'lsof' for windows would be nice too. I curretly can't move a folder of music to a different directory because it's in use. Except, there's nothing running. And nothing unusual showing up in the process list in the task manager. But I can't move it. I thought xp was the OS you didn't have to reboot?
Except that the left pane's folders can point to where you want. Most likely they'd point to/home/$user/Documents/home/$user/Desktop, etc, just like the os/x one does. This applies only to using the system as a "user", not as root of course, but for activities as root you'll either be using a fancy redhat/mandrake admin tool or opening up a terminal window anyway. Besides, the way the mockups are set up you can simply drag "/" to the shortcut bar if you wanted.
"But of course at about 95% of the global browser market share Microsoft see no need to improve that vital component of the browser."
That's exactly it. As scoble is constantly pointing out, changing one line in IE is a huge thing, affects thousands of users, hundreds of languages, blah blah blah. Why put all those man hours into updating and testing when you can do nothing and still keep your monopoly position?
Blah blah blah blah GNU/Linux blah blah blah hurd blah blah blah everyone who doesn't give away their source code is bad blah blah evil blah evil blah microsoft is the devil blah blah GNU/Linux blah blah GNU GNU GNU blah blah GNU/Linux blah.
Ahmen! Nothing sucks more on a xp (re-)install than to install something like WMP9, reboot, go back to windows update, find an update for it, install it, and reboot again. At least you'd hope that the products that you download are already updated. The whole point of having something that you can download is that it can be up-to-date!!!
Gotta agree with the other poster. I have two macs (though I'm not a "mac person"), an old iMac (rev a) that I got to play with os/x and a powerbook from work (they are an educational company, so everyone is on a mac). I had hard drive problems on the 1Ghz powerbook and I had to install a couple of times before I had it sent back, and the install takes maybe 30 minutes, an hour tops. Even if you "customize" the install there's not a hell of a lot to customize. Even with the 200mhz iMac it's still under 2 hours for the install.
After install there's customization and installing other programs. Sorry, but it doesnt' take that long. You could drag it out that long I'm sure, letting photoshop install and forgetting about it, and coming back to check later, that sort of thing. I'd like to ask this "friend" what took so long.
Absolutely correct. Geeks are pushovers. We like to fix things, but don't like stupid people. With computers this equates to us fixing other people's computers.
I may tweak my desktop to look better, write backup scripts, and screw around with software RAID for 1000 hours a month, but that's not the same as making a computer work or dealing with driver issues, etc.
Patriot II and friends are all there because bush now has free reign to do whatever he wants, because he can scare the sheep of the american people just by pointing and yelling "terrorist".
Ok, now go and install windows media player. Reboot. Then you have to do the update again. And reboot again.
I'm guessing you didn't install SP1, which takes probably about 20 minutes to install (xp2500) even without the time it takes to do the download.
It took me a half hour to let it go and download/update the 30+ security and critical updates alone. Of course, if you didn't install these then yea, it'd be much faster. What was your IP again? clickety-click:)
The install of windows is relatively painless, it's the 8 hour reboot, install updates, reboot, install more updates, reboot, install yet more updates, reboot, install a new program (ie: WMP), reboot, install updates to that, etc.
Installing windows is fine, making it usable is painful.
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I find it wierd that you let other people buy you software or hardware. Personally I prefer to choose the brands and models myself (though I don't mind other people paying:)
I think ever since my dad decided on his own that buying windows 3.0 was a Good Idea I haven't trusted him...
So use pico if you don't like it. Geez man, it's about choice. Some people like VI, some like EMACS, some like pico, and some like notepad. Like anything, if you spend time learning it you'll find it's a very powerful tool. If you don't, go and do the same with some other tool:)
Ha, Mr. Bush doesn't read the papers, do you think he reads his email? I'm sure he has his trusted advisors go through the email and pick up what is interesting, and give it to him in a nice powerpoint presentation after he gets up from his mid-morning nap.
When was the last time you heard someone say they were going to download some wmas off the internet? MP3 is what people use to refer to digital music files, be it an actual mp3, a wma, an ogg, or whatever.
Personally I think that wma will gain a foothold only because the default tools in windows only rip to that, but I think that mp3 is "easier" as all the hardware and software that plays digital music play it. It might not be as good as ogg or aac or wma, or allow the music industry to control it through DRM, but it's the lowest common denominator that everyone understands and supports.
Also, I doubt that there's a WMA *only* hardware player out there:)
This was voted interesting how? I like itunes and ipods, but that's like saying "let us pray that the ford f150 and it's engine can help destroy all other work vehicles". It's pretty stupid.
Yes, he's right, it is less complete, but MB tries to be accurate and consistant. freedb has a huge number of different capitalization schemes ways of people entering artist information (Eagles, The Eagles, Eagles, The, THE EAGLES, etc). MB takes it's information from Freedb, but reliese on it's users and moderators to munge the information into something consistant.
The beauty of it is that if you find something that's missing, it's very very easy to add it:)
Not really. The TRM will fingerprint the song and identify it in the database and get the album, artist and track information, but not the genre. That information is not (AFAIK) part of the musicbrainz stored info.
It sounds like he's referring to something that will analize the peaks and valleys in the song and try to figure out if the waveform looks like a rock or classic or whatever song (ie: strong bass beat == rock, mostly in the voice range == audiobook, etc). Sounds like audioscrobber or something like that.
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I missed out on doing lots of drugs like that in college :(
So what's on the outside of this giant gravstar we're in? :)
'lsof' for windows would be nice too. I curretly can't move a folder of music to a different directory because it's in use. Except, there's nothing running. And nothing unusual showing up in the process list in the task manager. But I can't move it. I thought xp was the OS you didn't have to reboot?
