New network stack, kernel, driver model, GDI, interface, hardware layer. If thats what you think of as a small change I'd hate to see what you think is a major one.
Slashdoter: Why wont Microsoft just drop the Windows code base and start over? There are too many problems to fix.
Microsoft: Ok, Windows XP and 2003 have a full rewrite of the TCP/IP stack and security system.
Slashdoter: Why did Microsoft rewrite the core OS? They just introduced more bugs and lost the stability and security fixes from older versions of the OS?
I for one would rather get kicked in the bean bag then be forced to use Cygwin. But thats just me. I'll see how this compares to UWIN when its out for download.
Let me be the first to say, that the WIPO sucks ass. The company I'm with had their domain taken away despite having a good claim to it because we couldn't afford to send a lawyer to Geneva to argue our case.
Indeed it is. However since it is not supported by any of the portable players I use I have to say that I dont care. I've looked at getting a Rio Karma, which supprots OOG as well as has an ethernet dock (the two real selling points). However I dont realy need the 20gigs of space and I dont want to pay that much for an audio player. If someone released a usb drive sized player with OGG, Flac, WMA, MP3, ACC and ethernet I'd buy it right away (assumming it was around 100$).
bitrates are not equal between codecs. Encode the same source to 64kb MP3 and 64kb WMA/ACC and the MP3 loses. Most players support WMA while far fewer support ACC. For solid state players, using a codec that saves space makes a lot of sense.
Question: What MP3 player works with the Apple Music store? (I know it's called the iTunes store, but who actually says that?)
Answer: With the what music store?
Question: The online music store run by Apple Computers.
Anser: What computers? I have a Dell with 256 giga pixels of CDs.
Question: No, no. Thats a Windows based computer made by Dell. Apple computers run an OS based on BSD UNIX. The same company runs an online store where you can buy songs.
Anser : ?......... So you mean like Warehouse-music.com? I use that through AOL. Whats it got to do with fruit?
Question : Never mind....
Most people have no idea what a computer can realy do much less be able to do much with it. They walk into CompUSA or CircutCity with their pants around their ankles and their wallet open.
Answer: Ummmm....
So when my non Microsoft audio player holds twice as many songs when I use WMA (compressed using a non microsoft application) then when I use MP3 with no noticable diference in quality, how is that Microsoft "using its monopolistic hold on the desktop operating system sector to push it's other less superior products"?
My interpitation was that the question of "Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop?" was thrown out to the/. forum. Since I just got parts for my laptop from eBay I didn't think anyone would object to me posting such. Guess I was wrong. Wo betide all those who check on eBay for parts, for yours is the fate of the redundent moderation.
Hey, thats better then what Netscape did. Used to be that running Netscape on say, a Solaris system would mean you had to reboot just about every other page load. Or rather Netscape would cause a kernel panic every other page load.
Its not like Microsoft invented crap software, its been around forever.
I'm reminded of the first sneak peaks of the N64.
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I recall going to an E3 show where Nintindo was showing off what they claimed was the N64. Problem was that the so called N64 boxes where not even plugged into anything and all the graphics on the screen where being run from a series of SGI reality engines.
Unless they show the thing working in a public place and host images in a manor that does not require me to give my contact information to a seamingly disrequtable company they may as well not bother.
would someone go to such elaborate measures and great expense(putting together a prototype, sending exhibitors to CES, et al.) just to not demonstrate anything? No one has ever seen this system running, the offices of the company are one empty room in a strip mall. If its not a hoax it would be easy to prove, just show a system that does somthing.
Well, what H&R Block is doing is legal, while what Lindows was trying to do was not. Whats more H&R Block was giving you money rather then software and you have to have a real claim to the money in order to get it.
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I do't kow what you're talkig about. I spelled damed correctly.
New network stack, kernel, driver model, GDI, interface, hardware layer. If thats what you think of as a small change I'd hate to see what you think is a major one.
Microsoft: Ok, Windows XP and 2003 have a full rewrite of the TCP/IP stack and security system.
