With an as biased review as one that intentionally compares to an obsolete version of MCE, I think it's only fair to show the other side of the coin to give readers a chance to form their own opinion on the pros and cons: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20041230/1293/
Why did they compare to Windows Media Center 2004 and not 2005 at least? And in a month or two, the version after that will be released as part of Vista.
It causes one to wonder whether pre-Columbia-disaster NASA would have just replaced the fuel cell on the fly without telling anyone -- and whether or not that is an ethically sound choice.
Sorry, but who cares?
Was that a questioning of their historical policies having been ethically sound? Ummm...
It has reached, IMO, a place where every big, corporate business wants to be -- embedded to the point of religion...
Wow, I'm not sure what planet you're from, but the only admins I've heard of have been pretty reluctant to praising Microsoft to the skies.:-p Heck, I visit Windows communities, and even there do people complain on as small details as icon graphics not having been upgraded in parts of Vista.
The driver model has been updated in Vista to have them run more (not to 100%) in user mode rather than kernel mode, because the most frequent cause of crashes in Windows is bad third party drivers.
The only "3rd party apps" I've had any crashes from in XP are bad drivers.
I think it happened a dark evening about two years ago the last time I got a BSOD from a graphics card driver.
And in Vista, Microsoft is with their new driver model trying to make drivers be able to run more in user mode so it'll be more like an app crash than a kernel crash if something goes wrong there.
I can't complain either what MS has achieved just the past few years, and is aiming for in the coming ones, as for stability. It's seriously time to start picking on something else.
FUD or not, they stupidly walked straight into the trap and now they're sitting with all these IP logs as solid evidence where it's much harder to prove the Social Democrats actually gave any password or not.
Since textbooks is about being sources for teaching things, it's a bit unsettling that all those books rely on the good will of their contributors and detecting vandals in time, with no special means to ensure what's seen is accurate. I think it's even more important here than in Wikipedia, because the only reason to go to Wikibooks is to actively study subjects, not glance over info in articles.
I think it's about time Wikipedia as well as Wikibooks implements that idea I heard a while ago, that there are two branches of each article -- one unstable, and one stable, with information reviewed to be unvandalized that you can't just directly edit however you wish. This would maintain the contributors power to improve articles, but also let readers have something a bit more reliable.
My guess is that they will also need a RC2, RC3 and maybe even RC4 and than a RRC1 (real Release Candidate) before shipping.
The scary part is that they've already decided to work on the RTM, so unless a drastic change of plans happens right before about its 2 months to release or so, RC1 was the one and only release candidate. With all the delays, they're clearly pressured for a release.
The person from the liberal youth party has already come forward with this so it's known it happened.
He claims in turn that he got the user credentials (well, just really needed a user name because the password was the same:-p) from this targetted socialist party's youth party, SSU. This was flat out denied by them. So right now it's pretty much impossible who of them is lying, but one of them are anyway. If SSU indeed handed out this info (sounds strange given it's for their own party, but who knows, it could've been a pissed of teenager) this case would quickly turn from a very serious accusation to a quite humorous one.
But something has happened here, the question at this point is mostly who the liberal youth party member got hold of the information and could connect to their internal network. It sure doesn't sound far fetched it was done with help from the inside.
Also note that the liberal party said they were unaware of this incident and what this member of their youth party had done, and they'll cooperate in prosecuting this guy. Hard to tell if that's the truth too, of course. Only the liberal party knows for sure at this point. Neither them telling the truth nor lying sounds illogical.
What's scary isn't that someone now identified managed to enter their internal network containing very sensitive information from the Swedish security police about politican protection, but that said network had a user with maximum privilegies with his password the same as his username...:-p And it was not changed at a minimum for a half year period. The socialist party shouldn't just worry about this now -- at least the liberal youth party has come forward with this and the person is now identified -- but they should rather be worried if anyone with more malicious purposes than peeking into their scheduled political events have got hold of this information with that horrible security. Better start checking the audit logs of the past few years, guys.:-p
It's not much better in the EU with the EUCD... I think the only reason we're doing a bit better against these lobby groups is that they are simply not financed as well or otherwise as influental.
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These poor kids are going to grow up with a father.
Only after Terri Irwin undergoes a sex change. And then I indeed really feel for their kids.:-(
I'm still waiting for a high profile web company like Google to start a music service only hosting indie music *and* using this site to promote them, in more or less automated ways. (a bit like how Google News promote news stories based on popularity) Then go to an artist, and you have a forum for that artist where fans can discuss the music, as well as download it. Wrap it up in an easily nagivatable clean "Web 2.0 interface" and keep unrelated ads to a minimum. There could be top lists, voting, and all that too of course. You could have Last.fm-like community building features to find users with similar tastes too.
This service is perhaps going halfway -- providing means for these artists to sell their music in radically more different ways than iTunes. It's a good first step, but I'm waiting for a killer service at also promoting them. Then we'll at least have something interesting and legal that might give RIAA some trouble.
You don't want your customers actually using the stuff they're paying you for, after all.
