Eh!??! What gives? I just paid over A HUNDRED DOLLARS for Jaguar... and now, two weeks later, those sums of beaches are telling me that a new version is out??!!? That's not fair! I'm not paying another over A HUNDRED DOLLARS to get the next version, not two weeks after I got Jaguar!
Apple... what the heck did I expect? I knew I should have stayed with Win XP.
In the past, when Apple has upgraded their OS versions, they have done the following: (1) customers who purchased a new Mac 30 days (the exchange peroid) before the announcement get a free upgrade CD in the mail (or at an Apple Store perhaps?) (2) new Macs being built come with the new OS on the hard drive image from the factory. (3) computers in inventory get their boxes sliced open and a new OS upgrade CD (DVD?) dropped in. This disk requires the install drive to have an OS on it already, so it is not the same as what comes on the boxed OS CD.
I have also read other reports from people who got a free iLife upgrade because of (1) having that CD dropped in their Macs as a separate disk, not the OS and iLife on a single disk.
This may usher in the era of Mac OS missing iTunes/iPhoto/iMovie/iDVD/Garageband on the same CD - thus reinforcing the concept of iLife as an application suite and the OS as a standalone product. Don't look for these new iLife apps on the Tiger install CDs purchased from the store. (But as always, new Macs come with Mac OS and iLife as well as Quicken.)
IAN a security expert, but I have seen enough reports of encryption being broken or circumvented in a matter of days (see DVD Jon as a recent example).
Something as valuable as one's identity should not be left up to a series of 1's and 0's to determine.
This leaves me looking to the Creator (that would be God to me) for an answer.
We already have a biometric key - called our DNA - that uniquely identifies our physiology (except in the case of identical twins - and perhaps triples+ but I don't know because IAN a doctor either).
Can DNA be spoofed? not as far as I know - though perhaps with a bone marrow transplant one could change their bloods DNA - but not the DNA of their entire body.
My point, to get backnon topic, is that I don't trust any electronic device to be secure or reliable 100% of the time to identify me, my where abouts, or for that matter, my finances.
I hope this type of electronic identifier doesn't make it out of the R&D phase.
Many people are saying you can just burn-and-rip or buy a CD to circumvent DRM and get files on P2P.
I contend Apple is doing much more to fight P2P than just the DRM.
Recall Jobs' initial presentation when he announced the iTMS.
I Don't use P2P any more because $0.99 is a cheep way to ensure I get the song I want, ripped at a good-enough-for-my-needs bitrate, downloaded in a few seconds, with 30 second preview, and a great was to browse and find new music. Oh yeah, and it's legal.
These are all things P2P does not (currently) offer. No doubt P2P will always be a way to get music for free, just like street vendors in NYC sell DVDs for cheap that are not legal.
The DRM is a deterant but what kills P2P for me is the simplicity of the shopping experience - and the price.
As we all know, there are three pieces to this digital music thing and the business model for selling the music is only a subset of one of those parts - the (3) Music Store.
While the (1) Player (iPod vs. the world) and (2) Catalog software aren't directly tied to the (3) Music Store when one thinks of buying $0.99/9.99, things get more complex when the concept of digital on-demand radio (isn't that really what we are talking about here?) comes into play?
If Apple does provide a monthly subscription service, I bet (and hope) it doesn't take the form of an all you can eat buffet, but looks something more like this:
- Using a variant of iTunes Smart Playlists, the (2) Catalog Software (iTunes) allows you to create your own digital commercial free radio station by selecitng Genere, year, etc, which may optionally be tied into Apple's exclusive Billboard Top 100 listings. - The (1) Player (iPod) manages the above digital radio stations as playlists but along with the ability to rank a song that is playing with a star rating as you can today, you can also flag a song as one you want to add to the permanent collection, which will be added to your shopping cart on the next sync to your desktop/laptop. - The (3) Music Store (iTMS) will have various pricing plans like cell phone providers - each plan includes a limited number of subscription downloads included in the monthly plan that go away when you stop paying and a limited number of purchased track credits you get each month that "roll over" when not used. Depending on the plan you buy, you pay a per-track/albumn price when you exceed your purchase track credits (just like going over on your minutes).
