The easiest way to make an OS unstable is to install crappy drivers. Try it, install 9x drivers on a Win2k OS. Win2K is very stable, but one buggy driver will bring it down. To prevent this, MS wants to verify that the drivers are good. Let's face it, there's a lot of companies that release crap software, so there's obviously a lot that release bad drivers. I think driver signing is needed and I like the way it is implemented in WinXP. Trying to install an unsigned driver will pop up a warning that will scare the average user. Said user will then go to an informed user who can say if it's ok to install the driver.
If they prevented the installation of unsigned drivers I'd be pissed (it's my computer, let me do what I want), but they aren't.
As for the apps, it only gives you warnings if you try to install something that MS KNOWS will mess up your system, this is for products that run fine under other Windows OS's but not on XP. This is also a GOOD IDEA!
It's clear that he took each picture one after another and that it took him a few minutes (or less if it was a windy day up in the clouds). If you look at this picture:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-6500.jpg
you'll see the color in the clouds are off, the red is a little to the right, the green to the left. So all he did was take a picture with one filter, replace the "film" he used, put another filter, etc. Also, the people in the pictures must have stood very still. Not a real difference from the old old days though.
Did he file a patent on this? I'm sure some family member can make tons of money of all the Projection systems and color film out there. Patent lawyers do your thing! lol...
WMA's are almost half the size of MP3's at the same quality. I just bought a Rio Volt, it's a great product, an "MP3" Cdplayer. I can bring 650-700 megs of music. I think that works out to about 15 hours of MP3's or 30 hours of WMA's. Which would you rather have? The "15 hours of music is enough for me" argument doesn't hold, because it's not enough for everybody. Sure it's impossible to listen to 30 hours all the way through but it's nice to have as many albums as possible on one CD. Hell, that's why I bought my Volt. WMA is great, you don't have to "protect" the files if you don't want to. (Why would you?).
Winamp didn't break, I'm using beta 2 and am running Winamp right now. What broke is the ability for programs to rip audio of a cd. Stuff like this happens with new OS's because of the direct hardware access required. The authors of the rippers will fix it.
3. They obviously encode very slowly ("PIII/700 laptop about 3x real time", geesh kinda slow, my 266 encodes mp3s (160) at 2.5X).
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You know how divx takes a lot longer to encode than other video formats? Yeah, same concept. High quality + small file size = Lots of math:)
It's normal better compression to take longer. Don't diss it. Also, I think it actually encodes significantly faster than 3x (on a 733).
WMP8 is a lot better than the one that shipped with WinMe. Version 7 was a rush job thrown into Me towards the end of the beta. It was a bad idea to include it. WMP8 on the otherhand is pretty good. It's stable and fast (well.. fast on a 733mhz) and it has lots of features. You can now resize the window in compact mode which was removed from WMP7. I still use Winamp for audio though. WMP is only for movie in my opinion!
Oh you mean like what AOL is doing with ICQ? All those ads just popping up. Ofcourse that is a free product, but so is IE.:What if Netscape or Microsoft downloaded updates to their browsers that forced you (and hackers couldn't figure out how to prevent the forcing) to view an ad before each page you viewed? Sure, you can get past the ad simply by clicking somewhere, but it's still a feature you didn't ask for. And, technically, legally, there's no reason the next patch you download can't do exactly that. Then where will we be?
No that would defeat the purpose of the gimmick! The point is that you must choose between giving to charity or saving money. If you choose to save $5 you get the black, or evil box. If you choose to donate $5 you get the white, or good box. If they were both the same price, it would be an easy decision.
It seems as though if big business gets hit with a DOS then the authorities look into it (Ebay, Yahoo, etc.). But if its a free service like IRC then they can't be bothered. Typical!
If you read my post again you'll see that I said SET TOP BOXES. That means equipment provided by Time Warner to its customers (Like WebTV). I was not talking about PCs.
This is bigger news that you guys realize (from a Slashdot point of view). In the future when Time Warner/AOL offers set top boxes that offer high speed AOL access what do you think the box is going to be running? It'll most likely be running? Linux!
