That's how I got Quicktime 2.0 when I was a kid before we had Internet access. I really wanted to hear the music in Marathon... those were the days. (Of course, we didn't have thumb drives, just plain ol' floppies.)
Just FYI, Robotron 2084 and Time Pilot are both on Xbox Live Arcade. Not as good as playing it in a bar with a beer in your hand and a bunch of enthusiastic people nearby cheering you on, but a lot cheaper.
Just because it's grayed out does not mean anything... uh, it means there's a bug. If there's no reason he shouldn't be able to copy, and the copy menu item is greyed out, that's called a "bug." Which is exactly what the parent is talking about.
It's not "randomizing them", it's hashing them. And yes, it's on-purpose because it makes searching for the specific song faster. (Whether or not it actually IS faster or not might be debated, but the point is that's why it's done. It's not random, and it's not pointless, and it has nothing to do with obfuscating them.)
And if you copy those 4343ddacs332.aac back to another copy of iTunes, iTunes will automatically rename the file based on the ID3 tags in it. (Which the iPod does not change in any way.) So it still works fine in any player that accepts that file type and uses ID3 tags instead of file names to organize files.
So... it brought out a bad product in 1994 and 1997, and therefore all modern products from Microsoft are pre-supposed to suck?
Seriously, ok, I get the whole MS-bashing thing, but the best examples you can give are Bob and Clippy? The Slashdot community needs to get over it already! Christ.
Well, I can't say that I've had anything less than excellent service from Dish Network. And I've never had anything more than horribly crappy service from Comcast, but there you go.
Come on, man. If you don't sound like a loon, people won't treat you like a loon. There's a line between emphasizing your viewpoint, and just sounding like a wacko, and "genocide" crosses it.
First of all, I don't think Comcast is ever the lesser of two evils. For instance, you didn't even try Dish Network (which has much better service and hardware than DirecTV, IMO.) Secondly, you could have stayed with DirecTV if you had just called them up to fix your (obviously incorrectly installed and/or broken) dish.
If your dish is installed correctly, nothing short of > 1" of snow should take out the signal. I was watching TV comfortably at my house when my parents cable was out during storms in the past.
Oh come on. I had a dish for years and year, and wind and rain NEVER took out my signal. The only time I lost signal was when I had 3" of very wet snow atop the dish. I went out and wiped it off and all was good again.
There's DirecTV and Dish Network and you can be done with Comcast right now. I don't know why people always think there's no alternative to Comcast for television when there is a healthy satellite TV market (complete with... *gasp* COMPETITION!)
Given, there are a few people who can't use satellite for various reasons, like if you live in an apartment facing the wrong way. But the vast majority can.
Granted, this is not always the case; however, the very idea of my PC having its resources tied up for someone else's phone call is frankly maddening to me.
This same guy probably runs BitTorrent and the Blizzard Downloader for WOW with no complaints.
What it comes down to is that Skype plain has better sound quality. It sounds better and with less latency than all the competitors I've tried. Period.
Absentee voters? Military voters? People who don't want to be bothered spending 10 minutes filling out a poll? (i.e. people with jobs and lives)?
Polls are meaningless. You either trust the vote as counted, or you don't. If you're really so worried, go volunteer to run a polling location, I'm sure they'd be glad for the help.
C-64 had a lot of speaking games. There was a Barbie game that talked, for instance. There was a shooter called "Psychastria" (or something similar) that said "Tough luck, dummy" when you died. Or something like that, it was hard to make out.
I like to be an optimist, unlike most liberals I know. Who's to say we won't succeed in creating a stable democracy in the middle east? Wouldn't it be great if we did? I think it's a noble goal, whether or not it works.
Besides, if we left, you know, all of those people (if they thought about it) KNOW, that whatever the fate of Iraq, it would be much worse than the Iraq under US occupation. Saying you're ok with that... that is not a noble goal.
The system of checks and balances is designed so that when Congress passes crap like this (and the forefathers knew they would, sooner or later), it is the Supreme Court's responsibility to throw it in the trashbin by declaring it unconstitutional.
