I'm talking about iTunes store AAC files encrypted with Apple's "FairPlay" technology... You know what I'm talking about...
I also know mp3 isn't "free," but like I said.. Technically mp3 isn't "free" like ogg, but who cares? I can rip cds to mp3 and don't have to pay Joe Blow can download CDex for free and rip all the cds that he wants. Hell, he can rip to aac with CDex if he wants, but he's going to have trouble playing those files everywhere that an mp3 can be played, but he can do what he wants.
Anyway, in the end, who cares. Use whatever works best for you. Mp3 works best for me. I used ogg for a while, but recently came back to mp3 for compatibility/ease of use. I can't notice any differences in quality, and I guess one of these programs I bought let me do it legally anyway... Not that it really matters. These articles proclaiming mp3 dead just don't make sense to me. Mp3 isn't going anywhere.
Mp3 isn't like FAT. There are better alternatives to FAT, yes, but is it really analagous to MP3?
mp3 -> proprietary codec wma, aac
I think mp3 wins here. I think it's funny when anyone but MS and Apple say that wma or aac is better than mp3. You can hear the difference? I don't believe you, but good for you. The inability to move it to my friend's computer or my rio or my car mp3 player means that trumps your claim that it sounds better anyway.
mp3 -> ogg or other free format
I think mp3 wins here too. Technically mp3 isn't "free" like ogg, but who cares? I can rip cds to mp3 and don't have to pay. I won't debate or worry about these legalities because no one cares. Maybe you want to claim that your format of the week sounds better, again I don't believe that you can hear the difference, but the ability to play that mp3 anywhere I want again trumps your claimed ability to hear a difference.
The only people really claiming mp3 dead are
1. those that have an interest in proprietary formats like Microsoft, Apple, etc...
2. Fanboys on the apple forums (god I hate them)
3. People who think they can tell the difference between a 256 bit rate mp3 and their favorite other format (how many of these people are there really)
So anyway, your comparison I think isn't very good. FAT sucks more than mp3 sucks.
Seriously... It's impossible to have an OS without a browser built in, but it's also impossible to build in virus protection.
Or hey, here's a novel idea... maybe make your OS secure enough that you might actually have a choice whether or not you want to drop X amount of dollars on a 3rd party virus scanning app.
My god. The people at Microsoft can be so completely dense sometimes.
I thought about yellow dog on my aluminum G4 until I noticed that the sound probably won't work along with sleep, my airport extreme, the modem, external video...
And you want it to run on a G5 ibook? Try 4 years after it comes out.
You can run kde on darwin, you know... You probably won't have any issues with sound either.
Dude... When you're speculating to the point of absurdity, you seem to be making shit up. Are you trolling or do you actually believe that hydrogen based automobiles are going to cause flash flooding?
I continue to fail to see why this is better than paper and some pens. It's so much more tangible and easier to work with... but that's me. Leafing and studying from a notebook is much easier for me.
Personally I see the "tablet pc" as a technological "because we can," not a "because it makes things easier."
Still not as nice and easy as paper and pencil. Unless you simply have to have everything in electronic format. Let's be realistic here... Wouldn't you rather study of physical paper notes? I would.
Yea... When the MS tablet pc came to market I thought "who wants that?"
Was there a demand for this product or is this a market that Microsoft thought should exist? The last thing I read about those (maybe about 6-12 months ago) was that they were bombing.
Layout doesn't work in IE due to IE bugs not my problem. Opera and early versions of konq don't support XSL. Oh well
What a dumbass. It actually is his problem because next to no one is going to visit his site... It looks like his intention is to only cater to Moz fanboys
The Sony 505 series notebook I've got can be set to play a sound on bootup (via the bios) - I've turned it off though. I find boot sounds useless and annoying... What if you're at the library or somewhere that you don't want to be making a lot of noise?
Hey everybody. My laptop makes a bunch of noise when I turn it on. Yay. Why do you need that affirmation?
I had the same problem with an old (5,6 years?) gateway laptop. At the time that I bought it, it was a higher end model, and I got it with a 3 year warranty. Unfortunately, the case cracked a year or two ago and it was about 2 years out of warranty. I contacted them to find out if I could purchase the parts from them and fix it myself... They said I had to send it to them, but they ended up fixing it and a number of other small problems for free. I was ***very*** suprised, but thank you very much Gateway. If and when I buy another laptop, I'll put them under serious consideration.
What a dumbass. He bought another anyway... An experience like that would force me to look elsewhere. I'm sure apple wishes they had more customers like that guy. Spray paint campaign aside, he bought 2 ipods and will probably never use anything but apple anyway.
