Look at it this way the bar just got substantially lower for the next release. Instead of shooting for innovative they're just trying for "Doesn't suck". All they have to do is get rid of the worst parts and fix the CPU sucking features to have successful release. I think by this point they have a good idea what people dislike about it so it should be a simple matter to fix the primary issues. Just dump the Vista name like ME and in aother year release a next generation. Since there are some structural problems I don't think a service pack will cut it. Better to get shed of the Vista stigma.
Apple has enjoyed a "blanket" of security because it is low profile and a niche.
Wow where have you been? Mac is hardly an obscure OS. It's been #2 forever and is gaining ground fast lately. The security has made Mac a target for people that want exploit for bragging rights. So far most of them have required the users to install the exploit themselves. Apple's hardware is hardly "decent". Apple makes exceptional hardware by any standards. The primary complaints are generally the fact there's little you can do to customize them and you can't build your own. Not exactly hardware issues more how the hardware is sold. I can't see where Apple is more suseptible to security exploits than Microsoft. If a single exploit could bring down a company no one would have ever even heard of Microsoft. I'm open minded about which OS I use but I have about 5% of the trouble on my Mac as I do on the four PCs I use daily. My favorite OS is still NT 3.51. It was the most stable and useable of any so far. Second would be OSX Tiger, I've yet to upgrade to Leopard.
There were cars getting better than that average in the late 70s and all that took was the threat of people refusing to buy gas guzzlers because of the oil shortage. The problem is they just spent 15 years convincing people they needed to drive tanks and now they have to figure out either how to make the tanks get good gas mileage or convince people they no longer need SUVs. With hybrids I'm sure they can reach those standards. The real problem is trying to figure out what the mileage is on a rechargeable hybrid. They'll either try to overstate the mileage to offset the gas sucking giants or they won't want to produce them unless they get to take additional credit for the extra mileage potential. I can't see they not trying to use it as a barginning chip. Unless it directly benifits profits or numbers of cars sold the auto industry has a history of resisting change.
Natural gas lines are't suitable for hydrogen. It's the smallest atom so it tends to leak from most any seal. Part of the problem with hydrogen is storage and distribution because of leakage. If you leavea full tank of gasoline for a year it's still full. Even the best hydrogen car storage system would be empty long before the year is out. If you are driving constantly the loss would be manageable but even leaving it overnight would result in some loss and a weekend might see a noticeable drop in tank pressure. I love hydrogen but it seems best suited for short term storage and it's strictly a storage medium and not a true power source. I think it's better suited to home storage system of power for solar and wind and recharging electric cars. Even the hydrogen cars that are being proposed are in truth electric cars they just use hydrogen instead of batteries. I've never heard of a hydrogen car getting 200+ miles on a tank like some of the latest electric cars using batteries. Recharge times are the biggest problem but that's strictly for long range travel since most people see home recharging as a plus with electrics. Capacitors may eventually solve this problem. Either way electrics if the cost of batteries came down would still work for 90% of the driving and even at current prices they are radically cheaper than hydrogen fuel cells. Platnium is going to keep the costs high. Electric is practical today and works with or current infrastructure. People complain about costs and range on electric cars I can't see them accepting hydrogen cars that cost many times as much and have a range of a 100 miles. Nano processes may drop the amount of platium needed but it will still be expensive and the storage problems still exist. You still need an energy source to produce hydrogen so there is no real difference between it and electric cars.
Might want to do a little fact checking. Where is this Carter's fault? He was pro nuke and wanted to get entirely off foreign oil. Regan reversed that course and the pair of Bushs finished the job. Clinton didn't do much either way. I'm anti nuke but I don't want to waste the energy since it's a pro nuke crowd. There's enough bad info floating around so you might not want to attack one of your fellow pro nuke people. I'd just love a form of power that my great grand kids won't be paying for so we can keep on wasting it. We've got to get out of this short term mentality. Civilization can't survive the way we are going so it's all a waste unless we start thinking in terms of millenia and not what keeps the TV on and the SUV running for the next few years.
