Under XP, WinAmp would play flawlessly even when I was hammering the CPU at 100%; with Vista, no matter what settings I try, it starts jittering for no apparent reason. Also, I've noticed in WMP, MPC, and VLC that video doesn't scale very well under Vista (lots of lines).
Apart from that (and the slow file manipulation), I seem to be pretty lucky with Vista - it's certainly not as appalling as I thought it was going to be. Saying that, I think search still sucks.
You sound like a religious fundie with that level of completely unjustified certainty Ha ha ha! What? You're way, way off the mark.
Science is always subject to revision. I couldn't agree more, but these films didn't even use science; they weren't even trying to be accurate and I was saying that they were worse films for doing that. Ice chasing people? Come on! If it was really cold enough for ice to be forming as quickly as that (naturally), they'd be dead.
And, in fairness, I get Deep Impact confused with Armageddon. Deep Impact was slightly less over the top.
...besides, it's no worse than a self-serving hyperdrive really. I agree; can you point out where I said otherwise? However, if you're going to portray a film as being a good view on what will happen due to global warming (which they did here in the UK), you can't make the science up (I'm not saying the mega-tornados couldn't happpen).
Did those other distribution services come before or after iTunes? Yes, my point was that they came after.
Contrary to yourself, I feel that Apple has grown in to a position to be able to return to the labels and renegotiate - something Jobs doesn't seem keen to do. I understand your point about shareholders, but I find it hard to believe the major labels would pull out of iTunes now. I've not looked in to the figures in a while, but it was growing rapidly last year.
I was aware of those points, but I just don't think they're a very strong argument - at least, as they've been discussed. I'm not personally involved with Apple or a music label (so I'm possibly way off), but it seems to me that Jobs' article was all about shifting the blame.
The same major labels that release on iTunes, using the draconian restrictions that Jobs mentions, also release on other distribution services with licensed or no DRM. I get the impression Apple accepted that clause because it didn't bother them, but they could have argued it had they cared enough.
Which music label would boycott iTunes, now it's so big, just because Jobs won't agree to be hand-cuffed to deadlines in computer security?
If I'm wrong, though, and Jobs and Apple have tried to make the labels see the light, hats off to them. I just don't see why Apple would care (market-wise) about licensing out FairPlay.
That's some wonderful rhetoric, but why doesn't Jobs allow other companies to license FairPlay for their own devices if that's the case? Or, as others have stated, artists/labels to opt-out of FairPlay on their iTunes offering?
Well, I have to ascertain whether *all* Linux distros are built around poor design, or whether it was just an Ubuntu thing. The evidence leads to the former. Each to their own, but it was GRUB that failed, not Ubuntu.
I do understand that Ubuntu installed GRUB, but GRUB isn't Ubuntu.
You can, for example, not recommend wiping the MBR. You can have it boot from a separate drive. ...
there was no backup mechanism whatsoever that the instructions said to use and that this failure locked me out entirely, making me far worse off than if I had never heard of Linux.
Objectively: I've had the/exact/ same issues with WinNT, Win2k, WinXP and a handful of Linux distros.
Once the MS boot loader is dead, you have 0 help (unless you've got paid support from somewhere).
I managed to save a few systems using the recovery tools on Windows discs, but they're tosh in fairness.
Yeah, I had that too until Ubuntu HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that I wipe the MBR. I had it installed on a tertiary hard drive. It could have left the main one alone, but then -- that would have too much fault tolerance, wouldn't it?
The point is, the boot loader has to be on the booting drive (primary master, normally). So if you left it in, in order for the new OS to be an option on boot (which most people installing would automatically want), it has to edit the MBR on the primary disc.
The lessons you should have learnt from your experience is that a) leaving your only other bootable harddrive in when testing a new OS is a Bad ThingTM and that b) always having a bootable disc (CD, floppy, USB, whatever) available when messing with the part that makes your computer works is a Good ThingTM.
I'm not trying to preach to you, or call you an idiot; I work as a computer technician (among other things) and have seen loads of MBR issues - some of which I caused.
I've seen you post this thread around a few times, though, and I get the impression you're overly-passionate about the issue and need to realise that these things happen.
If your goal, however, is to promote caution and improved warnings for people trying out Linux for the first time, then I commend you.
I know it's annoying to lose your computer (physically or otherwise), God knows I've done it many times, but blaming and attacking a group of volunteers who tried to help you (yes, I know they asked you questions you'd already answered) is just low.
