MS fanboys will all come out and say their systems all work perfectly. Horseshit. I've now had hands on with more than two dozen Vista machines ranging from laptops to upgrades and in every single case, that's 100% MS fanboys, not 99%, not 80%, all of them had stuttering media playback. I'll happily weigh in and say that my Vista system works perfectly when it comes to media playback. My PC, and the Vista PC's owned by my friends, don't suffer from any stuttering problems.
....entangled deeply in DRM whose sole purpose is to strangle your ability to copy/use music like you should. Vista doesn't "strangle" a user's ability to copy/use music. You can rip your music to any format you wish, and share it with all and sundry, with no restrictions whatsoever.
Here's another classic example. 3 men and a dog report that their uninstall option disappeared after an update, and it's pumped onto the front page by the Linux/Mac monkeys.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/15/164 1254
mfpmp.exe only appears, and checks mpeg/wma/wmv content, when you're using Windows Media Player. Some of the people on that forum mention Media Player Classic and Winamp, so I doubt that the protected pipeline has anything to do with it.
Let me guess, you had FasterFox or some other accelerator loaded? I'm fairly sure that Firefox doesn't do this by default. It does, and it's enabled by default.
Results Prefetching
On some searches, Google automatically instructs your browser to start downloading the top search result before you click on it. If you click on top result, the destination page will load faster than before.
Google uses a special prefetching feature in Firefox and Mozilla web browsers to provide this functionality, so results prefetching is not available in Internet Explorer or other web browsers. You can disable prefetching in your web browser preferences, as described in the Mozilla Prefetching FAQ. In Firefox, you can disable prefetching by doing the following:
1. Type "about:config" the address bar.
2. Scroll down to the setting "network.prefetch-next" and set the value to "False".
With prefetching enabled, you may end up with cookies and web pages in your web browser's cache from web sites that you did not click on since prefetching happens automatically when you view Google search results pages. You can delete these files by clearing your browser's cache and cookies.
You want a machine with bare minimum 2 GB of RAM and a very fast CPU to run Vista Home Premium edition properly. I don't know about that sir. I'm running Home Premium on an XP2500+ at stock speed, with 1GB of RAM, and a 9800pro graphics card, and it runs fine and dandy. This system's around 3 or 4 years old and it runs Vista just as good, if not slightly better than, XP Home.
'm not an ambulance-chaser, but it'd seem that retrieving "user document files, user email, user music files, podcast files, computer status messages, and a profile database storing existing tag data" without our consent/knowledge would be prosecutable... It won't be retrieving your files, it'll be looking through your files for keywords so that it can display relevant ads; just like Gmail does when you read an email.
Here's an explaination of the Windows CEIP
on
Vista is Watching You
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· Score: 0, Informative
As for Control Panel, is this correct that that dials home? It'll return your search terms if you opt-in to the "Customer Experience Improvement Program" thingy. (But I don't know if opting-in from the CEIP prompt displayed in Control Panel opted you in for Control Panel alone, or if it included other things in Vista.)
Slashdot Mirror
Never trust a Slashdot summary (especially if it's posted by kdawson!). SP1 won't be available via Windows Update/Automatic Update until March.
Good post. The original summary is a classic example of anti-MS FUD that pollutes Slashdot on a regular basis.
There must have been something wrong with your brother's system, as SimCity 4 works fine on both XP and Vista.
Yeah, on their foreheads.
Read why: http://brandonlive.com/2007/01/31/vista-myths-users-will-just-click-ok/
....entangled deeply in DRM whose sole purpose is to strangle your ability to copy/use music like you should. Vista doesn't "strangle" a user's ability to copy/use music. You can rip your music to any format you wish, and share it with all and sundry, with no restrictions whatsoever.If she offered me a handjob, I think I'd probably decline the offer as politely as possible.
Installing the latest drivers for my graphics card fixed that problem for me.
Here's another classic example. 3 men and a dog report that their uninstall option disappeared after an update, and it's pumped onto the front page by the Linux/Mac monkeys. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/15/164 1254
mfpmp.exe only appears, and checks mpeg/wma/wmv content, when you're using Windows Media Player. Some of the people on that forum mention Media Player Classic and Winamp, so I doubt that the protected pipeline has anything to do with it.
That would mean that it's performing just as well as it does in Windows. Good work Microsoft!
Guys????
Those crazy Japanese!!!
I'm going from memory here, so someone correct me if I'm wrong!
I fucking agree with you Gordon!
On some searches, Google automatically instructs your browser to start downloading the top search result before you click on it. If you click on top result, the destination page will load faster than before.
Google uses a special prefetching feature in Firefox and Mozilla web browsers to provide this functionality, so results prefetching is not available in Internet Explorer or other web browsers. You can disable prefetching in your web browser preferences, as described in the Mozilla Prefetching FAQ. In Firefox, you can disable prefetching by doing the following:
1. Type "about:config" the address bar.
2. Scroll down to the setting "network.prefetch-next" and set the value to "False".
With prefetching enabled, you may end up with cookies and web pages in your web browser's cache from web sites that you did not click on since prefetching happens automatically when you view Google search results pages. You can delete these files by clearing your browser's cache and cookies.
From the 'Results Prefetching' section of this page: http://www.google.com/help/features.html..from last week's discussion and post them here? It'll save us some time.
Die with no fear! Hurrah!!!
and what it sends back to Microsoft. It's opt-in. Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows Vista