You've also taken away one source for the recommendations-engine, the only thing making the site worthwhile.
Also how many indie labels will be willing to give their music for free to a service demanding payment from pretty much the entire world to listen to this music? I expect lots of indie-labels to withdraw their music based on this.
Finally when only people in the US, UK and Germany is feeding the system new input, except the recommendations to go stale, users to stop caring and the site to quietly die a slow death.
This article (in the context of being posted on slashdot) to me just seems like a chance for overly zealous Linux-fanboys to take a shit on Microsoft,.NET and "bloat".
Think people who spend a weekend to custom-compile their kernel with nothing as modules, everything else excluded and perfectly narrowed down to the things they need and nothing more. Just to save a massive 4KB of memory footprint.
After which they sit down and pat themselves on the back, knowing that their Linux environment is as optimized as it can be and that the lack of those 4KBs which can now be used as a system-cache will never impede their system's performance ever again.
Until they start wondering if compiling with -funroll-loops might save them 2-digit CPU-cycles per month and how that measures up to the increased memory usage.
You know: those guys. Ignore them, don't take them seriously, and don't expect them to know jack shit about development of any sizeable real-world project.
I see you at least keep your mind partially open to the idea that.NET isn't total crap. This is good..NET was basically Microsoft's attempt to replicate Java and what Java did well, and in the process improve what wasn't really optimal. Basically it is MS Java with the hindsight earned after of letting Java plow the field for a few years.
The result is neat.
I used to code Java, but when exposed to the.NET Framework, I pretty much ditched Java for C# instantly. C# is very much like Java, but with a few nice additions to make life simpler.
It has delegates (type-safe function pointers) making things like event-handling and loose coupling of code much more elegant. It has properties which is a hybrid between method and member letting you work with class-data in a more natural way, instead of constantly referencing get-methods and set-methods, in effect making the code much more readable while still retaining full control of what goes in and what goes out.
Basically, with.NET Microsoft improved Java. With the mono-project.NET-code got platform independent at a binary-portable level. Even for the anti-MS crowd, there is no reason to shit on this monumental achievement.
Not to be presumptuous, but I will assume you live in the US, since you say "no significant difference. Allow me to elaborate.
I live in Europe and I want to buy Japanese stuff. Not to mention special criterion editions of select movies. If I take the movie industry's history into account here with regular DVD-zones, I can guarantee you that without a zone-free player I am getting none of that. No significant difference indeed.
If prosecuting someone for illegally copying copyrighted content takes flattening half a rain forest to cover the paper-work, I say this "intellectual property"-thing might not be worth it.
Indeed, both format were functionally the same for consumers. Not a single significantly different feature for consumers. Thus all they were doing was delaying HD adoption.
Except one format has region-encoding which prevents imports and allow artificial market-segregation. Guess which format that is?
I was about to say "I still hope HDDVD manages to get its act together", but that would be kinda unfair, given the HDDVD format was completely implemented in all players and the players were cheap. Blu-ray was not only the format with region-encoding, but also had its players released not implementing full Blu-ray specs, just to beat HDDVD.
And you consumers are all "Go Blu-ray!". A pretty sad bunch you are.
This laptop I am working on now ($5k USD class laptop) came delivered with Vista. Let me give a few exmaples of what I had to deal with to make the issues clear.
A quick example of this would be how I needed to copy high-bitrate media-files (HDTV, 20mbps) locally before I could play them in Vista. On GigE freakin' LAN.
Copying 4GB+ virtual machines, again on GigE LAN could take better parts of a day. Checking the performance monitor, I could see that I had 10mbps actual data-transfer. I'm not kidding here. IO was beyond piss poor.
This is something I've never had issues with in any other OS. I'm not calling it unacceptable. I'm saying it's fucking crap.
In short: There were a few improvements I honestly liked in Vista (apart from the eyecandy), and those were really nice improvements, but honestly...
All the issues I had in Vista which I assumed any modern OS has tackled years ago, with regards to performance, usability and all that were simply too much for me to handle. I'm back at XP SP2 and I feel like that's the biggest hardware upgrade I have ever done.
That, however, is nothing compared to what this guy did.
Reading these it's pretty obvious why Vista has exactly the issues it has, and why MS sucking up to the entertainment industry probably is the worst business move they have ever made.
