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irascian wrote:

Personally I always feel sorry for the rock acts who have to appear at these gigs. Great idea to get the crowd talking about the event but imagine if you're the band - having to play to a bunch of seated developers who sit politely waiting for the main event.

Microsoft. Cheap Trick. Could this be subliminal?

 
And yes, I'm PST. Will check back after lunch.

UPDATE: Cool, it's there now (1:38pm) and Cheap Trick opens ... nice! Are you ready to rock?!

Nothing like seeing what the future holds. Look into the crystal ball ..

Thanks for transcribing

Manip wrote:

Plus it has that 'Rock' guy in it; he has been in nothing even remotely good that I've seen.

The Rock did an OK job reprising the role as Bufford Pusser in Walking Tall.

Rotten Tomatoes critics are slaying it but it wasn't that bad.

Toward the end (no spoilers) there was a good 15 minutes that was just like the game but most of the rest was slow. Too much waiting for stuff to happen, not hellish enough, not enough carnage.

Also, not enough of the enemies made it to the screen. I wonder sometimes if the people who make these movies ever actually play the game to get the true nuances of what happens in them.

Anybody else see ow Drops 08 PO Fit this weekend?

Will be somewhat interesting to see stock impact if this actually comes to pass. I'm glad I bought Apple stock a few months ago instead. I was seriously looking at M$. Too bad.

billh wrote:

I don't give a rip about video editing.  I'm not George Lucas.  Yet.  What about blogging?  Can I do that in 64-bit?  How about 16-bit?  Is it backwards compatible with 8-bit?

Good grief, man, think about the issues!

64-bit blogging LOL Heck, blogging could be done on a Vic 20. Technology has gone far beyond the real world requirements for word processing. Word is one of the most bloated wordprocessors on the planet. If a word processor doesn't load instantaneously these days there is a real problem with the product.

Hint to Microsoft: just because the space is there doesn't mean it has to be used!

And this thinking should be applied to Windows Media Player 11. Smaller, faster, more efficient, better.

Blogged my full response http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050630/2095/  although generally, I agree with the comment above. Less is more, would be nice to see a more stripped back raw version of Windows Media Player, something that runs fast uses very small amount of resources and offers a plethora of one-click plugins like Firefox has available. Why waste all that space on "sync" if you don't have a portable device to sync to? Instead have the UI be device aware and when a portable device is plugged in that becomes an obvious option. Seems like wasted real estate for those who don't have portable devices.