Yeah, I never went past the 2.8 Winamp anyways, never did like the 3 or greater versions. I knew that AOL owned them, but I didn't keep up with how much bloat they have, since I switched to a Mac. Now I can't get a good Window Media Player.
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h.264 is the new MPG codec. Ratified as part of the MPEG-4 standard (MPEG-4 Part 10), this ultra-efficient technology gives you excellent results across a broad range of bandwidths, from 3G for mobile devices to iChat AV for video conferencing to HD for broadcast and DVD. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/ Apple ships it with Quicktime 7, which is avaliable for Windows as a preview over at Apples site yet, and it is just........ you really just got to see it at work. I only encode all my TV shows I capture into h.264 since EyeTV made it an option. Its just got such high quality for small file size. Go get quicktime, then go to the trailer section, watch Batman Begins in 720p, you will see what everyone is talking about.
Why don't they distribute Winamp with their PCs as a media player? Most people I know go out and download it, then it up to play all their CDs and MP3s. Only thing that they might use Windows Media player for is movie clips, or things that have Windows DRM which need WMP.
After the patch is download though Windows Update, and it starts the install, disconnect the wire from the back of the computer so it can't be attacked will its updating. Then reboot, and wait for it to be in the booting up before plugging it back in. I say unplug because when just disabling the network card in windows and you end up rebooting before enabling it, I have had some problems with some computer just not wanting to fully reboot because the disabled nic card.
Do you really think that people will pay $200 for OS X. Maybe the rabid Windows users might since Windows will cost them more, but Apple hardware last longer than regular PCs. So software has to be cheap enough for us to buy over and over agian. What makes you think that OS X only costs $40 to make. Apple goes into detail over their software, that it has to be faster than the release before, and have more features but not complicated to use. That takes time and money, which is more than this $40 you say it takes to produce OS X and $20 for iLife.
Because this would cause the driver and dll hell that is already present on Windows. Plus, they use the money made from their hardware to make their software better, which ends up selling their hardware. Do you really think iLife '05 or iWorks would be $79 if Apple only sold software?
Ubuntu is more of a desktop, latest updates type distro, while Debian is a strong, server type distro. So which do you need, depends on if you want a desktop or server, make your choice.
I believe that they don't want to ship it with a hard drive because if they ship a 40 gig hard drive, people will complain that it should have 60 gigs. Others will say 80 gig is what they need, others 100 gigs, everyone will want to special order the size they want. Sony doesn't want to do that, or ship 40 gig PS3 models out to Eb game stores and have them not sell. If you want to add a HD, you can do it later, and I'm sure they will show you how its done and make it and easy upgrade so you can choose the size. This is what happened with the Xbox, everyone that wanted a larger drive had to crack it open, and put it in. External is much easier to deal with, and the user can choose.
Yeah, the the other guy said, Red Hat 7.1 came out in 4-16-2001. Maybe try the latest Fedora Core, that will be the latest Red Hat type distro you can get. After you try that, and still have all the same problems, then you can complain.
The G5 woops when it comes to floating point, and stays just behind in everything else. AMD of course takes top honors in almost everything. The find out that OS X kernel doesn't do so well on the server when it comes to multiple threads created while using MySQL and other possible open source software, so they conclude OS X a good desktop, but Linux is better on the Server. They will look into Linux on PPC to see which is better next time, PPC or x86 when it comes to a Linux server.
Its probably a wire transfer to a number account in Switzerland or another country that doesn't give out banking info for the people who hold accounts in those countries.
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And we can trust Cisco to not sell us out either? Implementing anything from another company is risky. Which makes Linux a great thing, an open OS so that the people that deploy it knows whats in it. The NSA thinks so, since they make their own located at http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/.
Once again you do not get it, you are an end user. You have no clue what it takes to keep a network of computers going. Even though you have not had any trouble, doesn't mean that Windows is not flawed when it comes to Security, or that most users get blue screens of death more often than any other platform. And me as a Mac user, I want to hear what points you have, so I can rebuttal. Otherwise all I can do is rant that you are wrong and not prove a point on anything.
"The case has led to criminal charges against nine people, including seven bank employees and alleged ring leader Orazio Lembo, who operated DRL Associates, a company that advertised as a skip-and-trace collection agency."
Well, I don't have a Gmail account so I don't know first hand, but the last I heard, it was free. So its a scam. I know its not a blog, but I'm just going after the anything free is a scam part.
Now everyone that wants to use and OpenID has to get domain name, which you have to pay for, and setup their own server if they want to be sure not to loose their OpenID. Right. I know I can do it, but my parents can't. This is suppose to be for the non geeks too right.
And what keeps someone from hammering my server then and some how getting it to spit out my password, or maybe I missed a patch, or that non geek person missed it.
I'm sorry if I'm raining on your parade, but I have to point out some of the weaker parts.
Ok, so when I sign up for a blog I get the chance to post else where with sites that support OpenID. What if I get a free blog, and after some time, they make me pay. How am I suppost to take my OpenID with me?
And what keeps me from making a blog site and using OpenID. When someone posts to my site, what keeps me from getting their password, because OpenID is passing info on the person that wants to post to my site in the background. What prevents this service from becoming the next fishing ground for personal information?
Did I read that right, that anyone can run one of these OpenID Servers. So now I can setup a server and have everyone's passwords and usernames filter into it. I'm not to sure about this.
