Those of you who chose to use the cd crack when you had a valid copy, I call BS. Why in the hell would you do that, its needless, you had a key, and you can play offline.
Maybe you refer to a CD Key generator, but a no-cd crack is hugely useful for those of us who play lots of games, actually have CDs with useful information on them in our drives, and just want to get a quick game of Half Life 2 in. That is certainly my case. It annoyed me with Doom 3 as well.
You are correct. We actually have old MicroSound systems in our studios that do this. But as far as the market leaders go, it seems that Digidesign is the only vendor that exclusively relies on this approach.
I don't mean to make it sound like the OS randomly crashes or locks up on me constantly, but I might get a lockup every month or so with an app crashing at about the same clip.
ProTools is much worse though and two of the systems in question are built around ProTools. We recently added Final Cut Pro HD, but these issues existed before that on both our ProTools HD2 and HD3 machines...
One machine did have a bad motherboard which was fixed by Apple ($899 tag) but it would be a serious coincidence is this is an across the board memory problem.
If that's the case then Apple has ginormous problems with RAM - and has for years.
Seriously I think that this is more of a ProTools problem but out of the 5 Macs that I normally use (1 powerbook, 1 iBook, 1 G4, and 2 G5s), random lockups occour notably more frequently than with my PC.
ProTools is unique in that it uses hardware DSP. This is, yet is a little different from, what you refer to as it's own audio system.
Of course Windows has Direct X which is pretty much the same idea with a wider scope, though CoreAudio is probably a better system-level implementation. From what I've seen CoreAudio doesn't offer much more in the way of lower-latency with respect to ASIO (don't know much about ALSA to be honest) but I'll give you that having a solid core level of functionality can only be a good thing in the long run.
With the availability of ASIO in pretty much every halfway serious Windows audio driver, I'm not sure if there is so big a real-world advantage in CoreAudio right now.
Well personally I think that Sonar is the best sequencer around. It runs rings around ProTools and is much more intuitive than Nuendo. I hear that Digital Performer is cool but the copy that I had wouldn't install on my dual G4. After scouring the web and sitting on hold with MOTU for a couple of days I just said to hell with it and went back to Sonar on PC.
This is fine for developers, but I'm speaking from an end user perspective. I can go the the store and by ProTools or Nuendo for the PC or the Mac, take it home and install it with similar results. The G5 is cool in that it has a built in lightpipe interface, but if that's a requirement (and it's far from a general one), not paying the Mac Tax will free up money to buy an even better interface.
Seriously, this sounds like it either happened back in the early Windows 9x days (or earlier) or on poorly maintained Windows installations. My Mac digital audio experience mainly consists of MAX and ProTools and I'll tell you that I've had ProTools on my G5s crash more in the last three days than I've had Sonar or Nuendo crash in the past few years on Windows. The Mac also has a much larger propensity to randomly crash or lock up. I hear Mac users say what you've been saying all the time but it just doesn't jibe with my real world experience. I think that people are just so used to saying it that they haven't bothered to check recent developments.
This has generally been the case since Windows 2000 dropped. I've been using and setting up Macs and PCs in studios for 15 years and it appears as if the tables have pretty much turned. Well, not really as the Mac doesn't suck on digital audio like Windows did, but Windows certainly has earned its stripes and is - at minimum - a peer to the Mac in digital audio.
What does the Mac do out of the box that Windows doesn't do? Like you, I'm not trolling but I really don't see any evidence of this. I have been a Mac user for 15 years and have a dual G4 in my office and have been settng up a couple of dual G5 ProTools systems over the past few months so I have a decent cache of experience to go on.
Maybe in the Windows 3.1 days or even windows 9x I would concede that the Mac had better audio capabilities by default, but I really don't see it these days.
Meaning the Dark Blues have more incentive to lie and generally screw you over?
This attitude really annoys me. Maybe where I worked was different (and I seriously doubt it), but when I worked for commission, if the item came back, it got deducted from my check. For that reason it was fully in our interest to make sure that the item that we sold stayed sold i.e. met the customer's requirements.
