The IRS is illegal! There is NO LAW REQUIRING YOU TO PAY TAXES! Over 66 million people don't file taxes every year (some because they can't figure out how). The IRS CANNOT get EVERYONE!
I've just had a look at the entire demo. I'm extremely shocked that Microsoft has come up with all these improvements. I really really like it, and I'm so surprised it took THIS long to get hover preview in Microsoft Office.
I know 3 people who dropped out of high school their junior year (one does night school, other does nothing) to get more playing time for this game. I bet there are a lot more out there.
A nongenuine Windows will return a non-working code, but I'm talking about Windows XP only. Any non-genuine 2000 or below will return a working code, and if you use Firefox and use the separate app method provided on the download site, you can run that on Windows 2000 and then download the files and of course, then use them on an XP machine.
Or you can take the code generated from the Windows 2000 or below (best with 98SE, which M$ doesn't care about anymore) and just type it on your Windows XP machine. This works too.
I play movies all the time on my TV (these are XviD rips which look just as good as DVD, and at a 10th of the bitrate of DVD). I do this wirelessly with my D-Link DI-524G router ($20 router after rebate), and I'm talking about 20-35 feet away. No lag, no skips (except under serious congestion, only has happened once). I do not know what these guys are talking about regarding 22Mbps. I get 36-48Mbps in my living room about 35 feet away from the router, enough to stream XviD. I have not tested out any other video formats really, but I'm happy with XviD working this way. And I read some people mentioning even if you're close it's a bad connection. My room is where the router is and I sit right next to it within 5 feet (so I plug in when I'm close enough, much faster than wireless). In the end wireless sucks but it's better than not having any.
"Say Bob, did you send that e-mail yet?" "Nah, but I left an message on their answer machine." "Really, we don't even have an telephone." "Well, I used my cell phone. Guess what? It features an walkie-talkie feature." "You mean I get to hear both sides of the conversation now instead of one?" "Yes, isn't it an great feature?" "Indeed. I'll have to go buy an cell phone one of these days."
The number of mistakes in grammar/spelling/semantics these past few weeks has been a lot more than usual.
Very true, which is why today there is more and more music coming out that does not follow the "rules", even music theory rules. See the links below please:
These are some of the many genres today breaking all the "rules." I don't personally like this stuff, but I know many others who do, and I can definitely see in the future that things like this will change music back to the way it was before the "experts" came along.
Indeed everyone will sing again and play instruments without a care, search YouTube for noise music videos, it's crazy shit and people seem to like it.
Mac OS XP Arabicness Don't you love Unicode?! Arabic Windows XP I bet a lot of people don't know that everything is reversed on right-left XP's, like Arabic. This includes the back and forward button on IE, the back is forward and the forward is back ( back).
More Mac OS XP Having a Mac theme, after using OS X for a bit, makes me rely on Windows more. It seriously makes Windows seem more reliable then it is. I really have no serious problems with it, but when you think of how much configuring you can do, and there isn't that much on Mac OS X (in the GUI section), it seems extremely complicated after all.
Then amateur tabs is definitely not the answer. The general concensus today is that most guitarists are unable to even read a staff, especially when it's a 6 (7 or even 12) string guitar chord. Tabs are used everywhere because they are easier, the music staff is pushed up an octave for guitar from piano, and it really was never designed for guitar. This is why they even have finger diagrams for chords. It's much easier than reading several notes, unless you truly learn that way first. If any guitarist saw tabs after learning "hard" chords on staffs, I think they would immediately see the benefits of reading tabs live if they weren't going to memorize it. Would you consider learning tabs as "reading music"? I definitely would.
I agree on understanding music theory though. Not even I have done much of that yet.
