I do pretty much the same, although I tend to install most of the updates, and I don't have the patience to run XP as a limited user. I've always had my boxes behind a Linux-based or hardware firewall.
I've never been hit by a virus, and I've been hit by spyware only once. Sadly, it was entirely my fault. I had switched over to IE to view a site that wasn't rendering in Mozilla (first mistake) and a popup appeared asking if I wanted to run an ActiveX control. I reached for "Cancel" but somehow hit "OK" (alcohol may have been involved). It took me almost four solid hours to rip that little fucker out completely. Needless to say, on the rare occasions when I run IE, I'm much more careful.
I'm thinking this won't really be that useful for switching between tunings on stage. When you change tunings, the pressure on the neck changes, causing the strings to fall out of tune. Unless you have an exceptionally stable neck, it usually takes a couple of passes before the strings hold the new tuning. This system will reduce the time spent actually tuning the strings, but I doubt it'll speed the process up all that much.
Also, I have a tendency to whack controls while I'm playing. I shudder to think would would happen if the tuning system got activated accidentally mid-song.
It's not a big deal to have to renew, but it would be nice if you could opt in for an e-mail reminder or something. There's pretty much zero chance I could remember on my own before it expired. I dropped off the list temporarily when I moved recently and had to change my phone number. My phone pretty much rang non-stop from the moment it was connected to the moment (a week later) when it got added to the list. I had kind of forgotten how irritating the constant harassment could be.
leading to the possibility of swapping data with someone by shaking their hand.
Except in a handshake, there would be two layers of fat, muscle, and skin separating your bones, which I would think would interfere with data transmission. Perhaps a good hard bite could be used to make a good connection?
On a side note, canceling Earth's gravity altogether would also be a viable solution, as the junk would then simply drift in a straight line away from Earth.
As would everything that's not bolted down or hanging on for dear life.
If you both have decent recording capabilities, the best way to sound like you're in the same studio would be to each record your own track. Talk to each other over the phone or VOIP or whatever using a headset, but also speak into a decent quality mic, recording locally. When you start, send a couple of blips over the phone and make sure it gets recorded on both systems, so you have a reference point to sync the files up later. When you're done, just have him send you his file. Load both files into an audio editor, line your blips up to sync them, and you should be good to go.
I had to laugh when I heard about the whole "midnight release" thing. I mean, I can sort of see the excitement of getting the hottest new console or game like that, but even if Vista were every bit as good as it's cracked up to be, it's still just an operating system.
Those of us who prefer to keep the OS drive on the small side, separating out data files onto a separate partition, are barely effected by it.
Unless, of course, you forget about the limit and store all of your drivers and update files on the second partition... which is inaccessible after a reinstall. GAH!
GAH! Someday I'm going to snap, get a rocket launcher, and vaporize the next idiot who whines about QA when an obvious bug makes it into the field (or into the beta, as in this case). Did it ever occur to you that maybe the bug was found by QA, and then not fixed for any number of reasons? Like the developers or designers refuse to believe it's an important issue until there are hundreds of users screaming about it. Or bugs just go unfixed because management has decreed that the unreasonably short schedule is carved in stone. Not that that ever happens.
And people wonder why I want to get a job driving a truck.
Of course they should, but nothing they can say or do will bring their children home immediately. Even if the decision to pull out completely were made today, they would still have to survive days or weeks in a very dangerous place. If a can of Silly String allows someone's son to survive long enough to make it to that plane back home, then I say give 'em the Silly String.
Just because the bug is severe doesn't mean it's easy to reproduce. It may happen in one very specific set of circumstances. You could test for 100 years, and if you never hit that one, specific case, you'd never see the bug.
The number of possible scenarios in something as complex as an OS is *staggering*, you just can't cover every last case with any reasonable amount of time and manpower. So, you design tests to cover sensitive areas and likely trouble spots, you take as large a sampling of other cases as possible, and you accept a certain amount of risk. Sometimes, someone gets lucky and stumbles across a showstopper two days before you release. Better to have found it in-house than to have a customer report it.
