I think that Apple infers from your IP address what country you're in, and redirects you to that country's iTunes store. Different stores have different selections, probably due to copyright and royalty issues.
In Canada I can't buy iTunes from the American Web site. The American site has Adrian Legg, for example, which I can't get from the Canadian one. Pity.
I'm not an AOL user, but the fact is that the majority of the Slashdot crowd, having rarely mated and never bred, are oblivious to the very appealing advantage that AOL offers: a safe Internet.
Most parents will care about where their offspring venture. If a parent can decrease the odds that his/her kids will stumble onto goatse or tubgirl, while availing themselves of what is truly one of the most profound cultural developments since Guttenberg, then that is an appealing proposition.
AOL may have its drawbacks, but shielding children from some of the more unsavory corners of the Internet is a very valuable service.
Filters simply don't work at the scale where AOL operates. They've thrown up their hands and said "Hey, how about y'all self-select!". Can't say I blame them.
prefer to make a PDF document of something when they could just display it in HTML
Really? I'd be interested in how you can do this in HTML. Note that although the link is a JPG, in the PDF format, it's all vector, no raster. When you zoom in the PDF document, the fonts remain crisp and sharp
I'm looking for a Windows driver that will capture my GDI calls and render to HTML. Any suggestions?
why not just grab the dvd while youre there? this idea sucks
You miss the point: once movies can be digitally transferred to a device, you don't need the DVDs anymore: no physical inventory, no shelf stocking costs, no running out of copies, no limit to the repertoire that can be offered to customers, no administration of the returns, no returns period.
As for being able to read a synopsis of the movie & actors on the back of a DVD case, no problem: just put posters up on the wall, or provide the publice with banks of computers from which they can browse thorugh the store catalog.
Also, remember that a majority of the public probably don't have broadband and can't download the movies off the Internet.
Microsofts C/C++ compiler became better than Borlands
Yes, you are correct, Visual Studio became definitely superior.
However, I am sure the fact that Borland pre-empted Microsoft with a graphical IDE, was a strong incentive to accelerate the development of VS.
Speaking of the importance of IDEs, I'm sure the demise of OS/2 is not unrelated to the piece of crap that C-Set was (ca. 1995). Imagine an IDE that displays code in proportional font by default; where you can't compile from the editor; has no Resource Workshop for designing dialogs.
I run into a number of Delphi-based apps in my sphere (genealogy shrink-wrap).
I learned Windows programming with Petzold and Borland C++ 3.5. (Still have the 24 diskettes it came on). Borland had a GUI-based IDE when Microsoft was still flogging character-based Programmer's Workbench. Borland's chapter on C was the essence of clarity and beauty.
We parted company at ver. 5 when the compiler would change its mind half-way through a compilation and declare undefined a global variable it had compiled ten modules earlier.
Also couldn't handle "new" in a DLL, causing corrupted memory. Surprise!
In one of the ReactOS Forums, someone makes the interesting point that some of Microsoft's code may have been copied from BSD, so when you look at the same code in ReactOS, it may look like MS code, but it's really BSD.
Actually, I was alluding to Cato's habit of ending all his speeches, no matter what the subject, with an enjoinder to destroy Rome's rival, the Phoenicians.
I rant about the silly flaw whereby the bottom half of Slashdot posts on page n are repeated at the top of page n+1. It makes reading the posts a waste of time. I keep going on about it hoping one of the Inner Circle boffins will take notice. It's my monomania.
OK OK Mr. fussy-pants: Delenda est Carthago. Or maybe Carthaginem esse Delendam. There. I hope you're happy:o)
Would you believe I was forced to study this for six years? I hated it. I knew less in my sixth year than I did in my fourth. The greek only made things worse. On the other hand, I picked up Spanish in two months. Mucho mas interesante.
everyone I know with an ipod has pretty much just burned their cd collections
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Although I bought 20 tracks from iTunes, most of the 5,400 tracks on my iPod contain my 400 CDs, plus whatever I'm currently reading on Audible.com
Unless you're a teenager (or unemployed) and your time has no value, I fail to see how cruising the Internet for hours, looking for music, is cheaper than a $15 CD. My time is worth money, and I'll be darned if I will micturate it away downloading files which will be volatilized the next time my hard drive crashes. The plastic CD is my best backup.
Plus, the quality of many on-line MP3s is poor. (My wife spends a lot of time cruising & downloading. I had to switch her from Windows to Linspire to protect us from malware).
