"We may also share information with third parties in limited circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services."
Also a funny fact is, most of the large content providers may use windows media (MS exclusive deals etc) but the media is served via Helix/Real servers in fact.:)
IE for Mac had nothing to do with Windows versions.
It was always coded elitely with respect to standards. In fact it was (one time) the best standards covering browser out there, on ALL platforms. Forget "versiontracker" etc comment guys, the people who cared about standards that time saw it as a "hope" for future MS browsers.
I still keep it in my Applications folder, does not harm by sitting there. If Windows IE was like it, e.g. a application sitting in own directory without any "virus like" DLLs and "World domination agenda" all over OS , MS could even sell it like Opera ASA did with their product.
I keep a site, a very very generic user profile site. It has analysis too. I sometimes print it to pdf (OS X here) to send my geek friends living in a dreamland:)
They support 7 channels , 96khz and lets say they are widespread.
Where is the media? Real Networks supports 5.1 for years now, wmedia too. Both 24bit for ages.
If people pay to 44.1 khz/16bit compressed files because "iPod looks cool", you won't have use for 24bit for a long time. It is demand.
If I pay and download, I expect a "plus". That "plus" is 24bit stereo for me. I agree 5.1/7.1 is just a "show off" like Stereo's first days. Remember first Stereo records? They thought they have 2 channels so each instrument was mapped to seperate one. Like "guitar must be at left speaker", "of course put other guitar to right". Nowadays it is a guaranteed way to get fired from Protools table:)
Well it will progress too. If people don't ask "You guys use 36bit at studio,why not give us 24bit?", it won't.
In fact there is market for surround sound CDs, if they package 14 tracks to Realaudio 8/10 5.1 format 192kbit.
Don't let number fool you, 192kbit is a HUGE bandwidth for Real codecs (thats why they are alive)
Also if RA 10 used, it is AAC, mpeg 4.
I remember a sucky sounding 25mb WMA 5.1 track plays 5 min. So, with such space, it will sound great on Real.
Thing is of course, it will be PC/Mac (don't let me speak about mac surround market) only.
I still wonder why people does not demand at least 24bit 96khz for music they pay to download. Until someone offers that, I am with Audio CD and SASCD (if nothing like iTunes HD ships).
Agree or not, to use latest Safari on an Apple system, you gotta buy the latest OS. There is no "donation" or "foundation" around.
Firefox, Opera getting paid to use Google as default search engine: OK for me. Opera now can be really used for free, without piracy or buying, Mozilla foundation gotta make money to live.
What about $140 Apple Mac OS X default web browser? (please, no ebay links, no haxies, no hacks, no plist editing, plain safari!)
That is the real issue. Such things really bothers me. I use Yahoo search with Yahoo services since they started and I don't plan to use Google anytime. Every single browser has "Google" as default, whether get paid or not. If it sounds OK to you, please don't type anything against IE or other "by default"' monopolies.
Personally Apple DRM does not bother me. About piracy? Well nobody can tell anything to "Pirates" since e.g. if you are a turkish fan of Comedy Central and need to watch anything (except weekly global show,CNN Euro), you _have to_ pirate.
You can't subcsribe.
RIAA was excuse for non true global iTunes store, MPAA for Holywood... What about Comedy Central now?
Why don't you want to make money people? (asking to Viacom)
The team created Skype also created Kazaa, World's most widespread SPYWARE and they even brag about it on their pages.
That was what I was saying since the start of Skype, don't trust to people like that. For some reason I HAVE NO CLUE they have fanboys and they were downmodding, writing essay like comments about how "evil company" added spyware to Kazaa and shit like that.
I can understand Google fanboys, Apple fanboys but I have no clue why should anyone perform free lawyership for a dark company like that.
I can predict 1 year or later, there will be a very obvious bug hurting the user privacy somehow... Just remember this;)
I was on windows, in the worst days of spyware. I know the protype very well.
I wonder one small thing. I gave up asking the same question for Google but...
WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE DEFENDING SKYPE?
Skype is coded by 2 guys who also coded Kazaa. Don't tell me "evil company injected spyware", we all know Limewire. Topmoxie had nothing to do with them yes? Now they openly admit it.
You are supporting a very wrong type of company. Let their lawyers defend them, not you.
Before there were black hat coders like them, we didn't have to use freaking paranoid application filtering firewall on our computers. I hate them!
I remember Win98 "Lite" was brought up as an evidence in Microsoft lawsuit, by the judge.
I remember Judge asked "I am not an advanced computer user, if I can easily do it, why you insist telling IE is integral part of system?" Something like that...
For people not knowing the IE 4 first ages, Win98 lite was an ".inf" file, no more! that could remove entire IE from the system. Yes, including DLLs.
It was not allowed by Microsoft in any way (EULA etc) but it was a evidence for court. The evil lawyers of MS couldn't take the inf file creator (Aussie teacher) to court too.
Sorry btw, I am not a lawyer and I don't know law spesific search sites. So, when you type "windows lawsuit win98 lite" to yahoo, you know what will happen;)
So, that machine should be compared to the Macbook $1997 model.
If it is being compared to 2 year old laptops as some (pc knowing) posters suggest, the real story should be the scandal of allowing Mac (or PC) fanboys review machines on known, respected sites like Ars.
As a G5 1600 desktop user, my day has come. I can easily compare Intel Macintoshes to the other "branded" x86. It looks like they are overpriced and the PowerPC fans turned out to be right.
So, the company offering first line of "Thinkpad" they purchased from the ORIGINAL PC INVENTOR, IBM and showing a glimpse of future products, where they are headed etc doesn't interest you?
I suggest you DON'T care about "user reviews". I mean, come on. I could be a bored Dell employee and post a comment like "Eww, IBM should take it back" with my ISP account.
For laptop, I suggest check the machine yourself. Of course, ignoring salesperson too:)
Slashdot Mirror
Of course it doesn't say. There is a "tiny smell" of a genius PR in whole debate.
I have even seen people thinking they have the perfect privacy in Google. It is not the case here you know.
http://www.google.com/privacy.html
"We may also share information with third parties in limited circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services."
Realplayer is not adware, especially after 10. It was never adware , just annoying.
s /2006/q405results_8r16Js.html
:)
Helix Project (open source leg of real networks) announced 50 million Symbian S60 installations and 100.000 registered members to their site
https://helixcommunity.org/
They are building an empire on Mobile media. No need to panic, all "standards based"
Realnetworks have more than 2 MILLION PAYING subscribers.
http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/release
Also a funny fact is, most of the large content providers may use windows media (MS exclusive deals etc) but the media is served via Helix/Real servers in fact.
Is there a way we can harvest all exe files in disk to figure how many programs running on average user machine links/embeds mshtml.dll?
I don't know COM etc stuff but you get the idea.
If Microsoft's "competitors" rely on mshtml.dll , Microsoft HTML rendering, MS really doesn't care who uses what browser.
Of course I know the submitter is trolling.
IE for Mac had nothing to do with Windows versions.
It was always coded elitely with respect to standards. In fact it was (one time) the best standards covering browser out there, on ALL platforms. Forget "versiontracker" etc comment guys, the people who cared about standards that time saw it as a "hope" for future MS browsers.
I still keep it in my Applications folder, does not harm by sitting there. If Windows IE was like it, e.g. a application sitting in own directory without any "virus like" DLLs and "World domination agenda" all over OS , MS could even sell it like Opera ASA did with their product.
I keep a site, a very very generic user profile site. It has analysis too. I sometimes print it to pdf (OS X here) to send my geek friends living in a dreamland :)
85-90% IE. Lots of Windows 98. Lots of XP SP1.
