My encoder allows me to set a target bitrate (I think that's what it calls it), so if you want you can do 128 Kbps VBR, or 192, or 224, etc. It's more of a file size limiter.
Why not just replace explorer.exe with a simple app that tells them they have to get their PC fixed due to their own ignorance of basic security? I'm pretty sure all the major botnets run on Windows systems exclusively.
While I agree and am doing the same, I'm not sure they know or care.
They can blame piracy, they can blame the developer for not making the product good enough, they can blame marketing for not getting the message out, but they may not want to blame their DRM.
Is there a good way (other than filing lawsuits) to let them know they're pissing off their customer, and blame-shifting won't fix anything. Fixing their DRM is the only way to win us back.
Oddly going from the Google.ca link or typing in maps.google.com and searching "The Dalles, OR" gets me to the same graphic. Either way, Google's is more outdated.
It appears to be a State of Oregon-sourced picture via Google, while MapQuest seems to source their imagery for the area from a company marked i-cubed.
They're definitely differently sourced throughout Oregon, this can be spot checked (for example) at NW 9th Ave and NW Naito Pkwy in Portland. Depending on the zoom level MapQuest's photos are much older or older than Google's.
I heard that complaint from one friend, and changed camera angles to make the game more GTA1-like. Not only did that shut my friend up, it made me realize how bad that POV sucked.
My plan has always been to throw any children nearby to the zombies to distract them while I run away. Of course, not having children of my own probably skews my opinion on the matter.
Nobody ever suggested you could run anything on Windows, and that makes it no different than most of the other OSes out there.
Maybe I'm just drawing a blank, but MS has never actually prevented development, they just packaged things and integrated things to leverage the field significantly in their favor.
They've always allowed any.exe you can compile to run as far as I know, and that's more than you can say about a lot of companies. (Especially those running DRM schemes that make you disable other programs.)
That's exactly why I got a Motorola Q that allows tethering on its data plan. It's faster than most hotels' WiFi, and I don't need to pay any additional fees to use it. Plus it works waaaaay more places.
When I visit my parents across the country they don't have WiFi. If I want to eat lunch and get some work done, most restaurants don't have WiFi. Yeah, I could get it to go, but sometimes it's nice to get out of the office for 40 minutes, even if I'm still working. Then I'm not limited to restaurants with WiFi, which near my office is about 1.
Laptops might be different, but as you say, I'd still rather have modem as backup on a laptop, since not everywhere has wifi (or sometimes it's still very expensive or a hassle to get to), than have to buy and lug around an extra piece of hardware, like I'd have to with a Mac.
I'm now realizing that I forgot to mention I was talking about laptops in my previous post.
I agree, desktops don't have a need to come standard with a modem and I haven't seen one do so in a long, long time. But a laptop really should. I've saved my butt a few times by having one when I got where WiFi and my Verizon data plan couldn't find a signal.
At any rate, you are arguing with the wrong person. I am a Unix guy.
That I can tell, as well as I assumed you must be spouting flame bait with your claim that XP crashes 1 to 2 times a week.
I'm not an MS fan-boy. It you didn't notice in my previous post, I have Ubuntu running on one system, and I appreciate that Linux & BSD have their place. They are great systems, to a point. My point is that the user is the cause of most crashes.
If you moved half the Windows installation base to Linux overnight you'd probably see Linux facing the same complaints Windows does. You'd see a lot more viruses and malware happening, as well as the same crappy hardware causing crashes. Or do you believe Linux is immune to bad memory?
Linux right now is used almost exclusively used by nerds. If XP had the same user base, instead of every high school student, grandma, and hockey mom it would likely not have a reputation for crashing.
Very unlikely. The Linux kernel devs don't just abandon earlier trees. The 2.4 tree, started in 2001, was last updated on the 7th September 2008.
XP is still updated as well, so why do people install old versions and blame the vendor for their mistake?
You might be stupid enough to do that, but that doesn't mean she is. As for 3rd party drivers, no. The machine is generic enough not to need them.
She might want to get decent hardware then. I don't believe you that XP/Vista and Office 2003/2007 spontaneously crashed a system to that point without outside help.
If Windows can be infected with viruses or malware within hours of installation, with almost no user input, that is an OS problem. Lame excuses not accepted.
XP can, and Vista can, yes. If I installed a 1.5 or 7 year old version of Linux you're telling me it wouldn't be able to be hacked? Or is it that MS has such a large installation base that hackers and worm writers target them, knowing it will infect more people?
Having just spent the last few hours rescuing a friend's computer when Microsoft had advised her to re-format and reinstall (which would have blown away her PhD thesis in the process) after a crash from which it wouldn't reboot, I think I'm in a good position to answer that. This lady was only running MS Word at the time, and last time I looked, that was MS code.
I'm sure she had nothing loaded from a third party, like drivers, or some shit she clicked on to whack-a-mole. Sure.
It's the fact that the platform does crash and people are conditioned to it.
