There are dozens of original DVD movies in my collection that I have first seen as a warezed version - and subsequently bought the movie afterwards. Some of these never made it to the theaters in this corner of the earth, most didn't even get a DVD release.
TV-series are a huge part of this, I've got all seasons of Farscape, Dark Angel, Firefly, Galactica and a few other TV shows - all bought after watching the serie from "illegal" sources.
Originally, yes. But now most apps depend on control clicking on things instead of right clicking.
Which apps? Of the 10+ apps I use daily, 0 require me to use context menus.
The only time I need a context menu on my Mac is when I use Firefox (rarely).
On a typical PC mouse: press and hold left. (click) press and hold right. (click) release both buttons. (c-click).
On this mouse: press and hold left. (click) press and hold right. (nothing!) release both buttons.
If a piece of software actually requires you to do that, then the Programmer, UI Designer and Usability Engineer should be shot. Just as a warning to others.
You run as root by default, not for ease of use (how difficult is 'type your passsword to continue' that Fedora and OS X do?) but because Microsoft and Windows developers couldn't be bothered fixing things.
Makers of crappy software that expect you to have admin privileges on your computer are to blame.
There are dozens of enterprise-level software that require extensive policy-hacks AND an admin account to even work properly (*cough*IBM Rational Software Development Platform*cough*).
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ explains a few of these. In some cases the Windows developers had to KEEP a broken part of the OS because a few "smart" developers had used that broken bit extensively and created some very very popular software. Thus the need to keep the bug in order to avoid "Winduz b0rked by programzors, M$ SUXORS!!" -comments from users.
Partly the problem is the lack of RAM (256Mb) but it should be possible to run a laptop with this..
You wouldn't run Gnome or KDE with 256MB of memory, would you?
So why on earth do you expect OSX to work smoothly with 256MB?
4) The way Macs keep applications open after the window has been closed is also very irritating since it guzzles RAM like there is no tomorrow...
Actually the OSX swapping algorithm is pretty smart, you wouldn't even notice the small amount of RAM if the laptop HD wasn't so slow.
Compare this to the seconds of tedious disk crunching on Windows (Even with a gig of ram it still decides to swap things out of RAM, can't fathom why)
5) This is to say nothing of the irritation of getting right click to work with a single mouse button...
You don't need to right click in OSX, that's why the default mouses all have oly one button.
And if you really really need that context menu, holding down the mouse button for a second works just fine.
It's free for non-commercial purposes, multi-language and multi-platform (Win/Win32, Linux, OSX, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX even). And it supports an astounding amount of different image formats.
Startup Monitor. Priceless for dealing with crap like Real or Quicktime that always want to setup stubs to run at boot. The popup warning is pretty non-descriptive, though.
Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative are even more priceless for the same purpose. No QT or Real crap AT ALL.
Get them both from the Final Builds site (Don't let the horrible page put you off, it's reliable software =)
No you can't, it's a fundamental part of how BT works. The tracker knows all peers and which chunks of data they have. The peers only know what the tracker tells them, they have no way of looking for other peers. And as data is transferred via TCP, there is no way to spoof the sending IP either.
Wait a sec... they can identify SSL by looking at the content?! Damn... so much for security.
Ummm, Ethereal has been able to do so for ages. It IS possible to see you are using SSL to connect somewhere, however it takes some work to actually get to the content.
1) Walk to [store of your choice] 2) Buy DVD 3) Walk home and watch
You don't lose any of the extras and that movie you bough might just get a sequel because of the money you spent on it. PLUS it looks hell of a lot better on the shelf than blank DVDRs =)
So recording an episode on VHS and sending it to a friend is equally illegal? Great.
So I've been breaking laws since I was 6 years old, without my knowledge, only by recording cartoons from TV and showing them to my friends (who didn't have cable).
*gasp* you have to talk into it sideways, that "flaw" has been hyped out of proportion. I find it more difficult to open a shell-phone than to align my N-Gage the right way around.
And most people forget the bluetooth support, which means you can use a *wireless* headset.
When my phone rings, I just glimpse at the display to see who's calling (if I don't recognize the caller by a custom ringtone) and lightly press the button on my headset.
And the game aspect had some flaws.
The display aspect ratio is a problem in some games, but that's the game designers fault; most of the games on the N-Gage are direct copies of old games (Rayman, Pandemonium). And I'd like to strangle the idiot who though FPS games could be played without an analog controller (Red Faction).
But the rest are just a bliss to play; hundreds of free/inexpensive Series60-compatible games can be found from the net. And that's not counting the tens of thousands games one can play with Frodo (C-64) and GoBoy (Gameboy)
And you know what, the MP3 player aspect may have had some flaws, because I couldn't figure out how you'd get the damn things on there ('It can play MP3s? Really? How do you download them onto it?' 'I haven't got the foggiest idea.')
Connect your computer and N-Gage with the included USB-cable
Open the new removable drive you see in your computer
Drag and drop mp3s to the drive
Disconnect using the appropriate procedure
Was that so hard?
It needs to be simpler to control where possible (using a numpad to control is less than intuitive, so the manual is a necessity).
12 keys + d-pad is too much for you? How on earth can you play anything these days? The XBox controller, for example, has 10 keys, 2 analog sticks and a d-pad - do people need a manual to control it? No.
