tends to fix extension incompatibility issues. Most extensions really are compatible; they just have 1.5 as the highest version supported. That extension lets you modify the maxversion with a single click in the extension manager, "fixing" the incompatibility.
Of course, YMMV, but Bookmarks Synchronizer, TinyURL creator and Flashblock (the extensions that broke for me) work fine when I "Make compatible".
I hate artificial restrictions on what you can do with software. It's just like old-time minicomputers that could be upgraded to the faster, three times more expensive version by resoldering a wire inside.
It's almost a crime not to be able to use hardware or software you own to its full potential because of silly "licensing issues".
Wow, not only is that site fugly but it doesn't even render properly.. the copyright bar the bottom of the page appears about 3/4 from the bottom of the page and overlaps some of the content.
allofmp3 is nice, but the idiots don't accept MasterCard. Only VISA, which I don't have. And I'm not getting another credit card just so I can buy MP3s.
What the heck kind of payment processor doesn't do both Visa and Mastercard? I bet they're losing a non-zero amount of business due to this stupidity.
This only happens if you configure your iPod to let iTunes manage it completely. It'll also ask before it wipes out anything on the iPod.
If you set the iPod to manually manage music, you can use it on as many computers as you wish without a problem. Heck, you can even copy DRMed iTunes tracks from a number of different authorized machines to it, and it'll play them all without a problem.
Please, stop circulating FUD just because you don't know how to use the software.:)
>but its a PITA that I have to go through hoops to put my legal MP3s on it from multiple computers.
Huh? I've never had a problem putting MP3s on it from multiple computers. The only thing you have to go through hoops for is to copy MP3s *OFF* the iPod; however there are plenty of free utilities (Senuti, etc.) for doing this.
Also, you have to reformat a Mac iPod for Windows (fat32) in order to use it on both platforms... But as far as putting MP3s on it from multiple computers, there are no obstacles for doing this.
This has been argued before... Teleporters are big nasty death machines.
When you step in, you are recreated elsewhere and your original body is destroyed.
Worse yet, since your copy is exactly the same as you to an outside observer, a society could theoretically use teleporters for centuries and not realize that every time someone steps in, they perceive their own death.
And there's no way to prove this is or isn't the case.
I will never step in a teleporter. You shouldn't either.
No, you don't just "skip even numbered pixels". This results in major quality loss.
You want to take an average of every four pixels and use that to generate the new pixel. This results in a much higher quality image because you're using all the information in the original image to generate the final result, instead of only a quarter of it.
Actually, yes. Battery acid will burn your skin right away; gasoline will not unless something else ignites it.
Of course I suppose if the ignition happens, you will be more fucked than you would have been with the battery acid (provided none of it got in your eyes)
There will be a HUGE uproar if they try to ban multi-region DVD players in Australia or Europe. In the US most folks don't care, because nearly everything is released here... But DVD releases in other regions are spotty and MOST DVD players in those regions are multi-region for this reason.
The market for region 1 DVDs in Europe and such is huge. I don't think they'll go far with this law before a lot of bitching results.
Sounds like a bad policy. Cameras are small enough that it's probably trivial for someone who WANTS to take illicit pictures to sneak one in, anyway. So they are penalizing folks with camera phones and camera-equipped laptops to try to stop something they won't be able to stop *anyway*.
What disturbs me is that the government backs the BSA so much. Why should the BSA, a private organization, have the right to audit a company? I've heard stories of the BSA breaking into businesses with the aid of federal marshalls! What the heck? Why are our tax dollars being used to support these thugs? Businesses should be able to slam the door in the BSA's face and the BSA should have to go screw themselves, not be able to get federal marshalls to help them break in.
THANK YOU! I have to deal with much of the same annoyances concerning Java here at FIU! In fact, we have so many different versions of Java installed that we had to make java a wrapper script that uses the JAVA_HOME environment variable to decide which version to run! This way professors who insist on using a particular version can continue to do so happily without being affected by upgrades.
It's exasperating and I wonder why people seem to love Java so much. Not to mention that nearly every Java program I have ever had the displeasure of executing is slow, clunky, spews ridiculous amounts of useless debug information to the console (ever heard of disabling debug messages on production code?), and tends to be unreliable.
Of course, Java is not the only language that's a pain to maintain; C++ is almost as bad. The standard changes so much that code written five years ago won't compile with a modern C++ compiler! Apparently the term "backwards compatibility" is lost on the C++ standard developers. ARRRRGGGHHH!!
I wonder why Google and Paypal don't want porn to be sold using their service.
Just think of the huge market they're abandoning; if porn sites could use paypal or google for payment, many more folks might be willing to to pay for porn since they won't be giving their credit card info to seedy companies!
