t's funny how CD/DVD burning software is the one that doesn't work. I remember when I upgraded to Windows 2000 (it might have been xp), and none of the CD Burning programs I had worked anymore.
What I want to know is why the file browser doesn't have this capability on its own? Finder in OSX does burning well enough. Gnome is actually the easiest -- just right click on an iso and choose "burn", or drag a bunch of files to the CD icon and burn those. You would think that MS could afford to have cd/dvd burner built right in. The CD/DVD is today's equivalent to the floppy you know, seems a major oversight to leave out the ability to write data to removable discs.
Before you mod me troll, RTFA #5. Then mod me troll.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with Vista file transfer performance? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista box for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Color iBook G3, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Vista compatible heavy duty hardware, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Explorer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on my Vista beast, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista machine that has run faster than my old C64, despite the latest dual core goodness and a $400 video card in this Vista box. My TRS-80 color computer with 16 KB (that's "kilo", not "mega") of ram runs faster than this core 2 duo machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Vista is a superior OS.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Wow. Commercial standards in the software industry are real crap if that's how you think about this. Fact is, the guy bought something that was advertised as doing X but when he tried to use it, it was totally broken. He does have a right to be mad. It's just like buying something and finding out it's shoddy garbage that breaks the moment it's pulled from the box. There's even a whole industry of consumer quality research grown up around the idea that you should expect things to work like advertised. There's classic law on the subject, i.e., a product will do what the manufacturer says it will it do and if it doesn't, there are consequences. But in the software industry, you can sell something that is broken before the box is opened and expect the customer to suck it up. That's BS. In the GP's example, the reason the software failed was because the company chose a broken activation scheme. He had a right to be pissed from the start.
I'm with you on this. At first I was really excited about the iPhone, and then details came out. This looks like real competition for the iPhone. I don't understand why there are so many negative comments. There are plenty of people who want a phone+computing device. Perhaps not as many as those who want a phone+ipod, but so what. And when you compare specs, this thing isn't bad at all. For example, the OM has a 640x480 resolution. The iPhone has 320x480. The iPhone has a larger built in memory capacity, but the OM will take memory cards and as we all know, they are continuously getting larger and cheaper. As I'm currently in the market for a replacement PDA and phone, I'm interested in the OM. The price isn't bad either.
If you can figure out how "not trusting each other" is a good basis for marriage, write a book. My point was that by the time someone thinks spying is the answer, its already broken and the results of the spying are beside the point.
Fact is, if you go so far as to spy on your spouse's net activites, it doesn't really matter whether he/she is guilty or innocent. The relationship has lost its value the moment the notion creeps into mind -- what is a relationship without trust? I say this as one who installed such a program about 7 years ago. It captured keystrokes and screenshots at a set interval (10 secs seemed adequate). Anyway, we got divorced but the problems started long before the spyware. The spying was never discovered by her BTW, and was not in itself a reason we split. The spying was symptom however, of the lack of trust that had been building in me. Anyway, those spousal spying programs aren't worth the money. Once you're at that point, take the $80 or so and get half and hour of attorney time, or several bottles of good whiskey. Much better way to spend the money.
That should be "as I could honestly not care less" or...
Isn't that a split infinitive? Like "To boldly go"?
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Wow -- 30 seconds into the page and the fan on my macbook cranked up to maximum and the only thing I had running was Firefox for mac when I went there. In contrast, even when I'm running ubuntu in parallels, with quanta, gimp, firefox, wine/ie, and termial open on the linux side, plus some random things on the mac side, the fan doesn't spin up. Aside from burning the eyes, that page will burn up your hardware.
This is the same reason liberals call everyone they disagree with "Nazis" or "fascists," because they can't argue without relying on universally negative insults as a crutch.
Well, I think you're off base too. This is not a liberal v. conservative issue. See for example the term "feminazi". That's definitely from the conservative camp. More realistically, the previous post I complained about was just some guy being passionate about a pet issue. When people get passionate, they overstate things -- that's an intrinsic part of being passionate. Anyway, I think you're passionately anti-liberal, and your passions let your arguments get a bit off balance.
I'm no fan of DRM, but comparing the inability to play a song on every player made to the plight of working 12-14 hours per day, every day, in dangerous facilities, from the time you're 6 till you die, is offbase.
look - a meatworld analogy to a situation in which the perp is invisible and leaves no trace and no common user would even know it was happening if he/she was using the computer at the same time the bad stuff was happening, requires the vacation or trip to the supermarket or what not. Or invisible alternate universe aliens. Maybe that would be better. Two people using the same house at the same time in alternate universes where the innocent person was unaware of the bad guy.
