"If they don't like it, then it looks like they shouldn't be buying an Xbox."
And if Microsoft don't like it, then it looks like they shouldn't be selling the Xbox to modders. Cos once you sell something,it's not yours anymore!
Windows viruses _would_ be Mac (Solaris, Linux...) viruses _if_ the version of Windows running on a Mac could access the Mac's files, another slashdotter told me this wasn't possible with VMs.
Your point about the C64 is incorrect though. It's the other way around, all C64 viruses would be Windows viruses (if there are any and if the emaulated C64 could access the host machine's files).
It's not a useless way to define things, it's quite practical and should be thought about. If you're running Windows software on top of another OS then any problems with Windows are also (potentially) a problem for the underlying OS.
Ah, oh well. I thought it could in at least one of Bootcamp or Parallels.
Is there no way then to transfer data betweem the MAc and Windows OS on the same hardware? Does t only go one way i.e. MAc-> Windows?
Now that Apple allows users to run Windows from the same hard disk as OSX and Windows virus can damage an OSX system, so effectivly any Windows virus _is_ an Apple virus.
I'd never heard of the game before these lawsuits but now I MUST have it.
Anyone know if it'll be out on Xbox? Some sites say it's been cancelled.
May hev to finally buy a PS2:-(
jpegs (say) are effectively programs that tell an interpreter/compiler (ie a browser, paint program etc) how to draw a certain picture. Why aren't they made 'free' by the GPL?
I.e. someone writes a program (interface) that takes another program (file) as input and runs it.
Only need to get this one program signed, then all others can run.
There's probably some obvious reason this wouldn't work, but I'm curious.
"I personally have had it happen where my iPod is in shuffle mode and I've heard not just two songs in a row by the same artist, but a song plays and then the next song from that album follows it. And that's with a library of over 5,000 songs."
5000 songs is about 500 albums each with about 10 songs. On each of those albums there are about 9 track-pairs of the kind you describe: 1->2, 2->3,..., 9->10.
So on your entire iPod there are about 500x9=4500 such track pairs.
You still think it unlikely that such a pair plays occasionally?
I thought the article was all about the iPod Shuffle too!
But it's not, it's about the shuffle feature of _all_ iPods. On the website version of the story that's linked to the picture is of Jobs holding up a shuffle, that's confusing. When I read it originally, in last Saturday's Guardian magazine, there were NO pictures of shuffles and as I read it I was thinking to myself that they were showing the wrong iPods - but they weren't because they weren't talking specifically of the Shuffle model (though that does get mentioned).
They had no backlighting (and no colour!) because of the limitations of the technology at the time. Things got really blurry when they moved fast too.
It wasn't a QA problem or even really a design flaw, they were made that way deliberately as a best compromise between low price, battery life and visual apeal. It clearly worked as Nintendo still owns the mobile console gaming space with derived hardware.
A realated point is that HD makes the 360 and PS3 effectively even more expensive.
I wouldn't buy either of those without also getting a HD TV - who'd get a brand new console, spend that amount of money and then know that you're nto seeing the games at their best?
With Wii standard def is all it can do so it doesn't matter if I don't have a hi-def TV.
So 360 costs me 360+HD and PS3 costs me PS3 + HD but Wii costs me only Wii.
Another way of putting that is I don't mind playing Wii in SD cos that's all it can do, but I won't play either of the others in SD cos I'd be 'missing out'.
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Me too, just in case I misplace one copy of this very important document ;-)
"If they don't like it, then it looks like they shouldn't be buying an Xbox." And if Microsoft don't like it, then it looks like they shouldn't be selling the Xbox to modders. Cos once you sell something,it's not yours anymore!
I mesread as Vista too. What if MS started to block sites they didn't like? It'snot all that far-fetched.
is hardware!
I have a Phd in maths and I too have that fear of monotony!
The link is 'proven', but that word means different things in the context of medical research and maths.
Being good at arithmetic is not the same thing as being good at maths.
