This is an area that needs a serious look by the people who are in charge of controlling the ethics of operating on the Internet. One of the things some companies like to do is to bury the cancel button or make them bump back and forth to the same website pages. Page one will take you to page two; page two will (nstead of cancelling) will bump you back to page one, ad infinitium. Another trick they will do comes from CCBill and some others which bills you continually and ask for new credit card information despite your request to cancel. They are also notorious for supplying only partian information so you have no recollection of the service they are trying to "continue." As for Classmate.com I am hoping when the year is up, it will die a natural death--we will see.
Both Slashdot and CinemaNow neglect to say that the "best" movie download programme IS NOT Mac friendly which is pretty disgusting after you've filled all the forms, signed up and provided your credit card information and there's no format to unsubscribe!! Also, to download movies from their website you need to use Internet Explorer which has not written a Mac version for years. There is no love lost from any Mac user and Microsoft. We read with glee when something goes wrong with a Microsoft programme which is fairly often!
Up to this time, I had thought of my burned CD/DVDs as a "permanent" backup or record. This article has changed my thinking, and while I still like to buy "pressed" music CDs and DVD movies, and even download music from iTunes, I will now think of them as more permanent and acknowledge that MY burned discs will have to be re-burned from time to time. I am using LaCie CD/DVD burner and have had little problems with it and found it to be most reliable. As time goes along, storage space, via ethernet, is getting cheaper and cheaper and will provide more hard-drive space for direct storage of music and movies.
I am preparing DVD storage of about 14,000 book titles from the Gutenberg Project and make them available to schools and libraries and compatible to Macs. Query: Should I learn how to make these discs "pressed" instead of burned? I am doing this under the guise of Scriptorium Library(TM) and will pay a 20% royalty to Gutenberg should the project get off the ground. So far, I have enough titles for about four DVD discs (about 4.5 gigabytes each).
Cordially, Kris Kleeberg
Slashdot Mirror
This is an area that needs a serious look by the people who are in charge of controlling the ethics of operating on the Internet. One of the things some companies like to do is to bury the cancel button or make them bump back and forth to the same website pages. Page one will take you to page two; page two will (nstead of cancelling) will bump you back to page one, ad infinitium. Another trick they will do comes from CCBill and some others which bills you continually and ask for new credit card information despite your request to cancel. They are also notorious for supplying only partian information so you have no recollection of the service they are trying to "continue." As for Classmate.com I am hoping when the year is up, it will die a natural death--we will see.
Both Slashdot and CinemaNow neglect to say that the "best" movie download programme IS NOT Mac friendly which is pretty disgusting after you've filled all the forms, signed up and provided your credit card information and there's no format to unsubscribe!! Also, to download movies from their website you need to use Internet Explorer which has not written a Mac version for years. There is no love lost from any Mac user and Microsoft. We read with glee when something goes wrong with a Microsoft programme which is fairly often!
Up to this time, I had thought of my burned CD/DVDs as a "permanent" backup or record. This article has changed my thinking, and while I still like to buy "pressed" music CDs and DVD movies, and even download music from iTunes, I will now think of them as more permanent and acknowledge that MY burned discs will have to be re-burned from time to time. I am using LaCie CD/DVD burner and have had little problems with it and found it to be most reliable. As time goes along, storage space, via ethernet, is getting cheaper and cheaper and will provide more hard-drive space for direct storage of music and movies. I am preparing DVD storage of about 14,000 book titles from the Gutenberg Project and make them available to schools and libraries and compatible to Macs. Query: Should I learn how to make these discs "pressed" instead of burned? I am doing this under the guise of Scriptorium Library(TM) and will pay a 20% royalty to Gutenberg should the project get off the ground. So far, I have enough titles for about four DVD discs (about 4.5 gigabytes each). Cordially, Kris Kleeberg