"Some mysterious key combination - I believe it involves SHIFT or ALT something - causes the keyboard layout to switch instantly from US to whatever else is installed, in my case Canadian French or Canadian Multilingual Standard. For the first month I had the computer I would regularly hit this mysterious key combination by mistake, causing weird accented characters to begin appearing in my code. I finally got frustrated, did a Google and found some instructions on how to disable this key combination. I don't remember how I did it, there were 5 or 6 convoluted steps involved. Pointless and annoying. "
At the risk of adding nothing, ME TOO! That drives me nuts! but it seems to be on an application level becuase say, if im typing and i start getting accented E's instead of quotation marks, I can restart the app and its fine (firefox mostly happens if but it has happened to me and others in officexp as well).
I have no clue how to disable this. It reminds me of that wonderful feature of stickykeys from XP. Youd be mashing keys in a game and then suddenly you'd hear a little *bleep* and the keys would no longer work. Microsoft - protecting you from typing uppercase letters if you are having a seizure. Now thats innovation!
Glad to know im not the only one who finds voice a mood killa. Peoples insipid gossip and just talking for the hell of it. Some people just like to talk and talk about NOTHING. I assume these are the same people who start dialing their phone before they start their car. Who has that much idle chatter stored up in their brain? If its text, its pretty easy to filter, but voice? Forget about it.
The usefull information and orders are intermixed with information about some guys hernia operation or fluffy kitty. Not to mention the pre pubescent people SCREAMING into the mic for attention, girls flirting with everyone, etc. Nothing makes me cringe more than hearing nasily wow players flirting with girls over vent. I especially hated that when I played wow. It completely ruins the fantasy mood but was required for endgame raiding. I dont want to be slaying dragons with the pimple faced kid from the simpsons. Id much rather picture peoples characters than the "character" that their voice reminds me of.
Spare us your self righteous appeal to emotion. Things are only as important as people make them. There is no difference between lusting after a bmw IRL and wanting to be a titan pilot in eve. The real world is just as pointless and intangible as any online game.
you realize the real world is way more important than any MMORPG according to ANY measure, right?
Why? Because more people play RL? I guarantee me leading a fleet of ships into battle is way more important than the bitter old seamstress doing needlepoint thats burned as garbage when childless and alone, she passes on.
its about what you DO with whatever world your in, not the characteristics of the world that makes it important.
No it wont. 1) REAL people will NOT read bounces. These are the same people that I have to explain time and time again that when it says "unknown user" it means that the email address is wrong. 2) You are contributing to backscatter email. As a victim of this, I would ask YOU to get bent. 3) You really think this will do jack all to spammers? Just how much of a "long run" are we talking about here? 10 years?
youtube videos don't have ads, but your not the first one to mention this in this thread. Weird. Were you on the other site? Why would microsoft have ads in their own techdemo?
There is supposedly a list somewhere of radioplay banned songs by clear channel or whoever. I remember some of them being completely ridiculous. I could easily see ratm making it onto that list as they are pretty political. Seems like a good example.
As someone who downloaded midi files off of BBS's in the early 90s, I can honestly say I really dont see ever paying for a CD or DVD again. I will pay for the presentation (theater, concert) but I will never pay for a license to listen on anyones terms. Culture is just there, and will always be there unless it is restricted. Culture is not a product. Advertising tries to make it into one but its not.
Castro isn't a tyrant. Things would be great in that country if not for the stupid american embargo.
Forgive me for thinking the "diguise" of universal healthcare was a good idea. Its clearly a communist plot instated by a greedy power mad tyrant.
Do you americans ever read history books not written by americans? I mean seriously. The "Cuba is teh evil" line is so fucking 30 years ago, and it wasnt even true then!
What comments are you reading? Looks to me like the majority of people here think its an invasion of privacy. The posts that are defending google are generally not as thought out as the ones criticizing them. I think you jumped the gun too much on this one. Alot of people are scared of google at this point.
Every time theres an apple story posted people go nuts to explain why m4a's are supperior to mp3s. They quote licensing requirements of the mp3 codec vs the m4a's open license (whatever it is). Funny now, im pretty sure you cant watermark and mp3 (comment field aside) without breaking it. I would never buy something from the apple store with this new information. Its too risky for zero reward. I can always get it off p2p after all with NO watermarking.
