Let's correct this, our friend across the atlantic need to learn how to conjugate their verbs. "We are a company that is transitioning...soon we will have transitioned" is "We are a company in transition...soon the transition will be completed".
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I don't know what's so different about cd-rom drives compared to CD players, I guess there's some sort of idea behind it (I'll bet they invested enough in it). I havn't encountered any of the CDs on that list, I'm particularly unlikely to purchase the album of gregorian charts. But if I decide to purchase a CD, and find that it's copy protected what am I going to do about my £250 mp3 player (or infact, IC audio player as it has sonys dubious SDMI/OpenMG thing). Actually hang on a second, I appear to see at least 5 sony music publications on that list! So, if I can't rip my CD as described in my sony branded "OpenMG Jukebox" manual will sony send me the music in a format that I *can* use on my sony NW-E3? Perhaps I should phone them up and ask them? I may get back to you on that one, shouldn't they have warned me that they would have deliberately have rendered their own software unusable?
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I have to say as someone who lives in a country with an inherently crap voting system (and a parliament where the speaker is traditionally "dragged to the front" of the house) it's positively refreshing to see a voting system worse than the one in Britain. At least we know who's won the next day, even if it is grossly unfair. But what I don't get is that you are *only electing one person* so why don't you just count the votes and just see who got the most?
But why do I care, not my country that ends up looking silly.
I don't know what the set up is, but they've got little spinning natwest logos and colour terminals and everything (and adverts for account x). I don't know the technical details - but I know an NT bluescreen when I see one
No, that's just wrong! Infact NATWEST (National Westminster Bank for all you 'mericans) decided to port its entire system over NT so everything was ruinning the same system. What inspired this operation I don't know. But suffice to say - I have seen natwest ATM machines with a bluescreen (less amusing when I needed that money to get the train home). Would you control a machine with over £20000 cash in it with NT? I know I wouldn't! Why on earth would you need a huge sprawling multipurpose OS like windows (Or UNIX for that matter) to control a cash machine? Or an OS that is so well explored (and has so many) for vulnerabilities. A silly decision - but it's not my bank, so I won't end up paying for anything that might happen.
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Let's correct this, our friend across the atlantic need to learn how to conjugate their verbs. "We are a company that is transitioning...soon we will have transitioned" is "We are a company in transition...soon the transition will be completed".
Sigh
I don't know what's so different about cd-rom drives compared to CD players, I guess there's some sort of idea behind it (I'll bet they invested enough in it). I havn't encountered any of the CDs on that list, I'm particularly unlikely to purchase the album of gregorian charts. But if I decide to purchase a CD, and find that it's copy protected what am I going to do about my £250 mp3 player (or infact, IC audio player as it has sonys dubious SDMI/OpenMG thing). Actually hang on a second, I appear to see at least 5 sony music publications on that list! So, if I can't rip my CD as described in my sony branded "OpenMG Jukebox" manual will sony send me the music in a format that I *can* use on my sony NW-E3? Perhaps I should phone them up and ask them? I may get back to you on that one, shouldn't they have warned me that they would have deliberately have rendered their own software unusable?
I have to say as someone who lives in a country with an inherently crap voting system (and a parliament where the speaker is traditionally "dragged to the front" of the house) it's positively refreshing to see a voting system worse than the one in Britain. At least we know who's won the next day, even if it is grossly unfair. But what I don't get is that you are *only electing one person* so why don't you just count the votes and just see who got the most?
But why do I care, not my country that ends up looking silly.
I don't know what the set up is, but they've got little spinning natwest logos and colour terminals and everything (and adverts for account x). I don't know the technical details - but I know an NT bluescreen when I see one
No, that's just wrong! Infact NATWEST (National Westminster Bank for all you 'mericans) decided to port its entire system over NT so everything was ruinning the same system. What inspired this operation I don't know. But suffice to say - I have seen natwest ATM machines with a bluescreen (less amusing when I needed that money to get the train home). Would you control a machine with over £20000 cash in it with NT? I know I wouldn't! Why on earth would you need a huge sprawling multipurpose OS like windows (Or UNIX for that matter) to control a cash machine? Or an OS that is so well explored (and has so many) for vulnerabilities. A silly decision - but it's not my bank, so I won't end up paying for anything that might happen.