Please explain how complaining about how installing Palm-software requires administrator-access and the efforts of the IT-department make a valid point in any way, when iTunes requires exactly the same. And please do explain how my this so called fallacy does not exist.
So you are saying Palm software does not require admin rights to install?
Just for clarity. I'm saying installing iTunes also requires administrator privileges. Which is just one of the numerous broken arguments are factual errors I found in the so called "article".
So is it that the article itself is biased, accidentally wrong or just written by a bitter Apple-supporter who can't stand people laughing at this overpriced, yet-to-come non-news? Either way: It's written by a moron or a zealot and this is pretty obvious.
He complains that "Installing Palm OS software on Windows requires admin rights, forcing an administrator to install the software on every machine that syncs with a Palm.", then follows up with this:
What does the iPhone require of IT? Installation of iTunes, which users can manage themselves.
You seriously can't mean that this is a good article.
I could go into more details, but really. If seeing that ain't enough to convince you this guy is a overly biased Apple-zealot, then nothing will.
Dude fuck that. All those are lackings, mad lackings, which pretty much puts it behind any $10 phone I can pick up on the street. This however is irrelevant.
It has NO sim-slot. You are tied to one operator.
This might fly in the US where people are used to telco's screwing them over, but will never sell at all outside the US where people are used to 100% unlocked phones, total freedom to do anything they want with their phone, and ability to switch operator and keep their number at will if a cheaper offer comes by.
This phone will cost the consumer the price of the iPhone plus the costs of the operator lockin. This will never fly outside the US, which happen to be the worlds biggest cellphone market.
I take it you didn't know Opera runs on pretty much any mainstream phone-platform these days?
There is today no better browser for surfing regular pages on a cellphone regardless of resolution compared to Opera. I use Firefox exclusively on PCs, but for cellphones it's Opera, and Opera only.
Also, I run Opera on a 3G phone and have been doing that for quite a while. You know, since modem speeds suck and all.
Why would you need to make a deal with operators in order to sell a phone?
In Europe the GSM marked is open. You buy a phone. You buy a service subscription. These two things are not related, unless you want a subsidized phone.
As for the topic itself... The only thing it shows is how the state of the US cellular market is years behind the rest of the world. And how people seem to think phone and service are related and connected in any way, apart from phones needing a network to work with.
And you expect anyone to care about the truth on slashdot as long as it makes Microsoft look bad?
Also 1920x1080 plays fine on this Vista installation. Just don't touch DRMed content, use open formats and you are fine. But you probably knew that already.
On this legal copy of Vista I can play 1920x1080 content just fine. Because I simply don't touch DRMed content. Your paranoia borderlines stupidity (or you know nothing about programming) if you think a "bug" will cause normal video-operations to randomly generate calls to the DRM-subsystem.
Yes. The Vista DRM do indeed suck. Yes. It would be a better OS without it. No. It will not in any way affect any media you consume, as long as it's not DRMed.
You'd think the "smart people" of slashdot which "are much more enlightened than Joe Average" would be capable of grasping this simple concept.
You are trolling, right? Your rant basically consists of few obvious misunderstandings or statements that are factually wrong.
Seems like a knee-jerk reaction from someone who doesn't understand what XML is and its intended purpose. Seeing the HTML remark was rather amusing though. Way to go to show your ignorance on the subject.
BTW: XML is not designed to or intended to be a SQL replacement. Only morons would think that, claim that or use it as such.
Suuuuuuuuure. I'm absolutely certain Microsoft will kick out the technologically superior ASP.NET in favour of PHP which has stood exactly where it started ever since it's conception. Absolutely sure!
That was sarcasm, btw. Microsoft already did their own PHP, it was called "ASP" and was just as shitty as PHP was back then and is today. Maybe even a few tads worse. As a developer in MS-land, I say "Thank god they moved forward and ditched that POS". So just relax. I don't think they're going back there again. Your PHP will probably be safe.
I am absolutely certain that this audio-fingerprinting software is aware of the concept of fair use and has embedded logic to handle cases where fair use is employed.
Ok. I'm having troubles writing that without losing my face.
