Although her memory banks overflow
No one would ever know
For all she says: is that what you want?
Maybe one day Ill feel her cold embrace
And kiss her interface
til then, Ill leave her alone.
-ELO
First they create a 'Plays For Sure' system, but then they release their own player that doesn't work with it.
The part that shows how little M$ cares about its users is that they didn't provide a method to convert the old PFS licensed music to whatever stupid DRM format they switched to. Instead they (in effect) said "Psych! All of you loyal customers who spent their hard-earned dollars on music that used old DRM system are hosed. Screwed! Think we care? Tough luck, suckers! Oh, and by the way, buy a Zune. Don't forget, Apple sucks!"
Compute's Gazzette magazine with their MLX program for typing in their special hex programs... those were the days.
Yessss... Remember nightmare data entry sessions trying to get those things entered correctly. Usually ended up with a bricked C64. Ah, good times...
Also remember marathon sessions entering Compute! games in basic, saving them to casette, and then spending several days finding the typos which prevented them from working?
Anyone ever have their casette drive heads get out of alignment and all your tapes become unreadable? I remember somehow attaching a speaker to the tape drive and adjusting a screw until I could "hear the data" at the loudest volume to adjust the head alignment.
Mine has a reliability issue: heat. After a while, the video output becomes plagued with "waves" that travel vertically up the screen. The machine has zero airflow, and a heat sink inside the machine is inadequate (discovered this by trial and error as a curious 15 year old.) So put a long screw and a nut through the hole in the heat sink, left the cover ajar, and let the screw protrude out the side to dissipate heat. Worked for me...
Had to think of a way to keep the C64 running for a long session of Telengard (loaded from a cassette drive.)
I've still got mine, but I don't have a TV that's compatible with the RF output...
So I goof around with the CCS64 emulator instead, play all the great games from my childhood, and try to remember what all those addresses were I used to POKE and PEEK from to make sprites and hideous sounds from the SID.
Speling and grammer are a littel diferent in teh Slashdictionery.
Don't loose your mind.
For all in tents on purposes you can still tell what there saying.
any FOSS package that crashes frequently and trashes your work would be a fine substitute.
The open source video editing options don't even come close to Movie Maker. And I don't like or use Movie Maker. There is not one decent FOSS video editing app, if there was I'd be using it. And don't say Cinelerra, it's nowhere near even beta quality.
There are no decent open source video editing applications. Movie Maker beats the snot out of the best of them. They're all either very primitive or hopelessly complicated, and none of them work well, all are super-buggy limited-functionality pre-beta fare. Promises were big, delivery was little to nothing. I spent a month getting Cinelerra to compile, and it was garbage.
I tried and tried for a long time to use FOSS video editors, and I'm still using Elements and others under XP.
Disclaimer: I do not like windows or M$, and do everything I can to stay away from them.
Back in 1988 I supported a 386 running Xenix (don't remember the mhz, but I think it was less than 33) which, supporting 3 developer/programmers and a few data entry people using Wyse serial terminals, ran accounting and payroll for a large trade organization.
The same organization had an HP3000 minicomputer running Cognos for other databases, and one day in 1989 we had a little party because we added four more 50Mb HP Eagle hard drives which brought the 3000's total disk to 1Gb.
Real business ran on these boxen which put together would take all afternoon to boot Windows 98. Software and OS's have betrayed the amazing hardware that we all now possess. By the standards of not-so-long-ago, every one of us now has a supercomputer on their desk, and Vista runs slow. No excuse.
Your hardware list makes me think that maybe you're the kind of guy who goes to the electronic store and buys a mobo and a CPU and a chassis, power supply, etc, all in parts, and builds himself a machine.
Of course then you have to put an OS on your parts-pile to make it into a computer.
Use linux = no cost. But this is Slashdot, and this tribe is all Preachers, no Choir, so I won't flog that horse, it's been taken care of.
As big a PITA as it is to reactivate XP after a mobo upgrade, it can be done, over and over, as long as you don't mind getting on the phone and reassuring someone with a very thick Eastern accent that it's still the same computer as before.
Vista allows one mobo upgrade, and then you're buying a new copy after that. Thanks Micro$uck for that knee to the groin!
Plus, imagine how fast your dual core Intel would run if it wasn't dragging the Vista-ball-and-chain along behind it?
