I only keep a Windows box for games. For awhile there, I also kept a Windows partition for high-performance audio using NI's Traktor software.
Due to the inconvenience of dual boot, I bought a second-hand Macbook and ditched my Windows Traktor setup. The Macbook works good enough, but if I had the chance to do it all over again, I would have stuck with Windows.
Ever since Vista (of all releases!) I found Windows audio performance to be rock solid at incredibly low latency / buffer settings. I definitely prefer Windows for "real" audio work over Mac, although I may be the only one.
why is iTunes relevant anymore, as a music player it is awful, even as a three pane music browser its awful, as a way of interacting with Apple lecacy devices its awful.
Because it's the only way to access modern iDevices? I'm no iTunes fan, but I do like the iPod. I like the iPod so much more than any other MP3 player that dealing with iTunes is an OK proposition to me. So the lock-in works.
if they fix the performance lag regarding operations that involve altering metadata, I'll be quite happy.
Just curious, do you know that modifying song metadata - which is written to the front of your.mp3 file - requires re-writing the entire file to disk?
The delay drives me nuts, but it is understandable given the fact that metadata sits at the front of the file. Interesting fact: Shortening the content in your metadata takes far less time than adding to it. I guess they write null bytes (or similar) in the ID3 tags when you go shorter... but adding to it requires re-writing the whole file.
My Blackberry was pretty durned smart before the first iPhone development meeting ever occurred. Just sayin'
As someone who just got rid of a Blackberry, your comment makes me cringe. Blackberry's are truly a dumb-phone. They won't talk to anything without a series of RIM-licensed servers. They won't talk to Exchange without both your network provider and your IT department hosting dedicated servers. And if you're unlucky (like I was) there will be a mismatch of available services (BIS vs BES) and IT-hosted software versions (5 vs 6) that completely prevent you from accessing EMail in any shape or form.
Blackberry technology sucks and RIM has earned their place swirling around the toilet bowl.
Because the Wii sucked. First party games were great, but the online experience universally sucked across the platform. Third party games, when released for Wii at all, were appalling compared to their competing console counterparts. The Virtual Console is one of the coolest ideas I've ever seen in a console, but Nintendo said "screw the US" and released a paltry number of games for sale.
After my incredible disappointment with the Wii, and the now completely useless PS3 I bought, I'm pretty certain I'll never buy another console again.
Apple has had very good multi-touch trackpad support in their Macbook line for a number of years now. Microsoft has a long road ahead of them to catch up in that game.
Personally, I think Microsoft should stick to the corporate space and continue solving the types of problems that Apple refuses to touch.
It's the cable company's line, they should be allowed to do with it what they wish. Why should the cable companies be forced to deliver free services in any way?
Meh, hydroponics suck. These guys are using soil and even enhancing it with earthworms, which leads to a better product that contains lesser concentrations of nutrients and other chemicals.
It's as simple as this: Microsoft is intentionally breaking the standard, which will lead to it being ignored by everyone. I'm not sure why so many people believe MS is doing the right thing here.
Started with Slackware in 2002. Learned how to make menuconfig on the kernel, and generally how to compile and install apps & libraries from source. Then I moved around, trying Redhat, Fedora and Mandrake before settling on Gentoo for awhile.
After twiddling with Gentoo for several months I kind of got over the fun of waiting for everything to compile.
I found OpenSUSE somewhere along version 9, fell in love with it and haven't looked back. I'm firmly in the OpenSUSE camp and would like to stay here as long as possible.
I haven't been following very closely, but that's an interesting development. I'm into high performance audio, and noticed a night and day difference when I upgraded from XP to Vista. The new audio system in Vista (and present in 7) runs consistently well with far lower latency settings than previous versions of Windows.
The big changes in audio for Windows 8 look to be geared towards power savings.. Which sounds like a good thing, as long as it stays out of the way of high performance ASIO drivers.
If they wanted to convert, they can always wait until the next time you have a successful login. Then they can hash whatever part of the plaintext password you provide.
Or, maybe they've had a plaintext copy somewhere all along.
I always have to disable them. Too often, they continue bouncing for all 15 seconds even though my app is already loaded, or perhaps isn't going to open a window at all.
I'm interested in picking up a second-hand iPhone 4S when the new model hits the street.. If someone already upgrades their 4S to iOS6, can it be downgraded?
Between Metro UI, GNOME 3 and Unity, it's all a wash.
I'm not disagreeing with you on that point. But I don't run older versions of KDE -- the latest and greatest are fully functional for me. Perhaps it's time you tried a different distro?
Or we could find other features Windows has... That Linux just recently got and find that "mildly amusing".
Like what.. Metro UI? No thanks. A standard Linux distro comes with an insanely full set of software and utilities that "just work" out of the box. Don't know why I would waste my time installing software for days just to make Windows usable. That OS doesn't even have a decent software repository for it yet.
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I only keep a Windows box for games. For awhile there, I also kept a Windows partition for high-performance audio using NI's Traktor software.
Due to the inconvenience of dual boot, I bought a second-hand Macbook and ditched my Windows Traktor setup. The Macbook works good enough, but if I had the chance to do it all over again, I would have stuck with Windows.
