Acquisition isn't typically the way Microsoft operates. They prefer to license the key pieces of technology that they want, and they only do that when they think they won't get away with simply copying them.
I have the port, I have a cable. I activate the progressive scan feature, and all the color disappears from the image.
The thing is, given the relatively small number of games I play on the GameCube vs the PS2, I'm not inclined to buy another cable to try--specifically not given the outrageous price of the discontinued official Nintendo cable on eBay.
Combined with the lack of support for widescreen, I find that when a game is available for both PS2 and GameCube, I'm usually better off buying the PS2 version. So Nintendo are losing sales.
After Lorne Lanning sold out and agreed to make Munch's Oddysee an Xbox exclusive, Microsoft expected him to deliver.
It didn't, perhaps not surprising since he had pissed off most of the Oddworld fan base. So Microsoft dumped them. Now they're making FPS games for EA ("Stranger's Wrath").
As part of the research for my reply, I checked the budget for Homeland Security, and it's $43b--in other words, a tenth of the military budget, and less than the bridge funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations. And that's including things like the coast guard and FEMA in Homeland Security.
So basically, we spend more money getting Iraqis to hate us than we spend on all homeland security added together.
The question is, do these same companies ban cell phones?
If not, then there's a double standard involved, and it's fairly stupid to ban IM under the guise of recording requirements if you don't ban phone conversations.
As I fix each machine they are getting locked down. I've been directed by management to prevent users from pirating music on company machines or using filesharing to share pirated music. I don't see anything unreasonable at all about that.
Not even the fact that it's impossible?
Or do you also glue shut the CD drives, weld over the USB, and so on?
I think that's where things should be headed. A cell phone doesn't have easy access to corporate documents (though cameras do facilitate that to an extent) and typing a lengthy e-mail is difficult, so trade secret theft (intentional or otherwise) by employees might be reduced significantly.
My cell phone connects to my laptop and works as a modem, via infra-red or Bluetooth. It's trivial to drag-drop a file onto the phone.
More important than in the past. Which is pretty obvious, and also not saying much, as the proportion of people caring to go online at all via console is something like 6-10%.
I've used my PS2 online, but only to download cheat codes... I've played several games which had online capability, but none of the online functionality was interesting to me. They need to fix that problem before they start building grand schemes to charge subscription fees.
I don't care what %ge of the budget military spending is, that's irrelevant. You said that military spending was "small potatoes" compared to welfare. It isn't, according to the official figures it's about 30% of the size of all welfare spending, comparable in size to the entire medicare/medicaid budget, or the entire HUD budget.
Yawn... if you're going to bother replying, try and come up with a more convincing counter-argument than pretending you didn't see the figures from the official US budget web site.
The cost of the Iraq War, along with all other DoD-related expenses (including funding the entire military) is small potatoes compared to spending on social programs.
Or, go to the source. HUD is $44b, health and human services is $697b, social security is $624b, military spending is $541b (DoD is $504b plus $37b for veterans' care).
So even by the official figures, it isn't "small potatoes", it's comparable to the entire social security or health budgets. And then there's the deficit interest payments...
Not that I'm against cutting corporate welfare. Far from it.
I can honestly tell you that iTunes, while being nice for the general user, sucks for those of us that would like to be able to just copy music to a folder on our mp3 player and go.
Funny, I do that all the time. Click on folder of MP3 files, drag across to folder in iTunes representing iPod, drop. I really don't see how it could be easier.
Wrong again. When I type a few characters of a name, Notes instantly checks my personal address book and the corporate directory, and completes the name with the first match.
Keep the Outlook client, but use Domino as the back end, and you can scale up to hundreds of thousands of users on a single server, rather than crapping out at 3000 or so.
(Disclaimer: I work for IBM. Opinions mine, not IBM's.)
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Acquisition isn't typically the way Microsoft operates. They prefer to license the key pieces of technology that they want, and they only do that when they think they won't get away with simply copying them.
Columbine didn't do much to stop bullying, did it?