As the iPod 'Crosses the Chasm' further into the main stream, Apple will have to offer more options because 10's of Millions of consumers won't all want to buy music the same way.
These decisiojns happen all the time - think of major purchases like a home or a car, there are both choices - 36 mo. car lease vs. buying the car - rent an appartment vs locking in that 30 yr. mortgage.
On the surface, looks like the answer is simple - offer both because there is choice and then you let the people decide - and that is a simple answer and I think that it is a good one.
But consider the flipside for a moment - these major purchases I just mentioned offer both models from a financial model too - not everyone can afford the downpayment and 30 yr mortgage, some people like a new car every three years and would rather rent. Point is, these comparisons aren't that comparable.
The original slashdot article was comparing business models and the problem with the $15/mo napster model is that there is no "rent-to-own" scenario. There is NO ONE in their right mind who would rather rent music for 20 yrs. versus buy the albumns they like for a lifetime - especailyl the way that music sort of picks you - we listen to the same 80's trackes over and over - country music, old hip-hop, whatever.
So perhaps the better model is a "rent-to-own" where you pay a lower monthly amount ($10) and you get X songs per month to download and Y ( X) to 'register' as your forever and they don't count against your X downloads next month and don't expire when you stop paying.
Vioa! You get to 'try' new music and 'keep' the stuff you like - all for one low price per month. And just like a cell phone, if you want more songs to get registered forever, just pay an additional fee - just liek a per minute fee over your air minutes.
Now right now the $0.99/track, $9.99/albumn model is WAY easier payment plan thatn my cell phone bill, but perhaps there is something to the convolated system AT&T, Cingular, SPrint, and others have created.
Does Apple's iTunes and iTunes Music Store not consitute 'prior art' for Trusted Computing?
I mean come on - you have files that are secured to a specific (set of up to 5) Mac(s) or PC(s).
Even with a username/password I cannot open the file on just any computer.
The difference is that Apple allows you to deauthorize ("distrust"?) a computer and authorized ("trust") another to manipulate the set of 0-5 "trusted" computers.
This article reminds me of those beach T-shirts "Divers Do It Deeper" and so on.
The thing is that Motorola doesn't do a whole lot of innovating. They do a whole lot of embracing and extending. There is a completely different phylosophy at work:
Embrace and Extend model: (1) wait for an innovation (2) wait for market reaction (3) reverse engineer competetive product (4) profit by reduced R&D costs, fewer "oops" moments (a la Mac Cube, etc)
The key to this is to let the public know you will 'soon' have a product just as good or better than the innovator's, preferably at a lower cost.
Innovators Model: (1) be first to market with a faster/better/cheeper way of doing something (2) DRIVE market reaction (e.g. get early adopter testimonials, etc) (3) build the product inhouse under high levels of secrecy to ensure (1) (4) profit by first mover advantage (Netscape), free publicity and market cache of being the innovator (TiVo), and hopefully market domination (eBay, iPod).
The key here is to surprise the market, and competition, with your product. Ususally, Innovators don't have the manufacturing/distribution capacity to deliver mass quantities on day 1 anyway. Because the product or service is innovative, the customer really needs to see it and use it to perceive the value.
So merging an innovator with an embracer yields this Apple/Motorola conundrum. Just weight the Pros and Cons of an early product announcement: Pre-availability Announcement: Pros - Media exposure (free publicity) - Market reaction to better guage demand - Price point reaction to better guage promotions - Use of the above to negotiate deals with Carriers to sell the phone Cons - Media exposure will be lower when product is released - Competitors get sneak-peek at what is coming - Impulsive customer base (young adults) may find their appetite has changed once product is available - Loose the impact/anticipation of an "unveiling"
Plus, in this cell phone market, products promissed and then delivered half baked or way late (Sprint's Bluetooth Sony Ericsson T810 or whatever that was less than expected) really drive customers away.
