The "OWN" the desktop. They could have told the studios what to go do with themselves. And then none of their users could have played the content. To the studio, the desktop is nothing. How many people buy DVDs to play them exclusively on their computer? VHS managed without PC-based solutions, so I'm sure that HD-DVD and Bluray (or at least one of the two) will survive if nobody could play that content on their PCs.
Microsoft added this DRM crap because they want to. They want to use this crap for their own agenda. They want to abuse the end users the same way. This is hardly a rational argument. How is enabling users to play HD content an abuse? As I stated before, the option was 'allow it under their terms' or not at all.
In the end, it was the movie industry's choice to push invasive and draconian DRM schemes. Don't shoot the messenger.
Your high definition video won't play in HD mode Only if you bought DRMed video. You can always not do this. It's not the end of the world.
Microsoft-it's the hardware's fault, PC maker-it's the content provider's fault, Content Provider-it's Vista's fault. Anyone else want to dance? You're the only one dancing, but only because you don't actually understand the situation at all. All parties are blaming the content providers, and the content providers are blaming it on "those damn pirates".
The choice given to Microsoft here by the movie industry was thus: listen to us and implement our DRM system, or your users can't play our stuff at high quality. End of story. Surprisingly, seeing as even Microsoft don't have the clout to take on the entire movie industry all at once, and people playing these discs on computers is not a notably large chunk of their market, Microsoft chose the option that would sell more operating systems.
It doesn't help with Gutmann throwing his oar in and trying to give his opinions on something that he clearly just does not understand. He keeps trying to assert that Vista is degrading video for every HD movie or file you play, and it's just not true at all. Sure, it'll run it through the media path, but it won't protect it, and there's no extra overhead from doing so.
So why is it Erris (or twitter, whichever one you are today), that you've taken to replying anonymously to people who reply to your posts?
My theories are:
a) You're trying to protect your precious, precious karma, or b) You're trying once again to shill/. and give yourself an air of legitimacy which you lose when you say things like "1 in 4 Windows machines has a keylogger".
I know I'm being trolled here, but I'll bite regardless.
If I am ignorant, then your ignorance is a black hole which threatens to suck the ignorance of every other person down to it's shadowy depths.
I lived with my friend for well over a year and had ample opportunity to use his computer.
How long, incidentally, have you used Vista for? I'm going to put a bet on 'never', which would make your brainfart of a comment even more ridiculously hypocritical.
I used XP since release, tried Ubuntu, Mandrive and Knoppix (only one of those actually booted to a desktop). Tried a friends Mac and was unimpressed. So, when the time came I actually went and bought a copy of Vista.
When I first used Firefox it downloaded updates automatically and without informing me. The only message I got was "You have downloaded and installed an update. Please restart Firefox to apply the update".
I immediately went into the options and eventually found the off-switch, but I'm just informing you that it's not just Microsoft who does this.
I know what you mean but you're getting confused. The file information that you change on iTunes isn't actually written to the ID3 tag automatically, you actually have to make it do it. So when you uninstall iTunes, you lose it's tagging information but if you didn't force it to write to ID3 you won't have any ID3 data to fall back on.
That's my experience of it, which is why I use WMP now.
Well, good thing RMS doesn't have that idea, then. I wasn't responding to Stallman, I was responding to the OP.
What he says is that the COMBINATION of the GNU userland and the Linux kernel, to make a usable system, should be called "GNU/Linux". So if I use iTunes in Windows it should be Apple/Microsoft Windows? If I use Photoshop on Mac should it be Adobe/Apple Mac? No.
well, guess what, we could use the BSD kernel with the GNU tools, therefore by your "logic" we can't call it "Linux" either Nobody thinks that. If you used the GNU toolset with BSD kernel, by your logic it should be GNU/BSD and by my logic it should be BSD, and not Linux at all. I've never claimed that all Free Software should have "Linux" in there somewhere.
Is it me, or did you reply to some imaginary comment that you wish I made rather than what I actually said?
The history of GCC according to Wikipedia makes some interesting reading in this regard.
