November of 2012 we have been trying to get these fools to allow us to change an accidental (or otherwise) thumbs up or thumbs down to the opposite, or simply remove either choice, and they still haven't implemented such a basic feature. It's ridiculous. And it's things like this that will continue to ensure they never get any money from me.
Click the clock in the taskbar?
Yup, DRM never has and never will make any sense. Like you say, it does nothing but inconvenience actual customers. The people that pirate it are rarely deterred for any real length of time. Cracking games has been a thing since the beginning, when "find the 10th word on page 17" piracy protection was first introduced. And it will always be a thing. The entire DRM industry is completely pointless, and I have no idea how it still exists. Publishers are clueless, both about DRMs actual success rate, and how it affects the people actually giving them money.
Trackball Explorers are plentiful on eBay for about $125-$150. You can even find the rare unopened brand new one occasionally, if you don't mind spending $500-$600. A highly recommended upgrade for them is zirconia oxide bearings to replace the steel ones. The steel is so soft that the red ball actually wears a flat spot in them, and the worse it gets the harder it is to turn the ball. Replace the bearings with those ones and it's like new. And they won't wear out as quickly as the steel, if they ever will. Every one I've replaced them in is still feeling new.
Anything less than the $400-$600 they sell for on eBay is more than reasonable. I'd happily pay $300 for a brand new one that comes with zirconia oxide bearings installed from the factory. And I'd continue to buy them for the rest of my life. The only things that really wear out in them are the soft steel bearings that wear flat spots (hence the need for the zirconia oxide replacements you find when searching eBay for the device) and the meshing parts in the scroll wheel eventually start smoothing out and not properly cogging. I haven't stopped using these devices since they were first released, as my first trackball was the one MS released prior to them that had the little blue ball that sat in rollers to do the positional tracking. And I continue to buy replacements off eBay. Once in a blue moon you see a brand new unopened one go up for sale, but they're always in the $500-$600 range, heh. But you can get used ones that are in pretty reasonable shape for $125-$150 pretty regularly. They usually only require the bearings to be replaced.
There's never going to be TVs big enough *and* cheap enough for the home to actually make good use of 4k, and 8k TV will never be useful in the home, period. You'll need way too big of a TV, and that'll never happen.
I bought mine just for racing in iRacing. I've had a triple-monitor 6036x1080 setup for years now. After using the Rift for the first time in a race there was no going back. Resolution is worse. FOV is worse. But depth perception makes them irrelevant.
Waste of time and money.
I laughed out loud when watching Heroes when it originally aired and buddy couldn't stop saying "Nissan Versa!" over and over.
Capitalization is screwed in iOS 11, too. It's constantly capitalizing things in the middle of a sentence, which appear as though they may have been things that were capitalized at the beginning of a sentence at some point in the past. It's pretty annoying to have to constantly fix You or Work in the middle of sentences practically every time it is typed.
BeyondTV scanned recordings and marked the regions that looked like commercials, giving you chapter marks that allowed you to skip them. This was safer than automatically stripping those regions from the files, especially in the early versions where it wasn't as accurate as one might like. But eventually it was practically bulletproof. They never did add automatic commercial region removal, but the ability to script things was in there, and you could write a script that did remove those regions. I never bothered since all you had to do was hit the next chapter button and it instantly skipped over them.
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