Russell Brand has filed for divorce from Katy Perry after 14 months of marriage.
This was as certain as night following day, water being wet and people regretting those tattoos they get when under control of that “love” thing (as they did). She’s way better off without him.
I have a Steam account. I have a Mac Mini 2.0Ghz. Zen Bound 2 was released this morning and as I like the game on the iPod Touch I wanted it on the mac.
Login to Steam, find the game and click to buy it. I choose Paypal. Steam then wants my name, address, county, country, postcode, phone number. Why? You do not need these to purchase using Paypal. We don’t on WordPress.com, you don’t when you complete software purchases elsewhere and you don’t at eBay. So why do Steam ask? They do it because they can, not because it is required.
Buy the game, download. It does not work properly. Windowed the screen is black, full screen the model is black. Unplayable. Why does not Steam download a helper program or have it in the client that identifies if the computer it is on can run the game? Why do Steam do not do this?
Go to their Support and try to contact them. You need to create a Support account, this is different from your main account. There is only one possible reason for this – to stop Support requests. There is no other purpose to creating that new account. It heads people off, it is a barrier. Which lazy bastard thought that one up?
I am perfectly aware that Steam are leaders in what they do, piracy is dropping, aren’t they great blah blah blah but the above is ridiculous and fantastically easy to solve.
Like I needed more… It’s 3am and pretty quiet. I realise that the external HD is noisy. Check that Spotlight hasn’t decided to index it (not allowed to) and realise it’s that damn iTunes again. Pause playing the music, drive stops. Repeat to be sure. Go do some searching and fine instances of this very complaint going back to 2004. SIX YEARS. That far back people were complaining and yes there are noisy drives but if I am playing one track why can’t iTunes work out that lifting that track in one go into RAM to play would make total sense instead of dragging it off 100kb at a time? It’s not rocket science is it for a computer to cache some data? And it’s not even that much. But then iTunes is no ordinary shop is it?
If you ever wrote any code that is in iTunes you should be skinned, rolled in salt and have the crystals washed off with hot water. Daily.
BBC Mr Cameron referred to the situation in 1940 during an interview with Sky News in which he was asked about the changing nature of the “special relationship” with the US and his meeting with President Obama on Tuesday.
“I think it is important in life to speak as it is and the fact is that we are a very effective partner of the US but we are the junior partner,” he said.
“We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis.”
David Cameron is in charge of the govt and he hasn’t the balls to stop sucking up to the US. Still, those that voted the Govt in must be proud of him. Someone has to be. But the rest of knew and now have the proof that he’s an idiot. A toffee-nosed, silver spoon in the mouth sycophant. I wonder when he’ll have the history books changed.
Copy one track from one album into one folder and have the computer see just that one track. It’s not much to ask and if that happens I am happy. What makes me unhappy is when iTunes is playing and I find a track playing twice even though I only own it once.
I deleted all the AC/DC tracks and re-ripped the cd’s. Some tracks showed up 3 times inside iTunes.
I remove all iTunes folder, prefs, and other files (yes, apple programmes stick crap everywhere too) I copy the entire Music directory to another HD. I remove all old apps, I go through all the albums and remove the junk left from the wife’s music. I use artwork view and do the same. I check for duplicates and it gives me hundreds. I don’t mean the same track on different albums, I mean the exact same track on the exact same album is showing up several times. I reveal in Finder and find the one track only. I buy Dupin from Doug’s Scripts and run that. After doing so I check iTunes and it says no dupes. I then use Pollux to find artwork for the missing albums. It does what it can – which was very good indeed – but another of Doug’s Scripts to embed artwork does not work for some reason. Now, this one small paragraph has been a huge amount of work. I think I started with 60-80gb of music apparently. So, it’s looking just about okay and I need to just check again the missing artwork and use Amazon to find the right images. I had quit iTunes, so I fire it up again and just check for dupes. It finds hundreds again but a different number. So everything I have done I need to do again with no guarantee that it will work. What.is.the.fucking.point?
I check more. The /Music folder is 81gb. I check iTunes. It says I have over 30gb of music. Using Daisydisk I find what is taking up that 81gb. My compilations take up 5.7gb (they don’t), iTunes Media takes 45gb (what?) and then I have some music. The media has 12gb of ipod touch apps. I know that but that leave 33gb of something when the music (in another folder) I have is 30gb (and no, it was not organising and no, it was not copying music). So what is that 33gb because it isn’t music. I have no idea and by now I really don’t care.
I would cheerfully see the iTunes programmers hang. Really. They deserve all the punishment possible and then some. But then it isn’t a music player anyway is it?
So I have an indeterminate amount of music which may or may not have artwork and a programme I have every intention of uninstalling. I don’t care if I won’t use it, I do not want it there.
I have Windows 7 installed, I have a Creative Zen Vision M and I will use those to rip and move the music to the Zen. If there is not enough space for what I really want to move I’ll buy another player – anythingbutipod should have the collective wisdom. And that will have the sound system plugged into it. This will actually give better sound, less tinny.
I have previously tried dragging and dropping album by album and now even though I have only added I find it dupes old tracks for no good reason. The same track across different albums is fine but what it is doing is not. I’ve gone beyond even thinking about other solutions. You know if you go to the apple forums people mention this constantly but the posters there must think it an acceptable price for being “cool”. It’s a bug. Treat it as such, put the tools in the programme to properly fix dupes and better still make it so it cannot happen.
iTunes. The biggest pile of steaming skank on any computer currently.
So some Irish lad who could sing (according to some) and who had done nothing of note otherwise gets a huge amount of live coverage at his funeral. Where is the sense in that? I hope that Ozzy gets a full state funeral, that the presenters wear black, that they clear the schedules and play only all his songs and performances, that they afford real respect to someone who not only shaped music but to someone who has stood the test of time. Because right now it’s beyond ridiculous.
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Chairman of the bench, Fraser Wallace, said: “We find the manner of your skating put pedestrians at risk and exposed them to harm.”
He said it was clear Chapel Street was not meant to be used as a “skate park” and said Dornan’s behaviour “causes a danger” to the public. BBC
Mr Dornan is 71 and someone many can learn from.
Mr Wallace is probably younger and should remember that rules are there to be followed by the thick and creatively interpreted by the intelligent. Mr Wallace failed to interpret and has proved himself to be thick. Sefton Council must be proud.
Somehing on the computer (that’s an apple “It just works” computer) crashed. I restart it (because nothing at all worked) and iTunes has just doubled EVERYTHING. I have twice as many albums, twice as many other tracks. I only noticed because I used it for apps, went to play a track and it repeated. Joy. The whole damn thing is screwed even though I took care to import everything once. Just once. If this was software from any other company it would be slammed for what it is – a mess of drm, upsell and bloat. I really wish I could delete this junky crap.