You can drag and drop files into a Terminal window and it'll type the path for you. So you don't even have to type a path there (though honestly, if you're in terminal it's probably easier to type the path than to find the file and drag it)
By removing these books from their stores entirely, they're discouraging other publishers from giving Amazon exclusive access to their ebooks. Hopefully keeping closer to "any book, any time, anywhere" than just rolling over and letting Amazon get exclusivity.
Amazon does allow publishers to provide books without DRM, though there is no indication to the buyer of this... I've only noticed it trying to strip the DRM and discovering that there was none to strip.
So, yes, if it's on Amazon with DRM, that's the publisher's choice.
If you're going to advertise for all-you-can-eat, shouldn't you have to provide it?
Yes, but I don't have to provide it in perpetuity. If I'm advertising all-you-can-eat, and your four trips are costing me too much money, damn right I'm going to consider switching formats.
You should feel happy that Apple creates software designed to destroy *YOUR* property? Are you forgetting its YOUR phone?
Who said the software was designed to destroy property? Isn't it possible that the unlocking tools do something they shouldn't (maybe erase a bit of currently-unused firmware that is needed in 1.1? I dunno), and Apple is just saying that they won't fix someone else's bug?
And hey, at least they warned you. If they wanted to brick phones, why announce it ahead of time? You still have the option to not update.
How many changes would you say are permissible before something is a different program entirely? Should someone be allowed to take Firefox, rip out Gecko, slap in KHTML, and call it Firefox?
I see no problem with Apple (or anyone else) defining what "CUPS" is and saying if you change it you have to call it something else.
Interesting... looks like Google doesn't want me to see the censored results - any google.cn URLs redirect to google.com for me. But I can visit google.ca all I want.
The 04 and newer Prius have an electric A/C compressor, so the A/C will continue with the engine off. Heating is still majorly from the engine, and in the winter the engine will run more often to keep you warm (but it will still cycle off). (I say majorly because their is a small electric heater, but I have no idea when it is used or how useful it really is)
Do you have your mouse connected to the USB ports on the monitor? Try connecting it to the computer directly. I had this problem with a game pad connected to the USB ports on my Sharp monitor. USB hubs, or maybe just cheap ones found in monitors, seem to add some lag.
I have never seen any input lag on a LCD. Ever. Plenty of ghosting, but no outright lag.
PowerBook users can use SideTrack to get a second mouse button and scroll wheels... I have it set so tapping the bottom left of the trackpad is right click, top corners are back and forward, right edge is the vertical scroll, and top edge is horizontal.
OnStar can turn on the mic when there has been an accident. It's not much of a stretch to think they can turn it on when you're just riding along.
Sure it is. When there's an accident, the vehicle initiates the call. Obviously until that happens, OnStar has no friggin clue that something's wrong. Since (as far as I know) there's no benifit to designing it to be able to be activated remotely (as far as OnStar is concerned, that is. The FBI is welcome to think differently.), it seems logical to me that the device may not be capable of it - why program it in?
Of course, I have no inside knowledge of the system, and I admit that it is possible that it's designed such that the FBI could use it to spy on people. I just think it's unlikely.
(Of course, the other similar service obviously can work this way, so maybe I'm completly wrong... Wouldn't be the first time.)
Who says they're blocking ports? Can't they just block IPs? Blocking dimentions.anarchy-online.com (or whatever the login server is, I can't remember) would prevent people from playing AO fairly well. (Er, alright, so it would only prevent logins, you'd have to block all the playfield servers. Still not impossible.)
I don't know about any other games, but they have to be run off some limited block of IPs. Block 'em all.
Of course, you could use an out-of-country proxy to get around this... but isn't the lag on these games bad enough already? I would think bouncing around so much to avoid a block would make the game near unplayable. (Or maybe it's just AO with terrible lag...)
The other protocol is TOC, which doesn't support much of anything interesting. ICQ and AIM both use OSCAR now, which is how the interoperability works. Gaim considers AIM and ICQ the same protocol. This section of the FAQ says:
ICQ support is part of the OSCAR protocol, labeled AIM/ICQ in Gaim (see the question ICQ doesn't work for why). To use it, simply put your account number in the Screenname box and your password in the Password box. Leave the server settings set to the default (login.oscar.aol.com and port 5190).
Cancel, OK is the standard on the Mac, where 'accept' action is normally on the right, and almost always the default. (If accepting is destructive, the accept button may not be the default, but it is usually still on the right.)
I love OSX and think it a vastly superior desktop OS to either XP or Linux with KDE or Gnome. However, having said that, there clearly are things OSX doesn't yet do easily. Try browsing a Windows network. Yes you can connect, but (to quote an earlier post) you have to write down the address. There isn't anything equivalent to clicking on Network Neighborhood or Computers Near Me and seeing everything. You have to know IP addresses and so forth for printers. Further the printer drivers for OSX are often inferior to XP versions.
In 10.2, Connect to Server will list Windows workgroups and machines. At least, it does on my machine. Try clicking the down arrow to the right of the At popup?
TiVo has a standby mode, but it isn't a power saving mode - its sole purpose is if you use RF out (instead of the RCA cables), putting the TiVo in standby makes the RF out be a pass-through for the RF in, so you can watch live TV on your TV (or VCR or whatever you have connected downstream of the TiVo). The TiVo will continue to record. The power savings of standby mode is almost zero. (The power LED does turn off, so I guess there's some savings there.)