Slashdoter: Why did Microsoft rewrite the core OS? They just introduced more bugs and lost the stability and security fixes from older versions of the OS?
No, we only know what a portion of it is used for. There's a diference.
Hey, I have enough problems finding work without having to worry about primates.
Sounds like my apartment. Well I dont have much BSD stuff and I use Netscreen firewalls. Also you would have to add SGI to the workstations list.
I for one would rather get kicked in the bean bag then be forced to use Cygwin. But thats just me. I'll see how this compares to UWIN when its out for download.
Let me be the first to say, that the WIPO sucks ass. The company I'm with had their domain taken away despite having a good claim to it because we couldn't afford to send a lawyer to Geneva to argue our case.
Indeed it is. However since it is not supported by any of the portable players I use I have to say that I dont care. I've looked at getting a Rio Karma, which supprots OOG as well as has an ethernet dock (the two real selling points). However I dont realy need the 20gigs of space and I dont want to pay that much for an audio player. If someone released a usb drive sized player with OGG, Flac, WMA, MP3, ACC and ethernet I'd buy it right away (assumming it was around 100$).
bitrates are not equal between codecs. Encode the same source to 64kb MP3 and 64kb WMA/ACC and the MP3 loses. Most players support WMA while far fewer support ACC. For solid state players, using a codec that saves space makes a lot of sense.
Question: What MP3 player works with the Apple Music store? (I know it's called the iTunes store, but who actually says that?)
Answer: With the what music store?
Question: The online music store run by Apple Computers.
Anser: What computers? I have a Dell with 256 giga pixels of CDs.
Question: No, no. Thats a Windows based computer made by Dell. Apple computers run an OS based on BSD UNIX. The same company runs an online store where you can buy songs.
Anser : ? ......... So you mean like Warehouse-music.com? I use that through AOL. Whats it got to do with fruit?
Question : Never mind....
Most people have no idea what a computer can realy do much less be able to do much with it. They walk into CompUSA or CircutCity with their pants around their ankles and their wallet open. Answer: Ummmm....
So when my non Microsoft audio player holds twice as many songs when I use WMA (compressed using a non microsoft application) then when I use MP3 with no noticable diference in quality, how is that Microsoft "using its monopolistic hold on the desktop operating system sector to push it's other less superior products"?
So they dont want to limit their customers choices. And they do this by limiting the number of file types they support?
The last book in the series was titled ?the fifth in the increasingly inappropriately named Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy.?
But I'd have to first start buying their products inorder to stop.
And since HE tried eBay with no luck there must be no notebook parts on eBay at all. So dont anyone else ever try looking there.
My interpitation was that the question of "Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop?" was thrown out to the /. forum. Since I just got parts for my laptop from eBay I didn't think anyone would object to me posting such. Guess I was wrong. Wo betide all those who check on eBay for parts, for yours is the fate of the redundent moderation.
That he was unable to find the part he needed in no way makes it a bad place to look for parts. Why is THAT hard to understand?
In a word, eBay. I just got a new CPU fan, power board and bag o' screws for my old N505VE Sony ultralight. Total cost was around 10$.
Its not like Microsoft invented crap software, its been around forever.
I recall going to an E3 show where Nintindo was showing off what they claimed was the N64. Problem was that the so called N64 boxes where not even plugged into anything and all the graphics on the screen where being run from a series of SGI reality engines.
Unless they show the thing working in a public place and host images in a manor that does not require me to give my contact information to a seamingly disrequtable company they may as well not bother.
would someone go to such elaborate measures and great expense(putting together a prototype, sending exhibitors to CES, et al.) just to not demonstrate anything? No one has ever seen this system running, the offices of the company are one empty room in a strip mall. If its not a hoax it would be easy to prove, just show a system that does somthing.
Well, what H&R Block is doing is legal, while what Lindows was trying to do was not. Whats more H&R Block was giving you money rather then software and you have to have a real claim to the money in order to get it.
It means Microsoft said "can not!" and Michael said "can too!" and when the teacher agreed with Microsoft, Michael went home crying to his mother.