I won't look down on them for opening up the opportunity (both to themselves and to the customers), but I have to say... I don't think I could play a whole game (assuming it was a book of any decent size) through a PDF. When playing an RPG, you need a lot of content, quickly and easily. I suppose a laptop with the PDF loaded could fit the need pretty well, but I'll take dead trees any day.
Although, this would be a good buy for your players, so you don't have to play "Who needs the book this week?" all the time.
Then again, there's the route of not buying the DVD, and applying something similar to the RIAA sticker to the cases in the store. Less punishement, more of a logical link, and it actually serves the useful cause of informing others through your civil disobedience.
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...or if you can wait, you can probably find a whole lot better of a deal on a typewriter at a garage sale or flea market. I imagine the shipping alone on a typewriter would be a fair percent of the cost.
Thanks for bringing up those bad memories of Autodesk's licensing system again... grrr...
That's just bad programming. Every type of user in Windows will have a R/W-enabled portion of both the Registry and the hard disk(s). The program should be using those resources, not trying to do things like writing config data into it's Program Files directory or writing into the HKLM registry tree. Granted, this doesn't apply to Installers, which it would be natural to run as root.
I've always found dual displays to be quite simple under Windows. More than anything, it's a matter of the hardware setup more than anything related to the OS that causes problems with laptop dual-monitoring.
Of course, this is the advantage of getting the hardware and the OS from the same company.
I'm personally a fan of Trillian (Pro) over Gaim... I'm more of a graphically-inclined person, so I'm more inclined toward Trill's skinnability and generally more polished look, as opposed to Gaim's more beige-box-blah default-UI look.
That said, I think they needed more standards for skin layout, especially back in 2.0. The 2.0 default skin (Cerulean, was it?) was quite confusing, I've got to say. Then, when I changed the skin, I ended up with a completely different layout... almost a completely different program. A lack of guidelines and complete customizability lead to my having to relearn the interface every time I changed skins.
Granted, I eventually just picked up the excellent AikonLCD2 skin (which I hope will be coming out in the LCD form in a v3-compatible version soon!), and was happy from then on.
I just recall a quite pooh-poohed article about how "skinning is bad" because it made a non-standard and noob-confusing interface between instance of the program. Although I don't agree with that position for most instances (after all, the person skinning it the one using it, and they want it that way, right?), Trillian was definitely an extreme example of that downside of skinning.
Woops... wrong format... that should have been the ".stolen" format, from Steve Ballmer's quote about the most popular file format on iPods being "Stolen".
As long as it's individuals doing the filtering, and it's not being handed down from above, I'd still agree with them. They can have their clean channels, I can have my more risque channels. IMO, it allows a pretty decent technical facilitation of "If you don't like it, don't watch it." It's a "V-Chip" with a price savings, and we can only hope it keeps "them" of messing with "our" programming on "our" channels (no matter who "we" or "they" might be). What's not to like?
Veering further off-topic, but... well... whatever...
Since the matter bringing the broadcast flag about is the ability to make perfect digital copies, I would imagine it would be legally defensable to make less perfect analog copies, if the Use was Fair?
Granted, that still doesn't mean the (MP|RI)AA aren't going to run you into the ground with illegitamate legal fees.
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Of course, that's the case with any other book, game, or other media product. Just be a cautious customer, and ask around first.
I won't look down on them for opening up the opportunity (both to themselves and to the customers), but I have to say... I don't think I could play a whole game (assuming it was a book of any decent size) through a PDF. When playing an RPG, you need a lot of content, quickly and easily. I suppose a laptop with the PDF loaded could fit the need pretty well, but I'll take dead trees any day.
Although, this would be a good buy for your players, so you don't have to play "Who needs the book this week?" all the time.
(To both the PP and GPP)
Then again, there's the route of not buying the DVD, and applying something similar to the RIAA sticker to the cases in the store. Less punishement, more of a logical link, and it actually serves the useful cause of informing others through your civil disobedience.
...or if you can wait, you can probably find a whole lot better of a deal on a typewriter at a garage sale or flea market. I imagine the shipping alone on a typewriter would be a fair percent of the cost.
I say... is your wife a bomber?
Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, saynomore, knowhatimean...
Don't worry...
NSA get signal. PATRIOT Act turn on.
Only distribute domain names with commercial interest?
Not likely by a long shot, but I'd call it a decent hypothetical first step.
Thanks for bringing up those bad memories of Autodesk's licensing system again... grrr...
That's just bad programming. Every type of user in Windows will have a R/W-enabled portion of both the Registry and the hard disk(s). The program should be using those resources, not trying to do things like writing config data into it's Program Files directory or writing into the HKLM registry tree. Granted, this doesn't apply to Installers, which it would be natural to run as root.
That's it... Now I know where you live.
Bum... Oh! What a giveaway!
"Back-end"
What, like a huge barcode?
I've always found dual displays to be quite simple under Windows. More than anything, it's a matter of the hardware setup more than anything related to the OS that causes problems with laptop dual-monitoring.
Of course, this is the advantage of getting the hardware and the OS from the same company.
I'll second that... I personally can't stand the new OSX file picker boxes, and iTunes just annoys the hell out of me.
Then again, I run Win+GeoShell, so I can't be said to be the "run-of-the-mill" type user.
I'm personally a fan of Trillian (Pro) over Gaim... I'm more of a graphically-inclined person, so I'm more inclined toward Trill's skinnability and generally more polished look, as opposed to Gaim's more beige-box-blah default-UI look.
That said, I think they needed more standards for skin layout, especially back in 2.0. The 2.0 default skin (Cerulean, was it?) was quite confusing, I've got to say. Then, when I changed the skin, I ended up with a completely different layout... almost a completely different program. A lack of guidelines and complete customizability lead to my having to relearn the interface every time I changed skins.
Granted, I eventually just picked up the excellent AikonLCD2 skin (which I hope will be coming out in the LCD form in a v3-compatible version soon!), and was happy from then on.
I just recall a quite pooh-poohed article about how "skinning is bad" because it made a non-standard and noob-confusing interface between instance of the program. Although I don't agree with that position for most instances (after all, the person skinning it the one using it, and they want it that way, right?), Trillian was definitely an extreme example of that downside of skinning.
Then what's in it for the news channels?
But then they would put it online...
Woops... wrong format... that should have been the ".stolen" format, from Steve Ballmer's quote about the most popular file format on iPods being "Stolen".
And, it also plays the widely-used .illegal format, which is a big plus for the consumer... does the Neuros?
That's it! We need a commission to determine the worst problem and the proper course of action!
I'll start printing the business cards...
Love your country, fine.
What, dirt with some lines around it?
Although, technically, you *can* speak into headphones (hooked into a mic jack) to make a recording.
Well, and it would be fun to watch from a distance.
(Yeah, sure, mod me "Incoherent" as well)
That's not a bad idea, though.
As long as it's individuals doing the filtering, and it's not being handed down from above, I'd still agree with them. They can have their clean channels, I can have my more risque channels. IMO, it allows a pretty decent technical facilitation of "If you don't like it, don't watch it." It's a "V-Chip" with a price savings, and we can only hope it keeps "them" of messing with "our" programming on "our" channels (no matter who "we" or "they" might be). What's not to like?
Veering further off-topic, but... well... whatever...
Since the matter bringing the broadcast flag about is the ability to make perfect digital copies, I would imagine it would be legally defensable to make less perfect analog copies, if the Use was Fair?
Granted, that still doesn't mean the (MP|RI)AA aren't going to run you into the ground with illegitamate legal fees.