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Apple Offers Cheap Jaguar Server Upgrade for XServe
MaxVlast writes "Macintouch is reporting that Apple is extending the Mac OS X Up-to-Date and Mac OS X Server Up-to-Date programs to include Jaguar Server upgrades for just $19.95 in response to intense criticism. This is good news to people who just bought an expensive XServe with expensive Mac OS X Server who don't very much want to pay the full upgrade price." Apple also added that people who bought Mac OS X 10.1 retail, by itself, can get an upgrade if purchased July 17 or later.
Suck it.
This is still not what Mac users have come to expect. Maybe they should have numbered this one 10.5 if they want to charge nearly everyone full price for it. Then it would be consistent. Will every even-point upgrade be full price from now on? I think Apple customers are used to getting their bug fixes for free.
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m i thord!???? welllk, one more to go.............hi
After a few weeks had passed I was just totally being a baby and
stuff. my mother woke me up and got me changed and dressed.
"Where are we going?", I asked. "Don't you remember honey, we are
going on our vacation, to go see our family in Pennsylvania." she
said while dressing me. "Oh yeah, I forgot we going there, but
mommy they don't know I a baby now." "Well honey they'll find out
soon enough. Besides they love you anyway they won't make fun of
you. You'll have fun with all your cousins." She held me and
comforted me. We loaded up the car and headed out. It was a two
day drive.
I sat in the backseat with Tammy and mom and dad were in the
front, Dad was driving. We stopped at a rest stop about an hour
into the trip to change me because I was wet, and everyone else
had to go potty too. Then we stopped somewhere in a town up the
road for lunch. I ate the kids meal and it was yummy. We left
there and we drove for what seemed like an eternity. I laid down
in the backseat and laid my head in Tammy's lap and she ran her
hands through my hair and I dozed off.
Tammy shook me awake a while later. "Honey your diapers loaded,
you did poopoo while you were sleeping. We're at a rest stop so
lets get you changed, ok honey?" She carried me out of the car
and then helped me walk part of the way up to the rest stop
building. As we got inside to the restrooms another family was
changing one of their babies diapers. The mother said to Tammy,
"Wow, isn't she a little old to be doing poopy diapers?" "Um
well, she's a baby, I mean she's 8 years old, but she likes being
babied and diapered." "Oh well I guess everyone's different...
She's quite cute though. Hi little baby girl." she said to me as
she carried her child out of the room. I just blushed and kind of
felt silly. "Ok honey, now I have to go potty.", Tammy said as
she carried me into owe of the stalls. She told me to stand there
as she pulled her pants down and sat on the potty. A moment later
she wiped herself and then opened the door and washed her hands.
"Ok Tiffy, let's get going."
We got back in the car and drove down the road and later that
night we found a hotel and checked in. Since I was used to
sleeping in a crib they put me in the bed up against the wall and
with Tammy on my other side. I snuggled in her arms because I was
a bit uncomfortable being in a strange place. She just held me
close and kept me warm. I did a little bit of tinkles in my
diapers and then I fell asleep.
The next morning we awoke early to get a bite to eat and hit the
road again. Mom didn't change me right when I got up. She waited
until after breakfast so that I'd have a dry diaper for when we
got going again. I sat in the backseat and colored in my coloring
book and Tammy was listening to her walk-man. Mom was looking out
the window and dad was driving. After a while I wet my diaper but
it wasn't too wet yet. By the time we were looking for a place to
pull in for lunch I was soaking wet and squirming around trying
to get comfy. Tammy noticed and she said, "Hey baby did you go
peepee in your dipees." I blushed and looked at her. "Yes, me
went peepee." Mom said she would change me in the bathroom of the
restaurant while dad and Tammy got us a seat.
After mom and I returned from the restroom we sat down and the
waiter took our order and then Tammy and dad went to go use the
restroom. Finally our food came and we ate and then left. I was
tired after lunch so I laid down in the backseat with my head in
Tammy's lap again. I fell right to sleep. When I woke up later on
I looked out the window and saw some familiar scenery. I knew by
this that we were about 10 minutes from my grandpa's house and
from where we were going to be visiting our family on my Uncle's
farm.
