That's true, as long as you turn off Google as the default search, disable cookies, and don't use any other Google services.
Which, you can do in Chrome too.
What do you want your memory to be free for? So you can brag about how much wasted RAM you have? It's like having a house filled with closets that go empty and keeping all your clothing in a storage yard across town.
As for the drive's internal cache being diluted with data that isn't going to be used, you are going to be sad to know, hard drive caches are used for prefetching data. Yes they contain read/write info and the command queue, but they also prefetch raw bits based on predictive algorithms.
That makes no sense. Superfetch is run at the lowest priority, all other reads/writes interrupt anything it's doing and it only uses idle processor time.
At boot, Windows is doing other things not prefetching. Turn superfetch on and monitor your active processes at boot, you'll see that the superfetch PID is sittng all the way at the bottom of everything. Its IO is negligible as is its CPU usage until AFTER everything else has loaded and your system has gone back to twiddling its bits for a few hundred thousand processor cycles.
Why does anyone care about having piles and piles of free RAM? What use is empty RAM? Runway behind and Sky above, nice that it exists, but totally useless. I wish Linux prefetched stuff. If I open program 1, and ALWAYS open program 2 after, why shouldn't the OS preload program 2?
As has been pointed out, prefetched data is dropped if the RAM it occupies is needed in an infinitesimal amount of time, is your life so short, or your tasks so time sensitive that 10 or 15 ms is really a big deal?
None were awful movies, all were entertaining, all had everything I wanted in a Star Wars movie:
Lightsabre fights, space battles, cool special effects, and not all boring'ed up by wasting time with fancy dialogue or plot.
This is fantastic. Now we actually have a way to find out WHAT they are doing and complain about it. There's no more "I think this is what's happening and it sucks." Now it's "I think this is what is happening, and it sucks... Is this the case?... Yeah? WHY? Fuck you, give me what I pay for."
Rogers, especially, has been advertising how you can download an HD movie in 2.3 seconds on their max best super ultra service. But they don't tell you that it's only if you do it from an authorized partner while using their DNS hijacking. Fuck them, it's my bandwidth, let me do it how I want. Now they have to tell us.
While it's not endgame, it's at least a step in the right direction.
Or perhaps you should read about how Windows determines what programs are pinned to the start menu. If you want Recently launched items on your start menu, tell your start menu to add them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foQlFm5px7I
If you try to install iTunes 6 on Vista, Vista whines. If you try to use Netscape 4, the internet doesn't work.
This is the same fucking thing. Any version of the Google Toolbar or iTunes >7 works fine on Windows 7. If people can't be bothered to update their software, I don't see how this is a strike against Windows.
When you upgrade kernels in Linux you get notified that some software won't work properly. What's the difference?
It's not just Google/Apple/Linux apps that get a "this app isn't gonna work dude" warning. I was warned about SMAC, Pharaoh, Fallout 1 and 2 and Civ 4 when I upgraded. Are Firaxis, Sierra, Interplay/Black Isle and 2K Games in direct competition with MS?
Fuck off. This headline and the entire gist of the article is just as much baseless FUD as the anti-Linux horse shit that MS puts out.
Gmail has a process for this, as do all other freemail services.
Gmail's is Here
Googling for the others policies will yield results for the others as well.
I've bought and lost both the original and Alien Crossfire like five times a piece. It's a fantastic game.
Additionally with the text based game rules, it's easy to tweak it and make it harder or more realistic in almost any manner.
I'm the kind of person that doesn't consider it stealing when I download a song, or even an album. It's only lost money if I would've bought the album originally. Since downloading makes me buy more albums, by a wider variety of artists I consider it free publicity for them, and a free sample for me.
That said, if it's on an RIAA label, I'm buying it used, so I guess one of the two is stealing. If it's non-RIAA, I'll buy it if I like it.
As to your searching for stuff, and finding recommendations, http://www.last.fm/ does exactly that. You submit what you listen to, and it builds up a list of that and finds similar users and matches your songs with theirs. As someone who listens to pretty niche-y stuff, I can honestly say that it actually works really well. It rarely if ever recommends me things that I didn't enjoy, and was pretty good at getting a few new things into my mp3 and eventually record/cd collection. It's a great site, I fully endorse going there and checking it out. I do not draw a paycheque from them.
I've got to agree that APE is waaaaay better than ID3. Unlimited meta data makes tagging things super easy.
I can have something tagged as genre: punk rock, genre2: american hardcore, genre3: So-Cal first gen, genre4: OC, genre5: Oxnard, etc...
Any tag I want to add to a file I can, and as mentioned, there's no size limit. I've found this to actually be really beneficial by tagging songs by my bands with an email address to contact if people want demos, or want to know anything about us. Although I suppose that could just be added into the "comment" field.
What if I want to listen to the Dandy Warhols, the Damned, or the Germs? What are my options then?
I could buy indie music that sounds similar to those bands, and I do, but it wouldn't let me listen to *those* bands.
The whole buy indie music thing only holds a little bit of weight, and that weight is offset by the majority of people who don't want to listen to music that sounds good, but isn't popular. It's as has been said previously, people want to listen to popular music because it's cool. The fact that there are a zillion more talented and better underground performers, doing similar styles of music to the mainstream/popular stuff, is proof of that.
People, as a general rule, aren't going to invest the time it takes to find good unsigned artists when they can just buy or download stuff by the major label artist. As much as I'd like to believe that people are decent enough to investigate other bands that sound similar, but do it better and "real-er" than the top 40 version, I know they're not. If they were radio and mtv would be listenable/viewable.
