Direct X 10 will make a lot of gamers make the jump.
I'll be interested in trying out RC1. The beta2 build had a lot of problems with the install process. (I had to disable parts of my nforce4 mobo to get it to install fex.)
Hopefully they've got it working a lot better because (like it or not) a lot of people are going to be using it.
Seriously, it sounds like you have the most socially degenerate bunch of folks in your IT dept ever.
>> Don't dress like a skank. It will remind them of girls they've seen in pornos,
No, it'll make me think you're a skank I don't want anything to do with.
>> Be yourself. The age-old adage rings true once again. The more exposure they get to a normal girl the better they will be with other girls.
Yes, but it has nothing to being exposed to a normal girl and everything to do with them not being annoyed with another fake person.
>> Be approachable. Put a nice sign on your door reminiscent of the websites they frequent. "Come in and get to know me." "Send me an email if you want to chat." "Hi, I'm Audj."
Can you do this and still seem like a normal person? I don't think I could pull it off.
>> Bring food. Cookies, pizza, and caffinated soda will make instant friends.
Oooh! Food! Couldn't agree more. This is something normal people do. You will come off as a friendly, normal person.
>> remember that you're doing women around the world a favor by introducing them to the female gender.
I hope you're trying to be funny. I hope.
Best advice I'd give? If they're worth knowing, they'll talk to you as long as you: 1) Be a little outgoing 2) Be friendly 2) Be a well-adjusted, normal person
No IT geek I know wants to be treated like a social pariah who has never talked to a girl in his life. I've known maybe 2 people EVER who were like that, and it is extremely obvious who they are.
If something annoys you, tell them (jokingly at first, then seriously in private so as not to embarass them). Save the sexual harassment / going to management guns until they're needed.
I believe the backup software that comes with Nero will do what you are asking (although I'd suggest the external drive option myself).
I'm not positive if it stores the data without any wrapper -- it's been a while. But I *think* it will. I know it'll let you backup to multiple disks if needed.
That said, I am a "hard core" gamer AND a social gamer. There are lots of games that play well as gropu games -- like playing "board" games or other traditional games.:)
Tapes are small (for archiving). A simple camera can be had for ~$300 (with microphone input if you need it). The video can be easily digitized (Windows Movie Maker is more then sufficient and easy to use if you're using Microsoft) and transfered to whatever media you need (or you can just play it over your network if that's possible.
>>To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts >>secondly your work must promote Science and useful Arts.
The music IS the art that is being promoted. Sheesh. After a limited time, your work should go into public domain BECAUSE IT'S ART. It's part of society, culture, etc.
SO in order to promote art, we let them have exclusive rights to distribute their works for a limited time. Otherwise, they'd have to be working a "real" job instead of producing art.
The only informative part of this post is that Yahoo!s tech support didn't help with what was probably a Creative problem. (I suspect if you had formatted the player and tried again you'd have been OK.)
You've somehow decided that factoring in the cost of a fairly expensive player makes sense (what, did you give it back?) -- and have neglected to tell us why you purchase what was apparently a 20+GB model and only loaded 150 songs on it when you had made the choice to use a subscription service. (Hint--subscription services are so that you can experience a large amount of music without having to buy it all.)
You still paid only $60 for 150 songs (~ $0.40 per song) for 7 months. And then you want to keep the songs?
I don't feel that a subscription model fits my music habits, so I don't use one. Apparently you shouldn't either. However, there are some people for whom it makes perfect sense.
The only argument FOR FairUse4WM is that you want to use your subscription-based songs on an incompatible player (be it your Linux box or your ipod).
Wanting to KEEP the songs that are SPECIFICALLY sold as a rental is just wrong. You want to keep the songs, BUY THEM. (Walmart will sell them to you for $0.90 IIRC.) THEN you have an argument for removing the DRM because you paid to keep the songs, not rent them.
People who want to abuse the subscription model just give everyone wanting exercise their actual fair use rights a bad name.
Which is why the US is much better off as a republic than it would be if we were a democracy.
Granted, we're stuck with 2 crappy parties who control the voting process enough that no third party has a chance of taking leadership nationally for many years to come.
Well, actually, SOME of them get rich in spite of wasting their money.
However, the Paris Hiltons, Michael Jackson, and Britney Spearses of the world don't value their money the same way that someone who has worked hard for much of a lifetime do.
In fact, we see MANY popular social icons (professional athletes, pop musicians, movie stars) who waste their money on things the average person can't even fathom buying -- and end up with very little money.
Yeah, cus EVERYONE had a computer back before Windows 95.
Cheap, ubiquitous computers largely coincide with Microsoft's support for cheap 3rd party hardware combined with a good-enough operating system.
