Easier: Get Total Recorder. This installs as a 'virtual sound card.' Point it at a file to record to. Tell your music player to use it, instead of your physical sound card. Hit 'play.'
I did this with audible.com stuff, before they built CD burning capability directly into their software.
Why does Microsoft have such a flawed design? Why put information for many programs in one file? Why not put each program's settings in separate files, so that one cannot destroy the others?
Because back in the day of.ini files, users complained that files were all over the place, inconsistant, and all that sort of stuff. The registry, like so many other things, is a tradeoff.
To go back to the example of doctors, it both amuses me and disturbs me that a family can direct their vet to show more 'humane' treatment to a terminally ill dog, then they can direct their doctor to so treat a human relative.
I don't know why people mock Seven of Nine on Voyager, or T'Pol on Enterprise, when one of the main points of TOS was that if Kirk didn't bang some alien chick (who conveniently looked like a 60s fashion model) then Spock did (at least twice, that I can think of.)
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Y'all from MadRom, or be ye a different Tattva?
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Because in real life, it turned out to suck. AGP is now mainly used to quickly transfer stuff to on-card memory. Hell, most 'power' cards these days are shipping with 64 or 128 megs.
And I remember being all chuffed up that my Mach64 card had a whopping 2 megs of VRAM...
Incidently, one of the shows that has been most obviously influenced by the Matrix action scenes (the HKC stuff, mostly) is Andromeda - any fight involving AIs, and most not ivolving them, now has all sorts of "run up the walls", slow motion mid air leaps, and so on. I can't decide if it's good or bad... while I can't contain my loathing for Rommie's blue hair and the new Gold Edition Trance Gemini
Blame Kevin Sorbo, who had all the writers who were working on, you know, continuity and storylines, stuff like that, fired. He thought the show would have 'wider appeal' if 'you don't need to remember all these names and places and history' and can just sit down and watch the show cold. Hercules in Space, really. And that sucked. That's about when I stopped watching it religiously. Too bad; it had really really great premise. I should get around to writing the Unofficial Andromeda RPG one of these days.
I'll point out that Jet Li is trained in modern Wu Shu, which actually has very little value as a 'combat' art, which he's actually the first to admit, when people bother asking about it. Nowadays, it's more of an acrobatic/gymnastic style. Looks bloody incredible, though.
has shifted it's advertising dollar from a constant support of a released movie, to an all-out blitz opening weekends. Why?
Over saturation of the market. Wasn't that long ago that you looked forward to THE 'summer blockbuster.' Nowadays there's one coming out every two weeks.
Therefore, you grabs what you can in the first two weeks, and rely on merchandise and what not to actually pay for the movie, generally.
Spider-man! Spider-man! Makes more money than Rowling can. Gets to lay Kirsten Dunst! Sequel assured, in a few months. Watch out! Here comes the Spider-man!
In Summer, 2002, movies were showing.
George Lucas: What happen??
Rick McCallum: Somebody set up us the blockbuster.
Rick McCallum: We get phone call.
George Lucas: What?
Rick McCallum: Main screen turn on.
George Lucas: It's you!!
Sam Raimi: How are you gentlemen??
Sam Raimi: All your demographic are belong to us!
George Lucas: What you say??
Sam Raimi: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
Sam Raimi: You have no chance to make up for Phantom Menace, make your sequel!
Sam Raimi: Ha ha ha!
George Lucas: Take off every merchandise.
Rick McCallum: You know what you doing??
George Lucas: For great profit
Geroge Lucas: move merchandise.
What do you expect? If people act like children, they deserve to be treated like children.
Society says 'Cars are great. Here's some lights. If it's green, go through. If it's yellow, stop if safely can, otherwise, go through. If it's red, stop.' If people bothered to do that, everything would be fine. But so many damn people just blow through, they ruin it for everybody.
How would YOU suggest that we get people to obey basic traffic laws?
I think it's worth it; hell, just last weekend, my wife and I witnessed some idiot chick driving a silver Honda blow through a red light, and ROLL(!) a van. My wife lept out to rescue the small child trapped inside, whilst I called 911 and managed to restrain myself from physically assaulting the old woman in the car beside ours, who kept yelling at me to drive away before the police showed up and closed off the scene, lest she get stuck there 'for hours and hours! At least three!'
Yup. It will be OK for Apple to attempt to become a monopoly, until such time as they actually do. Then, all of these such actions will retroactively become evil.
See, that's the US of A for you; punishing success at every turn.
"Hi, we do something. We're probably already doing it. We've made a decision to switch platforms. Now that we've decided to do that, we should figure out if the platform we've chosen can actually do what we need it to do."
The more simple explanation is 'If you cannot read the EULA before you hand over your cash, then it is null and void, as much as "And you must give me all of your money and possessions," scribbled onto the back of a contract signed six hours previously, would be.
If you can read the EULA before you hand over the cash, however, you're agreeing to it by handing over the cash.
Find me a version/translation that isn't written AFTER Dante's Inferno was published, which was 1314. King James Bible was, as I recall, 1611. Plenty of room for, if not actual revision, then definately some interpretation of old concepts with current world-views.
On one hand we try to teach our children that its important to exercise critical thinking. Then parents / teachers etc. turn around an claim silly stories written by ignorant men 2K or 1.4K years ago should be believed on Faith.
That's not the funny bit. The funny bit is that said silly stories have basically been babelfished; translated from original language to another, then another, then another, then another.
Want to have some real fun? Gently remind your local God-fearing Christian friends that Hell, fire and brimstone, was invented by Dante for his book.