I've never purchased anything from iTunes, so I may be wrong, but aren't all their mp4s encoded at 192kbps?
If they are at 128kbps, then I don't think that you need to spend much more than $20 on crappy PC speakers to hear the limitations of that format.
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That's true, as long as you turn off Google as the default search, disable cookies, and don't use any other Google services. Which, you can do in Chrome too.
What do you want your memory to be free for? So you can brag about how much wasted RAM you have? It's like having a house filled with closets that go empty and keeping all your clothing in a storage yard across town.
As for the drive's internal cache being diluted with data that isn't going to be used, you are going to be sad to know, hard drive caches are used for prefetching data. Yes they contain read/write info and the command queue, but they also prefetch raw bits based on predictive algorithms.
At boot, Windows is doing other things not prefetching. Turn superfetch on and monitor your active processes at boot, you'll see that the superfetch PID is sittng all the way at the bottom of everything. Its IO is negligible as is its CPU usage until AFTER everything else has loaded and your system has gone back to twiddling its bits for a few hundred thousand processor cycles.
As has been pointed out, prefetched data is dropped if the RAM it occupies is needed in an infinitesimal amount of time, is your life so short, or your tasks so time sensitive that 10 or 15 ms is really a big deal?
Thank you nerds, for making me feel like I belong.
None were awful movies, all were entertaining, all had everything I wanted in a Star Wars movie:
Lightsabre fights, space battles, cool special effects, and not all boring'ed up by wasting time with fancy dialogue or plot.
Aside from all those that use getdeb.net.
Rogers, especially, has been advertising how you can download an HD movie in 2.3 seconds on their max best super ultra service. But they don't tell you that it's only if you do it from an authorized partner while using their DNS hijacking. Fuck them, it's my bandwidth, let me do it how I want. Now they have to tell us.
While it's not endgame, it's at least a step in the right direction.
That gives you Explorer back? Are you suddenly forced to use Finder instead? Your post makes no sense.
Or perhaps you should read about how Windows determines what programs are pinned to the start menu. If you want Recently launched items on your start menu, tell your start menu to add them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foQlFm5px7I
Er... "Any recent version of the Google Toolbar..."
If you try to install iTunes 6 on Vista, Vista whines. If you try to use Netscape 4, the internet doesn't work. This is the same fucking thing. Any version of the Google Toolbar or iTunes >7 works fine on Windows 7. If people can't be bothered to update their software, I don't see how this is a strike against Windows. When you upgrade kernels in Linux you get notified that some software won't work properly. What's the difference? It's not just Google/Apple/Linux apps that get a "this app isn't gonna work dude" warning. I was warned about SMAC, Pharaoh, Fallout 1 and 2 and Civ 4 when I upgraded. Are Firaxis, Sierra, Interplay/Black Isle and 2K Games in direct competition with MS? Fuck off. This headline and the entire gist of the article is just as much baseless FUD as the anti-Linux horse shit that MS puts out.
Cyberdyne? HAL? Are we already this deep in the 'asking for it' business?
Gmail has a process for this, as do all other freemail services. Gmail's is Here Googling for the others policies will yield results for the others as well.
THX anyone? November third, or March eleventh whichever.
I've bought and lost both the original and Alien Crossfire like five times a piece. It's a fantastic game. Additionally with the text based game rules, it's easy to tweak it and make it harder or more realistic in almost any manner.
That said, if it's on an RIAA label, I'm buying it used, so I guess one of the two is stealing. If it's non-RIAA, I'll buy it if I like it.
As to your searching for stuff, and finding recommendations, http://www.last.fm/ does exactly that. You submit what you listen to, and it builds up a list of that and finds similar users and matches your songs with theirs. As someone who listens to pretty niche-y stuff, I can honestly say that it actually works really well. It rarely if ever recommends me things that I didn't enjoy, and was pretty good at getting a few new things into my mp3 and eventually record/cd collection. It's a great site, I fully endorse going there and checking it out. I do not draw a paycheque from them.
None that I know of unfortunately.
I can have something tagged as genre: punk rock, genre2: american hardcore, genre3: So-Cal first gen, genre4: OC, genre5: Oxnard, etc...
Any tag I want to add to a file I can, and as mentioned, there's no size limit. I've found this to actually be really beneficial by tagging songs by my bands with an email address to contact if people want demos, or want to know anything about us. Although I suppose that could just be added into the "comment" field.
What if I want to listen to the Dandy Warhols, the Damned, or the Germs? What are my options then? I could buy indie music that sounds similar to those bands, and I do, but it wouldn't let me listen to *those* bands. The whole buy indie music thing only holds a little bit of weight, and that weight is offset by the majority of people who don't want to listen to music that sounds good, but isn't popular. It's as has been said previously, people want to listen to popular music because it's cool. The fact that there are a zillion more talented and better underground performers, doing similar styles of music to the mainstream/popular stuff, is proof of that. People, as a general rule, aren't going to invest the time it takes to find good unsigned artists when they can just buy or download stuff by the major label artist. As much as I'd like to believe that people are decent enough to investigate other bands that sound similar, but do it better and "real-er" than the top 40 version, I know they're not. If they were radio and mtv would be listenable/viewable.
I've never purchased anything from iTunes, so I may be wrong, but aren't all their mp4s encoded at 192kbps? If they are at 128kbps, then I don't think that you need to spend much more than $20 on crappy PC speakers to hear the limitations of that format.