And the other thing is that some people are said to just not have a musical ear, which is the reason for written music, including tabs. Someone loves the song Johnny B. Goode, but can't even figure out that fast guitar riff going on through the entire song because they simply can't hear it. And a lot of times that's true for me even, sometimes notes are too fast to hear (this is the time when I pull out Sound Forge and do a time stretch), and I keep matching notes, sometimes tabbing them down, till I finish. Other times the scale is obvious; I think I have a better than ear than some of my friends because some praise tab sites like OLGA, and I hate what I would consider inaccuracies. Books are 100% accurate apparently, but I really don't own many and don't feel like I need to (plus the price). The argument then becomes, as usual, why pay when you can get it for free? Shouldn't written music be like free speech? Why can't the publishing company lower the prices? Sometimes, even the most simple music gets priced at $20 or more per book (I'm not advocating prices based on complexity either). That's more than the album, which you could buy and just play by ear if you have one. My $0.02.
Completely wrong. My ears are better than yours or anyone else's ears.:P
These guitar tabs are written by beginners as far as I can tell, who learnt from guitar tabs in the first place. I never learnt from guitar tabs! Playing by ear is the only method, lazy pricks.
Well, you could use the phrase "couldn't care more" in my case then I guess, but none of the suggestions here make any sense from my perspective, other than "could care less" when I don't analyze the phrase. When I do analyze, it certainly does mean that I care deeply and could put less thought into it, but the thing is that around here in the northeast US it seems I hear "could care less" more than "couldn't care less", and the understanding that it means they simply don't care is pretty much 100%.
I'm actually just into the 18-35 male target group, and the only things I'm caring about lately is HD size and portability in technology. However, I just haven't figured out why I just really don't want a PSP, or Nintendo DS. I just feel like it wouldn't be worth my money in the long run (besides Pictochat on DS). I've gone through 2 PS2's (and MAYBE will buy another), back when I had a PS2 I would only use it to play like 5 games out of the 30 or so that I had. PC games are seriously uninteresting today. I tried to get into WoW and got bored to hell, made it to level 3 which was tiring.
Recently I bought a new laptop, and now I don't ever want to buy a desktop again. This laptop has 100GB, my desktop has a 400GB HD and a 500GB HD (will buy external enclosure soon). None are close to full but it's very useful. I really no longer care about video cards as my laptop can handle most games, and most games aren't worth the time anyway (I want a fun game, not graphics!). It's nice to have eye candy, but not at the expense of a good game. The PS2 has plenty of games with mediocre graphics that you can really have fun with, beats the hell out of the Xbox 360 (I don't plan on buying a PS3 or Xbox 360). If I really care, I'll buy a Wii. Due to price and non-rediculous information surrounding it, it seems everyone around me is getting a Wii, so I can play with them.
I could really care less about Vista now. It's the most pointless thing, and I have even beta tested. The last time I customized it and installed most of the software I use on my Windows XP partition, but every 2 seconds the screen would fade to warn me about system changes. I know exactly where Microsoft gets this from, most Linux GUI's do it now, and Mac OS X does it too. But it only happens on seriously important stuff (Synaptics for Ubuntu, applying update on Mac OS X). I couldn't find the option to disable it entirely or disable it to a certain extent (which I would prefer). If Windows Vista is just going to be me clicking Yes to warnings every 2 seconds, then forget about it. I'll stick with XP and Ubuntu, and I'm going to switch to Ubuntu entirely soon enough.
Thanks everyone for all the tips. I can pretty much now completely switch to Ubuntu Linux and seriously only have Windows for games.
The only thing I want to do now after is learn to theme and change Ubuntu to look more like a Mac, beyond adding the three color minimize, maximize and close buttons and silver-ness from Aqua. I use Windows with a Mac theme and people who see me always think I'm running Mac OS X. It makes me feel like things keep working and it's 10x more pleasing then a stupid Start menu at the bottom of the screen. I like Gnome because the main menus are at the top.
That's not what I said at all. I'm suggesting that these "players" like QT and Real become just codecs instead, and the authors could still make the players and whoever likes them can use them. On Windows they would have a DirectShow filter so this way the codecs could work with any player that supports DirectShow. On Linux, especially if these are open source codecs by that point they could be compiled with the player or plugged in, like in VLC.
