APPLE, the company that manufactures the Macintosh (Macintosh is the product, not the company name) and the BSD Unix based Mac OS X, IS NOT OWNED BY MICRO$UCK, billy-boy gates did give Steve Jobs some of his spare pocket lint a few years back, what he got in return was NON VOTING Apple stock, and an agreement to keep producing Office for the Mac for the next five years (an agreement which has now lapsed, but the Collective still makes their bloatware office suite for the Mac anyway
To be fair, Red Hat regularly releases bug-fixes for their distros, so Winders is hardly alone in that category. (Apple does less for OS X…I’m not sure if that’s because DarwinOS is truely that well put-together, or because they just don’t have the same inherent critical security issues and flaws that Microsoft Windows does, and thus they don’t need to release fixes so immediately.)
Regardless, I wouldn’t use WMP for anything, and I sure as hell wouldn’t burn anything to the shitty proprietary WMA format. I use FooBar2000 at work on Win2K and XP machines, and FooBar and iTunes at home on FreeBSD and Mac machines respectively. (iTunes is bloated and irritating, but it’s also compliant with AppleScript, and I’m trying to rig an OS X-based entertainment system, 'cause Linux and FreeBSD just aren’t quite there from a multimedia standpoint yet.)
Okay, brainy types, s’plain me the solution to this problem: I can rip from the CD in MP3 format, but when I try to burn to a CDR, Media Player converts back to another format which only allows about 20 cuts on the disc. I can’t find anything on any menu that allows me to tell the damn thing to burn in MP3. Shit!
When you burn a CD, Media Player (and most other burning utilities) gives you an option to burn it as an audio CD or as a data CD. It sounds like you want to burn a data CD (i.e. save your MP3 files as MP3 files) rather than an audio CD (i.e. the kind that holds < 80 minutes of music, is in the good old-fashioned CD audio format, and can be played in a regular CD player).
There’ve been components in Windows that spy on you ever since the Windows 98 installer days. Is this when you switched over to Ubuntu?
Hyperbole much?
Microsoft has done some really nasty things, no doubt about it. But I think you’re ranting a little too hard here.
Are you against philanthropy? Bill Gates has donated more money to actual charitable organizations than you’ll ever see. His declared intentions is to give it all away before he dies. Based on his past actions and the direction that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is going, I’m inclined to believe him. Then there’s Paul Allen, another Microsoft founder, who also gives away tons of cash to people who need it.
Then there’s the local economic benefit of well-paid employees. I’m assuming you’re not against people receiving a paycheck.
Not to mention that the Windows GUI (maybe excluding Vista) implements CUA standards better (and more self-consistently) than OS X and Gnome and KDE and XFCE. Meaning I can navigate a typical Windows GUI via keyboard much more efficiently than I can on Mac or Linux. If you’re against keyboard navigation then I’m afraid you’re completely loony.
Lastly, if you know what you’re doing, you can streamline Windows into a very responsive system. You can do this with Linux too, of course, if you know what you’re doing. You’re obviously not against tweaking OS and application settings as a hobby.
Jeez, I can’t believe I’m defending Microsoft or Bill Gates.
I’m not saying you should go back and thereby betray your most deeply held values. And Ubuntu is pretty damn nice (and I’d run it if it’d only support my wireless nicely.) Just for the record. You know.
Ahhhhh. Took me awhile to figure it out (it’s not the most intuitive program) but I now have a disc with 118 tracks on it. The car stereo will play it, but not my home audio setup, unfortunately. Guess my equipment is a bit outdated.
mplayerc.exe is 4MB, which even if you’re still on dial-up isn’t impossible, and no setup routine is required. It’s nothing to do with Microsoft, it’s open source: guliverkli download | SourceForge.net
After installing WMP11 I noticed the same. The video (all but 1 file) was in colors only Leary could enjoy. I went back in and removed WMP9 and all is better now.
I don’t get the complaining of MS. In the years I’ve been running XP it’s never had a crash. Never. Some programs need tweaking, but I can deal with that.
I have Linux running on another computer (tried Ubuntu {best}, eLive, Suse) and they now sit as adjuncts for internet access. Getting peripherals to run usually involves hours on message boards getting tips and hints. Too much hassle.
And that iMac? Forget it. I haven’t turned it on in weeks. I reinstalled 8.6 on it just to get it running. I can get on the internet, but the graphics are shit. It’s like reading a large-print Reader’s Digest version of the net. Granted, it’s an older version of OS, but even Win95 allows an easier format to adjust the text size. That and it’s so much easier to use a mouse with at least 2 buttons.
Maybe I’m better at using Windows? Probably not. But I do know I don’t have the typical problems posted in so many threads about MS.
And no, I’ve never had a security problem with Windows nor IE. Other than the few I invited against my better judgement.
Just curious, what are the basic specs of your PC? I get the feeling that you’re barely meeting the requirements of XP, considering all your problems. If better than average, I can only conclude operator error.
:eek: I don’t think I’ve ever had anything come out of a microwave that wasn’t either still frozen or so hot that fusion was occurring. While one scenario might evoke feelings of necrophilia (“Ooh!, this is kinda,…Cool!” To each their own, I guess), the other puts a very literal meaning to the term, “burning up with desire”!
Pentium 4, 2.40 Ghz, 512M RAM. Operator error, my ass. I installed the service pack (or rather had it jammed up my ass), and the computer went snakeshit. How does that translate to operator error?
Perhaps you clicked in an unstandard manner. Or maybe you didn’t really read the license agreement, but checked the box anyway. And god only knows whether you were pursing your lips and pointing your tongue leftward.
Okay, I take that back. I usually say it out of frustration with users who have problems with Windows, when there really is no reason that you should be having this problem. If Windows truly is the culprit, the world would have some major problems as we speak in the IT world. It must be a combination of your hardware, and/or drivers that just aren’t up to par, even though you’re well past Windows XP requirements. It could be something as simple as a piece of shit 3rd party driver for that rare USB widgit device you have, or something like that. That’s all it takes. I must be really lucky to have SP2 and WMP11 work perfectly the first time around, every single time I install it (not just on my machine either). Yet, people scream that it doesn’t work for them. I not be understanding to be honest.
I installed both WMP 11 and XP SP2 with absolutely no problems.
Anyway, I just opened up WMP11 into full screen mode, opened up an MP3, and it was using up 11.5 mb of memory.
I kept the first one playing, opened up Apple QuickTime 7 and it used up 30 mb without opening a single thing, just to support the commerical splash-screens in QuickTime. Once the MP3 was open, QT7 was up to a whopping 40 mb to play a 1.5 mb MP3 file.
I shut down the first screen of QT7 and it dropped to 23.5 mb of memory usage.
So, to review, to just play the damn MP3, it takes 11.5 mb on WMP11 and 23.5 on QT7.
To review the new, SDMB-computer geek math, Apple needs 204% of the memory that Microsoft does to do the same thing (except you get audio-equalizing, album art, and a better looking interface with Windown Media Player) and it’s Microsoft that’s creating the crappy bloat-ware?
Don’t question it threemae. Microsoft is bad. Even if all evidence indicates otherwise. It’s just bad bad bad. How something as simple as knowing Windows is the suxxorz gets past you is boggling.
MS is bad. Windows is bad. It just is. No, really, it just is!
