> In fact, outside Apple, most digital music players will not play AAC
Please tell me more of this alternate universe you come from.
>There are possibly more players that support OGG than AAC
Least DRM free means I can finally use Itunes for my ipod. I use rockbox so I can play flac. (apple lossless you say? why I am. a. too lazy and b. perfer flac for long term storage)
Am I the only one who cannot understand why they went this stupid direction rather than processing using a relevent law. (Yes I know they said they they could not find any law applicable...)
To me this seems just as bad as when some companyt slaps "on the internet" onto some existing thing and try to patent it/otherwise claim control over it.
Surely mental torture is covered by an existing law. "On the internet" is neither here nor there.
Maybe it's just me but I'm sick of this "on the internet" bollocks.
The stores that sell used copies are usually the most expensive place to buy new and the prices they charge for used copies tend to be more than the places that don't sell used. At least this is true in the UK. I do not know why people buy at theses places. And this is not even mentioning online new pricing, though if you know where to go you can usually get as cheap as online in a store.
I have even seen these places that sell used copies have an offer on a new game (obviously the suppliers offer not theirs) and that priced the new copies much cheaper than the used in the same store.
As such I concluded the used market is a complete rip off around here, with the one exception being if you want to pick up a fairly old game and that is just because they are scared it will never move.
I cannot understand why anyone would want to pay the mobile companies twice.
I currently can use my mobile when appropriate but when I need something more I use bletooth to connect my eee to my phone to use it's connection. Yes this does mean paying more on my phone contract but not as much as 2 contracts would be from what I have seen on these plans already. (I'm in the UK they have been selling like this for quite while now)
Only thing that probably sucks is when it comes time to renew my contract and get a nice shiny new phone there will be no bolt on options and I will be forced to have two contracts to make the mobile companies more money.
This is not a good thing, the only people who would needa mobile broadband only option are people without a mobile. For the rest it should just be bluetooth or whatever to the mobile phone. Yes I realise the operators in the US try to discourage you from this or ban it on most plans, but that is just bollocks, if i can use the interent on my phone whats the difference if I can connect another device? NOTHING, that's what, it just does not help them rip you off.
The loss of control and privicy should put anyone off cloud computing.
RMS however adds the usual over the top extra paranoia we all love.
I would be up for cloud computing using remote power if it was my remote power. Hopefully soon out desktops will become our clouds for our portable machines. That would be nice, control and power for all!
Unfortunatly like most things it aint black or white.
Music sucked in the 80s is a big statement. Mainstream music in the 80s sucked is somewhat nearer what you hopefully meant.
Synth Pop was not all the 80s was about.
At the begining of the 80s punk was still very much around.
From the mid 80s onwards "inde" was becoming popular.
Metallica started in the early 80s but I am still unable to find their synth pop album.
For the record I like a lot of synth pop also.
Grow up, music comes in 2 forms. Music you like and music you don't. Music you like can be anything, even stuff that you only secretly like because you are not adult enough to admit it yet.
How is this anything like insulting someone on Usenet?
That is a direct confrontation with no pretense or anything else.
This case shows someone asuming a false personality with the intent of inflicting harm upon another, presumably though not intending the suicide outcome but who knows, she is certainly guitly of something, what however I do not know, a fitting punishment would be her having idiot brnaded on her forehead maybe.
If both are the same under law then law is stupid.
No it does not. Last time I looked previous versions of office still worked as good as they did back then.
You can argue the same for using any software, but it really does not force people into an upgrade cycle.
I think it's more a human obsession that people feel inadequate without the latest version of something. I often talk to people about updating software and they cannot give any good reason for doing it or any benefits they think it will bring. When this is the case people just need to learn that what they have is probably good enough.
Congratulations you pointed out something that was clearly not in the summary. Thank you for a worthwhile addition to the discussion. Your mother must be proud.
> Unfortunately, we still have clients who insist on using Windows 2000 (which can't run IE 7). Thankfully, they don't stick to IE 5.5 and complain that the sites "don't look right"
Ok, I'm not at work today but let's just pretend like I am...
If the student believed that having FF available to him would be a benefit then the proper manor to request this is not in a class as (as obviously was the case) the teacher would not have a clue and should just be teaching the subject at hand.
heh makes me feel old though, in my day it was netscape all the way, ie 1 or 2 or whatever (pre 3 certainly) were also on the machines (well the windows ones, heh there is another difference) but were not really any use.