Perhaps one problem is that (newbie) legitimate posters are given no feedback when their stories are declined.
I posted a couple of stories a while back. They were original (I thought), interesting, had URLs, blah blah. They were declined with no comment whatsoever.
If I had had some inkling as to why they didn't make the cut, I could have worked on them, or remedied these shortcomings in another story. As it stands, I have no intention of wasting any more of my time and will never post another story.
BTW CmdrTaco to you enjoy re-reading the same posts in the first half of the next page?
I realize this is about Ruby, but can anyone explain to me why Microsoft didn't include the.NET framework in Windows XP? As a developer of consumer software, I'm loath to burden my 6 MB download with the 20MB millstone of the.NET framework. What gives?
Does Microsoft not believe in.NET? Is.NET still so unstable that it's not worthy of being included in the Windows XP Professional installation CD?
If you're developing Corporate, B2B apps, it's not a big problem to shlep the.NET CD over to a couple of hundred machines, and install it.
100,000 desktops, in another part of the world, for a $29 sale? Can't afford to get on the plane for that one. Imagine walking your grandmother through a.NET framework install over the phone. Now picture the machine not rebooting.
What I meant by "legacy" is one of those big ole' projects that lays dormant for years with lots of forgotten modules, no one actively involved with the code at their mental fingertips, when suddenly something stops working, leaving you scratching your head.
Person pet peeve here: dates and names/initials on comments
I vehemently disagree!
Have you ever worked on a large, legacy project when something suddenly starts going wrong? Don't you love spotting a line of code in the offending module with last week's date? Don't you appreciate having a chat with the perpetrator?
Seriously, I can't tell you how many times we have been able to fix an obscure bug by correlating the version and date when it started appearing, with the source history.
We use a Visual Studio macro that inserts date & intials with one keystroke.
These tales from the trenches are why I read Slashdot.
I am also still using VS 6. I have code to ship, I don't have time to futz around with compilers that have more bugs than I do.
It was always said that Visual Studio C++ is bullet-proof because that's what MS uses to build their own products. If they're not using VS.NET to build the Windows operating system itself, then it will never be as solid.
Amusing historical footnote: in 1970 I was writing FORTRAN on a CDC 6400 (Control Data Corporation). The CDC 6400 had 64-bit words, with 96-bit registers.
There's money in it? Exactly how, praytell good kind sir, do you get to that conclusion?
Spyware that tracks & reports surfing habits. The marketing data is worth millions. Not that they're interested in where you, specifically, are going, but rather what sites are popular.
Slashdot Mirror
In Canada I can't buy iTunes from the American Web site. The American site has Adrian Legg, for example, which I can't get from the Canadian one. Pity.
Most parents will care about where their offspring venture. If a parent can decrease the odds that his/her kids will stumble onto goatse or tubgirl, while availing themselves of what is truly one of the most profound cultural developments since Guttenberg, then that is an appealing proposition.
AOL may have its drawbacks, but shielding children from some of the more unsavory corners of the Internet is a very valuable service.
Filters simply don't work at the scale where AOL operates. They've thrown up their hands and said "Hey, how about y'all self-select!". Can't say I blame them.
They're just certifying that you are who you say you are.
Yes, I'm effraid the web has been effected enough already.
Really? I'd be interested in how you can do this in HTML. Note that although the link is a JPG, in the PDF format, it's all vector, no raster. When you zoom in the PDF document, the fonts remain crisp and sharp
I'm looking for a Windows driver that will capture my GDI calls and render to HTML. Any suggestions?
You miss the point: once movies can be digitally transferred to a device, you don't need the DVDs anymore: no physical inventory, no shelf stocking costs, no running out of copies, no limit to the repertoire that can be offered to customers, no administration of the returns, no returns period.
As for being able to read a synopsis of the movie & actors on the back of a DVD case, no problem: just put posters up on the wall, or provide the publice with banks of computers from which they can browse thorugh the store catalog.
Also, remember that a majority of the public probably don't have broadband and can't download the movies off the Internet.
This idea is brilliant.
Yes, you are correct, Visual Studio became definitely superior.
However, I am sure the fact that Borland pre-empted Microsoft with a graphical IDE, was a strong incentive to accelerate the development of VS.
Speaking of the importance of IDEs, I'm sure the demise of OS/2 is not unrelated to the piece of crap that C-Set was (ca. 1995). Imagine an IDE that displays code in proportional font by default; where you can't compile from the editor; has no Resource Workshop for designing dialogs.