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http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/
Yeah, I never went past the 2.8 Winamp anyways, never did like the 3 or greater versions. I knew that AOL owned them, but I didn't keep up with how much bloat they have, since I switched to a Mac. Now I can't get a good Window Media Player.
h.264 is the new MPG codec. Ratified as part of the MPEG-4 standard (MPEG-4 Part 10), this ultra-efficient technology gives you excellent results across a broad range of bandwidths, from 3G for mobile devices to iChat AV for video conferencing to HD for broadcast and DVD. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/ Apple ships it with Quicktime 7, which is avaliable for Windows as a preview over at Apples site yet, and it is just........ you really just got to see it at work. I only encode all my TV shows I capture into h.264 since EyeTV made it an option. Its just got such high quality for small file size. Go get quicktime, then go to the trailer section, watch Batman Begins in 720p, you will see what everyone is talking about.
Why don't they distribute Winamp with their PCs as a media player? Most people I know go out and download it, then it up to play all their CDs and MP3s. Only thing that they might use Windows Media player for is movie clips, or things that have Windows DRM which need WMP.
After the patch is download though Windows Update, and it starts the install, disconnect the wire from the back of the computer so it can't be attacked will its updating. Then reboot, and wait for it to be in the booting up before plugging it back in. I say unplug because when just disabling the network card in windows and you end up rebooting before enabling it, I have had some problems with some computer just not wanting to fully reboot because the disabled nic card.
Do you really think that people will pay $200 for OS X. Maybe the rabid Windows users might since Windows will cost them more, but Apple hardware last longer than regular PCs. So software has to be cheap enough for us to buy over and over agian. What makes you think that OS X only costs $40 to make. Apple goes into detail over their software, that it has to be faster than the release before, and have more features but not complicated to use. That takes time and money, which is more than this $40 you say it takes to produce OS X and $20 for iLife.
Because this would cause the driver and dll hell that is already present on Windows. Plus, they use the money made from their hardware to make their software better, which ends up selling their hardware. Do you really think iLife '05 or iWorks would be $79 if Apple only sold software?
Ubuntu is more of a desktop, latest updates type distro, while Debian is a strong, server type distro. So which do you need, depends on if you want a desktop or server, make your choice.
I believe that they don't want to ship it with a hard drive because if they ship a 40 gig hard drive, people will complain that it should have 60 gigs. Others will say 80 gig is what they need, others 100 gigs, everyone will want to special order the size they want. Sony doesn't want to do that, or ship 40 gig PS3 models out to Eb game stores and have them not sell. If you want to add a HD, you can do it later, and I'm sure they will show you how its done and make it and easy upgrade so you can choose the size. This is what happened with the Xbox, everyone that wanted a larger drive had to crack it open, and put it in. External is much easier to deal with, and the user can choose.
Yeah, the the other guy said, Red Hat 7.1 came out in 4-16-2001. Maybe try the latest Fedora Core, that will be the latest Red Hat type distro you can get. After you try that, and still have all the same problems, then you can complain.
Want a cookie.
The G5 woops when it comes to floating point, and stays just behind in everything else. AMD of course takes top honors in almost everything. The find out that OS X kernel doesn't do so well on the server when it comes to multiple threads created while using MySQL and other possible open source software, so they conclude OS X a good desktop, but Linux is better on the Server. They will look into Linux on PPC to see which is better next time, PPC or x86 when it comes to a Linux server.
Its probably a wire transfer to a number account in Switzerland or another country that doesn't give out banking info for the people who hold accounts in those countries.
Yeah, and some how Debian Sarge is going to beat them to release.
And we can trust Cisco to not sell us out either? Implementing anything from another company is risky. Which makes Linux a great thing, an open OS so that the people that deploy it knows whats in it. The NSA thinks so, since they make their own located at http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/.
Once again you do not get it, you are an end user. You have no clue what it takes to keep a network of computers going. Even though you have not had any trouble, doesn't mean that Windows is not flawed when it comes to Security, or that most users get blue screens of death more often than any other platform. And me as a Mac user, I want to hear what points you have, so I can rebuttal. Otherwise all I can do is rant that you are wrong and not prove a point on anything.
Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be like Apple's Switch ads?
So I know I'm going to hell.
"The case has led to criminal charges against nine people, including seven bank employees and alleged ring leader Orazio Lembo, who operated DRL Associates, a company that advertised as a skip-and-trace collection agency."
Well, if people didn't want to buy it, then they wouldn't be selling it.
Actually, its high DVD quality, and you can go buy it for 5 dollars on the streets of NY.
Well, I don't have a Gmail account so I don't know first hand, but the last I heard, it was free. So its a scam. I know its not a blog, but I'm just going after the anything free is a scam part.
Now everyone that wants to use and OpenID has to get domain name, which you have to pay for, and setup their own server if they want to be sure not to loose their OpenID. Right. I know I can do it, but my parents can't. This is suppose to be for the non geeks too right.
And what keeps someone from hammering my server then and some how getting it to spit out my password, or maybe I missed a patch, or that non geek person missed it.
I'm sorry if I'm raining on your parade, but I have to point out some of the weaker parts.
Ok, so when I sign up for a blog I get the chance to post else where with sites that support OpenID. What if I get a free blog, and after some time, they make me pay. How am I suppost to take my OpenID with me?
And what keeps me from making a blog site and using OpenID. When someone posts to my site, what keeps me from getting their password, because OpenID is passing info on the person that wants to post to my site in the background. What prevents this service from becoming the next fishing ground for personal information?
Did I read that right, that anyone can run one of these OpenID Servers. So now I can setup a server and have everyone's passwords and usernames filter into it. I'm not to sure about this.