I disagree actually. While you wouldn't get the overall arc, JMS was pretty good at making most of the episodes stand pretty well on their own. It really wasn't much different than most shows which a person was thrown into the middle of. It is just some people assume just because it has a big arc, that you can't get something out of it if you haven't seen the whole thing.
Course, remote administration killed my work machine last week. Apparently, they were upgrading workstations to SP2. Since I shut my computer down at night, it was doing it while I was working, without me knowing about it. I needed to reboot my computer (being a development machine, this happens occasionally), so I did. Windows didn't give me any warning that it was still installing stuff and it went ahead. Sure enough, computer doesn't boot. After IT spent a few hours trying various things, it was decided that the partition couldn't be saved and everything needed to be blown away.
Luckily, my work was on the network, so I only lost half a day of work, but I lost a couple of days getting my machine back to the way it was, and I lost a bunch of misc files on my system that I probably couldn't get back.
why can the installer program live and run self-contained wherever it is, but other programs have to be 'installed'?
Actually, Microsoft's install program does have to be installed. When they do updates to it, you have to install the new version and then reboot your computer. Pain in the ass.
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I disagree actually. While you wouldn't get the overall arc, JMS was pretty good at making most of the episodes stand pretty well on their own. It really wasn't much different than most shows which a person was thrown into the middle of. It is just some people assume just because it has a big arc, that you can't get something out of it if you haven't seen the whole thing.
In the meantime, you could always play The Simpsons: Road Rage
Luckily, my work was on the network, so I only lost half a day of work, but I lost a couple of days getting my machine back to the way it was, and I lost a bunch of misc files on my system that I probably couldn't get back.
Actually, Microsoft's install program does have to be installed. When they do updates to it, you have to install the new version and then reboot your computer. Pain in the ass.
Jason
SQL statements belong in neither stored procedures nor in the code.
Then, what do you put in stored procedures?
Actually, with the Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) added with DirectX 9, video rendering can now use the 3D engine to render video. Read up on it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/directshow/htm/vmrvspreviousdirects howrenderers.asp
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