The drive is a USB drive. They're using it on a computer and the crack lets them rip the disc to the computer.
So the 360's output doesn't really matter.
Well, currently it will play WMV off of external drives, and since the update will bring support for H.264 and mpeg4, which IIRC are the iPod formats, then survey says...yes.
When my cell phone rings or I get a text message and I am by my computer, my external hard drive makes nice loud clickety-clack noises.
Needless to say, I now keep my phone away from my computer.
I don't want to learn just what those noises mean.
U.S. wireless companies must make loads of profit, if they are even charging every time you RECEIVE text messages.
The profits made all over the country by these big companies should be taxed. Since they make tons of profit, the government should be getting a whole lot of taxes from these big companies.
If the government gets so much money from these companies, shouldn't the working class have to pay less?
Shouldn't the deficit be going away?
Maybe I just got lucky, but I installed Vista on my Laptop, and had full hardware functionality within a day: Sound worked, 3D games worked, even my printer worked. It wasn't very good at managing power use, though.
The computers freezing didn't cause any drop in the stocks.
The real problem was that everybody was selling, so prices were dropping, but the computers didn't show the drop. Once the backup system kicked in, the displays all instantly caught up to what had been going on, and what everyone saw was a big drop.
Graph
What about Pangaea? I've always thought that it could've just all been populated, and then, as it split, there were people on all the different parts. Though, I invented that theory in like 2nd grade when I first learned about Pangaea, and if that were the case we would probably be finding skeletons in Antarctica or something. If we start finding frozen skeletons in Antarctica, I win.
The "editors" thing was the reason he had that giant fancy computer that indexed the whole life into different sections automatically, like "birthdays," "promotions," "children," etc.
He just had to pick different events and throw bits of them into the video timeline.
The only reason that a majority of PCs generally can't keep up in graphics-intensive applications is because there are two main groups of PC users:
1) The common household who buys some pre-built Dell box with no actual video card, and
2) The crazy gamer who is always buying the brand new bleeding-edge graphics card, and doesn't mind paying for it every year (or month or whatever).
For any other use, a well-maintained PC will run just fine in the typical household, and those only slow down because users are constantly ignoring instructions and security warning and thus getting viruses and/or spyware on their machines.
Also, Windows applications and hardware are a dime a dozen, and it is not hard to find something on the store shelf that will blue-screen you because the programmers didn't know what they were doing when they were interfacing it with Windows.
Programs for Mac have to work because the market is much smaller. (Though this definitely doesn't guarantee a problem-free experience.)
I also ran into a network like this, at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
I noticed that it was kind-of suspicious because (1)It had horrible bandwidth, and (2) it was computer-to-computer.
I was a bit surprised to see this on slashdot though.
Well that's because calculators aren't for math class.
They're for the rest of the world who actually applies the math and gets real things done.
In that situation, it's much easier and quicker.
How many really "non-genuine" copies actually try to pass WGA?
On the other hand, how many really "genuine" users don't download the updates, and therefore don't count for the "genuine" side?
You know all those commercials narrated by William H. Macy (a.k.a. The Shoveler), that all end in the phrase: "Software for the People-Ready Business" ?
Those are about Microsoft's CRM.
I mostly use Premiere for my video work (which I don't do much of), and on the few occasions that I've used Final Cut, I haven't been impressed.
Fans of Final Cut always tell me that I just haven't used it enough to appreciate it, but I've never found a fan of Final Cut who has given Premiere a decent try either.
The bottom line is, people like what they are used to, and for most users of one of the two, they never try the other because it is on a different platform. That might change now that they will both run on Apple.
"any religion that seriously says man only existed for under the last 10,000 years is provably wrong."
Really?
I have had many lengthy discussions with people on the issue of evolution/creation/etc., and of all the things people tell me, nobody has ever actually tried to prove to me that man existing for under the last 10,000 years is wrong.
I've never really understood why people use that guy's whole 'falsifiable' thing. I mean, if you are trying to find an answer for something, wouldn't you want an answer that was totally right, not an answer that is "right unless x happened"?
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The drive is a USB drive. They're using it on a computer and the crack lets them rip the disc to the computer.
So the 360's output doesn't really matter.
Well, currently it will play WMV off of external drives, and since the update will bring support for H.264 and mpeg4, which IIRC are the iPod formats, then survey says...yes.
You must be new here.
When my cell phone rings or I get a text message and I am by my computer, my external hard drive makes nice loud clickety-clack noises. Needless to say, I now keep my phone away from my computer. I don't want to learn just what those noises mean.
