Sure, that is why they kept making trivial changes to the win32s api that served little or no technical purpose, requiring a new version of a dll that would break on OS/2.
You do realise if they were changing the win32 api in such a way to break things, the software would break on Microsoft's own OS too.
Vista RC1 runs hot on my Dell Inspiron (WITH proper drivers and WITHOUT aero).
I can't find the vista driver downloads on Dell's website. Could you show me?
Another thing is, wasn't one of the recommended requirements for Vista, a graphic card that supported dx10?
At the moment, I am assuming new machines sold with Vista that are Vista certified will not have this problem, nor will hardware that is vista certified.
What fight? At my old ISP we just limit problem users to 20-30 concurrent connections at a time. Any more and we disconnect the connections at random.
That doesn't even meet the amount of connections required for the people who live in this house with their own computers (three) with everyone having their own instant messenger connections (aim, icq, yim, msn, jabber, gg, skype) in this house, and some how we're going to be able browse the net with that?
I will ditch windows when control is robbed from the users.
You mean things like limiting the amount of TCP sockets a user can create within a minute (a artificial limitation, not technical), without giving the user a way to bypass it (short of hex editing and patching a DLL)? Microsoft would never do that.. oh wait.
...but I use MsgTag(www.msgtag.com) as they are infinitely more reliable than sending a return-receipt or the like. I know I could create my own system like this but overall it's been pretty cool.
I somehow doubt msgtag would work in the company I work for (everyone uses thunderbird -- and thunderbird is configured to display e-mails as text by default).
No. Fair use applies to media. DMCA applies to copyright protection. Two different things.
Not that the DMCA exists where I live, but sure, I'll play along..
Fair use means, among other things, that you can time-shift a broadcast and listen to it at a different time or in a different place (home recording, etc). You may also do this with DRM'ed media any time you like, so long as you don't circumvent the DRM in the process.
It just happens that you simply CAN'T enjoy all of your fair use rights without circumventing DRM. So legally fair use still intact, but in practice it's next to nonexistant.
Section 1201 of the DMCA does make it illegal to "offer to the public" technology that can be used to circumvent DRM. But I saw nothing saying that said removing the DRM is illegal.
allofmp3 is not legal, get over it. I will be glad to call it legal when we (an exclusive digital distibrutor of a number of artists on allofmp3) and/or our labels and/or artists see a single dime from them.
Sure it is. "burn" it to a CD image. Rip the CD image to any format you like. Presto.
You forgot to note that the downside of this, is that you lose quality in the sound.
ipping out the DRM won't get you any closer unless you can convert from AAC to better than through CD audio.
Ripping out the DRM will get you closer, because the sound isn't put through another lossy codec. Seeing how many devices can play non-DRM'd AAC too...
But if it's morally OK to buy from allofmp3 (where the artists get nothing), then isn't it equally OK to just download music from Gnutella/Kazaa/whatever (where the artists also get nothing)?
I'm willing to bet that Dell's equivalent hardware probably will not have wireless hardware failing, too much thermal paste, whistling, laptop melting partially, discolouration etc.
Wintel is a colloquial, often pejorative, term used to describe desktop computers of the type commonly used in homes and businesses since the late 1980s (these are PC compatible computers running a version of Microsoft Windows). The portmanteau term is a concatenation of Windows (Microsoft's operating environment) and 'Intel' (the largest manufacturer of CPUs and the originator of the X86 processor architecture used in many of today's PC compatible computers).
but you're probably the sort of person who won't pay for software based on principle.
Because everyone who uses Linux, uses it because it's free... Stop generalizing, that certainly isn't the only reason to use Linux either.
Moreover, it's not beyond you to simply re-write parts of the operating system that you don't like.
Eh? That doesn't make sense in this case.
The Core Audience of the Mac ads are people who want the O/S to both work and stay the hell out of their way.
Strange... That's why I prefer to use Linux and not MacOSX or Windows.
They aren't going to write their own drivers, or re-compile from source. They just want the thing to work. Period.
I don't even know any common Linux users who 'write their own drivers', and I know quite a lot of people. Also, if you're re-compiling, compiling from source when you don't want to, you're using the wrong distribution of Linux.
On the walk in to Uni, I discovered who it was that had been stealing the biscuits. And no, he didn't make it to a lavatory in time. My food was pretty much left alone after that. The bit I found perplexing was that this chap was a hard core Christian (born again, I think). He was the last one I expected it to be..
The seamless integration between the iPod and iTunes are its biggest selling point.
Biggest reason why I don't get a iPod. I don't want to be dictated what music player to use, or how I copy music to my music device.
Every other mp3 player these days lets you just drag and drop your music on the drive. I can't do that with the iPod -- I need to download iTunes (provided it's availible for the platform I'm using at that moment), add stuff to it's collections, then I can copy music to the iPod.
MS made a careful and calculated decision to put Clippy and co. into their premier software package and they made it after talking to a lot of potential customers, studying them carefully and figuring out what they needed and how to make it available in a way they would want to use.
I can't find any articles on google that point to Microsoft doing testing on "thousands of subjects, young and old, techies and computer illiterates. You need to run it on laptops, on CRTs, on LCDs, in rooms with bad lighting and in direct sunlight" for clippy. Infact, I couldn't find ANY.
Could you please provide some evidence for this too? Along with the original evidence I asked for.
MacOSX contains a BSD subsystem, but isn't a BSD OS technically.
I imagine that a Linux version would technically feasible.
It is, but it would probably hard to-do just a simple port. Mainly because the MacOSX version of Microsoft Office is a Carbon application. Although, I suppose they could always use GNUStep to get around this.
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You forgot the yearly fees for things like xbox live so you can play online.
Another thing is, wasn't one of the recommended requirements for Vista, a graphic card that supported dx10?
At the moment, I am assuming new machines sold with Vista that are Vista certified will not have this problem, nor will hardware that is vista certified.
We certainly wouldn't being using your old ISP.
I'm willing to bet that Dell's equivalent hardware probably will not have wireless hardware failing, too much thermal paste, whistling, laptop melting partially, discolouration etc.
Every other mp3 player these days lets you just drag and drop your music on the drive. I can't do that with the iPod -- I need to download iTunes (provided it's availible for the platform I'm using at that moment), add stuff to it's collections, then I can copy music to the iPod.
Could you please provide some evidence for this too? Along with the original evidence I asked for.