Either the application or Sun's Java is NOT written properly and VIOLATES security that it does not violate on OSX/Linux/ETC.
The big thing I noticed with flash between Nix and Vista, is in Vista installing Flash is Global and on Nix, it is per user. Some users can have flash while others do not unlike Vista where the install applies to all users.
I wonder if Java is the same... I'll have to check in on that one.
Anybody who buys into blacklist-based technology is a reactionary and a bigot.
Or simply buried in spam so e-mail isn't functional. Blacklisting China, Amsterdam, and Russia lightened my load considerably.
The problem with blacklists is the re-assignment of an IP address does not clear up the black ball. There should be a way to have blacklists auto-check the MX record for new ownership.
Sorry for the second post, but I have an additonal thing to mention regarding my other reply. I posted and thought, for a fair comparison, the FLAC would need to play back on the same hardware as the CD.. This means it needs to playback on the CD drive with the built in CD drive A/D decoder and anit-alising filter.
Here is how to do it. Rip a CD to FLAC. Take the FLAC file and burn an Audio CD from the FLAC. Play both in the CD Drive. They will both use the CD A/D converter. Playing the FLAC on the sound card A/D converter will probably sound worse simply due to the lack of a proper anti-alising filter.
The original CD and the burned CD audio tracks should be bit for bit identical and play back the same.
I didn't believe it until I listened to some jazz Vorbis files over an M-Audio 5.1 Revolution card with Sennheiser HD 540 Open-Aire headphones (neither of which are expensive enough to be truly "audiophile"), and I noticed some distortion in the high frequency sounds. Playing the same song from the original CD was significantly better, and I assume that playing a FLAC (or Apple or MS equivalent) would sound near identical.
You are kidding? Did you play the CD on the same computer as the FLAC? The PCM stream is identical in both. How would they sound anyway other than identical? I have a couple reasons the sound from playing the CD and playing the FLAC is not identical on your computer.
1 Some cheap sound cards pick up noise on the system power supply. I know the cheap Dell provided at work makes noise in the headphones when moving the mouse. You have have had degraded experiance simply from CPU noise from processing the FLAC file.
2 The sound from the CD drive is analog. This means the CD drive decodes the PCM and uses it's internal anit-alising filter and send the analog result to the sound card. The FLAC file does not get to use this D/A decoder and filter, but uses the one on the sound card instead. The poorly filtered D/A conversion would have more artifacts and be of lower quality because the filter on the sound card is not optimised for the CD datarate.
A sound card which is immune to this noise would produce identical results if it was fed the decoded PCM stream from both the CD DAO and FLAC file as it is exactly the same to the bit from the FLAC and CD.
What is sad is there is no competition. They make it, pay shipping and still deliver a product that US markets refuse to produce. It's Christmas season. Test me on it. Buy some union made Christmas lights... I'll Wait, and wait, and wait...
I just bought a bunch of LED Christmas lights.. Wana guess where they came from?
In America, they buy Chinese due to lack of options.
If Microsoft fed the poor, people would complain that they only got rice and not a side of french fries. No matter what Microsoft does, people complain.
When a product is sold as a media platform and it is incapible of the task, then yes people complain. In the meantime, I boot Geexbox instead. It works.
The best part is it isn't blessed by the DVD consortium and doesn't follow the hardware compliance specifications.
(It doesn't play the FBI warning, previews, menu and "Don't steal this film" first. It plays the movie! I heard it ignores the region, but I haven't confirmed it. I can look at that other stuff after the movie if I want to.)
The problem is the settlements they want is the financual equivilant to Keelhauling, a severe form of punishment abolished years ago.
Most people given the choice between keelhauling and a 222,000 settlement would take the keelhauling. The injuries are likely to heal in a few weeks time unlike an RIAA settlement.
For postarity sake, I still have my genuine Hayes Smartmodem. It's a keepsake I'll pass down to my son who will probably trash it or sell it to a collector online.
My first email was sent through Fidonet. The always connected "Internet" was unaffordable back then.
Whoever modded the post funny must be a newbe and think the fidonet has something to do with a dog taking mail as the comic pigeon net.
Time for a lesson in fidonet. I too sent my first e-mail on Fidonet. A Compuserve connection was like 25 cents a minute. Fidonet was dial-up BBS's relaying mail in the wee hours of the morning when long distance rates was low.
