No need to do it in PM because despite what Sony think it's fully legal in the UK and i'm in the UK.
But I can only tell you how I used to do it as I stopped buying music a year or so ago when I deleted my music collection by accident and iTunes would not let me download my purchases again, so I had to download them from elsewhere - which left a bitter taste in my mouth.
I would purchase albums off iTunes then launch a program called Double Twist. I know since I used it DT has had a major overhaul and become more iTunes like but it should still do the job. I had some other tools for files in other media formats too, but Double Twist was ideal for stripping DRM off iTunes purchases as it was fully automatic. I just loaded it and left it to work for a few minutes.
Once complete I had some Windows script files I wrote which exported my iTunes playlists into a MySQL database I held on an online server, and sent the album art to a holding directory. I would run a program I wrote on which converted the album art to a uniform size & file format that then uploaded it to my web server automatically.
I would then use Sam Broadcaster to play my music, running off the online database - and at the time I had a web page for selecting the music I wanted to play which was driven by the album art.
As I was using Sam Broadcaster I could then redirect my music to a relay server for other people to listen, in effect created a radio station.
That's what happens when you leave a geek alone long enough... Anyway the stripping off the DRM was easy as there are already tools out there which do the job.
I never bothered to decode the file format myself as i've never been much interested in sound files or audio programming. I'm more interested in graphics & video.
The first thing I do when I buy a music album is strip the DRM off, it takes 5 minutes...
Doesn't happen. People who pirate, pirate.
The balancing effect of Pirate users buying the original is far greater anyway, for citation see record sales when Napster launched.
DRM is not making games software harder to crack. Games are usually available within a few days of release and often are available before official release in a given territory.
PC gaming will not die completely, but the landscape is changing with consoles being pushed more aggressively at the consumer market. Windows is too complex for it's own good in this regard, and the move to 'media centres' even has my parents watching TV through their PS3 - and i'm not even sure if they have a single PS3 game.
But PC's are a part of the home now - particularly laptops with poor 3D capabilities - so there is a shift toward indi gaming away from the big luscious 3D titles but whilst PC's are in the home somebody will be making money making games for them.
PC gaming won't die on the PC until the PC dies. Until then it will simply evolve.
The big companies will always moan about piracy on the PC but if they only released games on say the PS3 then you would see a massive increase in piracy for the PS3.
Piracy is not lost sales, nobody looses money to people who wheren't going to buy the games anyway. Somebody above posted they saved £1000 in software last year, but did they actually earn a spare £1000 from their car jacking to spent extra on feeding their crack habbit that could have been used for gaming? (sorry, i'm running the assumption the FAST adverts at the start of films are true and that you're a mafia terrorist paedophile).
Piracy has been a significant part of gaming since Sinclair unveiled the ZX Spectrum. The rate of piracy has remained constant, and no DRM or other anti-piracy measure has ever effected the pirates (although plenty of adversely effected genuine consumers).
The closest there has ever been to a sucessful anti-piracy measure is online gaming - but even then all the big games have pirate server networks you can connect too, or 3rd party server software that you can download and set up as you please. Do you want to do a raid in World of Warcraft at a LAN party without ever buying the game? It can be done...
You don't need a "modern" browser for that. But you do need to never hit refresh.
I live in the sticks and frequently view this forum on my mobile. My issue is that the sig is damned ugly and too vertical (thumb ache scrolling).
Sigs here are meant to be 2 lines max, abusing that with tags is just annoying and will give me arthritis scrolling past it.
Can I sue for ABH?
The increase in the reporting of natural disasters (they're not more common but news is) directly correlates to the decrease in naval piracy. I say we put the internet on boats and do as much piracy as we can.
It's interesting that some of you support piracy but I know a few of those to post also are quick on the draw when someone pirates LFS.
I don't give a damn about software piracy. But I don't support it. I don't support it because I really actually genuinely don't give a damn.
If somebody has something I want I'll take it. If the effort versus cost ratio is in favour of taking it legitimately then that's what I do.
It's interesting that some of you support piracy but I know a few of those to post also are quick on the draw when someone pirates LFS.
I don't give a damn about software piracy. But I don't support it. I don't support it because I really actually genuinely don't give a damn.
If somebody has something I want I'll take it. If the effort versus cost ratio is in favour of taking it legitimately then that's what I do.
Well this thread didn't take long to segway.
I'm a narcassist, I can make anything about me. And the thing is whether it was direct or not the point is valid.
Not everyone you meet is honest and usually sex comes a long way before really getting to know someone - so by the time you realise you're dating the county bicycle you've already oiled the chain (and the harness, cuffs, and Spartacus the Mighty Dildo).
We broke up because of her infidelity, because of her infidelity I got tested. Where's the shame in that?