But for some odd reason they forbid it. Strange...
Oh, I did. I had several friends in person growing up. All but one betrayed me in one way or another.
This tends to do something to folks; it makes them hesitant to trust new people because of the betrayal. If this hasn't happened to you in one way or another, you simply won't understand where I'm coming from. And it's not just me because I know several people in a similar situation.
Perhaps you've had better luck; all I know is I believe I'm better off than if I had continued trusting people without getting to know them in a long distance fashion first.
I have plenty of close friends. Trouble is they're scattered all over the planet.
I could never relate to most locals, really. The best friends I have are those I've met online. A few have moved nearby since and I see them often in real-life.
I don't think the Internet is responsible for a *lack* of close friends.. Just a larger pool of potential friends where you end up meeting much better matches, even if they are physically farther away.
However, the folks I've met on the 'net aren't any less my friends than folks I've met in person.
Woz, your handiwork led me to become the geek I am today.
Thank you for the Apple II. I'll never forget those wonky graphics modes, created that way just to save a few chips. Or the sound of that beep. Or writing 6502 in the mini-assembler because I couldn't afford commercial assemblers. Or writing silly games in INTBASIC.
You're my hero, and I don't have many of those. Thank you.
Buying the top of the line video card on the market is always a bad idea. Buy the second place card; you'll save a huge bundle at only a tiny cost in performance.
Also, if you commit to playing last year's games, you can also save a bundle of cash in hardware upgrades, since you never have to buy the latest and greatest.
It's not the same, but you still have to recompress the content to get it to a reasonable size.
The content on the disc is compressed. When it comes out of a DVI cable, it is uncompressed. The bits are there, but at a ludicruosly high data rate. You have to recompress, losing quality, to get it down to a reasonable size again.
Better to get the data straight off the disc than to go through that.
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This: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/421/
tends to fix extension incompatibility issues. Most extensions really are compatible; they just have 1.5 as the highest version supported. That extension lets you modify the maxversion with a single click in the extension manager, "fixing" the incompatibility.
Of course, YMMV, but Bookmarks Synchronizer, TinyURL creator and Flashblock (the extensions that broke for me) work fine when I "Make compatible".
-Z
Awesome work there...
I hate artificial restrictions on what you can do with software. It's just like old-time minicomputers that could be upgraded to the faster, three times more expensive version by resoldering a wire inside.
It's almost a crime not to be able to use hardware or software you own to its full potential because of silly "licensing issues".
-Z
Wow, not only is that site fugly but it doesn't even render properly.. the copyright bar the bottom of the page appears about 3/4 from the bottom of the page and overlaps some of the content.
:)
They need to fire their web developer.
-Z
allofmp3 is nice, but the idiots don't accept MasterCard. Only VISA, which I don't have. And I'm not getting another credit card just so I can buy MP3s.
What the heck kind of payment processor doesn't do both Visa and Mastercard? I bet they're losing a non-zero amount of business due to this stupidity.
-Z
This only happens if you configure your iPod to let iTunes manage it completely. It'll also ask before it wipes out anything on the iPod.
:)
If you set the iPod to manually manage music, you can use it on as many computers as you wish without a problem. Heck, you can even copy DRMed iTunes tracks from a number of different authorized machines to it, and it'll play them all without a problem.
Please, stop circulating FUD just because you don't know how to use the software.
-Z
>but its a PITA that I have to go through hoops to put my legal MP3s on it from multiple computers.
Huh? I've never had a problem putting MP3s on it from multiple computers. The only thing you have to go through hoops for is to copy MP3s *OFF* the iPod; however there are plenty of free utilities (Senuti, etc.) for doing this.
Also, you have to reformat a Mac iPod for Windows (fat32) in order to use it on both platforms... But as far as putting MP3s on it from multiple computers, there are no obstacles for doing this.
-Z
This has been argued before... Teleporters are big nasty death machines.
When you step in, you are recreated elsewhere and your original body is destroyed.
Worse yet, since your copy is exactly the same as you to an outside observer, a society could theoretically use teleporters for centuries and not realize that every time someone steps in, they perceive their own death.
And there's no way to prove this is or isn't the case.
I will never step in a teleporter. You shouldn't either.
-Z
No, you don't just "skip even numbered pixels". This results in major quality loss.
You want to take an average of every four pixels and use that to generate the new pixel. This results in a much higher quality image because you're using all the information in the original image to generate the final result, instead of only a quarter of it.
-Z
Sure you can play widescreen content on it. It's called letterboxing and has been around for ages.
Actually, rebooting after IP changes was removed long before, in Windows NT 4.0.
MS just never wanted to sell NT to consumers until Win2000, and to a greater extent, XP.
