Mac folks seem to keep forgetting the fact that if it wasn't for Microsoft, Apple would have been down the tubes long ago. You can go on and on about superiority, blah, blah... no one really cares. The truth of the matter is that Microsoft could have pulled the plug on Apple long ago if they really wanted to. But they didn't --- Apple is a niche market, and not so much as a competitor as it was back it... umm.. was it ever really a competitor? 84 maybe?
Anyway, Bill Gates and Co. have put lots of bling-bling into Apple if you know what I mean.
run an OS that doesn't have to search the entire hard drive after you move the target of a shortcut? Don't tempt me. I have plenty more.
Now way?! Holy shit! I've got to switch to MacOS now! Apple's got to start going after details like that... it would work like Joe Fucking Camel on kids!
Right... QuickTime is like Real in that it likes to take over every mimetype imaginable on the system. I set it to only associate to MOVs and QTs.... you're right; it IS annoying as fuck.
Hahaha!! that is sooooo true. I loved it when he mentioned the "Puzzle" game on the apple menu.... I actually thought of it before I watched the clip.
I remember back in the grade school days when we thought Macs were the shit cause they had BreakOut/KnockOut on them. We would play that stupid, worthless game for hours!:-)
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Quicktime is proprietary crap, and the player on windows sucks.
That may be true for the standalone player, but I've been pretty pleased with the ActiveX Control that loads in IE... it loads instantly, and you can view movies while they are partially downloaded.
I'd switch to Apple / OSX Tomorrow...
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...If I get to bone that Ellen Feiss. God damn she is a hottie. Shoot, she didn't have to switch to a PowerBook... I would have gone over and fixed her PC for her... uh huh huh huh huh....
"Beavis, I think I have seen the light... uh huh huh huh huh huh....";-)
Hmm, I don't know about your experiences but I've found Intel's to be more reliable.
Ok so the AMD's have more performance, but they run hotter and are more liable to blow up (yeah ok, no evidence to back this up), The Intel chips jut seem to be built to more conservative tolerances.
Hmmm.... It was my understanding that the reason MS Windows Media Player can't play Real Streams (the old one used to play up to Real 4.x) is because of licensing issues with Real. What a bastardized, underhanded move by none other than... Real, Inc!
Contrary to popular belief, plastic doesn't last forever.
Since CD is made up of two layers of clear plastic, sandwitching a thin wafer of metal media inside, the more the CD is aged, the weaker the plastics of the CD become.
And so, the maximum spinning speed for a CD depends on how old the CD is.
I do have some pretty old CDs from the early 80's, and I will NOT put them in my 52X CDROM drive. Unless of course, I want to scrap bits and pieces out of my machine.:)
Asian markets skipped the whole VHS/VCR thing and went straight to VCDs. The good word is that you'd find a VCD player in an Asian's house as much as you would find a VCR in an American's house. VCRs are appearently a scarcity over there.
One great thing about VCD is that they work in standard DVD players (NTSC and PAL VCD discs only work in players for the respective formats, of course; a limitation not seen on computers).
Bzzzzzzt... and bzzzzzzt!
When I was DVD player shopping (not less than a year ago), I came upon a few DVD players that specifically said they would NOT play VCDs (a Sanyo, IIRC). BTW, my Apex and Daewoo DVD players play both PAL and NTSC VCDs without a hitch. There is a button on the remote labeled P/N that will switch the output. You can also set the output to NTSC only in the setup; the conversion is done dynamically in the DVD player!! (You may lose a few horiz lines when watching PAL VCDs tho, they are chopped off due to the format differences.) That's the bonus about those "cheapo" Chinese brands... they play everything under the sun, CDRs, MP3s, and let you disable Macrovision to boot!
The senseless waste of pitting these two mighty forces of nature against each other, like matter vs. anti-matter, will be a tragedy, not only for the teams involved... but for our planet. All nations must band together, to ensure that such a conflagration never takes place.
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Mac folks seem to keep forgetting the fact that if it wasn't for Microsoft, Apple would have been down the tubes long ago. You can go on and on about superiority, blah, blah... no one really cares. The truth of the matter is that Microsoft could have pulled the plug on Apple long ago if they really wanted to. But they didn't --- Apple is a niche market, and not so much as a competitor as it was back it... umm.. was it ever really a competitor? 84 maybe?
Anyway, Bill Gates and Co. have put lots of bling-bling into Apple if you know what I mean.
"My name is scrod, and I'm an elitist asshole."
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Does this mean that Slashdot is going to start a new Classifieds section?
run an OS that doesn't have to search the entire hard drive after you move the target of a shortcut? Don't tempt me. I have plenty more.