Still, it could be worse. The Food Standards Agancy and Financial Services Authority are both UK government run, but only one gets the http://www.fsa.gov.uk/
But both may have their respective www.FoodStandarsAgency.gov.uk and www.FinancialServicesAuthority.gov.uk sites if they wish.
"itunes" on the other hand is a brand name - it isn't short for anything - and like you said, this guy is certainly using their reputation and marketing dollars for his own gain.
One issue with the security updates is that Apple has not made it clear how long the official support window is. The updates to 10.1 just stopped one day.
With 10.4 coming out, it's not clear if Apple will want to EOL 10.2
I was lunching with Steve the other day and this very issue came up. I asked if he expected upgrades at the same rate from 10.0 (beta) to 10.4 as he does 10.4 forward.
Steve told me "no", that the upgrade cycle from OS X beta through 10.1 was so fast because there was so much to be done - stabilizing the OS, adding things like Quartz Extreme, Safari, etc - they had to catch up for nearly 20 years of what became OS 9 and then some in what amounts to one tenth that time.
So Steve said to expect the updates to slow down and we will see many more minor (free) point release updates between new cats. When a new cat comes out, like Tiger, it will include significant changes and warrant a new name (like Spotlight and Core Image).
Look, this is just what Steve said, but who knows, he just runs the company, it really takes all the people below him making it happen to get anything done. The CEO is really powerless. So time will tell.
What I find interesting is that Pat-Rights is seeking 12% of Gross iTunes and iPod sales.
12% of Gross sales - wow, that seems a bit, um, high.
But 12% of iPod sales? Their "patent" covers software. The iPod doesn't have any "login" going on. As best i can tell, when you sync to an iPod, iTunes converts the file (MP3, AAC, FairPlay AAC, etc, AppleLossless, etc) to some other audio format - which is why you can't just copy a cong off an iPod - and the iPod plays it. The iPod isn't doing the "decryption" of the fairplay - to the iPod, a song is a song.
Maybe I am understanding wrong - any one else have concrete understanding to share?
Just take a look at the way it does it. You cn have a LARGE number of applications/file/folders/whatever and with the Doc magnifaction feature, they are very easy to see.
With XP, I have six windows open and already their descriptions are difficult to tell apart.
With OS X, you minimize a quicktime movie and you see it playing in the dock! a document or jpg is likewise reduced and identifable.
I contend it makes uninstalling easy for two reasons: 1 - smaller applications can be self contained in a single.app file 2 - because there is not the "explosion" of files all over the hard drive, the uninstaller process has an easier time cleaning up after itself. No registry entries to 'forget' to remove, none of that.
Of course, yes, an application does not have to take advantage of the encapsulation of.app files and can have directories and user preferences hidden all about the hard drive.
I do recommend the 'uninstall' process as a first resort, but for small apps downlaodes from versiontracker et al, the cleanup is as easy as drag to the trash bin.
Moderators - the parent is not a troll - come on, there is not one inflamatory or offtopic remark. The person is sparking open conversation, not trolling, by sharing his experience from switching from XP to OS X.
Our Linux/Windows gurus recently added a Mac to our computer lab for testing purposes. They spent THREE HOURS trying to figure out how to do a useradd.
Here's another great resource for next time:
Google: Add User OS X See the link to "In Mac OS X, how do I create and delete users?"
Um, why can't this person just like Windows better.
Who said _anything_ about this person changing their views on OS X or Windows? I was pointing out the diffrences in windows and OS X from a user interface perspective. I made no mention of needing to change a preference, only trying to help explain the differences.
