The official DVD FAQ Frequently Asked Questions about DVD of the Internet DVD newsgroups. The most comprehensive source of DVD technical information in the galaxy. Sanyo Dvr Utility 2004 Software' title='Sanyo Dvr Utility 2004 Software' />Another Great App Went Subscription Only and Everything Is Terrible. I blame Adobe for this. Sanyo Dvr Utility 2004 Software' title='Sanyo Dvr Utility 2004 Software' />Princeton Piggyback Pb50 Service Manual 20171105 UTC 135212 0000 86 K Repair Manual For 2003 Polaris Ranger 4x4 20171103 UTC 1413. It shouldnt come as a huge surprise that Apples once ambitious selfdriving car project is no longer ambitious. The New York Times reports that the company has. Ulysses, one of the best writing tools available right now, is going subscription only. If you previously purchased Ulysses for Mac or i. OS it works seamlessly across Macs, i. Phones, and i. Pads you are now going to have to pony up 5 a month or 4. And again, I blame Adobe for this, because it taught software developers that they can put their clients over a barrelroyally screwing early adopters by having them pay repeatedly for product. Compaq Cq45 Drivers Free Download. Back in 2. 01. 3 Adobe moved its most valuable software, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere, to a subscription only model. If you want to use the industry standard software Adobe creates you have to throw down 1. Its been a sore point for many a computer user who still remembers the halcyon days when purchasing software meant you, essentially, owned it. Since then many apps have moved to this new modeloften promising cool updates as a reward for being a subscriber. Adobe Flash Player Install Missing Plug In Mac. Quicken, Autodesk, Adobe, and even more niche companies now like Ulysses, are moving towards this model and theres no sign of them stopping any time soon. Ulysses is developed by a small publisher called Soulmen, and its co founder, Max Seelman, took to Medium on Friday to defend his companys decision. Our users expect a continuously evolving high quality product  and subscription is the only way we can truly deliver on that expectation, he said in his post. Seelman went on to explain how software development has shifted dramatically since Soulmen first launched Ulysses. Software purchases used to be very different from how they are today. Until not too long ago, you would purchase an application and get a physical copy on a bunch of floppies or later a CD. The thing you got  that was it. No patches, no updates. Developers had to put forward an extreme amount of attention to get everything right, because once an app was out, development had to be done. Seelman then noted that software development changed as internet speeds improved. With companies able to produce patches that not only resolved minor issues at launch, but also introduced new features. At first, these resulted in new features being added on the fly, but it quickly evolved into issuing more and more substantial patches  until today, where most v. Essentially, Seelman argues, software is now in constant development and pricing hasnt kept up with this new cycle. Which, okay, it makes sense If software is constantly getting features that normally would have warranted a new version and additional money than the company absolutely has the right to ask for more cash. The company is offering, for a limited time, a discount to older users, and if those user happened to purchase the software within the last year than theyll also received up to 1. Soulmen has also made it clear that the old version of the app available in the i. OS and Mac app stores will be available for use and updated to work with i. OS 1. 1 and High Sierra. After that youre out of luck. Whats frustrating about this is how shifting to these new forms of payment are great for the developer and fine for new users, but suck, a lot, for old users. I know, because Ive been using Ulysses for the better part of six years. Its a piece of software Im so attached to Ive name checked it when people ask why I dont switch to Windows or Android for my daily work machines. The announcement of a move to subscription based payment popped up as soon as I opened the app on my computer this morning and, annoyed, I took to Twitter to bask in the irritation of other users. Ulysses isnt going to be the last app forced to make this decision. As consumers demand more and more from minor updates software developers will need to find a way to make profit. They can try to tightly manage their business and continue with the old model, demanding money only when a new and truly outstanding feature appears, or they can go the Ulysses route, which many companies, including Adobe, have done before. Its proven effective, even as subscription fees balloon on users credit cards and leave them irritated and underwhelmed. Adobe, Autodesk and Quicken are all huge and required apps for their respective industries. They can afford to ask for money each month, but if Ulysses doesnt provide cool new features with every update, that 4. Scrivener or some other non subscription based writing app. At the very least Ulysses could have taken a note from the book of Plex. That software suite went from completely free to a subscription based model and users were. So Plex offered a lifetime membership. Essentially you pay out the nose once and never pay again. As someone who uses the app every day that was a no brainer for me. I dropped my wad of cash and never looked back, and I didnt have to look at yet another subscription fee on my credit card statement either. Just a thought Ulysses. Apples Self Driving Car Is Now a Dinky Self Driving Bus. It shouldnt come as a huge surprise that Apples once ambitious self driving car project is no longer ambitious. The New York Timesreports that the company has relegated research for autonomous vehicles to a software system that will power a self driving shuttle in between its new spaceship campus and its old offices. So much for reinventing the automobile experience. This is not to say that self driving shuttle is lame. Its a futuristic bus that drives itself Apple even has a patent for a bendy bus with tank treads, which is a creative idea. But then you hear the name, and your reaction is inevitably, Oh. The self driving shuttle is called PAIL Palo Alto to Infinite Loop. While the bus isnt yet running, its hard to imagine Apple employees needing a lift and chirping, Lets go hop in the PAILWhats really disappointing about the Times report, however, are the details of the now abandoned automobile hardware efforts. Weve known since last year that Apple was waffling on its self driving car projectcodenamed Project Titanand shifting its focus away from building a car from the ground up towards building software that could power an autonomous car, a strategy thats also been adopted by Waymo, the new Alphabet company that picked up Googles old self driving project. What we didnt know were many specifics about what Apple thought it could do if it did build a car. Under the leadership of veteran Apple executive Bob Mansfield and with the vision of Apple accent in chief Jony Ive, the i. Car sounds like it was going to be awesome. It wasnt really called the i. Car, but its funny to pretend that it was. Just check out these new details from The Times From the beginning, the employees dedicated to Project Titan looked at a wide range of details. That included motorized doors that opened and closed silently. They also studied ways to redesign a car interior without a steering wheel or gas pedals, and they worked on adding virtual or augmented reality into interior displays. We can only assume that this might have looked something like the Mercedes F0. Minority Report. That self driving car design features cabin wrapped in touchscreens with captains chairs up front that swivel around to create a little mobile living room. Just take out that steering wheel and those pedals, turn the chrome into matte black, and it could almost be an Apple product. But wait theres more. From The Times Apple even looked into reinventing the wheel. A team within Titan investigated the possibility of using spherical wheels round like a globe instead of the traditional, round ones, because spherical wheels could allow the car better lateral movement. Apple thought about making its car roll around on big balls Thats just crazy. Its certainly ambitious But its crazy. Apparently, after some infighting over building a fully autonomous car versus a semi autonomous car, Apple pruned its plans back to a new so called car. OS. This is evidently what will be powering the shuttle, and Apple presumably hopes the software will also find its way into cars designed and built by automotive companies like, well, Mercedes. You cant feel too surprised, but its okay if you feel disappointed. An Apple made mobile augmented reality chamber wouldve been really cool, and maybe well get something close in a decade or two. For now, most of us are still stuck with our gas guzzling death machines.