Why is it that all other goods or services folks reasonably expect to pay and accept restrictions on what they can do with it.
Er, no. I buy something, it's mine. I get to do whatever I want with it, within the bounds of the law.
A loaf of bread doesn't come with an EULA prohibiting you from making sandwiches with it, even if the baker would rather you buy his sandwiches instead. My car didn't come with a notice stating all my rights to use it would be revoked if I replaced the gear knob with an 8-ball. I can pick up my pen and use it to write a review stating that the pen is a piece of shit and not worth the money, and there's nothing the manufacturer can do to stop me, provided I tell the truth.
So why should music and software producers be able to put in licence terms that I can't see until I've bought the (non-returnable, or at least not-easily-returnable) product telling me that I can't do things with their product, even though those things are perfectly legal, and perfectly acceptable to the average guy in the street?
Screw 'em. Screw 'em right up the arse and back down again.
Yeah, and writing a perl script to make a load of repetitive edits on a file might take longer than editing the file by hand, but I bet just about everybody here would write the script:)
We do have TiVo-like products - TiVo, for one:) Satellite viewers (who greatly outnumber cable viewers in the UK, given that you pretty much have to live in a city or large town to even be able to get cable) can also use SkyPlus.
The SkyPlus vs TiVo debate is somewhat akin to vi vs emacs, so I'm not going to go there. Since nobody's making UK TiVos at the moment, though, SkyPlus is the only option for most folk.
The mini is damn small. You can put it next to your monitor, like an external CD drive, and that's your entire computer. Get one with wireless/bluetooth and the only cable you need is to the monitor, right next to it.
I find mine works better with a power cable as well...
The biggest performance lag on mine appears to be accessing stuff on the Linux server via SMB - might be time to set up NFS. Other than that, it's great. I suspect compiling might have it on its knees, but I'm probably not about to write anything particularly large any time soon anyway:)
Whoa. There's something odd. It took them well over a year from the US release before we got Animal Crossing on the GC in Europe... and yet the European release date is September 29, according to Play:)
The main costs are translation into the various European languages (both the in-game text and the manual) and redoing the video code to cope with PAL's 50Hz and extra vertical resolution.
The 50Hz thing is daft, really - just about any TV sold these days will cope with 50Hz and 60Hz, as it saves the manufacturers having to design two different TVs where one will do. But you're still going to end up with a load of people with old TVs moaning that their games don't work.
Note that a bare hard drive appears to not be exempt, since TFA mentions "storage devices" not "players". So even an iPod that only plays DRMed files would get taxed unless the HD was locked so it wouldn't work outside of the iPod environment, even if reformatted.
What next? Customs officers demanding piles-o-cash because you've got an iPod on your belt when you arrive for your week's holiday?
Station names aren't unique - there's a London Road in Guildford and another in Brighton. Similarly, there's a Gillingham in Kent and another in Dorset, though they're at least pronounced differently:)
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A loaf of bread doesn't come with an EULA prohibiting you from making sandwiches with it, even if the baker would rather you buy his sandwiches instead. My car didn't come with a notice stating all my rights to use it would be revoked if I replaced the gear knob with an 8-ball. I can pick up my pen and use it to write a review stating that the pen is a piece of shit and not worth the money, and there's nothing the manufacturer can do to stop me, provided I tell the truth.
So why should music and software producers be able to put in licence terms that I can't see until I've bought the (non-returnable, or at least not-easily-returnable) product telling me that I can't do things with their product, even though those things are perfectly legal, and perfectly acceptable to the average guy in the street?
Screw 'em. Screw 'em right up the arse and back down again.
Damn. Looks like the software needs some tweaking.
Try NetLimiter... you can set up/download limits on a per-app basis.
Uh, so I'm told, anyway.
Yeah, and writing a perl script to make a load of repetitive edits on a file might take longer than editing the file by hand, but I bet just about everybody here would write the script :)
The SkyPlus vs TiVo debate is somewhat akin to vi vs emacs, so I'm not going to go there. Since nobody's making UK TiVos at the moment, though, SkyPlus is the only option for most folk.
A Llamasoft light synth! And without having to stick a toilet on top of your console, either...
The biggest performance lag on mine appears to be accessing stuff on the Linux server via SMB - might be time to set up NFS. Other than that, it's great. I suspect compiling might have it on its knees, but I'm probably not about to write anything particularly large any time soon anyway :)
It's so non-Windows-using heathens can't extract them, of course...
Whoa. There's something odd. It took them well over a year from the US release before we got Animal Crossing on the GC in Europe... and yet the European release date is September 29, according to Play :)
Yes, I really want to wait an extra 5 minutes in line because the people in front of me are useless at maths...
Of course, few people are going to completely rewrite their existing code straight away, so existing apps probably won't go down this route just yet.
Apple's always banging on about good UI design, and then they make it so you have to dismiss a dialog every damn time you go to watch a video file.
The 50Hz thing is daft, really - just about any TV sold these days will cope with 50Hz and 60Hz, as it saves the manufacturers having to design two different TVs where one will do. But you're still going to end up with a load of people with old TVs moaning that their games don't work.
Excuse me. I have to go and buy a fishing net.
Note that a bare hard drive appears to not be exempt, since TFA mentions "storage devices" not "players". So even an iPod that only plays DRMed files would get taxed unless the HD was locked so it wouldn't work outside of the iPod environment, even if reformatted.
What next? Customs officers demanding piles-o-cash because you've got an iPod on your belt when you arrive for your week's holiday?
Somebody who can, say, afford to buy Macromedia is much more likely to get slapped with a giant lawsuit.
Personally, I like this one:
Great. PDFs with embedded Flash ads. Just what we needed.
I'm hoping someone has MP3s of the album versions - I have them on vinyl and cassette, but no working kit that'll play those formats :(
Didn't for me, in Safari 1.3 with PithHelmet. Were you using IE for Mac?
Station names aren't unique - there's a London Road in Guildford and another in Brighton. Similarly, there's a Gillingham in Kent and another in Dorset, though they're at least pronounced differently :)
Thanks!
Spellchecking doesn't have to be done entirely by computer :)