remember how "snappy" Windows 95 or Mac OS Classic were?
Actually, no. I don't.
I used both back in in the day. System 7 crashed regularly and Windows 95 on a screaming "Pentium Classic" with 32MB of RAM running Internet Explorer 3 ran slower than molasses in January (just before the BSOD that is).
Strangely they've added a few. The new "Appearance" applet is quite
nice.
But "fortunately" screensavers remain unconfigurable.
After all, Billy Jon McCann (the sole developer and rule of the
Guuh-Nome screensaver universe) says that screensavers that you can
adjust settings on are "inherently
broken".
GNOME screensavers. Crippled for your protection since 2005.
The cost of storage (especially backup) will plummet. Right now I've got 1 TB of storage over 4 external STATA hard drives.
I can't see producing these DVD-like disks to be much more expensive to produce than recordable CDs and DVDs are now. That of coursem is a fraction of what conventional hard drives cost.
Hard drive makers might be running scared when these disks hit the market (assuming they do).
Of course by then, we might have 50 TB internal flash memory as well...
But the most "normal" person in all of this seems to be Nina and she's messed up too.
Reiser was living with mommy before he met Nina via a Russian Bride service?
At one point Reiser spends much of his time and energy trying to convince the court that the video games he was playing with his son were harmless?
Sturgeon was doing drugs, into S&M and later confesses to killing a bunch of people?
On and I can't help but think that just perhaps Nina used the bride service just to get her butt out of Russia and into an environment with better oppertunities. That's not all that uncommon..
If you ask me, Riser's biggest mistake was the Russian Bride Service. Were it not for that, you'd not be reading this now.
I know the evidence against him in Nina's murder case circumstantial, but frankly it sounds pretty damn good.
Perhaps he was framed? Maybe. But he could help clear a lot of this up if he chose to which he doesn't.
The whole thing is totally messed* up.
All I want to know is, if Reiser is convicted, will they change the name of ReiserFS to say um.. MurderFS or KillaFS?
They both sound kinda "gansta". That might be good from a marketing perspective....;)
I agree. I've bought music online before from iTunes. And I likely will again (if it's just one song or two that I want rather than entire CD).
But 98% of the time, I will buy a CD and then rip it. I will get much better quality with my own rip than I will buying from an online store. Even worse are the files on P2P networks. Legal issues aside, most of them are ripped by 15-year olds that have no clue as to how to rip a high quality file (i.e. with high bitrates).
If the online music stores want to switch from AAC or WMA to FLAC at very high bitrates (and DRM-free), then I might stop buying CDs.
And maybe I'm old fashioned (and just old) but I guess this goes back to my days growing up with vinyl. I like liner notes (although I need a magnifying glass to read them on most CDs these days) and cover art. And perhaps even lyrics (that I know haven't been butchered by some bozo who contributed to one of the online lyric sites).
Another plus for CDs: if my hard drive crashes and takes my music collection with it, I can always rip the CDs again (been there, done that).
And you're right, it's the under-25 crowd that doesn't care about any of this stuff. Just as long as it sounds decent on their iPod or WalMart bought boombox "Stereo".
For the record, I don't own an iPod or any kind of portable music player. But my computer doubles as my home stereo (that's why I invested in decent speakers for it).
So unlike the under-25 folks, I do care about good sound and right now that's best had with CDs (or even better - SACD or DVD-Audio).
Since the under 25 crowd are the people who have always been buying the most music, it makes sense that CD sales have plummeted.
Oh and yeah, and most of what's on the radio these days sucks anyway. I generally buy music based on reviews or word of mouth.
I'm going to preface the following statements with the fact that I'm an "OS fanboy". I'm not a Linux, *bsd, or Mac fanboy, I'm an OS fanboy. I never used one that I didn't (dis)like. They all suck and they are all great. For record I dual boot Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu "Feisty". I'm in Feisty as I write this. And I'm run Solaris, FreeBSD, Fedora and Debian in VMs.
With that said.... ___
I don't get it.
Considering what a vast improvement security-wise, GUI-wise and feature-wise Vista is over it's predecessors, I don't understand why it's so unpopular with people who've not even used it.
Maybe that's the problem - they go by hearsay. I ran Vista betas for about a year before taking the plunge and upgrading in February.
I have no regrets, it beats the heck out of XP. The features they borrowed from OS X added to the desktop are awesome. Search is everywhere and the Vista equivalent of KDE/GNOME's Alt+F2 rocks. Flip 3D is nice, but frankly I rarely use it. And yes, security is indeed better than in previous versions.
What don't I like? UAC is annoying, but you get used to it.
And Hardware/Driver/Software issues? There are some, but my problem was really 64-bit related (So, just like in Linux, I gave up and went back to 32-bit).