One more thing, Dos isn't gone just certain features are diabled. WinME is Win9x, it runs on top of DOS and most DOS programs will run in WinME. Oh and becareful with Partition Magic. It can really FUBAR you're computer if you run it in Windows. My suggestion is to install it, boot to dos using a boot disk and run the dos version.
Yeah I beta tested for WinME and this was a hot topic in the newsgroups. The way I see it, this was done really to prepare people for the next Windows release (Whistler) which will be base on the NT kernel and will have only an emulated dos support (Like W2K). This is a great step in the right direction since one of the main reasons for Win9x's instability is due to its backwards compatibility. Get rid of it, get rid of a lot of problems. Personally I'm all for it, if I want to play Nascar Racing 1.0 I'll use a bootdisk.
If only Sega could see that ROM sites may help drum up business for newer games then maybe they would let it go. If you played a Sonic the Hedgehog game on your sega genesis emulator and really really loved it (I don't see how that is actually possible...) then there's a good chance that you'd go out and buy the Sonic game for DreamCast. Sega could easily counter this argument by saying people who steal roms and use emulators are the same crowd who are likely to copy DreamCast games. Sega wouldn't want more people getting into that crowd so it really is in their best interest to shut down these rom sites.
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I actually crashed one of those touch screen terminals at the movies (to buy your tickets). After I placed my order and got my ticket (thankfully) I got one of those 16-bit windows crashed (white window). I think it still managed to charge my account though.. Darn.. Another note: Could touch screen monitor terminals be running on Win3.1 or is it 16-bit code? Who made these things??
That's true. Also, isn't it NOT a good idea to sue your own employees? Especially 25 of them! I'm sure morale is going to be at an all time high there now...
When Windows 2000 came out, wasn't there a report that said it had some 64,000 unsolved bugs? Microsoft would never be able to get away with an ad like that.:)
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The easiest way to make an OS unstable is to install crappy drivers. Try it, install 9x drivers on a Win2k OS. Win2K is very stable, but one buggy driver will bring it down. To prevent this, MS wants to verify that the drivers are good. Let's face it, there's a lot of companies that release crap software, so there's obviously a lot that release bad drivers. I think driver signing is needed and I like the way it is implemented in WinXP. Trying to install an unsigned driver will pop up a warning that will scare the average user. Said user will then go to an informed user who can say if it's ok to install the driver. If they prevented the installation of unsigned drivers I'd be pissed (it's my computer, let me do what I want), but they aren't. As for the apps, it only gives you warnings if you try to install something that MS KNOWS will mess up your system, this is for products that run fine under other Windows OS's but not on XP. This is also a GOOD IDEA!
It's clear that he took each picture one after another and that it took him a few minutes (or less if it was a windy day up in the clouds). If you look at this picture: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-6500 .jpg
you'll see the color in the clouds are off, the red is a little to the right, the green to the left. So all he did was take a picture with one filter, replace the "film" he used, put another filter, etc. Also, the people in the pictures must have stood very still. Not a real difference from the old old days though.
Did he file a patent on this? I'm sure some family member can make tons of money of all the Projection systems and color film out there. Patent lawyers do your thing! lol...
WMA's are almost half the size of MP3's at the same quality. I just bought a Rio Volt, it's a great product, an "MP3" Cdplayer. I can bring 650-700 megs of music. I think that works out to about 15 hours of MP3's or 30 hours of WMA's. Which would you rather have? The "15 hours of music is enough for me" argument doesn't hold, because it's not enough for everybody. Sure it's impossible to listen to 30 hours all the way through but it's nice to have as many albums as possible on one CD. Hell, that's why I bought my Volt. WMA is great, you don't have to "protect" the files if you don't want to. (Why would you?).
Winamp didn't break, I'm using beta 2 and am running Winamp right now. What broke is the ability for programs to rip audio of a cd. Stuff like this happens with new OS's because of the direct hardware access required. The authors of the rippers will fix it.
