Try making sure the guitar is flat and horizontal when you boot the console; I've noticed that if I have the guitar standing up while I power up my 360, the tilt sensor gets calibrated as such.
On the Xbox 360, not only is all Rock Band DLC compatible between RB1 and RB2, but for a mere five bucks, you can rip every song from Rock Band 1, save for three, into Rock Band 2. The three non-transferrable songs are, as I recall, a cover of Paranoid, a cover of Run To The Hills, and a master of Enter Sandman.
I play Rb2 with my RB 1 instruments, and depending on battery status, either the wireless guitar from GH3 or the wired guitar from GH2.
This morning, I went to check if Al Franken won the senate seat he was after. As of, oh, 10 am this morning or so, he was losing. By 570 votes. 1.2 million votes for him and for the encumbant. That's a close race.
I said this eight years ago (when some blue folk were bitching about Gore winning the popular vote, but Bush winning the EC) that the EC made sense when the US of A really were the United States, rather than what it is now, which is a single country called America. Get rid of the EC, standardize voting methods and so on. OR, get the federal gov't out of the day to day lives of state citizens, the way it was originally intended.
Also, I said eight years ago, and I still say, switch to some from of Condorcet voting.
Not my original attack; I'm just inserting myself.
You mean the bailout money that successful banks didn't want, and that they were forced to accept? You mean the bailout that was passed by the government thanks to vast amounts of pork? (search "wooden arrows for children", for example)
Yeah, that one.
Those same tax cuts should go to the crazy unwealthy.
Yeah, they should, and my understanding is that Obama's platform is just that. Hell, close all the various tax loopholes, shelters and exemptions, and you could probably lower taxes to corporations and 'obscenely' wealthy folks, too, and still bring in more money.
Who's supporting those?
Well, I seem to recall them being Bush's idea, but who's supporting them? Everybody who cashed them.
Who are you talking about? Care to give any context to your statement, or are you fine with wallowing in ambiguity?
700 million dollar bailout.
Tax cuts to corporations and the crazy wealthy.
'Stimulus' cheques.
Decrying Kerry as a 'tax and spend liberal' while adding trillions to the national debt by being a 'spend and spend' conservative. Oh, and destroying the balanced budget that 'tax and spend' liberal Clinton managed. You know, in any other context, any other context AT ALL, 'bring x money in, spend x money out' is called sound financial planning.
I've always wondered that too, but bear in mind that a properly done statistical sample of 500 or 1000 people can be surprisingly accurate in predicting how millions will react. Not that I'm claiming there were doing proper statistics, or not doing them....
What really amused me was that some states, with zero returns, were thrown (by CNN) to Obama, while others showing a 60/40 split were listed as 'undecided.'
Maybe not to payment of the invoice, but I will likely get some sort of recompense for the fact that you used my TV after our contract had clearly expired. If I happen to have a going rate for TV rental, which you're fully aware of....
In your TV example, you're leaving out the crucial 'three month trial period' part.
So, if Cogent and Sprint had agreed to swap bandwidth, period, then yes, I'd agree with you.
To extend your analogy, we decide to swap TVs for three months because I want to see if your Sony is kewlio, and you want to see if my LG is the roxxor. The agreement stipulates that after the three months, we either a) specifically agree to keep them, or b) end the swap.
After three months, I decide that your Sony just isn't kewlio; it lacks the framblewazzic convergence that I'm just so used to for my LG. So, I package up your Sony, and hands it back to you. You keep my LG. I send you a nice note saying 'Hey, three months is up buddy. You wants to keep the LG, fine; I can let it go for, oh, 500 quatloos.' I don't hear back. I keep reminding you *FOR A YEAR*. I still don't hear back. I shrug my shoulders and invoice you. If you don't pay the invoice, I'll see you in court.
Contracts are a "meeting of the minds." That means that in order to form a contract, both parties must understand the terms and signal their assent. I'll assume that at least some people at both Cogent and Sprint understood the terms. While its possible to implicitly signal assent, its tough to prove. If a Cogent exec says, "Well, we had no idea Sprint had changed the terms and certainly never agreed to it," Sprint would have to produce a letter in which Cogent did agree to it or they'd fail to prove assent. Additionally, explicit always beats implicit. If Cogent made the effort to say, "No, the terms you offer are not acceptable," (and they surely did) then there is no contract and Sprint continued the service without any contractual expectation of being paid for it.
Sure, and if they had a 'contract,' in whatever form, for a three-month-trial period, and after those three months, Cogent didn't either a) execute a new contract, or b) disconnect, where does that leave them? After all, it goes both ways. If Cogent said 'No, your terms to use this bandwidth aren't acceptable,' but continue using it anyway....
In other words, 'you' say 'How dare Sprint simply charge them money!' and 'I' say 'well, Cogent used the bandwidth, so they got invoiced.'