In my experience Winamp5 sucks incredible amounts of memory when you have a decent music library. I'm talking over 200 megabytes just to have a music player running. Hint: Check VM usage and Peak memory usage aside from the seemingly compete "memory usage" in task manager.
Not to mention Winamp still doesn't do unicode. Basicly, the developers said they couldn't add unicode support without breaking the plugins back in the 2.0 days. Then they changed the model, broke the plugins and still refused to add unicode support.
In short: It's bloated, and crap. Only thing Winamp has going for it these days is the huge amount of plugins and skins.
While I will agree it's not for everyone, I really like Foobar200. On my system it uses around 13MBs of RAM, as opposed to Winamps 200MBs+.
I've found foobar2000 to be very nice.
It's a typical hacker-player that can be mod'ed to do anything you want it to, but the base is just a simple, lightweight music player with a library, superb format-support (except iTunes MPEG4 lossless) and otherwise no fuzz.
I ditched Winamp5 for Foobar when I saw Winamp using 200MBs+ of RAM with my current music-library. Plus Winamp is shit and doesn't support unicode.
Excuse me. What part of reporting a channel for banning since it was clearly being a botnet chanel did you miss?
He reported a channel for being exlusively used for abuse, and the admins did nada. As a admin on a (rather small) IRC network, I find this behaviour appaling. If I knew my network was being abused to run botnets by kiddies, I'd take action immidiately.
If rizon was, as he said, informed and did nothing, I think they should be held partly responsible.
Ever since I said my honest opinion about slackware and asked why anyone would use it, albeit in a very non-compromising approach, my server logs has exploded with poor bruteforce attempts, even lamer SQL Injection attemps and generally weak kiddie action all over my server.
Even though I refrained from saying so directly in any of my other posts... Way to prove that Slackware is a immature platform with a immature userbase.
You guys can stop polluting my logs now. It's honestly getting boring.
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You've also taken away one source for the recommendations-engine, the only thing making the site worthwhile.
Also how many indie labels will be willing to give their music for free to a service demanding payment from pretty much the entire world to listen to this music? I expect lots of indie-labels to withdraw their music based on this.
Finally when only people in the US, UK and Germany is feeding the system new input, except the recommendations to go stale, users to stop caring and the site to quietly die a slow death.
This article (in the context of being posted on slashdot) to me just seems like a chance for overly zealous Linux-fanboys to take a shit on Microsoft, .NET and "bloat".
Think people who spend a weekend to custom-compile their kernel with nothing as modules, everything else excluded and perfectly narrowed down to the things they need and nothing more. Just to save a massive 4KB of memory footprint.
After which they sit down and pat themselves on the back, knowing that their Linux environment is as optimized as it can be and that the lack of those 4KBs which can now be used as a system-cache will never impede their system's performance ever again.
Until they start wondering if compiling with -funroll-loops might save them 2-digit CPU-cycles per month and how that measures up to the increased memory usage.
You know: those guys. Ignore them, don't take them seriously, and don't expect them to know jack shit about development of any sizeable real-world project.
I see you at least keep your mind partially open to the idea that .NET isn't total crap. This is good. .NET was basically Microsoft's attempt to replicate Java and what Java did well, and in the process improve what wasn't really optimal. Basically it is MS Java with the hindsight earned after of letting Java plow the field for a few years.
The result is neat.
I used to code Java, but when exposed to the .NET Framework, I pretty much ditched Java for C# instantly. C# is very much like Java, but with a few nice additions to make life simpler.
It has delegates (type-safe function pointers) making things like event-handling and loose coupling of code much more elegant. It has properties which is a hybrid between method and member letting you work with class-data in a more natural way, instead of constantly referencing get-methods and set-methods, in effect making the code much more readable while still retaining full control of what goes in and what goes out.
Basically, with .NET Microsoft improved Java. With the mono-project .NET-code got platform independent at a binary-portable level. Even for the anti-MS crowd, there is no reason to shit on this monumental achievement.
I used to love Java, but these days I'm all C#.
You expect PHP programmers of all people to understand the benefits of a thorough and consistent API with standarized interfaces and object-nesting?
Good luck with that.
Not to be presumptuous, but I will assume you live in the US, since you say "no significant difference. Allow me to elaborate.