It's used heavily in gaming because of the ultra high nearly lossless compression. It's an excellent format. Just because it's not as popular with software developers doesn't mean there are quality issues. Gaming is extremely concerned with compression ratios so it's a good solution for them. If you used.wave instead the audio files could end up being bigger than the entire rest of the game. Video and audio tend to be similar in size but audio can be compressed far more without the slow decompression that some video formats require. There are other solutions like MPEG but Ogg handles higher compressions with less loss. I was stunned the first time I compressed a file to Ogg. My.wave files were compressing to 5% with little decernable loss. I ran them several times and rechecked the file size just to make sure I wasn't imagining it. If you need super high compression with good quality I've never seen anything like Ogg.
The funny thing is I use Unity Game Engine which is Mac only and it uses Ogg format. Most of the game engines use it. Even the Unity standalone player is able to handle Ogg fine on Macs so it's definitely a support issue. It's just interesting that a Mac only software would be designed to work primarily with Ogg, it converts other formats to Ogg, but Mac itself won't support it.
It's impressive to have better than a 100% turn out when so few vote in this country. With the help of our current administration and Diebold maybe we can do as well in the next election. Hell this is America we should shoot for 200% voting!
Okay everyone is worried about file sharing I have to question how it'd affect the other primary use graphics and editing? I drag media files across a network all day long. If it restricts that then it's a paperweight. Not sure what the real limitations are but I'll guarantee you I'll avoid Western Digital unless I'm a 100% sure it's not an issue. Even with corporate use media files are a common way to communicate and provide training. Large drives that can't handle media files are virtually useless.
Of course it makes sense. You don't want all that time and money wasted. Why not graze some cattle on the land to help spike the ball with some methane?
Given the fact there are millions of copies of Vista out there and a few thousand are having a good experience I'm hardly reassured. I had a store geek talk me into how amazing ME was and I made the horrible mistake of upgrading to it. I managed to scrub it out of my system by myself but it was a mess. It lost most of my system fonts and largely reduced my computer to a paperweight. Once I managed to delete it out I found the fonts were still there. That was the last time I tried upgrading a copy of Windows and it was also the last time I listened to a diehard fan of any product. From there on out I did my homework before I dove in. I have no plans to install any version of Vista and I'm still waiting for the dust to settle with Leopard although I feel more confident Apple will resolve the Leopard issues. Apple seems to take the issues more seriously where as Microsoft's defense seems to be "just buy the damn thing".
Blue eyes mean elevatewd risk of cataracts and a blonde haired Swede means unless you are still living in the north you have an elevated risk of skin cancer. It's nature's balancing act the good often comes with a share of the bad.
I've noticed everyone has started doing top ten or top one hundred lists for exactly this reason you get a guaranteed ten to a hundred clicks per person per list. Most of them are BS and obviously written by people that don't know that much about the subject even. I read through some for a while but stopped when I realized the scam. Some of the entries on the lists were even off topic which threw me. Why scams work is at least a portion of the people won't realize it's a scam and easily 90% would never figure out a click through scams like these are. The advertizers eventually get pissed because they aren't true eyeballs but people who are just clicking through. In spite of how pervassive advertizing is everything I've read quotes it being the least effective in history. People are shutting off on it. The ads are white noise anymore. In response they increased the volume which in turn cut the effectiveness. I just cancelled my IMDB Pro account because I happened to be logged into standard IMDB when I got nailed by one of the pop ups that have phoney cancels on it. They tried to deny it was their ad on their site but it was the type that expands when you mouse over it but won't reduce back afterward. More people need to cancel services over this kind of abusive advertizing. People falling for this crap is what keeps spam and these ads and click through scams going.
