If the Zappa Family Trust cannot be bothered to put tracks on iTunes, even as an iTunes+ track, the thought of people wanking a plastic guitar to... say Call Any Vegetable would be unbearable. The Black Page on a cheesy drum kit... not even an option.
Sometimes it's ok to go off just for a little funneh. Or to put it the way a senior manager I know once put it (heavily paraphrased)... Do you want to fix the issue, or do you want to argue semantics. 'Cus everyone is the building... the planet is a certifiable grade A a-hole, and accounting is already full, so if you want to argue semantics you're going to have to do it elsewhere.
But more linux haters won't fix the issue, if it were that easy Apple would have "Fixed the f-ing Finder!" many years ago.
Possibly as important, you aren't whining about corruption, down time, or (not so) subtlety implying that their people are idiots or any other form of arrogance.
In this particular case though, the submitter is completely capable. I'm not sure this is a technical issue at all. I wouldn't be at all suprised if this is more about control over the data in the database, and/or the income that is part of that lack of control.
It's hard not to file this one away under "bad business model" or "control freak".
As a guess, I'd say it's because desktop computer gaming is dwindling, while mobile sales are exploding and it's a ripe new market for a convergence device. Meanwhile, the stationary gaming experience is owned by consoles. Note: It's a bit off topic, but It may as well remain.
If Microsoft had behaved a little differently over the years we might have a much stronger PC gaming platform.
Microsoft has really dropped the ball pushing the "games bidness" off on video card mfr's. They've gone a long way toward stablizing that in Vista but have screwed themselves in others. For the most part, publishing a game on windows for the last 10 years has been more akin to publishing on 5+ platforms. It sucked for the publishers, but not nearly as much as it has for the players.
Not that I think they can, but if Microsoft got a back bone and mandated a practical platform. PC gaming would be back like gang busters. But then it might hurt sales in the short term, and Intel sure wouldn't sell any more of their lame ass "G" chipsets.
The XBox has been interesting because it is one of very few instances of Microsoft actually taking the "my way or the highway" approach to development. Sure there have been mistakes, but it's not like they're crippling the thing to appease a "partner".
Apple hasn't helped at all with their "Yes, we want games!" talk at developers conferences followed a few months later with stony silence when game developers actually want support. On the up side, games don't seem (the one's I have anyway) to have any disk based copy protection on them. If Apple's lack of "support" amounts to "no, you cannot screw with the system", I'd rather not have games than Securom.
While to me an annoyance, this standardization might actually work in Apple's favor when trying to woo game makers, as it could act to simplify development. Perhaps, but it would have to be broken out as wholly independent from the OS. Apple's failure to update components and fix bugs in the past is a big part of what has kept games off the platform. Apple seems to be changing their ways, and some big names publish there now. But there's a lot of "little guys" that lost their shirts or were stonewalled because of Apples passing interest.
Frankly, unless you are a measurebator, high quality JPEG's are quite good enough for even the most discerning photographer. Especially when you consider the negatives such as long writes and sketchy interpretations.
I'd download it for the RGB histograms alone. I can hardly believe they'd leave that out. I guess that's what happens when your bottom end and high end aren't very different once you get past the glass.
Text messaging functions in a much different fashion than IM.
Your cell phone doesn't initiate an Edge (or whatever) connection just to send/receive a text message. Instant Messaging in it's current form requires you to have that connection live.
I'm not saying text messages aren't a scam or over priced... But there are really good reasons AIM et. al. aren't included as part of a cell phone's text messaging system. The technology just isn't designed around having more than a fraction of subscribers "in call" at once. Not that your battery would appreciate it either.
So basically you've carefully disguised your private road and a public one. It appears in maps and has no indication that it is private. For what, so you can loose your mind when someone didn't look up your deed? So you can confuse the discussion with entering a house versus driving down a road?
Please. I think we've fully established deniability here. Maybe some shenanigans to boot.
In fact if you pull up the GIS data (or googles maps which are based on city/county maps), the county road extends all the way to where the Google photographed. Just because they got a permit to pave a county road doesn't mean it isn't a county road anymore.