I'm going to wait until my next computer purchase to try Linux, in which case I'll probably get something from Linspire. Which makes it almost ironic that: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/03/12/1037223.s html (Linspire To Switch To Kubuntu)
Since I found out you're supposed to have a spare box when installing a new OS In fairness, that's not entirely true. GRUB had an issue during your installation - which is unfortunate but possible with any software (I've had the Window boot manager fail on me many times) - and you didn't have a bootable CD available to you. It's the combination of situations that led to someone suggesting you use a 'spare' computer.
Personally, I always have at least one drive lying around with a full OS installed on it that I can throw in as 0 whenever I need an alternative boot. This is in addition to numerous Live CDs.
You've hit a snag with moving OS, you've survived; learn from what happened and move on.
There are interim solutions, though. It wouldn't be difficult for a company (or home for that matter) to use IPv6 publicly but IPv4 (alongside IPv6) internally, for the legacy devices.
If ISPs started migrating customers across and offering to supply (NAT) routers that did this, things would start moving in the right direction.
As it is (and was stated above), the prolific use of NAT and UPnP has meant that everyone has been able to avoid IPv6 and the headaches that it brings to start with.
This is truly a global problem, though. Putting things off 'til tomorrow is never a good thing, but it's going to be many times worse for the 'net. The best-case scenario of 7.5 years is probably not long enough to make significant head-way to migrating to IPv6.
It's going to get interesting...
I reckon we need to rally the sys-ads to promote the security benefits of IPv6 to all their employers.
I'm a Brit, so we just get screwed over and taxed for anything the government can tax us for (except prizes, but don't give them any ideas). Our VAT is pretty good at preventing double taxation.
Good luck on becoming king, btw. I like people with ambition;)
Why tax it at all? Unless I'm missing something, somebody paid tax to buy said item as a prize... why have the cheek to tax it again just because somebody one it? (If you were king, that is; I understand why governments have the cheek)
It sounds like it's some kind of measure for preventing fraud ("Wow! I just one the company monthly cash give-away again!").
The Mac user also completely neglected to mention that OSX is only designed to run on Apple-approved hardware. Linux and Windows, on the other hand, have to struggle with myriad possible combinations of devices.
Good or bad point? I don't know. Mac hardware looks nice enough, but you pay the premium for it.
From my experience, Google is top because people know about and discuss it - not because of its accuracy. Also, tech-literate people setting it as the default homepage means a lot of people (my mother included) don't know how not to use Google.
I use Yahoo mainly. I find that the majority of my queries return equally useful results compared to Google, but some of my more esoteric searches are best put Yahoo's way. Google went through a period of being bogged down my blogs and keyword-harvesting sites a few years back that made me look for an alternative. If Yahoo start screwing up their results consistently, I'll find another one.
If I ever tell people to look at some of the other engines out there (Live and Ask are both very good), they generally mutter something about not understanding how to and being scared of change.
Apple does not lock anybody in to the iPod. If you don't want DRM files, don't buy them.
There's been a lot of this talk here, but I disagree.
There's a woman down my road (26, I think), who received an iPod for Christmas. She now wants me to show her how to use iTunes to "get music". In a year or so, when her iPod breaks or the battery fails, and she's looking to buy herself a new one on the cheap, she'll probably buy an "iPod" of a different make (Creative, Microsoft, Archos, cheap Asian import, whatever) without realising that it's not an Apple iPod.
Now she's screwed. All of that music she's bought - probably not knowing she has the choice - won't play on her brand new player. Yes, she could burn them to CD and rip them back again - but she won't know what that means or how to do it. Plus, she'll probably be annoyed at how difficult that is to do; and how easy would it be for her to prove that this songs are still legal?
In my experience, people like this are the majority of iPod owners. Forcing Apple to license out FairPlay (which they've rumoured to have already started doing) is a Good Thing(tm) for consumers. The Microsoft PlaysForSure initiative should have been a remarkable solution, where all compliant devices guaranteed (within reason) that they'd play each others songs - but they fumbled it and then scrapped it.
I'm assuming this is sarcasm? Although not an iPod owner, I thought iTunes might have its bonuses over CDs, but I was shocked at the sound quality considering it's not a whole lot cheaper than buying CDs online.
Slashdot Mirror
Hear, hear!
