Microsoft Bunnies
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Tom doesn't have that kind of creativity (or that much time on his hands). :-D Now Jeremy, there's a guy who obviously has waaaaay too much time on his hands...
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The question is, which is most likely to dress as a rabbit at home? :^)
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The question is, which is most likely to dress as a rabbit at home? :^)
Do bunny slippers count? :-D
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I am guessing Shog of nine. Is there a prize for the correct guess?
You may be right
I may be crazy
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Yeah. You can take custody of the Bunny. :)
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Holy crap on a cannoli! You rock! You dated a stripper - sweet! :) You have just been added to my list of hero's (right after Frank Barone, Al Bundy, and Douglas Troy)!
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Holy crap on a cannoli! You rock! You dated a stripper - sweet! :) You have just been added to my list of hero's (right after Frank Barone, Al Bundy, and Douglas Troy)!
And where the hell is Mister Stop and Stretch?
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I don't own an iPod because I don't like my music tied to single, proprietary devices, and thus have little interest in competitors of a similar nature. I was, nonetheless, compelled to check out www.ComingZune.com[^]after Chris' previous post. Why? Well, it probably has to do with a brief but, er, lively affair I had a few years back with a rather unbalanced and disturbed stripper who's stage name was Bunny (a period known to my friends as "The Bunny Wars"). In the interest of full disclosure, I didn't know she was a stripper when we met, and it only took me a few months to realize that the quicker I could jetison her, the quicker sanity would return to my life. And just how does this relate to a new music service from Microsoft? Well, not being the type to harbor a grudge, I was delighted to see that in spite of her psychological difficulties she was finally able to secure stable and permanent employment developing Flash animations for a major west coast software corporation. ComingZune.com? This was a joke, right?
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
I don't own an iPod because I don't like my music tied to single, proprietary devices
I used to feel the same way, until I realized iTunes could burn a regular audio CD, which can of course then be ripped into MP3 format. Sure, they "only" let you burn like 7 copies, but once you do it once, it's out there. I'm listening to MP3's on my work PC right now that I bought off of iTunes at home a couple days ago. I'm sure the restrictions are something Apple had to do to appease the ignorant record labels, but Apple made sure the songs could easily and legally be unlocked.
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Now the question is of couse: Whodunit?
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We should play 20 questions with this one. I'm 99% sure it's not who we all think it is.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm 99% sure it's not who we all think it is.
In other words, you're ruling yourself out? :-D
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm 99% sure it's not who we all think it is.
In other words, you're ruling yourself out? :-D
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
it only took me a few months to realize that the quicker I could jetison her, the quicker sanity would return to my life.
Sounds like my ex - Except it took me 3 years to realise. :sigh: But I have to laugh now. She was a great manipulator. She almost had me believing that the failure of the engine on a cruise ship at the far end of the Mediterraian was my fault despite being 3000 miles away at the time. (Apparently, I didn't want to go on holiday with her and caused the largest cruise ship in the Med' to break just to get out of it.) It was that point that I had that eyes wide open feeling and I suddenly saw her for what she was. After we broke up I stayed with my parents for a couple of weeks. What was funnier was when she phoned to speak to me and my dad took great joy telling her she was a "Vaca loca" (Mad cow)
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IF you could, er, try not to think about our servers too much that would be much appreciated. Hang on...:doh:
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I am guessing Shog of nine. Is there a prize for the correct guess?
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
My guess is Losinger. Not quite sure why, but it sounds like him somehow.
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
it only took me a few months to realize that the quicker I could jetison her, the quicker sanity would return to my life.