And if you are actually interested in protecting your computer [unlikely, or you would be running *nix], you would probably know to not make your default account have Admin rights, [which would make UAC all-but-pointless anyway, but most Windows users don't know WTF an Admin account is, so here we are..]
It is my wife's laptop. I run Ubuntu on mine and don't have that problem. It has 3 accounts, hers, mine, and administrator. My account does not have admin privilages. I am not sure about hers. I'll have to check it later. It was her account that was running the presentation. I had the job of setup, teardown and support for the presentation.
When a UAC prompt opens in the background I can continue to use all my applications; they run just fine... well except the one that was asking for permisssion.
If that is true, then it lied, unless the media player is Java.
"Alternatively, next you want to run a presentation in Vista use the "Presentation Mode" (under the Mobility Center and that allows to keep the sound off, stop all notifications, set a "more professional wallpaper (so that everyone does not get to see your kiddies bathtime photos), turns off the screensaver and keeps the machine awake. All that in 5 seconds (three clicks on my Fujitsu tablet)."\
I didn't want to bore the slashdot community with that explination, but that is what was in use when this happened.
The presentation monitor only had the desktop background, media player, full screen movie when playing, and nothing else, no icons, task bar, start button etc... The notification came up with a "Ding" in spite of that. It's a bug.
That is why I had to get up and go behind the front desk, to see what was up with Windows. The error was not shown on the presentation monitor.
Java was trying to do an update or someting. Vista knows this requires admin privilages. It was the Vista Dialog Box! Vista informed me that Java needed permission.... The Vista box paused the movie.
I have had Java update on my Ubuntu machine. It didn't interupt what was running to do so. I have had Ubuntu kindly inform me updates are avaliable to install. This also didn't stop anything else that was running.
This halt the show to provide the OS with an OK for another application to proceed is the problem.
Your USB mass storage driver was so defective it had to be reinstalled for each and every thunb drive you used?
Who knows. I would give a presentation and someone would ask for a copy and hand me a thumb drive. This was at a meeting in the confrence room where I was not network connected. Often it would pop up the search for a driver dialog box. My thumb drive worked.. It is random ones from others that were a problem. Ubuntu has never promped me for a driver for a thumb drive.
I can't move a copy of Windows from one machine to another to upgrade it. I can't use the Windows that came with the machine if it is missing the original reciept and certificate.
There was no copy to return for refund. I bought just the hardware.
I don't know since I am not a mac user, but I know from experience that vista does NOT freeze all applications to ask a user for permission. the vista permission window will usually be minimized if you are in the middle of doing something else.
We had a laptop up front with a large monitor as a second monitor to play the movie. We started the movie, dimmed the lights and had a seat. Later about 5 minutes into the movie the movie monitor went blank with a "Ding" sound. On the laptop screen was the permission required dialog box for application Java. We denied it permission and the DVD reloaded and resumed. The DVD application did not close, but it did stop the movie.
Many desktop applications may appear to continue running, but are they paused?
This is why I wiped the drive in my HP laptop as soon as I could and installed Vista from an OEM DVD
That is the big advantage you have. my HP laptop instead of my wife's HP Laptop. Later when the new is worn off, Will the recovery DVDs you make as part of the new machine proceedure work for this, or do you need some 3rd party OEM DVD? I don't have any copy of Vista except what came installed on the laptop and it's burnt recovery DVD set.
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You really do have a sense of humor!
;-)
I was woried about that earlier.
Either the application or Sun's Java is NOT written properly and VIOLATES security that it does not violate on OSX/Linux/ETC.
The big thing I noticed with flash between Nix and Vista, is in Vista installing Flash is Global and on Nix, it is per user. Some users can have flash while others do not unlike Vista where the install applies to all users.
I wonder if Java is the same... I'll have to check in on that one.
I didn't believe it until I listened to some jazz Vorbis files
Somehow I was on a FLAC track and missed the lane change.. sorry.
They never claimed to have done a listening comparison between FLAC and a CD
Did I miss something in reading this?
Playing the same song from the original CD was significantly better,
Anybody who buys into blacklist-based technology is a reactionary and a bigot.
Or simply buried in spam so e-mail isn't functional. Blacklisting China, Amsterdam, and Russia lightened my load considerably.
The problem with blacklists is the re-assignment of an IP address does not clear up the black ball. There should be a way to have blacklists auto-check the MX record for new ownership.
Sorry for the second post, but I have an additonal thing to mention regarding my other reply. I posted and thought, for a fair comparison, the FLAC would need to play back on the same hardware as the CD.. This means it needs to playback on the CD drive with the built in CD drive A/D decoder and anit-alising filter.
