You haven't come across as particularly objective either.
Linux is nothing but a massive headache of trying to get part X to work with part Y and having to remember a billion different commands for fixing something that is a menu option in Windows. Better hope that your compiler is working properly and that you don't have a catch-22 dependency issue, since nobody fucking provides binaries!
KDE 4 has had the goal to redesign much of the user interface to copy the brain dead dumbed down simplicity of GNOME, making it much more annoying to use. KDE is now worse for users like me.
They dislike anyone making money directly off of computer software. They have to destroy everything with worse knock offs, or bash software as a service.
Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible — just enough to cover the cost. Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on. The word “free” has two legitimate general meanings; it can refer either to freedom or to price. When we speak of “free software”, we're talking about freedom, not price. (Think of “free speech”, not “free beer”.) Specifically, it means that a user is free to run the program, change the program, and redistribute the program with or without changes. Free programs are sometimes distributed gratis, and sometimes for a substantial price. Often the same program is available in both ways from different places. The program is free regardless of the price, because users have freedom in using it. Non-free programs are usually sold for a high price, but sometimes a store will give you a copy at no charge. That doesn't make it free software, though. Price or no price, the program is non-free because users don't have freedom.
(derived from "Linus' Unix").
So uhh, what was that huge list supposed to serve?
tag would limit the size of the box and add a scroll bar though.
upthorn: I was mostly referring to how random images, random dlls, logs and random programs are shattered around. Oh, and there are also a bunch of folders named like $hf_mig$ or $NtUninstallKB968816_WM9$, which were hidden for some reason.0.log
addins
ALCMTR.EXE
ALCWZRD.EXE
AppPatch
bitssetup.log
Blue Lace 16.bmp
cmsetacl.log
Coffee Bean.bmp
comsetup.log
Config
Connection Wizard
control.ini
Cursors
Debug
desktop.ini
Driver Cache
DtcInstall.log
ehome
explorer.exe
explorer.scf
FaxSetup.log
FeatherTexture.bmp
Gone Fishing.bmp
Greenstone.bmp
Help
hh.exe
ie7updates
ie8.log
ie8updates
ie8_main.log
iis6.log
ime
imsins.BAK
imsins.log
java
KB898461.log
KB923561.log
KB938127-v2-IE7.log
KB941569.log
KB946648.log
KB950762.log
KB950974.log
KB951066.log
KB951376-v2.log
KB951748.log
KB951978.log
KB952004.log
KB952069.log
KB952287.log
KB952954.log
KB953838-IE7.log
KB954154.log
KB954155.log
KB954459.log
KB955069.log
KB956572.log
KB956744.log
KB956802.log
KB956803.log
KB956844.log
KB957097.log
KB958644.log
KB958687.log
KB958869.log
KB959426.log
KB960225.log
KB960803.log
KB960859.log
KB961371-v2.log
KB961501.log
KB967715.log
KB968389.log
KB968537.log
KB968816.log
KB969059.log
KB969947.log
KB970238.log
KB970653-v3.log
KB971486.log
KB971557.log
KB971633.log
KB971657.log
KB971961-IE8.log
KB971961.log
KB973354.log
KB973507.log
KB973525.log
KB973540.log
KB973815.log
KB973869.log
KB974112.log
KB974455-IE7.log
KB974455-IE8.log
KB974571.log
KB975025.log
KB975364-IE8.log
KB975467.log
KB976749-IE8.log
L2Schemas
MedCtrOC.log
Media
MicCal.exe
msagent
msapps
msdfmap.ini
msgsocm.log
msmqinst.log
mui
n02.ini
netfxocm.log
Network Diagnostic
NOTEPAD.EXE
nsreg.dat
ntdtcsetup.log
ocgen.log
ODBCINST.INI
OEWABLog.txt
Offline Web Pages
pchealth
PeerNet
Prairie Wind.bmp
Prefetch
Provisioning
regedit.exe
Registration
REGLOCS.OLD
regopt.log
repair
Resources
Rhododendron.bmp
River Sumida.bmp
RTHDCPL.EXE
RtkAudioService.exe
RTLCPL.EXE
RtlExUpd.dll
RtlUpd.exe
Santa Fe Stucco.bmp
SchedLgU.Txt
security
sessmgr.setup.log
SET3.tmp
SET4.tmp
SET8.tmp
setupact.log
setupapi.log
setuperr.log
setuplog.txt
SkyTel.exe
Soap Bubbles.bmp
SoftwareDistribution
SOUNDMAN.EXE
spupdsvc.log
Sti_Trace.log
system
system.ini
system32
tabletoc.log
TASKMAN.EXE
Temp
tsoc.log
twain.dll
twain_32
twain_32.dll
twunk_16.exe
twunk_32.exe
updspapi.log
vb.ini
vbaddin.ini
vmmreg32.dll
vncutil.exe
WBEM
Web
WgaNotify.log
wiadebug.log
wiaservc.log
win.ini
WindowsUpdate.log
winhelp.exe
winhlp32.exe
WinSxS
wmsetup.log
WMSysPr9.prx
Zapotec.bmp
_default.pifSpecs are only important for playing games, encoding videos and other stuff that only nerds do. ;)
16GB HDD Space (though can be installed in just 4GB)
I challenge you to find a new computer in a major store that's less than those specs these days.