Yours is a voice of reason. So many people talk about how sure they are that their system is malware free, will always be that way, and they never visit dangerous sites. Frankly, this sounds like hubris to me. Computers are amazingly complicated machines -- it would be extremely difficult to know exactly what is going on in there. As for dangerous sites, undoubtedly I run across those because I search google and click on links google provides -- not all of them are good sites. Anyway, I believe lots of people think they are too smart to get caught and thus probably make themselves more vulnerable. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I run through a NAT, a linux box as a firewall, and have no windows machines on my network. Maybe I'm safe and maybe I'm not. What I do know is there are people out there who know a heck of a lot more about this stuff than I do, so I work under a principle that I'm compromised rather than that I'm safe. Call me a hatter.
paraphrasing: car dangerous, computer dangerous, suck it up.
Yeah -- your car analogy sucks. This situation applied to cars: if without your permission or knowledge, someone takes your car, then rams an empty cop car with it, and finally runs away never to be seen again, you go to prison for the rest of your life. Sound remotely fair? That's essentially what nearly happened to this kid.
And before all the "keys in the ignition blah blah blah", even if you left it unlocked and running, that still wouldn't make you a party to the "crashing into a cop car" crime. Anywhere. Not even in AZ.
If you were trying to make a joke about impedence (which I hope you would resist)
Geek -- that's "om" not "ohm" -- as in meditation. Go get yourself a Volvo, a flower, a cup of herbal tea, and take a few moments to meditate on how your geek nature prevented you from making a joke about Hari Krishna and instead caused you to hit on the non-sensical "Ohmish" quip. When meditating, start by slowly chanting "ooommmmm" over and over till you are in a trance or your feet start to tingle.
Call me crazy, but can't this last issue be fixed by locking your door?
At the risk of the infamous lousy analogy, consider this:
You have a Masterlock brand deadbolt on your front door.
You head out for Las Vegas Friday night at 9:00 pm, lock your door.
Unbeknowst to you, at noon on Saturday a guy with a lockpick breaks in -- turns out your lock is easily cracked in 30 secs by anyone with a pick and 3 minutes to spend on google.
From the moment he breaks in up till 10:00 pm Sunday night, the guy sells crack to anyone who walks in the front door.
At 10:00 pm, he cleans up and clears out -- you'd never he had been there.
You arrive home on Monday at 7:00 am and lounge about resting before heading back to work the next day.
Tuesday afternoon, you come home from work and are arrested -- it seems some kid got pulled over for speeding and during the course of the traffic stop, the cops found the crack. Kid "cracks" in fear and fingers your address as the place where he bought the drugs.
The question is, should you be convicted based merely on the fact that your house was used without your knowledge and permission to perform illegal activities? Sure you locked the door but any luser idiot would know that a Masterlock isn't true security. Why should it matter that you didn't actually sell crack -- it's plainly your fault for keeping such an insecure home.
What we're talking about in the real case, is someone whose property was used to commit a crime and faced life in prison (9 consecutive 10 year sentences) merely because their property was used without their permission or knowledge. That's flat fricken wrong.
There are tools in Office 2007 to let you do some of the things that used to take you upwards of half an hour in under a minute.
That's an extraordinary claim -- requires an example. I have a hard time imagining any single task in a word processor that takes me 30 minutes to perform but could be reduced to a minute if only the interface was better.
His point was that it is expensive when an "I-can-only-memorize-a-specific-procedure" type person ends up in your employ. You end up with weird things like a person who claims competence in Word on her resume but then you have to explain to her the what ctrl-a, ctrl-c, and ctrl-v do. True story for me BTW and although we don't use Word, and I knew I'd be doing some explaining, I didn't expect to being explaining something so basic.
So anyway, the point of the GP is that teaching the new version is useless because 1) when the kids get out, their rudimentary memorized methods won't work; 2) by the time businesses are using the new version, today's kids will have forgotten the carefully memorized steps; and 3) by the time the currently-new software is prevalent, newly-new software will come out leaving employers stuck in conditions 1 & 2.
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING of a new modern, physically simple hardware device to use for computing-communication and Apple is just the one on the leading edge at the moment.
Well, the iphone could have been "a simple hardware device to use for computing-communication" and Apple could have been on the leading edge of that. Instead, they chose to make the device an eye-candy dripping but half-assed nonetheless gadget. Like those $19 "PDAs" in blister packs in Kmart. Sure, they have a calendar, a note pad, and phone directory, but what makes them so worthless is the fact that they can't be extended in a simple and natural manner through additional software installs.
