This comes mere weeks after Slate recommended Firefox over Internet Explorer."
More/. silliness. Slate has for years snarked about some of Microsoft's products. If The Company was that thin-skinned they would have brought the hammer down a long time ago.
I'm not saying that 512MB wouldn't be better but right now I have Firefox(with three tabs) taking up 45MB (which is more than usual), Thunderbird using 9.8MB plus a bunch of other crap taking up space (Folding@Home, AntiVir, Zone Alarm, etc.) and still plenty of room to go.
If my machine is going swap file heavy, I haven't noticed.
Agreed. WinXP's base boot configuration (once you load all of the device drivers and all of the patches and a few things like instant messaging and an MP3 player) is right around 200-256MB. Which doesn't leave much room for applications. It also gets worse over time as you add more doodads to the system.
I think something is seriously wrong with your computer then because I have more than that running right now and my Win XP Pro system is running very fast on 256 MB of RAM, and it not in fact sucking up all my RAM.
512MB is the real useable minimum for a WinXP machine being used for anything other then Notepad. And 1GB is vastly better, especially if your users have two monitors or keep a dozen different applications open at the same time.
Again, something is very wrong with your machine. Typically when I'm working I have running Firefox, Thunderbird, Word XP, TextPad, Fireworks 4, Dreamweaver MX 2004, some sort of MP3 or CD player and my machine is completely usable and I get my work done with a minimum of problems on my 256 MB of RAM (1 Ghz Athlon) machine.
> What if us Americans were deeply involved with John Rawls, Plato, Locke, Marx, Chomsky, Zinn, Derrida, Heidegger, Mohammend, Mark, Paul, Lao Tzu, Samjaya, Nagarjuna, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Heinlein, etc.... I guess we'd be a population of smart people.
Or logic challenged Islamic communists with a taste for science fiction.
Yes, but my point is, based on the chap I was replying to, that the acting was horrible, the sets were laughable and the special effects were atrocious, but the writing was fine. I mean seriously, that's a lot to put up with for an interesting story. Bad actors can bury even the best script, and the actors on B5 were bad.
> OK, the props were cardboard, the effects poor (I think it was the first mainstream production to use all computer special effects, and it shows) & it had horrendous acting, particularly in the first series, but I don't think we can really blame JMS for that. He had to work with what he could raise for it
So what you're telling me B5 (which I did occasionally watch) was essentially like a high school production of a Shakespeare play. Sure, the writing was fantastic but it was unwatchable otherwise.
I have to agree with you. It's one of the two things (the other being the tasks/to-do list feature that I really miss. I made the switch and I'm fairly happy about it but it was something I used in Outlook fairly regularly.
I have to thank that article. Because of it I finally moved to Firefox and Thunderbird. I don't miss IE6 at all though there are some things in Outlook that I do miss...
At any rate, I am happy though. If the media keeps reporting on alternatives I think a lot of other people could be converted.
Let me tell you, spaghetti sauce and laptop keyboards are not a good mix.
I was working on the couch in the rec room on my laptop when I got the bright idea to bring my dinner there and continue working. I accidentally tipped the plate towards the couch where my laptop was sitting and everything landed right on the keyboard. To make it worse: the sauce was a little watery. Good bye laptop.
I don't know about other people, but I view channels simply as a feeder system. I have a long list of shows that I've programmed into my VCR to tape and I watch what I want when I have the time. For people with PVRs and the ability to record programs the system might think you're interested in, it must be an even better way of watching television.
I honestly believe that quality of the best programs has risen further than anything we had in the past but that the average quality has gone down because of all the channels that have to be filled up, obviously creating a situation where a lot of dreck is being produced. Under that paradigm, there is no reason to even bother with the notion of 'channels'.
If you watch TV as I and PVR owners do, then there are obviously a lot of channels you have no need for. Women's TV? Spanish/Italian/French etc channels? E!? Sorry, don't need them, don't want 'em. I could ditch half the channels I have and wouldn't even notice.
I probably haven't explained myself clearly but I think that's one reason why the number of channels people are subscribing to are shrinking.
I love the Jobs Reality Distortion Field...now he can go back in time to create the first hard drive MP3 player. Forget about the others that came before!
Well, authorized piracy (ie, musician-sanctioned file/tape/cd sharing) in fact is the favored method of distribution for many musicians, not the least of which are the Grateful Dead...
Funny how you forgot to mention that the band only allowed its live shows to be recorded, traded, etc. and not its studio albums. Jerry Garcia didn't die a rich man because he gave away the bank.
It's a pity no one got that reference.
Narrator: Because it affords him other interesting opportunities.
Tyler Durden: Like splicing single frames of porn into family films...
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Yes, but does it support OGG Vorbis?
More /. silliness. Slate has for years snarked about some of Microsoft's products. If The Company was that thin-skinned they would have brought the hammer down a long time ago.
Boh! I must have been drinking.
This totally explains why I haven't been able to buy a copy of Willenium anywhere. All the copies are in Milwaukee!