I doubt that. I've got 768 on my desktop and 256 on my laptop. If you're running 32, I highly suggest that you drop 20 bucks on a 128 MB Dimm. You won't regret it. You don't run linux, do you?
Installing palm's hotsync utility under a user account in NT requires you to have administrative access under the user account that you wish to install it... Which means if user123 wants a palm, you've got to give them admin access, install it, and then take away admin access. You can't just install it under an admin account.
There's one example- but it's irrelevant. Viruses like the ILoveYou bug did plenty of damage to our network without having admin access. The real problem is Microsoft's complete lack of taking security into account when originally designing their programs (this web page wants to run that executable? ok!!) They're getting better, but things are still pretty fundamentally screwed up.
Also - Joe Average really wouldn't have any trouble running linux on a computer that came with it on it. They might not be familiar with it, and they might have to use different file extensions for some things to work perfectly, but after a few days they could use it for normal computing tasks (surfing web, email, typing documents, playing music, etc.)
your analogy is flawed. There are other journaled file systems available. Reiser was included in the kernel long before it was ready. That was a dumb decision, and one that has soured Reiser's reputation among a lot of people. I'll continue to use Ext3. It works fine for me and has never corrupted my data.
For what my opinion it worth... We've got about 200 workstations (a decent enough size network) and we've got several RH servers... we standardize on every 3rd release (6.2, 7.2, and now 9) and don't have any problems. We've got redhat network subscriptions for updates and everything is rock solid. I see no need for "enterprise editions." Upgrading the servers every few years before end of life isn't that horrible for us... And there's usually compelling reasons like journaled file systems and new versions of ssh that justify it.
But you need to evaluate your own needs obviously.
I can - the last time I tried Reiser, it ate my home directory. i'm sure it's gotten better, but because it was included into the kernel while it should have been alpha, I'll never use it again.
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I'm talking about iTunes store AAC files encrypted with Apple's "FairPlay" technology... You know what I'm talking about...
I also know mp3 isn't "free," but like I said.. Technically mp3 isn't "free" like ogg, but who cares? I can rip cds to mp3 and don't have to pay Joe Blow can download CDex for free and rip all the cds that he wants. Hell, he can rip to aac with CDex if he wants, but he's going to have trouble playing those files everywhere that an mp3 can be played, but he can do what he wants.
Anyway, in the end, who cares. Use whatever works best for you. Mp3 works best for me. I used ogg for a while, but recently came back to mp3 for compatibility/ease of use. I can't notice any differences in quality, and I guess one of these programs I bought let me do it legally anyway... Not that it really matters. These articles proclaiming mp3 dead just don't make sense to me. Mp3 isn't going anywhere.
Mp3 isn't like FAT. There are better alternatives to FAT, yes, but is it really analagous to MP3?
mp3 -> proprietary codec wma, aac
I think mp3 wins here. I think it's funny when anyone but MS and Apple say that wma or aac is better than mp3. You can hear the difference? I don't believe you, but good for you. The inability to move it to my friend's computer or my rio or my car mp3 player means that trumps your claim that it sounds better anyway.
mp3 -> ogg or other free format
I think mp3 wins here too. Technically mp3 isn't "free" like ogg, but who cares? I can rip cds to mp3 and don't have to pay. I won't debate or worry about these legalities because no one cares. Maybe you want to claim that your format of the week sounds better, again I don't believe that you can hear the difference, but the ability to play that mp3 anywhere I want again trumps your claimed ability to hear a difference.
The only people really claiming mp3 dead are
1. those that have an interest in proprietary formats like Microsoft, Apple, etc...
2. Fanboys on the apple forums (god I hate them)
3. People who think they can tell the difference between a 256 bit rate mp3 and their favorite other format (how many of these people are there really)
So anyway, your comparison I think isn't very good. FAT sucks more than mp3 sucks.
Use something else. Gee, that was hard.
Seriously... It's impossible to have an OS without a browser built in, but it's also impossible to build in virus protection.
Or hey, here's a novel idea... maybe make your OS secure enough that you might actually have a choice whether or not you want to drop X amount of dollars on a 3rd party virus scanning app.
My god. The people at Microsoft can be so completely dense sometimes.
I thought about yellow dog on my aluminum G4 until I noticed that the sound probably won't work along with sleep, my airport extreme, the modem, external video...
And you want it to run on a G5 ibook? Try 4 years after it comes out.