That they chose to put a trampoline and their house right up against it is irrelevant.
Which is pretty much how I suspect this will break down.
Resident: You drove on my property! Google: This county road? Resident: That's my driveway!!!! Google: Hold on while I get the county commisioner in on this. Resident: NEVERMIND, HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!
Last week, Spokane has a lot of streets inside the city that aren't paved.
That and a lot of "private" drives are city/county roads that homeowners have taken some liberties with. I drive by three "allies" on a regular basis that homeowners have seeded with grass. A quick look at the city maps and it's clear they haven't actually vacated the ally. I've heard some instances of road departments designating private roads as county roads in order to do a friend a favor as well.
I had an Airport Express. It was cheap, but non-interactive -- I had to run back to my computer to change music. It was good for setting up a long playlist to stream for a party, but that was about it.
The Squeezebox Duet (which a few people besides me have recommended) has an interactive controller which feeds my music attention deficit disorder quite nicely. And, as has been pointed out, it's open source, so if the controller doesn't do what you like, you can make it bend to your will.
Hard to argue with that... This was one of the things I expected (ha!) Apple to do with the iPhone. Instead I can buy more iTunes with it. Could be worse I guess.
On the other hand, the fact that DRM makes something like this necessary is truly infuriating
I was under the impression that iTunes allowed music sharing to other Macs and PCs with iTunes. Shouldn't you just be able to use that? and, if so, is the DRM really hurting that much?
In fact, with an Airport Express or Apple TV you don't even need another computer. Add a copy of Airfoil and you can even stream DRM material from other sources like Yahoo or Sirius.
If you go the Apple TV route you can even have independent streams to each unit without the aid of another PC. Airfoil streams get hairy and may even need an additional PC per room.
Slashdot Mirror
who cares.
If not, fire them.
Chime the horde of corporate apologists and micromanagers pissing in the wind.
It's happened numerous times. Consider the Bruce's comment regarding Debian above.
Frankly "a real business situation" sounds a lot like a metaphor for covering your ass at other people's expense.
If the Zappa Family Trust cannot be bothered to put tracks on iTunes, even as an iTunes+ track, the thought of people wanking a plastic guitar to... say Call Any Vegetable would be unbearable. The Black Page on a cheesy drum kit... not even an option.
It sucks.
It'll have a screen, but this is the most compact delivery of a truth I've seen around here in a while.
Or slashdot readers insisting that this is a news site and not a blog built around discussing things that interest the editors.
Chemistry is where the real money is.
Sometimes it's ok to go off just for a little funneh. Or to put it the way a senior manager I know once put it (heavily paraphrased)... Do you want to fix the issue, or do you want to argue semantics. 'Cus everyone is the building... the planet is a certifiable grade A a-hole, and accounting is already full, so if you want to argue semantics you're going to have to do it elsewhere.
But more linux haters won't fix the issue, if it were that easy Apple would have "Fixed the f-ing Finder!" many years ago.
Don't forget the inert plastic steering wheel they're charging 15 bucks for.
they're called online games.
All games will be online games before long. Just for that reason. The only hold up is the actual ubiquity of connectivity.
I do math all day for money, why would I do it for free? ;-D
Possibly as important, you aren't whining about corruption, down time, or (not so) subtlety implying that their people are idiots or any other form of arrogance.
In this particular case though, the submitter is completely capable. I'm not sure this is a technical issue at all. I wouldn't be at all suprised if this is more about control over the data in the database, and/or the income that is part of that lack of control.
It's hard not to file this one away under "bad business model" or "control freak".
If Microsoft had behaved a little differently over the years we might have a much stronger PC gaming platform.
Microsoft has really dropped the ball pushing the "games bidness" off on video card mfr's. They've gone a long way toward stablizing that in Vista but have screwed themselves in others. For the most part, publishing a game on windows for the last 10 years has been more akin to publishing on 5+ platforms. It sucked for the publishers, but not nearly as much as it has for the players.
Not that I think they can, but if Microsoft got a back bone and mandated a practical platform. PC gaming would be back like gang busters. But then it might hurt sales in the short term, and Intel sure wouldn't sell any more of their lame ass "G" chipsets.
