When you're downloading the Windows Media Connect Update from Windows Update, and you click on the "More Info" link, this is what it sez:
Update for Windows Media Connect
Date last published: 10/12/2004
Download size: 6.5 MB
Windows Media Connect is the easiest way to deliver music, photos, and videos from your Windows XP computer to your stereo and television. Installing Windows Media Connect enables you to deliver music, photos, and videos that reside on your Windows XP PC to devices that support the uPnP protocol. This includes digital audio receivers, connected DVD players, set-top boxes, and more.
I don't see anything about a Windows Media Center PC being required. The question, then, is: does/will "and more" include the XBox?
"if it's available only illegally, then a fan who wants to hear the album has no choice but to break the law"
I don't think so. Other choices include waiting to acquire it legally, or eschewing it altogether.
By the way: if all of the people who felt that they were being ripped off by the record labels (and I think they were, given the large numbers of "one good song and 11 fillers" albums, not to mention the price-fixing scandals) had voted with their wallets and simply refused to buy product, rather than schlepping millions of gigabytes of it around the net in violation of copyright, do you think (a) we'd all be bitching about draconian DRM schemes now, or (b) enjoying lower prices and better quality?
I got one of the phones when they first came out, and I think what probably killed it was feature-itis: I recall doing a whole lot of futzing around to get the software working properly -- probably more futzing than up with which Joe Sixpack would put =). That, and the voice recognition was a bit sporadic; that may have been because the demands of the software may have been a bit ahead of the 1998 hardware available at that time. The software would only run on Windows 95 and 98, as well -- Windows 2000 choked on it.
Oh, and there was that $200 price tag...
As for the speakers, I still have them. THEY were a snap to set up, and they still sound fantastic.
S'il vous plaît fournir votre dégagement pour reproduire ces paroles dans un forum public, ou gentillement soumettre votre paiement dans 30 jours pour éviter l'action légale.
Sincèrement,
Vos copains à quelque organisation de frais-recueillant vaporeuse
Je suis, comme, je, comme, comme Ike, comme. -- l33t sk8r, environ 1952
I'm not sure how much logic and reasoning come into play.
All of my logic and all of my reasoning tell me that it's impossible for "stuff" to exist when there had to be "no stuff" originally. But lo and behold we have "stuff".
Can't quite figure the possibility of that, so I may have to dispense with logic and reasoning, and assume that, comparatively speaking, a boat on a mount may not be that much of a stretch.
Just for curiousity's sake. Not out of any ill-will towards any particular company, since I'm sure that a lot of other companies are getting away with a lot more shit than the shit for which Microsoft got nailed.
I was ruminating the other day on how cool it would be if the oceans suddenly disappeared and we could all walk around on what was formerly the Bottom Of The Ocean. Yes, it would be cool, but it would severely fuck up a lot of other things.
With your first point, I disagree. If this site and other similar sites are any indication, it's the ones who can't figure out the difference between "lose" and "loose" who are the MOST intolerant. The ones who don't need a spellchecker tend to have more (some) self esteem, and don't have to always be in blind attack mode in order to prop themselves up.
My favorite (yeah, I know. Look it up) proof so far would be the rocket scientist who responded to one of my posts on here with:
You've been to stupid to manage a linux install before?
Now, THAT'S comedy.
With your second point, I agree.
By the way, if anyone has driving directions to Stupid, I'd appreciate it. I take it there's some Linux guru living there, and I'm still having some trouble with this Slackware stuff...
"Many (most?) people don't buy music for the music. They think they do, but they really buy it for the image, for the coolness value, for the name on the front, for what their friends will think."
Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head with that one, particularly the last point.
I work for a radio station -- rock format. We played a cover of Kiss' Hard Luck Woman one day and asked folks to call and tell us what they thought. The vast majority thought it was great -- until we revealed that it was Garth Brooks (from the Kiss My Ass album). You could almost hear the tires screeching from the complete 180 opinion turn. Very revealing.
As has another very rich individual. Said individual, as Mr. Gabriel has been, is associated with, and has earned significant sums of money from an organization which has been found guilty of criminal conduct. I wonder why the other person's charitable efforts are immediately dismissed by most as a self-serving tax writeoff, while Mr. Gabriel's efforts are lauded, seemingly without question for the most part.