The problem is, we can't even get speech-to-text in English, let alone "Let's set so double the killer delete select all" in 40 other languages.
Aww, why the hate?
I laughed.
If I had to use a mouse and didn't have a button to click, I don't even want to know what I would do.
His point:
U.S. wireless companies must make loads of profit, if they are even charging every time you RECEIVE text messages.
The profits made all over the country by these big companies should be taxed. Since they make tons of profit, the government should be getting a whole lot of taxes from these big companies.
If the government gets so much money from these companies, shouldn't the working class have to pay less?
Shouldn't the deficit be going away?
(at least, I think that is what he meant.)
Maybe I just got lucky, but I installed Vista on my Laptop, and had full hardware functionality within a day: Sound worked, 3D games worked, even my printer worked. It wasn't very good at managing power use, though.
Better yet, find a way to imitate the watermark on non-infringing material.
Then sue when they have your ISP take down your webspace.
The computers freezing didn't cause any drop in the stocks.
The real problem was that everybody was selling, so prices were dropping, but the computers didn't show the drop. Once the backup system kicked in, the displays all instantly caught up to what had been going on, and what everyone saw was a big drop.
Graph
What about Pangaea? I've always thought that it could've just all been populated, and then, as it split, there were people on all the different parts. Though, I invented that theory in like 2nd grade when I first learned about Pangaea, and if that were the case we would probably be finding skeletons in Antarctica or something. If we start finding frozen skeletons in Antarctica, I win.
The "editors" thing was the reason he had that giant fancy computer that indexed the whole life into different sections automatically, like "birthdays," "promotions," "children," etc.
He just had to pick different events and throw bits of them into the video timeline.
Yeah, sure. Next you're gonna tell me that she was playing Duke Nukem Forever on it.
The only reason that a majority of PCs generally can't keep up in graphics-intensive applications is because there are two main groups of PC users:
1) The common household who buys some pre-built Dell box with no actual video card, and
2) The crazy gamer who is always buying the brand new bleeding-edge graphics card, and doesn't mind paying for it every year (or month or whatever).
For any other use, a well-maintained PC will run just fine in the typical household, and those only slow down because users are constantly ignoring instructions and security warning and thus getting viruses and/or spyware on their machines.
Also, Windows applications and hardware are a dime a dozen, and it is not hard to find something on the store shelf that will blue-screen you because the programmers didn't know what they were doing when they were interfacing it with Windows.
Programs for Mac have to work because the market is much smaller. (Though this definitely doesn't guarantee a problem-free experience.)
Just set the phone next to your server. It'll be in flames before you can say "slashdotted."
I also ran into a network like this, at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
I noticed that it was kind-of suspicious because (1)It had horrible bandwidth, and (2) it was computer-to-computer.
I was a bit surprised to see this on slashdot though.
Well that's because calculators aren't for math class.
They're for the rest of the world who actually applies the math and gets real things done.
In that situation, it's much easier and quicker.
How many really "non-genuine" copies actually try to pass WGA?
On the other hand, how many really "genuine" users don't download the updates, and therefore don't count for the "genuine" side?
You know all those commercials narrated by William H. Macy (a.k.a. The Shoveler), that all end in the phrase: "Software for the People-Ready Business" ?
Those are about Microsoft's CRM.
Right. And this matters how exactly to how good of an employer they are?
From the linked page:
"Worst Companies in America to Deal With or Work For"
(Emphasis mine.)
I mostly use Premiere for my video work (which I don't do much of), and on the few occasions that I've used Final Cut, I haven't been impressed.
Fans of Final Cut always tell me that I just haven't used it enough to appreciate it, but I've never found a fan of Final Cut who has given Premiere a decent try either.
The bottom line is, people like what they are used to, and for most users of one of the two, they never try the other because it is on a different platform. That might change now that they will both run on Apple.
I don't think it's just undercooked meat those people are eating:
"A Toxoplasma infection occurs by:
* Accidentally swallowing cat feces..."
"any religion that seriously says man only existed for under the last 10,000 years is provably wrong."
Really?
I have had many lengthy discussions with people on the issue of evolution/creation/etc., and of all the things people tell me, nobody has ever actually tried to prove to me that man existing for under the last 10,000 years is wrong.
So please, prove it.
I've never really understood why people use that guy's whole 'falsifiable' thing. I mean, if you are trying to find an answer for something, wouldn't you want an answer that was totally right, not an answer that is "right unless x happened"?