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Will OSX Build In Torrenting?
Cjattwood writes "Mac OS rumors has an article describing a possible implementation of a Bittorrent client into Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", including a unique sharing reward system where the user can share bandwidth and get rewards, such as credit in the iTunes store."
You upload a little and you get infinite download credit for whatever movie you want. Sometimes even before it's out in the stores!
Beep beep.
imagine getting credit for itunes music for torrenting itunes music... what fun.
for a minute there, i lost myself...
2. Legal downloads of Linux/BSD CD's.
Somehow I have never seen this as Job's first priority on the list of things to make easy in OS X.
Beep beep.
I'm waiting for OS X "Cheetarah."
Rowr.
I've seen the OS X roadmap - and just before they run out of names, they merge with Ubuntu for release 10.04 'plentiful pussy' (the most beautiful release) :-D
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
What about OS X "Liger".
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
I've been referring to the next upcoming release as "American Shorthair" ever since 10.1.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
OS X "Masturbation Casualty"
Um, I'm gonna go with the perenially posted "OS 10.9.6 Liger" - Breed for its skills in stability and GUI magic.
It's pretty much my favorite operating system.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
The day MOSR becomes a credible source on /. is when not only toasters fly but water flows uphill.
I don't really know what else needs to be said. If the guy who runs MacOS rumors told me the sky is blue, I'd check. What's sad is he used to be reliable. Now he's just a washed up has-been who fabricates stories to drive traffic to his site. He's as reliable as Hussein's old minister of information, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
This may be a little OT, but I'd like to see Apple offer advertisements for download on the iTMS in exchange for store credit. They could make them interactive or something if they want to make sure you watch them. I don't mind commercials, I just mind that they interrupt whatever I'm trying to watch. I'd gladly sit and watch/interact with commercials for 20-30 min if it got me $2-3 to spend on commercial-free TV shows like Lost or The Colbert Report. There's a strange bit of psychology that makes me despise spending $2 out of my pocket for an episode of Lost but be fine with watching 20 minutes of commercials for it, even though my time is worth more than that.
If you consider asking a pointed question to be flame bait, then I suppose I'm guilty.
//c, a Mac SE, and own an eMac G4. I'm not anti-Apple. I had to be dragged kicking and screaming from my Apple machines to that damn Mitsubishi built "Leading Edge" clone (the first one, not the Tandy 1000 clone they made later). Today, I have several Linux boxes -- and prefer them for server work hands down, but for workstation work, XP does what I need it to do.
The truth is, if Microsoft enters a niche currently served by freeware/shareware/open source, the assumption is that it is the evil empire out to squash all the little perfect peace-loving Linux and OSX people.
Frankly, I just want to see the same scrutiny applied universally.
Look for a second at Apple. The only reason they're not Microsoft is that they didn't do it well enough 20 years ago. The failed, they didn't "take the high road". Apple is pushed DRM down our throats more successfully than Microsoft. They also found a way to make downloading music workable for the record companies and for most of the customer base (at least for now). Apple's proprietary hardware and planned obsolecense has made upgrading their equipment nearly impossible for decades.
Hell, I had a ][+, a IIe, and a
If Apple builds a BT client into the OS and declares it "Part of the Operating System" because it uses that to obtain its patches, how is that different from Microsoft doing it with IE?
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