Windows Vista has never exactly been a favourite subject among company IT people. Migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista isn't exactly a worry-free process, and machines that run Windows XP comfortably may have trouble powering Windows vista. As such, adoption of Vista has been slow. Two years after Vista's release, the OS is still struggling in the enterprise sector, according to a Forrester report.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2005-07-06
1. It can't be the same process if you switched OS ...
2. No offense Thom , but I doubt your using a vanilla Vista system ( Ultimate is not ) nor a vanilla GNU/Linux distribution.
3. I submit that the process and result depends on many factor and that neither are absolute.
That your method of testing one working CD is flaud ( one does not represent even a decisive majority for you , where are the Fiona, Nina, Alanis & Shirley cd ? ) , but accurate in your case and that the other way happen using other CD.
4. Physical transfer using SD card is your point.
5.a) I am not sure some ISP intervention who is friendly with the DRM music industry is not at play and that Vista is not an escape goat in this case. They don't like people sharing music over the net.
B) the problem could be some GNU/Linux distribution who did not include MP3 decoder.
6. If Apple switched to DRM free music it was costing them some business and was a real problem.
A Liar is someone who don't tell the truth , the **windows** press report the same problem.
I know your a reasonnable and respectable man and will agree that calling someone a liar in this case is uncalled for.
P.S. do you accept to C.O.D ( pay for them on arrival ) on the known CD i can ship to you with the known problem ? Do you have storage facility of high capacity , I don't think your apartment is big enough ? ;-)
Member since:2008-06-02
Member since:2008-12-06
Same here. I've ripped thousands of songs from legally purchased CDs on Windows Vista and copied the WMA files to XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu, and all three of them play all of the songs just fine. I don't know where you get that all music bought is automatically DRM'd. I don't completely understand this "DRM" craze that everyone is complaining about as I've never come across it in all of my media adventures (I don't own Blu-Ray nor do I purchase music from online, so perhaps that's why), but it seems like everyone complaining are having tizzy fits over nothing. Then again it seems DRM doesn't affect me, so I have no reason to be upset, but it affects others who have plenty of reason.
**shrug** I guess my point is that I ripped plenty more than just one album (about two thousand songs, actually) on Vista and played all of the songs on different systems without a fuss.
Edited 2009-02-04 00:36 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces."But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
"Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for 3rd place. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android smartphone vendors and Apple shipped a total of 199.5 million units worldwide during 1Q13, up 59.1% from the 125.4 million units shipped during 1Q12." Windows Phone doubles from a few to twice few, iOS loser market share as its growth is slower than that of the overall market. BlackBerry continues slide into irrelevance."According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies service, global Android smartphone profits reached US$5 billion in total during the first quarter of 2013. Samsung dominated and captured an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits." Wow.
Member since:
2005-07-06
Really ? You did ? ( answer is No , but let me take you by the hand and show you why it is so )
Lemur 2 Step 1 = Using Vista,
Thom step 1 = using Windows Media Player in Windows 7,