A few minutes later we pulled up to my grandpa's house. It was an
old 1940's style house with 2 stories. I was always afraid of the
stares though so when we were going up to our rooms, Tammy
carried me up the stares. About this time I needed a diaper
change so she laid me on the bed and got me all nice and dry. But
now I was put into a cloth diaper and rubber pants instead of the
disposables I had worn on the car trip. Now that we were here
they could do wash now so I was back in cloth dipees. This made
me happy because I didn't like disposables as much.
We were all sitting in the living room when my aunt and uncle
came over to visit and have supper. They noticed right away that
I was in big thick diapers because when I hugged them they patted
my bottom and they felt the crinkly rubber pants under my shorts.
"Oh you wear diapers now huh?", my aunt asked me. I just nodded.
My mother explained to them how I had wanted to become a baby for
so long. "Well you will have fun with Cindy and all your other
cousins." My uncle said. Cindy was one of my cousins who was
retarded and had to wear diapers, and she couldn't talk. She and
I always got along though. She liked me allot.
At dinner I had to go number two so I just leaned over to Tammy
and told her. She picked me up and carried me upstairs. I hadn't
actually gone poo in my diapers yet but I didn't want to do it at
the dinner table. So Tammy sat on the bed in front of me and
watched me as I squirmed around and filled my diaper. She then
smiled at me when she smelled my loaded diaper. Your poopy aren't
you, little girl. " she said teasingly. I smiled and said, "yeah
can you change me, I'm all yucky now." She slid my shorts off and
also my rubber pants and then undid the diaper. "Oh my gosh, your
a messy little baby. I'm glad you didn't do that at the table.
Ewww yucky." She wiped my hiney clean and then powdered me and
put another diaper on me. After we were done she carried me back
down stares and I finished eating and then we all set around in
the living room talking for a while and I was on the floor
playing with my toys. Everyone thought I was so cute now that I
was a baby again. I really enjoyed all the attention too.
The days passed slowly because I was kind of board. I hadn't seen
any of my cousins, but we were going to have a picnic at my
Uncle's farm on Saturday and everyone was going to be there.
Finally Saturday got here and I was so glad. We pulled up at my
Uncle's house at about 10:45am. We got out of the car. Some of
the kids were already swimming in the pond and some were just
sitting on the dock talking. As I waddled over to them they were
all saying hi. Then they noticed my diapers. "Um why are you in
diapers Tiffany?", my cousin Anna asked. "Um well, I kinda like
it now, I'm a baby too, my mommy let me get back in diapers
because she found out that I wanted to be a baby because of
something I wrote in my diary and stuff and well... now here I am."
I explained the whole situation to all the kids. "Cool we can
play house then and baby you." "YAY! I'd like that. I missed you
all, I always love to come up here and see you." "You wanna go
swimming?" my cousin Sharon asked. "Um well I don't know if I can,
I mean I'm in a diaper." "Well its ok, Cindy goes in the water
with her diapers on. I mean they get all puffy and soaking wet
but you can still go in the water if you want, go ask your mom."
"Ok I will." I walked over to where my mother was talking to some
of the adults. "Mommy can I go swimming? Pweez?" I asked in my
baby voice. "Yes honey but you'll need a diaper change when you
get out because your diapees will be soaked." I said ok and then
ran back to the dock where my cousins were sitting. Then I went
to the edge of the dock and then slipped off my shorts since I
was in a diaper. I jumped in with my diaper plastic pants and my
t-shirt on. It was quite hard to swim in wet diapers though.
"Help... Help me!", I cried out to one of my cousins. I could
barely stay afloat because the diapers were so thick and heavy
and restricted my movement. They pulled me over to the shallow
end and I sat next to Cindy and Anna and Sharon. We were in
about 2 feet of water and just talked to them. They asked me
allot of questions about what it was like to be a baby again, and
what it was like being in diapers.