I could throw the "but piracy is illegal" argument at you, but upon further thinking on this, fact remains that BT is huge in general file distribution. I know completely legit general software download sites that offer BT as an alternative to their mirrors, there are legal torrent trackers of misc files, they're a popular OS distribution technology, and of course these things pop up every now and then too.
So in the end, it's really only restricting a thing that can mean: downloading illegal files and using a lot of bandwidth. The huge problem is that they only *may* be illegal, and the ISP is intentionally devaluing a service a user purchased. There's probably something in the user agreement talking about their rights to do this, but it's still false marketing in my opinion as they so clearly advertise their speeds as being something completely different than when using certain legit services, in which they *intentionally* ruin a user's network experience.
Due to the Image Constraint Token (ICT) your new HD player will not play your movies at full resolution. (Because the HDTVs sold to date mostly have component inputs, and no HDMI input)
Most current TV's sold have a HDMI input, and often even two. HDMI is also not required in all cases, because during this early transition period, many discs won't have the ICT enabled.
Demos at the store have been disappointing at best. The improvement over DVD is pretty slim.
Yes, although the DRM is evil and surely hurting sales, or the initial will to move to this tech for new users, I think this is what the big masses cares for after all.
I also won't purchase these things because the technology is very much in movement both as for TV's and players. Sure, tech always moves forward, but I feel still even in the immature stages here with *very* rapid evolution with older stuff getting incompatible unusually quickly, major technology changes etc. It's like when a new processor line using a vastly different architecture has been introduced. Often the very first few processors may run on a slower bus or have unusual disadvantages compared to the upcoming 10 when the tech has matured.
You can turn on your Vista machine, go eat some cereal, while your machine is cold booting and then this gentle sound will come out telling you that you can log in. You won't need to wait for your machine to startup, he says.
He's then also saying you need a preset sound that can't be changed to realize your computer is on, and you won't hear this equally well with a custom sound that you've picked yourself. In what tragic accident did this guy lose his brain cells?
Volume control in a Windows machine is a wild west. A mess. The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine.
Good point. This is useful for a one-time startup sound indeed, or a sound you can keep on for as long as you wish yourself. When you're happy with your sound settings, you're then forced to keep it o... whaa, wait a minute, why is that? My sound effects are already OK, why should I keep hearing it? This can't be anything else than a cover up reason for the real object:
Make the Windows startup an annoying and enforced branding sound so people will hear "oh, this is Vista!"
Maybe a kind of cool thought the first 2 minutes or so of Vista user installs at a company or home, but hardly after 2 years.
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With an as biased review as one that intentionally compares to an obsolete version of MCE, I think it's only fair to show the other side of the coin to give readers a chance to form their own opinion on the pros and cons: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20041230/1293/
Why did they compare to Windows Media Center 2004 and not 2005 at least?
And in a month or two, the version after that will be released as part of Vista.
Hmmm...
Sorry, but who cares?
Was that a questioning of their historical policies having been ethically sound? Ummm...
For my needs, I don't steal identities, I make them. :-)
Wow, I'm not sure what planet you're from, but the only admins I've heard of have been pretty reluctant to praising Microsoft to the skies.
Heck, I visit Windows communities, and even there do people complain on as small details as icon graphics not having been upgraded in parts of Vista.
The driver model has been updated in Vista to have them run more (not to 100%) in user mode rather than kernel mode, because the most frequent cause of crashes in Windows is bad third party drivers.
The only "3rd party apps" I've had any crashes from in XP are bad drivers.
I think it happened a dark evening about two years ago the last time I got a BSOD from a graphics card driver.
And in Vista, Microsoft is with their new driver model trying to make drivers be able to run more in user mode so it'll be more like an app crash than a kernel crash if something goes wrong there.
I can't complain either what MS has achieved just the past few years, and is aiming for in the coming ones, as for stability. It's seriously time to start picking on something else.
I knew it! He's just faking it all as a PR stunt!
It may not be obvious to non-Swedes, so FYI "sigge" is a common nickname for Sixten -- his forename.
FUD or not, they stupidly walked straight into the trap and now they're sitting with all these IP logs as solid evidence where it's much harder to prove the Social Democrats actually gave any password or not.
Since textbooks is about being sources for teaching things, it's a bit unsettling that all those books rely on the good will of their contributors and detecting vandals in time, with no special means to ensure what's seen is accurate. I think it's even more important here than in Wikipedia, because the only reason to go to Wikibooks is to actively study subjects, not glance over info in articles.
I think it's about time Wikipedia as well as Wikibooks implements that idea I heard a while ago, that there are two branches of each article -- one unstable, and one stable, with information reviewed to be unvandalized that you can't just directly edit however you wish. This would maintain the contributors power to improve articles, but also let readers have something a bit more reliable.
My guess is that they will also need a RC2, RC3 and maybe even RC4 and than a RRC1 (real Release Candidate) before shipping.
The scary part is that they've already decided to work on the RTM, so unless a drastic change of plans happens right before about its 2 months to release or so, RC1 was the one and only release candidate. With all the delays, they're clearly pressured for a release.