Now way?! Holy shit! I've got to switch to MacOS now! Apple's got to start going after details like that... it would work like Joe Fucking Camel on kids!
Right... QuickTime is like Real in that it likes to take over every mimetype imaginable on the system. I set it to only associate to MOVs and QTs.... you're right; it IS annoying as fuck.
Dude, I know what you're thinking, but she is sooo mine... sorry!
Hahaha!! that is sooooo true. I loved it when he mentioned the "Puzzle" game on the apple menu.... I actually thought of it before I watched the clip.
:-)
I remember back in the grade school days when we thought Macs were the shit cause they had BreakOut/KnockOut on them. We would play that stupid, worthless game for hours!
Quicktime is proprietary crap, and the player on windows sucks.
That may be true for the standalone player, but I've been pretty pleased with the ActiveX Control that loads in IE... it loads instantly, and you can view movies while they are partially downloaded.
...If I get to bone that Ellen Feiss. God damn she is a hottie. Shoot, she didn't have to switch to a PowerBook... I would have gone over and fixed her PC for her... uh huh huh huh huh....
;-)
"Beavis, I think I have seen the light... uh huh huh huh huh huh...."
Except for the choice of OS, looks pretty sweet. Any chance someone will get it to run Linux instead?
Jeez, concentrate on more important things running linux, like a toaster, for example.
Hmm, I don't know about your experiences but I've found Intel's to be more reliable.
Ok so the AMD's have more performance, but they run hotter and are more liable to blow up (yeah ok, no evidence to back this up), The Intel chips jut seem to be built to more conservative tolerances.
Just my 2 cents I guess...
I do believe that within this story lies that evidence.
Whoever modded the parent post flamebait is an AMD weenie.
Nah, the best was when there were two almost identical stories, both on the front page, only a couple of stories apart... ;)
Hmmm.... It was my understanding that the reason MS Windows Media Player can't play Real Streams (the old one used to play up to Real 4.x) is because of licensing issues with Real. What a bastardized, underhanded move by none other than... Real, Inc!
I wonder if there are Ctrl, Alt, and Del buttons on the F-22 cockpit console?
Maybe they should have gone with something more tried and true, like *nix, rather than writing their own custom code.
No offense, but... eat a dick.
*nix is not the solution to everything, no matter how much you may think this is the case.
The smell gets pretty bad after about 10 seconds or so... I don't think it can be any worse for you than secondhand smoke.
Contrary to popular belief, plastic doesn't last forever.
:)
Since CD is made up of two layers of clear plastic, sandwitching a thin wafer of metal media inside, the more the CD is aged, the weaker the plastics of the CD become.
And so, the maximum spinning speed for a CD depends on how old the CD is.
I do have some pretty old CDs from the early 80's, and I will NOT put them in my 52X CDROM drive. Unless of course, I want to scrap bits and pieces out of my machine.
Asian markets skipped the whole VHS/VCR thing and went straight to VCDs. The good word is that you'd find a VCD player in an Asian's house as much as you would find a VCR in an American's house. VCRs are appearently a scarcity over there.
One great thing about VCD is that they work in standard DVD players (NTSC and PAL VCD discs only work in players for the respective formats, of course; a limitation not seen on computers).
Bzzzzzzt... and bzzzzzzt!
When I was DVD player shopping (not less than a year ago), I came upon a few DVD players that specifically said they would NOT play VCDs (a Sanyo, IIRC). BTW, my Apex and Daewoo DVD players play both PAL and NTSC VCDs without a hitch. There is a button on the remote labeled P/N that will switch the output. You can also set the output to NTSC only in the setup; the conversion is done dynamically in the DVD player!! (You may lose a few horiz lines when watching PAL VCDs tho, they are chopped off due to the format differences.) That's the bonus about those "cheapo" Chinese brands... they play everything under the sun, CDRs, MP3s, and let you disable Macrovision to boot!
Yep, it's on the back of my Dell Dimension.
My Dell has a set of 4 LEDs on the back of the case that do the same thing... they light up in various configurations indicating trouble codes.
This violates our civil liberties, plain and simple. See the following for more information.
Hmm, good question.
The senseless waste of pitting these two mighty forces of nature against each other, like matter vs. anti-matter, will be a tragedy, not only for the teams involved... but for our planet. All nations must band together, to ensure that such a conflagration never takes place.
Personally, I think you're full of BS.
You fuckers. This was a question about Windows... which has encryption built in... yet you can't keep it in... sheesh!
It's useless, it doesn't even have a decent telnet client
Download one.
much less an X server
Maybe cause it's not a fucking Unix box!
can't get it near the Internet without it becoming 0wn3d by script kiddes or spyware, or both
Never happened to me!
You are a waste of space.