That said, you'd think WoW players would be a bit more concerned about, oh, I don't know, the constant server crashes, rolling restarts, major patch bugs[...], and just generally utter crap technical quality of the game [...] even though no other modern MMO suffers anything close to that level of technical dysfunction.
They also let you do transfers. Which was in TFS if you bothered to read it. You can do this without sending account numbers (just use account suffixes) but what happens when your twitter account gets hacked and someone transfers all of your money from your checking suffix to your savings? Say hello to overdraft fees.
If you switch to your mac, it reformats your ipod/iphone to hfs format from fat format. You should back up your itunes library on your pc, restore it on your mac, and then sync it with your mac.
I have used plenty of windows formatted ipods with my mac. You can sync a fat formatted ipod on a mac but not an hfs formatted ipod on windows (with itunes at least.)
I FIRST made sure I corrected the DEFAULT setting that would have had it copying and renaming, and doing only who knows what to my music. Heaven forbid you should organize something yourself in the Mac world!
This is the best feature of iTunes. I don't have time or patience to meticulously hand-sort and rename all of my music files after I rip or buy them online. Also, it's optional, and one of the first things iTunes asks you about after installing it.
I think firefox 3.5 IS here now. I just went to getfirefox.com on osx and ubuntu and both show graphical links to download firefox 3.5. Downloading and going to 'about firefox' shows no indication that it is a release candidate.
>> Enough with this stupid dumbass fucking argument.
>So fucking stop using it, dumbass.
I didn't use it, you did in your original post, dumbass.
>No. Shutting up, giving up essential freedoms and knuckling under financial "interests" is what brought us the "intellectual property" regimes worldwide. Fuck that. No shutting up any more. See you this summer in the EU parliament. And this is just a beginning.
Who are you responding to here? I never said anything about taking away freedom, I merely said that it is tiresome and boring to blame lost sales due to piracy (music, software, or otherwise) on a broken business model.
"Just another delusionist trying to shoehorn the planet into his business model."
Enough with this stupid dumbass fucking argument. What is wrong with making software and trying to sell it? This is so old and tiring I can't take it anymore. It doesn't even make sense! If people couldn't sell their software, they would find something else to do to feed their families. Please, shut the fuck up already.
Why the hell would my computer slow down or freeze because of network congestion? My throughput my go down, but that has nothing to do with the performance of my machine, it just means webpages will load more slowly. Time to panic!
Seriously though, we can all blame the telcoms for not investing their huge tax breaks in new infrastructure electing to instead go on boat rides and the like.
Seriously though, is there a business conference that happens annually now where presenters try to sell the audience on the benefits of alienating your customers by providing sub-par purchasing and product use options? Do they start the whole thing off with a keynote on how to use copyright to extort and sue your customers?
They offered a great purchasing option and got taken advantage of so they are taking it away. They aren't suing their customers, if they were I imagine I'd have something in my mailbox asking me to appear in court. In fact, they are suing the thieving bastards who think they are entitled to something for nothing.
WOTC gives customers something that they want, in a relatively open format and it is still shared around by stupid dumbass pirates. Not only do they threaten to ruin the software industry, but now they are coming after my tabletop games as well. What a great digital world we live in!
Like any arms race where it's content producers vs. the internet, the internet will win in the end.
Which is too bad. All these idiots who think that they are somehow entitled to something for nothing will end up driving the content providers out of business. Than what will the internet have won?
Install a filter, give her the password to it. Anything unwanted she can safely ignore. If she really meant to go there in the first place, she can type in the password to continue.
I cannot tell because I haven't ever tried to find a difference. Yes, ignorance is bliss in this case (and a whole lot cheaper as I currently am listening to music on the earbuds that came with my ipod)
If you want it to be up to the free market you have to have a pricing structure that allows the market to consume the work. This most certainly is not one that pays the creator only once.
IE6 came out almost 10 years ago. It sucks at css, but with workarounds does an ok job at javascript. If I lose.1% of my users because there browser is older than IE6 I am not too concerned.
99% of the web COULD work without javascript while just having everything run on the server, but I happen to like web pages that benefit from XHR's. You keep your noscript plugin, and I'll keep intuitive webUI.
Who the hell is going to pay them only once? The first reader of the publication? The publisher? There is nobody to pay an artist only once because nobody except a publisher can afford $500,000 for a book that took 10 years to write. Who will then profit for years of sales while the artist gets only a TINY percentage of the actual value of the work they produced.
Do you happen to work for a publishing company? This is by far the stupidest thing I have read on slashdot in a while.
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I would have bought his app if he mentioned it, instead he posted as AC so I can't even PM him for it.
That said, you'd think WoW players would be a bit more concerned about, oh, I don't know, the constant server crashes, rolling restarts, major patch bugs[...], and just generally utter crap technical quality of the game [...] even though no other modern MMO suffers anything close to that level of technical dysfunction.