3. They obviously encode very slowly ("PIII/700 laptop about 3x real time", geesh kinda slow, my 266 encodes mp3s (160) at 2.5X). ------- You know how divx takes a lot longer to encode than other video formats? Yeah, same concept. High quality + small file size = Lots of math :)
It's normal better compression to take longer. Don't diss it. Also, I think it actually encodes significantly faster than 3x (on a 733).
WMP8 is a lot better than the one that shipped with WinMe. Version 7 was a rush job thrown into Me towards the end of the beta. It was a bad idea to include it. WMP8 on the otherhand is pretty good. It's stable and fast (well.. fast on a 733mhz) and it has lots of features. You can now resize the window in compact mode which was removed from WMP7. I still use Winamp for audio though. WMP is only for movie in my opinion!
Oh you mean like what AOL is doing with ICQ? All those ads just popping up. Ofcourse that is a free product, but so is IE. :What if Netscape or Microsoft downloaded updates to their browsers that forced you (and hackers couldn't figure out how to prevent the forcing) to view an ad before each page you viewed? Sure, you can get past the ad simply by clicking somewhere, but it's still a feature you didn't ask for. And, technically, legally, there's no reason the next patch you download can't do exactly that. Then where will we be?
No that would defeat the purpose of the gimmick! The point is that you must choose between giving to charity or saving money. If you choose to save $5 you get the black, or evil box. If you choose to donate $5 you get the white, or good box. If they were both the same price, it would be an easy decision.
There are no laws in international waters, I doubt there would be laws in space. Next thing you know, they will have a gambling wing in the ISS!
But if they start winning lawsuits it won't matter if you boycott them since they will be getting royalties from Google, Lycos, etc.
It seems as though if big business gets hit with a DOS then the authorities look into it (Ebay, Yahoo, etc.). But if its a free service like IRC then they can't be bothered. Typical!
Great, now biological and technological warfare can converge :) Nerve gas won't just be for humans! *lol*
If you read my post again you'll see that I said SET TOP BOXES. That means equipment provided by Time Warner to its customers (Like WebTV). I was not talking about PCs.
This is bigger news that you guys realize (from a Slashdot point of view). In the future when Time Warner/AOL offers set top boxes that offer high speed AOL access what do you think the box is going to be running? It'll most likely be running? Linux!
One more thing, Dos isn't gone just certain features are diabled. WinME is Win9x, it runs on top of DOS and most DOS programs will run in WinME. Oh and becareful with Partition Magic. It can really FUBAR you're computer if you run it in Windows. My suggestion is to install it, boot to dos using a boot disk and run the dos version.
Yeah I beta tested for WinME and this was a hot topic in the newsgroups. The way I see it, this was done really to prepare people for the next Windows release (Whistler) which will be base on the NT kernel and will have only an emulated dos support (Like W2K). This is a great step in the right direction since one of the main reasons for Win9x's instability is due to its backwards compatibility. Get rid of it, get rid of a lot of problems. Personally I'm all for it, if I want to play Nascar Racing 1.0 I'll use a bootdisk.
Yes I know, it's all speculation!
If only Sega could see that ROM sites may help drum up business for newer games then maybe they would let it go. If you played a Sonic the Hedgehog game on your sega genesis emulator and really really loved it (I don't see how that is actually possible...) then there's a good chance that you'd go out and buy the Sonic game for DreamCast. Sega could easily counter this argument by saying people who steal roms and use emulators are the same crowd who are likely to copy DreamCast games. Sega wouldn't want more people getting into that crowd so it really is in their best interest to shut down these rom sites.
I actually crashed one of those touch screen terminals at the movies (to buy your tickets). After I placed my order and got my ticket (thankfully) I got one of those 16-bit windows crashed (white window). I think it still managed to charge my account though.. Darn.. Another note: Could touch screen monitor terminals be running on Win3.1 or is it 16-bit code? Who made these things??
That's true. Also, isn't it NOT a good idea to sue your own employees? Especially 25 of them! I'm sure morale is going to be at an all time high there now...
When Windows 2000 came out, wasn't there a report that said it had some 64,000 unsolved bugs? Microsoft would never be able to get away with an ad like that. :)