Prompted by a post just like yours a few months ago, I went and watched the first 5 episodes of firefly. I thought it was average. Cheesy as hell too...
The first episodes that SciFi-channel aired (which actually were eps 2-6); or the actual first episodes, with the pilot as the first ep (aired as 11-12 on SciFi-channel - ending the serie)
The pilot really brings depth to the world, explaining a lot of the backstory. The network's decision to air the pilot as the last episode never ceases to baffle me.
Samsung and Siemens will also probably prefer paying Nokia since it's a japanese company (national loyalty is very strong in Japan, unless things have changed alot since I last did geography).
Nokia is a Finnish company, Siemens is from Germany and Samsung is Korean. So I wonder where you got this "Japanese national loyalty"?
Member States shall ensure that wherever the use of a patented technique is needed for the sole purpose of ensuring conversion of the conventions used in two different computer systems or network so as to allow communication and exchange of data content between them, such use is not considered to be a patent infringement
So it is legal to make, for example, a MSWord -> OOo -converter, even though it breaks some patents?
Yoda: I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Obi-Wan: He will learn
Yoda: Much anger in him. Like his father.
Obi-Wan: Was I any different when you taught me?
The only reference here is to Yoda teaching Obi-Wan, possibly as a child.
I actually dug up my old Star Wars tapes and checked =) It was in A New Hope (ep IV)
It goes like this: (Luke and Obi-Wan are talking after the tusken attack)
Luke: How did my father die?
Obi-Wan: A young jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine, until he turned to evil and helped the empire hunt down and destroy the jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.
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I'd put myself into te Lookie loo -group.
There are dozens of original DVD movies in my collection that I have first seen as a warezed version - and subsequently bought the movie afterwards. Some of these never made it to the theaters in this corner of the earth, most didn't even get a DVD release.
TV-series are a huge part of this, I've got all seasons of Farscape, Dark Angel, Firefly, Galactica and a few other TV shows - all bought after watching the serie from "illegal" sources.
Makers of crappy software that expect you to have admin privileges on your computer are to blame.
There are dozens of enterprise-level software that require extensive policy-hacks AND an admin account to even work properly (*cough*IBM Rational Software Development Platform*cough*).
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ explains a few of these. In some cases the Windows developers had to KEEP a broken part of the OS because a few "smart" developers had used that broken bit extensively and created some very very popular software. Thus the need to keep the bug in order to avoid "Winduz b0rked by programzors, M$ SUXORS!!" -comments from users.
Again, it was in the first Batman movie (Just after the shark repellant scene IIRC).
Defining older copies as more holy seems a lot like idol worship to me, and that is (IIRC) kinda forbidden
XNView beats IrfanView hands down.
It's free for non-commercial purposes, multi-language and multi-platform (Win/Win32, Linux, OSX, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX even). And it supports an astounding amount of different image formats.
Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative are even more priceless for the same purpose. No QT or Real crap AT ALL.
Get them both from the Final Builds site (Don't let the horrible page put you off, it's reliable software =)
Or an easier way:
1) Walk to [store of your choice]
2) Buy DVD
3) Walk home and watch
You don't lose any of the extras and that movie you bough might just get a sequel because of the money you spent on it. PLUS it looks hell of a lot better on the shelf than blank DVDRs =)
So recording an episode on VHS and sending it to a friend is equally illegal? Great. So I've been breaking laws since I was 6 years old, without my knowledge, only by recording cartoons from TV and showing them to my friends (who didn't have cable).
*gasp* you have to talk into it sideways, that "flaw" has been hyped out of proportion. I find it more difficult to open a shell-phone than to align my N-Gage the right way around.
And most people forget the bluetooth support, which means you can use a *wireless* headset.
When my phone rings, I just glimpse at the display to see who's calling (if I don't recognize the caller by a custom ringtone) and lightly press the button on my headset.
The display aspect ratio is a problem in some games, but that's the game designers fault; most of the games on the N-Gage are direct copies of old games (Rayman, Pandemonium). And I'd like to strangle the idiot who though FPS games could be played without an analog controller (Red Faction).
But the rest are just a bliss to play; hundreds of free/inexpensive Series60-compatible games can be found from the net. And that's not counting the tens of thousands games one can play with Frodo (C-64) and GoBoy (Gameboy)
Was that so hard?
12 keys + d-pad is too much for you? How on earth can you play anything these days? The XBox controller, for example, has 10 keys, 2 analog sticks and a d-pad - do people need a manual to control it? No.
I've been using Edna for a few years now, and it works like a charm. Made with python and runs in Linux and Windows (as a service).
Back to the VHS it is then.. =) Quotes from ESB:
Yoda talks to Luke in his hut on Dagobah:
Yoda: I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Obi-Wan: He will learn
Yoda: Much anger in him. Like his father.
Obi-Wan: Was I any different when you taught me?
The only reference here is to Yoda teaching Obi-Wan, possibly as a child.
I actually dug up my old Star Wars tapes and checked =) It was in A New Hope (ep IV)
It goes like this:
(Luke and Obi-Wan are talking after the tusken attack)
Luke: How did my father die?
Obi-Wan: A young jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine, until he turned to evil and helped the empire hunt down and destroy the jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.