Personally I dont get what the difference is between sharing something with 5 friends and 500 friends. It seems to be a popular talking point here so let me get into a gray area. Suppose I go to a lan party, or run a file server for my apartment building. In both cases its signficantly under 500 users that are copying my music, if they chose. Now suppose one of these people then takes my track and uploads it somewhere world accessable. How is that my fault? Am I supposed to do thorough background checks on everyone i want to share some track with? Thats the world you want to live in????
I think to make this work, you would have to be living in a world where either you dont share any music period, or have complete trust in all your friends and people you give access to your shares. This to me is unrealistic. The problem most people have is that they think mp3s are CD's. MP3's, wma, w4a and whatever are RADIO. Do you see anyone care about people listening to the radio for free? What mp3s (by extention of playlists) allow you to do is have radio without all the annoying ads and filler tracks that you would get commercially.
There will never be a shortage of music. It's just not going to happen.
"The fact that a sizeable number of Slashdot posters still think the iPod is successful because of "hype" explains why a sizeable number of Slashdot posters will never be as successful as Steve Jobs."
Yes I'm sure thats the reason they wont. It has nothing to do with living in basements and a dislike of social contact. The entire myriad of social disorders afflicitng slashdotters can now be circumvented as you have found the corner stone of their socioeconomic ruin - lack of hype sensitivity.
"I was discussing with one of my friends about how we don't use houses, houses use us"
Are you perhaps in Soviet Russia?
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"Some of them won't buy an Ipod out of their hatred of Apple, but yet won't buy a Zune.... That says a lot."
Says alot? All it says is they don't want a crappy music player no matter if its apple or MS. They probably went out and baught the vastly superior sansa line by sandisk.
Pros of sansa players: - No bloated software suites (i am just assuming the zune has one because its m$. Itunes is for DAMN sure..) - accepts winamp playlists - drag and drop songs to and from device just like a normal HDD (after turning off playesforsure) - Less battery usage because its flash - DRM enable/disable via hardware switch on player - Smaller, lighter weight - USB STANDARD connection, none of this apple proprietary BS
Despite the fact that I've told them a million times that they'll pretty much NEVER see a \ in a URL
But if your using windows, you constantly see \'s when working with the machine. In a business environment, many many links are \\SERVER\SHARE for instance. You want to try explaining the difference between a fileserver and a webserver to the average person?
Well it kinda sucks because if I want to hook up with some friends for lan play, they all have to buy the game. In counterstrike/ hl1, you could just copy the directory. Theres also the fact that if you ever pirate ANY valve game and they somehow findout, you lose access to ALL your other paid for games. Its nice to be able to go to a friends house, put my l/p in and have it auto download and update the client on their pc, but you do lose some freedom for that convenience.
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At the risk of adding nothing, ME TOO! That drives me nuts! but it seems to be on an application level becuase say, if im typing and i start getting accented E's instead of quotation marks, I can restart the app and its fine (firefox mostly happens if but it has happened to me and others in officexp as well).
I have no clue how to disable this. It reminds me of that wonderful feature of stickykeys from XP. Youd be mashing keys in a game and then suddenly you'd hear a little *bleep* and the keys would no longer work. Microsoft - protecting you from typing uppercase letters if you are having a seizure. Now thats innovation!
Glad to know im not the only one who finds voice a mood killa. Peoples insipid gossip and just talking for the hell of it. Some people just like to talk and talk about NOTHING. I assume these are the same people who start dialing their phone before they start their car. Who has that much idle chatter stored up in their brain? If its text, its pretty easy to filter, but voice? Forget about it.
The usefull information and orders are intermixed with information about some guys hernia operation or fluffy kitty. Not to mention the pre pubescent people SCREAMING into the mic for attention, girls flirting with everyone, etc. Nothing makes me cringe more than hearing nasily wow players flirting with girls over vent. I especially hated that when I played wow. It completely ruins the fantasy mood but was required for endgame raiding. I dont want to be slaying dragons with the pimple faced kid from the simpsons. Id much rather picture peoples characters than the "character" that their voice reminds me of.
I guarantee me leading a fleet of ships into battle is way more important than the bitter old seamstress doing needlepoint thats burned as garbage when childless and alone, she passes on.
its about what you DO with whatever world your in, not the characteristics of the world that makes it important.
I guess you never watched war games...
I know eh!
They should have used an M249 SAW like normal civilized folk.
What exactly is the difference between a farmer and a player selling their cash this way. They are both human right?
You didnt whipe your computer when you found out your online bank account was hacked. wow.
