And? Screwing everyone over with the format makes money for Microsoft. I worked for a Fortune 500 corporation that wound up having to move to Office 97 - a few people got it and started passing around spreadsheets. We couldn't ban them for political reasons, and couldn't get everyone to save it down to 95. So... several months later, we moved to Office 97. I believe it was corporate-wide.
Microsoft will screw up a few times, to great embarrasment, then they will by economic necessity learn how to make reliable patches. After all, their only alternative is the greater embarrasment of rampant worms and viruses.
Which they've been happily doing for the past how many years? I had installed a patch for a SQL Server problem. Forward 6 months and I'm installing a new server, with the same patch - which I can't find. It's no longer available - the patch they say is the one I originally downloaded isn't the same.
It turned out that for this ONE bug, they had released EIGHT (yes, eight!) different patches. And if you installed one of the early ones, they didn't actually fix the problem (and a patch was released for one of those patches!). I wound up standardizing on the "final patch" for that bug, which came out 5 months later.
Saying they'll all of a sudden "get it" and make sure their patches work is [naive|disingenuous|dumb].
If you look, the original SP6 for NT cannot be found. What is out now is "SP6A". SP6 had the unfortunate side effect of disabling Lotus Notes. It managed to break SMTP for Notes, and only Notes - Exchange was unaffected. Our IT group decided to wait before installing SP6, but our corporate offices were not so smart - they took themselves off email for 2 days or so. So yes, Microsoft patches do break things.
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The sound seems more pleasing, and the resolution seems higher somehow.
Was wondering if you had any albums by Motoi Sakuraba, and if so, which recent ones are worth getting. I think the most recent one I have is either Valkyrie Profile (arranged) or Force of Light. I have Star Ocean 2 (not arranged), and didn't care for it nearly as much. I prefer the arranged albums - are there any recent ones? Finally, what site do you recommend to purchase them from?
I don't know how this works across the pond, but here in the US there are LOTS of dead spots on the dial. Considering these things probably take up 1 point on the dial (90.5, for instance), then the odds of other people catching your station should be 0 - they're not tuned in, and I really doubt this thing is going to bleed over to 90.3 or 90.7. (Not to mention that there's usually a gap of.4 between stations, I think mandated by law).
So, are the stations really that close on the dial? For best reception you're going to find a blank spot on the dial - why wouldn't it be blank for 100m around you?
It's a win-win for the RIAA. If it works, it proves that DRM is the key. If it doesn't, they claim it's a faulty implementation, and that a good implementation wouldn't have had those problems. (Actually, it's almost in their best interest to not have online sites work, since they still haven't figured out how that business model works)
Last I checked, they were outselling by about a million units (10 vs 9). Not an unqualified success, considering the competition is up to, what, 50 million units by now?
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That reminds me of the jokes in the end-credits for the Naked Gun movies. "The answer to tonight's scrambled-word puzzle: T-3". "Secret to The Crying Game: She's a guy", etc.
This is a fricking goldmine for them. This is simply a variation on the Divx:( (aka not;-) scheme- pay everytime you watch the movie. Go to a friend's house? They need to pay. Watch it at home 2 days later? Need to pay. And what happens when Disney stops releasing it on DVD?
Heck, that's it. It's for their Limited Release DVDs... release it for a couple of months, people buys it. From then on, until they release it again, if you want to watch it you have to pay them. Each time. DVD gets scratched? Pay each time. Have a nifty new ethernet-enabled DVD player? Bet they'll figure a way for you to watch it like that.
The old network admin would do that - he'd run around downtown in jogging shorts. Did I mention he was an amazingly hairy individual? You'd be walking to lunch, and you'd see Sasquatch out of the corner of your eye. Gah!
As for exercise - I've got the same problem (well, except for the beer). I've started doing pushups and situps. Only 10 or so at a time, but I've worked up to about 100 of each, per day. Other people take smoking breaks, I take fat breaks.
I know several theaters were showing The Matrix right before Matrix Reloaded came out, I wonder if anyone will do a double-feature or triple-feature, show Matrix 2/3 in one sitting. You definitely need an intermission in the middle (although I guess the 9 minutes worth of credits would work), lest your bladder burst. But that would be a blast.
Actually, the PBS one is the one _we_ think of, but I remember reading an interview where he said it was used at Infoworld long before him, but he started using it for a column, using it exclusively, where before him it was used by many people at Infoworld as a byline.
[From "Running Scared" with Billy Crystal & Gregory Hines. Set in Chicago.] BC: "Repeat, we have left the road - we are pursuing on The El" GH: "Don't hit the third rail... it's got 10000 volts running through it." BC: "It's not the volts, it's the amps" Passenger: "How many amps are there?" BC: "Enough to run a ing train! Now shut up!"
Naw, it's a creative interpretation of the work. And since they own photographs of things, this is fine. Now they ought to sue the WSJ for copyright infringement- obviously they're publishing their work, without royalties.
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I'll one-up you. You don't even have to crack the case. Go to xbox-scene.com and check out the no-mod tutorials.
And? Screwing everyone over with the format makes money for Microsoft. I worked for a Fortune 500 corporation that wound up having to move to Office 97 - a few people got it and started passing around spreadsheets. We couldn't ban them for political reasons, and couldn't get everyone to save it down to 95. So... several months later, we moved to Office 97. I believe it was corporate-wide.
