Fourth, geeks who love MP3 for its wide compatibility can now choose from preferable open-source alternatives such as Ogg Vorbis.
Huh? Compatibility and Ogg Vorbis? What's going on here? Just because a format is open doesn't mean it's compatible. It needs implementations in various hardware for that. If it was true that Ogg Vorbis was an mp3 alternative with wide compatiblity, I wouldn't hesitate to use it though.
1. Get a free (and Free) solution for Linux and Windows: SBaGen Binaural Wave Generator 2. Encode the generated file to an mp3. 3. Upload it to your mp3 player. 4. Voila! You now too can have this feature on your non-CURE-alpha player.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure if these files are scientifically shown to actually do anything good to your mind besides buzzing a lot? The tool speaks of out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, "clear thought", and even more, so this would be like a free software solution of some nifty drug if true, but I kind of doubt it works to 100% for everyone.:-p
Why do these lists so often need to be balanced? I dislike Vista too for numerous reasons (such as those I'm not commenting on below).
9) If you don't have a computer capable of running it to it's full potential...why bother?
Not a reason if you have a decent modern computer, so not something you can say holds true for Vista in general.
8) DRM embedded into the OS. Less control for the user.
Unfortunately, avoiding Vista when these DRM-ed motherboards and monitors may conquer the market won't help either. Then they simply won't work instead. What's better? Support of shitty technologies or not even let your OS users use shitty technologies if they wish? Keep in mind that avoiding DRM content doesn't make DRM content more possible to play; it instead makes it impossible to play.
2) You're going to have to relearn everything anyway, particularly the Office interface which will be radically different with the new release....might as well switch to something new anyway
Doesn't have anything to do with Vista. Why can't Vista users use OpenOffice.org or MS Office 2003?
Some reasons I didn't feel that strong: - Eye candy -- I always get the feeling they're desperate when picking that. - IE 7 -- for anyone who has heard about Firefox or Opera, it's not a notable reason. - Desktop search -- too many (good, too) alternatives already. - Windows Media Player getting a decent media library -- too many (good, too) alternatives already.
There are more unlisted examples of these things too, and Windows Vista looks in many aspects just add on tools that have awesome free alternatives going for them already. With this mini-analysis, I suppose the OS will be compelling for novice users, and more advanced users may be trapped with it due to future Vista products that can't be emulated well yet in alternative operating systems. At least that's why I'm on XP now. It's not really better than competitors, far from it, but I have things I need to do that doesn't come or work for Linux.
I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?
How about one worrying about them doing something wrong with all the information they get? It happens, quite frequently too. Just look at the RIAA suing deceased grandmothers. But of course, they're *drumroll* the law enforcement and never makes mistakes...
I actually think TrueCrypt for Windows is even better, for a number of reasons like full USB key encryption, full drive/partition encryption, encryption of files of choice via custom volumes that are mountable, plausible deniability, multiple supported encryption schemes, and also because of:
(At least not that I know of)
As you say, it is indeed hard to know whether there really is any backdoors or not, unless it's open source.
Why has StarCraft not been made into a movie? It's not so incredibly well-known that someone with $50,000,000 can be reasonably sure that folks will watch it despite it having a no-name director and no-name actors, and it isn't that interesting a concept. Aliens, only bigger. People in power armor. More aliens. Big deal. Any fool can come up with this concept, and many have.
Heh, I think Starship Troopers was similar.. Humans = terrans, aliens = zerg. Then replace the alien leader bug with an overmind, picture they're going for the zerg homeworld, etc.:-)
Most peoples problem with Firefox memory usage isn't that they have 50 tabs open, but that usage remains after having had in total 50 tabs open over the session. I can easily get Firefox to consume 200 MB when just displaying the Google home page.
1) The menu is still quite clustered. I hope they have a menu editor (and not having to edit the text file manaully)
I don't understand this complaint. Besides the bookmarks menu that depends on amount of bookmarks, it has 5 menus with maybe about 10 items each on average. Is this really such a big problem? I quickly compared to IE and it was similar.
Yes, I'm actually surprised its solar panels doesn't collect dust over time. This was brought up as almost a given early on. Did it somehow turn out this wasn't an issue after all?
I think I'd be happy to see this... as long as the Internet transfer speeds would equal that of a hard drive, and I wouldn't have to pay just to stay online and do my work.
No, HDCP in hardware won't be "required" for Vista, but *supported*. That part was a bit sloppily written. It's the old news though; if your monitor doesn't support HDCP, Visa will play it in a reduced resolution. In comparison, other OS'es may not be able to play it at all, especially if they don't want to violate the DMCA.
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Fourth, geeks who love MP3 for its wide compatibility can now choose from preferable open-source alternatives such as Ogg Vorbis.
Huh? Compatibility and Ogg Vorbis? What's going on here? Just because a format is open doesn't mean it's compatible. It needs implementations in various hardware for that. If it was true that Ogg Vorbis was an mp3 alternative with wide compatiblity, I wouldn't hesitate to use it though.