-Z
Actually, yes. Battery acid will burn your skin right away; gasoline will not unless something else ignites it.
Of course I suppose if the ignition happens, you will be more fucked than you would have been with the battery acid (provided none of it got in your eyes)
Oww...
-Z
Everyone knows the access code is 42721.
Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
There will be a HUGE uproar if they try to ban multi-region DVD players in Australia or Europe. In the US most folks don't care, because nearly everything is released here... But DVD releases in other regions are spotty and MOST DVD players in those regions are multi-region for this reason.
The market for region 1 DVDs in Europe and such is huge. I don't think they'll go far with this law before a lot of bitching results.
-Z
Sounds like a bad policy. Cameras are small enough that it's probably trivial for someone who WANTS to take illicit pictures to sneak one in, anyway. So they are penalizing folks with camera phones and camera-equipped laptops to try to stop something they won't be able to stop *anyway*.
-Z
What disturbs me is that the government backs the BSA so much. Why should the BSA, a private organization, have the right to audit a company? I've heard stories of the BSA breaking into businesses with the aid of federal marshalls! What the heck? Why are our tax dollars being used to support these thugs? Businesses should be able to slam the door in the BSA's face and the BSA should have to go screw themselves, not be able to get federal marshalls to help them break in.
This is a really messed up world. Sigh.
-Z
THANK YOU! I have to deal with much of the same annoyances concerning Java here at FIU! In fact, we have so many different versions of Java installed that we had to make java a wrapper script that uses the JAVA_HOME environment variable to decide which version to run! This way professors who insist on using a particular version can continue to do so happily without being affected by upgrades.
It's exasperating and I wonder why people seem to love Java so much. Not to mention that nearly every Java program I have ever had the displeasure of executing is slow, clunky, spews ridiculous amounts of useless debug information to the console (ever heard of disabling debug messages on production code?), and tends to be unreliable.
Of course, Java is not the only language that's a pain to maintain; C++ is almost as bad. The standard changes so much that code written five years ago won't compile with a modern C++ compiler! Apparently the term "backwards compatibility" is lost on the C++ standard developers. ARRRRGGGHHH!!
That is all.... drive through.
>Few people own battery chargers.
:)
So you go to Best Buy and buy one. What's the big deal? You're talking as if battery chargers are a big ticket item that'll bankrupt Bill Gates.
Sheesh.
-Z
I wonder why Google and Paypal don't want porn to be sold using their service.
Just think of the huge market they're abandoning; if porn sites could use paypal or google for payment, many more folks might be willing to to pay for porn since they won't be giving their credit card info to seedy companies!
But for some odd reason they forbid it. Strange...
-Z
Oh, I did. I had several friends in person growing up. All but one betrayed me in one way or another.
This tends to do something to folks; it makes them hesitant to trust new people because of the betrayal. If this hasn't happened to you in one way or another, you simply won't understand where I'm coming from. And it's not just me because I know several people in a similar situation.
Perhaps you've had better luck; all I know is I believe I'm better off than if I had continued trusting people without getting to know them in a long distance fashion first.
-Z
I have plenty of close friends. Trouble is they're scattered all over the planet.
I could never relate to most locals, really. The best friends I have are those I've met online. A few have moved nearby since and I see them often in real-life.
I don't think the Internet is responsible for a *lack* of close friends.. Just a larger pool of potential friends where you end up meeting much better matches, even if they are physically farther away.
However, the folks I've met on the 'net aren't any less my friends than folks I've met in person.
-Z
My cat cost $0.
Ain't nature grand? I wonder how they plan to "copy-protect" these kittens? Not let them out of the cattery without being neutered?
-Z
Woz, your handiwork led me to become the geek I am today.
Thank you for the Apple II. I'll never forget those wonky graphics modes, created that way just to save a few chips. Or the sound of that beep. Or writing 6502 in the mini-assembler because I couldn't afford commercial assemblers. Or writing silly games in INTBASIC.
You're my hero, and I don't have many of those. Thank you.
-Z
Dr. Scratchnsniff: Stop playing with my bust!
...Goodnight, everybody!
Yakko Warner:
Buying the top of the line video card on the market is always a bad idea. Buy the second place card; you'll save a huge bundle at only a tiny cost in performance.
Also, if you commit to playing last year's games, you can also save a bundle of cash in hardware upgrades, since you never have to buy the latest and greatest.
-Z
It's not the same, but you still have to recompress the content to get it to a reasonable size.
The content on the disc is compressed. When it comes out of a DVI cable, it is uncompressed. The bits are there, but at a ludicruosly high data rate. You have to recompress, losing quality, to get it down to a reasonable size again.
Better to get the data straight off the disc than to go through that.