You can just burn the video files manually to a blank CD / DVD, or copy them to another computer - that way, should you want to watch them later, just re-import into iTunes, and at most you're one log-in away from re-watching.
You're on the nightly build, not the beta. I was on beta1 for a few days, never noticed any update, so I replaced it with the latest nightly build from branch (not trunk).
The beta release only updates to other beta releases, I think.
I bet a significant portion of the searches they see for PDF support involve something on that level, rather than simply being able to print to PDF - if I've been able to do that on a Mac for this long (long before OSX had it natively) I'm sure there are many similar options for Windows users.
PDF Creator, and, no, most Windows users I've talked to have not heard of it even though it's free. This includes computer scientists too.
So it's not inconceivable that it's PDF output still, and not PDF editing, that MS users are still clamoring for.
I'm tired of getting this shit coming up. "All but" means "all except". That would mean the screen is in every possible state, but certainly not useless.
Why must I, for whom English only the third language, correct this kind of shit ?
Because "all but" actually means almost? It's a bit counter-intuitive the first few times you hear/use it, but sooner or later you'll start treating it as a lexical item on its own without decomposing it into subparts.
If AOL does send out CD-RWs, those actually will perform better as advertising tools. The next time you burn something for a friend, and pass that AOL CD-RW around, you're effectively advertising for AOL.
Kind of like those free T-shirts companies give away.
No more HWR, for example, and no user-accessible expansion (because the phone company will insist you move all data in and out of the device via their network instead of USB/a memory stick, so they can keep on making you pay through the nose).
Hand-writing recognition, perhaps - if a next release of the OS changes APIs, and the driver needs porting, the cost might not justify doing it.
But as far as phone companies locking things down, these are normally done as a firmware modification - some Motorola phones with dumbed-down Bluetooth (no OBEX, only contact synchronization) could be brought back to full functionality by hex-editing one byte in the code!
Given the burgeoning market for smartphones, crippling the OS instead of just the specific phones makes no sense.
Also, i don't know a whole ton about Jabber or how Google works internally, and i'm not suggesting that it's true or false, but what are the chances that maybe talk.google.com is just like a corporate Jabber server? Like for Google employees to talk to each other?:shrug:
Presumably they would be using a VPN for internal communication.
My Google account does not work for logins on talk.google.com, but the response I get back seems legitimate, so here's to hope..
If you have a problem with it - go buy a non-DRM CD. Thanks to music downloads, CDs are much cheaper these days. But don't expect the ease and organization of a downloaded song, and don't expect to get it so quickly. And don't expect freebies like music videos with your purchase.
I know this is a bit beside the point, but the only times I get freebies like music videos with my music purchase are when I buy CDs.. iTunes recently added bonus music videos, but the one band that I know does this on iTMS, Gorillaz, does it on their normal CDs too (my platinum CD came with a bonus DVD)
In order for them to be compatible, you'd need to drop the stability of SLES, which would be a stupid move, or stabilize SuSE Professional (rather than build it using the latest available versions of software), which would be a stupid move as well.
Or, as a third option, provide compatibility libraries on SuSE Pro so that SLES applications would run out-of-the-box, provided their RPMs use file dependencies instead of hard-coded package names.
The revocation is not automatic, but surely if, say, Samba developers were to say SCO cannot use Samba under the GPL then it's up to them to do so?
After all, SCO did not pay the Samba team anything to get to use it. If, on the other hand, a commercial license for Samba were to be available, and SCO used that license, and the Samba commercial license-holder pulled the plug because of SCO's license violation of another product, SCO would have grounds for suing.
Having a monopoly does require you to adhere to a more constraint set of behaviour.. and from a technical perspective I must say I like OS X better than Windows still (transactional NTFS in Longhorn^WVista is neat, but I wish NTFS would adhere to POSIX semantics - letting opened files be replaced on the disk, instead of being scheduled to be replaced at the next boot, ugh)
Though even Windows backward compatibility is not absolute (thank goodness!) - SP 2 breaks a lot of applications, but arguably the security benefits of tightening the OS much overweights the inconveniences.
