All my radio engineers who had their EAS point of origin change with little announcement say yeeeeah. But seriously, this whole EAS "upgrade" thing has been nothing but a thorn in my side for the last couple weeks. Can't wait for it to be done with.

That's called blowing a fuse. People fix it all the time!

I'm sure that this is being solved on Microsoft's end, and will be remedied in good time. I mean, I'm not a big Microsoft guy either, but if this were a circumstance where the hardware had a defect and caused the system to short or something, and Microsoft were going to fix it, you all couldn't care less. Why's a software bug like this so different?

My first idea as an audio guy would be to take some cues from the music industry in their control room designs. Sure, maybe you don't need a client couch for hanging out, but you should be able get everywhere you want in the room by rolling chair (minus if you have to dive behind screens/machines to get things fixed, but even that should be accessible), favor more, smaller, warmer lights over florescent (on dimmers, if you really want them to be as comfortable as they want).

Though if you're using UEs on your iPod, you clearly have more money than sense.

The difference between a marketing department and a PR department is the quality of the work they do. A PR firm gets more press for free than a marketing firm gets for pay. It's important to know the difference, this isn't marketing, it's public relations.

This is more trying to make a buzzword. I'm sad to hear it, but it looks like OSS might go the way of the valliant letters that preceeded it: E, i, HD, WEB, and the numbers 2000 and 2.0.

I'll just hold out for Windows Cool Ranch.

I am sure they can push it to 5001 for this champ.

Speak for yourself, humanoid.

I'd say this is kind of a point. I don't think you should be taking something out of beta before you have reached all of your core beginning announced goals, or announced that you're giving the bugger to it. The point is, that they announced that it is supposed to be cross platform, that it kind of like leaving the tires off your car and calling it close enough.

You can't start out with too diverse video, your computer could pull a driver. Instead, start off gently, something like a screensaver, and move on to something a little more rigorous as it warms up.