Having said that, I agree with you; the foregoing ludicrous comparison is merely to point out a bit of hypocrisy that will become evident if you've been reading ALL of the stories on here today. I'm the last one to doubt Mr. Gabriel's motives, until proven otherwise. IMNSHO, he is one of the better musical humans out there, in more ways than one.
OK, I just won a 10GB iPod, and I'm unclear on the sit-chee-ayshun here. Is this ALL iPods, or certain models, or what? Should I put the first born up on eBay in anticipation of nonstop battery replacement?
I used to have the cocktail table version of Tempest (GREAT game!), which I bought from an arcade for $CAN100 when they were closing out. That's about a buck eighteen US, right? The game was in a corner of my living room, and actually blended in pretty well. When I had people over, I couldn't get them away from it. Should've left the coin mechanism active, in hindsight.
After some of the components started self-destructing, though, I found that it's easier to extract hens' teeth than obtain vintage arcade game parts. This was pre-Internet, though, so that may have changed.
If the bug/crash was due to obvious negligence on their part, it would be right neighborly -- and smart -- of them to do so.
(Short pause for parroted shrieks of "Of course it's negligence, this is Windows!" to subside)
Just remember, though, that if your cat gets into the Drano, then barfs it up all over your CD collection and reduces it to a pile of slag, A&B Sound most likely will not offer to replace the lost items.
Regarding comparative longevity of recorded data: has anyone had any experience with printing directly to the CD-R, either with a standard printer which also has that capability, or with a unit made specifically for that purpose?
Actually, Forsythe quotes Clippy as a good example of what not to do when one is developing a system of this type.
"Forsythe and his team are trying to mimic real human interaction, embedding within computers an extremely human-like cognitive model that enables the machine to have an interaction with the user that more closely resembles communications between two thinking humans."
I can see a major problem already: finding a water cooling system efficient enough to take on the amount of heat that's going to be dissipated by the negativity chips required.
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Update for Windows Media Connect
Date last published: 10/12/2004
Download size: 6.5 MB
Windows Media Connect is the easiest way to deliver music, photos, and videos from your Windows XP computer to your stereo and television. Installing Windows Media Connect enables you to deliver music, photos, and videos that reside on your Windows XP PC to devices that support the uPnP protocol. This includes digital audio receivers, connected DVD players, set-top boxes, and more.
I don't see anything about a Windows Media Center PC being required. The question, then, is: does/will "and more" include the XBox?
I don't think so. Other choices include waiting to acquire it legally, or eschewing it altogether.
By the way: if all of the people who felt that they were being ripped off by the record labels (and I think they were, given the large numbers of "one good song and 11 fillers" albums, not to mention the price-fixing scandals) had voted with their wallets and simply refused to buy product, rather than schlepping millions of gigabytes of it around the net in violation of copyright, do you think (a) we'd all be bitching about draconian DRM schemes now, or (b) enjoying lower prices and better quality?
Yes, that IS the world's longest sentence.
I got one of the phones when they first came out, and I think what probably killed it was feature-itis: I recall doing a whole lot of futzing around to get the software working properly -- probably more futzing than up with which Joe Sixpack would put =). That, and the voice recognition was a bit sporadic; that may have been because the demands of the software may have been a bit ahead of the 1998 hardware available at that time. The software would only run on Windows 95 and 98, as well -- Windows 2000 choked on it.
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Oh, and there was that $200 price tag
As for the speakers, I still have them. THEY were a snap to set up, and they still sound fantastic.
Sincèrement,
Vos copains à quelque organisation de frais-recueillant vaporeuse
Je suis, comme, je, comme, comme Ike, comme. -- l33t sk8r, environ 1952
Sincerely,
Your pals at some vaporous fee-collecting organization
All of my logic and all of my reasoning tell me that it's impossible for "stuff" to exist when there had to be "no stuff" originally. But lo and behold we have "stuff".
Can't quite figure the possibility of that, so I may have to dispense with logic and reasoning, and assume that, comparatively speaking, a boat on a mount may not be that much of a stretch.
