Yes, but most people don't consider throwing a small (for Microsoft) amount of money at a problem to be "effort". Your point is what? The parent scoffed as if Microsoft was the only company that did this. They aren't. Mergers and Acquisitions are a part of daily life in the business world, as are joint marketing, strategic alliances, etc. An 800 lb gorilla like Microsoft has lost its adeptness, and if they decide they want to go in a certain direction naturally they would look at the shortcuts that could get them ther fastest, like buying a company that has a mature or almost mature product.
They run a variation of this once a year or so, It is kind of like how magazines have the same crap over and over again on an annual basis - fitness magazines: GREAT ABS, Weekly World News: Loch Ness Monster spotted disembarking a UFO, Martha Stewart: Perfect Thanksgiving Doilies, PC World: VIDEO CARD SHOWDOWN, etc......
How long ago did they promise 250 MB for each account? And I'm still running on 2 MB? hmm, me and my wife are at 250mb now on free hotmail. Too bad Gmail KICKS A LLAMAS ASS ! So long hotmail.
He suggested it as a consideration. Nothing wrong with that. It's up to him to decide if it's too spendy or not. When it comes to content creation, using the right tools for the job is never frowned upon. Everytime there is a linux audio discussion on here someone comes along and says what about OS X, it just works. Well, agreed, and it also just works on Wintel machines also, But the cool thing is that there is this group of people that think it could work on OSF software as well. I have built mac audio systems for jobs, and if you start with a new computer, and actually purchase several software suites and/or an audio interface like MOTU or Protools, you are looking at a 4 thousand dollar investment when all is said and done. Now, what many of us have is way more time than money, so getting x to work with y on linux may be a pain, but it still costs no money, and something was prob. learned along the way. This makes the experience a valuable 'pain in the ass' to those DIY types that expect to not only use what they have built, but also expect to understand it on a deeper level than double click, enter serial number, and run.
It is funny, but I have news for you. unless you are deep in one of the outer boroughs late at night the subway is pretty safe. I see people with laptops, portable dvd players, and all kinds of PDA's, mp3 players, portable cd players, etc everyday, not afraid at all. There are tons of undercovers and uniformed cops that ride the rails, and even 90 lb girls are sporting their iPods without fear.
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You asterisk nazis are worse than the friggin grammar nazis !
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Now I work at S**** F***
you work at Shit Fuck !?!? I have been trying to get a job there for years !
Isnt this all just promotional activity and shilling for PainKiller, which I have never heard of until now (don't own a PC, play bzflag and nethack, don't care about also ran FPS games)......
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I had several great years with my dad's kaypro ! Wotta great computer. I did math in the spreadsheet (what was that, visicalc?), wrote papers and printed on the dot matrix, and even enjoyed some lame ass games! I loved CP/M....... I also loved the attempt at portability ! That thing was a little heavy, but it had a handle, and it snapped together into one unit, by george.
I would also like to mention that music has splintered into endless subgenres, and there are more people now than ever that are listening to independent music (dance, indy rock, punk, indy soul, etc). There are literally thousands of indy labels wordwide that are getting by selling 1000-5000 copies of a recording. The major labels won't touch anything that sells below the 50000 mark. This has been the case for quite a while. Do you think Universal or Sony or Warner were interested in Hip Hop before it became the music of choice for 12-24 white males? No, Sylvia Robinson released Rapper's Delight independently on her smallish label, Sugarhill. When an indy record starts to pop though, they are there like flies on shit, a bidding war ensues, and the artist chooses the label that will fcuk them most gently. Meanwhile, indy labels release great music every month within their specialty. CD-Baby is a site that distributes many of these indy projects, check it out - lots of good artists to be discovered there. If you live in a college town, check the stores near campus, or listen to college radio. I was lucky to grow up near Berkeley, CA, and we had KALX (originally broadcast from nerd heaven, aka Lawrence Hall of Science). We got to listen to punk rock, reggae, hip hop, funk, new wave, all things commercial radio wouldn't touch at the time.
I know, usually I am right there flippin the birdie at windows from behind my mac, but the post election annoyed by everything syndrome has really got me by the balls.....
I'll go back to IRC and stop talkinng shit on/. now.....
I'm a mac user and administrator, but everytime someone posts a new win vulnerability/exploit do you all really have to post the smarmy 'glad i am a mac user' post? Its just like some punk kid saying 'I told you so", rude and inciteful. I don't even know you, but I want to punch you in the face already. (sorry, i have the post election annoyed by everything syndrome)
Depends on char race and class. You should chose a human valkyrie for your role based access account, if you want high strength. If you come across Mjollinir, you can throw it and it comes back to you (with 25 strength or higher), plus lightning damage.
