Just read OSNews The average discussion over there is populated by people with plenty of baseless opinions on OS design and very little actual practical knowledge.
Yup, I figure if you read everything there and then do the exact opposite you should pretty much be on your way to making a really nice OS.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory != Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
WtCW:ET was a free game from the get go. There are no illegal CD keys to worry about. There is no legality problem that this new mod is going to magically solve. If the game the free mod is being based on is already free and it isn't showing up in a lot of places then why would the poster to the parent of these comments think that the mod would somehow manage to show up in those same places?
How many of those PC cafes did you see running Enemy Territory? There's no reason to believe that a free mod to an already free game will somehow start appearing in places that the free game didn't.
I can summarize your entire post as:
"I'm 1337, I do home recording. If you're not me than you can just suffer with case noise. I'm the only type of person who needs a quiet machine."
Why do you feel that other people don't need quiet machines?
The benefits are huge, btw. I built my newest machine with the quiet Zalman CPU cooler, heat pipe video cooler, quiet powersupply, and quiet case fans (with rubber insulation gaskets, no less). All of that is in a LianLi case that has sound proofing insulation and a rubber gasket around the front panel door to insulate CD noise.
The sound level difference between this machine and my 3 year old Athlon box is staggering. I can't stand to have the old box on now. The new machine is so quiet that I could put it in my family room and not be bothered by it while watching TV....something I'd never consider with my older box.
Silent PCs aren't just useful for people running CoolEdit (aka Audition). Everyone can benefit from them.
I've got the all Aluminum cooler (~800g) on my P4. I just moved the computer about 100 miles in a bumpy moving fan. I had no problems whatsoever. I put the computer back in it's original packaging and shipped it flat (e.g. lying on its side).
I understand what your point is and my question wasn't meant to be a question against that. I was more interested in the hassle:convenience ratio, personally.
I, too, don't think DVDs should be region locked. But, since I only ever watch US region DVDs I decided to just get a $100 DVD player, hook it to my TV and be done with it. The hassle of having and maintaining a Linux box in the family room just didn't seem worth it on the off chance that at some point I might watch a non US DVD.
It doesn't count as innovation. It underscores the fact that OSX is BSD + NeXTStep. It's an amazing piece of work, yes.
But...
You can't claim that as innovation and discount the stuff MS is doing as "it's been done before, they've just refined it" as not being innovation. That's the point the numerous Apple defenders in this thread don't seem to grasp fully.
And then Apple realized that the original MacOS was insufficient, so it developed OS X. Thank god for that.
You completely glossed over the years spent, and then wasted, developing Copeland and tossing it in the hopes that buying NeXT would get them a new OS (OSX) faster. In the end it didn't because the estimates to finish Copeland were just as long (possibly a bit shorter) than the time it took to merge NeXT into Apple and come up with OSX.
iPod - Oh, there were MP3 players long before that.
OSX - BSD had been around for quite some time.
iTunes - I could start the list with MusicMatch Jukebox and go from there.
The stuff Apple is doing isn't any more ground breaking than the stuff MS is doing. It's just viewed through a bunch of people wearing rose-colored glasses, unfortunately.
My brother has an Atari 2600 that's even older (1980-81, I think) and it sill works. I, until recently had an original Amiga 1000 from that era that worked without a hitch, and I know many people with working C-64s from then. There's no reason to believe that an 8086, 8088, 80286, etc.. wouldn't still work fine today if it was taken care of.
I'm no rah-rah MS fan, but can you really claim Media Center PCs, Tablet PCs, Pocket PCs, the XBox, Media Player 9 (player and codecs), etc... stagnation?
If anything MS is painfully aware that they need to divest themselves of a PC-only mentality and are inovating in a wide number of areas at an alarming rate to ensure that they don't end up with all of their eggs in one basket.
"After you do that, open Outlook Express and tell me what happens."
I get an email client that doesn't try to load MSMessenger because MSMessenger isn't on my machine. Just what I would expect to happen.
You're the one who is mistaken. If you follow the steps above MSMessenger will be removed from your system. Why don't you go try that?
Microsoft didn't make the removal of MSMessenger impossible, hard, or even obscure. People who like to blame Microsoft for everything created the myth that getting rid of MSMessenger is somehow a Herculean task.
FUD is bad when MS spreads it, but ok when an ill-informed user spreads it?
* Start Menu, Control Panel, Add & Remove
Programs
* Click the, "Add / Remove Windows Components" button
* Scroll down the list until you see "Windows Messenger"
* Uncheck that box and click "OK"
There are no hacks necessary, no ini files to edit, etc... Yes, you can achieve the same result by going down that path but there is no reason whatsoever to do so.
One Platform: x86
So I guess that MS's announcement yesterday of opening up their beta of Win64 for the Opteron processor to practically anybody was just a fluff piece and had no basis in reality, huh?
Regardless, what the *$#*($*# does your inflamatory article heading of "Convicted Monopoly" have to do with any of the tripe you wrote? Nothing you posted has anything to do with the reasons Microsoft was sued for being a monopolist.
Then the $64,000 question would be, "What, if anything, does your post have to do with media device choices under OSX and/or Windows?" That is, if you are at all concerned about staying on topic.
MS gives you a basic movie editting program for free and you complain that it only writes files of one type?
Damn, but I'm pissed that (EMACS or VI) doesn't save out Amiga Wordworth word processor files! I mean, I got it for free, it should do what I want in every case, right?
If you know what your needs are (e.g. saving of a certain file type from your movie editor) then you should research the problem and chose the software that solves your problem. Getting the free MS solution and then using it as a strawman argument against Microsoft is just petty.
What is LinuxDefender and how can the best part of full read/write NTFS support be that it exists in Knoppix, which is then turned into this LinuxDefender thing?