The XBox has been interesting because it is one of very few instances of Microsoft actually taking the "my way or the highway" approach to development. Sure there have been mistakes, but it's not like they're crippling the thing to appease a "partner".
Apple hasn't helped at all with their "Yes, we want games!" talk at developers conferences followed a few months later with stony silence when game developers actually want support. On the up side, games don't seem (the one's I have anyway) to have any disk based copy protection on them. If Apple's lack of "support" amounts to "no, you cannot screw with the system", I'd rather not have games than Securom.
Frankly, unless you are a measurebator, high quality JPEG's are quite good enough for even the most discerning photographer. Especially when you consider the negatives such as long writes and sketchy interpretations.
I'd download it for the RGB histograms alone. I can hardly believe they'd leave that out. I guess that's what happens when your bottom end and high end aren't very different once you get past the glass.
Even if they don't do that, the relationship to airplanes has nothing to do with the value or quantity of work they put out.
Certainly a best effort is important, but comparing polution output without considering value is worse than useless as a data point.
Text messaging functions in a much different fashion than IM.
Your cell phone doesn't initiate an Edge (or whatever) connection just to send/receive a text message. Instant Messaging in it's current form requires you to have that connection live.
I'm not saying text messages aren't a scam or over priced... But there are really good reasons AIM et. al. aren't included as part of a cell phone's text messaging system. The technology just isn't designed around having more than a fraction of subscribers "in call" at once. Not that your battery would appreciate it either.
So basically you've carefully disguised your private road and a public one. It appears in maps and has no indication that it is private. For what, so you can loose your mind when someone didn't look up your deed? So you can confuse the discussion with entering a house versus driving down a road?
Please. I think we've fully established deniability here. Maybe some shenanigans to boot.
In fact if you pull up the GIS data (or googles maps which are based on city/county maps), the county road extends all the way to where the Google photographed. Just because they got a permit to pave a county road doesn't mean it isn't a county road anymore.
That they chose to put a trampoline and their house right up against it is irrelevant.
Which is pretty much how I suspect this will break down.
Resident: You drove on my property!
Google: This county road?
Resident: That's my driveway!!!!
Google: Hold on while I get the county commisioner in on this.
Resident: NEVERMIND, HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!
They were clearly and undeniably in the couples' driveway. If it were a driveway, why would the city/county have given it a name?
I think there's a lot of deniability there.
Last week, Spokane has a lot of streets inside the city that aren't paved.
That and a lot of "private" drives are city/county roads that homeowners have taken some liberties with. I drive by three "allies" on a regular basis that homeowners have seeded with grass. A quick look at the city maps and it's clear they haven't actually vacated the ally. I've heard some instances of road departments designating private roads as county roads in order to do a friend a favor as well.
Scratch that, Ideally MS would just remove WGA in an End of Life patch for XP.
Fat chance. 10 years from now we'd still see "Windows XP Compatable" stickers.
Ideally when MS really drops support a crack/patch will become readily available that MS won't bother to patch away.
I had an Airport Express. It was cheap, but non-interactive -- I had to run back to my computer to change music. It was good for setting up a long playlist to stream for a party, but that was about it.
The Squeezebox Duet (which a few people besides me have recommended) has an interactive controller which feeds my music attention deficit disorder quite nicely. And, as has been pointed out, it's open source, so if the controller doesn't do what you like, you can make it bend to your will.
Hard to argue with that... This was one of the things I expected (ha!) Apple to do with the iPhone. Instead I can buy more iTunes with it. Could be worse I guess.I was under the impression that iTunes allowed music sharing to other Macs and PCs with iTunes. Shouldn't you just be able to use that? and, if so, is the DRM really hurting that much?
In fact, with an Airport Express or Apple TV you don't even need another computer. Add a copy of Airfoil and you can even stream DRM material from other sources like Yahoo or Sirius.If you go the Apple TV route you can even have independent streams to each unit without the aid of another PC. Airfoil streams get hairy and may even need an additional PC per room.