Well, once again, makes it harder to lose the package.
Too often would some secretary see a little itty bitty envelope from HP, assume it was marketing fluff, and toss it, little knowing that it contained several hundred thousand dollars worth of product licenses.
How is offering an alternative 'unilaterally converting' anything?
Cogent: Hey, lets be peers!
Sprint: Ok, but only if you're taking, oh, lets say 1.21 terraquads of data from us per day.
Cogent: No prob!
Sprint: Ok, lets try for three months and see what happens.
Cogent: Rightily-ho, neighbour!
THREE MONTHS PASS
Sprint: Hey, you've only been taking.5 terraquads of data from us. We can't be peers. Now, if you want a standard data connection from us, you'd be looking at 9500 quatloos per day. Want one of those?
Cogent: No wai!
Sprint: Ok, no prob. Let us know if you change your mind, and lets get this disconnect ball rolling.
Cogent: (ears plugged firmly by fingers) lala la la la alalalala alala!
Sprint: Oh Christ, this is going to suck.
A YEAR PASSES. SPRINT SLOWLY DISCONNECTS DURING THIS YEAR.
Sprint: Aaaaand...that's the last part disconnected.
Cogent: DUDE WTF? Fine, we're just going to prevent all Sprint-destination packets on our network from going ANYWHERE! BLACK HOLE SUN, BABY!
Sprint:...
That just means you're writing for lowest common denominator. If your DS game plays exactly like your GBA or PC game except for graphics, audio, input preprocessing, eye-candy physics (such as particle effects), and menus, you're doing it wrong.
This is one of the reasons the Wii has virtually no good 3rd party games; you can either write a game for the 360 and/or PS3, which if/when ported to the Wii doesn't take advantage of the Wiiness, and therefore blows on the Wii, or you can target the Wii, and lock yourself out of the main 'gamer' demographic.
Which doesn't even take into account the capability differences between a Wii and a 360 or PS3. Think a recognizable version of GTA4 would fit on a Wii? Before you answer, go mow some lawns in No More Heroes.
Note that Rock Band AC/DC will allow you to rip the songs directly into Rock Band 2 (much like you could rip all songs from Rock Band 1, save for three of them) and then your AC/DC disc goes on the shelf; all you've done is buy a physical disc instead of DLC.
Harmonix has always said that Rock Band is the platform; but why not release targeted Rock Band discs, instead of the 'mixer' discs that RB 1 and 2 were? Especially if the RB: ARTIST_GOES_HERE discs still let you download new tunes and stuff.
Please note that the Rock Band AC/DC thing is due to AC/DC, not due to Harmonix making a cash grab. Just like AC/DC won't let you download individual tracks off of iTunes, they don't want people to have the option to pick and choose songs; they consider each album to be a complete unit.
Well, the AC/DC Rock Band 'stand alone' game that's about to come out has a handy feature that lets you rip all of the music into Rock Band 2 and add it to your pile. Presumably they'd be after the same idea here.
Seems like an honest question, so I'll give you an honest answer.:-)
Most companies that bother with an 'IT department,' rather than That One Guy, will have standardized desktops by role. That is to say, you take a computer, you put it on the network, you authorize it into your management system (be it Microsoft SMS, Novell Zenworks, whatever) and wait. Or you whip out your image CD for that role, plop it in the drive, reboot, and walk away.
In any event, a standard load for that role is plopped onto the PC. Clerical staff have your company data-entry programs, programmers have IDEs, libraries, docs and what not, salesmen have the CRM system, and so on. This will usually be a combination of off-the-shelf software, internally-developed software, and highly customized commercial software.
At this point, it becomes pretty easy to set aside a few desktops, be they dedicated test boxes for a given role, or simply a sacrificial lamb in each department, roll out the new patches, then either a) run through the programs and see if anything refuses to run, or b) use automated testing software to run through a standard workflow. If nothing breaks, you're reasonably sure that it's OK to roll out.
Now, properly written Windows software is virtually guaranteed to be fine. Like you point out, the OS manufacturer isn't going to roll out patches that do stupid things. It's the poorly written software, software that still follows Windows 98 conventions, let alone Windows 3.1; a properly written program, using guidelines that first came out with Windows ME, let alone XP, will very VERY rarely trigger a UAC prompt on Vista. Most of the prompts are for Windows95 era conventions, like writing data under the Program Files directory.
This is generally exacerbated by the fact that most of these internal apps are one-offs, were written by one guy in VBA to make his life easier, somebody noticed and wanted a copy, and next thing you know, it's being used as a line-of-business app, or it's a prototype that somebody wanted tested 'in the real world' and it quickly mutated into a production server, or the guy who wrote it in very obfuscated VC++ with no comments is no longer with the company, or the money's not there to re-engineer it, or all sorts of such things.