I think that much of your issue with OS X is simply understand a new paradigm for using an OS.
A few comments make me think you have missed the point: Finder is like "Explorer" for Windows - it allows you to navigate a file system, go in and out of folders, etc. "Docking Station" (the Dock) is NOT like the Start menu in windows and NOT like the task bar ar the bottom either. It is a place where you can put applications you often run, so they are easily accessed, as well as applications that are running, to easily switch between, as well as open or closed documents you may be working on and even file folders and finally, the trash can. That's why they call it the Dock, you can just "dock" things there.
Another issue I think is confounding things is that to install an application in OS X, 9 times out of 10, you just copy one file from the CD to the hard drive. It can live in just about any directory and when you click it, it launches. This is WAY different than windows, but very nice because you don't end up with dozens of files everywhere for a single program (makes uninstalling clean too!) But I digress - you may find it helpful to drag your "Applications" folder to the dock (right side of the divider bar, near the trash can is where documents and folders go). When you want to launch an application, simply hold down your mouse click on that folder for about a second and the contents will pop up, allowing you to launch an application from there.
As for the keyboard shortcut things, I am surprised how much you feel they are necessary. I don't believe, but admit I could be wrong, there is anything that cannot be done with just the mouse that can with a keyboard shortcut.
I have two recommendations - if you are really worried about the way the OS works, go to a local Apple store or even CompUSA/other Apple retailer and ASK SOMEONE TO SHOW YOU AROUND IT. Yeah, it is a different experience, but I argue it would be easier to learn than Windows, had someone no experience with either OS. SECONDLY, there are great books at Amazon/etc for switching to OS X from XP. Here is just one.
As a.Net developer, I have to use Windows XP at work - and to tell you the truth, that is when I am most productive. It doesn't have anything to do with the OS and in fact, fighting XP is a real pain the ass.
But the question is Productivity, and Windows XP lets me be most productive.
Of course, at home, I am writing this on the sofa using a Mac laptop. I wouldn't call it "productivity", but for managing digital photos, home movies (iMovie and iDVD rock!), iTunes, and web/email, I sure do get a whole lot of gettin-nothin-done done. Again, it isn't "productivity", but I prefer it hands down to Windows XP.
NeoOfficeJ. Very nice, actually using it at the moment. I use both MS Office and NeoOfficeJ as NeoOfficeJ has some features that MS has not implemented well. I'm really hoping they get on the ball somehow with the 2 beta as I'd love to see a true native Open Office for Mac OS X.
Yeah, NeoOfficeJ(ava) is the one I was thinking of. Is this project still live? The homepage shows the last "news" posted 12/21/04 (not that OO.o ever updates their website with regularity either).
I applaude these guys and gals who have stepped up to support OS X native while OO.o has backed away from OS X support (X11 is their solution which - to me - is not a solution for the Apple crowd that has always expected more from their user experience.)
I hope that instead of porting to so many languages (40 the site says) they focus on getting these v2.0 features in the Suite.
Okay, so the 1.1 to 2.0 feature guide shows there is a new "presentaiton engine" called Impress (PowerPoint?) but it only lists this:
New Presentation engine
spec link
"spec link" is not a link at all, just text.
Anyone have any Impress specs to disclose?
Also, Draw got only one entry in the otherwise lengthy document for the addition of "CustomShape" that allows 3D extrusions:
The Drawing Toolbar has been reworked to provide a rich set of new commonly used drawing shapes such as: Basic, Block Arrow, Symbol, Flowchart and Stars & Banners . Furthermore the huge number of different arrow types in our lines and connectors toolbox has been reduced.
The geometry of CustomShapes is editable by the user through modifier handles. CustomShapes can be converted to 3-D through extrusion and provide 3-D effects for Fontwork. They can be imported / exported to commonly known formats without loss.
Could this be used for a CAD module in the future?
