I would save my kindness and courtesy for individuals. Big media companies have no problem with exploiting your content and then stabbing you in the back.
It's actually a pretty good service when WMP 11 isn't crashing. I loaded up my Creative Zen with thousands of songs and I'm only paying $15 a month, which is about what some people pay for satellite radio, but with less control. It was a good way to explore new types of music without shelling out a fortune on iTunes.
Does Wal-mart at least label their CDs in retail stores and disclose in their online store that the songs are edited versions? The politics of it aside, as long as they are upfront about selling edited versions of songs, then I have no problem with it. However, if they are not being honest about selling songs that aren't the "real" ones, then that is plain deceptive.
Here's my experience FWIW on a stock HP Pavilion (AMD64 X2 4200, ASUS mobo, 2 gigs RAM):
WMP 11 under Vista is almost unusable at times. God help you if you use the Urge service to download/buy music.
Windows Media Center to my Xbox 360 is...well, I simply cannot use it. The menus just freeze and stay that way from the get-go, so I'm down to using the less elegant (but perfectly functional) media browser built into the Xbox 360.
We have it in NJ, too, at least at Wegmans supermarkets. Their soaps come in attractive containers and the soap itself has jewel-like colors, which is nice, since they have to stand out against all the antibacterial quackery on the shelves.
It's possible. Heck, in 1968, a master thief and his girlfriend/accomplice stole a 10-ton gold ingot from a moving train! They blew up a bridge going over water when the train approached. The train crashed into the bay, along with the steel container of gold. Using a submarine, they went down and attached balloons to the container to give it lift, and hauled away the gold using the sub. Luckily, the police inspector in charge of moving the gold had the container radioactivated, so they could trace it with a geigercounter. The police swarmed the thief's hideout while he was in the process of melting the ingot with a giant laser.
"Modern humans are only about 200.000 years old as a species and yet, the Scanvinavians already have lighter skin full facial beards and some other biological features which make them distinct from those who didn't leave Africa."
In addition to what everyone else has mentioned, I use the hard drive on my 360 for TV shows. I don't have cable or satellite; I only watch stuff from Netflix or shows & movies on Xbox Live. For the little time I'm at home (and I'm usually working around the house when I'm there), it's much cheaper to download an old Twilight Zone episode, or the occasional South Park or National Geographic documentary now and then.
There are videos on YouTube made expressly for this purpose. They consist of various patterns of colors and flashing lights. You are warned right in the beginning that these videos will likely give you a seizure if you're epileptic.
Actually, that's regular cable TV...think of all the channels you have that you don't watch (ie every shopping channel). That's why I only watch TV shows I can download from Xbox Live. I only pay for exactly what I want.
Interestingly enough, there are services that exist now like the one in TFA. The Urge service built into Windows Media Player 11 is $10 a month if you only listen to the songs on your computer or $15 if you want to copy them to a PlaysForSure device or stream to an Xbox. Putting aside the more-than-occasional slowness of WMP 11, the service is pretty good for discovering lots of new music and instantly having on hand the entire catalogues of any group your girlfriend might want to listen to at the moment.
Whenever I dial someone, it usually rings a couple times before they answer. Instead of listening to the ringing sound, perhaps they'll have you listen to an ad instead? Kind of like ring-back tones...
I think they'll be in for a surprise when they learn that women in other parts of the world aren't mutilated via clitorectomy. So, there's your educational benefit right there.
That's funny, because I found a 3.5" disk (or several, I forget) with Professional Write for DOS while cleaning out my old room at my mom's house...which I promptly threw in the trash.
"So it hides your files and documents away and you have to access them through the file->open menu within the application and it sticks an application icon on your desktop..."
Uhm...bullshit. You can either open files through the file-open menus, which is slow and cumbersome, or you can go into the file manager or get to your files through My Computer->local and/or network drives. I use the latter. You don't have to do anything special or change anything.
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I would save my kindness and courtesy for individuals. Big media companies have no problem with exploiting your content and then stabbing you in the back.
The decoding of the sound takes place on the receiving end (ie xbox, media receiver)...
I prefer Jan Svankmajer's "Alice." It freaks me out every time I watch it...an incredibly disturbing take on Alice in Wonderland.
