Actually this trip to the USA really opened my eyes, I was suprised to see that some stores want to check your recipets and goods before they let you leave - nobody stopped me personally, if they had have done I'd have said the same.. Still I'm suprised this is a) common and b) apparently accepted treatment from stores.
Actualy, the local branch of B&Q has a receipt checker on the exit - although I understand the US guys actually stop people rather than standing there looking bored as customers wander out. Not sure why they bothered, really...
Yeah, FLAC stores metadata, using Vorbis comments. There's various tagging programs that'll happily deal with FLACs, such as mp3tag for Windows or Media Rage for Macs. Finding Linux/BSD software to do it shouldn't be a problem, of course:)
Can't see why you can't have a widget permanently fixed to your desktop, though - unless it's just to make Dashboard not look like a complete rip of Konfabulator... Maybe they'll add it for 10.4.1.
If you want really rare stuff, you have to shop everywhere. I have only seen one Dreamcast, also at Trashies, but I have never seen any DC games anywhere but on Ebay.
Really? Wow. My local car boot sale always has at least one stall with DC games, and there's usually a DC up for grabs as well. I'm in the UK, though.
I think my best win was stopping by an auction house on the way back from a trip, and immediately getting a feeling that there was something good there when I walked through the door. 5 minutes of searching, and I found a boxed Vectrex under a table - apparently some kids had bid on it earlier that afternoon and not come back to pay for it. I got a boxed Vectrex and two games for £10:)
Uh... there are two analogue sticks on a Cube controller.
The layout would get uncomfortable really quickly, though - the C-stick is definitely designed for occasional tweaks to the camera angle, rather than being a main control.
A Mac version would be nice, especially if you could control it with the motion sensor in the new Powerbooks:)
Of course, removing the ability to cloak your WHOIS entry also benefits spammers - now they can get a boatload of email addresses with some WHOIS queries. And what's this? Home addresses and phone numbers too?
Shift + I. Not documented, of course. I only found out about that a couple of weeks ago...
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That's what he said: "from one disk to another".
Even Windoze lets you force it in that case, by holding down Shift.
Oh well. Maybe they'll fix it in Tiger.
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QT's continuous nagging is probably responsible for more people getting serials from the net than anything else.
If it had just said "pay $35 (or whatever) to unlock these cool extras" ONCE, most people would have either left it alone and done without, or paid. But since it's using a "pay $35 to get these cool extras, but also to stop me pissing and moaning EVERY TIME YOU LAUNCH ME" model, just about everyone who doesn't want the new features is going to download a serial, just to make it shut up.
But the 5-computer limitation is like a car that only allows 5 different drivers. Most people won't have a problem, but the response to someone who needs to share the car between 6 people is "either deauthorise/reauthorise each time, or buy two cars". Someone gets run over by a bus before you can deauthorise him? Tough, now you've got 4 slots.
Frankly, I should be able to take a DRMed file round to a friend's house, and play it on his computer, without having to worry about having a spare authorisation slot, and remembering to deauthorise him afterwards. I shouldn't be able to leave a usable copy on his machine when I go, but I should be able to lend my stuff out without hassle. You know, just like with a CD. Any DRM system that doesn't let me do stuff that I could legally do with a CD is unacceptable.
If Apple made lossless downloads available from ITMS, I'd be willing to bet that the record companies would insist they disallowed burning those tracks - for precisely the reason you gave in the last sentence. If they're covering real CDs in copy-restriction crud, they're hardly going to allow you to produce a pristine copy through this method.
At best, they might allow burning from lossless tracks if iTunes automatically transcoded them to 128kbps AAC and burned those.
Whether Steve would go for it, or whether he would tell them to get stuffed, is another matter entirely, of course...
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Yeah, FLAC stores metadata, using Vorbis comments. There's various tagging programs that'll happily deal with FLACs, such as mp3tag for Windows or Media Rage for Macs. Finding Linux/BSD software to do it shouldn't be a problem, of course :)
I use the Konfabulator phase-of-moon widget to know when it's time to play Nethack.
Can't see why you can't have a widget permanently fixed to your desktop, though - unless it's just to make Dashboard not look like a complete rip of Konfabulator... Maybe they'll add it for 10.4.1.
I'm waiting for the Hello Kitty edition...
Don't think it lets you run two of them off one PB, though, and I don't have enough money to try this out and report back :(
Well, Peter Jones certainly wouldn't be up to it, considering he died in 2000...
You don't. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
I think my best win was stopping by an auction house on the way back from a trip, and immediately getting a feeling that there was something good there when I walked through the door. 5 minutes of searching, and I found a boxed Vectrex under a table - apparently some kids had bid on it earlier that afternoon and not come back to pay for it. I got a boxed Vectrex and two games for £10 :)
The layout would get uncomfortable really quickly, though - the C-stick is definitely designed for occasional tweaks to the camera angle, rather than being a main control.
A Mac version would be nice, especially if you could control it with the motion sensor in the new Powerbooks :)
I was hoping for a "Fluffy Kitten" release, myself.
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They must be creaming their pants at the thought.
Can we have the leftovers, please?
Even Windoze lets you force it in that case, by holding down Shift.
Oh well. Maybe they'll fix it in Tiger.
If it had just said "pay $35 (or whatever) to unlock these cool extras" ONCE, most people would have either left it alone and done without, or paid. But since it's using a "pay $35 to get these cool extras, but also to stop me pissing and moaning EVERY TIME YOU LAUNCH ME" model, just about everyone who doesn't want the new features is going to download a serial, just to make it shut up.
Stick with ESR's definition of hacker. Cracker = one who cracks software protection.
One who breaks into systems: hax0r.
Everyone happy now?
HTH. HAND :)
Frankly, I should be able to take a DRMed file round to a friend's house, and play it on his computer, without having to worry about having a spare authorisation slot, and remembering to deauthorise him afterwards. I shouldn't be able to leave a usable copy on his machine when I go, but I should be able to lend my stuff out without hassle. You know, just like with a CD. Any DRM system that doesn't let me do stuff that I could legally do with a CD is unacceptable.
At best, they might allow burning from lossless tracks if iTunes automatically transcoded them to 128kbps AAC and burned those.
Whether Steve would go for it, or whether he would tell them to get stuffed, is another matter entirely, of course...
(And don't forget to actually release it in Europe!)
Doom 3?
Could have fooled me...
(And anyway, my Mac Mini just shipped. w00t! :)