Here is how to do it. Rip a CD to FLAC. Take the FLAC file and burn an Audio CD from the FLAC. Play both in the CD Drive. They will both use the CD A/D converter. Playing the FLAC on the sound card A/D converter will probably sound worse simply due to the lack of a proper anti-alising filter.
The original CD and the burned CD audio tracks should be bit for bit identical and play back the same.
I didn't believe it until I listened to some jazz Vorbis files over an M-Audio 5.1 Revolution card with Sennheiser HD 540 Open-Aire headphones (neither of which are expensive enough to be truly "audiophile"), and I noticed some distortion in the high frequency sounds. Playing the same song from the original CD was significantly better, and I assume that playing a FLAC (or Apple or MS equivalent) would sound near identical.
You are kidding? Did you play the CD on the same computer as the FLAC? The PCM stream is identical in both. How would they sound anyway other than identical? I have a couple reasons the sound from playing the CD and playing the FLAC is not identical on your computer.
1 Some cheap sound cards pick up noise on the system power supply. I know the cheap Dell provided at work makes noise in the headphones when moving the mouse. You have have had degraded experiance simply from CPU noise from processing the FLAC file.
2 The sound from the CD drive is analog. This means the CD drive decodes the PCM and uses it's internal anit-alising filter and send the analog result to the sound card. The FLAC file does not get to use this D/A decoder and filter, but uses the one on the sound card instead. The poorly filtered D/A conversion would have more artifacts and be of lower quality because the filter on the sound card is not optimised for the CD datarate.
A sound card which is immune to this noise would produce identical results if it was fed the decoded PCM stream from both the CD DAO and FLAC file as it is exactly the same to the bit from the FLAC and CD.
behold... the fastest Intel processor to date , watch it melt next to a Power5 or Power6 from IBM..
You missed the tech specs regarding the 45 nm process and high K gates. They run at these speeds without overclocking and on about 20% less power..
That's hardly a formula for a meltdown.
When will people say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" and jump off these ISPs and stop being their customers?
When we have another choice besides dial-up.
...and in America, they buy Chinese. Sad isn't?
What is sad is there is no competition. They make it, pay shipping and still deliver a product that US markets refuse to produce. It's Christmas season. Test me on it. Buy some union made Christmas lights... I'll Wait, and wait, and wait...
I just bought a bunch of LED Christmas lights.. Wana guess where they came from?
In America, they buy Chinese due to lack of options.
If Microsoft fed the poor, people would complain that they only got rice and not a side of french fries. No matter what Microsoft does, people complain.
When a product is sold as a media platform and it is incapible of the task, then yes people complain. In the meantime, I boot Geexbox instead. It works.
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html
The best part is it isn't blessed by the DVD consortium and doesn't follow the hardware compliance specifications.
(It doesn't play the FBI warning, previews, menu and "Don't steal this film" first. It plays the movie! I heard it ignores the region, but I haven't confirmed it. I can look at that other stuff after the movie if I want to.)
The problem is the settlements they want is the financual equivilant to Keelhauling, a severe form of punishment abolished years ago.
Most people given the choice between keelhauling and a 222,000 settlement would take the keelhauling. The injuries are likely to heal in a few weeks time unlike an RIAA settlement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keelhauling
Chill, dude, just because there's historical fact doesn't mean you can't laugh about how "antiquated" that all seems now.
OK.. From the post I couldn't tell if it was modded funny by someone who never heard of fidonet and thought it was a land based twin to RFC 1149.
http://www.news.com/2100-1001-257064.html
Feel free to laugh at RFC 1149. I did.
For postarity sake, I still have my genuine Hayes Smartmodem. It's a keepsake I'll pass down to my son who will probably trash it or sell it to a collector online.
and that non-European cultures were just as advanced even if they didn't use gunpowder or some of the other things the Europeans had.
Don't give the Europeans credit for Gunpowder. Poor choice for the example.
http://inventors.about.com/od/chineseinventors/a/gunpowder.htm
My first email was sent through Fidonet. The always connected "Internet" was unaffordable back then.
Whoever modded the post funny must be a newbe and think the fidonet has something to do with a dog taking mail as the comic pigeon net.
Time for a lesson in fidonet. I too sent my first e-mail on Fidonet. A Compuserve connection was like 25 cents a minute. Fidonet was dial-up BBS's relaying mail in the wee hours of the morning when long distance rates was low.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
Been there done that. The parent post was informative, not funny.