The big question isn't about Congress, it's about the Supreme Court. That's where the problem lies.
The solution of the left is to get the fuck out of Iraq.
Oh yes. The best solution is for the well-funded, well-equipped, politically influencial stabilizing force to leave the unstable power-vacuum suddenly. That worked so well when the Russians did it in the 80s.
Whether or not you agree with the Republicans currently in office, I think almost every rational person understands that us leaving Iraq would be about the *worst* action we could take.
So you sorry pieces of shit keep pushing your memes.
And two sentences later...
and parroting whatever it is that Fox tells you to,
I see your complaint, but why complain about Amazon about this? Almost every company does the exact same thing. I'd complain about your local tax office and UPS about being so bone-headed. Maybe in the first month Amazon did business in your country, you could expect a screw-up like this, but Amazon's been around for ages now and the fact that your tax office/UPS hasn't figured this out by now is plain pathetic.
First of all, yes, I'm sure Jeff Bezos reads Slashdot and he'll get right back to you on that.
Secondly, here in the US at least, Amazon service is incredible-- and here's the catch-- ONCE YOU FIND THEIR PHONE NUMBER. (You can Google for the number.) They sent me a video game box that was missing the DVD inside. This wasn't Amazon's fault, as they're not the company packaging the game DVD inside of the box, but they gladly sent me out a replacement with the quickest shipping and gave me a pre-paid stamp to send the empty box back. The main thing to emphasize was that this screw-up was not Amazon's fault! What they could have done is send me to the publisher of the game, but instead they took care of me as if they actually valued my business.
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That's how I got Quicktime 2.0 when I was a kid before we had Internet access. I really wanted to hear the music in Marathon... those were the days. (Of course, we didn't have thumb drives, just plain ol' floppies.)
Just FYI, Robotron 2084 and Time Pilot are both on Xbox Live Arcade. Not as good as playing it in a bar with a beer in your hand and a bunch of enthusiastic people nearby cheering you on, but a lot cheaper.
Just because it's grayed out does not mean anything ... uh, it means there's a bug. If there's no reason he shouldn't be able to copy, and the copy menu item is greyed out, that's called a "bug." Which is exactly what the parent is talking about.
WTF does this have to do with journalism?
Please, mods, -1 Off-Topic!
It's not "randomizing them", it's hashing them. And yes, it's on-purpose because it makes searching for the specific song faster. (Whether or not it actually IS faster or not might be debated, but the point is that's why it's done. It's not random, and it's not pointless, and it has nothing to do with obfuscating them.)
And if you copy those 4343ddacs332.aac back to another copy of iTunes, iTunes will automatically rename the file based on the ID3 tags in it. (Which the iPod does not change in any way.) So it still works fine in any player that accepts that file type and uses ID3 tags instead of file names to organize files.
So... it brought out a bad product in 1994 and 1997, and therefore all modern products from Microsoft are pre-supposed to suck?
Seriously, ok, I get the whole MS-bashing thing, but the best examples you can give are Bob and Clippy? The Slashdot community needs to get over it already! Christ.
Well, I can't say that I've had anything less than excellent service from Dish Network. And I've never had anything more than horribly crappy service from Comcast, but there you go.
I was with you until the word "genocide."
Come on, man. If you don't sound like a loon, people won't treat you like a loon. There's a line between emphasizing your viewpoint, and just sounding like a wacko, and "genocide" crosses it.
First of all, I don't think Comcast is ever the lesser of two evils. For instance, you didn't even try Dish Network (which has much better service and hardware than DirecTV, IMO.) Secondly, you could have stayed with DirecTV if you had just called them up to fix your (obviously incorrectly installed and/or broken) dish.
If your dish is installed correctly, nothing short of > 1" of snow should take out the signal. I was watching TV comfortably at my house when my parents cable was out during storms in the past.
Oh come on. I had a dish for years and year, and wind and rain NEVER took out my signal. The only time I lost signal was when I had 3" of very wet snow atop the dish. I went out and wiped it off and all was good again.
