Seemingly simple tasks like copying music from your hard drive to your mp3 player have to be done in roundabout ways which for some reason involve playlists.
Hmmm. I don't have any playlists in iTunes (I prefer dealing with albums), and I have zero problems with simply dragging an album (or other batch of songs) onto my iPod in the pane on the left. I guess that's too difficult and "roundabout" for some people, though...
Oh, man. I'd buy two copies of that and throw one of them at Jack Thompson.
That brings up an interesting question. I think it's safe to assume that Jack Thompson is completely against this game. Can we then turn around and ask him why he hates America so much? ; )
Sad to see something this clueless get modded up as insightful. The simple truth is that you do not have a right to search me simply because I am on your property. You can ask to. I can refuse. If I refuse, it's fully within your right to ask that I leave, and if I don't, you can call the cops and have me arrested or removed. However, you at no time have a legal right to search me.
Yes, but if you read the article, you'll see that Righi was arrested AFTER the police officer didn't find any stolen items in his bags. On top of that, the officer wouldn't even tell Righi why he was being arrested until he was back at the station and was able to sit down for a few moments to dig up an excuse.
Think again. The structure of articles here really isn't that difficult to figure out. The part in quotation marks that follows "An anonymous reader writes" is what the anonymous reader wrote. The part at the end that's not in quotation marks and is not indented is editorial commentary, aka nonsense written by Zonk, since he's the editor who posted this article.
Apple's not auto-deleting your copies of Firefox and IE 7 just because you installed it or anything, so why the big fuss?
Because people like him like to bitch about how badly their choices suck when they are given choices, but they also like to bitch even more about how there aren't any choices when the choices are taken away. Basically, it's simply because they like to bitch.
Why pay for a digital copy when you can get an ATSC tuner card and a cheap UHF antenna and get a digital copy of the show for free? Oh, but that requires some effort, so that must instantly be ruled out.
They could offer cheap, protected, legal access to their content, but instead they're daring users to circumvent the law.
You mean like offering the shows for viewing on their website? Oh wait, they do that already. But people like Zonk have decided that that's not good enough for him, so instead he'll resort to pirating it. I seriously doubt Zonk was purchasing the show from iTMS when it was available anyways.
And New Super Mario Bros. also makes almost zero use of the DS's most innovative feature: the touch screen. It uses both screens, but I can't think of any times it used the touch screen during regular gameplay.
You must not have payed much attention, cos it was constantly adding a big extra button on the bottom screen. Sure, it's not the most effective use of the touchscreen, but it was nice to have a big button that you could hit if you needed the powerup.
While I'm pretty sure his explanation is correct, does anyone else find themselves reading Mark Russinovich's explanations with a healthy-sized grain of salt ever since he went on MS's payroll?
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Exactly right. It can take years to clean up. And if your stolen information is used on the other side of the country, you need to file police reports with the appropriate authorities in that other city/county/state. And guess what, they'll probably want you to come into their offices in person to do it. And if you don't have a copy of the appropriate police reports, the big three reporting agencies won't even want to hear from you, cos you're obviously just wasting their time (remember, you are not their customer--the credit companies are). Yeah, it's no problem to get crap like this removed from your record. I'm usually not the type of person to say this sort of thing, but I really hope ErichTheRed has his identity stolen some time so he can see just how "simple" the whole process is...
Windows doesn't count here, but as far as many applications used in offices go, their licenses usually allow you to install copies at home. This is true for Office, the Adobe Creative Suite, and many others. The thing is that you can't "legally" be using them both concurrently. Then again, how often are you sitting at home using Word while sitting in the office using Word? Now, getting the IT folks to actually read the licenses and let you borrow the media for a night is another story. Thankfully, I work in a place where the IT dept actually understands this and lets us check install discs out (they have a list of specifically which software we're allowed to check out and what we're not, based on the licenses).
I told the boss we should get a proper network connection. But noooooo, he insisted that getting a consumer-level DSL connection and using Windows Internet Connection Sharing was the way to go...
At my old job I was always getting a steady stream of emails. The way I handled it was by setting up filters in Outlook to separate things into folders/subfolders (thankfully many of my emails were machine-generated due to various event triggers, which made this whole system possible). I also set Outlook not to auto-mark messages as read--I had to do it myself. I would then use this arrangement of folders to prioritize my workload. When I responded to a message or completed the task it outlined, I would mark it read. It made for a very convenient way to measure my workload in different categories (4 messages in folder X, 11 in folder Y, 2 in folder Z--Let's knock out folder Y first). This also ensured that I responded to every single email, instead of seeing more than a few slip through the cracks because I forgot about them (which seemed to happen to just about everyone else in the office at some point or another).
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Seemingly simple tasks like copying music from your hard drive to your mp3 player have to be done in roundabout ways which for some reason involve playlists.
Hmmm. I don't have any playlists in iTunes (I prefer dealing with albums), and I have zero problems with simply dragging an album (or other batch of songs) onto my iPod in the pane on the left. I guess that's too difficult and "roundabout" for some people, though...
Give it another few months and it won't be nearly as obscure.
I never trust anyone who often repeats "honestly" and "to be quite honest". Does that imply that you are not honest otherwise?
Seriously!
