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albaugh
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response 210 of 239:
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Dec 15 20:18 UTC 2003 |
OK, I will check my existing sound card for a DB15 connector. Let's pretend
it doesn't have one. Is a MIDM DB15 connector pretty standard for sound cards
these days? And is that to say that one doesn't normally get a "standalone"
MIDI card, one gets a sound card with a MIDI connector?
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mcnally
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response 211 of 239:
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Dec 15 20:36 UTC 2003 |
I think what's most common these days is either a sound-card MIDI connector
or a USB-to-MIDI converter box..
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gull
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response 212 of 239:
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Dec 16 00:26 UTC 2003 |
You're probably better off buying it just about anywhere except CompUSA,
too. Their prices are ridiculous, especially on cables. They're a last
resort when I really need something, no one else has it, and I can't
wait to mail order it.
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twenex
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response 213 of 239:
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Dec 16 09:07 UTC 2003 |
The kind of place that would employ people who say "We don't sell RAM
any more because it slows computers down"?
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tpryan
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response 214 of 239:
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Dec 18 20:37 UTC 2003 |
You might want to check out Guitar Center, Ford Road in Canton, MI
They have a good selection of that sort of stuff, and most staff should
be able to help you.
Never thought it would be a geek store of a different flavor
when you start looking at the tech gear.
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scott
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response 215 of 239:
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Dec 18 22:53 UTC 2003 |
I'd start closer to A2, at Music-go-Round. They probably help a lot of
newbies get MIDI stuff going, and I'm sure they're smarter than the nice folks
at Gui-tard Center.
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tod
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response 216 of 239:
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Dec 18 22:57 UTC 2003 |
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other
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response 217 of 239:
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Dec 18 23:10 UTC 2003 |
Best Buy? You mean the idiots who subpoenaed Grex for posting year-
old public information?
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gull
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response 218 of 239:
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Dec 18 23:40 UTC 2003 |
I can't say I've ever found Best Buy personnel to be experts in any
field except cash register button pushing.
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jmsaul
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response 219 of 239:
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Dec 18 23:54 UTC 2003 |
Re #217: I don't remember that story. Do tell?
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goose
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response 220 of 239:
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Dec 19 01:04 UTC 2003 |
Yes, please do tell.
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davel
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response 221 of 239:
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Dec 19 02:46 UTC 2003 |
I don't remember it either.
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rcurl
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response 222 of 239:
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Dec 19 06:11 UTC 2003 |
A Best Buy floor clerk found what I asked for on the second try.
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gull
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response 223 of 239:
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Dec 19 15:04 UTC 2003 |
The story, as I recall it, is Best Buy sent a subpoena to Grex demanding
we reveal the identity of a user who had posted prices for their
Thanksgiving Day sale. (This was before Thanksgiving.) On closer
examination, the prices turned out to be from *last* year's sale.
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other
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response 224 of 239:
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Dec 19 15:57 UTC 2003 |
They apparently sent out blanket subpoenas to any sites which came
up on a search for "best buy" and "black friday" without doing any
further selection narrowing.
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mcnally
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response 225 of 239:
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Dec 19 17:53 UTC 2003 |
Did anyone file a complaint against them for abuse of process?
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mynxcat
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response 226 of 239:
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Dec 19 18:10 UTC 2003 |
Re 224> They'd have to have a little more criteria than that, or
they'd come up with a whole lot of irrelevant sites
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gull
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response 227 of 239:
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Dec 19 18:47 UTC 2003 |
Re resp:225: Would we be likely to benefit from that in any way that
would make up for the attorney fees?
Re resp:226: Irrelevent sites like Grex? ;>
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mynxcat
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response 228 of 239:
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Dec 19 19:01 UTC 2003 |
I meant that they'd have to have criteria that asked for "prices" per
se. Or they'd be sub-poenaing people who wrote "I'm going to Best Buy
for black friday" in their blogs.
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scott
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response 229 of 239:
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Dec 19 19:07 UTC 2003 |
Depends on the ethics of the lawyers who were hired to research the problem
and send out the letters, I suppose.
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tod
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response 230 of 239:
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Dec 19 23:41 UTC 2003 |
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albaugh
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response 231 of 239:
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Dec 23 18:21 UTC 2003 |
On the radio, Roto Rooter advertises some kind of "no digging of trench"
solution for permanent replacement (?) of sewer line. Does anyone know what
it is they do? How effective it is? Etc.?
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tod
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response 232 of 239:
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Dec 23 18:25 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 233 of 239:
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Dec 23 18:39 UTC 2003 |
I've heard of lines being replaced by running new pipe inside the old.
I don't know much about the process, though.
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tod
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response 234 of 239:
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Dec 23 18:51 UTC 2003 |
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