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The official video game for the Ashes cricket tour has been pulled from sale after gamers branded it "shameful", "embarrassing" and "farcical".
Totally ridiculous, you could even have England win. 
speramus in juniperus
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Nigella loves coke![^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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A quick change of subject!
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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And she also talks dirty![^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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hang on - didn't you lot beat the convicts a few months ago?
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MCAD
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Letting them beat us was the only way we could get them to come down so we could give them a proper thrashing.
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Muzak[^] is a registered trademark. And there was me thinking it was a just an offensive name for Sean's Playlist.
speramus in juniperus
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Why? There must be at least a dozen media players almost identical to WinAmp, some of them open source, and some with the source code available.
WinAmp doesn't do anything that many others don't do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There are a lot of people who are resistant to change in any form.
Herself is the same: even if it is demonstrably better, she will stick with what she knows (until it has an unfortunate "accident" that is...)
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Don't tell me she's one the people still using AOL Explorer[^]? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, I have better control of her computer than that! 
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You only think that because she lets you think it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: she will stick with what she knows
So she can stick with WinAmp; it ain't broken, it just won't change -- which appears to be what everyone wants, anyway.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So she can stick with WinAmp; it ain't broken, it just won't change
It isn't broken now. Which isn't to say it won't be broken on windows 12.
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My reasons why I don't want to switch:
1. I've been using it for about 15 years
2. It doesn't use massive amounts of cpu or ram even with lots of songs (Last time I tried iTunes couldn't even start anymore)
3. It doesn't fill your pc with bloatware
4. there are thousands of skins and customizations available
I've never had any problems whatsoever with winamp. No sound file it could *not* play. No crashes. It just worked. Even on slow hardware.
Why should all those winamp users be forced to go on a search for a player that offers the same features and the same feeling when they were perfectly fine with those offered by winamp?
Should I check out player x only to find out it offers feature a & b but not feature c? or player y that offers feature b & c but not feature a?
For me it's like switching from Windows to Linux. Sure I COULD probably do everything there too, but tell me: Why are people still buying Windows if they can get Linux Distributions for free? 
modified 28-Nov-13 10:12am.
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Nicholas Marty wrote: I've never had any problems whatsoever with winamp. No sound file it could play. No crashes.
Um.
That sounds like a problem to me!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Nicholas Marty wrote: I've never had any problems whatsoever with winamp. No sound file it could play. No crashes.
Um.
That sounds like a problem to me!
Depends on what music he wants to play.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Uhm... Looks like my mind was quicker than the fingers on the keyboard 
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Nicholas Marty wrote: Why should all those winamp users be forced to go on a search for a player that offers the same features and the same feeling when they were perfectly fine with those offered by winamp?
Because the people who have spent months and months of their lives creating and developing it don't want to spend more of their lives on it.
Try this one[^], or this one[^], or this one[^] (which has a much smaller footprint than WinAmp), or even VLC (OK, maybe not VLC), and let the guys move on to making something else.
Alternatively, given that WinAmp ain't broke, just keep using it. If it's perfect for you now, why would you want them, or anyone else, to change it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: OK, maybe not VLC
Why not? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It's one of the best for playing video, but it doesn't have all the configury-pokery that people want from music players.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, OK. Having never messed around with any of that nonsense, I doubt I'd miss it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Because the people who have spent months and months of their lives creating and developing it don't want to spend more of their lives on it.
So why shouldn't they open source it for those who still wan't to use it?
Mark_Wallace wrote: Alternatively, given that WinAmp ain't broke, just keep using it.
That's what I'm going to do as long as it works
And VLC is fine for watching videos, and that's what I use it for occasionally. But it's not really suited as a music player in my opinion.
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