I'd like to see a similar study done on reading comprehension, starting with slashdot headline contributors.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. From the actual NSF article, linked to in the Slashdot story (emphasis mine):
Belief in pseudoscience, including astrology, extrasensory perception (ESP), and alien abductions, is relatively widespread and growing. For example, in response to the 2001 NSF survey, a sizable minority (41 percent) of the public said that astrology was at least somewhat scientific,
and a solid majority (60 percent) agreed with the statement "some people possess psychic powers or ESP." Gallup polls show substantial gains in almost every category of pseudoscience during the past decade. Such beliefs may sometimes be fueled by the media's miscommunication of science and the scientific process.
Science would probably be in a much better state if people didn't jump to conclusions based on the most cursory of searches for data.
You just keep five machines, or 5% of your total number of desktops, handy. Nobody keeps anything on their local harddrives, anyway, do they? Just swap machines, and there you go. Send the dead one away at leisure.
To add, in an MS envrionment, a large up-front investment in SMS will result in MUCH time saved later on. Especially for simply and quickly rolling out apps/hotfixes/service packs, but the magic hardware and software inventory can't be beat. Also simplifies license issues.
Exactly. Folks, if a sales person started checking code into the corporate CVS system, eyebrows would be raised, as would voices. If developers starting making cold calls to customers, one would wonder why they aren't coding.
If your job description doesn't explicitly tell you to try to find security holes, don't. Even if you ARE the sysadmin, get it in writing that you're supposed to be doing that sort of thing.
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Easier: Get Total Recorder. This installs as a 'virtual sound card.' Point it at a file to record to. Tell your music player to use it, instead of your physical sound card. Hit 'play.' I did this with audible.com stuff, before they built CD burning capability directly into their software.
Or doesn't at least set up attachment filtering? Let alone local rules to automate such teduim?
To go back to the example of doctors, it both amuses me and disturbs me that a family can direct their vet to show more 'humane' treatment to a terminally ill dog, then they can direct their doctor to so treat a human relative.
I don't know why people mock Seven of Nine on Voyager, or T'Pol on Enterprise, when one of the main points of TOS was that if Kirk didn't bang some alien chick (who conveniently looked like a 60s fashion model) then Spock did (at least twice, that I can think of.)
Y'all from MadRom, or be ye a different Tattva? (-1 off topic, I know)
Because in real life, it turned out to suck. AGP is now mainly used to quickly transfer stuff to on-card memory. Hell, most 'power' cards these days are shipping with 64 or 128 megs. And I remember being all chuffed up that my Mach64 card had a whopping 2 megs of VRAM...
Spider-man! Spider-man! Makes more money than Rowling can. Gets to lay Kirsten Dunst! Sequel assured, in a few months. Watch out! Here comes the Spider-man! In Summer, 2002, movies were showing.
George Lucas: What happen??
Rick McCallum: Somebody set up us the blockbuster.
Rick McCallum: We get phone call.
George Lucas: What?
Rick McCallum: Main screen turn on.
George Lucas: It's you!!
Sam Raimi: How are you gentlemen??
Sam Raimi: All your demographic are belong to us!
George Lucas: What you say??
Sam Raimi: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
Sam Raimi: You have no chance to make up for Phantom Menace, make your sequel!
Sam Raimi: Ha ha ha!
George Lucas: Take off every merchandise.
Rick McCallum: You know what you doing??
George Lucas: For great profit
Geroge Lucas: move merchandise.
I think it's worth it; hell, just last weekend, my wife and I witnessed some idiot chick driving a silver Honda blow through a red light, and ROLL(!) a van. My wife lept out to rescue the small child trapped inside, whilst I called 911 and managed to restrain myself from physically assaulting the old woman in the car beside ours, who kept yelling at me to drive away before the police showed up and closed off the scene, lest she get stuck there 'for hours and hours! At least three!'
Yup. It will be OK for Apple to attempt to become a monopoly, until such time as they actually do. Then, all of these such actions will retroactively become evil. See, that's the US of A for you; punishing success at every turn.
"Hi, we do something. We're probably already doing it. We've made a decision to switch platforms. Now that we've decided to do that, we should figure out if the platform we've chosen can actually do what we need it to do."
At that point, the software seller is acting as the proxy for the developer.
The more simple explanation is 'If you cannot read the EULA before you hand over your cash, then it is null and void, as much as "And you must give me all of your money and possessions," scribbled onto the back of a contract signed six hours previously, would be. If you can read the EULA before you hand over the cash, however, you're agreeing to it by handing over the cash.
Find me a version/translation that isn't written AFTER Dante's Inferno was published, which was 1314. King James Bible was, as I recall, 1611. Plenty of room for, if not actual revision, then definately some interpretation of old concepts with current world-views.
Science would probably be in a much better state if people didn't jump to conclusions based on the most cursory of searches for data.
You just keep five machines, or 5% of your total number of desktops, handy. Nobody keeps anything on their local harddrives, anyway, do they? Just swap machines, and there you go. Send the dead one away at leisure.
To add, in an MS envrionment, a large up-front investment in SMS will result in MUCH time saved later on. Especially for simply and quickly rolling out apps/hotfixes/service packs, but the magic hardware and software inventory can't be beat. Also simplifies license issues.
They've always been consistant; they love quite a bit of the content, they hate quite a bit of the business practices.
Exactly. Folks, if a sales person started checking code into the corporate CVS system, eyebrows would be raised, as would voices. If developers starting making cold calls to customers, one would wonder why they aren't coding. If your job description doesn't explicitly tell you to try to find security holes, don't. Even if you ARE the sysadmin, get it in writing that you're supposed to be doing that sort of thing.