I mean, realistically, wouldn't the best part of full read/write NTFS support be the fact that it exists?
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Yup, I figure if you read everything there and then do the exact opposite you should pretty much be on your way to making a really nice OS.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory != Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
WtCW:ET was a free game from the get go. There are no illegal CD keys to worry about. There is no legality problem that this new mod is going to magically solve. If the game the free mod is being based on is already free and it isn't showing up in a lot of places then why would the poster to the parent of these comments think that the mod would somehow manage to show up in those same places?
How many of those PC cafes did you see running Enemy Territory? There's no reason to believe that a free mod to an already free game will somehow start appearing in places that the free game didn't.
I can summarize your entire post as: "I'm 1337, I do home recording. If you're not me than you can just suffer with case noise. I'm the only type of person who needs a quiet machine." Why do you feel that other people don't need quiet machines? The benefits are huge, btw. I built my newest machine with the quiet Zalman CPU cooler, heat pipe video cooler, quiet powersupply, and quiet case fans (with rubber insulation gaskets, no less). All of that is in a LianLi case that has sound proofing insulation and a rubber gasket around the front panel door to insulate CD noise. The sound level difference between this machine and my 3 year old Athlon box is staggering. I can't stand to have the old box on now. The new machine is so quiet that I could put it in my family room and not be bothered by it while watching TV....something I'd never consider with my older box. Silent PCs aren't just useful for people running CoolEdit (aka Audition). Everyone can benefit from them.
I've got the all Aluminum cooler (~800g) on my P4. I just moved the computer about 100 miles in a bumpy moving fan. I had no problems whatsoever. I put the computer back in it's original packaging and shipped it flat (e.g. lying on its side).
I, too, don't think DVDs should be region locked. But, since I only ever watch US region DVDs I decided to just get a $100 DVD player, hook it to my TV and be done with it. The hassle of having and maintaining a Linux box in the family room just didn't seem worth it on the off chance that at some point I might watch a non US DVD.
If you really believe that, and all you are doing is writng a paper, then why aren't you getting a more affordable G4 iMac or laptop?
It's on, or around, page 3 on that site.
Just out of curiosity, on average how many DVDs that you watch are made for regions other than the one you live in?
Five words, "Look, Kids! Big Ben, Parliament!"
Granted they don't broker Savage, but PayByCash is addressng the exact problem you are describing.
My intent was to mock that--not to confuse a single cable access charge with an ISP charge.
Sounds like the 80's when it was, "Remember, since you're paying monthly for cable TV the cable only stations won't need to play commercials."
But...
You can't claim that as innovation and discount the stuff MS is doing as "it's been done before, they've just refined it" as not being innovation. That's the point the numerous Apple defenders in this thread don't seem to grasp fully.
You completely glossed over the years spent, and then wasted, developing Copeland and tossing it in the hopes that buying NeXT would get them a new OS (OSX) faster. In the end it didn't because the estimates to finish Copeland were just as long (possibly a bit shorter) than the time it took to merge NeXT into Apple and come up with OSX.
OSX - BSD had been around for quite some time.
iTunes - I could start the list with MusicMatch Jukebox and go from there.
The stuff Apple is doing isn't any more ground breaking than the stuff MS is doing. It's just viewed through a bunch of people wearing rose-colored glasses, unfortunately.
My brother has an Atari 2600 that's even older (1980-81, I think) and it sill works. I, until recently had an original Amiga 1000 from that era that worked without a hitch, and I know many people with working C-64s from then. There's no reason to believe that an 8086, 8088, 80286, etc.. wouldn't still work fine today if it was taken care of.
I'm no rah-rah MS fan, but can you really claim Media Center PCs, Tablet PCs, Pocket PCs, the XBox, Media Player 9 (player and codecs), etc... stagnation? If anything MS is painfully aware that they need to divest themselves of a PC-only mentality and are inovating in a wide number of areas at an alarming rate to ensure that they don't end up with all of their eggs in one basket.
It's also the only place you'll find a word like, "Instersting".
I get an email client that doesn't try to load MSMessenger because MSMessenger isn't on my machine. Just what I would expect to happen.
You're the one who is mistaken. If you follow the steps above MSMessenger will be removed from your system. Why don't you go try that? Microsoft didn't make the removal of MSMessenger impossible, hard, or even obscure. People who like to blame Microsoft for everything created the myth that getting rid of MSMessenger is somehow a Herculean task.
* Start Menu, Control Panel, Add & Remove Programs
* Click the, "Add / Remove Windows Components" button
* Scroll down the list until you see "Windows Messenger"
* Uncheck that box and click "OK"
There are no hacks necessary, no ini files to edit, etc... Yes, you can achieve the same result by going down that path but there is no reason whatsoever to do so.
We managed a lot better record of getting things on to Mars in the '70s, using '70s era tech than we have with late 20th and early 21st century tech.
Regardless, what the *$#*($*# does your inflamatory article heading of "Convicted Monopoly" have to do with any of the tripe you wrote? Nothing you posted has anything to do with the reasons Microsoft was sued for being a monopolist.
Then the $64,000 question would be, "What, if anything, does your post have to do with media device choices under OSX and/or Windows?" That is, if you are at all concerned about staying on topic.
Damn, but I'm pissed that (EMACS or VI) doesn't save out Amiga Wordworth word processor files! I mean, I got it for free, it should do what I want in every case, right?
If you know what your needs are (e.g. saving of a certain file type from your movie editor) then you should research the problem and chose the software that solves your problem. Getting the free MS solution and then using it as a strawman argument against Microsoft is just petty.
I mean, realistically, wouldn't the best part of full read/write NTFS support be the fact that it exists?