I learned Windows programming with Petzold and Borland C++ 3.5. (Still have the 24 diskettes it came on). Borland had a GUI-based IDE when Microsoft was still flogging character-based Programmer's Workbench. Borland's chapter on C was the essence of clarity and beauty.
We parted company at ver. 5 when the compiler would change its mind half-way through a compilation and declare undefined a global variable it had compiled ten modules earlier.
Also couldn't handle "new" in a DLL, causing corrupted memory. Surprise!
In one of the ReactOS Forums, someone makes the interesting point that some of Microsoft's code may have been copied from BSD, so when you look at the same code in ReactOS, it may look like MS code, but it's really BSD.
I rant about the silly flaw whereby the bottom half of Slashdot posts on page n are repeated at the top of page n+1. It makes reading the posts a waste of time. I keep going on about it hoping one of the Inner Circle boffins will take notice. It's my monomania.
Thank you for noticing and setting me strait.
Would you believe I was forced to study this for six years? I hated it. I knew less in my sixth year than I did in my fourth. The greek only made things worse. On the other hand, I picked up Spanish in two months. Mucho mas interesante.
Delenda est Carthagena
Hmmm... sounds like Slashdot's duplicated code style (approximately the bottom half of page n posts are repeated at the top of page n + 1.
Delenda est Carthagena
Yeah, more and more the signal to noise ratio is asymptotically approaching the abscissa.
everyone I know with an ipod has pretty much just burned their cd collections
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Although I bought 20 tracks from iTunes, most of the 5,400 tracks on my iPod contain my 400 CDs, plus whatever I'm currently reading on Audible.com
Unless you're a teenager (or unemployed) and your time has no value, I fail to see how cruising the Internet for hours, looking for music, is cheaper than a $15 CD. My time is worth money, and I'll be darned if I will micturate it away downloading files which will be volatilized the next time my hard drive crashes. The plastic CD is my best backup.
Plus, the quality of many on-line MP3s is poor. (My wife spends a lot of time cruising & downloading. I had to switch her from Windows to Linspire to protect us from malware).
Thank you for Alt-V-Y-N (View - Page Style - No Style)!! You have made my day and justified many hours squandered on /.
Perhaps one problem is that (newbie) legitimate posters are given no feedback when their stories are declined.
I posted a couple of stories a while back. They were original (I thought), interesting, had URLs, blah blah. They were declined with no comment whatsoever.
If I had had some inkling as to why they didn't make the cut, I could have worked on them, or remedied these shortcomings in another story. As it stands, I have no intention of wasting any more of my time and will never post another story.
BTW CmdrTaco to you enjoy re-reading the same posts in the first half of the next page?
Sounds like an exotic Caribbean drink, or a new latin dance. Can you smoke Marriaga?
Sorry, I realize it's a harmless typo, but you have given us a wonderful new word.
Does Microsoft not believe in .NET? Is .NET still so unstable that it's not worthy of being included in the Windows XP Professional installation CD?
If you're developing Corporate, B2B apps, it's not a big problem to shlep the .NET CD over to a couple of hundred machines, and install it.
100,000 desktops, in another part of the world, for a $29 sale? Can't afford to get on the plane for that one. Imagine walking your grandmother through a .NET framework install over the phone. Now picture the machine not rebooting.
[2] Press <Ctrl> + to increase the font size (or, scroll down thumbwheel while holding down <Ctrl>)
[3] Kaboom! GPF
This site also delivers a sleazy pop-under.
What I meant by "legacy" is one of those big ole' projects that lays dormant for years with lots of forgotten modules, no one actively involved with the code at their mental fingertips, when suddenly something stops working, leaving you scratching your head.
I vehemently disagree!
Have you ever worked on a large, legacy project when something suddenly starts going wrong? Don't you love spotting a line of code in the offending module with last week's date? Don't you appreciate having a chat with the perpetrator?
Seriously, I can't tell you how many times we have been able to fix an obscure bug by correlating the version and date when it started appearing, with the source history.
We use a Visual Studio macro that inserts date & intials with one keystroke.
I am also still using VS 6. I have code to ship, I don't have time to futz around with compilers that have more bugs than I do.
It was always said that Visual Studio C++ is bullet-proof because that's what MS uses to build their own products. If they're not using VS.NET to build the Windows operating system itself, then it will never be as solid.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
Spyware that tracks & reports surfing habits. The marketing data is worth millions. Not that they're interested in where you, specifically, are going, but rather what sites are popular.