Earlier in the game, Magicbane will serve you better (magic resistance, engraving, and curse resistance).
Well I can't find any evidence that it does or does not void your warranty, on apple's own site or google, not even a mention of it. Also, I can't believe that enable root would prevent you from getting hardware replaced. It is a normal system function, and there are no warnings to that effect when you do enable the root user (WARNING ENABLING THE ROOT USER WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY, that sort of thing). It just sounds preposterous, imagine: You: My hard drive is fritzed, the s.m.a.r.t. diagnostics indicate a hardware failure. Apple: Is root user enabled? You: Yes, I am an old skool unix geek that has to have a terminal with '#' open at all times when I am at my system, along with my case of mountain dew and tub of beef jerky. Apple: Sorry then, enabling root user voids your hardware warranty. You: But I have to test out this rm -Rf / thingy Apple: Not on our dime, you root abuser. Use sudo instead after you have purchased a new hard drive.
My guess is this is a lie that someone perpetuated to get some n00b to keep from (unwisely) enabling r00t.
Furthermore, are you seriously proposing all these iPod weenies with 40 gig full of mp3s downloaded them all at 99c a pop? newsflash, people have CD collections, everyone I know owns at least a few hundred.... There is a program called 'itunes' which lets you 'rip' cd's that you have purchased, and 'sync' them with an ipod. Even a weenie can figure this out.
Yeah I played PS2 , on a great TV, it was fun, but I wasn't impressed by the graphics. The reason that I asked was because last week we got one of those 30" apple plasma displays here at work.. The thing needs a $600 video card to drive it, its a beast. Anyway we had to test it out, being the IT dept and all, so we hooked it up to a dual g5 and played UT2004. We played full res, which is 2560 x 1600 or whatever the highest res UT supports is and it was mind blowing. Every graphic feature was on, with high detail, etc. Everyone in the dept. had to have a crack at it. It started a whole deathmatch revival because everyone wanted to play on it. I just thought why would anyone want to play on a console when you can play on something like this?!? Then I considered that the whole setup costs around $6000 and a console is around $150 now..... I'll probably get a console when the next generation rolls out, now that my kids are getting old enough to play too.
This is what perplexes me. How are consoles so popular when they run at grotesquely low resolution? Isn't a TV 320 x 240 or something like that? Even the lowest resolution of a computer is better than that.
I saw an apple 2 gs go for 35 bux on ebay last month.. bastard sniped me at the last minute. It came with a monitor, 5.25 and 3.5" disks, a dot matrix printer, and a box of software. That computer can do word processing, spreadsheets, AND play hundreds of classic games! (aztek, threshold, wizardry, wolfenstein, karateka, sigh I love apple ]['s)
We sell pentium 2 and 3 cpu computers to employees for $75 at my company when they get swapped out. These computers are able to run all modern business software, browsers and email. They just don't have the speed and snappiness that we are all used to. Everyone wants flat panels and small form factor PC's these days, so they just sell of these old computers and do some wacky accounting magic to write it off or depreciate it or god knows what.
New $100 computer? Only if you are a manufacturer. Used $100 computer? totally do-able.
When was the last time you even saw someone at the phone booth? no more phone booths in nyc more like phone stalls. phone booths just get pissed in. The phone stalls get pissed in too. Its all really pretty disgusting, between the strangers mouths and ears that have been touching the phone and the urinal factor.... yet they still get tons and tons of use and abuse.
The reason that mp3 and other lossy codecs will die (for music collecting at least) is that at some point in time, there will be ample bandwidth, ample storage space, and people offering in lossless codecs. Apple has built a lossless codec into itunes already. As soon as the music industry signs off on it, they can start delivering lossless copies of music. Concert tapers already trade sound board recordings in FLAC. I have seen the tests of the codecs, I have listened to them, I have tried high bitrates, and there is no way i would ever pay money for music that has been compressed with any of these 'psychoacoustic algorithms'. Bass gets distorted, hihats sound particularly bad and swishy.
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Yes, but most people don't consider throwing a small (for Microsoft) amount of money at a problem to be "effort".