Drivers for all my hardware and peripherals (with the exception of the crappy cheap TV turner card I had - which I never liked anyway and ditched for a better one) were available and worked fine. Heck, drivers for both my 2-year-old printers (Brother MFC 7820N, HP DeskJet 6820) came with Vista.
Maybe I'm just lucky...
No, Vista isn't a godsend and there are some minor things that irk me. But the same goes for Linux and it's desktops (GNOME/KDE/XFCE...).
But yes, Vista is a vast improvement over it's predecessors. And it took 5 years to get to consumers because the development team started over from scratch halfway through the development process (a fact that doesn't seem that well known).
OK, it does have stricter hardware requirements but not that much stricter. Go in to any computer retailer and look at the "cheap" computers they have running Vista. Most of them have hardware approximating what most consumers (who bought a box in the past 2-3 years) have already.
I got my computer at the end of 2004 and deliberately went "overboard" and a higher-end box. My roomies computer (bought a year later) is half as good and runs Vista just fine.
So once again, I don't get it.
So why aren't I in Vista as I write this? Because I use whatever OS suits my mood or needs at the time and Linux was and still is the 1st choice for this OS junkie...
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Actually, no. I don't.
I used both back in in the day. System 7 crashed regularly and Windows 95 on a screaming "Pentium Classic" with 32MB of RAM running Internet Explorer 3 ran slower than molasses in January (just before the BSOD that is).
Strangely they've added a few. The new "Appearance" applet is quite nice.
But "fortunately" screensavers remain unconfigurable. After all, Billy Jon McCann (the sole developer and rule of the Guuh-Nome screensaver universe) says that screensavers that you can adjust settings on are "inherently broken".
GNOME screensavers. Crippled for your protection since 2005.
"Please, just tell people to use KDE"
-Linus Torvalds, December 2005.
And it's butt ugly.
Last year they shutdown torrent trackers for the Vista beta. This site had been around much longer (obviously).
If your're referring to Windows Update that makes perfect sense.
OMG! You'd have to watch it on over the air TV on a normal sized screen? :)
I don't see how they are to blame.
Well I'm an Ubuntu user and fanboy and I found it funny. :0)
That and he's got the relatively "normal" look down. :)
What about the barefoot presentations and knowingly dropping his hair in his soup?
"Free" Software doesn't feed me.
It's a nice idea, I like it and I use a lot of it, but it's by no means the best option out there.
Just look at how many Linux distros include non-free software.
Why? Because there's no decent "free" equivalent.
Why limit yourself?
If Stallman weren't so "odd" (to put it politely) he might be taken more seriously and thereby getting more credit then he has.
Linus rules.
Stop being logical. It's got a lot of the fanboys of that big unkempt hairy guy upset.
Woops.
;->).
I should re-read articles before comment (especially ones I submit
OK, the discs will be out soon. Therefore hard drive makers should be running scared.
The cost of storage (especially backup) will plummet. Right now I've got 1 TB of storage over 4 external STATA hard drives.
I can't see producing these DVD-like disks to be much more expensive to produce than recordable CDs and DVDs are now. That of coursem is a fraction of what conventional hard drives cost.
Hard drive makers might be running scared when these disks hit the market (assuming they do).
Of course by then, we might have 50 TB internal flash memory as well...
Dear mod,
What you find as funny I find as flamebait.
That's my point. But I guess I should have elaborated. Had Reiser been smart (and perhasp less desperate) he'd have not bothred with such a service.
So many of the women get over here and then dump the guy that got them here. I can't believe he wasn't aware of that.
In other words, I think Nina used him from the word go.
Maybe it's just me...
;)
But the most "normal" person in all of this seems to be Nina and she's messed up too.
Reiser was living with mommy before he met Nina via a Russian Bride service?
At one point Reiser spends much of his time and energy trying to convince the court that the video games he was playing with his son were harmless?
Sturgeon was doing drugs, into S&M and later confesses to killing a bunch of people?
On and I can't help but think that just perhaps Nina used the bride service just to get her butt out of Russia and into an environment with better oppertunities. That's not all that uncommon..
If you ask me, Riser's biggest mistake was the Russian Bride Service. Were it not for that, you'd not be reading this now.
I know the evidence against him in Nina's murder case circumstantial, but frankly it sounds pretty damn good.
Perhaps he was framed? Maybe. But he could help clear a lot of this up if he chose to which he doesn't.
The whole thing is totally messed* up.
All I want to know is, if Reiser is convicted, will they change the name of ReiserFS to say um.. MurderFS or KillaFS?
They both sound kinda "gansta". That might be good from a marketing perspective....
*insert less "family-friendly" word here
Respect for who and for what?
It's not to hard to understand?
It's all gibberish to me.
That's what makes it funny :)
I would hardly call the inability to play a few games a "forced upgrade" to Vista.