I live in Europe and I want to buy Japanese stuff. Not to mention special criterion editions of select movies. If I take the movie industry's history into account here with regular DVD-zones, I can guarantee you that without a zone-free player I am getting none of that. No significant difference indeed.
Guess I'll just have to pirate shit instead.
If prosecuting someone for illegally copying copyrighted content takes flattening half a rain forest to cover the paper-work, I say this "intellectual property"-thing might not be worth it.
Indeed, both format were functionally the same for consumers. Not a single significantly different feature for consumers. Thus all they were doing was delaying HD adoption.
Except one format has region-encoding which prevents imports and allow artificial market-segregation. Guess which format that is?
I was about to say "I still hope HDDVD manages to get its act together", but that would be kinda unfair, given the HDDVD format was completely implemented in all players and the players were cheap. Blu-ray was not only the format with region-encoding, but also had its players released not implementing full Blu-ray specs, just to beat HDDVD.
And you consumers are all "Go Blu-ray!". A pretty sad bunch you are.
This laptop I am working on now ($5k USD class laptop) came delivered with Vista. Let me give a few exmaples of what I had to deal with to make the issues clear.
A quick example of this would be how I needed to copy high-bitrate media-files (HDTV, 20mbps) locally before I could play them in Vista. On GigE freakin' LAN.
Copying 4GB+ virtual machines, again on GigE LAN could take better parts of a day. Checking the performance monitor, I could see that I had 10mbps actual data-transfer. I'm not kidding here. IO was beyond piss poor.
This is something I've never had issues with in any other OS. I'm not calling it unacceptable. I'm saying it's fucking crap.
In short: There were a few improvements I honestly liked in Vista (apart from the eyecandy), and those were really nice improvements, but honestly...
All the issues I had in Vista which I assumed any modern OS has tackled years ago, with regards to performance, usability and all that were simply too much for me to handle. I'm back at XP SP2 and I feel like that's the biggest hardware upgrade I have ever done.
For those interested in the technical aspects of this, I would wrote a simple, hypothetical article on the aspects of OS complexity and performance from a developers point of view on the tight Kernel-DRM coupling some time back.
That, however, is nothing compared to what this guy did.
Reading these it's pretty obvious why Vista has exactly the issues it has, and why MS sucking up to the entertainment industry probably is the worst business move they have ever made.
Please explain how complaining about how installing Palm-software requires administrator-access and the efforts of the IT-department make a valid point in any way, when iTunes requires exactly the same. And please do explain how my this so called fallacy does not exist.
I'm eagerly awaiting.
So you are saying Palm software does not require admin rights to install?
Just for clarity. I'm saying installing iTunes also requires administrator privileges. Which is just one of the numerous broken arguments are factual errors I found in the so called "article".
Article worked for me too.
So is it that the article itself is biased, accidentally wrong or just written by a bitter Apple-supporter who can't stand people laughing at this overpriced, yet-to-come non-news? Either way: It's written by a moron or a zealot and this is pretty obvious.
He complains that "Installing Palm OS software on Windows requires admin rights, forcing an administrator to install the software on every machine that syncs with a Palm.", then follows up with this:
What does the iPhone require of IT? Installation of iTunes, which users can manage themselves.You seriously can't mean that this is a good article.
I could go into more details, but really. If seeing that ain't enough to convince you this guy is a overly biased Apple-zealot, then nothing will.
Dude fuck that. All those are lackings, mad lackings, which pretty much puts it behind any $10 phone I can pick up on the street. This however is irrelevant.
It has NO sim-slot. You are tied to one operator.
This might fly in the US where people are used to telco's screwing them over, but will never sell at all outside the US where people are used to 100% unlocked phones, total freedom to do anything they want with their phone, and ability to switch operator and keep their number at will if a cheaper offer comes by.
This phone will cost the consumer the price of the iPhone plus the costs of the operator lockin. This will never fly outside the US, which happen to be the worlds biggest cellphone market.
I take it you didn't know Opera runs on pretty much any mainstream phone-platform these days?
There is today no better browser for surfing regular pages on a cellphone regardless of resolution compared to Opera. I use Firefox exclusively on PCs, but for cellphones it's Opera, and Opera only.
Also, I run Opera on a 3G phone and have been doing that for quite a while. You know, since modem speeds suck and all.
Why would you need to make a deal with operators in order to sell a phone?