what are these "restrictions"?
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) are technology measures that restrict what people can do with their computers. DRM is built into the heart of Windows 7, and many Microsoft services push DRM on users. In some cases, Microsoft has added these restrictions at the behest of TV companies, Hollywood and the music industry. In other cases, Microsoft DRM goes way beyond these companies' demands, suggesting that Microsoft is using DRM simply to create lock-in. Whether Microsoft is merely a co-conspirator with big media companies or an advocate for DRM in their own right, the result for software users is the same... Using Windows 7, you give control of your computer to the media. The monomaniacal fear of big media companies is that people will share digital media with their friends, building a free public library of cultural works. Public libraries are wonderful institutions, and in a digital age they become almost miraculous: we can now provide universal access to human knowledge and culture—or at least anything that's been published—at little or no cost. The amazing thing is that it's almost automatic: once people can share freely with their friends over a global network, you get a digital public library. P2P networks are one example of a digital library, and the web is another. The value of these libraries to the public is historic and immeasurable. But media companies serve shareholders, not the public, and are therefore very ready to destroy in its infancy any public resource that might interfere with their profits. The personal computer is built from the ground up to make sharing information fast and easy, so for media companies to restrict sharing they need the full cooperation of software makers at the deepest level. Enter Microsoft. In order to completely prevent sharing, media companies needed Microsoft to do two things: * First, they had to make sure that any outgoing digital signal is just as locked down as the DRM'ed music or movie file. Otherwise you could simply play a video on your computer out to another device (like your digital camera) and press record. So Windows, when playing a file with DRM, needs to constantly check to make sure any connected device is cooperating with the DRM scheme. This anti-feature is called Protected Media Path. Microsoft introduced it with Vista, and it continues in Windows 7. * Second, media companies needed Microsoft to keep other programs from observing the playback process and intercepting the audio and video in unencrypted form. After all, it is still your computer, and (as much as media companies hate this) you can install and run whatever applications you want. Vista and Windows 7 close this "loophole" by monitoring all the applications currently running whenever a media file with DRM is playing. If Vista or Windows 7 detects an unapproved application running in the background, your song or video will simply stop playing. In practice, the encryption on most popular DRM schemes (including DVD and Blu ray) has been cracked, and DRM-free copies of almost any piece of film or music are available on the internet. But users of Windows 7 and Vista still have code running on their computer—at all times—that is trying to limit their basic right to share media with each other and their power to build libraries. These restrictions have gone beyond what many would expect. For example, at the request of NBC, Microsoft prevented Windows Media Center users from recording television shows that NBC would rather you didn't, even though this kind of recording is an included feature of Windows Media Center. They claimed that they were just following FCC regulations, though the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC has no authority to make such regulations. Microsoft even adds DRM in contexts where media companies have largely given up on it. This year, after every major online music store went DRM-free, Microsoft launched a DRM-encumbered music store for mobile phones — this music service has one particularly charming limitation: many people switch cellphones every 6 months to a year, but there is no way to transfer songs from one phone to the next.
Windows 7 Media Player and Windows Media Center will block the usage of third party video codecs.
OK, now I think I know how to use MEncoder and how command line applications work, I need to create a notepad file, copy and paste a code(the codes that I found in the tutorial), rename the file, change extension to (.bat) and then run it, am I right ?
I can see the black screen of the prompt and it get closed before a second, I tried to make (encode.bat) and Runned it, the same thing happened a black prompt screen that got closed before a second pass.
if I upload x264 just after being recorded from the emulator the youtube blur and simply destroy the video with a lot of errors and weird colors o.Õ