This is why there will always be botnets out there. People like the parent that just dont care.
No it wont. 1) REAL people will NOT read bounces. These are the same people that I have to explain time and time again that when it says "unknown user" it means that the email address is wrong. 2) You are contributing to backscatter email. As a victim of this, I would ask YOU to get bent. 3) You really think this will do jack all to spammers? Just how much of a "long run" are we talking about here? 10 years?
Because most people arent stupid patent trolls?
Did they even unban that guy who discovered this in the first place? Let him be the ombudsman!
But I guess its better than nothing. I love how the bob slime claims that they will take over the entire galaxy. Over my frozen corpse they will.
youtube videos don't have ads, but your not the first one to mention this in this thread. Weird. Were you on the other site? Why would microsoft have ads in their own techdemo?
There is supposedly a list somewhere of radioplay banned songs by clear channel or whoever. I remember some of them being completely ridiculous. I could easily see ratm making it onto that list as they are pretty political. Seems like a good example.
Some will. They are just doing it so you dont crazy max out your upload bandwidth. Self serving but still.
As someone who downloaded midi files off of BBS's in the early 90s, I can honestly say I really dont see ever paying for a CD or DVD again. I will pay for the presentation (theater, concert) but I will never pay for a license to listen on anyones terms. Culture is just there, and will always be there unless it is restricted. Culture is not a product. Advertising tries to make it into one but its not.
Thats a subplot in Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
Nope. On windows those torrents would actually have seeds, unlike the mac versions.
You paid for a remote desktop server? wow. I guess thats to be expected, what with things like quicktime pro and paying for OS patches (lol).
Castro isn't a tyrant. Things would be great in that country if not for the stupid american embargo.
Forgive me for thinking the "diguise" of universal healthcare was a good idea. Its clearly a communist plot instated by a greedy power mad tyrant.
Do you americans ever read history books not written by americans? I mean seriously. The "Cuba is teh evil" line is so fucking 30 years ago, and it wasnt even true then!
Yes. Strangely enough, the person that is getting impeached/ousted matters!
Context. Imagine that.
Every time theres an apple story posted people go nuts to explain why m4a's are supperior to mp3s. They quote licensing requirements of the mp3 codec vs the m4a's open license (whatever it is). Funny now, im pretty sure you cant watermark and mp3 (comment field aside) without breaking it. I would never buy something from the apple store with this new information. Its too risky for zero reward. I can always get it off p2p after all with NO watermarking.
Personally I dont get what the difference is between sharing something with 5 friends and 500 friends. It seems to be a popular talking point here so let me get into a gray area. Suppose I go to a lan party, or run a file server for my apartment building. In both cases its signficantly under 500 users that are copying my music, if they chose. Now suppose one of these people then takes my track and uploads it somewhere world accessable. How is that my fault? Am I supposed to do thorough background checks on everyone i want to share some track with? Thats the world you want to live in????
I think to make this work, you would have to be living in a world where either you dont share any music period, or have complete trust in all your friends and people you give access to your shares. This to me is unrealistic. The problem most people have is that they think mp3s are CD's. MP3's, wma, w4a and whatever are RADIO. Do you see anyone care about people listening to the radio for free? What mp3s (by extention of playlists) allow you to do is have radio without all the annoying ads and filler tracks that you would get commercially.
There will never be a shortage of music. It's just not going to happen.
Yes I'm sure thats the reason they wont. It has nothing to do with living in basements and a dislike of social contact. The entire myriad of social disorders afflicitng slashdotters can now be circumvented as you have found the corner stone of their socioeconomic ruin - lack of hype sensitivity.
Pros of sansa players:
- No bloated software suites (i am just assuming the zune has one because its m$. Itunes is for DAMN sure..)
- accepts winamp playlists
- drag and drop songs to and from device just like a normal HDD (after turning off playesforsure)
- Less battery usage because its flash
- DRM enable/disable via hardware switch on player
- Smaller, lighter weight
- USB STANDARD connection, none of this apple proprietary BS
Well it kinda sucks because if I want to hook up with some friends for lan play, they all have to buy the game. In counterstrike/ hl1, you could just copy the directory. Theres also the fact that if you ever pirate ANY valve game and they somehow findout, you lose access to ALL your other paid for games. Its nice to be able to go to a friends house, put my l/p in and have it auto download and update the client on their pc, but you do lose some freedom for that convenience.