Anyone else notice you have to play this picture music backwards. This may be the first ever use of backmasking, a tool often used to hide evil messages in music.
WinVista lacks a LOT of drivers (for fairly common hardware, too). If you have hardware that WinVista doesn't support, you're unhappy (see years of previous complaints about Linux). Drivers are the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer, not the operating system. That being said, we've built several new PC's at work with Vista Home Premium (I work for a custom computer retailer), and driver installation was easier than XP even.
WinVista also has lots of eye-candy which eats up processor time. So it looks pretty, but runs slower. The eye-candy can be turned off, but then it looks a lot like WinXP. So don't try and install it on a low powered PC. Consumers want the eye candy so they can say 'wow, that looks nice'. People still install Norton Anti-virus, so having a fast PC is clearly not a concern for your average punter.
WinVista has a different security model than WinXP and it takes people some effort to learn and in the meantime, they're unhappy with it (again, see years of previous complaints about Linux). UAC? Bring that up again I see. It's easy to turn off, but it's there for a reason. If it does anything, it lets the user know that their new operating system is at least questioning changes that could ruin the system. The days of noobs doing stupid things to kill their OS are numbered.
Not all of your apps will run with WinVista, unless you use "compatibility mode" or do some extra steps. *cough*Linux*cough* But really, Vista is essentially for new PC's. We advise against Vista for most people unless they're starting fresh with a new computer/peripherals/software/etc. You're forgetting that the same thing happened with XP.
Which is why Microsoft extended WinXP for OEM's. That, and they make twice the revenue from selling 2 OS's at a time vs 1.
Look, I'm by no means a Microsoft lover. I hate the company and the crap they create. That being said, maybe people should use the OS before vomiting hating posts. We don't need any more uneducated views. Nothing personal to the above poster.
I have 27 friends on my Facebook and 46 friends on my Myspace (many of whom are on Facebook too).
Considering I have 0 friends in real life and I live with my parents (all because of a bitter divorce - yes, friends and living with parents), FB and MS give me false hope that there are people who may actually wish to communicate with me. Yes that is sad, but it's the truth. I believe to some extent, this is the reason why these sites are so popular. It's got nothing to do with the fancy applets, not even the interface. It's the sheer fact that people can communicate with others they wouldn't usually.
I'm off to bed to sleep... alone.
Wait, gotta check my FB first... (for the non-existent glimmer of hope that someone of the opposite sex may talk to me).
Can you imagine programming all the styles of mind patterns from this experiment into the AI bots of games. Have the game randomly select opponents AI patterns and set them against the player. FPS would be a good start, but this idea could be used in nearly any game where the player would need to adapt to the opponents.
People in the general public are starting to get sick and tired of hearing what they can and can't do with music. No wonder the rate of piracy is growing on a daily basis. When you have the chest-beating RIAA and it's affiliates telling people they should pay more and more for music (which is substandard these days IMHO, but thats another topic), people are more likely to look for other resources to acquire the music they want. I believe it's starting to turn into the 'path of least resistance' theory, relative to spending money on music. If you keep jacking prices up, telling people they can't use their purchased item the way they want to and blame it on illegal file sharing software, people are going to start using the illegal file sharing software due to the fact they can't afford the product anymore.
Can you imagine if you were to use the metaphor of eating. If you hunger for food, and buy food to eat, you will eat it when you want. If you were suddenly told that you could only eat during certain hours and couldn't share your food with others who can't afford to eat, you wouldn't be to happy. Suddenly, there is a place where they stole the same seeds (metaphorically speaking) to make the same food but they gave it away for free. The people you used to buy the food off would go out of business right? So they try to bend the laws and make new ones to protect something that should be free (or at least paid back to the farmers) from the thieves.
Here is the problem with that analogy. The farmers work hard to make the food we eat, but they get paid tiny amounts of money for their goods. The store puts a huge markup on it and rips off the consumer.
Do you see the pattern?
If the RIAA, BMG, SONY, UMG, EMI, etc keep on proclaiming to the masses that they own the music, they will be killed off like the dinosaurs they are.
Look, to start with I'm an AMD fanboy (I guess), mainly due to the fact they call a spade a spade and don't lie to their (marketing zombie) customers about what their chips actually are. Intel are a marketing company first, a CPU manufacturer second. If you want to believe that the Q-series CPU's from Intel are actually quad core, you can take your ill-informed self to your nearest retailer and buy your double-duel-core CPU with your hard earned cash. Thats what your master... I mean... Intel want you to do.