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Eh!??! What gives? I just paid over A HUNDRED DOLLARS for Jaguar... and now, two weeks later, those sums of beaches are telling me that a new version is out??!!? That's not fair! I'm not paying another over A HUNDRED DOLLARS to get the next version, not two weeks after I got Jaguar!
Apple... what the heck did I expect? I knew I should have stayed with Win XP.
I call bullshit. This is an anti-Apple troll.
There will never be an OS XI.
The point of changing the name to OS X wasn't the start a new numbering system, it was marketing.
Sure X means 'ten' and that comes after OS 9, but it was just a nice coincidence.
The impact of using Roman numberals signifies a big 'shirft', just like Windows 3.1 -> Windows95 -- "Whoa, something is different with this upgrade!"
OS X is also important to pay homage to the UNIX core and X-windows interfaces from NeXt that went into the new-from-the-ground-up OS.
If you didn't get it yet, Jaguar was OS 11, Pnather was OS 12, Tiger is OS 13.
So yes Virginial, there really is a Santa Clause; but he won't ever put OS XI in your stocking.
In the past, when Apple has upgraded their OS versions, they have done the following:
(1) customers who purchased a new Mac 30 days (the exchange peroid) before the announcement get a free upgrade CD in the mail (or at an Apple Store perhaps?)
(2) new Macs being built come with the new OS on the hard drive image from the factory.
(3) computers in inventory get their boxes sliced open and a new OS upgrade CD (DVD?) dropped in. This disk requires the install drive to have an OS on it already, so it is not the same as what comes on the boxed OS CD.
I have also read other reports from people who got a free iLife upgrade because of (1) having that CD dropped in their Macs as a separate disk, not the OS and iLife on a single disk.
This may usher in the era of Mac OS missing iTunes/iPhoto/iMovie/iDVD/Garageband on the same CD - thus reinforcing the concept of iLife as an application suite and the OS as a standalone product. Don't look for these new iLife apps on the Tiger install CDs purchased from the store. (But as always, new Macs come with Mac OS and iLife as well as Quicken.)
IAN a security expert, but I have seen enough reports of encryption being broken or circumvented in a matter of days (see DVD Jon as a recent example).
Something as valuable as one's identity should not be left up to a series of 1's and 0's to determine.
This leaves me looking to the Creator (that would be God to me) for an answer.
We already have a biometric key - called our DNA - that uniquely identifies our physiology (except in the case of identical twins - and perhaps triples+ but I don't know because IAN a doctor either).
Can DNA be spoofed? not as far as I know - though perhaps with a bone marrow transplant one could change their bloods DNA - but not the DNA of their entire body.
My point, to get backnon topic, is that I don't trust any electronic device to be secure or reliable 100% of the time to identify me, my where abouts, or for that matter, my finances.
I hope this type of electronic identifier doesn't make it out of the R&D phase.
Many people are saying you can just burn-and-rip or buy a CD to circumvent DRM and get files on P2P.
I contend Apple is doing much more to fight P2P than just the DRM.
Recall Jobs' initial presentation when he announced the iTMS.
I Don't use P2P any more because $0.99 is a cheep way to ensure I get the song I want, ripped at a good-enough-for-my-needs bitrate, downloaded in a few seconds, with 30 second preview, and a great was to browse and find new music. Oh yeah, and it's legal.
These are all things P2P does not (currently) offer. No doubt P2P will always be a way to get music for free, just like street vendors in NYC sell DVDs for cheap that are not legal.
The DRM is a deterant but what kills P2P for me is the simplicity of the shopping experience - and the price.
"Laptops are big...Mice are small...add a motion sensor to a blue-tooth mouse and you will drop my jaw."
As we all know, there are three pieces to this digital music thing and the business model for selling the music is only a subset of one of those parts - the (3) Music Store.
While the (1) Player (iPod vs. the world) and (2) Catalog software aren't directly tied to the (3) Music Store when one thinks of buying $0.99/9.99, things get more complex when the concept of digital on-demand radio (isn't that really what we are talking about here?) comes into play?