Oh, man. I'd buy two copies of that and throw one of them at Jack Thompson.
That brings up an interesting question. I think it's safe to assume that Jack Thompson is completely against this game. Can we then turn around and ask him why he hates America so much? ; )
Sad to see something this clueless get modded up as insightful. The simple truth is that you do not have a right to search me simply because I am on your property. You can ask to. I can refuse. If I refuse, it's fully within your right to ask that I leave, and if I don't, you can call the cops and have me arrested or removed. However, you at no time have a legal right to search me.
Yes, but if you read the article, you'll see that Righi was arrested AFTER the police officer didn't find any stolen items in his bags. On top of that, the officer wouldn't even tell Righi why he was being arrested until he was back at the station and was able to sit down for a few moments to dig up an excuse.
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Sure there is. He talks to me every day.
Because they like to know where all the good books are filed?
Think again. The structure of articles here really isn't that difficult to figure out. The part in quotation marks that follows "An anonymous reader writes" is what the anonymous reader wrote. The part at the end that's not in quotation marks and is not indented is editorial commentary, aka nonsense written by Zonk, since he's the editor who posted this article.
Apple's not auto-deleting your copies of Firefox and IE 7 just because you installed it or anything, so why the big fuss?
Because people like him like to bitch about how badly their choices suck when they are given choices, but they also like to bitch even more about how there aren't any choices when the choices are taken away. Basically, it's simply because they like to bitch.
Why pay for a digital copy when you can get an ATSC tuner card and a cheap UHF antenna and get a digital copy of the show for free? Oh, but that requires some effort, so that must instantly be ruled out.
They could offer cheap, protected, legal access to their content, but instead they're daring users to circumvent the law.
You mean like offering the shows for viewing on their website? Oh wait, they do that already. But people like Zonk have decided that that's not good enough for him, so instead he'll resort to pirating it. I seriously doubt Zonk was purchasing the show from iTMS when it was available anyways.
And New Super Mario Bros. also makes almost zero use of the DS's most innovative feature: the touch screen. It uses both screens, but I can't think of any times it used the touch screen during regular gameplay.
You must not have payed much attention, cos it was constantly adding a big extra button on the bottom screen. Sure, it's not the most effective use of the touchscreen, but it was nice to have a big button that you could hit if you needed the powerup.
While I'm pretty sure his explanation is correct, does anyone else find themselves reading Mark Russinovich's explanations with a healthy-sized grain of salt ever since he went on MS's payroll?
Exactly right. It can take years to clean up. And if your stolen information is used on the other side of the country, you need to file police reports with the appropriate authorities in that other city/county/state. And guess what, they'll probably want you to come into their offices in person to do it. And if you don't have a copy of the appropriate police reports, the big three reporting agencies won't even want to hear from you, cos you're obviously just wasting their time (remember, you are not their customer--the credit companies are). Yeah, it's no problem to get crap like this removed from your record. I'm usually not the type of person to say this sort of thing, but I really hope ErichTheRed has his identity stolen some time so he can see just how "simple" the whole process is...
My goodness, the media industry has turned watching TV into something about as fun as dealing with Microsoft software.
You should try using Windows MCE--the best of both worlds...
What the frig? WalMart can keep their shouty censored DRM-free mp3s! I'm taking my flippin business elsewhere...
The leak was discovered when a supervisor saw a yellow liquid ``running into a hallway'' from under a door, according to one document.
I can't even tell you how many times this happened at my old place. Damn roommates...
Wow! I bet streaming audio must suck!
Whatever you do, absolutely do not try this with RealPlayer on Vista. That has the potential to result in catastrophic system failure.
So what happens if you play back an audio file purchased (errrm, sorry, licensed) through one of the officially-approved Microsoft music stores?
Windows doesn't count here, but as far as many applications used in offices go, their licenses usually allow you to install copies at home. This is true for Office, the Adobe Creative Suite, and many others. The thing is that you can't "legally" be using them both concurrently. Then again, how often are you sitting at home using Word while sitting in the office using Word? Now, getting the IT folks to actually read the licenses and let you borrow the media for a night is another story. Thankfully, I work in a place where the IT dept actually understands this and lets us check install discs out (they have a list of specifically which software we're allowed to check out and what we're not, based on the licenses).
I told the boss we should get a proper network connection. But noooooo, he insisted that getting a consumer-level DSL connection and using Windows Internet Connection Sharing was the way to go...
Oh wait, I'm not important enough to have anything to whitewash.
Yeah, only the really important people are allowed to have picket fences...
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At my old job I was always getting a steady stream of emails. The way I handled it was by setting up filters in Outlook to separate things into folders/subfolders (thankfully many of my emails were machine-generated due to various event triggers, which made this whole system possible). I also set Outlook not to auto-mark messages as read--I had to do it myself. I would then use this arrangement of folders to prioritize my workload. When I responded to a message or completed the task it outlined, I would mark it read. It made for a very convenient way to measure my workload in different categories (4 messages in folder X, 11 in folder Y, 2 in folder Z--Let's knock out folder Y first). This also ensured that I responded to every single email, instead of seeing more than a few slip through the cracks because I forgot about them (which seemed to happen to just about everyone else in the office at some point or another).