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Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
theodp writes "Remember Mr. Microphone? If you thought music couldn't get worse, think again. Perhaps with the help of R&D tax credits, Microsoft Research has spawned Songsmith, software that automatically creates a tinny, childish background track for your singing. And as bad as the pseudo-infomercial was, the use of the product in the wild is likely to be even scarier, as evidenced by these Songsmith'ed remakes of music by The Beatles, The Police, and The Notorious B.I.G.."
Go back to worshipping indian programmers you slashdot faggots.
Say what you will, but Windows is vastly superior to Linux on both desktops and servers. Get the facts, people.
...in the Microsoft Research building... you are allowed to use any platform you want
Yeah - it's easier to copy competitors' operating system features hands-on than it is with just pictures.
Only proves what a friend told me: the only justice in this life is poetic...
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Yeah I'm talking to you. The wannabe computer programmer who thinks they are good at computers because they can click around the computer enough times and find the reboot button and 'fix' an inherently flawed windows system. You think you're cool because you can pirate photoshop but not know anything about it, get Microsoft Office for free but have the literacy of a 1st grader when writing a paper, and get a copy of Norton Anti-virus because your inherently flawed system is useless without Administrative privileges. Get a clue, you are not smart, you are just a corporate sheep for a company that will bury you if you ever tried to write any software that did anything remotely useful. You are a clickaround and all you know is your ugly gray existence that is Windows.
Want the source code to windows vista?
head -n 1000000 /dev/urandom > Windows.com
It's a pity it didn't stop you from typing.
Maybe your fingers could fall off next, then we'll be saved from every pile of shit you call 'wit' that you attempt to conceive of from now till the day you die of severe rectal trauma.
The day the music died.
Was when Rap and then Hip Hop became mainstream.
I fail to see how it does not have half the usefulness since it plays significantly more formats and has better sound, but then again, just about every decent mp3 player has better sound that the iPod, I mean come on, they sound like crap) YOU did not like the zune because it was from MS. the Zune was much more full featured that the iPod and I personally think the brown was the best color of zune, possibly because it was not the same damn white or back POS iPod that everyone else was carrying. It was very nice looking and advertised to the world that you cared more about getting value for your dollar than the cool factor. To say otherwise just shows that you live within the RDF. Go ahead, argue fanboi.
Ditto. What kind of company would keep buying Mac laptops for employees when it knew that those employees would need to buy an additional Windows license and install Bootcamp so that they could boot into Windows all the time? It's ludicrous just on the face of it.
Breakfast served all day!