Vista has never crashed on my laptop since I installed it. Neither has Ubuntu on my media center box. Neither has XP on my home system (same install) in about 5 years. I replaced some bad RAM, it hasn't happened since.
People have bad hardware and software. It causes crashes. If more used Linux, they'd probably make it crash just as much.
I really haven't found a Linux distro that's ready for the desktop. Ubuntu, running on a common Dell Dimension, has a lot more trouble than Windows did with my VGA out to a 37" LCD. It can't run in full resolution, is letterboxed (on a widescreen TV), and this is the closest any Linux guru's I've asked can get me without buying a new video card.
Video playback is choppier, and most important for most home users: Most installers don't have a simple "Setup.exe" equivalent. You're stuck using a command line most of the time.
Yes, I'm just picking on Ubuntu because it's the only distro I've tried just throwing on a generic PC lately, and I know some of these problems have been solved in other distro's, but I haven't seen one that post-installation requires as little work as Vista did on a clean install on the same 3 year old hardware.
The problem is the business market. It's a big market, and Apple chooses not to serve them sometimes.
Getting rid of the modem? Really? My year old Dell Vostro has a basic fax/modem in it. If you travel enough, eventually you'll be stuck at a hotel with no WiFi or decent cell service and just an analog phone line.
I'd rather spend an extra $1.74 (estimated) for a built-in-in-case-of-emergency modem than pay $19 or $49 for a USB modem.
Serial ports on the other hand are by now obsolete for maybe (made up) 99% of the market. They're about $7.98 (what I paid for the one in my backpack) for a USB adapter. I need one, and $8 or less (which is reimbursable) I can survive for something I know almost nobody needs.
I need one for configuring a network device I'm working on phasing out at my job. Who doesn't have a web config on first boot by now? Even open source projects like m0n0wall have a web interface from the start if you install on halfway correct hardware. Paying $2000+ for something requiring a serial port today is asinine.
Any device that still needs a serial cable to configure is making itself outdated. If it isn't yet, someone's working on it.
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My encoder allows me to set a target bitrate (I think that's what it calls it), so if you want you can do 128 Kbps VBR, or 192, or 224, etc. It's more of a file size limiter.
Really? I aim for 320 VBR if I'm ripping my own discs. I still can fit plenty of music on a single CD for use in my car.
As far as long term storage, I have about 300 gigs available at home if needed. My laptop has a 120 gig hard drive even.
Why not just replace explorer.exe with a simple app that tells them they have to get their PC fixed due to their own ignorance of basic security? I'm pretty sure all the major botnets run on Windows systems exclusively.
While I agree and am doing the same, I'm not sure they know or care.
They can blame piracy, they can blame the developer for not making the product good enough, they can blame marketing for not getting the message out, but they may not want to blame their DRM.
Is there a good way (other than filing lawsuits) to let them know they're pissing off their customer, and blame-shifting won't fix anything. Fixing their DRM is the only way to win us back.
I'm not sure that's really a great defense. If I uninstall software, I don't expected phantom memory use by something I'm not using anymore.
I know it's not realistic, but it doesn't change that uninstalled programs should not leave shit all over my hard drive.
Oddly going from the Google.ca link or typing in maps.google.com and searching "The Dalles, OR" gets me to the same graphic. Either way, Google's is more outdated.
It appears to be a State of Oregon-sourced picture via Google, while MapQuest seems to source their imagery for the area from a company marked i-cubed.
They're definitely differently sourced throughout Oregon, this can be spot checked (for example) at NW 9th Ave and NW Naito Pkwy in Portland. Depending on the zoom level MapQuest's photos are much older or older than Google's.
You can't install keyloggers on most cellphones.
Yet. As Android, Windows Mobile, or Apple's iPhone platform become more used, exploits will be found.
Or you can go to Best Buy and get a $129 TV.
A week late, but fair enough, you did say it. Good point, sir. I just can respect MS' position (in this case) more than Apple's.
Guinea pigs are cute little mammals, but I am scared of the furry death.
If only revolution was not such an outdated ideal.
Sixty revolutions per minute this is my regular speed, Gogol Bordello or something.
I heard that complaint from one friend, and changed camera angles to make the game more GTA1-like. Not only did that shut my friend up, it made me realize how bad that POV sucked.
"If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."
Why the hell not? If I find it first... it's mine.
The first think I thought of was that "piece of anything" could even refer to poo.
It is quite the weird quote.
My plan has always been to throw any children nearby to the zombies to distract them while I run away. Of course, not having children of my own probably skews my opinion on the matter.
Nobody ever suggested you could run anything on Windows, and that makes it no different than most of the other OSes out there.
Maybe I'm just drawing a blank, but MS has never actually prevented development, they just packaged things and integrated things to leverage the field significantly in their favor.
They've always allowed any .exe you can compile to run as far as I know, and that's more than you can say about a lot of companies. (Especially those running DRM schemes that make you disable other programs.)
That's exactly why I got a Motorola Q that allows tethering on its data plan. It's faster than most hotels' WiFi, and I don't need to pay any additional fees to use it. Plus it works waaaaay more places.