Sadly, it's never going to happen.
Inflammatory here, perhaps, but not everywhere.
I was ruminating the other day on how cool it would be if the oceans suddenly disappeared and we could all walk around on what was formerly the Bottom Of The Ocean. Yes, it would be cool, but it would severely fuck up a lot of other things.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,1484,00. html
My favorite (yeah, I know. Look it up) proof so far would be the rocket scientist who responded to one of my posts on here with:
You've been to stupid to manage a linux install before?
Now, THAT'S comedy.
With your second point, I agree.
By the way, if anyone has driving directions to Stupid, I'd appreciate it. I take it there's some Linux guru living there, and I'm still having some trouble with this Slackware stuff ...
Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head with that one, particularly the last point.
I work for a radio station -- rock format. We played a cover of Kiss' Hard Luck Woman one day and asked folks to call and tell us what they thought. The vast majority thought it was great -- until we revealed that it was Garth Brooks (from the Kiss My Ass album). You could almost hear the tires screeching from the complete 180 opinion turn. Very revealing.
As has another very rich individual. Said individual, as Mr. Gabriel has been, is associated with, and has earned significant sums of money from an organization which has been found guilty of criminal conduct. I wonder why the other person's charitable efforts are immediately dismissed by most as a self-serving tax writeoff, while Mr. Gabriel's efforts are lauded, seemingly without question for the most part.
Having said that, I agree with you; the foregoing ludicrous comparison is merely to point out a bit of hypocrisy that will become evident if you've been reading ALL of the stories on here today. I'm the last one to doubt Mr. Gabriel's motives, until proven otherwise. IMNSHO, he is one of the better musical humans out there, in more ways than one.
As most of us know, a longer pipeline can lead to slowdowns in the form of branch mispredictions and pipeline stalls.
Damn skippy most of us know that. The receptionist, the janitor and my Honda mechanic all pointed that out today. =)
Incorrect. Several other free web-based e-mail applicatons run on Microsoft operating systems.
You can browse the web with either Internet Explorer or MSN Explorer... your choice!
Incorrect. Several other browsers run on Microsoft operating systems.
You can read your e-mail with Outlook Express or Outlook... your choice!
Incorrect. Several other e-mail applications run on Microsoft operating systems.
You can use Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro... your choice!
Incorrect. Microsoft is not able to force you to run a Microsoft operating system.
You can use WMA files with any music player that has paid the appropriate fees to Microsoft, plenty of choices available in the market!
Correct. A plethora of players support WMA.
You can get WMA files from any music service that has paid the appropriate fees to Microsoft, plenty of choices available in the market!
Correct. A plethora of services exist which provide WMA files.
As you have said, there are plenty of choices.
Not to be confused with Schnook Center, which apparently has had its own ABM troubles.
Whoops.
I used to have the cocktail table version of Tempest (GREAT game!), which I bought from an arcade for $CAN100 when they were closing out. That's about a buck eighteen US, right? The game was in a corner of my living room, and actually blended in pretty well. When I had people over, I couldn't get them away from it. Should've left the coin mechanism active, in hindsight.
After some of the components started self-destructing, though, I found that it's easier to extract hens' teeth than obtain vintage arcade game parts. This was pre-Internet, though, so that may have changed.
(Short pause for parroted shrieks of "Of course it's negligence, this is Windows!" to subside)
Just remember, though, that if your cat gets into the Drano, then barfs it up all over your CD collection and reduces it to a pile of slag, A&B Sound most likely will not offer to replace the lost items.
Does that mean several other guys are engaged to her as well? Or is it a biker club thing?
Regarding comparative longevity of recorded data: has anyone had any experience with printing directly to the CD-R, either with a standard printer which also has that capability, or with a unit made specifically for that purpose?
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After you explained SysRq, did his head explode or implode?
"Forsythe and his team are trying to mimic real human interaction, embedding within computers an extremely human-like cognitive model that enables the machine to have an interaction with the user that more closely resembles communications between two thinking humans."
I can see a major problem already: finding a water cooling system efficient enough to take on the amount of heat that's going to be dissipated by the negativity chips required.