After all, they're only games.
And a breakup would have done the consumer more harm than good.
I don't argue that Microsoft has done a lot of less wonderful things in terms of marketing Windows, but they are in business to make money.
And in this instance I think this is an unfair criticism.
The overwhelming majority of new Windows programs out there run just fine on Windows XP. In fact, many of them run better on XP than Vista.
And it's worthy to note that Microsoft's other cash cow, Microsoft Office was designed to run on XP as well as Vista.
Microsoft would have been foolish to only offer that to Vista users. There are far more users of Office than any single game out there.
I agree. I've bought music online before from iTunes. And I likely will again (if it's just one song or two that I want rather than entire CD).
But 98% of the time, I will buy a CD and then rip it. I will get much better quality with my own rip than I will buying from an online store. Even worse are the files on P2P networks. Legal issues aside, most of them are ripped by 15-year olds that have no clue as to how to rip a high quality file (i.e. with high bitrates).
If the online music stores want to switch from AAC or WMA to FLAC at very high bitrates (and DRM-free), then I might stop buying CDs.
And maybe I'm old fashioned (and just old) but I guess this goes back to my days growing up with vinyl. I like liner notes (although I need a magnifying glass to read them on most CDs these days) and cover art. And perhaps even lyrics (that I know haven't been butchered by some bozo who contributed to one of the online lyric sites).
Another plus for CDs: if my hard drive crashes and takes my music collection with it, I can always rip the CDs again (been there, done that).
And you're right, it's the under-25 crowd that doesn't care about any of this stuff. Just as long as it sounds decent on their iPod or WalMart bought boombox "Stereo".
For the record, I don't own an iPod or any kind of portable music player. But my computer doubles as my home stereo (that's why I invested in decent speakers for it).
So unlike the under-25 folks, I do care about good sound and right now that's best had with CDs (or even better - SACD or DVD-Audio).
Since the under 25 crowd are the people who have always been buying the most music, it makes sense that CD sales have plummeted.
Oh and yeah, and most of what's on the radio these days sucks anyway. I generally buy music based on reviews or word of mouth.
But I digress....
Somebody dropped the ball at Microsoft. Why? Because much of the download content is syndicated from CNET Download.com
4 -10689104.html?tag=lst-0-1
Here is Ubuntu in the "Windows" section of Download.com:
http://www.download.com/Ubuntu-Desktop/3000-2098_
I'm going to preface the following statements with the fact that I'm an "OS fanboy". I'm not a Linux, *bsd, or Mac fanboy, I'm an OS fanboy. I never used one that I didn't (dis)like. They all suck and they are all great. For record I dual boot Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu "Feisty". I'm in Feisty as I write this. And I'm run Solaris, FreeBSD, Fedora and Debian in VMs.
With that said....
___
I don't get it.
Considering what a vast improvement security-wise, GUI-wise and feature-wise Vista is over it's predecessors, I don't understand why it's so unpopular with people who've not even used it.
Maybe that's the problem - they go by hearsay. I ran Vista betas for about a year before taking the plunge and upgrading in February.
I have no regrets, it beats the heck out of XP. The features they borrowed from OS X added to the desktop are awesome. Search is everywhere and the Vista equivalent of KDE/GNOME's Alt+F2 rocks. Flip 3D is nice, but frankly I rarely use it. And yes, security is indeed better than in previous versions.
What don't I like? UAC is annoying, but you get used to it.
And Hardware/Driver/Software issues? There are some, but my problem was really 64-bit related (So, just like in Linux, I gave up and went back to 32-bit).
Drivers for all my hardware and peripherals (with the exception of the crappy cheap TV turner card I had - which I never liked anyway and ditched for a better one) were available and worked fine. Heck, drivers for both my 2-year-old printers (Brother MFC 7820N, HP DeskJet 6820) came with Vista.
Maybe I'm just lucky...
No, Vista isn't a godsend and there are some minor things that irk me. But the same goes for Linux and it's desktops (GNOME/KDE/XFCE...).
But yes, Vista is a vast improvement over it's predecessors. And it took 5 years to get to consumers because the development team started over from scratch halfway through the development process (a fact that doesn't seem that well known).
OK, it does have stricter hardware requirements but not that much stricter. Go in to any computer retailer and look at the "cheap" computers they have running Vista. Most of them have hardware approximating what most consumers (who bought a box in the past 2-3 years) have already.
I got my computer at the end of 2004 and deliberately went "overboard" and a higher-end box. My roomies computer (bought a year later) is half as good and runs Vista just fine.
So once again, I don't get it.
So why aren't I in Vista as I write this? Because I use whatever OS suits my mood or needs at the time and Linux was and still is the 1st choice for this OS junkie...
Pardon me, but neither Quanta Plus or Bluefish do WYSIWYG.