4-5% Gecko
(btw, the "OP" (story submitter) is trolling)
Instead of giving time to this obvious "we can't make a good player so lets offer AOL free servers so they use our format only" lame game, try this:
:)
http://www.getdemocracy.com/
At least they offer some stuff AOL/TW can't dare to air. Oh, not porn
If they used realmedia, they could offer it to every modern OS including Macintosh and Linux and still have "evil DRM" they need.
They could offer same content to mobile platforms too.
Or same goes for Quicktime which they DEVELOP the content on.
I guess another "code/invent nothing, just spread spyware lie and bribe content providers" wmedia lame dominance strategy from MSFT.
They support 7 channels , 96khz and lets say they are widespread.
:)
Where is the media? Real Networks supports 5.1 for years now, wmedia too. Both 24bit for ages.
If people pay to 44.1 khz/16bit compressed files because "iPod looks cool", you won't have use for 24bit for a long time. It is demand.
If I pay and download, I expect a "plus". That "plus" is 24bit stereo for me. I agree 5.1/7.1 is just a "show off" like Stereo's first days. Remember first Stereo records? They thought they have 2 channels so each instrument was mapped to seperate one. Like "guitar must be at left speaker", "of course put other guitar to right". Nowadays it is a guaranteed way to get fired from Protools table
Well it will progress too. If people don't ask "You guys use 36bit at studio,why not give us 24bit?", it won't.
24bit flac on CD? OK, you joke :)
In fact there is market for surround sound CDs, if they package 14 tracks to Realaudio 8/10 5.1 format 192kbit.
Don't let number fool you, 192kbit is a HUGE bandwidth for Real codecs (thats why they are alive)
Also if RA 10 used, it is AAC, mpeg 4.
I remember a sucky sounding 25mb WMA 5.1 track plays 5 min. So, with such space, it will sound great on Real.
Thing is of course, it will be PC/Mac (don't let me speak about mac surround market) only.
I still wonder why people does not demand at least 24bit 96khz for music they pay to download. Until someone offers that, I am with Audio CD and SASCD (if nothing like iTunes HD ships).
Matrox Perhelia if you want colour accuracy, 2d acceleration, features like 10bit colour channels (native!).
d ucts/home.cfm
http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/cre_pro/pro
It has excellent 3d (in terms of quality) too.
They are still alive in this FPS comparison hell thanks to their focus on features like that.
On OS X Tiger whatever you write to searchbox is:
- tr&q=testing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.google.com/search?CLIENT=SAFARI&rls=tr
(upper case by me and tr is my language)
Agree or not, to use latest Safari on an Apple system, you gotta buy the latest OS. There is no "donation" or "foundation" around.
Firefox, Opera getting paid to use Google as default search engine: OK for me. Opera now can be really used for free, without piracy or buying, Mozilla foundation gotta make money to live.
What about $140 Apple Mac OS X default web browser? (please, no ebay links, no haxies, no hacks, no plist editing, plain safari!)
That is the real issue. Such things really bothers me. I use Yahoo search with Yahoo services since they started and I don't plan to use Google anytime. Every single browser has "Google" as default, whether get paid or not. If it sounds OK to you, please don't type anything against IE or other "by default"' monopolies.
Personally Apple DRM does not bother me. About piracy? Well nobody can tell anything to "Pirates" since e.g. if you are a turkish fan of Comedy Central and need to watch anything (except weekly global show,CNN Euro), you _have to_ pirate.
You can't subcsribe.
RIAA was excuse for non true global iTunes store, MPAA for Holywood... What about Comedy Central now?
Why don't you want to make money people? (asking to Viacom)
and limewire had nothing to do with stealware named TopMoxie at version 1, now they have dedicated page telling what is TopMoxie.
Using Wikipedia for defending a greedy coding team like that is plain stupid, sorry.
Sherman pointed a gun to their head or something? How hard to say "Oh, we are sued, we give up" and put a nice line to their CV?
Don't defend black hat coders please. If you have something to do with them, tell it too.
I remember you defended Kazaa while there were no "Intel only BS" in action.
http://www.gizmoproject.com/download.php
The team created Skype also created Kazaa, World's most widespread SPYWARE and they even brag about it on their pages.
