In all honesty when you bought those songs DRM was probably the only way to buy them. You can upgrade them to itunes + (Higher bit rate non-DRM for 30 cents.). You can remove the DRM through various methods. The easiest is to burn them to audio CD and re-rip them. If you don't eject the disc, it should keep the file names.
I tunes behaves really wonky, until I figured out that all you need to do click the "Manually manage movies and music" on each devices home page.
Then you can drag music and movies from anywhere (desktop/ itunes) into the device and it copies it in. It takes more manual effort, but seems to make the program behave much better.
I liked AD&D as well. I played that system with my brothers, Games we liked I remember:
NFL football. - 5 players per side although 2 didn't do anything (you could run through the center and snapper) Bump N Jump - 2 player driving smash em up Star Strike - kinda like the death star trench scene flying scene Astrosmash - shoot falling things.. Simple but fun. Dreadnaught factor - battle large "star destroyer" type space ships..
Those controllers disc would hurt your thumb after a long period of play however.
I got one and its pretty darn good. Many reviewers agree with me. I use macs quite a bit but don't have an iphone. Its great, but far from improvement. Its has totally replaced my notebook for surfing, and checking emails at home. I take it with me and use it like a giant iphone for location based stuff (I'm a city dweller). The only thing against is that its not feasable to pull out and use while walking, but I guess thats what smart phones are for.
The ipad is really more of a consumer electronic device than a computer. Once you get over that mental hurdle its fine. Its a 1.0 product as well so some of the limits on its functionality should hopefully go away with competetion (thank goodness for it). Its not a netbook and shouldn't really be compared to one.
Everything not working everywhere is a small price to pay for breaking the MS monopoly on OSs.
This page is a detailed history of Pac Man, including history and information on the different ghosts move algorithms and speed changes... I find it interesting... Read it while you can, its hosted on comcast.....
I have a really old TomTom (It has depth like a very small TV). It works well enough.
But I got the Mr. T voice. I don't need to turn the radio down, when Mr. T speaks you listen! (fool!)
The results are not entirely surprising as it appears Google is using its needed data connection to feed data back into its traffic routing/monitoring which one hopes they use for routing calculations. The lack of this connection on a stand alone unit make it a problem.
The Nav companies see whats coming, thus the software version for smart phones and Garmin making a phone..
Your phone company keeps records of where you are at any time based on which towers your attached to. Law enforcement can get that data. The phone company also has access to this data, who knows what they are using it for (hopefully to place towers near congestion)? Apple is not alone in this It appears Tom Tom/ Google are using their mapping app to get peoples speeds to get traffic info to feed back into the system...
I completed the first 3 back in the day. Great games, but those didn't seem to keep track of virtue. Gutting towns in Ultima 3 was a good way to get gold, and when you left came back everyone was resurrected.
Even lord British could be taken out, if only by boat cannon.... But again, only till you left the city and when you returned he was back.
I have a Nokia 6301. Its very small and just a phone (it can email and do very limited web surfing.. although its not pretty). It does hop onto wifi and make calls on wifi when it can. Works well, I have t-mobile, I think they call it "hot spot" calling or some such thing.
Apple has got to start making some decently priced computers for those that don't want to shell out for a desktop (2500$ +) and don't need the integrated monitor.
I've seen a lot of photography hobyist jump to PCs and I expect that trend to continue.
I built a hackintosh, but thats clearly not for everybody.
they keep a 2 week archive of shows online, if you miss one live. Lost and Found sounds is particularly interesting. Quality of DJs and music subject to programing. The pdf program guide gives descriptions of shows.
See gaming consoles...but better than before.
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Hopefully andriod and other competition keeps them honest. Game consoles are even worse as I can't even figure out how to get a development kit or get my applications on one.
People want "just works" over "I can code on it". Most consumers aren't coders.
On the plus side for us developers Apple just paid out 1 billion dollars to app developers. thats a billion dollar phone market that wasn't there before.
Steve Jobs single handedly changed the mobile app market for the better as well:
The Music industry is probably still mad that Apple fought their 0.30 $ increase in prices and has the leverage to do so.
This doesn't seem like a big deal. The barrier to entry in creating an online music store seems pretty low, plus the files are now DRM free and playable on any player. Apple just seems to not want Amazon to get music before it does.
