Oh, and nice attitude. Once you've bought - sorry, rented - the music, you get one chance to download, and if they give you the wrong file, or a corrupt file, or it gets eaten by/dev/null, you can get screwed.
Fuck them. Fuck them with every big stick you can think of. Fuck them with the Better Busines Beuro, fuck them with their local Attorney General, fuck them by telling your credit card issuer to issue a chargeback because you didn't receive the goods you paid for. Fuck them right in their stupid, DRM crippled, incompetent, evil, idiotic ear.
OK, perhaps unfair. My big gripe is that the APIs are so badly documented. Error codes, for example are pretty much undocumented in the SDK documentation and the code, and Googling or searching any of the Symbian forii usually draws either a fat blank or a list of requests for info and one poor Symbian/Nokia rep saying "Yes, that's not documented, but, eh, it means 'Out of Cheese'. Probably."
Hm, I guess that's how they manage to make money off of their pay-for-answers programs.
You are either a consumer, or you are with the terrorists.
Well, paraphrasing slightly, but I think you get the picture. If you can't be pressured into buying things that you don't want and don't need, then what's going to happen to all the people making those things, and applying that pressure? They'll have to get, you know, actual jobs.
I suggest they start making buggy whips, as most of us need them about as much as the current products and services that need to pimp themselves with unsolicited calls.
Symbian is the most intolerant OS it has ever been my mispleasure to develop for. I managed to get a KERN-EXEC out of the putty client with 4 taps. Hey, that's not alpha, that's ready to ship!
None of whom have a P800, I'll warrant. I do (I develop for it), and the screen is plenty big enough for VNC and SSH, especially if the VNC client supports landscape mode. Hell, if it doesn't, I might help it along.
Don't knock the P800 until you've tried it. With a decent browser in landscape mode (Opera or Picsel) it's also an acceptable web browser.
Now, would you non-P800 luser please get off the site so that I can grab the files?;-P
Do you have a P800? I do, and I've been waiting for a VNC client for so long that my teeth hurt. The screen is plenty big enough for controlling (e.g.) a home PVR setup, although it benefits from landscape mode enabled apps.
OK, you've had your run around and a good old shout, and I'm sure you're very excited at having made such a crushing, cutting incisive comment that so eloquently summed up our relative positions and reduced me to humble contrition, but it's time to get back on the short bus with the other winners now. Can you find your bus buddie? Have you got your inhaler and anorak? Do we remember how we talked about how other people will like us better if we try and see the humour in what they say, even when we don't appreciate it? Hmm? Do you remember that little talk?
>In my opinion [Lexx] was more like B7 than 'Farscape'
Sure, who can forget the classic scene in B7 where they go back to Earth and a robot spider thing jumps into the hick cop's asshole, while the sex slave/giant worm/pod person clone chick version #2 gets her kit off (again) and the zombie goth runs out of zombie goth go-juice (yet again). Serious character driven drama, and no mistake.;-P
In the Special Olympics of intarweb debate, you're first among equals. Do your victory lap. Look, everyone is clapping! You're a winner! Hurrah! Hurrah!
You do realise that you're commenting in an article about make believe people flying around space in a collection of washing up liquid bottles and sticky backed plastic and killing each other with torches, right?
What are you talking about? There were only 6 series of Red Dwarf. I remember it distinctly. Well, maybe five and a half. There was no series 7. There was no series 7.
Did Zen run lunix? That might be why nobody could understand how he worked, and why the (clearly Microsoft using) Federation was so keen to track him down. ORAC was prissy, self opinionated and not half as smart as he thought he was. Clearly a Mac.
Try saying "Avon, Aeryn, Avon, Aeryn" ten times quickly, although her character is closer to Cally or Dayna. The little muppet was Villa, and so is the grey chick, Dargo is Gan, Kryten is Blake with a personality, the blue chick with the big knockers is, a, a plant or something. Why would a plant have mammary glands?
My god, TV sci-fi makes no sense! They lied to us all these years! Oh, I've wasted me life.
And Red Dwarf actually started to suck (as in "chest wound") the more budget it got. With no budget, you have to rely on obsolete FX like "plot", "dialogue" and "acting".
>I really hope [Paul Darrow] keeps behind the cameras as he seems to have become an old luvvie in the ensuing years.
See also Sir Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart. The thing about British luvvies is that they can actually act. Also, Avon wouldn't have to have that much screen time, as there's no reason to assume that he'd be one of the protagonists.
>The first anti-hero in Avon. The D&D rogue character in Villa.
*cough* Iago *cough* Bardolph *cough*. Remember that BBC luvvies tend to be classically trained. You can find practically any character you want in Shakespeare.
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Start taking law courses at night school. Now.
Rentals, not "purchases".
Oh, and nice attitude. Once you've bought - sorry, rented - the music, you get one chance to download, and if they give you the wrong file, or a corrupt file, or it gets eaten by /dev/null, you can get screwed.
