Re:Geeks do- everyone else doesn't.
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Pay for it (requires a credit card)
Not always. You can buy iTunes credit (in £15 or £25 blocks) in supermarkets in the UK, and they take cash. Not a great deal of use if you just wanted to buy a couple of tracks, mind...
Looks like I'd better get a few spare drives in, unless TiVo are planning on releasing anything more recent than the Series 1 in the UK... (even then, the new ones don't seem to be as hackable)
Unless a SATA drive will work in a Series 1 with a SATA-PATA adaptor, I'll be screwed if the current drive goes south and there aren't any replacements available.
Not with government. They can just do it anyway, and raise taxes to cover the extra costs. It's not like you can say "these prices are too high, I'll shop elsewhere" unless you emigrate...
How 'bout this... I'm here reading about all these 'features', and another page I was on spawned a pop-up, which due to the settings I have opened in a new tab. The pop-up resizes my Firefox window, and disabled every function of the browser except creating and closing empty tabs, and scrolling (but only by the little knob thing on the scrollbar, the up-down buttons didn't work, nor the keyboard shortcuts)
Go to about:config. Type "dom" into the search box. You can disable all that resizing and button-removing guff from there.
Not so good if there are times when you want those features on, of course...
I regularly see software that comes on 9 track reels and other ancient equipment.. My biggest shock was seeing in downtown Toronto equipment that still uses vacuum tubes.
And if they ever do introduce this and you really want to protest it, you can take a bunch of DVDs to the cashier, watch as they activate all of them, then tell them you've changed your mind and no longer wish to purchase them.
That works right up until they start requiring payment before activation...
guess pretty soon we'll find out precisely to what extent a company can bend it's customers over before their objections become too loud for them to take. I'm betting it's pretty damn loud.
Then the real pain, viewing full headers is still totally broken. The header text doesn't wrap, it ignores text size changes, and it can't be cut and pasted either. This means that I can't see the crucial part of the header that says the original 'to' address, after it's been forwarded to the catch-all on my domain, as it's on a line that's longer than my monitor is wide. So I still can't unsubscribe from a couple of (now spam dominated) Yahoo groups that I signed up to with throwaway names, as I have can't read the header to find out the throwaway name I used!
Saving the message to a file (format: mail file) then opening it in TextEdit should work. I haven't downloaded v2 yet, but it gives full headers for v1.5...
The solution is special purpose browsers that the financial institutions provide their customers, which browsers do one thing only. (Well, okay, one kind of thing.) Connect to the bank and manage the user side of the account.
Of course, knowing the average bank, that would mean only Windows users would be able to bank online. Not a good solution.
Re:This...Textmate, you say?
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Emacs is not an editor. It is a way of life.
Re:Been demoing it myself. compare to BBEDIT
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Hiding the comment modification in the source selection was pretty obfuscated.
Command-Ctrl-T is your greatest friend here — it allows you to search for bundle commands by name, so if you press that then type "comment", you get to see all the commands that have "comment" in their description. And it shows the keyboard shortcuts, too:)
Anyway, putting it in "source" makes sense in a way — you don't comment things out except in source, but you can do it in all languages, so it's a generic function...
Album shuffle. Definitely the way to deal with selecting driving music.
At least, until it picks one you don't want to listen to — we really could do with a way of saying "next album" instead of having to hit the forward key a bunch of times..
Photoshop does not limit what you do with the pictures you make using their software.
Actually, the Photoshop EULA prohibits you from making pictures which are obscene, defamatory, or otherwise illegal.
Granted, this is a CYA by Adobe so that they won't get sued for making it possible for you to produce those pics — and if they do get sued, they'll be able to turn around and recover their costs from you because you broke the licence. But it's in there, all the same...
We can put a man on the moon, so we can verify ages on the Internet? Yes, that makes a great logical leap there. We can build a car, that doesn't mean we can create skynet.
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Not always. You can buy iTunes credit (in £15 or £25 blocks) in supermarkets in the UK, and they take cash. Not a great deal of use if you just wanted to buy a couple of tracks, mind...
Looks like I'd better get a few spare drives in, unless TiVo are planning on releasing anything more recent than the Series 1 in the UK... (even then, the new ones don't seem to be as hackable)
Unless a SATA drive will work in a Series 1 with a SATA-PATA adaptor, I'll be screwed if the current drive goes south and there aren't any replacements available.
Not with government. They can just do it anyway, and raise taxes to cover the extra costs. It's not like you can say "these prices are too high, I'll shop elsewhere" unless you emigrate...
Well, in the case of the iMac, you would see the casing, unless you like to have the screen under your desk :)
Clearly, you've never used CP/M...
...and being able to consistently get a reliable data connection wherever you are. Oh, wait, everybody who matters lives in a city, don't they?
It is useful. That's why I installed Saft on my copy of Safari :)
Go to about:config. Type "dom" into the search box. You can disable all that resizing and button-removing guff from there.
Not so good if there are times when you want those features on, of course...
Tell me, do they charge a per-minute rate to listen to your voicemail, by any chance?
I bet it has a lovely rich, warm sound, though...
99.99%. There's always the minute chance that a spambot will pick an address in your whitelist when forging the sender :)
Except Adblock Plus didn't work on yesterday's magazines, of course.
That works right up until they start requiring payment before activation...
About this loud, it would seem...
Saving the message to a file (format: mail file) then opening it in TextEdit should work. I haven't downloaded v2 yet, but it gives full headers for v1.5...
What's wrong with the Zune? For me, two things:
Exactly the same in the UK, sadly...
People don't RTFA. What makes you think they'd read the moderator guidelines? :)
Of course, knowing the average bank, that would mean only Windows users would be able to bank online. Not a good solution.
Emacs is not an editor. It is a way of life.
Command-Ctrl-T is your greatest friend here — it allows you to search for bundle commands by name, so if you press that then type "comment", you get to see all the commands that have "comment" in their description. And it shows the keyboard shortcuts, too :)
Anyway, putting it in "source" makes sense in a way — you don't comment things out except in source, but you can do it in all languages, so it's a generic function...
Album shuffle. Definitely the way to deal with selecting driving music.
At least, until it picks one you don't want to listen to — we really could do with a way of saying "next album" instead of having to hit the forward key a bunch of times..
Hang on, I thought Steve Jobs had the trademark on "Boom!"...
Actually, the Photoshop EULA prohibits you from making pictures which are obscene, defamatory, or otherwise illegal.
Granted, this is a CYA by Adobe so that they won't get sued for making it possible for you to produce those pics — and if they do get sued, they'll be able to turn around and recover their costs from you because you broke the licence. But it's in there, all the same...
Uh, we launched Skynet 5a the other day...