Not the mention it was a minor miracle that Steve Jobs got the major labels to sell their music online in the first place. I think that head start put itunes music store in the position it is in today.
Someone seems to have taken a pac man rom and figured out how the game works. How the different ghosts move and follow you to why you can sometimes "miss" a ghost.
Facinating read... oddly hosted on someone's personal comcast account.
If Apple is buying off the shelf chips for its GSM transmitter, those come with a hidden "Tax" to actually use the chips? Why aren't the chip makers paying the royalty to Nokia if it really has patents on what those chips do?
Jobs where plentiful, signing bonuses common, stock options flowed like champagne......
I miss it.
Then company I worked for had an all hands meeting and then proceed to hand out unemployment forms.. We weren't even a dot com, but lack of investment killed them.
Almost all those patents seem a weak (some I don't quite get...). Patenting a "lock switch" because you decided to put it on a screen more than a little suspect...Entering into the "Crazy!" area.
Apple did spend years and years getting the keyboardless touchscreen phone developed. It was not a sure hit, especially without the keyboard. Now the iphone form factor is ubiquitous and as Apple also noted when it was released that they had a ton of patents on the device, so to maximize profits (as is required by corporations), they sue....
Ultimately these big companies usually end up with some cross licensing patent agreement and life goes own.
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Mmmmmmmmm cake..
delicious and moist.
look at me talking while there is science to do...
In all honesty when you bought those songs DRM was probably the only way to buy them. You can upgrade them to itunes + (Higher bit rate non-DRM for 30 cents.). You can remove the DRM through various methods. The easiest is to burn them to audio CD and re-rip them. If you don't eject the disc, it should keep the file names.
I tunes behaves really wonky, until I figured out that all you need to do click the "Manually manage movies and music" on each devices home page.
Then you can drag music and movies from anywhere (desktop/ itunes) into the device and it copies it in. It takes more manual effort, but seems to make the program behave much better.
I used to not mind itunes till I got a tablet...
Digial computer's Vax, not really a success as a game machine....
but it did have one ASCII adventure game that was great fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larn_(computer_game)
Utopia was great. I liked that it was 2 player.
I liked AD&D as well. I played that system with my brothers,
Games we liked I remember:
NFL football. - 5 players per side although 2 didn't do anything (you could run through the center and snapper)
Bump N Jump - 2 player driving smash em up
Star Strike - kinda like the death star trench scene flying scene
Astrosmash - shoot falling things.. Simple but fun.
Dreadnaught factor - battle large "star destroyer" type space ships..
Those controllers disc would hurt your thumb after a long period of play however.
The camera takes stills at... 720 x960.
This is clearly not the same camera as the iphone. Ok for snaps, but not much else...
I got one and its pretty darn good. Many reviewers agree with me. I use macs quite a bit but don't have an iphone. Its great, but far from improvement. Its has totally replaced my notebook for surfing, and checking emails at home. I take it with me and use it like a giant iphone for location based stuff (I'm a city dweller). The only thing against is that its not feasable to pull out and use while walking, but I guess thats what smart phones are for.
The ipad is really more of a consumer electronic device than a computer. Once you get over that mental hurdle its fine. Its a 1.0 product as well so some of the limits on its functionality should hopefully go away with competetion (thank goodness for it). Its not a netbook and shouldn't really be compared to one.
Everything not working everywhere is a small price to pay for breaking the MS monopoly on OSs.
This page is a detailed history of Pac Man, including history and information on the different ghosts move algorithms and speed changes... I find it interesting... Read it while you can, its hosted on comcast.....
http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html
I have a really old TomTom (It has depth like a very small TV). It works well enough.
But I got the Mr. T voice. I don't need to turn the radio down, when Mr. T speaks you listen! (fool!)
The results are not entirely surprising as it appears Google is using its needed data connection to feed data back into its traffic routing/monitoring which one hopes they use for routing calculations. The lack of this connection on a stand alone unit make it a problem.
The Nav companies see whats coming, thus the software version for smart phones and Garmin making a phone..
Your phone company keeps records of where you are at any time based on which towers your attached to. Law enforcement can get that data.
The phone company also has access to this data, who knows what they are using it for (hopefully to place towers near congestion)?
Apple is not alone in this It appears Tom Tom/ Google are using their mapping app to get peoples speeds to get traffic info to feed back into the system...