Your point is what? The parent scoffed as if Microsoft was the only company that did this. They aren't. Mergers and Acquisitions are a part of daily life in the business world, as are joint marketing, strategic alliances, etc. An 800 lb gorilla like Microsoft has lost its adeptness, and if they decide they want to go in a certain direction naturally they would look at the shortcuts that could get them ther fastest, like buying a company that has a mature or almost mature product.
They run a variation of this once a year or so, It is kind of like how magazines have the same crap over and over again on an annual basis - fitness magazines: GREAT ABS, Weekly World News: Loch Ness Monster spotted disembarking a UFO, Martha Stewart: Perfect Thanksgiving Doilies, PC World: VIDEO CARD SHOWDOWN, etc......
By buying a company. How like them.
Um most big corporations expand through acquisition. Apple did it too, see itunes, logic audio, shake.
How long ago did they promise 250 MB for each account? And I'm still running on 2 MB?
hmm, me and my wife are at 250mb now on free hotmail. Too bad Gmail KICKS A LLAMAS ASS ! So long hotmail.
He suggested it as a consideration. Nothing wrong with that. It's up to him to decide if it's too spendy or not. When it comes to content creation, using the right tools for the job is never frowned upon.
Everytime there is a linux audio discussion on here someone comes along and says what about OS X, it just works. Well, agreed, and it also just works on Wintel machines also, But the cool thing is that there is this group of people that think it could work on OSF software as well. I have built mac audio systems for jobs, and if you start with a new computer, and actually purchase several software suites and/or an audio interface like MOTU or Protools, you are looking at a 4 thousand dollar investment when all is said and done. Now, what many of us have is way more time than money, so getting x to work with y on linux may be a pain, but it still costs no money, and something was prob. learned along the way. This makes the experience a valuable 'pain in the ass' to those DIY types that expect to not only use what they have built, but also expect to understand it on a deeper level than double click, enter serial number, and run.
It is funny, but I have news for you. unless you are deep in one of the outer boroughs late at night the subway is pretty safe. I see people with laptops, portable dvd players, and all kinds of PDA's, mp3 players, portable cd players, etc everyday, not afraid at all. There are tons of undercovers and uniformed cops that ride the rails, and even 90 lb girls are sporting their iPods without fear.
You asterisk nazis are worse than the friggin grammar nazis !
Now I work at S**** F***
you work at Shit Fuck !?!? I have been trying to get a job there for years !
Isnt this all just promotional activity and shilling for PainKiller, which I have never heard of until now (don't own a PC, play bzflag and nethack, don't care about also ran FPS games)......
I had several great years with my dad's kaypro ! Wotta great computer. I did math in the spreadsheet (what was that, visicalc?), wrote papers and printed on the dot matrix, and even enjoyed some lame ass games! I loved CP/M.......
I also loved the attempt at portability ! That thing was a little heavy, but it had a handle, and it snapped together into one unit, by george.
Not to mention the difficulty of getting the match to the fuse in sub zero 50+mph winds to light the ACME Ground to Ground Missle.
I would also like to mention that music has splintered into endless subgenres, and there are more people now than ever that are listening to independent music (dance, indy rock, punk, indy soul, etc). There are literally thousands of indy labels wordwide that are getting by selling 1000-5000 copies of a recording. The major labels won't touch anything that sells below the 50000 mark. This has been the case for quite a while. Do you think Universal or Sony or Warner were interested in Hip Hop before it became the music of choice for 12-24 white males? No, Sylvia Robinson released Rapper's Delight independently on her smallish label, Sugarhill. When an indy record starts to pop though, they are there like flies on shit, a bidding war ensues, and the artist chooses the label that will fcuk them most gently. Meanwhile, indy labels release great music every month within their specialty. CD-Baby is a site that distributes many of these indy projects, check it out - lots of good artists to be discovered there. If you live in a college town, check the stores near campus, or listen to college radio. I was lucky to grow up near Berkeley, CA, and we had KALX (originally broadcast from nerd heaven, aka Lawrence Hall of Science). We got to listen to punk rock, reggae, hip hop, funk, new wave, all things commercial radio wouldn't touch at the time.
Alternatively you could just correctly configure your router/firewall for use with bittorrent. Here's How
Um except its still 'not cool' to light fires with no intention of putting them out....
I know, usually I am right there flippin the birdie at windows from behind my mac, but the post election annoyed by everything syndrome has really got me by the balls.....
/. now.....
I'll go back to IRC and stop talkinng shit on
I'm a mac user and administrator, but everytime someone posts a new win vulnerability/exploit do you all really have to post the smarmy 'glad i am a mac user' post? Its just like some punk kid saying 'I told you so", rude and inciteful. I don't even know you, but I want to punch you in the face already.