After a while they called us up for lunch. When I got out of the
water I realized how soaked and soggy my diaper was. My cousin
Anna wanted to change me. She was used to changing diapers for
her sister Cindy. So she took me over to her dad's truck and
opened the tailgate and laid me there and changed me and put me
in another diaper. Sharon and one other girl watched. Finally we
got over to the picnic tables and ate. We had hamburgers and all
kinds of yummy stuff.
After a while we were all just sitting on chairs talking. Anna
got up and started to walk toward the outhouse. Sharon called out
to her and said, "Hey Anna, do you gotta go 1 or 2?" Anna just
turned around and stuck up 2 fingers which meant she had to go
poo. "I bet she wishes she had a diaper on and could just load
her baby pants like I do." I smiled at Sharon. "Ewww! That's yucky
though, isn't it?", Sharon asked. "Well yeah if you stay in it a
long time, or for the person who is changing you it can be kinda
yucky, but when your doing it in your diaper and when you first
sit in a loaded diaper it feels wonderful!" A big smile formed on
my face as I thought about how good messy diapers felt. "Wow
cool, maybe I'll use one of Cindy's diapers when I stay over at
Anna's house sometime." She seemed quite excited about the idea
of being in diapers now.
A while later Anna came back and sat down. "Feel better
Anna?" I asked. She nodded. We continued to talk a while and
then Sharon said she had to go pee. Instead of walking to the
outhouse, she just ran and jumped in the pond. She turned toward
us with her head above water and she was smiling at us. We could
tell she was doing tinkles in her clothes underwater by the look
on her face. When she finished peeing her pants, she got out of
the water and came back over and sat down. "Wow, now your clothes
are soaked. But anyway, that's a cool way to do tinkles in your
pants and get away with it." I remarked. I then became still and
started blushing. Anna knew what I was doing too. "Well looks
like you're doing your tinkles in your diaper like the cute
little baby that you are." I just smiled at them. It felt so good
to be in a wet diaper with a cool breeze blowing and just being
outside and being with my family.
Later for dinner we had leftovers from lunch and then we were
inside watching TV and playing some games. I loaded my diaper and
my mommy changed me. Cindy had also done number two in her
diapers, so her mom changed her too. We then returned to the
living room and played a while longer. I fell asleep on the floor
later on and dad carried me out to the car as we drove back to my
grandpa's house for the night. I was sad to leave, but I knew
that the time I had had there I would remember for a long time to
come. As I cuddled into bed with Tammy I told her I loved her and
that I was going to miss everyone up here. She comforted me and I
fell asleep in her arms.
A few days later we got ready to go back home. I called Anna on
the phone to say goodbye and we said we would write each other.
Once the car was packed up we headed out down the road on our way
back home. I fell asleep in the car and we drove till late that
night and then pulled over at a rest stop and slept in the car
and then left that morning early. We only stopped two times to
get something to eat. Tammy changed me in the backseat when I
needed to be changed. She had on one of my disposable diapers and
had gone pee in it and changed herself. Mom and dad both were in
adult diapers the whole way home and only pulled over to quickly
change each other. We made it back allot quicker this way. We had
to do it this way because dad had to be back by Monday so he
could get back to work. If it wasn't for this we would have took
our time going back down. I thought it was cute that everyone
decided to wet their diapers. At least no one else had to go
number two accept for Tammy and I. Mom had to crawl in the
backseat one time to help Tammy clean up. I don't think Tammy
liked dirty diapers like I did though. We arrived home late
Sunday night and we all just went inside and through our
suitcases down and got our showers. Tammy and I in one bathroom
and mommy and daddy in the other. Then we got our jammies on,
Tammy changed me and we all went to bed and slept very well
because we were all tired. I had a dream that night about the
wonderful times I had on that vacation.
