They should seek treatment for that corporate meglomania. Spending a lot of effort to enforce a standard Vista "user experience" is a waste of time--the 12 o'clock flashers can't change it and people in a locked-down corporate environment won't change it, so this is only aimed at the people who can and want to change it, and it's stupid to honk them off.
In the end, my "owner experience" trumps their "user experience" any day, and I'll kick Vista to the curbside if Microsoft can't agree with that. The sound issue is just a surface sign of the deeper divide which will cause further grief later down that road. This is that little trivial thing that ends marriages and provides casus belli for wars. (The real reasons will be things like machine licenses, DRM restrictions, cost per seat, but people will remember that startup sound.)
Stuck? Unless they've changed Vista from how Windows has been for at least 11 years, you want Start/Setting/Control Panel/Sounds. Hit the Sound tab, scroll down to Start Windows, and set any little ole wav you feel like. You're welcome.
A toy language? Excellent! I just got a small Linux board with limited* resources and I wasn't sure if PHP would fit. Are there many commercial toys programmed with PHP?:)
* Mind you, "limited" is relative. A 200MHz ARM9 chip with 32M ram, 4GB flash drive, 2.4 kernel and Busybox beats the 486/25, 16M ram, 200M hard drive with Slackware 2.1 that I used to run my multi-user BBS on, while playing nethack, quite nicely. (Kids these days...)
Too bad I don't have my Creepy Crawler set with the glow-in-the-dark Plastigoop any more. (Thermosetting plastic goo with molds and a hot plate to set it, for those not old enough for the era of fun/dangerous toys.)
Is The Da Vinci Code really the new standard for literary dwarven bread? (You always have it to read, but strangely you find something else to do in meanwhile.)
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Simple fact dooming this program: Who looks like their licence photo?
All Your Asteroids Are Belong To Us!
Wellll, it tastes like chicken...
To heck with KFC! I want a plate of suicide wings and regenerating pint of beer on wing-night!
They should seek treatment for that corporate meglomania. Spending a lot of effort to enforce a standard Vista "user experience" is a waste of time--the 12 o'clock flashers can't change it and people in a locked-down corporate environment won't change it, so this is only aimed at the people who can and want to change it, and it's stupid to honk them off.
In the end, my "owner experience" trumps their "user experience" any day, and I'll kick Vista to the curbside if Microsoft can't agree with that. The sound issue is just a surface sign of the deeper divide which will cause further grief later down that road. This is that little trivial thing that ends marriages and provides casus belli for wars. (The real reasons will be things like machine licenses, DRM restrictions, cost per seat, but people will remember that startup sound.)
I hear the final differences were settled with rock-paper-scissors.
Discipline Global Mobile comes with Elephant Talk, right? (The last thing Clippy said to me.)
Stuck? Unless they've changed Vista from how Windows has been for at least 11 years, you want Start/Setting/Control Panel/Sounds. Hit the Sound tab, scroll down to Start Windows, and set any little ole wav you feel like. You're welcome.
Can we go back to spaghetti code? The Noodly One will be pleased!
A toy language? Excellent! I just got a small Linux board with limited* resources and I wasn't sure if PHP would fit. Are there many commercial toys programmed with PHP? :)
* Mind you, "limited" is relative. A 200MHz ARM9 chip with 32M ram, 4GB flash drive, 2.4 kernel and Busybox beats the 486/25, 16M ram, 200M hard drive with Slackware 2.1 that I used to run my multi-user BBS on, while playing nethack, quite nicely. (Kids these days...)
And leave a two-handed, two-finger salute to the anthropologists of 2156 that will mine this "treasure trove" for data.
Too bad I don't have my Creepy Crawler set with the glow-in-the-dark Plastigoop any more. (Thermosetting plastic goo with molds and a hot plate to set it, for those not old enough for the era of fun/dangerous toys.)
One trade name of the paint was Undark , which is pretty cool for a Green Lantern ring--shame about the deadly side-effects...
The game console industry always has interesting business models
But has the cat pee'd on your copy?
BTW (and back towards topic), the The Annotated Pratchett File, v9.0 should fit on the smallest PDA. (878k in PDF)
OMG! None of my printed books has a backlight either!
Is The Da Vinci Code really the new standard for literary dwarven bread? (You always have it to read, but strangely you find something else to do in meanwhile.)
I guess I'll have to read it someday...
Does it help with those bleeding statues?
Make sure that Pham Nuwen hasn't hidden any trapdoors in them!
I'm sure that the Cthurch of Scientology is watching the case with interest. "Hello ICANN, about that xenu.net domain..."
In Korea, only old people have nuclear weapons!
It's just like riding a bicycle!
I was disappointed when there was no mention of a new Y2K-type problem.