intel logo (only good for one product gen, huh?) and figure it's the best. (Assuming you're in the US) Why don't you use metric for all your measurements, and buy your gas by the liter? Is marketing your excuse for that? Or maybe because the Gallon (with it's other imperial buddies) is inherently better than metric?
With a lack of actual information, people buy what they're used to. The monkey in the Best Buy aisle will most certianly presenting a person with a lack of information, at best. They're not going to sell a computer on its merits, they're going to sell a computer on comission.
Maybe a Thinkpad, but they have that horrible nipple mouse (not that I have anything against nipples mind you, just that they don't make very effective navigation devices).
Some would argue that a nipple is an excellent navigation device; probably the only such device an infant can use reliably.
"The only truly intuitive inteface is the nipple; everything else is learned" and all that. =P
An educated guess would lead me to believe that you don't have DMA enabled on your optical drive. That, or you've not been forthcoming with the fact your system is a Pentim 166. ;)
So...you program with MS software then? =P
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(Visual Studio, etc.)
Sorry, can't identify it. It doesn't even sound vaguely familiar, which leads me to believe it's not a product of the past 20 years or so.
Or at least hipsters with geeks to set up MT for them.
Well at least he still has the iPod ;)
Hi kettle, how's it going? How are the kids?
Black as ever?
Whatever you say, newbie.
=P
Just a "mee too" here.
/and/ reliably. =)
I have a Lite-On LDW-411S, which is capable of burning at 48X for CD-Rs. The first burn I did was at 12X or so, thinking I wasn't in a hurry, might as well get a high-quality write. The audio CDs I burned had problems playing back in pretty much any player, until I burned at top speed on a whim. All playback problems disappeared. So now I burn fast
This is where I'd get into the standard rant about "HTML is for content, not for layout!" but that war was lost long ago...
Then maybe the software should start out in the browser window, with an option to pull it out into it's own window. Allow both forms of functionality.
Publicity may have been a poor word to choose, but notoriety or fame may be better. How can a person be filled with terror (the art of terrorism, after all) without being aware of that which is supposed ot terrorize them?
It's also in the Windows iTunes.exe, though it looks a little different from the other file type icons. As another person mentioned, there's a WMA icon as well.
Do you work for/with Cat? I used to, but I'm honestly not sure what I can or cannot say based on the NDA I signed when hired on.
Cool stuff and massive engines were my daily experience. =) Nothing like a 12-cylinder diesel that could fit a small person in one of the cylinders.
There are a few decent labels on there (Barsuk and Epitaph, to name a couple) that carry some higher-profile artists. It's not the so-indie-it-hurts kind of indie, at least. =)
Just the same, you'll find many many copies of cracks online that are NOT the full game. There's almost always a couple-meg file that's just the .NFO file and the cracked game .exe. I make it a habit to download the crack as soon as I install any purchased game - I *hate* having to put in a CD just to play. Hence places like GameCopyWorld and the like.
[I would like to know how you woudl start a modern car without a starter, but that's not the real issue here.]
: omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : a failing to perform a duty or expected action b : a state of inability to perform a normal function"
I guess our definitions of "failure" are different.
From above link: "1 a
Passport-auth'd services were definitely deficient in function, therefore had failed.
Just because a specific "server" didn't fail, doesn't mean the "system" did not.
Hotmail (and other Passport-auth'd services) were unavailable to users who were not already authenticated. That's like saying a car doesn't entirely fail if it's just the starter that's out. It's still not working, regardless of how well the majority of the system checks out.
I say they should mail paper ballots to all registered Sims Online users.
This makes perfect sense to me - it's fairly well-documented that PAL SNES games run slower than their NTSC counterparts, due to the 50/60 fps difference.