Sounds like my ex - Except it took me 3 years to realise. :sigh: But I have to laugh now. She was a great manipulator. She almost had me believing that the failure of the engine on a cruise ship at the far end of the Mediterraian was my fault despite being 3000 miles away at the time. (Apparently, I didn't want to go on holiday with her and caused the largest cruise ship in the Med' to break just to get out of it.) It was that point that I had that eyes wide open feeling and I suddenly saw her for what she was. After we broke up I stayed with my parents for a couple of weeks. What was funnier was when she phoned to speak to me and my dad took great joy telling her she was a "Vaca loca" (Mad cow)
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
when she phoned to speak to me and my dad took great joy telling her she was a "Vaca loca" (Mad cow)
:laugh::laugh::laugh:
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:-D
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The question is, which is most likely to dress as a rabbit at home? :^)
For some reason I picture a tiger in bunny's clothing. :-D
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
I don't own an iPod because I don't like my music tied to single, proprietary devices
I used to feel the same way, until I realized iTunes could burn a regular audio CD, which can of course then be ripped into MP3 format. Sure, they "only" let you burn like 7 copies, but once you do it once, it's out there. I'm listening to MP3's on my work PC right now that I bought off of iTunes at home a couple days ago. I'm sure the restrictions are something Apple had to do to appease the ignorant record labels, but Apple made sure the songs could easily and legally be unlocked.
True enough. However, you're converting a compressed file format (i.e. lower quality audio) to a .wav file for burning onto CD, and then compressing it again (reducing quality even more) when you take it to mp3. When I buy CDs, they're studio quality, and if I rip them to mp3 at least I only take the compression hit once.
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
it only took me a few months to realize that the quicker I could jetison her, the quicker sanity would return to my life.
Sounds like my ex - Except it took me 3 years to realise. :sigh: But I have to laugh now. She was a great manipulator. She almost had me believing that the failure of the engine on a cruise ship at the far end of the Mediterraian was my fault despite being 3000 miles away at the time. (Apparently, I didn't want to go on holiday with her and caused the largest cruise ship in the Med' to break just to get out of it.) It was that point that I had that eyes wide open feeling and I suddenly saw her for what she was. After we broke up I stayed with my parents for a couple of weeks. What was funnier was when she phoned to speak to me and my dad took great joy telling her she was a "Vaca loca" (Mad cow)
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One could say she did fully believe in you :) It seems some men are attracted to the loco. I wonder what it is - the smell? Self-hate?
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
What was funnier was when she phoned to speak to me and my dad took great joy telling her she was a "Vaca loca"
You have one cool dad!
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I don't own an iPod because I don't like my music tied to single, proprietary devices, and thus have little interest in competitors of a similar nature. I was, nonetheless, compelled to check out www.ComingZune.com[^]after Chris' previous post. Why? Well, it probably has to do with a brief but, er, lively affair I had a few years back with a rather unbalanced and disturbed stripper who's stage name was Bunny (a period known to my friends as "The Bunny Wars"). In the interest of full disclosure, I didn't know she was a stripper when we met, and it only took me a few months to realize that the quicker I could jetison her, the quicker sanity would return to my life. And just how does this relate to a new music service from Microsoft? Well, not being the type to harbor a grudge, I was delighted to see that in spite of her psychological difficulties she was finally able to secure stable and permanent employment developing Flash animations for a major west coast software corporation. ComingZune.com? This was a joke, right?
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
ComingZune.com? This was a joke, right?
The rules of the lounge prevent me from commenting on this umm errr site. Lets hope that the Zune project is being headed up by someone else. X|
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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IF you could, er, try not to think about our servers too much that would be much appreciated. Hang on...:doh:
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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True enough. However, you're converting a compressed file format (i.e. lower quality audio) to a .wav file for burning onto CD, and then compressing it again (reducing quality even more) when you take it to mp3. When I buy CDs, they're studio quality, and if I rip them to mp3 at least I only take the compression hit once.
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
True enough. However, you're converting a compressed file format (i.e. lower quality audio) to a .wav file for burning onto CD, and then compressing it again (reducing quality even more) when you take it to mp3.
The audio format you get from iTunes is 128kbps AAC. That, to my ears, sounds better than 128k MP3 but I haven't really done an A/B test. Anyway, when I re-rip my CD I do it at 192kbps MP3 which is what I do all my CD's at. The way these audio compression techniques work, as long as I re-encode at a higher bitrate there shouldn't be any further information lost. I just did an A/B comparison of the original iTunes song and the MP3 I made from it, and there is no difference that I can hear. (I cranked it in my headphones--even the most difficult sounds, a high pitched cymbal mostly buried in the mix, comes through identically on each.) Anyway, I normally buy CD's also, but iTunes made it much easier, quicker and cheaper than finding the particular CD's I wanted. My biggest complaint is that they make it too easy to waste time browsing. :)