Ever since Vista (of all releases!) I found Windows audio performance to be rock solid at incredibly low latency / buffer settings. I definitely prefer Windows for "real" audio work over Mac, although I may be the only one.
why is iTunes relevant anymore, as a music player it is awful, even as a three pane music browser its awful, as a way of interacting with Apple lecacy devices its awful.
Because it's the only way to access modern iDevices? I'm no iTunes fan, but I do like the iPod. I like the iPod so much more than any other MP3 player that dealing with iTunes is an OK proposition to me. So the lock-in works.
if they fix the performance lag regarding operations that involve altering metadata, I'll be quite happy.
Just curious, do you know that modifying song metadata - which is written to the front of your .mp3 file - requires re-writing the entire file to disk?
The delay drives me nuts, but it is understandable given the fact that metadata sits at the front of the file. Interesting fact: Shortening the content in your metadata takes far less time than adding to it. I guess they write null bytes (or similar) in the ID3 tags when you go shorter... but adding to it requires re-writing the whole file.
My Blackberry was pretty durned smart before the first iPhone development meeting ever occurred. Just sayin'
As someone who just got rid of a Blackberry, your comment makes me cringe. Blackberry's are truly a dumb-phone. They won't talk to anything without a series of RIM-licensed servers. They won't talk to Exchange without both your network provider and your IT department hosting dedicated servers. And if you're unlucky (like I was) there will be a mismatch of available services (BIS vs BES) and IT-hosted software versions (5 vs 6) that completely prevent you from accessing EMail in any shape or form.
Blackberry technology sucks and RIM has earned their place swirling around the toilet bowl.
Because the Wii sucked. First party games were great, but the online experience universally sucked across the platform. Third party games, when released for Wii at all, were appalling compared to their competing console counterparts. The Virtual Console is one of the coolest ideas I've ever seen in a console, but Nintendo said "screw the US" and released a paltry number of games for sale.
After my incredible disappointment with the Wii, and the now completely useless PS3 I bought, I'm pretty certain I'll never buy another console again.
I almost didn't click the link, but tos-dr.info contains some ridiculously convenient roll ups of all those Terms of Service I never read.
It's nice to see at a quick glance which services are being shady a-holes in which ways.
Say what you want, but I love the ASF and the projects they maintain. I'm grateful for the work they do and the software they provide.
Jeff's participated in too much patent warfare of his own, in my opinion.
Apple has had very good multi-touch trackpad support in their Macbook line for a number of years now. Microsoft has a long road ahead of them to catch up in that game.
Personally, I think Microsoft should stick to the corporate space and continue solving the types of problems that Apple refuses to touch.
and 2.5 it lets you use your old applications
You absolutely cannot use your old applications on the Windows RT ARM-based device.
Great! They're a perfect match.
Well there's a solid contribution to the conversation at hand..
It's the cable company's line, they should be allowed to do with it what they wish. Why should the cable companies be forced to deliver free services in any way?
Meh, hydroponics suck. These guys are using soil and even enhancing it with earthworms, which leads to a better product that contains lesser concentrations of nutrients and other chemicals.
It's as simple as this: Microsoft is intentionally breaking the standard, which will lead to it being ignored by everyone. I'm not sure why so many people believe MS is doing the right thing here.
Suggesting the Google Maps website is really thick. If Apple really wanted to fix the situation ASAP, why don't they re-release the Google Maps app?
Started with Slackware in 2002. Learned how to make menuconfig on the kernel, and generally how to compile and install apps & libraries from source. Then I moved around, trying Redhat, Fedora and Mandrake before settling on Gentoo for awhile.
After twiddling with Gentoo for several months I kind of got over the fun of waiting for everything to compile.
I found OpenSUSE somewhere along version 9, fell in love with it and haven't looked back. I'm firmly in the OpenSUSE camp and would like to stay here as long as possible.
The only major sub-system rewrite has been audio
I haven't been following very closely, but that's an interesting development. I'm into high performance audio, and noticed a night and day difference when I upgraded from XP to Vista. The new audio system in Vista (and present in 7) runs consistently well with far lower latency settings than previous versions of Windows.
The big changes in audio for Windows 8 look to be geared towards power savings.. Which sounds like a good thing, as long as it stays out of the way of high performance ASIO drivers.
If they wanted to convert, they can always wait until the next time you have a successful login. Then they can hash whatever part of the plaintext password you provide.
Or, maybe they've had a plaintext copy somewhere all along.
Perhaps you'll have better luck if you state your feature request over here.
I always have to disable them. Too often, they continue bouncing for all 15 seconds even though my app is already loaded, or perhaps isn't going to open a window at all.
I'm interested in picking up a second-hand iPhone 4S when the new model hits the street.. If someone already upgrades their 4S to iOS6, can it be downgraded?
I hope Dice proves to be better corporate overlords than the ones that sent CmdrTaco packing.
Between Metro UI, GNOME 3 and Unity, it's all a wash.
I'm not disagreeing with you on that point. But I don't run older versions of KDE -- the latest and greatest are fully functional for me. Perhaps it's time you tried a different distro?
Or we could find other features Windows has ... That Linux just recently got and find that "mildly amusing".
Like what.. Metro UI? No thanks. A standard Linux distro comes with an insanely full set of software and utilities that "just work" out of the box. Don't know why I would waste my time installing software for days just to make Windows usable. That OS doesn't even have a decent software repository for it yet.