KDE 4.0 and 4.1 are not meant to be perfect in every way. They are meant to establish a new scheme of APIs and a new design dynamic. It is a big overhaul that is in its beginnings. Nobody is claiming KDE
I agree. The same could have been said about Mac OS X 10.0. Give it a while to mature, and people will likely be talking about how much better it is than the pre-4.0 days.
If you know about software EULAs and software refund policies then you ought to find the EULA beforehand online to ensure you will agree with it. But what if you don't. You're just an average non-slashdotter buying your first PC, and you've never heard of a EULA before until the first time you start up that PC.
You bought what you bought. If you took the XP as part of the package, you should be stuck with it. You knew what the EULA was. Don't like it? Choose one of the many systems from another vendor that come with Linux or no OS. Not necessarily. Us Slashdotters may know what the EULA is, but let's say an average joe buys a PC and actually reads and understands the EULA. Let's also say he finds something in it he strongly disagrees with.
Was he presented the opportunity to read the EULA before he bought the PC (or did he know there was such a thing as a EULA)? He can't agree or disagree with it until after he buys the PC and fires it up for the first time.
Yeah, but I doubt that was the parent post's point, rather a computer without any operating system.
But since you brought up Apple, what if someone for whatever reason wanted to by an Apple computer, but didn't want OSX? Apple doesn't give you the option to buy a Mac pro w/o an OS. Of course that's a moot point, since most people would buy a Mac because of the OS rather than them simply getting a PC and taking whatever OS they're given.
Don't forget the Psystar system doesn't include iLife either, so that's one more thing you'd have to buy separately to get the equivalent of something from Apple.
Anyone who'd RTFA would see the headline:
More than 100 were suspended from activities or reprimanded after being shown drinking at parties. I would assume the problem isn't that they had pictures of themselves on Facebook, but rather that there were pictures of them engaging in an illegal activity, underage drinking.
The whole point with regards to dropping the "next-gen" term as far as I see it isn't to say there's anything wrong with the capabilities of PS3/360/Wii, but rather than they're no longer next gen anymore but rather current gen. All three have been out for over a year after all.
Now, granted these limitations only extend to "Anywhere Access", so you could still presumably use the device on a local network or plugged in to a specific machine, but it seems like blatant false advertising to say that you could listen to your music while on vacation when it doesn't let you use that service on the vast majority of music files. Yup. What they really mean is listen to YOUR music. I have one of these at work that I use for backups, and if I were to stick a bunch of MP3 files on it I could access them from here at home (well, depending on how it interacts with our firewall, that is). But YOU couldn't access them. You could access the other data I have stored on it, but just not the media files.
And when you're accessing it through the local network, it acts just like any other Samba share as you suggest.
BUT you need to convert everything to some weird format before you can even try to upload. Huh? Do you know ANYTHING about iPods aside from the fact that they're popular, and Apple makes them? You've just proved your total ignorance right there.
A majority of my music library is MP3 files, many of which I ripped/encoded 5 or 6 years ago. And guess what? I didn't need to convert a single one of them into "some weird format" to get them onto either of the iPods I've owned. It plays MP3s right out of the box, no conversion necessarily. And if you think MP3 is "some weird format" you need to get out from the rock you've been under this past decade.
Now, if you said you need to convert most videos into "some weird format" then you'd be partially right. Yes, it can't play MPEG, DivX, etc. and those need to be converted to MPEG4 format. But I don't think anyone would consider MPEG4 as "some weird format."
You need twice as much storage at home. I say once again - Huh? My ~40GB music library takes up... 40GB! Not 80GB as you would suggest! Perhaps what you meant is that you have one copy on your iPod and another copy on your computer's HD so you have the same files in two different places? But with today's HD sizes, I don't think that's really an issue. Besides, having a second copy of everything means I automatically have a backup and I would still do it this way no matter what MP3 player I used. If my iPod was lost or stolen, I'd have a lot of work to do to rebuild my entire music collection otherwise.
Most people will want color Not necessarily. I don't think the lack of color will matter as most of the content being read on this won't be in color anyway.
Almost no novels have color photos (aside from the front cover), unless it's one of those "novelization of a movie with a dozen stills from the movie" deals. And then I imagine the next largest use will be for newspapers. Color photos are becoming more common in newspapers, but most articles probably won't have any photo at all to go with it.