If Apple does provide a monthly subscription service, I bet (and hope) it doesn't take the form of an all you can eat buffet, but looks something more like this:
- Using a variant of iTunes Smart Playlists, the (2) Catalog Software (iTunes) allows you to create your own digital commercial free radio station by selecitng Genere, year, etc, which may optionally be tied into Apple's exclusive Billboard Top 100 listings.
- The (1) Player (iPod) manages the above digital radio stations as playlists but along with the ability to rank a song that is playing with a star rating as you can today, you can also flag a song as one you want to add to the permanent collection, which will be added to your shopping cart on the next sync to your desktop/laptop.
- The (3) Music Store (iTMS) will have various pricing plans like cell phone providers - each plan includes a limited number of subscription downloads included in the monthly plan that go away when you stop paying and a limited number of purchased track credits you get each month that "roll over" when not used. Depending on the plan you buy, you pay a per-track/albumn price when you exceed your purchase track credits (just like going over on your minutes).
As the iPod 'Crosses the Chasm' further into the main stream, Apple will have to offer more options because 10's of Millions of consumers won't all want to buy music the same way.
It all comes down to simple "buy" vs. "rent".
These decisiojns happen all the time - think of major purchases like a home or a car, there are both choices - 36 mo. car lease vs. buying the car - rent an appartment vs locking in that 30 yr. mortgage.
On the surface, looks like the answer is simple - offer both because there is choice and then you let the people decide - and that is a simple answer and I think that it is a good one.
But consider the flipside for a moment - these major purchases I just mentioned offer both models from a financial model too - not everyone can afford the downpayment and 30 yr mortgage, some people like a new car every three years and would rather rent. Point is, these comparisons aren't that comparable.
The original slashdot article was comparing business models and the problem with the $15/mo napster model is that there is no "rent-to-own" scenario. There is NO ONE in their right mind who would rather rent music for 20 yrs. versus buy the albumns they like for a lifetime - especailyl the way that music sort of picks you - we listen to the same 80's trackes over and over - country music, old hip-hop, whatever.
So perhaps the better model is a "rent-to-own" where you pay a lower monthly amount ($10) and you get X songs per month to download and Y ( X) to 'register' as your forever and they don't count against your X downloads next month and don't expire when you stop paying.
Vioa! You get to 'try' new music and 'keep' the stuff you like - all for one low price per month. And just like a cell phone, if you want more songs to get registered forever, just pay an additional fee - just liek a per minute fee over your air minutes.
Now right now the $0.99/track, $9.99/albumn model is WAY easier payment plan thatn my cell phone bill, but perhaps there is something to the convolated system AT&T, Cingular, SPrint, and others have created.
Does Apple's iTunes and iTunes Music Store not consitute 'prior art' for Trusted Computing?
I mean come on - you have files that are secured to a specific (set of up to 5) Mac(s) or PC(s).
Even with a username/password I cannot open the file on just any computer.
The difference is that Apple allows you to deauthorize ("distrust"?) a computer and authorized ("trust") another to manipulate the set of 0-5 "trusted" computers.
This article reminds me of those beach T-shirts "Divers Do It Deeper" and so on.
The thing is that Motorola doesn't do a whole lot of innovating. They do a whole lot of embracing and extending. There is a completely different phylosophy at work:
Embrace and Extend model:
(1) wait for an innovation
(2) wait for market reaction
(3) reverse engineer competetive product
(4) profit by reduced R&D costs, fewer "oops" moments (a la Mac Cube, etc)
The key to this is to let the public know you will 'soon' have a product just as good or better than the innovator's, preferably at a lower cost.