I guess I'll stick my head in the lion's mouth. Right or wrong major artists spend 5 mill to 20 mill of the label's money just in studio producing the albums with minor artists, we're talking major labels here, costing around 500K give or take a few 100K. Yes it's obscene given the price of studio time but that's what it takes to keeps some of them happy. Some major artists do spend as little as 3 mill cutting an album but they are considered bargins and it's still obscene. Some goes for studio musicians and things that you hear but the bulk goes to the army of people standing around running for lattes and having special food flown in from New York. Another big expense is advertising. It's hard to cover the cost of adverising a maybe hit single that will sell for a $1 compared to a $16 album. One of the biggest expenses is also flop albums. They aren't any cheaper to produce or advertise when they flop so the studio passes on the cost of the flops. Yes factoring all that in albums should probably average $10 retail for major artists and $5 for lesser known so they are reaping huge profits but they aren't a 1000% as some might think. I know less about the music industry but in film the adverising budget is usually 1/3 the cost of making the film as in added on top of the cost. I wouldn't be surprised if some albums had advertising budgets equal or greater than the studio cost. Advertising isn't any cheaper just because production is cheaper. The music industry is hardly the worst offender. Just picture soda pop. The cup costs more than the soda and it's even worse with bottled water. Big business is based on obscene profits. Hey, lobbyist cost money and don't grow on trees ya know.
Remember Microsoft actually advertised an OS crashing less than the previous version. I didn't dive into Leopard because I wanted to give it a change to settle in. Apple has a good track record in recent years but they've had a stumbles in the past. I'd be curious if the problems were on all versions or just upgrades? Leopard has some fundimental changes so it's not entirely surprising there are some stability issues. I've got to wait until my current project is done anyway so they have three or four months to shake out the problems before I have to worry. On my Windows machines crashes are a daily occurance on good days so half a dozen crashes doesn't exactly scare me.
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Did you see King Kong? I can hear his zipper now.
Okay it's a crappy knock off of a classic novel but don't they see the potential for turning us all into a bunch of lame CG vampires?
Look at it this way the bar just got substantially lower for the next release. Instead of shooting for innovative they're just trying for "Doesn't suck". All they have to do is get rid of the worst parts and fix the CPU sucking features to have successful release. I think by this point they have a good idea what people dislike about it so it should be a simple matter to fix the primary issues. Just dump the Vista name like ME and in aother year release a next generation. Since there are some structural problems I don't think a service pack will cut it. Better to get shed of the Vista stigma.
The chant at Microsoft, "We're number one, we're number one!"
Wow where have you been? Mac is hardly an obscure OS. It's been #2 forever and is gaining ground fast lately. The security has made Mac a target for people that want exploit for bragging rights. So far most of them have required the users to install the exploit themselves. Apple's hardware is hardly "decent". Apple makes exceptional hardware by any standards. The primary complaints are generally the fact there's little you can do to customize them and you can't build your own. Not exactly hardware issues more how the hardware is sold. I can't see where Apple is more suseptible to security exploits than Microsoft. If a single exploit could bring down a company no one would have ever even heard of Microsoft. I'm open minded about which OS I use but I have about 5% of the trouble on my Mac as I do on the four PCs I use daily. My favorite OS is still NT 3.51. It was the most stable and useable of any so far. Second would be OSX Tiger, I've yet to upgrade to Leopard.
DOS. None of that shell nonsense. Straight forward computing for the masses! Fast, stable and with no eye candy what so ever.
There were cars getting better than that average in the late 70s and all that took was the threat of people refusing to buy gas guzzlers because of the oil shortage. The problem is they just spent 15 years convincing people they needed to drive tanks and now they have to figure out either how to make the tanks get good gas mileage or convince people they no longer need SUVs. With hybrids I'm sure they can reach those standards. The real problem is trying to figure out what the mileage is on a rechargeable hybrid. They'll either try to overstate the mileage to offset the gas sucking giants or they won't want to produce them unless they get to take additional credit for the extra mileage potential. I can't see they not trying to use it as a barginning chip. Unless it directly benifits profits or numbers of cars sold the auto industry has a history of resisting change.
Itll make a big splash.......sorry...very very tired.