You can run kde on darwin, you know... You probably won't have any issues with sound either.
Dude... When you're speculating to the point of absurdity, you seem to be making shit up. Are you trolling or do you actually believe that hydrogen based automobiles are going to cause flash flooding?
Yes. I couldn't be happier with my Rio
Or you can just select the "default desktop" option and let them choose a single one for you. No one says you have to install everything.
Um... Women don't have a Y chromosome.
I continue to fail to see why this is better than paper and some pens. It's so much more tangible and easier to work with... but that's me. Leafing and studying from a notebook is much easier for me.
Personally I see the "tablet pc" as a technological "because we can," not a "because it makes things easier."
Still not as nice and easy as paper and pencil. Unless you simply have to have everything in electronic format. Let's be realistic here... Wouldn't you rather study of physical paper notes? I would.
Yea... When the MS tablet pc came to market I thought "who wants that?"
Was there a demand for this product or is this a market that Microsoft thought should exist? The last thing I read about those (maybe about 6-12 months ago) was that they were bombing.
Layout doesn't work in IE due to IE bugs not my problem. Opera and early versions of konq don't support XSL. Oh well
What a dumbass. It actually is his problem because next to no one is going to visit his site... It looks like his intention is to only cater to Moz fanboys
The Sony 505 series notebook I've got can be set to play a sound on bootup (via the bios) - I've turned it off though. I find boot sounds useless and annoying... What if you're at the library or somewhere that you don't want to be making a lot of noise?
Hey everybody. My laptop makes a bunch of noise when I turn it on. Yay. Why do you need that affirmation?
I had the same problem with an old (5,6 years?) gateway laptop. At the time that I bought it, it was a higher end model, and I got it with a 3 year warranty. Unfortunately, the case cracked a year or two ago and it was about 2 years out of warranty. I contacted them to find out if I could purchase the parts from them and fix it myself... They said I had to send it to them, but they ended up fixing it and a number of other small problems for free. I was ***very*** suprised, but thank you very much Gateway. If and when I buy another laptop, I'll put them under serious consideration.
He apparently did that
...broke his ipod, and bought a new one...
What a dumbass. He bought another anyway... An experience like that would force me to look elsewhere. I'm sure apple wishes they had more customers like that guy. Spray paint campaign aside, he bought 2 ipods and will probably never use anything but apple anyway.
I doubt that. I've got 768 on my desktop and 256 on my laptop. If you're running 32, I highly suggest that you drop 20 bucks on a 128 MB Dimm. You won't regret it. You don't run linux, do you?
Installing palm's hotsync utility under a user account in NT requires you to have administrative access under the user account that you wish to install it... Which means if user123 wants a palm, you've got to give them admin access, install it, and then take away admin access. You can't just install it under an admin account.
There's one example- but it's irrelevant. Viruses like the ILoveYou bug did plenty of damage to our network without having admin access. The real problem is Microsoft's complete lack of taking security into account when originally designing their programs (this web page wants to run that executable? ok!!) They're getting better, but things are still pretty fundamentally screwed up.
Also - Joe Average really wouldn't have any trouble running linux on a computer that came with it on it. They might not be familiar with it, and they might have to use different file extensions for some things to work perfectly, but after a few days they could use it for normal computing tasks (surfing web, email, typing documents, playing music, etc.)
Well, I don't know if asking some helpdesk lackey qualifies as a formal request, but he still hasn't been denied.
Did anyone formally request the source? The just might give it up. Imagine that. Why is this getting so much press?
The biggest converts will be businesses who can save mucho bucks on a few hundred workstations. Joe homeuser won't switch for the helluvit.
your analogy is flawed. There are other journaled file systems available. Reiser was included in the kernel long before it was ready. That was a dumb decision, and one that has soured Reiser's reputation among a lot of people. I'll continue to use Ext3. It works fine for me and has never corrupted my data.
For what my opinion it worth... We've got about 200 workstations (a decent enough size network) and we've got several RH servers... we standardize on every 3rd release (6.2, 7.2, and now 9) and don't have any problems. We've got redhat network subscriptions for updates and everything is rock solid. I see no need for "enterprise editions." Upgrading the servers every few years before end of life isn't that horrible for us... And there's usually compelling reasons like journaled file systems and new versions of ssh that justify it.
But you need to evaluate your own needs obviously.
I can - the last time I tried Reiser, it ate my home directory. i'm sure it's gotten better, but because it was included into the kernel while it should have been alpha, I'll never use it again.
And a lot too.
A log? What?