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Try making sure the guitar is flat and horizontal when you boot the console; I've noticed that if I have the guitar standing up while I power up my 360, the tilt sensor gets calibrated as such.
On the Xbox 360, not only is all Rock Band DLC compatible between RB1 and RB2, but for a mere five bucks, you can rip every song from Rock Band 1, save for three, into Rock Band 2. The three non-transferrable songs are, as I recall, a cover of Paranoid, a cover of Run To The Hills, and a master of Enter Sandman.
I play Rb2 with my RB 1 instruments, and depending on battery status, either the wireless guitar from GH3 or the wired guitar from GH2.
Also good,
Tuvok.
This morning, I went to check if Al Franken won the senate seat he was after. As of, oh, 10 am this morning or so, he was losing. By 570 votes. 1.2 million votes for him and for the encumbant. That's a close race.
I said this eight years ago (when some blue folk were bitching about Gore winning the popular vote, but Bush winning the EC) that the EC made sense when the US of A really were the United States, rather than what it is now, which is a single country called America. Get rid of the EC, standardize voting methods and so on. OR, get the federal gov't out of the day to day lives of state citizens, the way it was originally intended.
Also, I said eight years ago, and I still say, switch to some from of Condorcet voting.
Not my original attack; I'm just inserting myself.
Yeah, that one.
Yeah, they should, and my understanding is that Obama's platform is just that. Hell, close all the various tax loopholes, shelters and exemptions, and you could probably lower taxes to corporations and 'obscenely' wealthy folks, too, and still bring in more money.
Well, I seem to recall them being Bush's idea, but who's supporting them? Everybody who cashed them.
Bridge Commander was no hell, but Klingon Academy came close to the idea.
700 million dollar bailout.
Tax cuts to corporations and the crazy wealthy.
'Stimulus' cheques.
Decrying Kerry as a 'tax and spend liberal' while adding trillions to the national debt by being a 'spend and spend' conservative. Oh, and destroying the balanced budget that 'tax and spend' liberal Clinton managed. You know, in any other context, any other context AT ALL, 'bring x money in, spend x money out' is called sound financial planning.
No-bid contracts to companies like Haliburton.
I've always wondered that too, but bear in mind that a properly done statistical sample of 500 or 1000 people can be surprisingly accurate in predicting how millions will react. Not that I'm claiming there were doing proper statistics, or not doing them....
What really amused me was that some states, with zero returns, were thrown (by CNN) to Obama, while others showing a 60/40 split were listed as 'undecided.'
Maybe not to payment of the invoice, but I will likely get some sort of recompense for the fact that you used my TV after our contract had clearly expired. If I happen to have a going rate for TV rental, which you're fully aware of....
In your TV example, you're leaving out the crucial 'three month trial period' part.
So, if Cogent and Sprint had agreed to swap bandwidth, period, then yes, I'd agree with you.
To extend your analogy, we decide to swap TVs for three months because I want to see if your Sony is kewlio, and you want to see if my LG is the roxxor. The agreement stipulates that after the three months, we either a) specifically agree to keep them, or b) end the swap.
After three months, I decide that your Sony just isn't kewlio; it lacks the framblewazzic convergence that I'm just so used to for my LG. So, I package up your Sony, and hands it back to you. You keep my LG. I send you a nice note saying 'Hey, three months is up buddy. You wants to keep the LG, fine; I can let it go for, oh, 500 quatloos.' I don't hear back. I keep reminding you *FOR A YEAR*. I still don't hear back. I shrug my shoulders and invoice you. If you don't pay the invoice, I'll see you in court.
Sure, and if they had a 'contract,' in whatever form, for a three-month-trial period, and after those three months, Cogent didn't either a) execute a new contract, or b) disconnect, where does that leave them? After all, it goes both ways. If Cogent said 'No, your terms to use this bandwidth aren't acceptable,' but continue using it anyway....
In other words, 'you' say 'How dare Sprint simply charge them money!' and 'I' say 'well, Cogent used the bandwidth, so they got invoiced.'
Well, once again, makes it harder to lose the package.
Too often would some secretary see a little itty bitty envelope from HP, assume it was marketing fluff, and toss it, little knowing that it contained several hundred thousand dollars worth of product licenses.
I'm reasonably sure that using a service constitutes a certain implicit acceptence of terms. To a certain extent, at least.
Besides, this is America; the legal system pretty much demands that you pick as many things as you can to claim, throw them all, and see what sticks.
Nonsense. It's almost embarassingly parallel; one district or ten thousand doesn't really matter.
Unless, of course, you're assuming that 'number of election officials' remains absolutely constant regardless of 'number of voters' increasing.
How is offering an alternative 'unilaterally converting' anything?
Cogent: Hey, lets be peers! .5 terraquads of data from us. We can't be peers. Now, if you want a standard data connection from us, you'd be looking at 9500 quatloos per day. Want one of those? ...