> but the rest of us remember that windows 2000 and office 97 were the standard corporate image up until 2006.
Heh, I write this on ie 5.5 from nt 4.0 which has office 97 installed on it (the big update for last year was outlook 97 to outlook 98!) i think the xp licence sticker that adorns the case is just for fun;-)
I think there are plans to roll out win xp at some point, but not in a hurry!
I've even used nt 3.51 a few years ago at a different company!
As such everything should come under one of their classifications, even if that is R18.
They are not about censorship, that should fall down to one of two places. a. the content owner self censoring in order to gain a certain certification or, b. the government, for not allowing illegal things.
Other that that please certify things and leave it up to the consumer.
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>Who stopped using VHS?
Sane people.
Sorry did you not mean that as a actual question?
But I doubt I can be bothered to even do that.
I am alays amazed at the no of responders to suject like this that go on about this way that way and the other way, how they do this and so on.
What sort of odd data are you all keeping around that you need to secure to this level?
Pretty much all my data is dull and mundane.
Either everyone is paranoid or 12. Possibly both.
> In fact, outside Apple, most digital music players will not play AAC
Please tell me more of this alternate universe you come from.
>There are possibly more players that support OGG than AAC
Least DRM free means I can finally use Itunes for my ipod. I use rockbox so I can play flac. (apple lossless you say? why I am. a. too lazy and b. perfer flac for long term storage)
> i would never drive anywhere if everyone exibited the same lack of common sense on the road.
You clearly don't drive local to me, there are too many idiots around here!
Am I the only one who cannot understand why they went this stupid direction rather than processing using a relevent law. (Yes I know they said they they could not find any law applicable...)
To me this seems just as bad as when some companyt slaps "on the internet" onto some existing thing and try to patent it/otherwise claim control over it.
Surely mental torture is covered by an existing law. "On the internet" is neither here nor there.
Maybe it's just me but I'm sick of this "on the internet" bollocks.
Happens a lot.
The stores that sell used copies are usually the most expensive place to buy new and the prices they charge for used copies tend to be more than the places that don't sell used. At least this is true in the UK. I do not know why people buy at theses places. And this is not even mentioning online new pricing, though if you know where to go you can usually get as cheap as online in a store.
I have even seen these places that sell used copies have an offer on a new game (obviously the suppliers offer not theirs) and that priced the new copies much cheaper than the used in the same store.
As such I concluded the used market is a complete rip off around here, with the one exception being if you want to pick up a fairly old game and that is just because they are scared it will never move.
I cannot understand why anyone would want to pay the mobile companies twice.
I currently can use my mobile when appropriate but when I need something more I use bletooth to connect my eee to my phone to use it's connection. Yes this does mean paying more on my phone contract but not as much as 2 contracts would be from what I have seen on these plans already. (I'm in the UK they have been selling like this for quite while now)
Only thing that probably sucks is when it comes time to renew my contract and get a nice shiny new phone there will be no bolt on options and I will be forced to have two contracts to make the mobile companies more money.
This is not a good thing, the only people who would needa mobile broadband only option are people without a mobile. For the rest it should just be bluetooth or whatever to the mobile phone. Yes I realise the operators in the US try to discourage you from this or ban it on most plans, but that is just bollocks, if i can use the interent on my phone whats the difference if I can connect another device? NOTHING, that's what, it just does not help them rip you off.
> I'm switching to O2, which is apparently unlimited
How can an internet connection EVER be unlimited?
Your connection speed, even if not artificially limited is a limit in its self.
And therefore because it cannot be unlimited the word unlimited shiuld not be used ever in reference to a limited connection.
O2 are good from what I hear but I never trust anyone who uses a term which cannot be true.
ISPs should just set out the limits for you to see and there wll alwasy be some limits.
The loss of control and privicy should put anyone off cloud computing.
RMS however adds the usual over the top extra paranoia we all love.
I would be up for cloud computing using remote power if it was my remote power. Hopefully soon out desktops will become our clouds for our portable machines. That would be nice, control and power for all!
Unfortunatly like most things it aint black or white.
Music sucked in the 80s is a big statement. Mainstream music in the 80s sucked is somewhat nearer what you hopefully meant.
Synth Pop was not all the 80s was about.
At the begining of the 80s punk was still very much around.
From the mid 80s onwards "inde" was becoming popular.