As long as it's 2-pass XviD encoding with AC3 to LAME MP3 transcoding possible, it's fine by me. This is typically what I do on Windows except on longer movies where it's worth keeping the 5.1 (making the movie 2 CDs).
Users who need Real Player will get Firefox in the bargain.
Who the hell needs RealPlayer? The fact that there's a separate player is the big problem. I hate installing yet another player just to watch another type of content (which is why I use Media Player Classic with Real Alternative and QT alternative). I don't mind Flash because that only goes in a browser. And I would uninstall WiMP if it wasn't necessary to have, but some streaming content will never work on MPC.
I think the real solution is for Real to stop being a pain, and just become a codec that you install that works with DirectShow for Windows users, and a codec for any player on Linux, whether it be in WiMP or Media Player Classic or even the WMP 6.4 (or VLC on Linux). Then we can all stop hating Real to no end, and same goes for QuickTime. The Alternative forms basically do this, but if they were done officially by the companies it'd be much nicer.
What bank is that? I would suspect every bank would work, they are all heavily scripted and encrypted and mine does (Bank of America), when I enable JavaScript, cookies, and popups.
For one thing, Flash has never really never been Spyware, and it's actually at this point pretty necessary to have installed if you want to browse the web (I really don't like Flash much, pointless, when everything could be done in graphic files and there wouldn't be loading screens and shit like that).3
I just don't think people are going to respond the same way geeks do to Firefox. They probably won't even use it if it gets installed because Internet Explorer is what they are used. I just don't think they'll be able to see why Firefox is ahead of IE6. And I don't think IE7 is any competition at all to Firefox, just like Windows Vista is right now complete shit to Ubuntu IMO.
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If so, I'm all for it.
The IRS is illegal! There is NO LAW REQUIRING YOU TO PAY TAXES! Over 66 million people don't file taxes every year (some because they can't figure out how). The IRS CANNOT get EVERYONE!
I've just had a look at the entire demo. I'm extremely shocked that Microsoft has come up with all these improvements. I really really like it, and I'm so surprised it took THIS long to get hover preview in Microsoft Office.
I completely agreed. I didn't even bother reading the text and was never going to (except for picture descriptions).
LOOK GUYS I CAN RUN ULTRAHLE ON WINDOWS XP X64 NOW! OH WAIT, NO I CAN'T...UltraHLE still doesn't work on XP.
I know 3 people who dropped out of high school their junior year (one does night school, other does nothing) to get more playing time for this game. I bet there are a lot more out there.
A nongenuine Windows will return a non-working code, but I'm talking about Windows XP only. Any non-genuine 2000 or below will return a working code, and if you use Firefox and use the separate app method provided on the download site, you can run that on Windows 2000 and then download the files and of course, then use them on an XP machine.
Or you can take the code generated from the Windows 2000 or below (best with 98SE, which M$ doesn't care about anymore) and just type it on your Windows XP machine. This works too.
is still a way fucking retarded word. Not everyone has an iPod.
100% agreed. I have never gotten a problem after setting this on my previous desktop and new laptop, both which have 1GB of RAM.
I play movies all the time on my TV (these are XviD rips which look just as good as DVD, and at a 10th of the bitrate of DVD). I do this wirelessly with my D-Link DI-524G router ($20 router after rebate), and I'm talking about 20-35 feet away. No lag, no skips (except under serious congestion, only has happened once). I do not know what these guys are talking about regarding 22Mbps. I get 36-48Mbps in my living room about 35 feet away from the router, enough to stream XviD. I have not tested out any other video formats really, but I'm happy with XviD working this way. And I read some people mentioning even if you're close it's a bad connection. My room is where the router is and I sit right next to it within 5 feet (so I plug in when I'm close enough, much faster than wireless). In the end wireless sucks but it's better than not having any.
"an piece"? I think you meant "an article"!
"Say Bob, did you send that e-mail yet?"
"Nah, but I left an message on their answer machine."
"Really, we don't even have an telephone."
"Well, I used my cell phone. Guess what? It features an walkie-talkie feature."