And if you are actually interested in protecting your computer [unlikely, or you would be running *nix], you would probably know to not make your default account have Admin rights, [which would make UAC all-but-pointless anyway, but most Windows users don't know WTF an Admin account is, so here we are..]
It is my wife's laptop. I run Ubuntu on mine and don't have that problem. It has 3 accounts, hers, mine, and administrator. My account does not have admin privilages. I am not sure about hers. I'll have to check it later. It was her account that was running the presentation. I had the job of setup, teardown and support for the presentation.
When a UAC prompt opens in the background I can continue to use all my applications; they run just fine... well except the one that was asking for permisssion.
If that is true, then it lied, unless the media player is Java.
"Alternatively, next you want to run a presentation in Vista use the "Presentation Mode" (under the Mobility Center and that allows to keep the sound off, stop all notifications, set a "more professional wallpaper (so that everyone does not get to see your kiddies bathtime photos), turns off the screensaver and keeps the machine awake. All that in 5 seconds (three clicks on my Fujitsu tablet)."\
I didn't want to bore the slashdot community with that explination, but that is what was in use when this happened.
The presentation monitor only had the desktop background, media player, full screen movie when playing, and nothing else, no icons, task bar, start button etc... The notification came up with a "Ding" in spite of that. It's a bug.
That is why I had to get up and go behind the front desk, to see what was up with Windows. The error was not shown on the presentation monitor.
Just curious. Was the DVD player you were running written in Java?
No idea. Does anyone know if the media player in the HP media edition laptops run Java?
I do know that when the permission was denied, the movie resumed, so denying it permission didn't cause a problem to movie playback.
It didn't occur to you to blame Java?
.... The Vista box paused the movie.
Java was trying to do an update or someting. Vista knows this requires admin privilages. It was the Vista Dialog Box! Vista informed me that Java needed permission
I have had Java update on my Ubuntu machine. It didn't interupt what was running to do so. I have had Ubuntu kindly inform me updates are avaliable to install. This also didn't stop anything else that was running.
This halt the show to provide the OS with an OK for another application to proceed is the problem.
Your USB mass storage driver was so defective it had to be reinstalled for each and every thunb drive you used?
Who knows. I would give a presentation and someone would ask for a copy and hand me a thumb drive. This was at a meeting in the confrence room where I was not network connected. Often it would pop up the search for a driver dialog box. My thumb drive worked.. It is random ones from others that were a problem. Ubuntu has never promped me for a driver for a thumb drive.
BTW Lenovo and Linux...what's their policy on giving you back MS-tax once you return copy of Windows?
It doesn't matter in my case. I buy used. The EULA for windows seems to indicate it comes without Windows. At least the BSA thinks so.
http://www.schoolforge.net/education-case-studies/linux-based-desktops-servers-and-curriculum-private-christian-school
I can't move a copy of Windows from one machine to another to upgrade it. I can't use the Windows that came with the machine if it is missing the original reciept and certificate.
There was no copy to return for refund. I bought just the hardware.
I don't know since I am not a mac user, but I know from experience that vista does NOT freeze all applications to ask a user for permission. the vista permission window will usually be minimized if you are in the middle of doing something else.
We had a laptop up front with a large monitor as a second monitor to play the movie. We started the movie, dimmed the lights and had a seat. Later about 5 minutes into the movie the movie monitor went blank with a "Ding" sound. On the laptop screen was the permission required dialog box for application Java. We denied it permission and the DVD reloaded and resumed. The DVD application did not close, but it did stop the movie.
Many desktop applications may appear to continue running, but are they paused?
Am I understanding this right? You installed Java on your Vista box and when it caused a problem, you blamed Vista?
Short answer YES. Java needed permission. Vista stopped the other running application cold to ask permission.
Asking permission with a notification icon is one thing on a dual monitor set up. Stopping the running movie is not acceptable behavior.
It is like having your engine in the car shut off because the passanger removed the seatbelt. Pardon me, but isn't the light on the dash enough?
This is why I wiped the drive in my HP laptop as soon as I could and installed Vista from an OEM DVD
That is the big advantage you have. my HP laptop instead of my wife's HP Laptop. Later when the new is worn off, Will the recovery DVDs you make as part of the new machine proceedure work for this, or do you need some 3rd party OEM DVD? I don't have any copy of Vista except what came installed on the laptop and it's burnt recovery DVD set.