My Dual Core Athlon 64 5600 w/2gb ram sure screams with dual-boot XP and Ubuntu, cannot imagine why I would pay good money slow it down with Vista's megabloat and built in DRM, courtesy of your friends at the MAFIAA...
What does Vista bring to the table that's not a liability, what are it's must-have features?...nothing as far as I can determine.
because everybody knows that today's Ubuntu is a lot more grand-mother friendly than 10 years ago's Slackware to the point we can say that Ubuntu is comparably as grand-mother friendly as Windows.
Linux is even more friendly than Windows because I can ssh into Grandma's machine from my desk at home and keep it tuned and happy!
So right.
Linux is ready for regular users, has been for a few years now.
The only thing missing are the 3rd party apps; games, multimedia, office apps.
The only reason that Linux isn't everywhere is because the apps aren't being ported to linux.
I hate windows, but what choice do I have when I want to edit video or play games?
Perhaps you might've gotten more out of Apocalypse Now if you had read Heart of Darkness,
You should also read "Dispatches" by Michael Herr if you want to understand Apocalypse Now. The movie is a blend of the two books.
How would you know anything about the 2nd amendment? You aren't even an American, are you? I bet you're Chinese, or maybe an uneducated Frenchman. But I bet you wish you could have guns like US, don't you? I'm a real American and I have one of my guns on my hip right now. Put that in your hookah and smoke it.
You can stand on your Deux-Chevaux all night and scream into the dark your declarations of what's a "fact" or not, but without a coherent argument, or even a grasp of the issue, people will only continue to assume that you're deranged. It just doesn't work when you pull BS out of your backside.
MS has thousands of employees working on hundreds of evil and greedy pursuits, but isn't it interesting that not even one of them seems to be addressing this serious problem?
Pages on their websites mostly seem to say "THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE, YOUR PROBLEMS ARE ALL IMAGINARY, MOVE ALONG...". If it was MY company, there would be a link to the solution top center on the home page of support.microsoft.com.
Or perhaps MS is intentionally trying to break XP, to get users to shell out for Vista crapware.
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Dang this video is long.
Newest is the Dec 10 panel
I read that as "DEC-10 panel." Was thinking someone used a panel from a DEC-10 to show youtube videos?
Although her memory banks overflow
No one would ever know
For all she says: is that what you want?
Maybe one day Ill feel her cold embrace
And kiss her interface
til then, Ill leave her alone.
-ELO
The part that shows how little M$ cares about its users is that they didn't provide a method to convert the old PFS licensed music to whatever stupid DRM format they switched to. Instead they (in effect) said "Psych! All of you loyal customers who spent their hard-earned dollars on music that used old DRM system are hosed. Screwed! Think we care? Tough luck, suckers! Oh, and by the way, buy a Zune. Don't forget, Apple sucks!"
At least these ones will be less likely to get run over by cars at night!
Unless the drivers are cat-haters...
But Grimey speaks English fine.
(1) choose open standard/software
(2) have your lawyers claim it as your own
(3) profit!
Unless you're SCO...
Yessss... Remember nightmare data entry sessions trying to get those things entered correctly. Usually ended up with a bricked C64. Ah, good times...
Also remember marathon sessions entering Compute! games in basic, saving them to casette, and then spending several days finding the typos which prevented them from working?
Anyone ever have their casette drive heads get out of alignment and all your tapes become unreadable? I remember somehow attaching a speaker to the tape drive and adjusting a screw until I could "hear the data" at the loudest volume to adjust the head alignment.
Mine has a reliability issue: heat. After a while, the video output becomes plagued with "waves" that travel vertically up the screen. The machine has zero airflow, and a heat sink inside the machine is inadequate (discovered this by trial and error as a curious 15 year old.) So put a long screw and a nut through the hole in the heat sink, left the cover ajar, and let the screw protrude out the side to dissipate heat. Worked for me...
Had to think of a way to keep the C64 running for a long session of Telengard (loaded from a cassette drive.)
I've still got mine, but I don't have a TV that's compatible with the RF output... So I goof around with the CCS64 emulator instead, play all the great games from my childhood, and try to remember what all those addresses were I used to POKE and PEEK from to make sprites and hideous sounds from the SID.
Speling and grammer are a littel diferent in teh Slashdictionery. Don't loose your mind. For all in tents on purposes you can still tell what there saying.