In Europe the GSM marked is open. You buy a phone. You buy a service subscription. These two things are not related, unless you want a subsidized phone.
As for the topic itself... The only thing it shows is how the state of the US cellular market is years behind the rest of the world. And how people seem to think phone and service are related and connected in any way, apart from phones needing a network to work with.
And you expect anyone to care about the truth on slashdot as long as it makes Microsoft look bad?
Also 1920x1080 plays fine on this Vista installation. Just don't touch DRMed content, use open formats and you are fine. But you probably knew that already.
On this legal copy of Vista I can play 1920x1080 content just fine. Because I simply don't touch DRMed content. Your paranoia borderlines stupidity (or you know nothing about programming) if you think a "bug" will cause normal video-operations to randomly generate calls to the DRM-subsystem.
Yes. The Vista DRM do indeed suck. Yes. It would be a better OS without it. No. It will not in any way affect any media you consume, as long as it's not DRMed.
You'd think the "smart people" of slashdot which "are much more enlightened than Joe Average" would be capable of grasping this simple concept.
You are trolling, right? Your rant basically consists of few obvious misunderstandings or statements that are factually wrong.
Seems like a knee-jerk reaction from someone who doesn't understand what XML is and its intended purpose. Seeing the HTML remark was rather amusing though. Way to go to show your ignorance on the subject.
BTW: XML is not designed to or intended to be a SQL replacement. Only morons would think that, claim that or use it as such.
Suuuuuuuuure. I'm absolutely certain Microsoft will kick out the technologically superior ASP.NET in favour of PHP which has stood exactly where it started ever since it's conception. Absolutely sure!
That was sarcasm, btw. Microsoft already did their own PHP, it was called "ASP" and was just as shitty as PHP was back then and is today. Maybe even a few tads worse. As a developer in MS-land, I say "Thank god they moved forward and ditched that POS". So just relax. I don't think they're going back there again. Your PHP will probably be safe.
You obviously missed the point about "Fair use" when I mentioned "Fair use", as I never mentioned full blown copyright infringement.
Better luck next time.
I am absolutely certain that this audio-fingerprinting software is aware of the concept of fair use and has embedded logic to handle cases where fair use is employed.
Ok. I'm having troubles writing that without losing my face.
In my experience Winamp5 sucks incredible amounts of memory when you have a decent music library. I'm talking over 200 megabytes just to have a music player running. Hint: Check VM usage and Peak memory usage aside from the seemingly compete "memory usage" in task manager.
Not to mention Winamp still doesn't do unicode. Basicly, the developers said they couldn't add unicode support without breaking the plugins back in the 2.0 days. Then they changed the model, broke the plugins and still refused to add unicode support.
In short: It's bloated, and crap. Only thing Winamp has going for it these days is the huge amount of plugins and skins.
While I will agree it's not for everyone, I really like Foobar200. On my system it uses around 13MBs of RAM, as opposed to Winamps 200MBs+.
I've found foobar2000 to be very nice. It's a typical hacker-player that can be mod'ed to do anything you want it to, but the base is just a simple, lightweight music player with a library, superb format-support (except iTunes MPEG4 lossless) and otherwise no fuzz.
I ditched Winamp5 for Foobar when I saw Winamp using 200MBs+ of RAM with my current music-library. Plus Winamp is shit and doesn't support unicode.Excuse me. What part of reporting a channel for banning since it was clearly being a botnet chanel did you miss?
He reported a channel for being exlusively used for abuse, and the admins did nada. As a admin on a (rather small) IRC network, I find this behaviour appaling. If I knew my network was being abused to run botnets by kiddies, I'd take action immidiately.
If rizon was, as he said, informed and did nothing, I think they should be held partly responsible.
Who writes this shit? Or worse, posts it as news.
No. This isn't shit. This really is different. See, it's Web 2.0, not just plain, old www!
Ever since I said my honest opinion about slackware and asked why anyone would use it, albeit in a very non-compromising approach, my server logs has exploded with poor bruteforce attempts, even lamer SQL Injection attemps and generally weak kiddie action all over my server.
Even though I refrained from saying so directly in any of my other posts... Way to prove that Slackware is a immature platform with a immature userbase.
You guys can stop polluting my logs now. It's honestly getting boring.