Actually, they're all tuned to 87.9 because it's just about the only clear frequency you can get in the Boston area. I have to wonder if there isn't going to be trouble with the FCC someday. With the car kit antenna attached, the Sirius transmitter is ridiculously powerful. I was following some friends one time and they were able to get my broadcast loud and clear more than three car lengths away. Another time, a co-worker was using a pair of wireless headphones in the office. I'm not sure if they were operating somewhere close to the FM band or what, but in just the right spot he was able to pick up someone's Sirius playing Howard from another floor of the building.
Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, the Clinton administration was suing Microsoft over their "monopolistic" marketshare, and because of that [vis-a-vis Netscape and their browser], Microsoft was forced to integrate Internet Explorer into the operating system so that they could say to the Justice Department that they couldn't ship a version of Windows without it.
That wasn't the only course of action they could have taken. They could have just actually made a better browser than Netscape. It's a radical idea I know, but apparently people tend to gravitate to a better product, even when multiple choices are available.
Had I been fired by a company form letter (which I normally filter to my delete folders anyway) it would have been much more embarassing when I showed up for my next shift not even having read the letter. ..
Oh, blah blah blah... there has been plenty of damn good beer brewed in America for more than 20 years, and this joke has been tired for nearly as long.
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I do pretty much the same, although I tend to install most of the updates, and I don't have the patience to run XP as a limited user. I've always had my boxes behind a Linux-based or hardware firewall.
I've never been hit by a virus, and I've been hit by spyware only once. Sadly, it was entirely my fault. I had switched over to IE to view a site that wasn't rendering in Mozilla (first mistake) and a popup appeared asking if I wanted to run an ActiveX control. I reached for "Cancel" but somehow hit "OK" (alcohol may have been involved). It took me almost four solid hours to rip that little fucker out completely. Needless to say, on the rare occasions when I run IE, I'm much more careful.
I'm thinking this won't really be that useful for switching between tunings on stage. When you change tunings, the pressure on the neck changes, causing the strings to fall out of tune. Unless you have an exceptionally stable neck, it usually takes a couple of passes before the strings hold the new tuning. This system will reduce the time spent actually tuning the strings, but I doubt it'll speed the process up all that much.
Also, I have a tendency to whack controls while I'm playing. I shudder to think would would happen if the tuning system got activated accidentally mid-song.
It's not a big deal to have to renew, but it would be nice if you could opt in for an e-mail reminder or something. There's pretty much zero chance I could remember on my own before it expired. I dropped off the list temporarily when I moved recently and had to change my phone number. My phone pretty much rang non-stop from the moment it was connected to the moment (a week later) when it got added to the list. I had kind of forgotten how irritating the constant harassment could be.
Great, just what we need rolling around the office. An anthropomorphic raccoon with an eighteen inch schlong.
I nuked Org once by zerging the AH while infected
You get it in IF, you hearth to SW, and poof, you've infected two population centers in a matter of moments
Good grief, is this English? I've always avoided MMORPGs, at this point I think I'd need a translator to get started.
leading to the possibility of swapping data with someone by shaking their hand.
Except in a handshake, there would be two layers of fat, muscle, and skin separating your bones, which I would think would interfere with data transmission. Perhaps a good hard bite could be used to make a good connection?
I am sooo sorry about this, I am not usually a spelling/grammar Nazi, but my head is just about to explode...
The word you're looking for is "rhythm"
On a side note, canceling Earth's gravity altogether would also be a viable solution, as the junk would then simply drift in a straight line away from Earth.
As would everything that's not bolted down or hanging on for dear life.
My personal favorite are the tags that invariably get applied to any article where a question is asked:
[+] yes, no, maybe
Well, that clears it right up. Thanks Slashdot!