"You mean I get to hear both sides of the conversation now instead of one?"
"Yes, isn't it an great feature?"
"Indeed. I'll have to go buy an cell phone one of these days."
The number of mistakes in grammar/spelling/semantics these past few weeks has been a lot more than usual.
Very true, which is why today there is more and more music coming out that does not follow the "rules", even music theory rules. See the links below please:
Noise
Noise music FAQ
These are some of the many genres today breaking all the "rules." I don't personally like this stuff, but I know many others who do, and I can definitely see in the future that things like this will change music back to the way it was before the "experts" came along.
Indeed everyone will sing again and play instruments without a care, search YouTube for noise music videos, it's crazy shit and people seem to like it.
Mac OS XP
Arabicness Don't you love Unicode?!
Arabic Windows XP I bet a lot of people don't know that everything is reversed on right-left XP's, like Arabic. This includes the back and forward button on IE, the back is forward and the forward is back ( back). More Mac OS XP Having a Mac theme, after using OS X for a bit, makes me rely on Windows more. It seriously makes Windows seem more reliable then it is. I really have no serious problems with it, but when you think of how much configuring you can do, and there isn't that much on Mac OS X (in the GUI section), it seems extremely complicated after all.
If I had mod points, you'd get funny. LMAO.
Then amateur tabs is definitely not the answer. The general concensus today is that most guitarists are unable to even read a staff, especially when it's a 6 (7 or even 12) string guitar chord. Tabs are used everywhere because they are easier, the music staff is pushed up an octave for guitar from piano, and it really was never designed for guitar. This is why they even have finger diagrams for chords. It's much easier than reading several notes, unless you truly learn that way first. If any guitarist saw tabs after learning "hard" chords on staffs, I think they would immediately see the benefits of reading tabs live if they weren't going to memorize it. Would you consider learning tabs as "reading music"? I definitely would.
I agree on understanding music theory though. Not even I have done much of that yet.
And the other thing is that some people are said to just not have a musical ear, which is the reason for written music, including tabs. Someone loves the song Johnny B. Goode, but can't even figure out that fast guitar riff going on through the entire song because they simply can't hear it. And a lot of times that's true for me even, sometimes notes are too fast to hear (this is the time when I pull out Sound Forge and do a time stretch), and I keep matching notes, sometimes tabbing them down, till I finish. Other times the scale is obvious; I think I have a better than ear than some of my friends because some praise tab sites like OLGA, and I hate what I would consider inaccuracies. Books are 100% accurate apparently, but I really don't own many and don't feel like I need to (plus the price). The argument then becomes, as usual, why pay when you can get it for free? Shouldn't written music be like free speech? Why can't the publishing company lower the prices? Sometimes, even the most simple music gets priced at $20 or more per book (I'm not advocating prices based on complexity either). That's more than the album, which you could buy and just play by ear if you have one. My $0.02.
Completely wrong. My ears are better than yours or anyone else's ears. :P
These guitar tabs are written by beginners as far as I can tell, who learnt from guitar tabs in the first place. I never learnt from guitar tabs! Playing by ear is the only method, lazy pricks.
Well, you could use the phrase "couldn't care more" in my case then I guess, but none of the suggestions here make any sense from my perspective, other than "could care less" when I don't analyze the phrase. When I do analyze, it certainly does mean that I care deeply and could put less thought into it, but the thing is that around here in the northeast US it seems I hear "could care less" more than "couldn't care less", and the understanding that it means they simply don't care is pretty much 100%.
I'm actually just into the 18-35 male target group, and the only things I'm caring about lately is HD size and portability in technology. However, I just haven't figured out why I just really don't want a PSP, or Nintendo DS. I just feel like it wouldn't be worth my money in the long run (besides Pictochat on DS). I've gone through 2 PS2's (and MAYBE will buy another), back when I had a PS2 I would only use it to play like 5 games out of the 30 or so that I had. PC games are seriously uninteresting today. I tried to get into WoW and got bored to hell, made it to level 3 which was tiring.