You're falling for one of Comcast's lies.
Even better, look at his website URL: www.ironwolve.com He somehow managed a grammatical error for a DOMAIN NAME!
There's DirecTV and Dish Network and you can be done with Comcast right now. I don't know why people always think there's no alternative to Comcast for television when there is a healthy satellite TV market (complete with... *gasp* COMPETITION!)
Given, there are a few people who can't use satellite for various reasons, like if you live in an apartment facing the wrong way. But the vast majority can.
Granted, this is not always the case; however, the very idea of my PC having its resources tied up for someone else's phone call is frankly maddening to me.
This same guy probably runs BitTorrent and the Blizzard Downloader for WOW with no complaints.
What it comes down to is that Skype plain has better sound quality. It sounds better and with less latency than all the competitors I've tried. Period.
Absentee voters? Military voters? People who don't want to be bothered spending 10 minutes filling out a poll? (i.e. people with jobs and lives)?
Polls are meaningless. You either trust the vote as counted, or you don't. If you're really so worried, go volunteer to run a polling location, I'm sure they'd be glad for the help.
Statistics say that most of the people griping about Bush's administration (no, it's not a "junta") are people who do not vote.
Wow. A well-thought-out rational response is modded high on Slashdot. That's amazing.
You can only impeach presidents who break the law. You can't do it just because you disagree with him. Sorry to break it to you.
C-64 had a lot of speaking games. There was a Barbie game that talked, for instance. There was a shooter called "Psychastria" (or something similar) that said "Tough luck, dummy" when you died. Or something like that, it was hard to make out.
Lunar Outpost!!! No Zytrons In Range!
That's all I have to say about that.
I like to be an optimist, unlike most liberals I know. Who's to say we won't succeed in creating a stable democracy in the middle east? Wouldn't it be great if we did? I think it's a noble goal, whether or not it works.
Besides, if we left, you know, all of those people (if they thought about it) KNOW, that whatever the fate of Iraq, it would be much worse than the Iraq under US occupation. Saying you're ok with that... that is not a noble goal.
The system of checks and balances is designed so that when Congress passes crap like this (and the forefathers knew they would, sooner or later), it is the Supreme Court's responsibility to throw it in the trashbin by declaring it unconstitutional.
The big question isn't about Congress, it's about the Supreme Court. That's where the problem lies.
The solution of the left is to get the fuck out of Iraq.
Oh yes. The best solution is for the well-funded, well-equipped, politically influencial stabilizing force to leave the unstable power-vacuum suddenly. That worked so well when the Russians did it in the 80s.
Whether or not you agree with the Republicans currently in office, I think almost every rational person understands that us leaving Iraq would be about the *worst* action we could take.
So you sorry pieces of shit keep pushing your memes.
And two sentences later...
and parroting whatever it is that Fox tells you to,
Brilliant, sir. Just brilliant.
I see your complaint, but why complain about Amazon about this? Almost every company does the exact same thing. I'd complain about your local tax office and UPS about being so bone-headed. Maybe in the first month Amazon did business in your country, you could expect a screw-up like this, but Amazon's been around for ages now and the fact that your tax office/UPS hasn't figured this out by now is plain pathetic.
First of all, yes, I'm sure Jeff Bezos reads Slashdot and he'll get right back to you on that.
Secondly, here in the US at least, Amazon service is incredible-- and here's the catch-- ONCE YOU FIND THEIR PHONE NUMBER. (You can Google for the number.) They sent me a video game box that was missing the DVD inside. This wasn't Amazon's fault, as they're not the company packaging the game DVD inside of the box, but they gladly sent me out a replacement with the quickest shipping and gave me a pre-paid stamp to send the empty box back. The main thing to emphasize was that this screw-up was not Amazon's fault! What they could have done is send me to the publisher of the game, but instead they took care of me as if they actually valued my business.
You wouldn't need the heartrate monitor if you didn't have the wasabi dispenser. Just a little tip there.