Sprint: Ok, but only if you're taking, oh, lets say 1.21 terraquads of data from us per day.
Cogent: No prob!
Sprint: Ok, lets try for three months and see what happens.
Cogent: Rightily-ho, neighbour!
THREE MONTHS PASS
Sprint: Hey, you've only been taking
Cogent: No wai!
Sprint: Ok, no prob. Let us know if you change your mind, and lets get this disconnect ball rolling.
Cogent: (ears plugged firmly by fingers) lala la la la alalalala alala!
Sprint: Oh Christ, this is going to suck.
A YEAR PASSES. SPRINT SLOWLY DISCONNECTS DURING THIS YEAR.
Sprint: Aaaaand...that's the last part disconnected.
Cogent: DUDE WTF? Fine, we're just going to prevent all Sprint-destination packets on our network from going ANYWHERE! BLACK HOLE SUN, BABY!
Sprint:
I'll point out that 'social engineering' takes on a whole new meaning with guard dogs; nice big thick juicy steaks come to mind.
That just means you're writing for lowest common denominator. If your DS game plays exactly like your GBA or PC game except for graphics, audio, input preprocessing, eye-candy physics (such as particle effects), and menus, you're doing it wrong.
This is one of the reasons the Wii has virtually no good 3rd party games; you can either write a game for the 360 and/or PS3, which if/when ported to the Wii doesn't take advantage of the Wiiness, and therefore blows on the Wii, or you can target the Wii, and lock yourself out of the main 'gamer' demographic.
Which doesn't even take into account the capability differences between a Wii and a 360 or PS3. Think a recognizable version of GTA4 would fit on a Wii? Before you answer, go mow some lawns in No More Heroes.
The 360's had XNA and Live Arcade for quite a while now.
Note that Rock Band AC/DC will allow you to rip the songs directly into Rock Band 2 (much like you could rip all songs from Rock Band 1, save for three of them) and then your AC/DC disc goes on the shelf; all you've done is buy a physical disc instead of DLC.
Harmonix has always said that Rock Band is the platform; but why not release targeted Rock Band discs, instead of the 'mixer' discs that RB 1 and 2 were? Especially if the RB: ARTIST_GOES_HERE discs still let you download new tunes and stuff.
Please note that the Rock Band AC/DC thing is due to AC/DC, not due to Harmonix making a cash grab. Just like AC/DC won't let you download individual tracks off of iTunes, they don't want people to have the option to pick and choose songs; they consider each album to be a complete unit.
Well, the AC/DC Rock Band 'stand alone' game that's about to come out has a handy feature that lets you rip all of the music into Rock Band 2 and add it to your pile. Presumably they'd be after the same idea here.
Seems like an honest question, so I'll give you an honest answer. :-)
Most companies that bother with an 'IT department,' rather than That One Guy, will have standardized desktops by role. That is to say, you take a computer, you put it on the network, you authorize it into your management system (be it Microsoft SMS, Novell Zenworks, whatever) and wait. Or you whip out your image CD for that role, plop it in the drive, reboot, and walk away.
In any event, a standard load for that role is plopped onto the PC. Clerical staff have your company data-entry programs, programmers have IDEs, libraries, docs and what not, salesmen have the CRM system, and so on. This will usually be a combination of off-the-shelf software, internally-developed software, and highly customized commercial software.
At this point, it becomes pretty easy to set aside a few desktops, be they dedicated test boxes for a given role, or simply a sacrificial lamb in each department, roll out the new patches, then either a) run through the programs and see if anything refuses to run, or b) use automated testing software to run through a standard workflow. If nothing breaks, you're reasonably sure that it's OK to roll out.
Now, properly written Windows software is virtually guaranteed to be fine. Like you point out, the OS manufacturer isn't going to roll out patches that do stupid things. It's the poorly written software, software that still follows Windows 98 conventions, let alone Windows 3.1; a properly written program, using guidelines that first came out with Windows ME, let alone XP, will very VERY rarely trigger a UAC prompt on Vista. Most of the prompts are for Windows95 era conventions, like writing data under the Program Files directory.
This is generally exacerbated by the fact that most of these internal apps are one-offs, were written by one guy in VBA to make his life easier, somebody noticed and wanted a copy, and next thing you know, it's being used as a line-of-business app, or it's a prototype that somebody wanted tested 'in the real world' and it quickly mutated into a production server, or the guy who wrote it in very obfuscated VC++ with no comments is no longer with the company, or the money's not there to re-engineer it, or all sorts of such things.
Oh, agreed; if he's taking copies, insinuating blackmail, that's a problem.
But in general, like, where somebody honestly manages to come across a security hole, and reports it in good faith, but gets charged anyway...
I wonder if any of those 'whistleblower' protection statutes would apply in this case.