Under XP, WinAmp would play flawlessly even when I was hammering the CPU at 100%; with Vista, no matter what settings I try, it starts jittering for no apparent reason.
Also, I've noticed in WMP, MPC, and VLC that video doesn't scale very well under Vista (lots of lines).
Apart from that (and the slow file manipulation), I seem to be pretty lucky with Vista - it's certainly not as appalling as I thought it was going to be.
Saying that, I think search still sucks.
Ice chasing people? Come on! If it was really cold enough for ice to be forming as quickly as that (naturally), they'd be dead.
And, in fairness, I get Deep Impact confused with Armageddon. Deep Impact was slightly less over the top.
...besides, it's no worse than a self-serving hyperdrive really. I agree; can you point out where I said otherwise?However, if you're going to portray a film as being a good view on what will happen due to global warming (which they did here in the UK), you can't make the science up (I'm not saying the mega-tornados couldn't happpen).
Unfortunately, they were both Hollywood dross with completely fictional science (yes, yes, I know)
"I, Robot" (Film) makes Wite_Noiz cry :(
OT: Anyone seen Screamers?
Contrary to yourself, I feel that Apple has grown in to a position to be able to return to the labels and renegotiate - something Jobs doesn't seem keen to do.
I understand your point about shareholders, but I find it hard to believe the major labels would pull out of iTunes now. I've not looked in to the figures in a while, but it was growing rapidly last year.
I was aware of those points, but I just don't think they're a very strong argument - at least, as they've been discussed.
I'm not personally involved with Apple or a music label (so I'm possibly way off), but it seems to me that Jobs' article was all about shifting the blame.
The same major labels that release on iTunes, using the draconian restrictions that Jobs mentions, also release on other distribution services with licensed or no DRM.
I get the impression Apple accepted that clause because it didn't bother them, but they could have argued it had they cared enough.
Which music label would boycott iTunes, now it's so big, just because Jobs won't agree to be hand-cuffed to deadlines in computer security?
If I'm wrong, though, and Jobs and Apple have tried to make the labels see the light, hats off to them.
I just don't see why Apple would care (market-wise) about licensing out FairPlay.
That's some wonderful rhetoric, but why doesn't Jobs allow other companies to license FairPlay for their own devices if that's the case?
Or, as others have stated, artists/labels to opt-out of FairPlay on their iTunes offering?
I do understand that Ubuntu installed GRUB, but GRUB isn't Ubuntu.
You can, for example, not recommend wiping the MBR. You can have it boot from a separate drive.
there was no backup mechanism whatsoever that the instructions said to use and that this failure locked me out entirely, making me far worse off than if I had never heard of Linux.
Objectively: I've had the
Once the MS boot loader is dead, you have 0 help (unless you've got paid support from somewhere).
I managed to save a few systems using the recovery tools on Windows discs, but they're tosh in fairness.
Yeah, I had that too until Ubuntu HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that I wipe the MBR. I had it installed on a tertiary hard drive. It could have left the main one alone, but then -- that would have too much fault tolerance, wouldn't it?
The point is, the boot loader has to be on the booting drive (primary master, normally). So if you left it in, in order for the new OS to be an option on boot (which most people installing would automatically want), it has to edit the MBR on the primary disc.
The lessons you should have learnt from your experience is that a) leaving your only other bootable harddrive in when testing a new OS is a Bad ThingTM and that b) always having a bootable disc (CD, floppy, USB, whatever) available when messing with the part that makes your computer works is a Good ThingTM.
I'm not trying to preach to you, or call you an idiot; I work as a computer technician (among other things) and have seen loads of MBR issues - some of which I caused.
I've seen you post this thread around a few times, though, and I get the impression you're overly-passionate about the issue and need to realise that these things happen.
If your goal, however, is to promote caution and improved warnings for people trying out Linux for the first time, then I commend you.
I know it's annoying to lose your computer (physically or otherwise), God knows I've done it many times, but blaming and attacking a group of volunteers who tried to help you (yes, I know they asked you questions you'd already answered) is just low.
GRUB had an issue during your installation - which is unfortunate but possible with any software (I've had the Window boot manager fail on me many times) - and you didn't have a bootable CD available to you.
It's the combination of situations that led to someone suggesting you use a 'spare' computer.
Personally, I always have at least one drive lying around with a full OS installed on it that I can throw in as 0 whenever I need an alternative boot. This is in addition to numerous Live CDs.