The reason there is so much flame against the iphone right now is because lots people, myself included, saw the presentation and though "wow -- that's gonna be awesome -- finally a real computing device that fits in your pocket and has a great UI". Then we heard it was going to be nothing but pretty gadget and got royally ticked off.
And lest you think I have a knee jerk hatred of apple -- you're wrong. I'm typing this in ubuntu running in parallels on a macbook. Apple makes nice hardware, but they can't please everyone. The 3d party app market is there exactly to serve people who might have unique desires or requirements and Apple doesn't think of everything (e.g., why can't I use finder to ssh into another account like konqueror or nautilus will do? -- thank goodness there's a 3d party solution for this -- it makes the hardware all that much more valuable to me).
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What I want to know is why the file browser doesn't have this capability on its own? Finder in OSX does burning well enough. Gnome is actually the easiest -- just right click on an iso and choose "burn", or drag a bunch of files to the CD icon and burn those. You would think that MS could afford to have cd/dvd burner built right in. The CD/DVD is today's equivalent to the floppy you know, seems a major oversight to leave out the ability to write data to removable discs.
Before you mod me troll, RTFA #5. Then mod me troll.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with Vista file transfer performance? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista box for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Color iBook G3, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Vista compatible heavy duty hardware, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Explorer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on my Vista beast, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista machine that has run faster than my old C64, despite the latest dual core goodness and a $400 video card in this Vista box. My TRS-80 color computer with 16 KB (that's "kilo", not "mega") of ram runs faster than this core 2 duo machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Vista is a superior OS.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Wow. Commercial standards in the software industry are real crap if that's how you think about this. Fact is, the guy bought something that was advertised as doing X but when he tried to use it, it was totally broken. He does have a right to be mad. It's just like buying something and finding out it's shoddy garbage that breaks the moment it's pulled from the box. There's even a whole industry of consumer quality research grown up around the idea that you should expect things to work like advertised. There's classic law on the subject, i.e., a product will do what the manufacturer says it will it do and if it doesn't, there are consequences. But in the software industry, you can sell something that is broken before the box is opened and expect the customer to suck it up. That's BS. In the GP's example, the reason the software failed was because the company chose a broken activation scheme. He had a right to be pissed from the start.
It better be fantastic for merely twice the cost of the OM.
It better be fantastic for $890.
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I'm with you on this. At first I was really excited about the iPhone, and then details came out. This looks like real competition for the iPhone. I don't understand why there are so many negative comments. There are plenty of people who want a phone+computing device. Perhaps not as many as those who want a phone+ipod, but so what. And when you compare specs, this thing isn't bad at all. For example, the OM has a 640x480 resolution. The iPhone has 320x480. The iPhone has a larger built in memory capacity, but the OM will take memory cards and as we all know, they are continuously getting larger and cheaper. As I'm currently in the market for a replacement PDA and phone, I'm interested in the OM. The price isn't bad either.
If you can figure out how "not trusting each other" is a good basis for marriage, write a book. My point was that by the time someone thinks spying is the answer, its already broken and the results of the spying are beside the point.
Fact is, if you go so far as to spy on your spouse's net activites, it doesn't really matter whether he/she is guilty or innocent. The relationship has lost its value the moment the notion creeps into mind -- what is a relationship without trust? I say this as one who installed such a program about 7 years ago. It captured keystrokes and screenshots at a set interval (10 secs seemed adequate). Anyway, we got divorced but the problems started long before the spyware. The spying was never discovered by her BTW, and was not in itself a reason we split. The spying was symptom however, of the lack of trust that had been building in me. Anyway, those spousal spying programs aren't worth the money. Once you're at that point, take the $80 or so and get half and hour of attorney time, or several bottles of good whiskey. Much better way to spend the money.
Wow -- 30 seconds into the page and the fan on my macbook cranked up to maximum and the only thing I had running was Firefox for mac when I went there. In contrast, even when I'm running ubuntu in parallels, with quanta, gimp, firefox, wine/ie, and termial open on the linux side, plus some random things on the mac side, the fan doesn't spin up. Aside from burning the eyes, that page will burn up your hardware.
I'm no fan of DRM, but comparing the inability to play a song on every player made to the plight of working 12-14 hours per day, every day, in dangerous facilities, from the time you're 6 till you die, is offbase.
look - a meatworld analogy to a situation in which the perp is invisible and leaves no trace and no common user would even know it was happening if he/she was using the computer at the same time the bad stuff was happening, requires the vacation or trip to the supermarket or what not. Or invisible alternate universe aliens. Maybe that would be better. Two people using the same house at the same time in alternate universes where the innocent person was unaware of the bad guy.