Although Stallman helped write the original version of GCC, which itself was copied from an existing Pascal compiler, he let development stagnate until a group of other developers got pissed off and forked it to the EGCS. It was at this point that Stallman realised that they coded something better and 'allowed' them to call it GCC.
In a similar vein, the GPL would probably never have taken off as a license if Torvalds hadn't adopted it and made it as widespread as it is now.
I'm not going to piss all over what he's done - he has put a lot of work in. But the idea that he somehow deserves equal or more credit for the development of Linux just because of his work on GCC and the GPL is, frankly, a bit silly.
Aren't you confusing application behaviour with OS behaviour? Both of which, by the way, can be modified.
If you're loading Word every time you start up in the first minute, then why are you complaining that Vista/XP starts to preload it each time it starts up? Surely it's actually saving you some time? And if you don't like Prefetch/Superfetch, or you say Prefetch/Superfetch isn't suitable for geeks, then surely geeks are going to be the ones with the perfect credentials to turn it off?
But only if Office Startup Assistant is off, and on my version of 2003 it's not even started by default. Emphasising:
Can I Remove the Osa.exe File? You can safely remove the Osa.exe file without causing the Office XP programs to fail. However, if you remove Osa.exe, you no longer benefit from the performance advantages that are provided by running Osa.exe This is a long way away from the "Office does this by default and can't be turned off" behaviour that some of the posts around here are claiming, though I will concede that Office XP behaviour and 2003 behaviour seems to vary.
MS Office actually load its whole suit in memory, *at boot time*. How did this get modded informative? That doesn't happen at all, and you can take that from someone who just installed Office 2003. There's no trace of a service or process related to Office, and physical memory usage is the same as it was before.
Opera has an ugly history- it used to suck, and it used to be ad supported. Well, neither of those things are true now.
I don't care if it's cleaned up its act, I have too many problems with opera to embrace it. May I ask what problems you have with Opera, or is this the traditional "I don't trust it because I can't see the source" thing?
That actually comes from experience of going to an Apple store in London and also knowing someone who runs a shop and therefore the price of obtaining these things from the manufacturer.
Having said that, that is London, and as such your mileage will almost certainly vary.
It's even better than that - since it's store credit, the insane markup on Apple products means they are probably only going to end up giving away $30 to $40 worth of things away.
I agree with what someone else said though - if you want things on the day, you pay extra. It's always been the way, though maybe 2 months after release is a bit soon for a price cut like this. Jobs cites the holiday season as a reason - why not cut the price in November then? At least that lessens the chance that every iPhone owner is going to want your head impaled upon a pike so they can wave at it in a funny way.
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Sorry, console games are fun but in my opinion PC games are much better.
I won't play something like C&C, Civilization or any first-person shooter with a gamepad.
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Agreed. Here was my three point usage experience.
Couldn't load it up on Opera, had to open Firefox. Strike one.
Couldn't create a simple shape unless I created that shape in a paint application and uploaded it. Strike two.
No transitions. You're outta there!
So, Google released something that Microsoft thinks is a good idea... where's the humour?
In the end, it was the movie industry's choice to push invasive and draconian DRM schemes. Don't shoot the messenger.
The choice given to Microsoft here by the movie industry was thus: listen to us and implement our DRM system, or your users can't play our stuff at high quality. End of story. Surprisingly, seeing as even Microsoft don't have the clout to take on the entire movie industry all at once, and people playing these discs on computers is not a notably large chunk of their market, Microsoft chose the option that would sell more operating systems.
It doesn't help with Gutmann throwing his oar in and trying to give his opinions on something that he clearly just does not understand. He keeps trying to assert that Vista is degrading video for every HD movie or file you play, and it's just not true at all. Sure, it'll run it through the media path, but it won't protect it, and there's no extra overhead from doing so.
So why is it Erris (or twitter, whichever one you are today), that you've taken to replying anonymously to people who reply to your posts?
/. and give yourself an air of legitimacy which you lose when you say things like "1 in 4 Windows machines has a keylogger".