But 4 cores on the one chip, a quad core does not make!
As long as data has to jump on the bus and take a trip down pipeline lane in order to see the neighbour next door, it's NOT A QUAD CORE! If you were to classify it, it's a 4-core CPU. With AMD's design, all 4 cores have equal access to data and can split and share properly.
There are even some applications out there that run SLOWER on an Intel 'quad core' CPU due to the constant bus hopping going on.
Why can't AMD 'keep up' as you say? Well, it's simple really. Because Intel market the crap out of an average product, they sell more units based on lying and deceiving customers. Not to mention the kickbacks and underhand tactics with your tier one OEM's (Dell, HP, etc). Sell more CPU's and you'll get more money. AMD have taken the noble road. They're suffering for it now, but they'll be on top again, just as they were with the first 1000MHz CPU (beat Intel to that cherry) and the first 64-bit desktop CPU (oops, Intel lucked out again). Come to think of it, the Athlon X2 was out before the Pentium D if I recall correctly (that seems to be the trifecta).
(sarcasm)Oh yea, AMD sure can't think things up before Intel.(/sarcasm)
Artists don't need record companies if they're good.
A record company is really there to market a product and put money up front for costs involved. Take the case of "Ten Thousand Fists" by Disturbed. That album debuted at #11 on the Australian ARIA charts the first week it was released. Warner did fuck all to promote that album. In fact, they did nothing. Disturbed get NO radio play in Australia, ever. There were no TV spots, commercials on TV or radio, nothing.
Yet this band who's label did nothing for the price they pay managed to have their third album debut at #11.
Artists don't need record companies, they need fans.
More proof of the culture? I make what I believe is a valid few points and I'm modded as a troll. I'm willing to bet that whoever marked me as a troll did so on a mac.
Like I said, I wouldn't mind a Mac. I think they're great at what they do. The original article question was "Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista?". I raised two points why I believe they aren't.
Two things are stopping Apple from having the percentage of market share that Microsoft has:
1. Fucked up pricing (why spend $$$$ more when you can get a PC that does the same thing for less?).
Why should a user have to pay for OS updates (they're free and frequent with MS, yet you have to pay for each version of OSX)? Why do Apple Mac's cost so much when they're really just a closed up PC with different OS and fancier cases?
2. Holier-than-thou attitude.
Don't deny it. When it comes to the 'Mac culture', it's a resounding "my Mac is better than your PC because... blah blah blah...." with much chest beating. Majority of PC users don't actually care about Mac's. If anything, they wouldn't mind one. Most don't go into an Apple shop and say "Your dumb Mac can't play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.". Even support. iPods suck balls hard. I used to work in a retail store that sold iPods when they first came out. I had to call Apple 3 times in the first week with faulty units. I got 3 different D.O.A. policies from 3 different Indian call centre workers (yea, that iPod that you overpaid for sure didn't go into tech support). Ranging from 'Two week DOA policy, send it back to the distributor' to 'We're Apple, we have no DOA policy'. One tech support guy had the balls to tell a customer 'We don't manufacture faulty products, you clearly broke it' when it had the infamous frowny face error.
Look, if a Mac was given to me, I'd love it. Truly, they're great at what they do. Better than PC's in some areas. But the reasons Apple aren't the company they should be, appear to be the fact they don't want to be #1. Maybe Steve Jobs likes to be the underdog. I don't know.
Due to the leak of the upcoming new Metallica album on illegal peer to peer file sharing networks, millions of music lovers are currently suing Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich over wasted bandwidth costs. According to reports, the new album is so bad, people have been downloading and deleting the album at a speedy pace.
"I just thought it would be like their older stuff, given that they copped so much crap over 'St Anger'" said one internet user. "Turns out they suck even harder than before. Maybe they should all go back to rehab for good".
Lars Ulrich has responded in an internet blog written for him by his marketing team. "Lars, the two guitarists and that bass player dude would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused by downloading the new album illegally. We are trying to trace you IP addresses so we can sue you, so please download it a few more times each".
Torrent sites have since removed the links to the new album from complaints they have gotten from the internet masses.
Micro or nano machines could run smoother and with less or no friction at all if one can manipulate the force. Obi-Wan was right after all! I can become a Jedi!
So was it only me that heard Sir Alec Guinness read that line out?
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I was going to say Hooversaurus, but yours is better.