Natural gas lines are't suitable for hydrogen. It's the smallest atom so it tends to leak from most any seal. Part of the problem with hydrogen is storage and distribution because of leakage. If you leavea full tank of gasoline for a year it's still full. Even the best hydrogen car storage system would be empty long before the year is out. If you are driving constantly the loss would be manageable but even leaving it overnight would result in some loss and a weekend might see a noticeable drop in tank pressure. I love hydrogen but it seems best suited for short term storage and it's strictly a storage medium and not a true power source. I think it's better suited to home storage system of power for solar and wind and recharging electric cars. Even the hydrogen cars that are being proposed are in truth electric cars they just use hydrogen instead of batteries. I've never heard of a hydrogen car getting 200+ miles on a tank like some of the latest electric cars using batteries. Recharge times are the biggest problem but that's strictly for long range travel since most people see home recharging as a plus with electrics. Capacitors may eventually solve this problem. Either way electrics if the cost of batteries came down would still work for 90% of the driving and even at current prices they are radically cheaper than hydrogen fuel cells. Platnium is going to keep the costs high. Electric is practical today and works with or current infrastructure. People complain about costs and range on electric cars I can't see them accepting hydrogen cars that cost many times as much and have a range of a 100 miles. Nano processes may drop the amount of platium needed but it will still be expensive and the storage problems still exist. You still need an energy source to produce hydrogen so there is no real difference between it and electric cars.
Might want to do a little fact checking. Where is this Carter's fault? He was pro nuke and wanted to get entirely off foreign oil. Regan reversed that course and the pair of Bushs finished the job. Clinton didn't do much either way. I'm anti nuke but I don't want to waste the energy since it's a pro nuke crowd. There's enough bad info floating around so you might not want to attack one of your fellow pro nuke people. I'd just love a form of power that my great grand kids won't be paying for so we can keep on wasting it. We've got to get out of this short term mentality. Civilization can't survive the way we are going so it's all a waste unless we start thinking in terms of millenia and not what keeps the TV on and the SUV running for the next few years.
It's used heavily in gaming because of the ultra high nearly lossless compression. It's an excellent format. Just because it's not as popular with software developers doesn't mean there are quality issues. Gaming is extremely concerned with compression ratios so it's a good solution for them. If you used .wave instead the audio files could end up being bigger than the entire rest of the game. Video and audio tend to be similar in size but audio can be compressed far more without the slow decompression that some video formats require. There are other solutions like MPEG but Ogg handles higher compressions with less loss. I was stunned the first time I compressed a file to Ogg. My .wave files were compressing to 5% with little decernable loss. I ran them several times and rechecked the file size just to make sure I wasn't imagining it. If you need super high compression with good quality I've never seen anything like Ogg.
The funny thing is I use Unity Game Engine which is Mac only and it uses Ogg format. Most of the game engines use it. Even the Unity standalone player is able to handle Ogg fine on Macs so it's definitely a support issue. It's just interesting that a Mac only software would be designed to work primarily with Ogg, it converts other formats to Ogg, but Mac itself won't support it.
They aren't the brightest over at Fox they probably didn't realize it was meant as a joke.
It's impressive to have better than a 100% turn out when so few vote in this country. With the help of our current administration and Diebold maybe we can do as well in the next election. Hell this is America we should shoot for 200% voting!
You might try "Arm And Leg Data Recovery". Their motto is "Our Name Says It All".
Okay everyone is worried about file sharing I have to question how it'd affect the other primary use graphics and editing? I drag media files across a network all day long. If it restricts that then it's a paperweight. Not sure what the real limitations are but I'll guarantee you I'll avoid Western Digital unless I'm a 100% sure it's not an issue. Even with corporate use media files are a common way to communicate and provide training. Large drives that can't handle media files are virtually useless.
Of course it makes sense. You don't want all that time and money wasted. Why not graze some cattle on the land to help spike the ball with some methane?
Better to put up a sign "No Beer". If they think it's a dry county they won't go near the place.