The way Apple would contradict whatever they said in the past - I recall reading an editorial in a UK-based Mac publication comparing them (ironically) to 1984's Big Brother - does not bode well for their corporate reputation, certainly. Though I must admit I'm rather surprised to discover that even during the interregnum period between the Jobs CEO-ships Apple's behaviour is not that different.
Fair enough. It's really unfortunate, the way Apple dropped the 950 without a replacement comparable PPC model having been available for long enough to transition off buyers.
Makes me wonder what their plan is for transitioning off Xserve users. Institutions like Virginia Tech that have publicly committed to the Mac for scientific computing might not appreciate having to retool their code by hand for SSE - IBM might have an opportunity there.
But he was a Believer, and he went back to the Kool-Aid trough again in summer of 1995 and bought a Quadra 950 for about $8,000. It was discontinued a few months later
The Quadra 950 came out in 1992 - considering the PowerMac 8100 was already available in 1994, one would say the writing's on the wall when it comes to 68k-based Macs.
Your friend's whining is like someone who buys a dual-CPU PowerMac G5 2.7GHz now, only to whine when the Intel-based Macs come out. You know what's coming, it might still be worth buying the soon-to-be-discontinued lines, but whining about it is really silly.
Linux is a minimal approach that defines only the kernel, leaving everything else up to the option of the user.
Sorry to nitpick, but Linux leaves everything else up to the option of the distributor - unless you're running Linux From Scratch, which I doubt most users do.
I believe laptops accounted for more than 50% of Apple shipments by volume recently; the introduction of the Mac mini and the iMac G5, added to the lack of recent significant updates in their *book lines probably accounted for desktop sales currently being above laptop sales.
The only snag I see is that people with dynamic IP addresses might be inadvertently added to your list of known spammers. If another user of my ISP has a zombied machine that sent you spam, and I inherited its IP next, when I send you a non-spam email next I fall into the tar-pit. And how would I ever get that mail to you then?
Granted, people on dynamic IP addresses don't normally run SMTP servers.
Amazing. You'd think he'd be more than happy to sell more expensive items to you. Maybe he's trying to build your trust so he can pull a sleight-of-hand later? Or he really thinks RealTek cards are better. Ugh.
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You can just burn the video files manually to a blank CD / DVD, or copy them to another computer - that way, should you want to watch them later, just re-import into iTunes, and at most you're one log-in away from re-watching.
RIP, MAJC .. oh, if only.
You're on the nightly build, not the beta. I was on beta1 for a few days, never noticed any update, so I replaced it with the latest nightly build from branch (not trunk).
The beta release only updates to other beta releases, I think.
PDF Creator, and, no, most Windows users I've talked to have not heard of it even though it's free. This includes computer scientists too.
So it's not inconceivable that it's PDF output still, and not PDF editing, that MS users are still clamoring for.
Because "all but" actually means almost? It's a bit counter-intuitive the first few times you hear/use it, but sooner or later you'll start treating it as a lexical item on its own without decomposing it into subparts.
If AOL does send out CD-RWs, those actually will perform better as advertising tools. The next time you burn something for a friend, and pass that AOL CD-RW around, you're effectively advertising for AOL.
Kind of like those free T-shirts companies give away.
Note that Google's Mail service is now accessible at mail.google.com? Pretty much all the g-prefixes have been removed.
So they'll probably settle if necessary and just go on with Google Mail. Big deal.
On RPM-based systems, yes. And thanks to RPM's support for multilibs you can actually install standard 32-bit RPMs painlessly.
On Debian-based systems lib is 64-bit, lib32 is 32-bit.
Hand-writing recognition, perhaps - if a next release of the OS changes APIs, and the driver needs porting, the cost might not justify doing it.
But as far as phone companies locking things down, these are normally done as a firmware modification - some Motorola phones with dumbed-down Bluetooth (no OBEX, only contact synchronization) could be brought back to full functionality by hex-editing one byte in the code!