Anyone else notice you have to play this picture music backwards. This may be the first ever use of backmasking, a tool often used to hide evil messages in music.
Intriguing!
I've got one acronym for you:
WOW.
There are many sad individuals who enjoy getting ripped off in this world.
Hitachi are making them. You'll lose 4Tb of data before you know it!
Really, reliability is what we need these days. Now if Hitachi made reliable drives, I'd be listening. Instead the sacrifice stability with size.
Shame!
But really, Vista is essentially for new PC's. We advise against Vista for most people unless they're starting fresh with a new computer/peripherals/software/etc. You're forgetting that the same thing happened with XP. Which is why Microsoft extended WinXP for OEM's. That, and they make twice the revenue from selling 2 OS's at a time vs 1.
Look, I'm by no means a Microsoft lover. I hate the company and the crap they create. That being said, maybe people should use the OS before vomiting hating posts. We don't need any more uneducated views. Nothing personal to the above poster.
I have 27 friends on my Facebook and 46 friends on my Myspace (many of whom are on Facebook too).
Considering I have 0 friends in real life and I live with my parents (all because of a bitter divorce - yes, friends and living with parents), FB and MS give me false hope that there are people who may actually wish to communicate with me. Yes that is sad, but it's the truth. I believe to some extent, this is the reason why these sites are so popular. It's got nothing to do with the fancy applets, not even the interface. It's the sheer fact that people can communicate with others they wouldn't usually.
I'm off to bed to sleep... alone.
Wait, gotta check my FB first... (for the non-existent glimmer of hope that someone of the opposite sex may talk to me).
And that will be because society in general has lost its sense of humour.
(Yes, I'm Australian, we spell it humour.)
Can you imagine programming all the styles of mind patterns from this experiment into the AI bots of games. Have the game randomly select opponents AI patterns and set them against the player. FPS would be a good start, but this idea could be used in nearly any game where the player would need to adapt to the opponents.
Okay, that is officially the post with the most use of the word 'abstract' every on slashdot.
:D
Congratulations!
People in the general public are starting to get sick and tired of hearing what they can and can't do with music. No wonder the rate of piracy is growing on a daily basis. When you have the chest-beating RIAA and it's affiliates telling people they should pay more and more for music (which is substandard these days IMHO, but thats another topic), people are more likely to look for other resources to acquire the music they want. I believe it's starting to turn into the 'path of least resistance' theory, relative to spending money on music. If you keep jacking prices up, telling people they can't use their purchased item the way they want to and blame it on illegal file sharing software, people are going to start using the illegal file sharing software due to the fact they can't afford the product anymore.
Can you imagine if you were to use the metaphor of eating. If you hunger for food, and buy food to eat, you will eat it when you want. If you were suddenly told that you could only eat during certain hours and couldn't share your food with others who can't afford to eat, you wouldn't be to happy. Suddenly, there is a place where they stole the same seeds (metaphorically speaking) to make the same food but they gave it away for free. The people you used to buy the food off would go out of business right? So they try to bend the laws and make new ones to protect something that should be free (or at least paid back to the farmers) from the thieves.
Here is the problem with that analogy. The farmers work hard to make the food we eat, but they get paid tiny amounts of money for their goods. The store puts a huge markup on it and rips off the consumer.
Do you see the pattern?
If the RIAA, BMG, SONY, UMG, EMI, etc keep on proclaiming to the masses that they own the music, they will be killed off like the dinosaurs they are.
I certainly hope I stayed on topic for that.
Time for a lie down methinks.
LOL, mod parent up funny!!!
Wait... you mean that wasn't sarcasm?
Look, to start with I'm an AMD fanboy (I guess), mainly due to the fact they call a spade a spade and don't lie to their (marketing zombie) customers about what their chips actually are. Intel are a marketing company first, a CPU manufacturer second. If you want to believe that the Q-series CPU's from Intel are actually quad core, you can take your ill-informed self to your nearest retailer and buy your double-duel-core CPU with your hard earned cash. Thats what your master... I mean... Intel want you to do.
But 4 cores on the one chip, a quad core does not make!
As long as data has to jump on the bus and take a trip down pipeline lane in order to see the neighbour next door, it's NOT A QUAD CORE! If you were to classify it, it's a 4-core CPU. With AMD's design, all 4 cores have equal access to data and can split and share properly.
There are even some applications out there that run SLOWER on an Intel 'quad core' CPU due to the constant bus hopping going on.