I made a mistake in my original post.
Windows viruses _would_ be Mac (Solaris, Linux...) viruses _if_ the version of Windows running on a Mac could access the Mac's files, another slashdotter told me this wasn't possible with VMs.
Your point about the C64 is incorrect though. It's the other way around, all C64 viruses would be Windows viruses (if there are any and if the emaulated C64 could access the host machine's files).
It's not a useless way to define things, it's quite practical and should be thought about. If you're running Windows software on top of another OS then any problems with Windows are also (potentially) a problem for the underlying OS.
To all the above posters: the joker is MUCH cleverer tahn you are :-)
Ah, oh well. I thought it could in at least one of Bootcamp or Parallels. Is there no way then to transfer data betweem the MAc and Windows OS on the same hardware? Does t only go one way i.e. MAc-> Windows?
Now that Apple allows users to run Windows from the same hard disk as OSX and Windows virus can damage an OSX system, so effectivly any Windows virus _is_ an Apple virus.
Back to the sub-thread title, "It's about the time". How much time would PSE's friendly UI save you and how much fo your value your time?
I'd never heard of the game before these lawsuits but now I MUST have it. Anyone know if it'll be out on Xbox? Some sites say it's been cancelled. May hev to finally buy a PS2 :-(
Ladytron are great. But they'reon Rykodisc in the US, and RIAA label (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RIAA_member_ labels).
Seriously, they're all just bits.
jpegs (say) are effectively programs that tell an interpreter/compiler (ie a browser, paint program etc) how to draw a certain picture. Why aren't they made 'free' by the GPL?
Nope, it was just luck :-)
Would that work?
I.e. someone writes a program (interface) that takes another program (file) as input and runs it. Only need to get this one program signed, then all others can run.
There's probably some obvious reason this wouldn't work, but I'm curious.
Your business is complicated, DVDs aren't - people just want the cheapest.
"I personally have had it happen where my iPod is in shuffle mode and I've heard not just two songs in a row by the same artist, but a song plays and then the next song from that album follows it. And that's with a library of over 5,000 songs."
..., 9->10.
5000 songs is about 500 albums each with about 10 songs. On each of those albums there are about 9 track-pairs of the kind you describe: 1->2, 2->3,
So on your entire iPod there are about 500x9=4500 such track pairs.
You still think it unlikely that such a pair plays occasionally?
I thought the article was all about the iPod Shuffle too!
But it's not, it's about the shuffle feature of _all_ iPods. On the website version of the story that's linked to the picture is of Jobs holding up a shuffle, that's confusing. When I read it originally, in last Saturday's Guardian magazine, there were NO pictures of shuffles and as I read it I was thinking to myself that they were showing the wrong iPods - but they weren't because they weren't talking specifically of the Shuffle model (though that does get mentioned).
ZELDA???
"the rumbling caused by most mechanisms is designed to be difficult to predict precisely"
But the console is telling it when (and potentially how) to rumble, it doesn't need to predict what will happen, it's dictating it!
They had no backlighting (and no colour!) because of the limitations of the technology at the time. Things got really blurry when they moved fast too.
It wasn't a QA problem or even really a design flaw, they were made that way deliberately as a best compromise between low price, battery life and visual apeal. It clearly worked as Nintendo still owns the mobile console gaming space with derived hardware.
A realated point is that HD makes the 360 and PS3 effectively even more expensive. I wouldn't buy either of those without also getting a HD TV - who'd get a brand new console, spend that amount of money and then know that you're nto seeing the games at their best?
With Wii standard def is all it can do so it doesn't matter if I don't have a hi-def TV. So 360 costs me 360+HD and PS3 costs me PS3 + HD but Wii costs me only Wii.
Another way of putting that is I don't mind playing Wii in SD cos that's all it can do, but I won't play either of the others in SD cos I'd be 'missing out'.
Not entirel logical, but it's the way I feel.
LOL.