I live in a small Canadian city (pop. ~125,000) that has 4 Starbucks and 6 Tim Hortons that I know of (and then a couple dozen other local coffee chains).
I think that the most important reason why the old console cycle needs to die is to let programmers/software catch up with the hardware. I agree. I remember the first time I fired up Final Fantasy XII. I was blown away by how good it looked compared to the other PS2 games I've played. It wasn't until the end of the PS2's life cycle that developers were finally able to use the hardware to its fullest.
But then again, it doesn't say much for the PS2 as a development platform if it took developers that long to figure out how to get the most from it.
I'm an eMusic subscriber from Canada too, and this scenario came to mind as well. But then I realized that it's an American music store, and I am buying music from them in US$. So that likely would make them exempt from this. Kinda like how I've never been charged GST for items I've bought on eBay from US sellers (well I would by the customs folks if the value was high enough, but that's not quite the same as this scenario). It's a little different than with companies like Amazon and Apple that, although US based, operate a Canadian store.
Heh... second-hand got me to thinking: imagine a second-hand-smoke victim receiving a countersuit by tobacco companies because they were able to inhale cigarette smoke they hadn't paid for. Actually, a better example for this case would be if the tobacco companies were to sue the smoker (rather than the second-hand smoke victims), because others were able to *cough*"enjoy"*cough* their product without paying for it.
Actually, that might be a great way to get rid of those people smoking out in public places. I should suggest that to the tobacco guys.
twisting the arms of the Russian government to close mp3.com Just a quick correction, mp3.com and allofmp3.com are two unrelated companies. It's the second that is the Russian group of questionable legality.
You have to keep in mind that iTunes the software and iTunes the store are really two different things.
The majority of the music I have loaded in iTunes isn't purchased from the store. You don't have to repurchase or download any albums you already have... just let iTunes rip the CD, or import the MP3s into your music library. It's no different than using Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc.
Regarding the iTunes Store, it's accessed through and integrated with the software, but you're not required to ever buy anything from it. Regarding your question about redownloading purchases, Apple does not currently allow that (with just a couple exceptions that is). It's up to the purchasers to make sure they have their purchased songs backed up. If you're away on vacation and you want to listen to something that's not already loaded onto your iPod you'll just have to listen to something else instead. That's why I like having a large enough iPod to hold my whole music library, so I don't have to worry about that.:)
I personally like having my entire music collection with me in my iPod, because I never know what I might want to listen to. I'd hate to be out somewhere for the day and have an urge to listen to a particular album but can't because it's not loaded on my iPod at the time.
Yes, I'm sure I could easily fit enough music in a 4GB iPod to last until I return home and can sync again, but that would mean I'd have to sit there and determine in advance what I might want to listen to that day.
Yes, I had noticed it recently too, where the page isn't displaying because of waiting for a response from an ad server.
So why don't all web browsers start displaying the data they do have, rather than waiting for the ad server to submit it's data first? If there's a delay in downloading an image on the site or a style sheet it still starts displaying and when the image/stylesheet is downloaded the page is re-rendered to reflect that. So what is it about the page design that forces web browsers to not display anything if the delay is due to an ad server?
A more accurate analogy in this case would be if you did indeed take those cooking classes, but when they closed down they forced you to forget everything you learned there.
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KDE 4.0 and 4.1 are not meant to be perfect in every way. They are meant to establish a new scheme of APIs and a new design dynamic. It is a big overhaul that is in its beginnings. Nobody is claiming KDE
I agree. The same could have been said about Mac OS X 10.0. Give it a while to mature, and people will likely be talking about how much better it is than the pre-4.0 days.
Was he presented the opportunity to read the EULA before he bought the PC (or did he know there was such a thing as a EULA)? He can't agree or disagree with it until after he buys the PC and fires it up for the first time.
Yeah, but I doubt that was the parent post's point, rather a computer without any operating system.
But since you brought up Apple, what if someone for whatever reason wanted to by an Apple computer, but didn't want OSX? Apple doesn't give you the option to buy a Mac pro w/o an OS. Of course that's a moot point, since most people would buy a Mac because of the OS rather than them simply getting a PC and taking whatever OS they're given.
Don't forget the Psystar system doesn't include iLife either, so that's one more thing you'd have to buy separately to get the equivalent of something from Apple.
Because the Safari for Windows EULA issue in question was an unintentional error. Once the error was pointed out Apple quickly corrected the EULA.
I've never seen an Uwe Boll movie to my knowledge, and I signed the petition.