Except that the left pane's folders can point to where you want. Most likely they'd point to /home/$user/Documents /home/$user/Desktop, etc, just like the os/x one does. This applies only to using the system as a "user", not as root of course, but for activities as root you'll either be using a fancy redhat/mandrake admin tool or opening up a terminal window anyway. Besides, the way the mockups are set up you can simply drag "/" to the shortcut bar if you wanted.
"But of course at about 95% of the global browser market share Microsoft see no need to improve that vital component of the browser."
That's exactly it. As scoble is constantly pointing out, changing one line in IE is a huge thing, affects thousands of users, hundreds of languages, blah blah blah. Why put all those man hours into updating and testing when you can do nothing and still keep your monopoly position?
Blah blah blah blah GNU/Linux blah blah blah hurd blah blah blah everyone who doesn't give away their source code is bad blah blah evil blah evil blah microsoft is the devil blah blah GNU/Linux blah blah GNU GNU GNU blah blah GNU/Linux blah.
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Ahmen! Nothing sucks more on a xp (re-)install than to install something like WMP9, reboot, go back to windows update, find an update for it, install it, and reboot again. At least you'd hope that the products that you download are already updated. The whole point of having something that you can download is that it can be up-to-date!!!
You'd think that a convicted monopoly would have to follow slightly different rules than other "normal" businesses though.
A clueless salesguy, what are the odds :)
Gotta agree with the other poster. I have two macs (though I'm not a "mac person"), an old iMac (rev a) that I got to play with os/x and a powerbook from work (they are an educational company, so everyone is on a mac). I had hard drive problems on the 1Ghz powerbook and I had to install a couple of times before I had it sent back, and the install takes maybe 30 minutes, an hour tops. Even if you "customize" the install there's not a hell of a lot to customize. Even with the 200mhz iMac it's still under 2 hours for the install.
After install there's customization and installing other programs. Sorry, but it doesnt' take that long. You could drag it out that long I'm sure, letting photoshop install and forgetting about it, and coming back to check later, that sort of thing. I'd like to ask this "friend" what took so long.
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Absolutely correct. Geeks are pushovers. We like to fix things, but don't like stupid people. With computers this equates to us fixing other people's computers.
Tweaking != Fixing.
I may tweak my desktop to look better, write backup scripts, and screw around with software RAID for 1000 hours a month, but that's not the same as making a computer work or dealing with driver issues, etc.
You're probably being sarcastic, but think about it.
Of course, there are terrorists out there!
Patriot II and friends are all there because bush now has free reign to do whatever he wants, because he can scare the sheep of the american people just by pointing and yelling "terrorist".
I'm glad I don't live there.
Ok, now go and install windows media player. Reboot. Then you have to do the update again. And reboot again.
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I'm guessing you didn't install SP1, which takes probably about 20 minutes to install (xp2500) even without the time it takes to do the download.
It took me a half hour to let it go and download/update the 30+ security and critical updates alone. Of course, if you didn't install these then yea, it'd be much faster. What was your IP again? clickety-click
The install of windows is relatively painless, it's the 8 hour reboot, install updates, reboot, install more updates, reboot, install yet more updates, reboot, install a new program (ie: WMP), reboot, install updates to that, etc.
Installing windows is fine, making it usable is painful.
I find it wierd that you let other people buy you software or hardware. Personally I prefer to choose the brands and models myself (though I don't mind other people paying :)
I think ever since my dad decided on his own that buying windows 3.0 was a Good Idea I haven't trusted him...
So use pico if you don't like it. Geez man, it's about choice. Some people like VI, some like EMACS, some like pico, and some like notepad. Like anything, if you spend time learning it you'll find it's a very powerful tool. If you don't, go and do the same with some other tool :)
Ha, Mr. Bush doesn't read the papers, do you think he reads his email? I'm sure he has his trusted advisors go through the email and pick up what is interesting, and give it to him in a nice powerpoint presentation after he gets up from his mid-morning nap.
Sorry :) It's hard to tell where the troll ends sometimes these days :)
When was the last time you heard someone say they were going to download some wmas off the internet? MP3 is what people use to refer to digital music files, be it an actual mp3, a wma, an ogg, or whatever.
:)
Personally I think that wma will gain a foothold only because the default tools in windows only rip to that, but I think that mp3 is "easier" as all the hardware and software that plays digital music play it. It might not be as good as ogg or aac or wma, or allow the music industry to control it through DRM, but it's the lowest common denominator that everyone understands and supports.
Also, I doubt that there's a WMA *only* hardware player out there
This was voted interesting how? I like itunes and ipods, but that's like saying "let us pray that the ford f150 and it's engine can help destroy all other work vehicles". It's pretty stupid.
Yes, he's right, it is less complete, but MB tries to be accurate and consistant. freedb has a huge number of different capitalization schemes ways of people entering artist information (Eagles, The Eagles, Eagles, The, THE EAGLES, etc). MB takes it's information from Freedb, but reliese on it's users and moderators to munge the information into something consistant.
:)
The beauty of it is that if you find something that's missing, it's very very easy to add it
Not really. The TRM will fingerprint the song and identify it in the database and get the album, artist and track information, but not the genre. That information is not (AFAIK) part of the musicbrainz stored info.
It sounds like he's referring to something that will analize the peaks and valleys in the song and try to figure out if the waveform looks like a rock or classic or whatever song (ie: strong bass beat == rock, mostly in the voice range == audiobook, etc). Sounds like audioscrobber or something like that.
5) he got them from various companies in the US