(sorry, i have the post election annoyed by everything syndrome)
surprised to not see a bunch of
"Global Thermonuclear warfare" jokes.....
Seems ripe for the picking.
Depends on char race and class. You should chose a human valkyrie for your role based access account, if you want high strength. If you come across Mjollinir, you can throw it and it comes back to you (with 25 strength or higher), plus lightning damage.
Earlier in the game, Magicbane will serve you better (magic resistance, engraving, and curse resistance).
Well I can't find any evidence that it does or does not void your warranty, on apple's own site or google, not even a mention of it. Also, I can't believe that enable root would prevent you from getting hardware replaced. It is a normal system function, and there are no warnings to that effect when you do enable the root user (WARNING ENABLING THE ROOT USER WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY, that sort of thing). It just sounds preposterous, imagine:
You: My hard drive is fritzed, the s.m.a.r.t. diagnostics indicate a hardware failure.
Apple: Is root user enabled?
You: Yes, I am an old skool unix geek that has to have a terminal with '#' open at all times when I am at my system, along with my case of mountain dew and tub of beef jerky.
Apple: Sorry then, enabling root user voids your hardware warranty.
You: But I have to test out this rm -Rf / thingy
Apple: Not on our dime, you root abuser. Use sudo instead after you have purchased a new hard drive.
My guess is this is a lie that someone perpetuated to get some n00b to keep from (unwisely) enabling r00t.
Furthermore, are you seriously proposing all these iPod weenies with 40 gig full of mp3s downloaded them all at 99c a pop?
newsflash, people have CD collections, everyone I know owns at least a few hundred.... There is a program called 'itunes' which lets you 'rip' cd's that you have purchased, and 'sync' them with an ipod. Even a weenie can figure this out.
Yeah I played PS2 , on a great TV, it was fun, but I wasn't impressed by the graphics. The reason that I asked was because last week we got one of those 30" apple plasma displays here at work.. The thing needs a $600 video card to drive it, its a beast. Anyway we had to test it out, being the IT dept and all, so we hooked it up to a dual g5 and played UT2004. We played full res, which is 2560 x 1600 or whatever the highest res UT supports is and it was mind blowing. Every graphic feature was on, with high detail, etc. Everyone in the dept. had to have a crack at it. It started a whole deathmatch revival because everyone wanted to play on it. I just thought why would anyone want to play on a console when you can play on something like this?!? Then I considered that the whole setup costs around $6000 and a console is around $150 now.....
I'll probably get a console when the next generation rolls out, now that my kids are getting old enough to play too.
This is what perplexes me. How are consoles so popular when they run at grotesquely low resolution? Isn't a TV 320 x 240 or something like that? Even the lowest resolution of a computer is better than that.
I saw an apple 2 gs go for 35 bux on ebay last month.. bastard sniped me at the last minute. It came with a monitor, 5.25 and 3.5" disks, a dot matrix printer, and a box of software. That computer can do word processing, spreadsheets, AND play hundreds of classic games! (aztek, threshold, wizardry, wolfenstein, karateka, sigh I love apple ]['s)
We sell pentium 2 and 3 cpu computers to employees for $75 at my company when they get swapped out. These computers are able to run all modern business software, browsers and email. They just don't have the speed and snappiness that we are all used to. Everyone wants flat panels and small form factor PC's these days, so they just sell of these old computers and do some wacky accounting magic to write it off or depreciate it or god knows what.
New $100 computer? Only if you are a manufacturer. Used $100 computer? totally do-able.
When was the last time you even saw someone at the phone booth?
no more phone booths in nyc more like phone stalls. phone booths just get pissed in. The phone stalls get pissed in too. Its all really pretty disgusting, between the strangers mouths and ears that have been touching the phone and the urinal factor.... yet they still get tons and tons of use and abuse.
The reason that mp3 and other lossy codecs will die (for music collecting at least) is that at some point in time, there will be ample bandwidth, ample storage space, and people offering in lossless codecs. Apple has built a lossless codec into itunes already. As soon as the music industry signs off on it, they can start delivering lossless copies of music. Concert tapers already trade sound board recordings in FLAC. I have seen the tests of the codecs, I have listened to them, I have tried high bitrates, and there is no way i would ever pay money for music that has been compressed with any of these 'psychoacoustic algorithms'. Bass gets distorted, hihats sound particularly bad and swishy.