When I visit my parents across the country they don't have WiFi. If I want to eat lunch and get some work done, most restaurants don't have WiFi. Yeah, I could get it to go, but sometimes it's nice to get out of the office for 40 minutes, even if I'm still working. Then I'm not limited to restaurants with WiFi, which near my office is about 1.
I loved the "pulled a Palin" move.
Laptops might be different, but as you say, I'd still rather have modem as backup on a laptop, since not everywhere has wifi (or sometimes it's still very expensive or a hassle to get to), than have to buy and lug around an extra piece of hardware, like I'd have to with a Mac.
I'm now realizing that I forgot to mention I was talking about laptops in my previous post.
I agree, desktops don't have a need to come standard with a modem and I haven't seen one do so in a long, long time. But a laptop really should. I've saved my butt a few times by having one when I got where WiFi and my Verizon data plan couldn't find a signal.
At any rate, you are arguing with the wrong person. I am a Unix guy.
That I can tell, as well as I assumed you must be spouting flame bait with your claim that XP crashes 1 to 2 times a week.
I'm not an MS fan-boy. It you didn't notice in my previous post, I have Ubuntu running on one system, and I appreciate that Linux & BSD have their place. They are great systems, to a point. My point is that the user is the cause of most crashes.
If you moved half the Windows installation base to Linux overnight you'd probably see Linux facing the same complaints Windows does. You'd see a lot more viruses and malware happening, as well as the same crappy hardware causing crashes. Or do you believe Linux is immune to bad memory?
Linux right now is used almost exclusively used by nerds. If XP had the same user base, instead of every high school student, grandma, and hockey mom it would likely not have a reputation for crashing.
Very unlikely. The Linux kernel devs don't just abandon earlier trees. The 2.4 tree, started in 2001, was last updated on the 7th September 2008.
XP is still updated as well, so why do people install old versions and blame the vendor for their mistake?
You might be stupid enough to do that, but that doesn't mean she is. As for 3rd party drivers, no. The machine is generic enough not to need them.
She might want to get decent hardware then. I don't believe you that XP/Vista and Office 2003/2007 spontaneously crashed a system to that point without outside help.
If Windows can be infected with viruses or malware within hours of installation, with almost no user input, that is an OS problem. Lame excuses not accepted.
XP can, and Vista can, yes. If I installed a 1.5 or 7 year old version of Linux you're telling me it wouldn't be able to be hacked? Or is it that MS has such a large installation base that hackers and worm writers target them, knowing it will infect more people?
Having just spent the last few hours rescuing a friend's computer when Microsoft had advised her to re-format and reinstall (which would have blown away her PhD thesis in the process) after a crash from which it wouldn't reboot, I think I'm in a good position to answer that. This lady was only running MS Word at the time, and last time I looked, that was MS code.
I'm sure she had nothing loaded from a third party, like drivers, or some shit she clicked on to whack-a-mole. Sure.
It's the fact that the platform does crash and people are conditioned to it.
Vista has never crashed on my laptop since I installed it. Neither has Ubuntu on my media center box. Neither has XP on my home system (same install) in about 5 years. I replaced some bad RAM, it hasn't happened since.
People have bad hardware and software. It causes crashes. If more used Linux, they'd probably make it crash just as much.
What's your point?
I really haven't found a Linux distro that's ready for the desktop. Ubuntu, running on a common Dell Dimension, has a lot more trouble than Windows did with my VGA out to a 37" LCD. It can't run in full resolution, is letterboxed (on a widescreen TV), and this is the closest any Linux guru's I've asked can get me without buying a new video card.
Video playback is choppier, and most important for most home users: Most installers don't have a simple "Setup.exe" equivalent. You're stuck using a command line most of the time.
Yes, I'm just picking on Ubuntu because it's the only distro I've tried just throwing on a generic PC lately, and I know some of these problems have been solved in other distro's, but I haven't seen one that post-installation requires as little work as Vista did on a clean install on the same 3 year old hardware.
The problem is the business market. It's a big market, and Apple chooses not to serve them sometimes.
Getting rid of the modem? Really? My year old Dell Vostro has a basic fax/modem in it. If you travel enough, eventually you'll be stuck at a hotel with no WiFi or decent cell service and just an analog phone line.
I'd rather spend an extra $1.74 (estimated) for a built-in-in-case-of-emergency modem than pay $19 or $49 for a USB modem.
Serial ports on the other hand are by now obsolete for maybe (made up) 99% of the market. They're about $7.98 (what I paid for the one in my backpack) for a USB adapter. I need one, and $8 or less (which is reimbursable) I can survive for something I know almost nobody needs.
I need one for configuring a network device I'm working on phasing out at my job. Who doesn't have a web config on first boot by now? Even open source projects like m0n0wall have a web interface from the start if you install on halfway correct hardware. Paying $2000+ for something requiring a serial port today is asinine.
Any device that still needs a serial cable to configure is making itself outdated. If it isn't yet, someone's working on it.
If McLovin can do it, anyone can.