If the blogs and fan sites are any indication that should double the number of happy Vista users......to two.
Given the fact there are millions of copies of Vista out there and a few thousand are having a good experience I'm hardly reassured. I had a store geek talk me into how amazing ME was and I made the horrible mistake of upgrading to it. I managed to scrub it out of my system by myself but it was a mess. It lost most of my system fonts and largely reduced my computer to a paperweight. Once I managed to delete it out I found the fonts were still there. That was the last time I tried upgrading a copy of Windows and it was also the last time I listened to a diehard fan of any product. From there on out I did my homework before I dove in. I have no plans to install any version of Vista and I'm still waiting for the dust to settle with Leopard although I feel more confident Apple will resolve the Leopard issues. Apple seems to take the issues more seriously where as Microsoft's defense seems to be "just buy the damn thing".
Blue eyes mean elevatewd risk of cataracts and a blonde haired Swede means unless you are still living in the north you have an elevated risk of skin cancer. It's nature's balancing act the good often comes with a share of the bad.
I've noticed everyone has started doing top ten or top one hundred lists for exactly this reason you get a guaranteed ten to a hundred clicks per person per list. Most of them are BS and obviously written by people that don't know that much about the subject even. I read through some for a while but stopped when I realized the scam. Some of the entries on the lists were even off topic which threw me. Why scams work is at least a portion of the people won't realize it's a scam and easily 90% would never figure out a click through scams like these are. The advertizers eventually get pissed because they aren't true eyeballs but people who are just clicking through. In spite of how pervassive advertizing is everything I've read quotes it being the least effective in history. People are shutting off on it. The ads are white noise anymore. In response they increased the volume which in turn cut the effectiveness. I just cancelled my IMDB Pro account because I happened to be logged into standard IMDB when I got nailed by one of the pop ups that have phoney cancels on it. They tried to deny it was their ad on their site but it was the type that expands when you mouse over it but won't reduce back afterward. More people need to cancel services over this kind of abusive advertizing. People falling for this crap is what keeps spam and these ads and click through scams going.
KERMIT's a weird name for a chewing gum?
I guess I'll stick my head in the lion's mouth. Right or wrong major artists spend 5 mill to 20 mill of the label's money just in studio producing the albums with minor artists, we're talking major labels here, costing around 500K give or take a few 100K. Yes it's obscene given the price of studio time but that's what it takes to keeps some of them happy. Some major artists do spend as little as 3 mill cutting an album but they are considered bargins and it's still obscene. Some goes for studio musicians and things that you hear but the bulk goes to the army of people standing around running for lattes and having special food flown in from New York. Another big expense is advertising. It's hard to cover the cost of adverising a maybe hit single that will sell for a $1 compared to a $16 album. One of the biggest expenses is also flop albums. They aren't any cheaper to produce or advertise when they flop so the studio passes on the cost of the flops. Yes factoring all that in albums should probably average $10 retail for major artists and $5 for lesser known so they are reaping huge profits but they aren't a 1000% as some might think. I know less about the music industry but in film the adverising budget is usually 1/3 the cost of making the film as in added on top of the cost. I wouldn't be surprised if some albums had advertising budgets equal or greater than the studio cost. Advertising isn't any cheaper just because production is cheaper. The music industry is hardly the worst offender. Just picture soda pop. The cup costs more than the soda and it's even worse with bottled water. Big business is based on obscene profits. Hey, lobbyist cost money and don't grow on trees ya know.
Remember Microsoft actually advertised an OS crashing less than the previous version. I didn't dive into Leopard because I wanted to give it a change to settle in. Apple has a good track record in recent years but they've had a stumbles in the past. I'd be curious if the problems were on all versions or just upgrades? Leopard has some fundimental changes so it's not entirely surprising there are some stability issues. I've got to wait until my current project is done anyway so they have three or four months to shake out the problems before I have to worry. On my Windows machines crashes are a daily occurance on good days so half a dozen crashes doesn't exactly scare me.