>> What about Windows Movie Maker?
>>
>> *runs like hell*
> 
> Tried it. Didn't like it. Highly inflexible. (I mean, I thought the El 
> Cheapo DVD editing software that came free with my DVD drive was naff, 
> but THIS...)

Used it. Sucked. And when I was done, I found out it only saved to WMV. 
Spent an hour finding a converter...

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Used it. Sucked. And when I was done, I found out it only saved to WMV. 
> Spent an hour finding a converter...

All your [data]base are belong to us...

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>>> What about Windows Movie Maker?
>>>
>>> *runs like hell*
>>
>> Tried it. Didn't like it. Highly inflexible. (I mean, I thought the El 
>> Cheapo DVD editing software that came free with my DVD drive was naff, 
>> but THIS...)
> 
> Used it. Sucked. And when I was done, I found out it only saved to WMV. 

why would you expect otherwise?

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
> Used it. Sucked. And when I was done, I found out it only saved to WMV. 
> Spent an hour finding a converter...

Mencoder ;).

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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> My vista upgrade to my home computer hasn't been as smooth as the 
> upgrade adviser has lead me to believe.

  But why did you "upgrade"? Wasn't XP working for you for some reason?
Was there something in Vista which you really needed and which isn't
available for XP? Peer pressure? Hype?

  Personally I don't see why anyone would want to "upgrade" right now.
Why not wait until it stabilishes enough, and as many software houses as
possible offer free Vista patches for their software? When in some years
you are in a situation where you simply *must* "upgrade" because there's
no other option, then maybe.

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   Personally I don't see why anyone would want to "upgrade" right now.

hey, people were lining up to buy a certain expensive blu-ray videogame console
which had no worthy games whatsoever on day 1 and a very bad press!  People are
attracted to shiny stuff.

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:59:50 -0500, Warp wrote:

>   Personally I don't see why anyone would want to "upgrade" right now.

People are sheep.

Jim

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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
news:47d6d1a5$1@news.povray.org...
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:59:50 -0500, Warp wrote:
>
>>   Personally I don't see why anyone would want to "upgrade" right now.
>
> People are sheep.

 "Baaaa"  :)

   I've read a lot about Vista - I don't want it. XP is good. Nearly two 
years now, and no BlueScreens... :)


    ~Steve~



>
> Jim

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:44:52 +0000, St. wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:47d6d1a5$1@news.povray.org...
>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:59:50 -0500, Warp wrote:
>>
>>>   Personally I don't see why anyone would want to "upgrade" right now.
>>
>> People are sheep.
> 
>  "Baaaa"  :)
> 
>    I've read a lot about Vista - I don't want it. XP is good. Nearly two
> years now, and no BlueScreens... :)

I've got it as a second boot option on my HP Pavilion.  My first 
experience with it was not good:  I wanted to use the firewire interface 
to pull some programs off of my DVR; had to install an XP driver for it 
and the OS only detected the port as being there half the times I tried.  
I finally got it working after a while.  I turned off UAC, installed VNC, 
disabled Aero, got everything working *perfectly* so I could take the 
machine (sans monitor and keyboard) back to where the TV is, plug it in, 
and access it remotely over the wireless network.

I then shut the machine down and powered it on one last time to make 
*sure* it would do exactly what I wanted.  It did.

So I disconnected it and took it to the back of the house and plugged it 
in.

And I couldn't get to it.  No way, no how.  So, frustrated, I grabbed a 
monitor to see what the dumb thing had done.  You know what?  It reverted 
EVERY SINGLE CHANGE to the user profile I had put in place.  UAC was 
enabled; Aero was enabled.  VNC wouldn't start; the firewall (which I had 
disabled) was active.  It was as if I had just completed the "first boot" 
setup.

If there's one thing that will piss me off about a piece of software more 
than anything, it's the arrogance of programmers who think they know 
better what I want than I do, and then implement something that *undoes* 
every customization I have done so it works the way *I* want it to.

Jim

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Warp wrote:

>   Personally I don't see why anyone would want to "upgrade" right now.

It has SHINY THINGS!!

> Why not wait until it stabilishes enough, and as many software houses as
> possible offer free Vista patches for their software? When in some years
> you are in a situation where you simply *must* "upgrade" because there's
> no other option, then maybe.

That's my plan... [Assuming I can't find a better OS first.]

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