If the iPod was that easy to kill, then between them iRiver and Creative would have already managed it, offering respectively more feature-rich and cheaper devices. They haven't.
Meanwhile, Nokia are releasing this phone with an off-contract price of £500, according to the BBC radio report I heard this morning. For that you can get an equivalent-sized iPod Mini and still have enough money left to buy a Mac Mini to synch it with, that's how overpriced this thing is.
Pearl Harbor is the only correct American spelling. Harbour would be the English spelling; it's not our fault the founders were functionally illiterate.
In the ripping tab of the iTunes preferences, you can choose whether or not you want to use the error correction bits when performing the read - you might want to try playing with that, though I just leave it on and everything seems to work ok.
Actually, it's much less so than it used to be. Partly because we've all got a lot better at importing from the rest of Europe (which we can do without being stung for import duties, as long as sales tax gets paid either in the UK or the source EU country), I admit. But a lot of things are either the same, or even slightly cheaper in the UK now. A lot of the stuff that isn't the same are due to differing tax laws, as well.
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Cory Doctorow Doesn't RTFM.
My iPod manual explicitly stated that I want to deregister any old machine that I won't be using when I move to the new one. You can only use protected AACs on 5 machines, but that's 5 machines at any time. There's a specific iTunes menu option to deregister the machine so your files will work on the new one.
Most of the music on my iPod is ripped at 128kbps AAC, just as Apple want to sell. So I can't argue that it's unlistenable there. But if I'm paying CD prices, I want CD quality music; iTunes doesn't sound good enough for what they charge you.
To be fair, while they charge more for individual tracks (which is itself unsurprising when they started as just for Warp Records, where you'll normally only get two tracks on your £4 12" single anyway), whole albums are £6.99 - less than iTunes.
Well, it depends on where you're shopping; chart stuff is usually well under £10 most places, though.
In any case, the point is that you're welcome to order from Amazon.de if they're cheaper than Amazon.co.uk (though I doubt that will be the case). The complaint is that you can't do the equivalent trick and buy music from iTunes Germany, not iTunes UK.
I'm really glad you're not too worried about genre, as classifying them is a nightmare. The mighty Red Star Cycle care nought for such things. Proggy Indie Strangeness With Violins would possibly come close, though.
Fortunately, their new mini-album is a fair bit longer than their last single, so I think they're just about breaking even or scraping a tiny profit. Less even than they made doing the launch gig for it, though.
I'd definitely disagree. Sure, some people refuse to pay for music at all, and you're welcome to either not buy any music or rip the companies off and copy it illegally; I won't tell (with low-volume production it costs my brother's band more to record, press and package their singles than they sell them for, so it doesn't really hurt them).
But for those of us who are perfectly prepared to hand over £9-£10 for a CD, the idea of paying for digital music isn't anathema. They just need to set their prices at a level that reflects the fact you are getting an inferior product.
I'm tempted to agree with you, but then it occurs to me that I don't type München, Sverige, Y-Fenni etc. and refer to other places in their native languages, so making an exception for the Americans seems pointless.
I agree that it's not particularly 'interesting' that an American would spell an American place with the American spelling, however.
I see a lot of the comments echo my own worries with these online music stores; they're just too bloody expensive.
Partly it's that we're being forced to pay much higher download costs than the US or Europe pay for tracks, but it's also that with real CDs we can import. If you want a whole album, you can order it from most online stores (or sometimes even buy in your local supermarket) for around £9. When it costs at least £8 to buy the tracks from iTunes, and usually around £14 from the WMA sites, you're paying a hell of a lot for music in lower quality and covered in DRM that stops you using it on some devices.
In theory, at least, BMG and Sony are trying to force you to pay the high costs by ruining the CD versions with stuff that is meant to kill your PC. But I've got a bunch of these discs (it's hard not to when ordering discs online and so not seeing in advance if it will have "protection"), and not one of them has caused iTunes to bat an eyelid.
"You do NOT want them to feel like they wasted their time at ANY point"
You've not quite got the hang of this MMO lark, have you? It's ALL about having a really tiresome level tread for the first 30 hours of gameplay, otherwise you can't charge players extra money to bypass the tedium on eBay.
BK can use any license they want, and Linus can choose whatever solution he wants.
Tridge, who hasn't signed the license, can also run a telnet client to port 5000 and type 'help'.