Recently I bought a new laptop, and now I don't ever want to buy a desktop again. This laptop has 100GB, my desktop has a 400GB HD and a 500GB HD (will buy external enclosure soon). None are close to full but it's very useful. I really no longer care about video cards as my laptop can handle most games, and most games aren't worth the time anyway (I want a fun game, not graphics!). It's nice to have eye candy, but not at the expense of a good game. The PS2 has plenty of games with mediocre graphics that you can really have fun with, beats the hell out of the Xbox 360 (I don't plan on buying a PS3 or Xbox 360). If I really care, I'll buy a Wii. Due to price and non-rediculous information surrounding it, it seems everyone around me is getting a Wii, so I can play with them.
I could really care less about Vista now. It's the most pointless thing, and I have even beta tested. The last time I customized it and installed most of the software I use on my Windows XP partition, but every 2 seconds the screen would fade to warn me about system changes. I know exactly where Microsoft gets this from, most Linux GUI's do it now, and Mac OS X does it too. But it only happens on seriously important stuff (Synaptics for Ubuntu, applying update on Mac OS X). I couldn't find the option to disable it entirely or disable it to a certain extent (which I would prefer). If Windows Vista is just going to be me clicking Yes to warnings every 2 seconds, then forget about it. I'll stick with XP and Ubuntu, and I'm going to switch to Ubuntu entirely soon enough.
Thanks everyone for all the tips. I can pretty much now completely switch to Ubuntu Linux and seriously only have Windows for games.
The only thing I want to do now after is learn to theme and change Ubuntu to look more like a Mac, beyond adding the three color minimize, maximize and close buttons and silver-ness from Aqua. I use Windows with a Mac theme and people who see me always think I'm running Mac OS X. It makes me feel like things keep working and it's 10x more pleasing then a stupid Start menu at the bottom of the screen. I like Gnome because the main menus are at the top.
That's not what I said at all. I'm suggesting that these "players" like QT and Real become just codecs instead, and the authors could still make the players and whoever likes them can use them. On Windows they would have a DirectShow filter so this way the codecs could work with any player that supports DirectShow. On Linux, especially if these are open source codecs by that point they could be compiled with the player or plugged in, like in VLC.
As long as it's 2-pass XviD encoding with AC3 to LAME MP3 transcoding possible, it's fine by me. This is typically what I do on Windows except on longer movies where it's worth keeping the 5.1 (making the movie 2 CDs).
Users who need Real Player will get Firefox in the bargain.
Who the hell needs RealPlayer? The fact that there's a separate player is the big problem. I hate installing yet another player just to watch another type of content (which is why I use Media Player Classic with Real Alternative and QT alternative). I don't mind Flash because that only goes in a browser. And I would uninstall WiMP if it wasn't necessary to have, but some streaming content will never work on MPC.
I think the real solution is for Real to stop being a pain, and just become a codec that you install that works with DirectShow for Windows users, and a codec for any player on Linux, whether it be in WiMP or Media Player Classic or even the WMP 6.4 (or VLC on Linux). Then we can all stop hating Real to no end, and same goes for QuickTime. The Alternative forms basically do this, but if they were done officially by the companies it'd be much nicer.
What bank is that? I would suspect every bank would work, they are all heavily scripted and encrypted and mine does (Bank of America), when I enable JavaScript, cookies, and popups.
I wipe my ass with printed copies of the source code for Firefox.
That's a lot better than Real!
For one thing, Flash has never really never been Spyware, and it's actually at this point pretty necessary to have installed if you want to browse the web (I really don't like Flash much, pointless, when everything could be done in graphic files and there wouldn't be loading screens and shit like that).3
I just don't think people are going to respond the same way geeks do to Firefox. They probably won't even use it if it gets installed because Internet Explorer is what they are used. I just don't think they'll be able to see why Firefox is ahead of IE6. And I don't think IE7 is any competition at all to Firefox, just like Windows Vista is right now complete shit to Ubuntu IMO.