There's a difference here. Putting chrome on a PC that automatically has IE (thanks, microsoft) means you have a choice. If we included firefox and safari, even moreso. It is at this point people can then say that they want IE completely removed from a PC. It may not be the same as selling PCs that don't have windows bundled but it is a step in the right direction.
Microsoft have nothing right or wrong in this instance, all they are doing is pushing back development as they are doing a crappy job as always.
Uh who said it wasn't having to do with name recognition? We said it is nothing but name recognition lately. It could be a flaming turd at this point and people think it's so magically good that they'd buy it at a premium.
Just about every mp3 player in existence has some kind of interface to select folders or specific songs that can sort by artist with album art (if the art is set up in a way that the interface recognizes).
I've yet to ever see an mp3 player that doesn't have that even from 5+ years ago.
Hell, you can do that from winamp with absolutely ANY mp3 player period (even zune/ipod/creative/sandisk). Winamp can be your interface for doing so, and can even generate the playlists as it does so. Even a step above it, you can search for a keyword as title/artist/etc.
People don't realize alternatives, and the rest is to be expected.
Uh, do you have a link to show that for my own understanding? I seem to recall that not only do USB2 devices have a difficult time receiving HD to 1080P but also not all "broadcast HDtv" is transmitted at the same bandwidth either. Not that the difference should be enormous. From what I read, you're referring to digital tv, which is not HD broadcast.
I actually got a creative zen vision, and I am very pleased. Plays anything and outputs to TV at a good resolution. However, 30GB = not enough (and the interface is a flaming turd in comparison to other MP3 makers). I'm going to do that drop-in 100GB hard drive trick soon, I think.
Oh, no. USB3 will be backwards and forwards compatible. You can run USB3 on USB2 devices and vice versa, but the speed difference is 20x faster so it's a big deal (way faster than firewire). AKA 600MB/s. Meaning that you could tune HD tv and use ridiculously fast flash drives/it could be straight competition to Esata as well.
Gaming processor = look at techreport's system builder guide on the front page. They show justification for why they choose something and newegg links to the whole system and is updated monthly I believe, so it's pretty easy to compare. You'd be amazed how cheap the stuff is sometimes:) In my personal opinion, phenoms are dirt cheap for a quadcore and getting a ati/amd 4850 can get you some monster performance real cheap ($170 for a vcard that very competitive right now that you could drop in another for sli at a later time to run as fast as the baseline fastest card on the market).
Aww, I apologize. It was the site that works with techreport, dailytech. why do I trust techreport? Because they also tried to bribe their own company secretly in this process as well to ensure honesty. They also have a much more up to date system building guid3e (monthly) with straight newegg links.Here are two of the related links: http://www.dailytech.com/PR+Firm+Owner+in+Hot+Water+Over+Game+Review+Site+Ownership/article13085.htm
and also
http://www.dailytech.com/Pay+to+Play+Uncovering+Online+Payola/article7510.htm is the bribe/payola one. Read carefully about tomshardware in there. It's been well known that they are in the payola category and aren't afraid to use outdated drivers in tests or refuse to test outright certain products that would bash certain competitors, such as the HD4870x2.
Umm, no. USB3 will be backwards compatible with 2, so it's not like we won't be able to use USB3 devices on a USB2 computer or vice versa.
The issue is that there is a huge realm of hardware devices that can suddenly reach fruition when they can function at 600MB/s that are simply not available right now.
Example: anything streaming (HD especially). It even opens up a reasonable possibility of an external graphics card for low level tasks. I honestly can't imagine what else as I cannot see the future, but going from approximately 30MB/s cap to 600 (megabytes, not bits)? Oh, also storage. This will be basically external Esata connection speeds for every single port on a pc. It could also mean enough bandwidth to output via USB3 to high def, as in possible DVI replacement (DVI single channel is 4gb/s which is the same as USB3).
This also means a necessity for a huge total motherboard bandwidth increase on par with how much a graphics card needs for each port, so either we're talking a seriously fast USB controller or we're talking a huge increase in bus period. Effectively this could bring about reasons for more necessity for quadcore and above bandwidth devices as well.
USB 3 has been like 4+ years in the making. I don't think we'll be likely to see USB4 soon. This isn't like a "don't buy a videocard this generation, you can wait till the next".
I think what myself and Nursie are basically saying is that Apple's dominance has nothing to do with conversionn or smoothness, it has more to do with brand name recognition at this point, and not the actual merits of the product (or lack thereof).
If it were about some kind of theoretical slickness then any company would be on equal footing and apple wouldn't dominate at all. As is, there are lots of other companies who do much better but people don't know about it and pay the apple premium, etc.
Yes, that was what he was referring to. It's called drag and drop. It's been around since windows XP and works on linux as well. It's also called "anything other than an ipod".
You are (possibly unintentionally?) turning this into a straw man argument.