The open source video editing options don't even come close to Movie Maker. And I don't like or use Movie Maker. There is not one decent FOSS video editing app, if there was I'd be using it. And don't say Cinelerra, it's nowhere near even beta quality.
There are no decent open source video editing applications. Movie Maker beats the snot out of the best of them. They're all either very primitive or hopelessly complicated, and none of them work well, all are super-buggy limited-functionality pre-beta fare. Promises were big, delivery was little to nothing. I spent a month getting Cinelerra to compile, and it was garbage.
I tried and tried for a long time to use FOSS video editors, and I'm still using Elements and others under XP.
Disclaimer: I do not like windows or M$, and do everything I can to stay away from them.
Back in 1988 I supported a 386 running Xenix (don't remember the mhz, but I think it was less than 33) which, supporting 3 developer/programmers and a few data entry people using Wyse serial terminals, ran accounting and payroll for a large trade organization. The same organization had an HP3000 minicomputer running Cognos for other databases, and one day in 1989 we had a little party because we added four more 50Mb HP Eagle hard drives which brought the 3000's total disk to 1Gb. Real business ran on these boxen which put together would take all afternoon to boot Windows 98. Software and OS's have betrayed the amazing hardware that we all now possess. By the standards of not-so-long-ago, every one of us now has a supercomputer on their desk, and Vista runs slow. No excuse.
Your hardware list makes me think that maybe you're the kind of guy who goes to the electronic store and buys a mobo and a CPU and a chassis, power supply, etc, all in parts, and builds himself a machine.
...nothing as far as I can determine.
Of course then you have to put an OS on your parts-pile to make it into a computer.
Use linux = no cost. But this is Slashdot, and this tribe is all Preachers, no Choir, so I won't flog that horse, it's been taken care of.
As big a PITA as it is to reactivate XP after a mobo upgrade, it can be done, over and over, as long as you don't mind getting on the phone and reassuring someone with a very thick Eastern accent that it's still the same computer as before.
Vista allows one mobo upgrade, and then you're buying a new copy after that. Thanks Micro$uck for that knee to the groin!
Plus, imagine how fast your dual core Intel would run if it wasn't dragging the Vista-ball-and-chain along behind it?
My Dual Core Athlon 64 5600 w/2gb ram sure screams with dual-boot XP and Ubuntu, cannot imagine why I would pay good money slow it down with Vista's megabloat and built in DRM, courtesy of your friends at the MAFIAA...
What does Vista bring to the table that's not a liability, what are it's must-have features?
Linux is even more friendly than Windows because I can ssh into Grandma's machine from my desk at home and keep it tuned and happy!
So right. Linux is ready for regular users, has been for a few years now. The only thing missing are the 3rd party apps; games, multimedia, office apps. The only reason that Linux isn't everywhere is because the apps aren't being ported to linux. I hate windows, but what choice do I have when I want to edit video or play games?
I think you had it right the first time.
You should also read "Dispatches" by Michael Herr if you want to understand Apocalypse Now. The movie is a blend of the two books.
How would you know anything about the 2nd amendment? You aren't even an American, are you? I bet you're Chinese, or maybe an uneducated Frenchman. But I bet you wish you could have guns like US, don't you? I'm a real American and I have one of my guns on my hip right now. Put that in your hookah and smoke it.
You can stand on your Deux-Chevaux all night and scream into the dark your declarations of what's a "fact" or not, but without a coherent argument, or even a grasp of the issue, people will only continue to assume that you're deranged. It just doesn't work when you pull BS out of your backside.
Come to my range and you'll see guys who were never in the military who shoot like you wouldn't believe! http://uspsa.org/
MS has thousands of employees working on hundreds of evil and greedy pursuits, but isn't it interesting that not even one of them seems to be addressing this serious problem?
Pages on their websites mostly seem to say "THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE, YOUR PROBLEMS ARE ALL IMAGINARY, MOVE ALONG...". If it was MY company, there would be a link to the solution top center on the home page of support.microsoft.com.
Or perhaps MS is intentionally trying to break XP, to get users to shell out for Vista crapware.
Amadou Diallo changed his name to "Amadou Whatever the Police Tell Me To" (according Charlie Brown Kwanzaa.)
OK, those of you who modded me "offtopic" are clearly idiots who deserve to live under a fascist regime then....
There's a word for this, it's called fascism.