It's the ones who aren't on commission who don't care and will sell you the wrong things just to line you up for a service plan.
Calm down man. It's a handy feature. And if you don't like it, just set a master password so that you have to authenticate before it dows you the passwords.
Exactly. I went back to Mozilla after a while because Firefox / Bird can take up ridiculous amounts of memory when used together and only recently have either offered truly unique features (Live Bookmarks, Saved Searches).
I have 1.5 GB in my machine now so I don't really care much about 250 - 300 MB that the two can take up combined under heavy usage.
Maybe so, but it had better features. Print Preview (which IE did gank in 5.5), roaming profiles, and syntax highlighting in view source were a few of my favorites.
Rackspace wouldn't have coughed up the server without the proper legal paperwork so everyone just chill until the facts come out as to what sort of evidence they are looking for.
You're not too familiar with the PATRIOT Act are you?
No, single sign on eliminates the need for you to enter any sort of credentials into your browser. It automatically knows who you are, as long as you've authenticated to your directory, and tells any website that cares in the background.
Luckily, we have the OTHER economists running the majority of the coutry (at the state and federal levels) who believe rightly that the economy can truly be jump started by giving more money to those with the lowest propensity to spend (aka: rich people).
A Fucking Men. This is why it's hard for me to keep a straight face when I hear about supply-side economics being benificial to the overall economy. Giving the tightwads who make up a minority of the population more money is supposed to stimulate spending?
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Those of you who chose to use the cd crack when you had a valid copy, I call BS. Why in the hell would you do that, its needless, you had a key, and you can play offline.
Maybe you refer to a CD Key generator, but a no-cd crack is hugely useful for those of us who play lots of games, actually have CDs with useful information on them in our drives, and just want to get a quick game of Half Life 2 in. That is certainly my case. It annoyed me with Doom 3 as well.
You are correct. We actually have old MicroSound systems in our studios that do this. But as far as the market leaders go, it seems that Digidesign is the only vendor that exclusively relies on this approach.
I don't mean to make it sound like the OS randomly crashes or locks up on me constantly, but I might get a lockup every month or so with an app crashing at about the same clip.
ProTools is much worse though and two of the systems in question are built around ProTools. We recently added Final Cut Pro HD, but these issues existed before that on both our ProTools HD2 and HD3 machines...
One machine did have a bad motherboard which was fixed by Apple ($899 tag) but it would be a serious coincidence is this is an across the board memory problem.
If that's the case then Apple has ginormous problems with RAM - and has for years.
Seriously I think that this is more of a ProTools problem but out of the 5 Macs that I normally use (1 powerbook, 1 iBook, 1 G4, and 2 G5s), random lockups occour notably more frequently than with my PC.
ProTools is unique in that it uses hardware DSP. This is, yet is a little different from, what you refer to as it's own audio system.
Of course Windows has Direct X which is pretty much the same idea with a wider scope, though CoreAudio is probably a better system-level implementation. From what I've seen CoreAudio doesn't offer much more in the way of lower-latency with respect to ASIO (don't know much about ALSA to be honest) but I'll give you that having a solid core level of functionality can only be a good thing in the long run.
With the availability of ASIO in pretty much every halfway serious Windows audio driver, I'm not sure if there is so big a real-world advantage in CoreAudio right now.
Well personally I think that Sonar is the best sequencer around. It runs rings around ProTools and is much more intuitive than Nuendo. I hear that Digital Performer is cool but the copy that I had wouldn't install on my dual G4. After scouring the web and sitting on hold with MOTU for a couple of days I just said to hell with it and went back to Sonar on PC.
This is fine for developers, but I'm speaking from an end user perspective. I can go the the store and by ProTools or Nuendo for the PC or the Mac, take it home and install it with similar results. The G5 is cool in that it has a built in lightpipe interface, but if that's a requirement (and it's far from a general one), not paying the Mac Tax will free up money to buy an even better interface.