Microsoft will screw up a few times, to great embarrasment, then they will by economic necessity learn how to make reliable patches. After all, their only alternative is the greater embarrasment of rampant worms and viruses.
Which they've been happily doing for the past how many years? I had installed a patch for a SQL Server problem. Forward 6 months and I'm installing a new server, with the same patch - which I can't find. It's no longer available - the patch they say is the one I originally downloaded isn't the same.
It turned out that for this ONE bug, they had released EIGHT (yes, eight!) different patches. And if you installed one of the early ones, they didn't actually fix the problem (and a patch was released for one of those patches!). I wound up standardizing on the "final patch" for that bug, which came out 5 months later.
Saying they'll all of a sudden "get it" and make sure their patches work is [naive|disingenuous|dumb].
If you look, the original SP6 for NT cannot be found. What is out now is "SP6A". SP6 had the unfortunate side effect of disabling Lotus Notes. It managed to break SMTP for Notes, and only Notes - Exchange was unaffected. Our IT group decided to wait before installing SP6, but our corporate offices were not so smart - they took themselves off email for 2 days or so. So yes, Microsoft patches do break things.
The sound seems more pleasing, and the resolution seems higher somehow.
everyone knows that the Pac Man rom is called puckman. http://www.mame.dk/gameinfo/puckman/
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real live women (see *breathing*)
(watch "lungs")
Thanks for the info! They do have some of his stuff, but it's hard to tell who the musician is for a given album. Time to go digging... :)
Thanks again - never expected a reply that quickly!
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Was wondering if you had any albums by Motoi Sakuraba, and if so, which recent ones are worth getting. I think the most recent one I have is either Valkyrie Profile (arranged) or Force of Light. I have Star Ocean 2 (not arranged), and didn't care for it nearly as much. I prefer the arranged albums - are there any recent ones? Finally, what site do you recommend to purchase them from?
I don't know how this works across the pond, but here in the US there are LOTS of dead spots on the dial. Considering these things probably take up 1 point on the dial (90.5, for instance), then the odds of other people catching your station should be 0 - they're not tuned in, and I really doubt this thing is going to bleed over to 90.3 or 90.7. (Not to mention that there's usually a gap of .4 between stations, I think mandated by law).
So, are the stations really that close on the dial? For best reception you're going to find a blank spot on the dial - why wouldn't it be blank for 100m around you?
My eyes!
It's a win-win for the RIAA. If it works, it proves that DRM is the key. If it doesn't, they claim it's a faulty implementation, and that a good implementation wouldn't have had those problems. (Actually, it's almost in their best interest to not have online sites work, since they still haven't figured out how that business model works)
Last I checked, they were outselling by about a million units (10 vs 9). Not an unqualified success, considering the competition is up to, what, 50 million units by now?
That reminds me of the jokes in the end-credits for the Naked Gun movies. "The answer to tonight's scrambled-word puzzle: T-3". "Secret to The Crying Game: She's a guy", etc.
This is a fricking goldmine for them. This is simply a variation on the Divx :( (aka not ;-) scheme- pay everytime you watch the movie. Go to a friend's house? They need to pay. Watch it at home 2 days later? Need to pay. And what happens when Disney stops releasing it on DVD?
Heck, that's it. It's for their Limited Release DVDs... release it for a couple of months, people buys it. From then on, until they release it again, if you want to watch it you have to pay them. Each time. DVD gets scratched? Pay each time. Have a nifty new ethernet-enabled DVD player? Bet they'll figure a way for you to watch it like that.
It's Divx all over again.
Yup, and one of their lobbyists? Pat Schroeder. "We have a very serious issue with librarians."
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The old network admin would do that - he'd run around downtown in jogging shorts. Did I mention he was an amazingly hairy individual? You'd be walking to lunch, and you'd see Sasquatch out of the corner of your eye. Gah!
As for exercise - I've got the same problem (well, except for the beer). I've started doing pushups and situps. Only 10 or so at a time, but I've worked up to about 100 of each, per day. Other people take smoking breaks, I take fat breaks.
I'm still running Windows 95.
I know several theaters were showing The Matrix right before Matrix Reloaded came out, I wonder if anyone will do a double-feature or triple-feature, show Matrix 2/3 in one sitting. You definitely need an intermission in the middle (although I guess the 9 minutes worth of credits would work), lest your bladder burst. But that would be a blast.
I think the MTV spoof did it best, when the two hosts get showered with sweat.
[Together]: Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Actually, the PBS one is the one _we_ think of, but I remember reading an interview where he said it was used at Infoworld long before him, but he started using it for a column, using it exclusively, where before him it was used by many people at Infoworld as a byline.
[From "Running Scared" with Billy Crystal & Gregory Hines. Set in Chicago.]
BC: "Repeat, we have left the road - we are pursuing on The El"
GH: "Don't hit the third rail... it's got 10000 volts running through it."
BC: "It's not the volts, it's the amps"
Passenger: "How many amps are there?"
BC: "Enough to run a ing train! Now shut up!"
Zilla. For OS X. Make a cluster of G5s. C'mon Steve, time to port Zilla to OS X.
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Naw, it's a creative interpretation of the work. And since they own photographs of things, this is fine. Now they ought to sue the WSJ for copyright infringement- obviously they're publishing their work, without royalties.
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And yes.