It's not the processor that really dictates what you can handle. It's the graphics card moreso.
As long as you have a mobo that can handle PCIEx16 (minimum) and a nice processor, well you're good for quite a while. Meanwhile, anyone buying any motherboard right now is potentially fucked not because of processors or graphics, but because of USB3 coming out. Since no current motherboards will be able to support that speed without a drop-in PCIE card, you can imagine that in a year or two when USB3 is commonplace anyone without it is going to be screwed.
If you want to find unbiased reviews, stick with techreport.com and follow their articles. They are the company that outed other companies (and tested their own as well), to see who was willing to give positive reviews based on being bribed, such as tomshardware.
Crunchyroll.com is a website that uses bittorrent to stream H.264 encoded anime episodes at a quality far above hulu and yahoo. So yes, I agree that there are tons of legitimate uses.
Shh. Remember apple runs "fast" and is "glorious for multimedia!" somehow we skipped Linux and AMD, but hey, want to pay 2x as much for half the performance?
You see though, the problem wouldn't be the FOIA, the problem would be that somehow we are supposedly safer without that information. You think someone can't just find that stuff on the web?
If I google "locations of new york missile silos" you find enough that I'm sure you could dig info on where they are located.
Thus, it's the same viewpoint: not that private citizens should be bound to this, merely our government.
I would imagine they would give a response like "please provide more specificity" if they simply felt it was too vague.
FOIA's are that way (you do realize a pretty big trade agreement is the source of all the FOIA-related bills going around country to country nowadays), that was the response I got when I FOIA'd the ACTA agreement before it hit major press coverage...it was only then that I started getting dancing answers about how we can't see that information.
What I'd love to see, is a law stating that you cannot refuse to provide information on anything requested from a FOIA, provided that it is specific enough.
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There's a difference here. Putting chrome on a PC that automatically has IE (thanks, microsoft) means you have a choice. If we included firefox and safari, even moreso. It is at this point people can then say that they want IE completely removed from a PC. It may not be the same as selling PCs that don't have windows bundled but it is a step in the right direction.
Microsoft have nothing right or wrong in this instance, all they are doing is pushing back development as they are doing a crappy job as always.
Uh who said it wasn't having to do with name recognition? We said it is nothing but name recognition lately. It could be a flaming turd at this point and people think it's so magically good that they'd buy it at a premium.
You know what though?
I'm not going to give up my right to (XYZ) just because (ABC) extreme case happened someday sometime. This has been a huge problem with the US.
Take rights away from corporations. Take them all away till corporations are hardly anything. But don't take away personal freedoms from individuals.
Just about every mp3 player in existence has some kind of interface to select folders or specific songs that can sort by artist with album art (if the art is set up in a way that the interface recognizes).
I've yet to ever see an mp3 player that doesn't have that even from 5+ years ago.
Hell, you can do that from winamp with absolutely ANY mp3 player period (even zune/ipod/creative/sandisk). Winamp can be your interface for doing so, and can even generate the playlists as it does so. Even a step above it, you can search for a keyword as title/artist/etc.
People don't realize alternatives, and the rest is to be expected.
Uh, do you have a link to show that for my own understanding? I seem to recall that not only do USB2 devices have a difficult time receiving HD to 1080P but also not all "broadcast HDtv" is transmitted at the same bandwidth either. Not that the difference should be enormous. From what I read, you're referring to digital tv, which is not HD broadcast.
I agree :)
I actually got a creative zen vision, and I am very pleased. Plays anything and outputs to TV at a good resolution. However, 30GB = not enough (and the interface is a flaming turd in comparison to other MP3 makers). I'm going to do that drop-in 100GB hard drive trick soon, I think.
Oh, no. USB3 will be backwards and forwards compatible. You can run USB3 on USB2 devices and vice versa, but the speed difference is 20x faster so it's a big deal (way faster than firewire). AKA 600MB/s. Meaning that you could tune HD tv and use ridiculously fast flash drives/it could be straight competition to Esata as well.
Gaming processor = look at techreport's system builder guide on the front page. They show justification for why they choose something and newegg links to the whole system and is updated monthly I believe, so it's pretty easy to compare. You'd be amazed how cheap the stuff is sometimes :) In my personal opinion, phenoms are dirt cheap for a quadcore and getting a ati/amd 4850 can get you some monster performance real cheap ($170 for a vcard that very competitive right now that you could drop in another for sli at a later time to run as fast as the baseline fastest card on the market).