If you both have decent recording capabilities, the best way to sound like you're in the same studio would be to each record your own track. Talk to each other over the phone or VOIP or whatever using a headset, but also speak into a decent quality mic, recording locally. When you start, send a couple of blips over the phone and make sure it gets recorded on both systems, so you have a reference point to sync the files up later. When you're done, just have him send you his file. Load both files into an audio editor, line your blips up to sync them, and you should be good to go.
Yes, although they generally use giant, undulating penises instead of bombs.
I had to laugh when I heard about the whole "midnight release" thing. I mean, I can sort of see the excitement of getting the hottest new console or game like that, but even if Vista were every bit as good as it's cracked up to be, it's still just an operating system.
Heh, the way things are at work right now, I could use one.
Hey, I happen to enjoy Beowulf cluster jokes...
Those of us who prefer to keep the OS drive on the small side, separating out data files onto a separate partition, are barely effected by it.
Unless, of course, you forget about the limit and store all of your drivers and update files on the second partition... which is inaccessible after a reinstall. GAH!
GAH! Someday I'm going to snap, get a rocket launcher, and vaporize the next idiot who whines about QA when an obvious bug makes it into the field (or into the beta, as in this case). Did it ever occur to you that maybe the bug was found by QA, and then not fixed for any number of reasons? Like the developers or designers refuse to believe it's an important issue until there are hundreds of users screaming about it. Or bugs just go unfixed because management has decreed that the unreasonably short schedule is carved in stone. Not that that ever happens.
And people wonder why I want to get a job driving a truck.
Of course they should, but nothing they can say or do will bring their children home immediately. Even if the decision to pull out completely were made today, they would still have to survive days or weeks in a very dangerous place. If a can of Silly String allows someone's son to survive long enough to make it to that plane back home, then I say give 'em the Silly String.
Just because the bug is severe doesn't mean it's easy to reproduce. It may happen in one very specific set of circumstances. You could test for 100 years, and if you never hit that one, specific case, you'd never see the bug.
The number of possible scenarios in something as complex as an OS is *staggering*, you just can't cover every last case with any reasonable amount of time and manpower. So, you design tests to cover sensitive areas and likely trouble spots, you take as large a sampling of other cases as possible, and you accept a certain amount of risk. Sometimes, someone gets lucky and stumbles across a showstopper two days before you release. Better to have found it in-house than to have a customer report it.
Actually, they're all tuned to 87.9 because it's just about the only clear frequency you can get in the Boston area. I have to wonder if there isn't going to be trouble with the FCC someday. With the car kit antenna attached, the Sirius transmitter is ridiculously powerful. I was following some friends one time and they were able to get my broadcast loud and clear more than three car lengths away. Another time, a co-worker was using a pair of wireless headphones in the office. I'm not sure if they were operating somewhere close to the FM band or what, but in just the right spot he was able to pick up someone's Sirius playing Howard from another floor of the building.
You should check out some more modern games. The form has come a long way in the almost 30 years since Zork.
http://www.brasslantern.org/
http://www.ifcomp.org
Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, the Clinton administration was suing Microsoft over their "monopolistic" marketshare, and because of that [vis-a-vis Netscape and their browser], Microsoft was forced to integrate Internet Explorer into the operating system so that they could say to the Justice Department that they couldn't ship a version of Windows without it.
That wasn't the only course of action they could have taken. They could have just actually made a better browser than Netscape. It's a radical idea I know, but apparently people tend to gravitate to a better product, even when multiple choices are available.
Even more amazing since they didn't make a Camaro until '67.
Had I been fired by a company form letter (which I normally filter to my delete folders anyway) it would have been much more embarassing when I showed up for my next shift not even having read the letter. . .
Well, you'd be OK until they "fix the glitch".
Oh, blah blah blah... there has been plenty of damn good beer brewed in America for more than 20 years, and this joke has been tired for nearly as long.
What *is* that screenshot of? Pacman Plus? It almost looks like the awful bootleg version that was hacked to run on Galaxian hardware.