Given the burgeoning market for smartphones, crippling the OS instead of just the specific phones makes no sense.
I wonder how they implement their voice chat, actually. If they release the specs as an extension to the standard XMPP protocol it would be awesome.
Presumably they would be using a VPN for internal communication.
My Google account does not work for logins on talk.google.com, but the response I get back seems legitimate, so here's to hope..
I know this is a bit beside the point, but the only times I get freebies like music videos with my music purchase are when I buy CDs.. iTunes recently added bonus music videos, but the one band that I know does this on iTMS, Gorillaz, does it on their normal CDs too (my platinum CD came with a bonus DVD)
They cut off updates after two releases, not one - Fedora Core 3 is still supported.
Fedora Core 2 is still supported by the Legacy team too.
Or, as a third option, provide compatibility libraries on SuSE Pro so that SLES applications would run out-of-the-box, provided their RPMs use file dependencies instead of hard-coded package names.
And slow too, ugh. And, no surprise given who it's from, so non-standard-compliant loading it on Safari gives you nothing below the search bar.
The revocation is not automatic, but surely if, say, Samba developers were to say SCO cannot use Samba under the GPL then it's up to them to do so?
After all, SCO did not pay the Samba team anything to get to use it. If, on the other hand, a commercial license for Samba were to be available, and SCO used that license, and the Samba commercial license-holder pulled the plug because of SCO's license violation of another product, SCO would have grounds for suing.
Having a monopoly does require you to adhere to a more constraint set of behaviour.. and from a technical perspective I must say I like OS X better than Windows still (transactional NTFS in Longhorn^WVista is neat, but I wish NTFS would adhere to POSIX semantics - letting opened files be replaced on the disk, instead of being scheduled to be replaced at the next boot, ugh)
Though even Windows backward compatibility is not absolute (thank goodness!) - SP 2 breaks a lot of applications, but arguably the security benefits of tightening the OS much overweights the inconveniences.
The way Apple would contradict whatever they said in the past - I recall reading an editorial in a UK-based Mac publication comparing them (ironically) to 1984's Big Brother - does not bode well for their corporate reputation, certainly. Though I must admit I'm rather surprised to discover that even during the interregnum period between the Jobs CEO-ships Apple's behaviour is not that different.
Fair enough. It's really unfortunate, the way Apple dropped the 950 without a replacement comparable PPC model having been available for long enough to transition off buyers.
Makes me wonder what their plan is for transitioning off Xserve users. Institutions like Virginia Tech that have publicly committed to the Mac for scientific computing might not appreciate having to retool their code by hand for SSE - IBM might have an opportunity there.
The Quadra 950 came out in 1992 - considering the PowerMac 8100 was already available in 1994, one would say the writing's on the wall when it comes to 68k-based Macs.
Your friend's whining is like someone who buys a dual-CPU PowerMac G5 2.7GHz now, only to whine when the Intel-based Macs come out. You know what's coming, it might still be worth buying the soon-to-be-discontinued lines, but whining about it is really silly.
So get an IM client that supports grouping conversations into tabs.
Sorry to nitpick, but Linux leaves everything else up to the option of the distributor - unless you're running Linux From Scratch, which I doubt most users do.
I believe laptops accounted for more than 50% of Apple shipments by volume recently; the introduction of the Mac mini and the iMac G5, added to the lack of recent significant updates in their *book lines probably accounted for desktop sales currently being above laptop sales.
The only snag I see is that people with dynamic IP addresses might be inadvertently added to your list of known spammers. If another user of my ISP has a zombied machine that sent you spam, and I inherited its IP next, when I send you a non-spam email next I fall into the tar-pit. And how would I ever get that mail to you then?
Granted, people on dynamic IP addresses don't normally run SMTP servers.
Amazing. You'd think he'd be more than happy to sell more expensive items to you. Maybe he's trying to build your trust so he can pull a sleight-of-hand later? Or he really thinks RealTek cards are better. Ugh.