You've hit a snag with moving OS, you've survived; learn from what happened and move on.
There are interim solutions, though.
It wouldn't be difficult for a company (or home for that matter) to use IPv6 publicly but IPv4 (alongside IPv6) internally, for the legacy devices.
If ISPs started migrating customers across and offering to supply (NAT) routers that did this, things would start moving in the right direction.
As it is (and was stated above), the prolific use of NAT and UPnP has meant that everyone has been able to avoid IPv6 and the headaches that it brings to start with.
This is truly a global problem, though. Putting things off 'til tomorrow is never a good thing, but it's going to be many times worse for the 'net.
The best-case scenario of 7.5 years is probably not long enough to make significant head-way to migrating to IPv6.
It's going to get interesting...
I reckon we need to rally the sys-ads to promote the security benefits of IPv6 to all their employers.
A fair point, but even a successful libel case isn't going to remove that stigma from your name.
I was going to be a pedant and also point that out - but you saved me the trouble ;)
However... I'm worried by this statement: "There's no 's' in quash" O_O
"Never hide the truth"
"Don't tell anyone about this"
"...
I can't do that, Dave."
Surely the Wikipedia editors are "they"?
And in this case it helped tidy the gene-pool up a bit - that stuff's great!
Interesting.
;)
I'm a Brit, so we just get screwed over and taxed for anything the government can tax us for (except prizes, but don't give them any ideas).
Our VAT is pretty good at preventing double taxation.
Good luck on becoming king, btw. I like people with ambition
Why tax it at all?
Unless I'm missing something, somebody paid tax to buy said item as a prize... why have the cheek to tax it again just because somebody one it? (If you were king, that is; I understand why governments have the cheek)
It sounds like it's some kind of measure for preventing fraud ("Wow! I just one the company monthly cash give-away again!").
The Mac user also completely neglected to mention that OSX is only designed to run on Apple-approved hardware.
Linux and Windows, on the other hand, have to struggle with myriad possible combinations of devices.
Good or bad point? I don't know. Mac hardware looks nice enough, but you pay the premium for it.
From my experience, Google is top because people know about and discuss it - not because of its accuracy. Also, tech-literate people setting it as the default homepage means a lot of people (my mother included) don't know how not to use Google.
I use Yahoo mainly. I find that the majority of my queries return equally useful results compared to Google, but some of my more esoteric searches are best put Yahoo's way.
Google went through a period of being bogged down my blogs and keyword-harvesting sites a few years back that made me look for an alternative.
If Yahoo start screwing up their results consistently, I'll find another one.
If I ever tell people to look at some of the other engines out there (Live and Ask are both very good), they generally mutter something about not understanding how to and being scared of change.
It only rejects DRMed WMAs. Don't we all?
Apple does not lock anybody in to the iPod. If you don't want DRM files, don't buy them.
There's been a lot of this talk here, but I disagree.
There's a woman down my road (26, I think), who received an iPod for Christmas. She now wants me to show her how to use iTunes to "get music".
In a year or so, when her iPod breaks or the battery fails, and she's looking to buy herself a new one on the cheap, she'll probably buy an "iPod" of a different make (Creative, Microsoft, Archos, cheap Asian import, whatever) without realising that it's not an Apple iPod.
Now she's screwed.
All of that music she's bought - probably not knowing she has the choice - won't play on her brand new player.
Yes, she could burn them to CD and rip them back again - but she won't know what that means or how to do it. Plus, she'll probably be annoyed at how difficult that is to do; and how easy would it be for her to prove that this songs are still legal?
In my experience, people like this are the majority of iPod owners. Forcing Apple to license out FairPlay (which they've rumoured to have already started doing) is a Good Thing(tm) for consumers.
The Microsoft PlaysForSure initiative should have been a remarkable solution, where all compliant devices guaranteed (within reason) that they'd play each others songs - but they fumbled it and then scrapped it.
the sound quality is top notch
I'm assuming this is sarcasm?
Although not an iPod owner, I thought iTunes might have its bonuses over CDs, but I was shocked at the sound quality considering it's not a whole lot cheaper than buying CDs online.
*shrugs* Each to their own
While I agree, it's worth noting that the use of P2P technology legally is growing - albeit using proprietary protocols and clients.
Ah, memories.
I remember when the word filter at my college blocked sites on "Scunthorpe".
Think about it