Someone else MIGHT have come along to fill the void if they hadn't been there, but there's no proof that it would have happened, and certainly no proof that they set computers BACK 10 years. (Do you even REMEMBER what computing was like 10 years ago?!)
>>"But Microsoft tends to keep backwards compatibility for a long time"
Yeah--mass market kind of appreciates that. I suppose you'd prefer that the techno-elite (who have large budgets for new hardware AND software) have their own technology platform with no way to connect to, or pass files to the rest of the world? I mean, it'd be HORRIBLE if the guy using a 3 year old computer at home could bring his documents to work and use them on his brand new computer. (?!)
>>each new feature or bug fix seems to require an exponential number of new engineers to add
Well, you expressed it a bit differently then I would have... but still.
Each new feature you add increases the complexity of the overall system. After you add X number of features, the system suddenly starts increasing in complexity MUCH faster then it does in features. Of course, this is true of pretty much ANY programming (and I suspect non-programming as well) project.
I doubt 10% of the population will even be watching HD-DVDs on their computer. People seem to think that the only output for a computer is a small desktop monitor. They won't even watch regular DVDs on a computer.
Ugh. I've had to sing some of his work at patriotic gatherings. It's about as cheese-ball as music can be. =( Which of course means it appeals to the kind of people who organize pageants.
That'd be fine of course, but it seems to mean that he feels personally motivated to hack away at public rights in favor of the "artists" (read big media).
The only time a video game has ever brought tears to my eyes was one of the Call of Duty or Allied Assault games depicting the D-Day landing. I'll admit I shed a tear for the folks who had to live through the real thing.
Are they suing actual pirates "99%" of the time because they're lucky, or because the large majority of our society have downloaded at least one "pirated" movie/song?
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I used to be a PS2 fanboy, but this is the MUST-HAVE game that's finally going to drive me to buy a PC game system!
;)
Schweet!
I'd be OK with two 2-hour movies instead of one 4-hour movie. :)
Direct X 10 will make a lot of gamers make the jump.
I'll be interested in trying out RC1. The beta2 build had a lot of problems with the install process. (I had to disable parts of my nforce4 mobo to get it to install fex.)
Hopefully they've got it working a lot better because (like it or not) a lot of people are going to be using it.
Since when do executables end in .avi?
:P )
What kind of bizarre laptop do you have?
(And it counts up. To twelve.
Seriously, it sounds like you have the most socially degenerate bunch of folks in your IT dept ever.
>> Don't dress like a skank. It will remind them of girls they've seen in pornos,
No, it'll make me think you're a skank I don't want anything to do with.
>> Be yourself. The age-old adage rings true once again. The more exposure they get to a normal girl the better they will be with other girls.
Yes, but it has nothing to being exposed to a normal girl and everything to do with them not being annoyed with another fake person.
>> Be approachable. Put a nice sign on your door reminiscent of the websites they frequent. "Come in and get to know me." "Send me an email if you want to chat." "Hi, I'm Audj."
Can you do this and still seem like a normal person? I don't think I could pull it off.
>> Bring food. Cookies, pizza, and caffinated soda will make instant friends.
Oooh! Food! Couldn't agree more. This is something normal people do. You will come off as a friendly, normal person.
>> remember that you're doing women around the world a favor by introducing them to the female gender.
I hope you're trying to be funny. I hope.
Best advice I'd give? If they're worth knowing, they'll talk to you as long as you:
1) Be a little outgoing
2) Be friendly
2) Be a well-adjusted, normal person
No IT geek I know wants to be treated like a social pariah who has never talked to a girl in his life. I've known maybe 2 people EVER who were like that, and it is extremely obvious who they are.
If something annoys you, tell them (jokingly at first, then seriously in private so as not to embarass them). Save the sexual harassment / going to management guns until they're needed.
I believe the backup software that comes with Nero will do what you are asking (although I'd suggest the external drive option myself).
I'm not positive if it stores the data without any wrapper -- it's been a while. But I *think* it will. I know it'll let you backup to multiple disks if needed.
Ooooh man! I can't believe you said that!
;)
:)
Had to be said.
That said, I am a "hard core" gamer AND a social gamer. There are lots of games that play well as gropu games -- like playing "board" games or other traditional games.
Tell it to the DVD Shrink folks.
Back in 2003, Itunes music store probably WASN'T making money -- but it's no longer 2003.
There's a reason Apple won't license their DRM to other music stores -- and it's not because they lack the technical expertise to do so.
He doesn't have a PS2 so he's automatically not a console player? Crazy me, I thought there were lots of OTHER consoles out there.
Have you considered using Mini DV?
Tapes are small (for archiving). A simple camera can be had for ~$300 (with microphone input if you need it). The video can be easily digitized (Windows Movie Maker is more then sufficient and easy to use if you're using Microsoft) and transfered to whatever media you need (or you can just play it over your network if that's possible.