> Yeah, but Pink Floyd has talent. U2 is just a bunch of self important pompus asses...
Oh yeah, no self-important pompous asses were ever in Pink Floyd. Roger Daltry called, he wants to be acknowledged.
I'm not saying that 512MB wouldn't be better but right now I have Firefox(with three tabs) taking up 45MB (which is more than usual), Thunderbird using 9.8MB plus a bunch of other crap taking up space (Folding@Home, AntiVir, Zone Alarm, etc.) and still plenty of room to go.
If my machine is going swap file heavy, I haven't noticed.
I think something is seriously wrong with your computer then because I have more than that running right now and my Win XP Pro system is running very fast on 256 MB of RAM, and it not in fact sucking up all my RAM.
512MB is the real useable minimum for a WinXP machine being used for anything other then Notepad. And 1GB is vastly better, especially if your users have two monitors or keep a dozen different applications open at the same time.
Again, something is very wrong with your machine. Typically when I'm working I have running Firefox, Thunderbird, Word XP, TextPad, Fireworks 4, Dreamweaver MX 2004, some sort of MP3 or CD player and my machine is completely usable and I get my work done with a minimum of problems on my 256 MB of RAM (1 Ghz Athlon) machine.
Ahhh, the widdle AC said something!
> What if us Americans were deeply involved with John Rawls, Plato, Locke, Marx, Chomsky, Zinn, Derrida, Heidegger, Mohammend, Mark, Paul, Lao Tzu, Samjaya, Nagarjuna, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Heinlein, etc.... I guess we'd be a population of smart people. Or logic challenged Islamic communists with a taste for science fiction.
"Ninety percent of everything is crap". Source
> No way, go to the New York Times. Then you get some writing, rather than just a machine-gun spray of facts.
This is so true. The NY Times is certainly not to be visited if you're looking for facts.
Yes, but my point is, based on the chap I was replying to, that the acting was horrible, the sets were laughable and the special effects were atrocious, but the writing was fine. I mean seriously, that's a lot to put up with for an interesting story. Bad actors can bury even the best script, and the actors on B5 were bad.
> OK, the props were cardboard, the effects poor (I think it was the first mainstream production to use all computer special effects, and it shows) & it had horrendous acting, particularly in the first series, but I don't think we can really blame JMS for that. He had to work with what he could raise for it
So what you're telling me B5 (which I did occasionally watch) was essentially like a high school production of a Shakespeare play. Sure, the writing was fantastic but it was unwatchable otherwise.
I have to agree with you. It's one of the two things (the other being the tasks/to-do list feature that I really miss. I made the switch and I'm fairly happy about it but it was something I used in Outlook fairly regularly.
I have to thank that article. Because of it I finally moved to Firefox and Thunderbird. I don't miss IE6 at all though there are some things in Outlook that I do miss...
At any rate, I am happy though. If the media keeps reporting on alternatives I think a lot of other people could be converted.
Let me tell you, spaghetti sauce and laptop keyboards are not a good mix.
I was working on the couch in the rec room on my laptop when I got the bright idea to bring my dinner there and continue working. I accidentally tipped the plate towards the couch where my laptop was sitting and everything landed right on the keyboard. To make it worse: the sauce was a little watery. Good bye laptop.
I don't know about other people, but I view channels simply as a feeder system. I have a long list of shows that I've programmed into my VCR to tape and I watch what I want when I have the time. For people with PVRs and the ability to record programs the system might think you're interested in, it must be an even better way of watching television.
I honestly believe that quality of the best programs has risen further than anything we had in the past but that the average quality has gone down because of all the channels that have to be filled up, obviously creating a situation where a lot of dreck is being produced. Under that paradigm, there is no reason to even bother with the notion of 'channels'.
If you watch TV as I and PVR owners do, then there are obviously a lot of channels you have no need for. Women's TV? Spanish/Italian/French etc channels? E!? Sorry, don't need them, don't want 'em. I could ditch half the channels I have and wouldn't even notice.
I probably haven't explained myself clearly but I think that's one reason why the number of channels people are subscribing to are shrinking.
> being the first to market,
I love the Jobs Reality Distortion Field...now he can go back in time to create the first hard drive MP3 player. Forget about the others that came before!
Don't buy the album. It's as boring as fsck. Drum machines and rote lyrics...
I used to use Word 5.1 on a Mac Classic II back in the day. It. Just. Worked. I wrote my thesis on that box and with 5.1.
That just goes to show that lousy editing can be found at both web sites. Shocking really.
Of course, I never expected a headline saying "Listen to the universe on WMP!"
Wow, we're actually getting a post from the 1960s, the last time someone actually said "we use Keynsian economics now" and was remotely right.
Funny how you forgot to mention that the band only allowed its live shows to be recorded, traded, etc. and not its studio albums. Jerry Garcia didn't die a rich man because he gave away the bank.
Someone mod up the parent post in this thread!
It's a pity no one got that reference. Narrator: Because it affords him other interesting opportunities. Tyler Durden: Like splicing single frames of porn into family films...