You're correct, but Wikipedia is not a dictionary -- Wiktionary is.
The person from the liberal youth party has already come forward with this so it's known it happened.
:-p) from this targetted socialist party's youth party, SSU. This was flat out denied by them. So right now it's pretty much impossible who of them is lying, but one of them are anyway. If SSU indeed handed out this info (sounds strange given it's for their own party, but who knows, it could've been a pissed of teenager) this case would quickly turn from a very serious accusation to a quite humorous one.
He claims in turn that he got the user credentials (well, just really needed a user name because the password was the same
But something has happened here, the question at this point is mostly who the liberal youth party member got hold of the information and could connect to their internal network. It sure doesn't sound far fetched it was done with help from the inside.
Also note that the liberal party said they were unaware of this incident and what this member of their youth party had done, and they'll cooperate in prosecuting this guy. Hard to tell if that's the truth too, of course. Only the liberal party knows for sure at this point. Neither them telling the truth nor lying sounds illogical.
What's scary isn't that someone now identified managed to enter their internal network containing very sensitive information from the Swedish security police about politican protection, but that said network had a user with maximum privilegies with his password the same as his username... :-p And it was not changed at a minimum for a half year period. The socialist party shouldn't just worry about this now -- at least the liberal youth party has come forward with this and the person is now identified -- but they should rather be worried if anyone with more malicious purposes than peeking into their scheduled political events have got hold of this information with that horrible security. Better start checking the audit logs of the past few years, guys. :-p
It's not much better in the EU with the EUCD... I think the only reason we're doing a bit better against these lobby groups is that they are simply not financed as well or otherwise as influental.
These poor kids are going to grow up with a father.
:-(
Only after Terri Irwin undergoes a sex change.
And then I indeed really feel for their kids.
Yes. It might be useful to wait for another source than The Inquirer at least.
That would be the literal incarnation of "spyware". :-S
If I'm not mistaken, Google clearly says exactly that on the related pages linked to in the story.
Many do, as a helpful community is extremely important at least to newcomers.
I'm still waiting for a high profile web company like Google to start a music service only hosting indie music *and* using this site to promote them, in more or less automated ways. (a bit like how Google News promote news stories based on popularity) Then go to an artist, and you have a forum for that artist where fans can discuss the music, as well as download it. Wrap it up in an easily nagivatable clean "Web 2.0 interface" and keep unrelated ads to a minimum. There could be top lists, voting, and all that too of course. You could have Last.fm-like community building features to find users with similar tastes too.
This service is perhaps going halfway -- providing means for these artists to sell their music in radically more different ways than iTunes. It's a good first step, but I'm waiting for a killer service at also promoting them. Then we'll at least have something interesting and legal that might give RIAA some trouble.
I could throw the "but piracy is illegal" argument at you, but upon further thinking on this, fact remains that BT is huge in general file distribution. I know completely legit general software download sites that offer BT as an alternative to their mirrors, there are legal torrent trackers of misc files, they're a popular OS distribution technology, and of course these things pop up every now and then too.
So in the end, it's really only restricting a thing that can mean: downloading illegal files and using a lot of bandwidth. The huge problem is that they only *may* be illegal, and the ISP is intentionally devaluing a service a user purchased. There's probably something in the user agreement talking about their rights to do this, but it's still false marketing in my opinion as they so clearly advertise their speeds as being something completely different than when using certain legit services, in which they *intentionally* ruin a user's network experience.
Due to the Image Constraint Token (ICT) your new HD player will not play your movies at full resolution. (Because the HDTVs sold to date mostly have component inputs, and no HDMI input)
Most current TV's sold have a HDMI input, and often even two.
HDMI is also not required in all cases, because during this early transition period, many discs won't have the ICT enabled.
Demos at the store have been disappointing at best. The improvement over DVD is pretty slim.
Yes, although the DRM is evil and surely hurting sales, or the initial will to move to this tech for new users, I think this is what the big masses cares for after all.
I also won't purchase these things because the technology is very much in movement both as for TV's and players. Sure, tech always moves forward, but I feel still even in the immature stages here with *very* rapid evolution with older stuff getting incompatible unusually quickly, major technology changes etc. It's like when a new processor line using a vastly different architecture has been introduced. Often the very first few processors may run on a slower bus or have unusual disadvantages compared to the upcoming 10 when the tech has matured.
He's then also saying you need a preset sound that can't be changed to realize your computer is on, and you won't hear this equally well with a custom sound that you've picked yourself. In what tragic accident did this guy lose his brain cells?
Good point. This is useful for a one-time startup sound indeed, or a sound you can keep on for as long as you wish yourself. When you're happy with your sound settings, you're then forced to keep it o... whaa, wait a minute, why is that? My sound effects are already OK, why should I keep hearing it? This can't be anything else than a cover up reason for the real object:
Make the Windows startup an annoying and enforced branding sound so people will hear "oh, this is Vista!"
Maybe a kind of cool thought the first 2 minutes or so of Vista user installs at a company or home, but hardly after 2 years.