I agree. I've felt the same way about OpenOffice. I've got a dictionary sitting above my desk. Why should I have to load up a bunch of well-designed software to do what I want to get done? My computer should be able figure out what words I want and arrange them for me automatically.
I also searched for "geocaching" and got back a single result: the gc.com homepage. Funny, I'm pretty sure there are a few more geocaching sites out there.
I got a new laptop a couple of weeks ago. I took a little drive through my subdivision and found almost a dozen homes with WiFi running, and not a single one was protected.
I would have suspected that most of the people living around here were educated enough to figure out how to enable protection, but I guess I overestimated them...
Do you normally keep iTunes expanded while listening to music? I agree that it takes up a lot of screen space, but the only time I keep it expanded is when I'm developing a playlist or importing songs. Once I get it playing, it gets shrunk down or hidden.
Granted, I have a 17" screen, so I don't know what it looks like on a twelve incher, but I've never had any complaints about the interface layout.
My work PC is behind an authenticating firewall, so I was never able to log into iTMS and consequently was not able to authorize my work PC to play my purchased music. When I launched 4.5, it brought up the IE dialog box for entering my firewall password, and voila... I could enter the iTMS and log into my account!
I love the addition of two more authorized computers as well. I'm getting a new PB this spring to give my four Macs/PCs that I would have iTunes on and now I can keep them all authorized!
It's not my "right" to be able to listen to whatever music I want. If I don't agree with the way the content is being delivered, then I don't listen.
I didn't like the DIVX business plan, so I chose not to support it (and Circus City as well). Just because I didn't like the format didn't mean I had the "right" to use some means to extract the movie anyway. I just didn't buy them and got my movies on DVD instead.
There are no "rights" here except for the right to play my iTMS music on up to three computers or my iPod. (Or burned to a CD, which I am also allowed to do.)
Don't get me wrong. I don't disagree that the DMCA is flawed. I guess I'm just living in this idealistic little world where we finally got what we wanted: an easy way to buy single songs without having to spend $15 on full albums, and people should be happy with that. Yet people still find a need to get around the technology and other people sit back and cheer them on.
Apple came up with a way for me to listen to my music at home over the Internet. Some morons abused it and that feature was written out of iTunes. Apple managed to bring us a great way to buy music, and a few choice idiots are going to ruin that as well.
...not quite. When you bought your music from the iTMS, you already knew that you would only be allowed to play it within iTunes or on your iPod.
That's it.
If you want to play it on a different device, there are manyothersources for your music, including buying a CD and ripping it into whatever format your heart desires.
Whether you agree that "information should be free" or not is irrelevant. By purchasing your music from iTMS, you agreed to Apple's restrictions.
Once Comcast lets you in on what your unlimited bandwidth limits really are, you could use this to meter your access to help keep you under the unlimited limit...
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Nah, they're just there to see the Fountain...
...just use Google's alternate search form...
Hope you weren't planning on kids in your future. Looks like you're getting snipped...
I agree. I've felt the same way about OpenOffice. I've got a dictionary sitting above my desk. Why should I have to load up a bunch of well-designed software to do what I want to get done? My computer should be able figure out what words I want and arrange them for me automatically.
Don't even get me started on the spreadsheet...
No wonder it's slow...
I also searched for "geocaching" and got back a single result: the gc.com homepage. Funny, I'm pretty sure there are a few more geocaching sites out there.
I got a new laptop a couple of weeks ago. I took a little drive through my subdivision and found almost a dozen homes with WiFi running, and not a single one was protected.
I would have suspected that most of the people living around here were educated enough to figure out how to enable protection, but I guess I overestimated them...
I think the sharing was removed several versions ago, like 4.0.1 or something because it was being abused by audio-grabbing apps.
Do you normally keep iTunes expanded while listening to music? I agree that it takes up a lot of screen space, but the only time I keep it expanded is when I'm developing a playlist or importing songs. Once I get it playing, it gets shrunk down or hidden.
Granted, I have a 17" screen, so I don't know what it looks like on a twelve incher, but I've never had any complaints about the interface layout.
Well, I suppose there might be the honest folks who see $0.99 per song as a value as well...
My work PC is behind an authenticating firewall, so I was never able to log into iTMS and consequently was not able to authorize my work PC to play my purchased music. When I launched 4.5, it brought up the IE dialog box for entering my firewall password, and voila... I could enter the iTMS and log into my account!
I love the addition of two more authorized computers as well. I'm getting a new PB this spring to give my four Macs/PCs that I would have iTunes on and now I can keep them all authorized!
Is there a tool like this available for Palm-based PDAs with wireless cards?
This site was already /.ed while it was still in the "Mysterious Future".
Whose turn was it to warn the linked sites today?
It's not my "right" to be able to listen to whatever music I want. If I don't agree with the way the content is being delivered, then I don't listen.
I didn't like the DIVX business plan, so I chose not to support it (and Circus City as well). Just because I didn't like the format didn't mean I had the "right" to use some means to extract the movie anyway. I just didn't buy them and got my movies on DVD instead.
There are no "rights" here except for the right to play my iTMS music on up to three computers or my iPod. (Or burned to a CD, which I am also allowed to do.)
Don't get me wrong. I don't disagree that the DMCA is flawed. I guess I'm just living in this idealistic little world where we finally got what we wanted: an easy way to buy single songs without having to spend $15 on full albums, and people should be happy with that. Yet people still find a need to get around the technology and other people sit back and cheer them on.
Apple came up with a way for me to listen to my music at home over the Internet. Some morons abused it and that feature was written out of iTunes. Apple managed to bring us a great way to buy music, and a few choice idiots are going to ruin that as well.
...not quite. When you bought your music from the iTMS, you already knew that you would only be allowed to play it within iTunes or on your iPod.
That's it.
If you want to play it on a different device, there are many other sources for your music, including buying a CD and ripping it into whatever format your heart desires.
Whether you agree that "information should be free" or not is irrelevant. By purchasing your music from iTMS, you agreed to Apple's restrictions.
Actually, it's more like Geodashing, but on steroids...
You can slap these all over yourself instead!
I've mostly forgotten almost all my physics, so could someone please answer a question for me?
Why do you need to be going 25,000 mph to get away from the Earth?
I can jump into the air and get away from the Earth, for a couple seconds anyway, and I'm not going nearly that fast.
I thought as you got farther away from a body, the gravitational pull decreases using some inverse-square rule.
As long as you can get airborne and are able to keep moving upwards, why doesn't it become easier to keep going the higher your altitude?
Well, those aren't too hard to find...
Even though they're under new management, I wonder if Napster still has a bit of a stigma to them that gave HP cold feet?
Hmm, a device that can automatically figure out your prescription, and another that can make cheap eyeglasses?
I see these popping up all over the place, like the "check your blood pressure here" devices.
If it means that more people who can't afford vision correction can get glasses, whether in a poor country or not, I'm all for it.
Maybe it's leftover salt from Martian civilizations de-icing their driveways...
"Perl is t3h R0XX0RZ!"
"f00, PHP kicks perls a$$!"
The flame wars begin...
Once Comcast lets you in on what your unlimited bandwidth limits really are, you could use this to meter your access to help keep you under the unlimited limit...
...as my real name is Vishu Al-Bazik...