- Dell Adamo Laptop getting a lot of ink. Dell stakes claim to the worlds thinnest machine.
- Silverlight 3 the target of Microsoft attention.
- Cisco still in the news. Cisco embraces Open Source? Why?
- MySQL injection out of control.
- Three new Android phones coming.
- Windows 7 may not drive demand. Why not?
- Lots of weird start-ups showing off at SXSW event in Austin.
- UWB standards group shut down. Sigh.
- IDC says that the economic downturn will drive Linux sales up.
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#20
It is faster, and I’ve posted benchmarks to prove it several times now.
As for your video playback issue, Back when I used XP on my Sony VAIO years ago the included DVD playback software (some stripped down OEM version of WinDVD) caused the exact same issue when trying to play a movie on a secondary screen.
Vista is not bundled with DRM. It has the framework necessary for DRM to operate. Assuming you aren’t lying I would check and see If you have something installed that might be causing the problem. I haven’t had any issues with video playback on my systems.
If you’re going to bash anyone at least go after the DRM makers who created these schemes in the first place.
On a completely note since we all know Vista is completely inferior to Unbuntu (please bite, please bite).
What’s up with IBM buying Sun for $7 billion? Whadda think?
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I have found no amount of converters and filters and whos-it-whats-its that lets me play my home made Sony handy cam movies on my iPhone. What was the point of that again???
Oh and I agree. Unbuntu is clearly better than Vista or any version of windows for that matter going all the way back to windows 3.11 I would encourage EVERYONE to go and give it a try, and see how much better it is.
The Unbuntu unified file dialog is perhaps the apex of modern computing. It is not possible to do better than that.
I got a bite! Easier than hand grenades.
#21 Again, I was not trying to play on the TV, it was just plugged. If the TV is on, I can watch on the TV. But it won’t play the video in the laptop’s screen unless I unplug the HDMI cable from the switched off TV.
And it’s not a dvd software, it was windows media player that didn’t want to start playing in the laptop’s monitor unless it got the HDMI handshake (DRM) from a standby tv that had nothing to do with the laptop’s own display.
Geez, dense people here, huh?
#22
Funny. I like Ubuntu. It has its quirks but its a cool OS. I used the Xubuntu variant awhile back for some multipurpose/point of sale machines on older hardware. XP runs better on old hardware, but you can’t beat free.
#26
Just because its playing in Windows Media Player doesn’t mean it isn’t using codecs from some other software. I’m just throwing out some ideas. I can guarantee your problem isn’t some sort of hidden DRM built-in to Vista.
You know what somebody_else? I’ve used them all and if I’m not productive on flipping Win 3.1 or OS/2 then the problem is with me, not the frickin’ computer.
I make a ton of money in the Microsoft world but I also do in the IBM or Sun or Google worlds. Honestly XP, or Vista, or Win7, or OSX, or Ubuntu are all pretty darn good. Anyone who niggles over a dialog box is a wanker and should stop blaming their tools for their inadequacies. That said, I do think MS should have done better then “good enough” on Vista – I think they are capable of more. For example, Server 2008 is terrific.
So the file dialog on an operating system where “everything is a file” is not important.
Gotcha.
Also, I don’t think the radical redesign of the gui on top of maintaining near perfect backwards compatability with the old gui api, all while maintaining the ui metaphores that everyone knows and uses is “good enough”. Like Ive said to you before, you are just a tough cookie to please. Either that, you like using and writing software for gui window systems that were designed in the late 80′s… But none the less, the world has moved on.
As far as I am concerned, the only mistake Microsoft made with Vista was pretending (for intels sake…) that Vista would run on integrated video cards with shared memory. Oh, and Windows 7 will have the exact same problem.
But then… The other commercial OS vendor hasn’t run their computer without some sort of video acceleration in basically… ever.
Also, I know for a fact that I am not productive on windows 3.1 or OS/2 because none of the software that I use works on those operating systems. Because like most users, I use software, not operating systems. Which remains the basic problem I have with linux… Never mind the file dialogs.