Go to IMDB. Search "Harold & Maude". Oh look, it even has a wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Maude
Yours is a voice of reason. So many people talk about how sure they are that their system is malware free, will always be that way, and they never visit dangerous sites. Frankly, this sounds like hubris to me. Computers are amazingly complicated machines -- it would be extremely difficult to know exactly what is going on in there. As for dangerous sites, undoubtedly I run across those because I search google and click on links google provides -- not all of them are good sites. Anyway, I believe lots of people think they are too smart to get caught and thus probably make themselves more vulnerable. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I run through a NAT, a linux box as a firewall, and have no windows machines on my network. Maybe I'm safe and maybe I'm not. What I do know is there are people out there who know a heck of a lot more about this stuff than I do, so I work under a principle that I'm compromised rather than that I'm safe. Call me a hatter.
And before all the "keys in the ignition blah blah blah", even if you left it unlocked and running, that still wouldn't make you a party to the "crashing into a cop car" crime. Anywhere. Not even in AZ.
At the risk of the infamous lousy analogy, consider this:
- You have a Masterlock brand deadbolt on your front door.
- You head out for Las Vegas Friday night at 9:00 pm, lock your door.
- Unbeknowst to you, at noon on Saturday a guy with a lockpick breaks in -- turns out your lock is easily cracked in 30 secs by anyone with a pick and 3 minutes to spend on google.
- From the moment he breaks in up till 10:00 pm Sunday night, the guy sells crack to anyone who walks in the front door.
- At 10:00 pm, he cleans up and clears out -- you'd never he had been there.
- You arrive home on Monday at 7:00 am and lounge about resting before heading back to work the next day.
- Tuesday afternoon, you come home from work and are arrested -- it seems some kid got pulled over for speeding and during the course of the traffic stop, the cops found the crack. Kid "cracks" in fear and fingers your address as the place where he bought the drugs.
The question is, should you be convicted based merely on the fact that your house was used without your knowledge and permission to perform illegal activities? Sure you locked the door but any luser idiot would know that a Masterlock isn't true security. Why should it matter that you didn't actually sell crack -- it's plainly your fault for keeping such an insecure home.What we're talking about in the real case, is someone whose property was used to commit a crime and faced life in prison (9 consecutive 10 year sentences) merely because their property was used without their permission or knowledge. That's flat fricken wrong.
Why doesn't this have a 50/50 split of funny/insightful mods yet (ending in insightful)?
His point was that it is expensive when an "I-can-only-memorize-a-specific-procedure" type person ends up in your employ. You end up with weird things like a person who claims competence in Word on her resume but then you have to explain to her the what ctrl-a, ctrl-c, and ctrl-v do. True story for me BTW and although we don't use Word, and I knew I'd be doing some explaining, I didn't expect to being explaining something so basic.
So anyway, the point of the GP is that teaching the new version is useless because 1) when the kids get out, their rudimentary memorized methods won't work; 2) by the time businesses are using the new version, today's kids will have forgotten the carefully memorized steps; and 3) by the time the currently-new software is prevalent, newly-new software will come out leaving employers stuck in conditions 1 & 2.
I runs under WINE too.How unfortunate -- i just get a headache from wine, never the runs.
Well, the iphone could have been "a simple hardware device to use for computing-communication" and Apple could have been on the leading edge of that. Instead, they chose to make the device an eye-candy dripping but half-assed nonetheless gadget. Like those $19 "PDAs" in blister packs in Kmart. Sure, they have a calendar, a note pad, and phone directory, but what makes them so worthless is the fact that they can't be extended in a simple and natural manner through additional software installs.
The reason there is so much flame against the iphone right now is because lots people, myself included, saw the presentation and though "wow -- that's gonna be awesome -- finally a real computing device that fits in your pocket and has a great UI". Then we heard it was going to be nothing but pretty gadget and got royally ticked off.
And lest you think I have a knee jerk hatred of apple -- you're wrong. I'm typing this in ubuntu running in parallels on a macbook. Apple makes nice hardware, but they can't please everyone. The 3d party app market is there exactly to serve people who might have unique desires or requirements and Apple doesn't think of everything (e.g., why can't I use finder to ssh into another account like konqueror or nautilus will do? -- thank goodness there's a 3d party solution for this -- it makes the hardware all that much more valuable to me).
your right but cut me some slack -- it was well after midnight.