Fuck them. Fuck them with every big stick you can think of. Fuck them with the Better Busines Beuro, fuck them with their local Attorney General, fuck them by telling your credit card issuer to issue a chargeback because you didn't receive the goods you paid for. Fuck them right in their stupid, DRM crippled, incompetent, evil, idiotic ear.
You didn't vote? Then you don't care.
You voted using this system? Then you don't care.
The US electoral system is an obsolete farce. I care passionately, and that's why I won't support it by participating.
OK, perhaps unfair. My big gripe is that the APIs are so badly documented. Error codes, for example are pretty much undocumented in the SDK documentation and the code, and Googling or searching any of the Symbian forii usually draws either a fat blank or a list of requests for info and one poor Symbian/Nokia rep saying "Yes, that's not documented, but, eh, it means 'Out of Cheese'. Probably."
Hm, I guess that's how they manage to make money off of their pay-for-answers programs.
You are either a consumer, or you are with the terrorists.
Well, paraphrasing slightly, but I think you get the picture. If you can't be pressured into buying things that you don't want and don't need, then what's going to happen to all the people making those things, and applying that pressure? They'll have to get, you know, actual jobs.
I suggest they start making buggy whips, as most of us need them about as much as the current products and services that need to pimp themselves with unsolicited calls.
Symbian is the most intolerant OS it has ever been my mispleasure to develop for. I managed to get a KERN-EXEC out of the putty client with 4 taps. Hey, that's not alpha, that's ready to ship!
None of whom have a P800, I'll warrant. I do (I develop for it), and the screen is plenty big enough for VNC and SSH, especially if the VNC client supports landscape mode. Hell, if it doesn't, I might help it along.
Don't knock the P800 until you've tried it. With a decent browser in landscape mode (Opera or Picsel) it's also an acceptable web browser.
Now, would you non-P800 luser please get off the site so that I can grab the files? ;-P
Do you have a P800? I do, and I've been waiting for a VNC client for so long that my teeth hurt. The screen is plenty big enough for controlling (e.g.) a home PVR setup, although it benefits from landscape mode enabled apps.
Hmm, to answer my own rhetorical question, apparently I could forget those B7 scenes.
On Earth, we have this thing called hew-more. It is highly illogical.
OK, you've had your run around and a good old shout, and I'm sure you're very excited at having made such a crushing, cutting incisive comment that so eloquently summed up our relative positions and reduced me to humble contrition, but it's time to get back on the short bus with the other winners now. Can you find your bus buddie? Have you got your inhaler and anorak? Do we remember how we talked about how other people will like us better if we try and see the humour in what they say, even when we don't appreciate it? Hmm? Do you remember that little talk?
>In my opinion [Lexx] was more like B7 than 'Farscape'
Sure, who can forget the classic scene in B7 where they go back to Earth and a robot spider thing jumps into the hick cop's asshole, while the sex slave/giant worm/pod person clone chick version #2 gets her kit off (again) and the zombie goth runs out of zombie goth go-juice (yet again). Serious character driven drama, and no mistake. ;-P
In the Special Olympics of intarweb debate, you're first among equals. Do your victory lap. Look, everyone is clapping! You're a winner! Hurrah! Hurrah!
>It had teleportation ability over wast distances [...] Zen had wast amounts of knowledge
That's because it was a nuclear wessel.
grow up
You do realise that you're commenting in an article about make believe people flying around space in a collection of washing up liquid bottles and sticky backed plastic and killing each other with torches, right?
What are you talking about? There were only 6 series of Red Dwarf. I remember it distinctly. Well, maybe five and a half. There was no series 7. There was no series 7.
>They did bring back Dr. Who as a feature length TV movie
Bear in mind that they killed Sylvester McCoy. That was worth the license fee alone.
Did Zen run lunix? That might be why nobody could understand how he worked, and why the (clearly Microsoft using) Federation was so keen to track him down. ORAC was prissy, self opinionated and not half as smart as he thought he was. Clearly a Mac.
Try saying "Avon, Aeryn, Avon, Aeryn" ten times quickly, although her character is closer to Cally or Dayna. The little muppet was Villa, and so is the grey chick, Dargo is Gan, Kryten is Blake with a personality, the blue chick with the big knockers is, a, a plant or something. Why would a plant have mammary glands?
My god, TV sci-fi makes no sense! They lied to us all these years! Oh, I've wasted me life.
No, you're thinking of Lexx. Or maybe Firefly. Or perhaps Andromeda. Blake's 7 didn't have muppets, to the best of my recollection.
Not everyone, just Trinity.
And Red Dwarf actually started to suck (as in "chest wound") the more budget it got. With no budget, you have to rely on obsolete FX like "plot", "dialogue" and "acting".
>I really hope [Paul Darrow] keeps behind the cameras as he seems to have become an old luvvie in the ensuing years.
See also Sir Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart. The thing about British luvvies is that they can actually act. Also, Avon wouldn't have to have that much screen time, as there's no reason to assume that he'd be one of the protagonists.
>The first anti-hero in Avon. The D&D rogue character in Villa.
*cough* Iago *cough* Bardolph *cough*. Remember that BBC luvvies tend to be classically trained. You can find practically any character you want in Shakespeare.