You're joking right?
You are wrong. Google ChickHEN. Homebrew on the PSP3000.
They also let you do transfers. Which was in TFS if you bothered to read it. You can do this without sending account numbers (just use account suffixes) but what happens when your twitter account gets hacked and someone transfers all of your money from your checking suffix to your savings? Say hello to overdraft fees.
"its more open when developers have choices."
Not necessarily so for the user.
That doesn't even make sense.
...or a similar one.
How about "Sudden outbreak of common sense"
If you switch to your mac, it reformats your ipod/iphone to hfs format from fat format. You should back up your itunes library on your pc, restore it on your mac, and then sync it with your mac.
I have used plenty of windows formatted ipods with my mac. You can sync a fat formatted ipod on a mac but not an hfs formatted ipod on windows (with itunes at least.)
I FIRST made sure I corrected the DEFAULT setting that would have had it copying and renaming, and doing only who knows what to my music. Heaven forbid you should organize something yourself in the Mac world!
This is the best feature of iTunes. I don't have time or patience to meticulously hand-sort and rename all of my music files after I rip or buy them online. Also, it's optional, and one of the first things iTunes asks you about after installing it.
Stupid appears to be abundant on slashdot this afternoon.
I think firefox 3.5 IS here now. I just went to getfirefox.com on osx and ubuntu and both show graphical links to download firefox 3.5. Downloading and going to 'about firefox' shows no indication that it is a release candidate.
How can you find twitter so annoying when you obviously don't even use it?
>> Enough with this stupid dumbass fucking argument. >So fucking stop using it, dumbass. I didn't use it, you did in your original post, dumbass. >No. Shutting up, giving up essential freedoms and knuckling under financial "interests" is what brought us the "intellectual property" regimes worldwide. Fuck that. No shutting up any more. See you this summer in the EU parliament. And this is just a beginning. Who are you responding to here? I never said anything about taking away freedom, I merely said that it is tiresome and boring to blame lost sales due to piracy (music, software, or otherwise) on a broken business model.
"Just another delusionist trying to shoehorn the planet into his business model." Enough with this stupid dumbass fucking argument. What is wrong with making software and trying to sell it? This is so old and tiring I can't take it anymore. It doesn't even make sense! If people couldn't sell their software, they would find something else to do to feed their families. Please, shut the fuck up already.
Why the hell would my computer slow down or freeze because of network congestion? My throughput my go down, but that has nothing to do with the performance of my machine, it just means webpages will load more slowly. Time to panic! Seriously though, we can all blame the telcoms for not investing their huge tax breaks in new infrastructure electing to instead go on boat rides and the like.
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Seriously though, is there a business conference that happens annually now where presenters try to sell the audience on the benefits of alienating your customers by providing sub-par purchasing and product use options? Do they start the whole thing off with a keynote on how to use copyright to extort and sue your customers?
They offered a great purchasing option and got taken advantage of so they are taking it away. They aren't suing their customers, if they were I imagine I'd have something in my mailbox asking me to appear in court. In fact, they are suing the thieving bastards who think they are entitled to something for nothing.
WOTC gives customers something that they want, in a relatively open format and it is still shared around by stupid dumbass pirates. Not only do they threaten to ruin the software industry, but now they are coming after my tabletop games as well. What a great digital world we live in!
Like any arms race where it's content producers vs. the internet, the internet will win in the end.
Which is too bad. All these idiots who think that they are somehow entitled to something for nothing will end up driving the content providers out of business. Than what will the internet have won?
Install a filter, give her the password to it. Anything unwanted she can safely ignore. If she really meant to go there in the first place, she can type in the password to continue.
I cannot tell because I haven't ever tried to find a difference. Yes, ignorance is bliss in this case (and a whole lot cheaper as I currently am listening to music on the earbuds that came with my ipod)
If you want it to be up to the free market you have to have a pricing structure that allows the market to consume the work. This most certainly is not one that pays the creator only once.
IE6 came out almost 10 years ago. It sucks at css, but with workarounds does an ok job at javascript. If I lose .1% of my users because there browser is older than IE6 I am not too concerned.
Hate to reply to AC, except in this case I should point out AC is me.
99% of the web COULD work without javascript while just having everything run on the server, but I happen to like web pages that benefit from XHR's. You keep your noscript plugin, and I'll keep intuitive webUI.
Who the hell is going to pay them only once? The first reader of the publication? The publisher? There is nobody to pay an artist only once because nobody except a publisher can afford $500,000 for a book that took 10 years to write. Who will then profit for years of sales while the artist gets only a TINY percentage of the actual value of the work they produced. Do you happen to work for a publishing company? This is by far the stupidest thing I have read on slashdot in a while.