;)
That was what I was saying since the start of Skype, don't trust to people like that. For some reason I HAVE NO CLUE they have fanboys and they were downmodding, writing essay like comments about how "evil company" added spyware to Kazaa and shit like that.
I can understand Google fanboys, Apple fanboys but I have no clue why should anyone perform free lawyership for a dark company like that.
I can predict 1 year or later, there will be a very obvious bug hurting the user privacy somehow... Just remember this
I was on windows, in the worst days of spyware. I know the protype very well.
I wonder one small thing. I gave up asking the same question for Google but...
WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE DEFENDING SKYPE?
Skype is coded by 2 guys who also coded Kazaa. Don't tell me "evil company injected spyware", we all know Limewire. Topmoxie had nothing to do with them yes? Now they openly admit it.
You are supporting a very wrong type of company. Let their lawyers defend them, not you.
Before there were black hat coders like them, we didn't have to use freaking paranoid application filtering firewall on our computers. I hate them!
Also they didn't invent anything, Net2Phone did.
I remember Win98 "Lite" was brought up as an evidence in Microsoft lawsuit, by the judge.
;)
I remember Judge asked "I am not an advanced computer user, if I can easily do it, why you insist telling IE is integral part of system?" Something like that...
For people not knowing the IE 4 first ages, Win98 lite was an ".inf" file, no more! that could remove entire IE from the system. Yes, including DLLs.
It was not allowed by Microsoft in any way (EULA etc) but it was a evidence for court. The evil lawyers of MS couldn't take the inf file creator (Aussie teacher) to court too.
Sorry btw, I am not a lawyer and I don't know law spesific search sites. So, when you type "windows lawsuit win98 lite" to yahoo, you know what will happen
After a fascistic implementation like that (like CPU brand racism?!) they will need to hire 50 more first class lawyers for monopoly court.
Gotta calculate that too...
(I am a PPC G5 owner, not an AMD Fanboy but I know why TCP/IP was created at first place)
Time that we can compare Mac Laptops to other (branded) Laptops in $$$ basis.
a -51_m7700/area-51_m7700_features.aspx?SysCode=PC-L T-AREA51-M-7700&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT
http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/are
$2000 (standard configuration)
Alienware is not a OEM brand.
So, that machine should be compared to the Macbook $1997 model.
If it is being compared to 2 year old laptops as some (pc knowing) posters suggest, the real story should be the scandal of allowing Mac (or PC) fanboys review machines on known, respected sites like Ars.
As a G5 1600 desktop user, my day has come. I can easily compare Intel Macintoshes to the other "branded" x86. It looks like they are overpriced and the PowerPC fans turned out to be right.
Is it true? Oh if it is true, Ars Technica should pull that comparison with an apology.
I mean, a Mac fanboy can do it on his own homepage, e.g. "look how my Macbook is faster than dell" personally, not on a site like Ars Technica.
Somehow my trust to all Macbook reviews has gone.
If I switch to a Wintel giving up my G5 1600 Mac, it will happen because of so called "mac community" acting like you.
We all know the style of The Register but they have many right points about Wikipedia.
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Especially why it should not use "Encyclopedia" in its name...
Oh well, the "search" for Wikipedia on The Register:
http://forms.theregister.co.uk/search/?q=wikipedi
BTW of course, I don't know the reasons started the "fight" but there are really many valid points by the authors/coloumnists at The Register.
As a last note: If 99.9% of people LOVES you, you are doing something wrong.
So, the company offering first line of "Thinkpad" they purchased from the ORIGINAL PC INVENTOR, IBM and showing a glimpse of future products, where they are headed etc doesn't interest you?
;)
Fun new products from Apple are real funny btw
I suggest you DON'T care about "user reviews". I mean, come on. I could be a bored Dell employee and post a comment like "Eww, IBM should take it back" with my ISP account.
:)
For laptop, I suggest check the machine yourself. Of course, ignoring salesperson too