""It's absurd to expect ordinary members of the public to think "
Really?
"They are comparable to prohibition in the US in the 1920s."
How? A ban on liquor is equated to a making music copying illegal?
hey! look what you get when you cut and paste from TFA. A little rider on the bottom...
Read more: Music chief: preventing file-sharing is a "waste of time" | News | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359458/music-chief-preventing-file-sharing-is-a-waste-of-
I completed the first 3 back in the day. Great games, but those didn't seem to keep track of virtue. Gutting towns in Ultima 3 was a good way to get gold, and when you left came back everyone was resurrected.
Even lord British could be taken out, if only by boat cannon.... But again, only till you left the city and when you returned he was back.
"ug me tough"...
Something to look into.. Allows other file systems to be used with a mac.
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Ars has some good analysis. Seeing the games companies play with signal bars apples are oddly accurate... and logarithmic...
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/putting-hard-numbers-to-the-iphone-4-antenna-issue.ars
I don't know what % of iphone users use cases, but I'd imagine its a fairly high %.
I have a Nokia 6301. Its very small and just a phone (it can email and do very limited web surfing.. although its not pretty). It does hop onto wifi and make calls on wifi when it can. Works well, I have t-mobile, I think they call it "hot spot" calling or some such thing.
Apple has got to start making some decently priced computers for those that don't want to shell out for a desktop (2500$ +) and don't need the integrated monitor.
I've seen a lot of photography hobyist jump to PCs and I expect that trend to continue.
I built a hackintosh, but thats clearly not for everybody.
I recommend MIT WMBR if your in the boston/cambridge area, but being online it works anywhere:
http://www.wmbr.org/
they keep a 2 week archive of shows online, if you miss one live. Lost and Found sounds is particularly interesting. Quality of DJs and music subject to programing. The pdf program guide gives descriptions of shows.
Hopefully andriod and other competition keeps them honest. Game consoles are even worse as I can't even figure out how to get a development kit or get my applications on one.
People want "just works" over "I can code on it". Most consumers aren't coders.
On the plus side for us developers Apple just paid out 1 billion dollars to app developers. thats a billion dollar phone market that wasn't there before.
Steve Jobs single handedly changed the mobile app market for the better as well:
http://cdixon.org/2010/06/06/steve-jobs-single-handedly-restructured-the-mobile-industry/
Most versions of emacs have a tetris game built in. I don't have an android phone but it must have emacs by now....
M-X tetris
(or escape "x" then type tetris.
take that vi ! (i kid... )
The Music industry is probably still mad that Apple fought their 0.30 $ increase in prices and has the leverage to do so.
This doesn't seem like a big deal. The barrier to entry in creating an online music store seems pretty low, plus the files are now DRM free and playable on any player. Apple just seems to not want Amazon to get music before it does.
Not the mention it was a minor miracle that Steve Jobs got the major labels to sell their music online in the first place. I think that head start put itunes music store in the position it is in today.
Someone seems to have taken a pac man rom and figured out how the game works. How the different ghosts move and follow you to why you can sometimes "miss" a ghost.
Facinating read... oddly hosted on someone's personal comcast account.
http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html
Take your time...
If Apple is buying off the shelf chips for its GSM transmitter, those come with a hidden "Tax" to actually use the chips? Why aren't the chip makers paying the royalty to Nokia if it really has patents on what those chips do?
Jobs where plentiful, signing bonuses common, stock options flowed like champagne......
I miss it.
Then company I worked for had an all hands meeting and then proceed to hand out unemployment forms.. We weren't even a dot com, but lack of investment killed them.
Like waking from a wonderful dream....
Almost all those patents seem a weak (some I don't quite get...). Patenting a "lock switch" because you decided to put it on a screen more than a little suspect...Entering into the "Crazy!" area.
Patent reform can't come soon enough...
They have a copy of the filing with patent numbers and short descriptions
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100302/apples-suits-against-htc-both-documents/
Not a huge fan of patents especially on software.
Apple did spend years and years getting the keyboardless touchscreen phone developed. It was not a sure hit, especially without the keyboard. Now the iphone form factor is ubiquitous and as Apple also noted when it was released that they had a ton of patents on the device, so to maximize profits (as is required by corporations), they sue....
Ultimately these big companies usually end up with some cross licensing patent agreement and life goes own.