The problem is that McVoy then threw his dummies out of the pram and revoked Linus' license when this happened, completely contrary to the terms of that license. The really big problem is that Linus, not wanting to say bad things about his mate Larry, decided to publically flame Tridge for daring to cause his nutjob mate to throw a hissy fit.
Frankly, this has actually ended up being a good thing. We're shot of that piece of closed-source shite called BitKeeper, and there are a few less Linus-worshippers around (he's a really clever guy, but some people treated his word as infallible gospel).
Yes, because Apple are really going to set themselves up as the ideal home for homophobic morons, aren't they? That'll sit just perfectly with their hippie media types image.
There really isn't anywhere for rightwing idiots to go in the OS business, so they're stuffed unless they want to back to banging rocks together.
Tridge just wanted to copy BitKeeper's functionality in his own open-source program. That's disgraceful. I'm sure Linus would be the first to shout rude names at anyone who tried to implement their own ripoff version of Minix and released the source.
Where, exactly, did Tridge admit he had accepted the BitKeeper license agreement? I'm fairly sure he has stayed well away from that particular shitty stick; doing so is Rule 1 of clean-room engineering.
Ah yes. It's only morally good to examine network communication structures if they belong to Microsoft.
No, wait, BitMover have demonstrated that they're actually several shades of shite, and we needed to get shot of the little bastard asap in any case. Tridge just happened to provide an excellent excuse to do so.
White = 'local' road, through yellow for main roads, up to the green "A" highways, and if you expand out a touch you'll see a blue Motorway (our equivalent of freeways).
On the one hand, it knows about the mighty Hings, the Food of the Gods. On the other, I'm more than a little disturbed by the Google ad that 'helpfully' suggests I could find cheaper Fish & Chips on eBay. Doesn't really bear thinking about, that one.
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If the iPod was that easy to kill, then between them iRiver and Creative would have already managed it, offering respectively more feature-rich and cheaper devices. They haven't.
Meanwhile, Nokia are releasing this phone with an off-contract price of £500, according to the BBC radio report I heard this morning. For that you can get an equivalent-sized iPod Mini and still have enough money left to buy a Mac Mini to synch it with, that's how overpriced this thing is.
Try again.
Pearl Harbor is the only correct American spelling. Harbour would be the English spelling; it's not our fault the founders were functionally illiterate.
In the ripping tab of the iTunes preferences, you can choose whether or not you want to use the error correction bits when performing the read - you might want to try playing with that, though I just leave it on and everything seems to work ok.
Actually, it's much less so than it used to be. Partly because we've all got a lot better at importing from the rest of Europe (which we can do without being stung for import duties, as long as sales tax gets paid either in the UK or the source EU country), I admit. But a lot of things are either the same, or even slightly cheaper in the UK now. A lot of the stuff that isn't the same are due to differing tax laws, as well.
Not if it's using it's when it should use its.
If you know what I mean.
Cory Doctorow Doesn't RTFM.
My iPod manual explicitly stated that I want to deregister any old machine that I won't be using when I move to the new one. You can only use protected AACs on 5 machines, but that's 5 machines at any time. There's a specific iTunes menu option to deregister the machine so your files will work on the new one.
Most of the music on my iPod is ripped at 128kbps AAC, just as Apple want to sell. So I can't argue that it's unlistenable there. But if I'm paying CD prices, I want CD quality music; iTunes doesn't sound good enough for what they charge you.
To be fair, while they charge more for individual tracks (which is itself unsurprising when they started as just for Warp Records, where you'll normally only get two tracks on your £4 12" single anyway), whole albums are £6.99 - less than iTunes.
Well, it depends on where you're shopping; chart stuff is usually well under £10 most places, though.
In any case, the point is that you're welcome to order from Amazon.de if they're cheaper than Amazon.co.uk (though I doubt that will be the case). The complaint is that you can't do the equivalent trick and buy music from iTunes Germany, not iTunes UK.
I'm really glad you're not too worried about genre, as classifying them is a nightmare. The mighty Red Star Cycle care nought for such things. Proggy Indie Strangeness With Violins would possibly come close, though.
Fortunately, their new mini-album is a fair bit longer than their last single, so I think they're just about breaking even or scraping a tiny profit. Less even than they made doing the launch gig for it, though.
