Or the fact that the room has a DVD player but not a computer?
This. There's no projector in the room, so I need to be able to play it from a DVD player.
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vw bug - Sep 26, 2005 12:16:36 pm PDT #4685 of 10003
Mostly lurking...
Dana - Sep 26, 2005 12:19:03 pm PDT #4686 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I believe a VCD should play, but again, it will probably depend on the player. Someone around here surely knows more about this than I do.
tommyrot - Sep 26, 2005 12:20:42 pm PDT #4687 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It does depend on the DVD player. I think that the newer the player, the more likely it will support VCDs.
Glamcookie - Sep 26, 2005 12:26:44 pm PDT #4688 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
tommyrot, thanks for the link to the Longhorn article. Very interesting - I forwarded it to many of my co-workers.
tommyrot - Sep 26, 2005 12:32:46 pm PDT #4689 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You're welcome. I can't imagine what it'd be like to help design an operating system. I've read several books on operating system design, which I found very interesting even though much of it went over my head.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2005 12:35:45 pm PDT #4690 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The year before me in McGill Comp Sci had to write their own OS. Made my head hurt. We had to design from the chip up to assembler a computer, but that seemed easier.
Unrelatedly, from the CEO of the company that brought us the ROKR:
"Screw the nano," said Zander. "What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?"
brenda m - Sep 26, 2005 12:39:02 pm PDT #4691 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's how we talk about companies we're partnering with? Ho-kay.
"Screw the nano," said Zander. "What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?"
Does he mean that's too much or too little? I'm guessing too much, considering their own product has 100?
In which case, have you met people?
Glamcookie - Sep 26, 2005 1:42:36 pm PDT #4692 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
My boss had the following reaction to the Longhorn piece:
What's really interesting is that "modular" code became the holy grail almost twenty years ago when object-oriented programming languages came into being. Are they really saying that Windows was never developed with any standards for how to piece those modules together? Sounds like it.
To which a co-worker responded:
Yep--pretty amazing, eh?
DCJensen - Sep 26, 2005 2:33:39 pm PDT #4693 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Apple pretty much tossed out the mishmash that Rhapsody was developing into in favor of building OSX from nearly the ground up (with help from the code from NeXT, which came with Steve Jobs attached.) about ten years ago now.
tommyrot - Sep 26, 2005 4:26:29 pm PDT #4694 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So how much of OS X is BSD and how much was created by Apple?