It's actually a pretty good service when WMP 11 isn't crashing. I loaded up my Creative Zen with thousands of songs and I'm only paying $15 a month, which is about what some people pay for satellite radio, but with less control. It was a good way to explore new types of music without shelling out a fortune on iTunes.
Does Wal-mart at least label their CDs in retail stores and disclose in their online store that the songs are edited versions? The politics of it aside, as long as they are upfront about selling edited versions of songs, then I have no problem with it. However, if they are not being honest about selling songs that aren't the "real" ones, then that is plain deceptive.
Here's my experience FWIW on a stock HP Pavilion (AMD64 X2 4200, ASUS mobo, 2 gigs RAM):
WMP 11 under Vista is almost unusable at times. God help you if you use the Urge service to download/buy music.
Windows Media Center to my Xbox 360 is...well, I simply cannot use it. The menus just freeze and stay that way from the get-go, so I'm down to using the less elegant (but perfectly functional) media browser built into the Xbox 360.
This kind of makes me wonder if anyone 5,000 years from now will ever know that Singapore existed...
Are we to imply that you're comfortable with lemon party then?
Class action suits are usually done on a contingency basis, so the attorney gets his fee from the settlement proceeds.
We have it in NJ, too, at least at Wegmans supermarkets. Their soaps come in attractive containers and the soap itself has jewel-like colors, which is nice, since they have to stand out against all the antibacterial quackery on the shelves.
It's possible. Heck, in 1968, a master thief and his girlfriend/accomplice stole a 10-ton gold ingot from a moving train! They blew up a bridge going over water when the train approached. The train crashed into the bay, along with the steel container of gold. Using a submarine, they went down and attached balloons to the container to give it lift, and hauled away the gold using the sub. Luckily, the police inspector in charge of moving the gold had the container radioactivated, so they could trace it with a geigercounter. The police swarmed the thief's hideout while he was in the process of melting the ingot with a giant laser.
"Modern humans are only about 200.000 years old as a species and yet, the Scanvinavians already have lighter skin full facial beards and some other biological features which make them distinct from those who didn't leave Africa."
I heard this change only took about 20,000 years.
In addition to what everyone else has mentioned, I use the hard drive on my 360 for TV shows. I don't have cable or satellite; I only watch stuff from Netflix or shows & movies on Xbox Live. For the little time I'm at home (and I'm usually working around the house when I'm there), it's much cheaper to download an old Twilight Zone episode, or the occasional South Park or National Geographic documentary now and then.
There are videos on YouTube made expressly for this purpose. They consist of various patterns of colors and flashing lights. You are warned right in the beginning that these videos will likely give you a seizure if you're epileptic.
Actually, that's regular cable TV...think of all the channels you have that you don't watch (ie every shopping channel). That's why I only watch TV shows I can download from Xbox Live. I only pay for exactly what I want.
Interestingly enough, there are services that exist now like the one in TFA. The Urge service built into Windows Media Player 11 is $10 a month if you only listen to the songs on your computer or $15 if you want to copy them to a PlaysForSure device or stream to an Xbox. Putting aside the more-than-occasional slowness of WMP 11, the service is pretty good for discovering lots of new music and instantly having on hand the entire catalogues of any group your girlfriend might want to listen to at the moment.
Whenever I dial someone, it usually rings a couple times before they answer. Instead of listening to the ringing sound, perhaps they'll have you listen to an ad instead? Kind of like ring-back tones...
You just won the thread...congrats!
You're thinking of Battlestar Galactica. /pencils down
I think they'll be in for a surprise when they learn that women in other parts of the world aren't mutilated via clitorectomy. So, there's your educational benefit right there.
More importantly...will it blend?
That's funny, because I found a 3.5" disk (or several, I forget) with Professional Write for DOS while cleaning out my old room at my mom's house...which I promptly threw in the trash.
There's probably a shitload of free chairs in their parking lot today, too.
I don't know...are any of the other candidates overweight in the right places?
It's all about tax write-offs.
"So it hides your files and documents away and you have to access them through the file->open menu within the application and it sticks an application icon on your desktop..."
Uhm...bullshit. You can either open files through the file-open menus, which is slow and cumbersome, or you can go into the file manager or get to your files through My Computer->local and/or network drives. I use the latter. You don't have to do anything special or change anything.