I guess you could say I signed to ensure I never see an Uwe Boll movie.
Well, I regret wasting time reading that article...
The whole point with regards to dropping the "next-gen" term as far as I see it isn't to say there's anything wrong with the capabilities of PS3/360/Wii, but rather than they're no longer next gen anymore but rather current gen. All three have been out for over a year after all.
Wow, most telescopes see stars or other celestial bodies. This one can actually see progress!
And when you're accessing it through the local network, it acts just like any other Samba share as you suggest.
A majority of my music library is MP3 files, many of which I ripped/encoded 5 or 6 years ago. And guess what? I didn't need to convert a single one of them into "some weird format" to get them onto either of the iPods I've owned. It plays MP3s right out of the box, no conversion necessarily. And if you think MP3 is "some weird format" you need to get out from the rock you've been under this past decade.
Now, if you said you need to convert most videos into "some weird format" then you'd be partially right. Yes, it can't play MPEG, DivX, etc. and those need to be converted to MPEG4 format. But I don't think anyone would consider MPEG4 as "some weird format."
You need twice as much storage at home. I say once again - Huh? My ~40GB music library takes up... 40GB! Not 80GB as you would suggest! Perhaps what you meant is that you have one copy on your iPod and another copy on your computer's HD so you have the same files in two different places? But with today's HD sizes, I don't think that's really an issue. Besides, having a second copy of everything means I automatically have a backup and I would still do it this way no matter what MP3 player I used. If my iPod was lost or stolen, I'd have a lot of work to do to rebuild my entire music collection otherwise.
Almost no novels have color photos (aside from the front cover), unless it's one of those "novelization of a movie with a dozen stills from the movie" deals. And then I imagine the next largest use will be for newspapers. Color photos are becoming more common in newspapers, but most articles probably won't have any photo at all to go with it.
I live in a small Canadian city (pop. ~125,000) that has 4 Starbucks and 6 Tim Hortons that I know of (and then a couple dozen other local coffee chains).
But then again, it doesn't say much for the PS2 as a development platform if it took developers that long to figure out how to get the most from it.
I'm an eMusic subscriber from Canada too, and this scenario came to mind as well. But then I realized that it's an American music store, and I am buying music from them in US$. So that likely would make them exempt from this. Kinda like how I've never been charged GST for items I've bought on eBay from US sellers (well I would by the customs folks if the value was high enough, but that's not quite the same as this scenario). It's a little different than with companies like Amazon and Apple that, although US based, operate a Canadian store.
Actually, that might be a great way to get rid of those people smoking out in public places. I should suggest that to the tobacco guys.
You have to keep in mind that iTunes the software and iTunes the store are really two different things.
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The majority of the music I have loaded in iTunes isn't purchased from the store. You don't have to repurchase or download any albums you already have... just let iTunes rip the CD, or import the MP3s into your music library. It's no different than using Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc.
Regarding the iTunes Store, it's accessed through and integrated with the software, but you're not required to ever buy anything from it. Regarding your question about redownloading purchases, Apple does not currently allow that (with just a couple exceptions that is). It's up to the purchasers to make sure they have their purchased songs backed up. If you're away on vacation and you want to listen to something that's not already loaded onto your iPod you'll just have to listen to something else instead. That's why I like having a large enough iPod to hold my whole music library, so I don't have to worry about that.
I personally like having my entire music collection with me in my iPod, because I never know what I might want to listen to. I'd hate to be out somewhere for the day and have an urge to listen to a particular album but can't because it's not loaded on my iPod at the time.
Yes, I'm sure I could easily fit enough music in a 4GB iPod to last until I return home and can sync again, but that would mean I'd have to sit there and determine in advance what I might want to listen to that day.
Yes, I had noticed it recently too, where the page isn't displaying because of waiting for a response from an ad server.
So why don't all web browsers start displaying the data they do have, rather than waiting for the ad server to submit it's data first? If there's a delay in downloading an image on the site or a style sheet it still starts displaying and when the image/stylesheet is downloaded the page is re-rendered to reflect that. So what is it about the page design that forces web browsers to not display anything if the delay is due to an ad server?
But the ads are still there and visible. It's not like you can install an ad blocker on your newspaper and the ads disappear.
What does that have to do with Google distributing StarOffice?
A more accurate analogy in this case would be if you did indeed take those cooking classes, but when they closed down they forced you to forget everything you learned there.