Seriously, this sounds like it either happened back in the early Windows 9x days (or earlier) or on poorly maintained Windows installations. My Mac digital audio experience mainly consists of MAX and ProTools and I'll tell you that I've had ProTools on my G5s crash more in the last three days than I've had Sonar or Nuendo crash in the past few years on Windows. The Mac also has a much larger propensity to randomly crash or lock up. I hear Mac users say what you've been saying all the time but it just doesn't jibe with my real world experience. I think that people are just so used to saying it that they haven't bothered to check recent developments.
This has generally been the case since Windows 2000 dropped. I've been using and setting up Macs and PCs in studios for 15 years and it appears as if the tables have pretty much turned. Well, not really as the Mac doesn't suck on digital audio like Windows did, but Windows certainly has earned its stripes and is - at minimum - a peer to the Mac in digital audio.
My WILD guess is: audio programs NEED good looking user interface.
You've never used ProTools huh?
What does the Mac do out of the box that Windows doesn't do? Like you, I'm not trolling but I really don't see any evidence of this. I have been a Mac user for 15 years and have a dual G4 in my office and have been settng up a couple of dual G5 ProTools systems over the past few months so I have a decent cache of experience to go on.
Maybe in the Windows 3.1 days or even windows 9x I would concede that the Mac had better audio capabilities by default, but I really don't see it these days.
Meaning the Dark Blues have more incentive to lie and generally screw you over?
This attitude really annoys me. Maybe where I worked was different (and I seriously doubt it), but when I worked for commission, if the item came back, it got deducted from my check. For that reason it was fully in our interest to make sure that the item that we sold stayed sold i.e. met the customer's requirements.
It's the ones who aren't on commission who don't care and will sell you the wrong things just to line you up for a service plan.
Calm down man. It's a handy feature. And if you don't like it, just set a master password so that you have to authenticate before it dows you the passwords.
Exactly. I went back to Mozilla after a while because Firefox / Bird can take up ridiculous amounts of memory when used together and only recently have either offered truly unique features (Live Bookmarks, Saved Searches).
I have 1.5 GB in my machine now so I don't really care much about 250 - 300 MB that the two can take up combined under heavy usage.
I didn't know that, but it still says nothing about intelligence.
Actually, to frag is a real-life term for killing. I think that the term is somehow derived from fragmentation grenade.
Maybe so, but it had better features. Print Preview (which IE did gank in 5.5), roaming profiles, and syntax highlighting in view source were a few of my favorites.
Sorry to self-reply but yeah he was, but it was more than a year ago:
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/06/14/browser/i
What the hell. It's an election year.
He's probably referring to what happened to Netscape, but again Firefox does not share the same weaknesses as Netscape as they are not for profit.
I'm curious though, wasn't it Andresson saying that the browser war was over less than a year ago? I also recall something about him using IE as well.
And the FBI DECIDED to help them, which is what the parent said.
Rackspace wouldn't have coughed up the server without the proper legal paperwork so everyone just chill until the facts come out as to what sort of evidence they are looking for.
You're not too familiar with the PATRIOT Act are you?
They are probably Democrats just like the people who bomb abortion clinics are Christians.
That is to say not at all.
Stop trying blame Democrats for all of the ills of the world.
No, single sign on eliminates the need for you to enter any sort of credentials into your browser. It automatically knows who you are, as long as you've authenticated to your directory, and tells any website that cares in the background.
Uhhhh. It's a cNet article.
Luckily, we have the OTHER economists running the majority of the coutry (at the state and federal levels) who believe rightly that the economy can truly be jump started by giving more money to those with the lowest propensity to spend (aka: rich people).
A Fucking Men. This is why it's hard for me to keep a straight face when I hear about supply-side economics being benificial to the overall economy. Giving the tightwads who make up a minority of the population more money is supposed to stimulate spending?
I'm not even going to try to revisit the frustration (in regards to wasted time) that was the IE Peekaboo bug.