This is true, but the question is whether these sound waves will induce lucid dreaming, like claimed. :-)
Hmm, actually, I just saw it's available for Mac as well, for those of you who use those pretty computers. :-)
1. Get a free (and Free) solution for Linux and Windows: SBaGen Binaural Wave Generator
:-p
2. Encode the generated file to an mp3.
3. Upload it to your mp3 player.
4. Voila! You now too can have this feature on your non-CURE-alpha player.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure if these files are scientifically shown to actually do anything good to your mind besides buzzing a lot? The tool speaks of out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, "clear thought", and even more, so this would be like a free software solution of some nifty drug if true, but I kind of doubt it works to 100% for everyone.
http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there. is.only.xul ;-)
... students are turning to trendy topics like stem-cell research and intelligent design to get a leg up
Funny, I always thought religion was just as popular as usual, and only the actual term "intelligent design" was popular here.
Quick setup: Not only quick, but simple, in MacOS X.
;-)
From the beta Vista install procedure, you'd have to be near braindead for it to not be simple enough.
Why do these lists so often need to be balanced?
I dislike Vista too for numerous reasons (such as those I'm not commenting on below).
9) If you don't have a computer capable of running it to it's full potential...why bother?
Not a reason if you have a decent modern computer, so not something you can say holds true for Vista in general.
8) DRM embedded into the OS. Less control for the user.
Unfortunately, avoiding Vista when these DRM-ed motherboards and monitors may conquer the market won't help either. Then they simply won't work instead. What's better? Support of shitty technologies or not even let your OS users use shitty technologies if they wish? Keep in mind that avoiding DRM content doesn't make DRM content more possible to play; it instead makes it impossible to play.
2) You're going to have to relearn everything anyway, particularly the Office interface which will be radically different with the new release....might as well switch to something new anyway
Doesn't have anything to do with Vista. Why can't Vista users use OpenOffice.org or MS Office 2003?
Some reasons I didn't feel that strong:
- Eye candy -- I always get the feeling they're desperate when picking that.
- IE 7 -- for anyone who has heard about Firefox or Opera, it's not a notable reason.
- Desktop search -- too many (good, too) alternatives already.
- Windows Media Player getting a decent media library -- too many (good, too) alternatives already.
There are more unlisted examples of these things too, and Windows Vista looks in many aspects just add on tools that have awesome free alternatives going for them already. With this mini-analysis, I suppose the OS will be compelling for novice users, and more advanced users may be trapped with it due to future Vista products that can't be emulated well yet in alternative operating systems. At least that's why I'm on XP now. It's not really better than competitors, far from it, but I have things I need to do that doesn't come or work for Linux.
I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?
How about one worrying about them doing something wrong with all the information they get?
It happens, quite frequently too. Just look at the RIAA suing deceased grandmothers.
But of course, they're *drumroll* the law enforcement and never makes mistakes...
I suppose the time has finally come when we side with music companies and hope they'll make a new rootkit. :-)
lol, interesting way to sneak in trolling with information :-)
What, you waited long enough to build it to find out it didn't??
I'm supposed to want to play this?
;-) Sounds like a sort of anti-GW.
Well, it doesn't look like aimed for Guild Wars fans (game synopsis) for sure.
I actually think TrueCrypt for Windows is even better, for a number of reasons like full USB key encryption, full drive/partition encryption, encryption of files of choice via custom volumes that are mountable, plausible deniability, multiple supported encryption schemes, and also because of:
(At least not that I know of)
As you say, it is indeed hard to know whether there really is any backdoors or not, unless it's open source.
Why has StarCraft not been made into a movie? It's not so incredibly well-known that someone with $50,000,000 can be reasonably sure that folks will watch it despite it having a no-name director and no-name actors, and it isn't that interesting a concept. Aliens, only bigger. People in power armor. More aliens. Big deal. Any fool can come up with this concept, and many have.
:-)
Heh, I think Starship Troopers was similar.. Humans = terrans, aliens = zerg.
Then replace the alien leader bug with an overmind, picture they're going for the zerg homeworld, etc.
Most peoples problem with Firefox memory usage isn't that they have 50 tabs open, but that usage remains after having had in total 50 tabs open over the session. I can easily get Firefox to consume 200 MB when just displaying the Google home page.
1) The menu is still quite clustered. I hope they have a menu editor (and not having to edit the text file manaully)
I don't understand this complaint. Besides the bookmarks menu that depends on amount of bookmarks, it has 5 menus with maybe about 10 items each on average. Is this really such a big problem? I quickly compared to IE and it was similar.
Yes, I'm actually surprised its solar panels doesn't collect dust over time. This was brought up as almost a given early on. Did it somehow turn out this wasn't an issue after all?
The system lets content providers, such as music studios, embed a watermark in their downloadable MP3 files
For whom was this intended again?
I'd be happy if there actually was plenty of music studios providing downloadable mp3's though.
I recall it was like this for me, hopefully the chronology is correct: :-D ... and then it just kept on being PC's :-p
- Commodore VIC-20... borrowed from work
- Commodore 64... with a floppy drive that could sing Für Elise
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K... squishy rubber keys!
- Atari 520 STe
- Commodore Amiga 500+
- 486 DX/2... 66 MHz, later overclocked to an earth shattering 80 MHz.
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Online Ajax Pages The New Web Desktop?
I think I'd be happy to see this... as long as the Internet transfer speeds would equal that of a hard drive, and I wouldn't have to pay just to stay online and do my work.
Your lack of respect for exciting Web 2.0 user experiences is disturbing!
No, HDCP in hardware won't be "required" for Vista, but *supported*. That part was a bit sloppily written. It's the old news though; if your monitor doesn't support HDCP, Visa will play it in a reduced resolution. In comparison, other OS'es may not be able to play it at all, especially if they don't want to violate the DMCA.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the case? ;-)