It's through Amazom but hey, $50 is $50. Look here.
(no I'm not associated with them in anyway)
It's the same for MacOS X Server, with the notable exception that all owners of XServe machines can get the "free" upgrade, no matter when they bought their machine.
For everyone else, the full pricetag applies. Before MacOS X, Apple used to provide upgrade rebates of $20 or $30. You sent in one of those "software coupons" and got a check in the mail. Those days appear to be gone since the advent of MacOS X.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
Amazon is offering a $50 mail in rebate for jaguar as part of a back to school promotion. Looks legit to me *shrug*
the news of this was around a few days ago, though it takes effect today. i would think a $50 rebate has Apple's hand in it, right? if that's true, i wonder if we will be seeing more 10.2 rebates pop up. i guess right now i'll buy from amazon. might be a good excuse to pick up some DVDs and books since it'll hit the free shipping price break.
though the student price is still the best if you are associated with a university, they can get it for $69 through the edu store at Apple.com or i guess through their campus bookstore.
What's to stop me from purchasing Mac OS X(10.1.3) today, sending in my order form and receipt for the "free" upgrade, and returning Mac OS X(10.1.3) tomorrow? While I would feel like a cheap-skate, I would feel vindicated at this outrageous racketeering - $129 for an OS update. I thought only Microsoft (Win98 SE) pulled crap like that.
"This is good news to people who just bought an expensive XServe with expensive Mac OS X Server "
.mac are included. That said, saying that the Xserve and OS X Server are expensive is ridiculous. The Xserve is an extremely well priced server for what it does, especially compared to competing servers. Also the version of OS X server included with the Xserve gives you unlimited clients, unlike say Windows 2k. If you don't believe Appl'es comments on this, there's always LinuxWorld's take on the subject: http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0724.m acx.html
OS X 10.2 is quite an expensive upgrade and the server version even moreso, especially when extras which bring out the most of 10.2 like QuicktimePro and
It's great news that Apple are taking note of criticism and opening up the up-to-date program, but don't confuse this argument by saying that the initial products themselves are expensive.
It appears to me that Apple wants to retain the OS X name for quite awhile, so they're using the .1, .2, .x as major version numbers. The 10 is just the name. From what I saw of the new features, it does look like a major OS upgrade. The fact that they include minor version numbers after the 10.1 or 10.2 seems to verify this. I still think making the major upgrades look like minor version numbers was a bad PR move.
...instead of screwing around begging Apple not to charge you an arm and a leg for bug fixes?
Bug fixes for Windows have always been free!!!
Ack, I've already bought software for 10.2. Anyone know if 10.2 software will be forward-compatible with future "MacOS X"'s?
IMHO, it seems a bit abrupt to be charging for an upgrade already- the developer community seems to have just gotten rolling...
And, yes I do understand that the version number is in no way related to the fact that there is a number in the product name.
I don't understand why this is a source of cognitive dissonance for so many people.
I don't understand why you can't see why so many people think the way they have choosen to name the new OS is a little silly. Maybe you just "Think Different" than the rest of us. 8)
In the future will Mac OS X v11 be able to run X11? Will that cause confusion?
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Okay I am to lazy to read all the comments. BUT apple has always stated if you bought 10.1(.5) the day MacWorld started till 10.2 was in the store the update cost would be the standard "free" (19.95 for s/h). If you bought 10.1 before then you to pull out your wallet, drop your pants... pay 129 to apple and begg them to rape your @$$. But it seems amazon.com has a $50 rebate for 10.2 so its not as bad as it once was.
The problem with this is it STILL punishes the people that bought 10.0, the early adopters that worked to grow the platform.
Sure, lots of people rushed and bought 10.1, because it was the first version that was really usable. And all of those people got to take advantage of the apps written by the early adopters.
Apple should cough it up and let people that paid for 10.0 retail box get a $20 upgrade this time around. Return the favor!
Question to you: how to you expect to return it without a reciept?
Quit whining...
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