>>To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts
>>secondly your work must promote Science and useful Arts.
The music IS the art that is being promoted. Sheesh. After a limited time, your work should go into public domain BECAUSE IT'S ART. It's part of society, culture, etc.
SO in order to promote art, we let them have exclusive rights to distribute their works for a limited time. Otherwise, they'd have to be working a "real" job instead of producing art.
The only informative part of this post is that Yahoo!s tech support didn't help with what was probably a Creative problem. (I suspect if you had formatted the player and tried again you'd have been OK.)
You've somehow decided that factoring in the cost of a fairly expensive player makes sense (what, did you give it back?) -- and have neglected to tell us why you purchase what was apparently a 20+GB model and only loaded 150 songs on it when you had made the choice to use a subscription service. (Hint--subscription services are so that you can experience a large amount of music without having to buy it all.)
You still paid only $60 for 150 songs (~ $0.40 per song) for 7 months. And then you want to keep the songs?
I don't feel that a subscription model fits my music habits, so I don't use one. Apparently you shouldn't either. However, there are some people for whom it makes perfect sense.
The only argument FOR FairUse4WM is that you want to use your subscription-based songs on an incompatible player (be it your Linux box or your ipod).
Wanting to KEEP the songs that are SPECIFICALLY sold as a rental is just wrong. You want to keep the songs, BUY THEM. (Walmart will sell them to you for $0.90 IIRC.) THEN you have an argument for removing the DRM because you paid to keep the songs, not rent them.
People who want to abuse the subscription model just give everyone wanting exercise their actual fair use rights a bad name.
Which is why the US is much better off as a republic than it would be if we were a democracy.
Granted, we're stuck with 2 crappy parties who control the voting process enough that no third party has a chance of taking leadership nationally for many years to come.
>> "They didn't get rich by wasting their money."
Well, actually, SOME of them get rich in spite of wasting their money.
However, the Paris Hiltons, Michael Jackson, and Britney Spearses of the world don't value their money the same way that someone who has worked hard for much of a lifetime do.
In fact, we see MANY popular social icons (professional athletes, pop musicians, movie stars) who waste their money on things the average person can't even fathom buying -- and end up with very little money.
Above advice is one of the most suggested (everything I've read) remedies to insomnia.
If you have to work, sit in a chair by the bed. (WHY are you working at home?!)
Yeah, cus EVERYONE had a computer back before Windows 95.
Cheap, ubiquitous computers largely coincide with Microsoft's support for cheap 3rd party hardware combined with a good-enough operating system.
Someone else MIGHT have come along to fill the void if they hadn't been there, but there's no proof that it would have happened, and certainly no proof that they set computers BACK 10 years. (Do you even REMEMBER what computing was like 10 years ago?!)
>>"But Microsoft tends to keep backwards compatibility for a long time"
Yeah--mass market kind of appreciates that. I suppose you'd prefer that the techno-elite (who have large budgets for new hardware AND software) have their own technology platform with no way to connect to, or pass files to the rest of the world? I mean, it'd be HORRIBLE if the guy using a 3 year old computer at home could bring his documents to work and use them on his brand new computer. (?!)
>>each new feature or bug fix seems to require an exponential number of new engineers to add
Well, you expressed it a bit differently then I would have... but still.
Each new feature you add increases the complexity of the overall system. After you add X number of features, the system suddenly starts increasing in complexity MUCH faster then it does in features. Of course, this is true of pretty much ANY programming (and I suspect non-programming as well) project.
Why do even /. people have such a hard time understanding this? Supposedly we're geeks/nerds/people with some basic understanding of electronics.
I doubt 10% of the population will even be watching HD-DVDs on their computer. People seem to think that the only output for a computer is a small desktop monitor. They won't even watch regular DVDs on a computer.
Ugh. I've had to sing some of his work at patriotic gatherings. It's about as cheese-ball as music can be. =( Which of course means it appeals to the kind of people who organize pageants.
That'd be fine of course, but it seems to mean that he feels personally motivated to hack away at public rights in favor of the "artists" (read big media).
Plain DVD is already better then most cheap or old TVs can display.
Adding an even higher definition source will do nothing and may make things worse if the down-scale isn't done properly.
The only time a video game has ever brought tears to my eyes was one of the Call of Duty or Allied Assault games depicting the D-Day landing. I'll admit I shed a tear for the folks who had to live through the real thing.
Are they suing actual pirates "99%" of the time because they're lucky, or because the large majority of our society have downloaded at least one "pirated" movie/song?
I notice that not only have you illegally copied a part of his post, you are now also distributing it (for free!) with every post you make.