My theories are:
a) You're trying to protect your precious, precious karma, or
b) You're trying once again to shill
Your thoughts?
I have a newsflash for you - software isn't as life-changingly important as you think it is.
I know I'm being trolled here, but I'll bite regardless.
If I am ignorant, then your ignorance is a black hole which threatens to suck the ignorance of every other person down to it's shadowy depths.
I lived with my friend for well over a year and had ample opportunity to use his computer.
How long, incidentally, have you used Vista for? I'm going to put a bet on 'never', which would make your brainfart of a comment even more ridiculously hypocritical.
I chose Windows.
I used XP since release, tried Ubuntu, Mandrive and Knoppix (only one of those actually booted to a desktop). Tried a friends Mac and was unimpressed. So, when the time came I actually went and bought a copy of Vista.
I haven't regretted it.
When I first used Firefox it downloaded updates automatically and without informing me. The only message I got was "You have downloaded and installed an update. Please restart Firefox to apply the update".
I immediately went into the options and eventually found the off-switch, but I'm just informing you that it's not just Microsoft who does this.
I know what you mean but you're getting confused. The file information that you change on iTunes isn't actually written to the ID3 tag automatically, you actually have to make it do it. So when you uninstall iTunes, you lose it's tagging information but if you didn't force it to write to ID3 you won't have any ID3 data to fall back on.
That's my experience of it, which is why I use WMP now.
That's great - I can't actually code, so am I now banned from using Open Source software for being a leech?
Is it me, or did you reply to some imaginary comment that you wish I made rather than what I actually said?
The history of GCC according to Wikipedia makes some interesting reading in this regard.
Although Stallman helped write the original version of GCC, which itself was copied from an existing Pascal compiler, he let development stagnate until a group of other developers got pissed off and forked it to the EGCS. It was at this point that Stallman realised that they coded something better and 'allowed' them to call it GCC.
In a similar vein, the GPL would probably never have taken off as a license if Torvalds hadn't adopted it and made it as widespread as it is now.
I'm not going to piss all over what he's done - he has put a lot of work in. But the idea that he somehow deserves equal or more credit for the development of Linux just because of his work on GCC and the GPL is, frankly, a bit silly.
Aren't you confusing application behaviour with OS behaviour? Both of which, by the way, can be modified.
If you're loading Word every time you start up in the first minute, then why are you complaining that Vista/XP starts to preload it each time it starts up? Surely it's actually saving you some time? And if you don't like Prefetch/Superfetch, or you say Prefetch/Superfetch isn't suitable for geeks, then surely geeks are going to be the ones with the perfect credentials to turn it off?
My bad...
Um... Word gave my dog cancer! And when I came home today, Powerpoint was snorting cocaine off the back of an Asian prostitute called Ling!
Better?
Opera has a pop-up blocker, and ads can be blocked on an individual basis using the Block Content feature.
Anything else?
So, what about Opera is defective? I'm interested to hear your opinion.
You're only 2 years out - the ads were dumped in Opera 8.5, and that was released on the 20th of September 2005.
If you're going to complain about something, please try and make it relevant.
That actually comes from experience of going to an Apple store in London and also knowing someone who runs a shop and therefore the price of obtaining these things from the manufacturer.
Having said that, that is London, and as such your mileage will almost certainly vary.
It's even better than that - since it's store credit, the insane markup on Apple products means they are probably only going to end up giving away $30 to $40 worth of things away.
I agree with what someone else said though - if you want things on the day, you pay extra. It's always been the way, though maybe 2 months after release is a bit soon for a price cut like this. Jobs cites the holiday season as a reason - why not cut the price in November then? At least that lessens the chance that every iPhone owner is going to want your head impaled upon a pike so they can wave at it in a funny way.
Sorry, console games are fun but in my opinion PC games are much better.
I won't play something like C&C, Civilization or any first-person shooter with a gamepad.
Let's be brutally honest, email hasn't been sacrosanct since Gmail arrived.