I have the port, I have a cable. I activate the progressive scan feature, and all the color disappears from the image.
The thing is, given the relatively small number of games I play on the GameCube vs the PS2, I'm not inclined to buy another cable to try--specifically not given the outrageous price of the discontinued official Nintendo cable on eBay.
Combined with the lack of support for widescreen, I find that when a game is available for both PS2 and GameCube, I'm usually better off buying the PS2 version. So Nintendo are losing sales.
An easy way to install and manage fonts.
After Lorne Lanning sold out and agreed to make Munch's Oddysee an Xbox exclusive, Microsoft expected him to deliver.
It didn't, perhaps not surprising since he had pissed off most of the Oddworld fan base. So Microsoft dumped them. Now they're making FPS games for EA ("Stranger's Wrath").
If they try to tax my allergy to kiwi fruit, I'll sue for health endangerment.
NPR would have a steady income from me if they sold TAL as MP3 for $1-$2 per show.
I'd love to see Darwinia for PS2...
As part of the research for my reply, I checked the budget for Homeland Security, and it's $43b--in other words, a tenth of the military budget, and less than the bridge funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations. And that's including things like the coast guard and FEMA in Homeland Security.
So basically, we spend more money getting Iraqis to hate us than we spend on all homeland security added together.
The question is, do these same companies ban cell phones?
If not, then there's a double standard involved, and it's fairly stupid to ban IM under the guise of recording requirements if you don't ban phone conversations.
Not even the fact that it's impossible?
Or do you also glue shut the CD drives, weld over the USB, and so on?
My cell phone connects to my laptop and works as a modem, via infra-red or Bluetooth. It's trivial to drag-drop a file onto the phone.
More important than in the past. Which is pretty obvious, and also not saying much, as the proportion of people caring to go online at all via console is something like 6-10%.
I've used my PS2 online, but only to download cheat codes... I've played several games which had online capability, but none of the online functionality was interesting to me. They need to fix that problem before they start building grand schemes to charge subscription fees.
"Everyone needs to buy a copy of Windows Vista, which will solve the malware problem."
I don't care what %ge of the budget military spending is, that's irrelevant. You said that military spending was "small potatoes" compared to welfare. It isn't, according to the official figures it's about 30% of the size of all welfare spending, comparable in size to the entire medicare/medicaid budget, or the entire HUD budget.
Yawn... if you're going to bother replying, try and come up with a more convincing counter-argument than pretending you didn't see the figures from the official US budget web site.
Try a pretty picture.
Here's another.
Or, go to the source. HUD is $44b, health and human services is $697b, social security is $624b, military spending is $541b (DoD is $504b plus $37b for veterans' care).
So even by the official figures, it isn't "small potatoes", it's comparable to the entire social security or health budgets. And then there's the deficit interest payments...
Not that I'm against cutting corporate welfare. Far from it.
You'll note that I said "...or make do with the SRD".
Frankly, WotC have only themselves to blame for the piracy.
I have a set of 3E hardbacks, but they're very heavy to carry to a game. I wanted to buy searchable PDF copies of 3.5E.
Guess what? WotC won't sell the 3E rules as e-books. Not for any price. So I was forced to seek out unauthorized copies, or make do with the SRD.
Funny, I do that all the time. Click on folder of MP3 files, drag across to folder in iTunes representing iPod, drop. I really don't see how it could be easier.
The bats are cool.
Wrong again. When I type a few characters of a name, Notes instantly checks my personal address book and the corporate directory, and completes the name with the first match.
Just to pick out one thing that's incorrect in your rant, Notes does have autocomplete. It's called "type ahead". You probably have it turned off.
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http://www.codestore.net/help/help65_client.nsf/f
F9 is refresh on current versions of Outlook too, same as Notes.
What you're missing is that Lotus Notes works with Outlook.
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Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook.
http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products
Keep the Outlook client, but use Domino as the back end, and you can scale up to hundreds of thousands of users on a single server, rather than crapping out at 3000 or so.
(Disclaimer: I work for IBM. Opinions mine, not IBM's.)