Why can't AMD 'keep up' as you say? Well, it's simple really. Because Intel market the crap out of an average product, they sell more units based on lying and deceiving customers. Not to mention the kickbacks and underhand tactics with your tier one OEM's (Dell, HP, etc). Sell more CPU's and you'll get more money. AMD have taken the noble road. They're suffering for it now, but they'll be on top again, just as they were with the first 1000MHz CPU (beat Intel to that cherry) and the first 64-bit desktop CPU (oops, Intel lucked out again). Come to think of it, the Athlon X2 was out before the Pentium D if I recall correctly (that seems to be the trifecta).
(sarcasm)Oh yea, AMD sure can't think things up before Intel.(/sarcasm)
Well we all know that you're #1, but who is #2?
As I tell all my customers. Intel is a marketing company FIRST and a processor company SECOND.
What about the George Michael fiasco with Sony.
Dont you remember the "Fony" headphones in the filmclip?
Artists don't need record companies if they're good.
A record company is really there to market a product and put money up front for costs involved. Take the case of "Ten Thousand Fists" by Disturbed. That album debuted at #11 on the Australian ARIA charts the first week it was released. Warner did fuck all to promote that album. In fact, they did nothing. Disturbed get NO radio play in Australia, ever. There were no TV spots, commercials on TV or radio, nothing.
Yet this band who's label did nothing for the price they pay managed to have their third album debut at #11.
Artists don't need record companies, they need fans.
More proof of the culture? I make what I believe is a valid few points and I'm modded as a troll. I'm willing to bet that whoever marked me as a troll did so on a mac.
Like I said, I wouldn't mind a Mac. I think they're great at what they do. The original article question was "Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista?". I raised two points why I believe they aren't.
Troll? Hardly.
Two things are stopping Apple from having the percentage of market share that Microsoft has:
1. Fucked up pricing (why spend $$$$ more when you can get a PC that does the same thing for less?).
Why should a user have to pay for OS updates (they're free and frequent with MS, yet you have to pay for each version of OSX)? Why do Apple Mac's cost so much when they're really just a closed up PC with different OS and fancier cases?
2. Holier-than-thou attitude.
Don't deny it. When it comes to the 'Mac culture', it's a resounding "my Mac is better than your PC because... blah blah blah...." with much chest beating. Majority of PC users don't actually care about Mac's. If anything, they wouldn't mind one. Most don't go into an Apple shop and say "Your dumb Mac can't play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.". Even support. iPods suck balls hard. I used to work in a retail store that sold iPods when they first came out. I had to call Apple 3 times in the first week with faulty units. I got 3 different D.O.A. policies from 3 different Indian call centre workers (yea, that iPod that you overpaid for sure didn't go into tech support). Ranging from 'Two week DOA policy, send it back to the distributor' to 'We're Apple, we have no DOA policy'. One tech support guy had the balls to tell a customer 'We don't manufacture faulty products, you clearly broke it' when it had the infamous frowny face error.
Look, if a Mac was given to me, I'd love it. Truly, they're great at what they do. Better than PC's in some areas. But the reasons Apple aren't the company they should be, appear to be the fact they don't want to be #1. Maybe Steve Jobs likes to be the underdog. I don't know.
It really was only a matter of time right...?
LOL
BOOM! Post of the day!
Mod parent the f%*k up!
All members of the Lemon Party.
C'mon, someone had to say it!
Troll? How is that a troll post? I made a good point before I mentioned first post.
Retraining support staff for vista when they are probably still working with xp is a valid point.
No point retraining the support people on Vista when I'm sure all the officials and athletes are still using XP.
And.... First post!
Due to the leak of the upcoming new Metallica album on illegal peer to peer file sharing networks, millions of music lovers are currently suing Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich over wasted bandwidth costs. According to reports, the new album is so bad, people have been downloading and deleting the album at a speedy pace.
"I just thought it would be like their older stuff, given that they copped so much crap over 'St Anger'" said one internet user. "Turns out they suck even harder than before. Maybe they should all go back to rehab for good".
Lars Ulrich has responded in an internet blog written for him by his marketing team. "Lars, the two guitarists and that bass player dude would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused by downloading the new album illegally. We are trying to trace you IP addresses so we can sue you, so please download it a few more times each".
Torrent sites have since removed the links to the new album from complaints they have gotten from the internet masses.
I promise I won't make any tubgirl references...
;)
oh shit, too late
So was it only me that heard Sir Alec Guinness read that line out?