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You can drag and drop files into a Terminal window and it'll type the path for you. So you don't even have to type a path there (though honestly, if you're in terminal it's probably easier to type the path than to find the file and drag it)
You can disable the annoying ad when you leave a game, btw. It's the "Notify me (with Steam instant messages)..." checkbox in prefs under interface.
But yeah, they probably should have pushed a notice through Steam.
By removing these books from their stores entirely, they're discouraging other publishers from giving Amazon exclusive access to their ebooks. Hopefully keeping closer to "any book, any time, anywhere" than just rolling over and letting Amazon get exclusivity.
I'll be on the side of "screw your video, gimmie the transcript"
'course, I'd be on that side regardless of what format the video is encoded in.
Amazon does allow publishers to provide books without DRM, though there is no indication to the buyer of this... I've only noticed it trying to strip the DRM and discovering that there was none to strip.
So, yes, if it's on Amazon with DRM, that's the publisher's choice.
Nah, it's probably direct from the large cat whose name is so lousy they buy other slightly less lousy names of failed retail stores to use.
If the quality of the content was so low, there would be no consumers of said content to squeeze money from.
...when you distribute stolen goods. (Hey, if stealing cable is theft of service, stealing IP is too.)
If you're going to advertise for all-you-can-eat, shouldn't you have to provide it?
Yes, but I don't have to provide it in perpetuity. If I'm advertising all-you-can-eat, and your four trips are costing me too much money, damn right I'm going to consider switching formats.
You don't have to email your stuff to it. You can connect a USB cable and copy compatible files over that way.
Reading is step 0 of the process, sir.
Who said the software was designed to destroy property? Isn't it possible that the unlocking tools do something they shouldn't (maybe erase a bit of currently-unused firmware that is needed in 1.1? I dunno), and Apple is just saying that they won't fix someone else's bug?
And hey, at least they warned you. If they wanted to brick phones, why announce it ahead of time? You still have the option to not update.
How many changes would you say are permissible before something is a different program entirely? Should someone be allowed to take Firefox, rip out Gecko, slap in KHTML, and call it Firefox?
I see no problem with Apple (or anyone else) defining what "CUPS" is and saying if you change it you have to call it something else.
Interesting... looks like Google doesn't want me to see the censored results - any google.cn URLs redirect to google.com for me. But I can visit google.ca all I want.
The 04 and newer Prius have an electric A/C compressor, so the A/C will continue with the engine off. Heating is still majorly from the engine, and in the winter the engine will run more often to keep you warm (but it will still cycle off). (I say majorly because their is a small electric heater, but I have no idea when it is used or how useful it really is)
Do you have your mouse connected to the USB ports on the monitor? Try connecting it to the computer directly. I had this problem with a game pad connected to the USB ports on my Sharp monitor. USB hubs, or maybe just cheap ones found in monitors, seem to add some lag.
I have never seen any input lag on a LCD. Ever. Plenty of ghosting, but no outright lag.
PowerBook users can use SideTrack to get a second mouse button and scroll wheels... I have it set so tapping the bottom left of the trackpad is right click, top corners are back and forward, right edge is the vertical scroll, and top edge is horizontal.
True, I had completly forgotten about that feature. Thanks.
Sure it is. When there's an accident, the vehicle initiates the call. Obviously until that happens, OnStar has no friggin clue that something's wrong. Since (as far as I know) there's no benifit to designing it to be able to be activated remotely (as far as OnStar is concerned, that is. The FBI is welcome to think differently.), it seems logical to me that the device may not be capable of it - why program it in?
Of course, I have no inside knowledge of the system, and I admit that it is possible that it's designed such that the FBI could use it to spy on people. I just think it's unlikely.
(Of course, the other similar service obviously can work this way, so maybe I'm completly wrong... Wouldn't be the first time.)
Who says they're blocking ports? Can't they just block IPs? Blocking dimentions.anarchy-online.com (or whatever the login server is, I can't remember) would prevent people from playing AO fairly well. (Er, alright, so it would only prevent logins, you'd have to block all the playfield servers. Still not impossible.)
I don't know about any other games, but they have to be run off some limited block of IPs. Block 'em all.
Of course, you could use an out-of-country proxy to get around this... but isn't the lag on these games bad enough already? I would think bouncing around so much to avoid a block would make the game near unplayable. (Or maybe it's just AO with terrible lag...)
Gaim does use the OSCAR protocol. At least recent versions do.
That's because Google doesn't do boolean searches. It will ignore the or (too common a word) and ends up treating it like an and search.
Cancel, OK is the standard on the Mac, where 'accept' action is normally on the right, and almost always the default. (If accepting is destructive, the accept button may not be the default, but it is usually still on the right.)
In 10.2, Connect to Server will list Windows workgroups and machines.
At least, it does on my machine. Try clicking the down arrow to the right of the At popup?
TiVo has a standby mode, but it isn't a power saving mode - its sole purpose is if you use RF out (instead of the RCA cables), putting the TiVo in standby makes the RF out be a pass-through for the RF in, so you can watch live TV on your TV (or VCR or whatever you have connected downstream of the TiVo). The TiVo will continue to record. The power savings of standby mode is almost zero. (The power LED does turn off, so I guess there's some savings there.)