AC = "Anything past free is too expensive."
I'd definitely disagree. Sure, some people refuse to pay for music at all, and you're welcome to either not buy any music or rip the companies off and copy it illegally; I won't tell (with low-volume production it costs my brother's band more to record, press and package their singles than they sell them for, so it doesn't really hurt them).
But for those of us who are perfectly prepared to hand over £9-£10 for a CD, the idea of paying for digital music isn't anathema. They just need to set their prices at a level that reflects the fact you are getting an inferior product.
I'm tempted to agree with you, but then it occurs to me that I don't type München, Sverige, Y-Fenni etc. and refer to other places in their native languages, so making an exception for the Americans seems pointless.
I agree that it's not particularly 'interesting' that an American would spell an American place with the American spelling, however.
I see a lot of the comments echo my own worries with these online music stores; they're just too bloody expensive.
Partly it's that we're being forced to pay much higher download costs than the US or Europe pay for tracks, but it's also that with real CDs we can import. If you want a whole album, you can order it from most online stores (or sometimes even buy in your local supermarket) for around £9. When it costs at least £8 to buy the tracks from iTunes, and usually around £14 from the WMA sites, you're paying a hell of a lot for music in lower quality and covered in DRM that stops you using it on some devices.
In theory, at least, BMG and Sony are trying to force you to pay the high costs by ruining the CD versions with stuff that is meant to kill your PC. But I've got a bunch of these discs (it's hard not to when ordering discs online and so not seeing in advance if it will have "protection"), and not one of them has caused iTunes to bat an eyelid.
Not all right-wingers are bigots, no. Just all the ones who are opposing equal rights bills.
"You do NOT want them to feel like they wasted their time at ANY point"
You've not quite got the hang of this MMO lark, have you? It's ALL about having a really tiresome level tread for the first 30 hours of gameplay, otherwise you can't charge players extra money to bypass the tedium on eBay.
BK can use any license they want, and Linus can choose whatever solution he wants.
Tridge, who hasn't signed the license, can also run a telnet client to port 5000 and type 'help'.
The problem is that McVoy then threw his dummies out of the pram and revoked Linus' license when this happened, completely contrary to the terms of that license. The really big problem is that Linus, not wanting to say bad things about his mate Larry, decided to publically flame Tridge for daring to cause his nutjob mate to throw a hissy fit.
Frankly, this has actually ended up being a good thing. We're shot of that piece of closed-source shite called BitKeeper, and there are a few less Linus-worshippers around (he's a really clever guy, but some people treated his word as infallible gospel).
Yes, because Apple are really going to set themselves up as the ideal home for homophobic morons, aren't they? That'll sit just perfectly with their hippie media types image.
There really isn't anywhere for rightwing idiots to go in the OS business, so they're stuffed unless they want to back to banging rocks together.
Tridge just wanted to copy BitKeeper's functionality in his own open-source program. That's disgraceful. I'm sure Linus would be the first to shout rude names at anyone who tried to implement their own ripoff version of Minix and released the source.
Oh.
Where, exactly, did Tridge admit he had accepted the BitKeeper license agreement? I'm fairly sure he has stayed well away from that particular shitty stick; doing so is Rule 1 of clean-room engineering.
Ah yes. It's only morally good to examine network communication structures if they belong to Microsoft.
No, wait, BitMover have demonstrated that they're actually several shades of shite, and we needed to get shot of the little bastard asap in any case. Tridge just happened to provide an excellent excuse to do so.
I've a feeling that iTunes carries them too, though (a) I'm not sure, and (b) I'd recommend going with the CDs anyway.
The big ol' line of effects pedals all run at 9VDC, and you can even get nice little runs of cable to link them in parallel to the one transformer.
Which is bugger all use for this situation, where everything wants its own different voltage, unfortunately.
Given it's a road map application, I sincerely hope you don't plan on taking a journey across the Millennium Bridge anyway!
Not speed, just major and minor roads.
White = 'local' road, through yellow for main roads, up to the green "A" highways, and if you expand out a touch you'll see a blue Motorway (our equivalent of freeways).
On the one hand, it knows about the mighty Hings, the Food of the Gods. On the other, I'm more than a little disturbed by the Google ad that 'helpfully' suggests I could find cheaper Fish & Chips on eBay. Doesn't really bear thinking about, that one.