Do I carry shame because I once had a girlfriend cheat on me? Some people lie and cheat, and you only find out the full extent of it by taking away the one thing all relationships should have in abundance: Trust.
Blaming it on me won't change human nature.
Nah he'll be fine, by sheer coincidence I sent him a PM a few nights ago with web links to two brake shops. He'll be fine.
Unless it's meningitis. There's a lot of that going around at the moment.
*sigh*
What is the shame in having an AIDS test? I've had 3 tests.
I've twice had AIDS infected blood intermingled with my own, and so I got tested, and I got tested after I broke up with an ex last year who slept around. (although AIDS does not transmit easily between lesbians, I included it amongst a barrage of other tests).
There is no shame in getting tested. If you've any marbles left after all the drugs you'd know it's the responsible thing to do - not for you, but for anyone you might come to care about in the future.
Personally if I actually got AIDS I think i'd rather not know, but that wouldn't be fair.
I took a sports injury some years back and was bleeding when a friend who knew I was waiting for an AIDS test told the medic that I did have AIDS (as he knew I had infected blood mingle with my own). What I experienced in terms of treatment - even though it was for a minor abbrassion - was a real eye opener. I only got a small taste of what life is like but it was something of an awakening to find myself bandaging myself up. That's when things began to hit home that I might have to live with that condition for the rest of a much shorter life.
In the end it transpired that I was lucky and am not infected, but the way some of you talk about it is saddening to see because you make out like gettings AIDS is something to be ashamed of. Sure, i'd not be proud if the test had come back positive, but i'd have felt no shame - further still because my two exposures where as a victim of violent crime and not remotely due to my own irresposonsibility - it's not like I was wanking in your virgin mothers bedroom over an effigy of the baby Jesus and so I got infected as vengeance on the whim of a judicious omnipotent being is it? I was gang raped and then later cut by the same gang. My only crime to fight off an earlier assault and put a hole in someones skull in self defence - and quite by accident as it happens.
So to see a few of you above suggesting that getting tested is something to be ashamed of is very sad.
Afterall, if I had been infected - who would really be effected by my knowing if I was a carrier or not? It'd be the people I then go on to sleep with. Explain to me the shame in sleeping with people whilst having due cause to suspect I might have AIDS? Then justify the shame of getting an AIDS test...
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He threatened to hit a baby seal if the devs didn't release the rally pack and Eric took it personally and banned him.
I'll send you a PM because otherwise we'll derail logiloving.
I checked out the web dev one, and it just didn't ring true for me. I've never let a client take control of a sites design - infact I dont even think that it matters. Web site design is the most useless and futile task in the world, if you can't knock a site up in a day it's too complex and you shouldn't bother. Style issues are irrellevent. I recently wrote a blog type article thing on exactly that point, but even then I barely touched the surface of how little a sites design matters.
I too am a professional web site designer.
I know the futility of my cause.
I agree with you the EMT nutcase was a bit self righteous (I rarely look at usernames especially when browsing on my mobile) - but I disagree with your reasoning.
Logitek got serious answers, aswell as some stick. That's what the community does. Heck it's what I do to my work colleagues too, it's the only way I can survive all day in an open plan office.
And it is a community, i'd have left here long ago (I stopped playing LFS when I got bored of the content a few years ago) but I stick around for the idle chat and the meet ups.
For this reason we talk about all sorts of random stuff out here in off topic, but we also take the piss.
If we didn't get on with each other there'd be less mickey taking and more flaming. On the whole I think the guys in off topic do a pretty good job of keeping things civil ... and taking the piss.
Actually whilst were being serious again I just wondered how Logitek is feeling now that a few days have passed or if he's getting the morning sickness yet?
Did you get one of the kits from the chemist? They're only a guideline - you should really get a pregnancy test from your doctor.
Did you get one of the kits from the chemist? They're only a guideline - you should really get a pregnancy test from your doctor.
wow. I've never actually seen anyone get anally retentive over the spelling of mayonnaise before.
The internet is full of new experiences
Swinging them? Or talking about swinging them with other geeks?
Well this time we managed a whole 5 pages before you guys started talking about swinging your cocks about *sigh*.
Yeah, but medical sound.
Ish.
The itchy lips actually could be chelitis. Chelitis is a form of Eczema which effects the lip and usually occurrs in people with a compromised immune system, which of course is a side effect of AIDS.
I'd get checked out.
I'd get checked out.
The placebo effect works in reverse too. You're clearly very concerned about it so are noticing small things. Herpes however is not a small thing and you where not drunk enough to not notice it on the girls you were kissing.
It's either that or you have miximatosis.