Metallica started in the early 80s but I am still unable to find their synth pop album.
For the record I like a lot of synth pop also.
Grow up, music comes in 2 forms. Music you like and music you don't. Music you like can be anything, even stuff that you only secretly like because you are not adult enough to admit it yet.
>no (few?) human would drive into a lake because a fake road sign told them to.
Cue links to stories detailing the idiocy of people using sat nav...
> Since there is no install part
You obviously don't own a ps3!!!
(Yeah I know we are meant to be talking about the wii but your post seemed to have gone generic)
Why?
How is this anything like insulting someone on Usenet?
That is a direct confrontation with no pretense or anything else.
This case shows someone asuming a false personality with the intent of inflicting harm upon another, presumably though not intending the suicide outcome but who knows, she is certainly guitly of something, what however I do not know, a fitting punishment would be her having idiot brnaded on her forehead maybe.
If both are the same under law then law is stupid.
> keeps them on the upgrade treadmill forever.
No it does not. Last time I looked previous versions of office still worked as good as they did back then.
You can argue the same for using any software, but it really does not force people into an upgrade cycle.
I think it's more a human obsession that people feel inadequate without the latest version of something. I often talk to people about updating software and they cannot give any good reason for doing it or any benefits they think it will bring. When this is the case people just need to learn that what they have is probably good enough.
> And the hospitals would always have stories of kids who had injured themselves while wearing a Superman outfit.
Can anyone provide a case here that is actually true and not just some urban legend?
If kids are really that stupid then we have a greater problem that films and video games.
I was never that thick even as a kid, I knew what as real and what was fantasy.
Fantasy is there to provide a release for people. If it is ever taken away then I would be scared of the world.
Congratulations you pointed out something that was clearly not in the summary. Thank you for a worthwhile addition to the discussion. Your mother must be proud.
Beats me, I've never had a problem with WPA on any os/system I use, os x, windows, linux, windows mobile, wii, ps3.
Maybe he's trying to connect to a wireless network through a teaspoon without drivers.
Yeah but if we are taking of the eee and car analogies then your macbook pro is a bus ;-)
The air is not an ultra portable either, just an anorexic macbook, unfortunately a ultra portable is what I was hoping for from apple.
Still my eee is nice for now.
> twice the storage space is all you need to know
2 * 15 = 25?
But yeah BR is the better format despite its many downsides.
Which is why it is much safer top use the phone that a headset as the phone can easily be thrown somewhere if you need to concentrate on something.
Unfortunatly many people are too stupid to do anything so we have to stop everyone.
> Unfortunately, we still have clients who insist on using Windows 2000 (which can't run IE 7). Thankfully, they don't stick to IE 5.5 and complain that the sites "don't look right"
;-)
Ok, I'm not at work today but let's just pretend like I am...
1. Fires up IE
2. These sites just don't look right in this
3. Things are updated as far as they can be.
4. Oh yeah that's right NT 4.0.
Damn you microsoft.
No it's just there is a proper way to do things.
If the student believed that having FF available to him would be a benefit then the proper manor to request this is not in a class as (as obviously was the case) the teacher would not have a clue and should just be teaching the subject at hand.
heh makes me feel old though, in my day it was netscape all the way, ie 1 or 2 or whatever (pre 3 certainly) were also on the machines (well the windows ones, heh there is another difference) but were not really any use.
> but the rest of us remember that windows 2000 and office 97 were the standard corporate image up until 2006.
;-)
Heh, I write this on ie 5.5 from nt 4.0 which has office 97 installed on it (the big update for last year was outlook 97 to outlook 98!) i think the xp licence sticker that adorns the case is just for fun
I think there are plans to roll out win xp at some point, but not in a hurry!
I've even used nt 3.51 a few years ago at a different company!
Big business is never in a hurry for change!
All the BBFC ought to be doing is Classification.
As such everything should come under one of their classifications, even if that is R18.
They are not about censorship, that should fall down to one of two places. a. the content owner self censoring in order to gain a certain certification or, b. the government, for not allowing illegal things.
Other that that please certify things and leave it up to the consumer.
> This emulation craze is fairly recent.
What? I really mean it what?
I remeber running sonic (megadrive) on a low end pentium (133) back in the day, albeit with no sound.
I also remeber using various earlier emulators on my amiga before that (speccy and such).
Maybe you have a differnet definition of recent than me though.