Also, I'm still looking for a snug case/sleeve for the PowerBook, if anyone has any suggestions. I'm looking for one that's thin and just big enough to include a mouse and a power supply.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is: I used to play mp3s with absolutely no problem back on my P233MMX, 32M mem, not even giving a thought to the machines performance. If you had told me back then that today, we would be worrying about the performance problems of something we could do easily back then(*) on a 1GHz machine with a gig of ram, I would have had a heart attack.
Come on, people! Are we going forwards or backwards?!
(*) - Of those features you list there isn't a single one that was not being done relatively problem free back in P233MMX days. Apart from online store. And that's simply because nobody had done it (successfully): it wasn't a matter of it being too resource intensive.
The service will have less of the 'extras' that AOL users are used to, but will only cost $9.95 a month.
Is 'extras' directly translatable to 'crap'?
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Brilliant. I'm always having this argument with my friends. Everybody kisses Photoshop's arse and talks about how it is such a godlike program. Those people usually haven't had to use it nine to five every day. For those of us who have, lets just say it was the absolute bane of my existance.
Everyone listening? Photoshop is a massive pain in the arse, people! It's not that great! There is a reason I choose to use the gimp at home!
Any volunteers to join my new 'Photoshop Sucks' club?
I had a go on a friends mac, and thats almost exactly what I did too. Although they did have Golbal Communications, and a couple of other semi interesting things.
Besides, I don't really like the idea of buying music track by track. You're definitely missing something if you're into that.
And I'm in the UK, so I couldn't use it anyway.
Maybe autechre and boards of canada might be considered 'obscure', but aphex is on a major label and is quite well known.
Slashdot Mirror
For someone who wants to "End cliche Slashdot comments!" you do a pretty good job of posting cliche comments.
...a complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.
Make it stop! Make it stop!!!
*curls up in ball on floor*
Also, I'm still looking for a snug case/sleeve for the PowerBook, if anyone has any suggestions. I'm looking for one that's thin and just big enough to include a mouse and a power supply.
Hmm, that's a difficult one. It depends.
Does said mouse have more than one button?
Just got panther installed, launched safari and set slashdot to my homepage, and I see this artical.. weird.....
I thought panther's safari had a new integrated spellchecker.
No?
Also, how do you know they're not making a profit from iTunes?
Magic.
The most vivid thing I remember of windows was the shitty drivers.
Is that a breathalyser sticking out the top?
...companies are able to put more transisters on a chip...
Put it this way, they both have penises.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is: I used to play mp3s with absolutely no problem back on my P233MMX, 32M mem, not even giving a thought to the machines performance. If you had told me back then that today, we would be worrying about the performance problems of something we could do easily back then(*) on a 1GHz machine with a gig of ram, I would have had a heart attack.
Come on, people! Are we going forwards or backwards?!
(*) - Of those features you list there isn't a single one that was not being done relatively problem free back in P233MMX days. Apart from online store. And that's simply because nobody had done it (successfully): it wasn't a matter of it being too resource intensive.
You have to wonder where the world of bloated software has got you when you have to benchmark an mp3 playing program.
The service will have less of the 'extras' that AOL users are used to, but will only cost $9.95 a month.
Is 'extras' directly translatable to 'crap'?
Brilliant. I'm always having this argument with my friends. Everybody kisses Photoshop's arse and talks about how it is such a godlike program. Those people usually haven't had to use it nine to five every day. For those of us who have, lets just say it was the absolute bane of my existance.
Everyone listening? Photoshop is a massive pain in the arse, people! It's not that great! There is a reason I choose to use the gimp at home!
Any volunteers to join my new 'Photoshop Sucks' club?
Maybe we should all start to think about jumping ship?
Why?
We sunk it.
Yes.
Maybe free versions can do this but I would bet it's not as intuitive.
What a great thing to base your judgements of software on.
Have you ever tried going to File > Properties ?
(it's something like that, i dont have it infront of me)
You could even insert a wordcount field and hit F9 every now and then.
I had a go on a friends mac, and thats almost exactly what I did too. Although they did have Golbal Communications, and a couple of other semi interesting things.
Besides, I don't really like the idea of buying music track by track. You're definitely missing something if you're into that.
And I'm in the UK, so I couldn't use it anyway.
Maybe autechre and boards of canada might be considered 'obscure', but aphex is on a major label and is quite well known.
All three of those are on the same label. Warp.
Join the Club! It's 60 dollars that go 100% and directly to Mandrake. When you're buying the box, only sth. like 50% will go to Mandrake.
But when you buy the boxed copy, you're telling the retailer and wholesaler that there is serious interest in this Linux thing.
Well yeah, in my eyes too, but the people who organise the distribution decided that the UK should have its own version.
*shrug*
The UK (Parlophone) version is completely fine. Normal CD. I checked very carefully before I bought it.
Interestingly, the places on the insert inside where it usually has the 'compact disc' logo in the top right & bottom left were blank.
From what I hear, the Australian & European versions have copy protection.
Yeah, hence people were getting a bit pissed off.
If it were some other random cd like Sting or Phil Collins or any of the nu-metal shite, you wouldn't have heard a peep.
But it was most likely a decision made by EMI that they had no power over. Ah well, it's their last LP on their Parlophone/EMI contract anyway.
(and not the bad, get registered to a sex offender database type, either.)
Oh, shit. That's bad this week?
Fuck...
*ahem*
P-90.
...where they dont have to install any extra software to fully surf the web. Which you do with KDE/Gnome installs of most distro's.
Um. No, no you don't.