It's probably the backlight timer. With the old firmware, the backlight would go off 1 second or 5 seconds (or whatever you set it to) after you turned it on, not after you stopped fiddling with the buttons. Way annoying.
Ensuring that you don't waste your iTunes Music Service money:
In 'Burning' preferences, check 'Data CD or DVD'. Close prefs.
Select 'Purchased Music' playlist
Click 'Burn Disc' button in upper-right
Insert CD-R (or CD-RW or DVD)
Burn
Yay for archiving. And since the DRM scheme is based on which mac the file is played on, not, say, how many times the file has been copied, even if your hard drive goes south you can still play the music.
Of course I guess if your whole computer chokes to death or something you're SOL but then you lose your LP collection if your house explodes. Them's the breaks.
You are allowed to move downloaded songs to three macintosh computers. If you have more computers than that, odds are good that at least one will be on at any given moment, letting you Rendezvous stream it. And if all else fails, burn it to a CD and rip it on another computer. Sheesh.
...but that winning design still needs some massaging. At least that's what the Machead type-designer in me says. The text spacing is pretty off to my eyes, in both Safari and Chimera (nee Camino) 0.6.
In any case, razor blades flying from my LCD at high speeds would probably be better than the W3C site as it stands. It always annoyed me that their CSS2 page was just about the ugliest one on the intarweb. "Look, kiddies! With CSS, your pages can cause bleeding eyes! Semantically!"
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...but is a Mac OS X port feasible? I know Duke3D used to run on OS9, so whatever mac-specific code it needs is extant. Was that released along with all the x86 stuff?
Interestingly, "football" and "foosball" are actually the same German word, borrowed at different times in the history of English.
Back in the day (forget the actual time, circa 1200?), whenever we borrowed a word from German, we'd change their "crazy B letter"s to "t"s. A few cognates:
Straße => Street
Fuß => Foot
Scheiße => *ahem* Poo
Etc.
In modern times, however, we've began to borrow words more or less verbatim, as in the "fußball"/"foosball".
Of course, this is all from a 100-level linguistics course, so take with salt:)
I seem to recall reading a study (newscientist.com?) showing that infants and young people in general could only describe their memories using words which they knew at the time the memory was acquired. Which would lend credence to your linguistic theory of memory, if I could remember where I read it:)
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It's probably the backlight timer. With the old firmware, the backlight would go off 1 second or 5 seconds (or whatever you set it to) after you turned it on, not after you stopped fiddling with the buttons. Way annoying.
- In 'Burning' preferences, check 'Data CD or DVD'. Close prefs.
- Select 'Purchased Music' playlist
- Click 'Burn Disc' button in upper-right
- Insert CD-R (or CD-RW or DVD)
- Burn
Yay for archiving. And since the DRM scheme is based on which mac the file is played on, not, say, how many times the file has been copied, even if your hard drive goes south you can still play the music. Of course I guess if your whole computer chokes to death or something you're SOL but then you lose your LP collection if your house explodes. Them's the breaks.You are allowed to move downloaded songs to three macintosh computers. If you have more computers than that, odds are good that at least one will be on at any given moment, letting you Rendezvous stream it. And if all else fails, burn it to a CD and rip it on another computer. Sheesh.
...but that winning design still needs some massaging. At least that's what the Machead type-designer in me says. The text spacing is pretty off to my eyes, in both Safari and Chimera (nee Camino) 0.6.
In any case, razor blades flying from my LCD at high speeds would probably be better than the W3C site as it stands. It always annoyed me that their CSS2 page was just about the ugliest one on the intarweb. "Look, kiddies! With CSS, your pages can cause bleeding eyes! Semantically!"
...but is a Mac OS X port feasible? I know Duke3D used to run on OS9, so whatever mac-specific code it needs is extant. Was that released along with all the x86 stuff?
I recall playing DN3D on one of my old-school Macs. I wonder if the PPC/68k source will be released too.
Interestingly, "football" and "foosball" are actually the same German word, borrowed at different times in the history of English. Back in the day (forget the actual time, circa 1200?), whenever we borrowed a word from German, we'd change their "crazy B letter"s to "t"s. A few cognates:
Straße => Street
Fuß => Foot
Scheiße => *ahem* Poo
Etc.
In modern times, however, we've began to borrow words more or less verbatim, as in the "fußball"/"foosball".
Of course, this is all from a 100-level linguistics course, so take with salt :)
I seem to recall reading a study (newscientist.com?) showing that infants and young people in general could only describe their memories using words which they knew at the time the memory was acquired. Which would lend credence to your linguistic theory of memory, if I could remember where I read it :)