It really doesn't. People will kick/ban any vote that is raised if they are annoyed with the general standard of racing, they don't get to review the incident in question before voting - infact they've only 30 seconds or so to make a decision on whether to kick or ban. So generally votes get carried through if people are annoyed with their last few races, and that often has nothing at all to do with the driver being voted on.
Kick/Ban is by far the worst model of server moderation.
These are both extremely valid points, and they're the same points which have remained valid ever since servers started introducing these 3rd party control systems.
Unfortunately no one system to suite every need is possible, what is needed is variety. S2 certainly has variety in servers, and there are plenty of different server control systems, and non-controlled servers around.
The problem is that there aren't enough players to fill them all and generally speaking the same few servers stay busy night after night, so if you want variety as a regular player your best bet is to go on the managed servers where you can drive on different tracks and work your way up to different cars.
One good way to find pick up and play racing is to follow leagues, they'll often set up servers with their next combo and often times these will be public so you don't have to join the league if you can't commit to a day/time. This allows league racers to practice in real races, so it's win win all round.
As a server admin you can do no right. Accidents tend to get blamed on you for running a server full of crashers ... by the very users who are crashing. Nothing you do as a server operator will win you any friends, it's a pretty thankless task that costs you money for hosting.
This doesnt stop plenty of people running servers though and there are plenty of S2 server to choose from, if don't mind racing with a comparatively small field of cars you can pretty much get a race going with just a handful of people in a server and others will soon come.
For big grids though you'll need to earn those licence points and deliver those PB's. They do come with practice, and from experience I can tell you also that they fade away without it !
Herpes can only be transmitted when a sore is active which is pretty easy to see.
Kissing is pretty safe.
I don't know what sandwiching is, you describe it as "getting ready to kiss". I pressume at your age that meens thinking of something that kills an erection? I'm pretty sure that won't transmit an STD.
As you asked about AIDS i'll take a moment to inform you a little. It has a reputation as a gay disease, but it isn't. It can be transmitted by fluid exchange between two persons but does not transmit in saliva (where it is not present). Despite it's reputations lesbians are less vulnerable to it than heterosexual partners.
AIDS earned it's reputation in the 70s when the gay male scene was going through a cultural backlash of promiscuity - but the majority of infections these days are amongst heterosexual couples who dismiss it as something only gays need to worry about (and who do worry about it thus transmission rates are down).
AIDS is not a very virulent disease, once in your body the chances of it taking hold are still quite slight, it can die out once in a new host and it can take a long time to grow sufficient strength to be detectable. For this reason an AIDS test is pretty pointless before 6 months have passed (in order to give the virus time to either establish itself in your body or die out).
It is this difficulty of detection in the early stages which allows the disease to spread so readily amongst sexually promiscious people.
If you believe you have been exposed to the HIV virus you can get retroviral drugs which can help bolster your immune system against it taking hold. However the drugs have some nasty side effects and are only any good if taken very soon after initial exposure.
If the virus does take hold you can live a very long time before the virus developes into AIDS. It is an auto-immune disease which attacks your body's defences against infection, consequently many victims of the disease actually die of other illnesses such as colds which the body is unable to fight against (medicines bolster your body's defences rather than replace them) which can result in death from pneumonia.
Kissing is pretty safe.
I don't know what sandwiching is, you describe it as "getting ready to kiss". I pressume at your age that meens thinking of something that kills an erection? I'm pretty sure that won't transmit an STD.
As you asked about AIDS i'll take a moment to inform you a little. It has a reputation as a gay disease, but it isn't. It can be transmitted by fluid exchange between two persons but does not transmit in saliva (where it is not present). Despite it's reputations lesbians are less vulnerable to it than heterosexual partners.
AIDS earned it's reputation in the 70s when the gay male scene was going through a cultural backlash of promiscuity - but the majority of infections these days are amongst heterosexual couples who dismiss it as something only gays need to worry about (and who do worry about it thus transmission rates are down).
AIDS is not a very virulent disease, once in your body the chances of it taking hold are still quite slight, it can die out once in a new host and it can take a long time to grow sufficient strength to be detectable. For this reason an AIDS test is pretty pointless before 6 months have passed (in order to give the virus time to either establish itself in your body or die out).
It is this difficulty of detection in the early stages which allows the disease to spread so readily amongst sexually promiscious people.
If you believe you have been exposed to the HIV virus you can get retroviral drugs which can help bolster your immune system against it taking hold. However the drugs have some nasty side effects and are only any good if taken very soon after initial exposure.
If the virus does take hold you can live a very long time before the virus developes into AIDS. It is an auto-immune disease which attacks your body's defences against infection, consequently many victims of the disease actually die of other illnesses such as colds which the body is unable to fight against (medicines bolster your body's defences rather than replace them) which can result in death from pneumonia.
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