Aww, I apologize. It was the site that works with techreport, dailytech. why do I trust techreport? Because they also tried to bribe their own company secretly in this process as well to ensure honesty. They also have a much more up to date system building guid3e (monthly) with straight newegg links.Here are two of the related links:
http://www.dailytech.com/PR+Firm+Owner+in+Hot+Water+Over+Game+Review+Site+Ownership/article13085.htm
and also
http://www.dailytech.com/Pay+to+Play+Uncovering+Online+Payola/article7510.htm
is the bribe/payola one. Read carefully about tomshardware in there. It's been well known that they are in the payola category and aren't afraid to use outdated drivers in tests or refuse to test outright certain products that would bash certain competitors, such as the HD4870x2.
Umm, no. USB3 will be backwards compatible with 2, so it's not like we won't be able to use USB3 devices on a USB2 computer or vice versa.
The issue is that there is a huge realm of hardware devices that can suddenly reach fruition when they can function at 600MB/s that are simply not available right now.
Example: anything streaming (HD especially). It even opens up a reasonable possibility of an external graphics card for low level tasks. I honestly can't imagine what else as I cannot see the future, but going from approximately 30MB/s cap to 600 (megabytes, not bits)? Oh, also storage. This will be basically external Esata connection speeds for every single port on a pc. It could also mean enough bandwidth to output via USB3 to high def, as in possible DVI replacement (DVI single channel is 4gb/s which is the same as USB3).
This also means a necessity for a huge total motherboard bandwidth increase on par with how much a graphics card needs for each port, so either we're talking a seriously fast USB controller or we're talking a huge increase in bus period. Effectively this could bring about reasons for more necessity for quadcore and above bandwidth devices as well.
USB 3 has been like 4+ years in the making. I don't think we'll be likely to see USB4 soon. This isn't like a "don't buy a videocard this generation, you can wait till the next".
I think what myself and Nursie are basically saying is that Apple's dominance has nothing to do with conversionn or smoothness, it has more to do with brand name recognition at this point, and not the actual merits of the product (or lack thereof).
If it were about some kind of theoretical slickness then any company would be on equal footing and apple wouldn't dominate at all. As is, there are lots of other companies who do much better but people don't know about it and pay the apple premium, etc.
Yeah, what you basically gave up was also called a "headphone jack", not so much specifically an ipod package.
Yes, that was what he was referring to. It's called drag and drop. It's been around since windows XP and works on linux as well. It's also called "anything other than an ipod".
Convert her discs to mp3, drag and drop.
So wait, there's a magic processor I didn't know about that goes faster than two products that haven't been tested head to head yet, and it's intel's?
I have a bridge I'd like to sell you, too.
You are (possibly unintentionally?) turning this into a straw man argument.
It's not the processor that really dictates what you can handle. It's the graphics card moreso.
As long as you have a mobo that can handle PCIEx16 (minimum) and a nice processor, well you're good for quite a while. Meanwhile, anyone buying any motherboard right now is potentially fucked not because of processors or graphics, but because of USB3 coming out. Since no current motherboards will be able to support that speed without a drop-in PCIE card, you can imagine that in a year or two when USB3 is commonplace anyone without it is going to be screwed.
If you want to find unbiased reviews, stick with techreport.com and follow their articles. They are the company that outed other companies (and tested their own as well), to see who was willing to give positive reviews based on being bribed, such as tomshardware.
It depends on how it's done.
There are good ways, and there are bad ways. This would be a "bad way".
Crunchyroll.com is a website that uses bittorrent to stream H.264 encoded anime episodes at a quality far above hulu and yahoo. So yes, I agree that there are tons of legitimate uses.
The real answer to this, is no. Just no.
Anyone with half a clue who is a developer makes their stuff on something more cross-platform friendly....bsd or unix.
So yes, umm, developers developers developers! Sheesh.
The situation here isn't a "we want the data back" it's "we want to stop the perp"....different situation.
So the guy doesnt' know how to change his wireless channel?
Genius.
Oh crap, did I? I blame Thursdays and the remaining hour of work.
Right, because compiz/xgl could never compare to an apple fanboy. Is that what you're saying? Whoops.
Shh. Remember apple runs "fast" and is "glorious for multimedia!" somehow we skipped Linux and AMD, but hey, want to pay 2x as much for half the performance?
I can't help but think of those leg'go my eggo commercials.
"Leggo my trademark!"
You see though, the problem wouldn't be the FOIA, the problem would be that somehow we are supposedly safer without that information. You think someone can't just find that stuff on the web?
If I google "locations of new york missile silos" you find enough that I'm sure you could dig info on where they are located.
Thus, it's the same viewpoint: not that private citizens should be bound to this, merely our government.
I would imagine they would give a response like "please provide more specificity" if they simply felt it was too vague.
FOIA's are that way (you do realize a pretty big trade agreement is the source of all the FOIA-related bills going around country to country nowadays), that was the response I got when I FOIA'd the ACTA agreement before it hit major press coverage...it was only then that I started getting dancing answers about how we can't see that information.
What I'd love to see, is a law stating that you cannot refuse to provide information on anything requested from a FOIA, provided that it is specific enough.