Right now, we're the laughing stock of the world (see any opinion poll taken after 2003).... show the world that America always does the right thing. How ironic. First we care about international popularity contests, and then the next sentence we want to show that we always do the right thing. Perhaps we should focus more on always doing the right thing, because I don't care one iota about international opinion polls about America. We Americans should ingnore such popularity contests because of a couple of reasons: 1st, hatred against us merely because we're the most powerful nation in the world (militarily speaking, and oh-so-many-other-ways of speaking, too) will skew results. 2nd... rarely does doing what's right correspond with the most popular things.
When I built my new rig, I bought an OEM copy of Vista ultimate from newegg. There are quite a few things that I really like about Vista:
per-application volume controls (There is a 3rd party app you can get for XP that does the same thing, (can't remember what it's called)... but Vista has it built-in. And besides, with the XP version, you have to configure each app to work with it before you can control its volume this way
WIN KEY + <type app or file name> + ENTER -- extremely useful.. yes, I know Google Desktop gives you similar functionality on xp, but for quick access, you need to push CTRL + CTRL (instead of WIN)... This is less useful for me than just hitting WIN because during cut and paste operations, I sometimes accidentally hit CTRL + CTRL, bringing up the google search box when I don't want it.
Windows Explorer has some nice new things like showing the column headers even when in thumbnail mode. This makes sorting by date, for example, much easier in vista than in xp, when in thumbnail mode. Another useful feature XP lacks: right click on a column header and "Size All Columns to Fit". And finally, search being integrated into each explorer window really saves me lots of time.
The downside about vista? Dog slow. I'm a gamer, and I don't like it when my 8 month old pretty-quick-hardware computer can't beat my buddy's computer's performance at Crysis (measured in FPS, using the same video card) --- his computer is running XP and specs aren't nearly as good.
Boot time is incredibly slow. I've thought long and hard about switching back to XP. I may switch, may not. There are some really compelling features that vista has that I really like. The trade off is mainly just speed, for me. I don't really have any compatibility issues with vista (hardware nor software).
As we see from MS's file formats, Microsoft is all about vendor lock-in. MS was never intending on supporting its WMV video format on linux, for example, AFAIK. Contrast this with Apple: their file formats are much more standardized. For example, iTunes rips audio in AAC (by default, I believe), which is an open standard. Apple also uses MPEG-4 video as its preferred video format.
It could be a good idea if it was standardized.... Let the standards ppl implement it (w3), not MS.
As long as you merged it into RSS version 3, then thats great, cause then your rss reader will know if it can/cant handle a specific feed. I'm open to new ideas, wherever they may come from. Just don't let MS implement it, all they want to do is break everything and own all technology on the planet.
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Dead on. Mod up. Some things really DO matter more in life, than video games. (disclaimer: ive played a fair share of video games. but never wow).
The first mistake was your company wrote an ActiveX plugin to begin with.
- per-application volume controls (There is a 3rd party app you can get for XP that does the same thing, (can't remember what it's called)... but Vista has it built-in. And besides, with the XP version, you have to configure each app to work with it before you can control its volume this way
- WIN KEY + <type app or file name> + ENTER -- extremely useful
.. yes, I know Google Desktop gives you similar functionality on xp, but for quick access, you need to push CTRL + CTRL (instead of WIN) ... This is less useful for me than just hitting WIN because during cut and paste operations, I sometimes accidentally hit CTRL + CTRL, bringing up the google search box when I don't want it.
- Windows Explorer has some nice new things like showing the column headers even when in thumbnail mode. This makes sorting by date, for example, much easier in vista than in xp, when in thumbnail mode. Another useful feature XP lacks: right click on a column header and "Size All Columns to Fit". And finally, search being integrated into each explorer window really saves me lots of time.
The downside about vista? Dog slow. I'm a gamer, and I don't like it when my 8 month old pretty-quick-hardware computer can't beat my buddy's computer's performance at Crysis (measured in FPS, using the same video card) --- his computer is running XP and specs aren't nearly as good. Boot time is incredibly slow. I've thought long and hard about switching back to XP. I may switch, may not. There are some really compelling features that vista has that I really like. The trade off is mainly just speed, for me. I don't really have any compatibility issues with vista (hardware nor software).As we see from MS's file formats, Microsoft is all about vendor lock-in. MS was never intending on supporting its WMV video format on linux, for example, AFAIK. Contrast this with Apple: their file formats are much more standardized. For example, iTunes rips audio in AAC (by default, I believe), which is an open standard. Apple also uses MPEG-4 video as its preferred video format.
It could be a good idea if it was standardized.... Let the standards ppl implement it (w3), not MS. As long as you merged it into RSS version 3, then thats great, cause then your rss reader will know if it can/cant handle a specific feed. I'm open to new ideas, wherever they may come from. Just don't let MS implement it, all they want to do is break everything and own all technology on the planet.