"ISO 9001. Read it. Learn it."
ISO doesn't give a crap about whether or not a manufacturing process is broken, it just makes sure that the process documented is the process followed. You could churn out billions of defective products and still have ISO certification if your processes matched your documentation. They only exist to part tech firms from huge amounts of cash, not to fix any real problems.
Irrelevant to the argument of Intel's quality control to say the least.
In case anyone actually wants to learn anything or know if they can get a certain functionality working, my point was that it is an easily added feature that takes little time and effort. If all you care about is arguing bundling comparisons, then it's just mental... well, you know.
Neither are all the plugins and a lot of the useful utilities linux people point someone to when they say "but it can't do this..."... so who cares? Google will find it for you in 1.2 microseconds, right?:D
The problem is, XP is NOT really buggy, not even close. It's rock solid in my experience, and that's on 4 home systems and a laptop from work with our own custom software on there which managed to hose NT4 and Win2k quite nicely.
Security issues are one thing, but making up performance issues that really don't exist is pointless.
Most people listen to it on computers or portable devices anyway... so no issue there. I have several albums I have done this to that I listen to on my car stereo in wma format (pioneer deck, kenwood and mb quart speakers) and they all sound fine. Note that I have a somewhat noisy car (wrx sti) so if you had a really top end system at home or in a nice quiet, well-insulated car, you might notice something I don't. But I have no issues with sound quality at all, though I agree some must be being lost by doing this.
"I wish it were more like the the 60s though. Rolling death rides."
Yes, drivers getting killed every weekend would be just great, wouldn't it? Good thinking.
Interesting article, if you are new to formula one, otherwise old news. However, they give too much credit to technology for Michael Schumacher's success and not enough to the man himself. He's literally the most dominant driver of his era and is probably as good as or better than most of the all-time greats as well (though making comparisons across eras given the huge changes in cars is difficult).
I'm not really much of a Schumacher fan but to see him as anything other than one of the all time great racing drivers is absurd. He would win with or without his fancy steering wheel and telemetry. Give him four wheels and a gas pedal hooked up to something with at least one piston and he's good to go.
I bought this on napster in mp3 format and the assertion that it won't work on things like ipod is false. Just buy it on napster, burn it to cd, then rip it back to wma or mp3. After that, use on any device you like at any time without any checks for licenses.
And you will note, I PAID FOR IT. The reason I do use this method is because it never fails that I load my paid for music onto my pocket pc and have the music play okay a couple times then suddenly decide they are not legal copies or the licenses can't be found until I reload them using windows media player again. Instead of dealing with that idiotic nightmare, I just burn them to cd then rip them back again and go on my happy way with nary a complaint from my computer or my pocket pc.
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"ISO 9001. Read it. Learn it." ISO doesn't give a crap about whether or not a manufacturing process is broken, it just makes sure that the process documented is the process followed. You could churn out billions of defective products and still have ISO certification if your processes matched your documentation. They only exist to part tech firms from huge amounts of cash, not to fix any real problems. Irrelevant to the argument of Intel's quality control to say the least.
In case anyone actually wants to learn anything or know if they can get a certain functionality working, my point was that it is an easily added feature that takes little time and effort. If all you care about is arguing bundling comparisons, then it's just mental... well, you know.
Neither are all the plugins and a lot of the useful utilities linux people point someone to when they say "but it can't do this..."... so who cares? Google will find it for you in 1.2 microseconds, right? :D
" Well, you CAN burn files to a CD using Windows XP, but it can't handle a .ISO."
It can with a simple and free tool known as ISO Recorder.
A simple answer to this is found by checking Symantec's Site for one. I'm sure google would have coughed up the answer to this as well.
The problem is, XP is NOT really buggy, not even close. It's rock solid in my experience, and that's on 4 home systems and a laptop from work with our own custom software on there which managed to hose NT4 and Win2k quite nicely. Security issues are one thing, but making up performance issues that really don't exist is pointless.
Most people listen to it on computers or portable devices anyway... so no issue there. I have several albums I have done this to that I listen to on my car stereo in wma format (pioneer deck, kenwood and mb quart speakers) and they all sound fine. Note that I have a somewhat noisy car (wrx sti) so if you had a really top end system at home or in a nice quiet, well-insulated car, you might notice something I don't. But I have no issues with sound quality at all, though I agree some must be being lost by doing this.
"I wish it were more like the the 60s though. Rolling death rides." Yes, drivers getting killed every weekend would be just great, wouldn't it? Good thinking.
Interesting article, if you are new to formula one, otherwise old news. However, they give too much credit to technology for Michael Schumacher's success and not enough to the man himself. He's literally the most dominant driver of his era and is probably as good as or better than most of the all-time greats as well (though making comparisons across eras given the huge changes in cars is difficult). I'm not really much of a Schumacher fan but to see him as anything other than one of the all time great racing drivers is absurd. He would win with or without his fancy steering wheel and telemetry. Give him four wheels and a gas pedal hooked up to something with at least one piston and he's good to go.
Note: this refers to "licensed" music purchases on the internet in general, not just this album and whatever broken copy protection scheme it uses.
I bought this on napster in mp3 format and the assertion that it won't work on things like ipod is false. Just buy it on napster, burn it to cd, then rip it back to wma or mp3. After that, use on any device you like at any time without any checks for licenses. And you will note, I PAID FOR IT. The reason I do use this method is because it never fails that I load my paid for music onto my pocket pc and have the music play okay a couple times then suddenly decide they are not legal copies or the licenses can't be found until I reload them using windows media player again. Instead of dealing with that idiotic nightmare, I just burn them to cd then rip them back again and go on my happy way with nary a complaint from my computer or my pocket pc.