Innovators Model:
(1) be first to market with a faster/better/cheeper way of doing something
(2) DRIVE market reaction (e.g. get early adopter testimonials, etc)
(3) build the product inhouse under high levels of secrecy to ensure (1)
(4) profit by first mover advantage (Netscape), free publicity and market cache of being the innovator (TiVo), and hopefully market domination (eBay, iPod).
The key here is to surprise the market, and competition, with your product. Ususally, Innovators don't have the manufacturing/distribution capacity to deliver mass quantities on day 1 anyway. Because the product or service is innovative, the customer really needs to see it and use it to perceive the value.
So merging an innovator with an embracer yields this Apple/Motorola conundrum. Just weight the Pros and Cons of an early product announcement:
Pre-availability Announcement:
Pros
- Media exposure (free publicity)
- Market reaction to better guage demand
- Price point reaction to better guage promotions
- Use of the above to negotiate deals with Carriers to sell the phone
Cons
- Media exposure will be lower when product is released
- Competitors get sneak-peek at what is coming
- Impulsive customer base (young adults) may find their appetite has changed once product is available
- Loose the impact/anticipation of an "unveiling"
Plus, in this cell phone market, products promissed and then delivered half baked or way late (Sprint's Bluetooth Sony Ericsson T810 or whatever that was less than expected) really drive customers away.
Still, it could be worse. The Food Standards Agancy and Financial Services Authority are both UK government run, but only one gets the http://www.fsa.gov.uk/
But both may have their respective www.FoodStandarsAgency.gov.uk and www.FinancialServicesAuthority.gov.uk sites if they wish.
"itunes" on the other hand is a brand name - it isn't short for anything - and like you said, this guy is certainly using their reputation and marketing dollars for his own gain.
One issue with the security updates is that Apple has not made it clear how long the official support window is. The updates to 10.1 just stopped one day.
With 10.4 coming out, it's not clear if Apple will want to EOL 10.2
I was lunching with Steve the other day and this very issue came up. I asked if he expected upgrades at the same rate from 10.0 (beta) to 10.4 as he does 10.4 forward.
Steve told me "no", that the upgrade cycle from OS X beta through 10.1 was so fast because there was so much to be done - stabilizing the OS, adding things like Quartz Extreme, Safari, etc - they had to catch up for nearly 20 years of what became OS 9 and then some in what amounts to one tenth that time.
So Steve said to expect the updates to slow down and we will see many more minor (free) point release updates between new cats. When a new cat comes out, like Tiger, it will include significant changes and warrant a new name (like Spotlight and Core Image).
Look, this is just what Steve said, but who knows, he just runs the company, it really takes all the people below him making it happen to get anything done. The CEO is really powerless. So time will tell.
What I find interesting is that Pat-Rights is seeking 12% of Gross iTunes and iPod sales.
12% of Gross sales - wow, that seems a bit, um, high.
But 12% of iPod sales? Their "patent" covers software. The iPod doesn't have any "login" going on. As best i can tell, when you sync to an iPod, iTunes converts the file (MP3, AAC, FairPlay AAC, etc, AppleLossless, etc) to some other audio format - which is why you can't just copy a cong off an iPod - and the iPod plays it. The iPod isn't doing the "decryption" of the fairplay - to the iPod, a song is a song.
Maybe I am understanding wrong - any one else have concrete understanding to share?
Just take a look at the way it does it. You cn have a LARGE number of applications/file/folders/whatever and with the Doc magnifaction feature, they are very easy to see.
With XP, I have six windows open and already their descriptions are difficult to tell apart.
With OS X, you minimize a quicktime movie and you see it playing in the dock! a document or jpg is likewise reduced and identifable.
Try this. I find the first hit in Apple's knowledge base a good starting point.
I contend it makes uninstalling easy for two reasons: .app file
.app files and can have directories and user preferences hidden all about the hard drive.
1 - smaller applications can be self contained in a single
2 - because there is not the "explosion" of files all over the hard drive, the uninstaller process has an easier time cleaning up after itself. No registry entries to 'forget' to remove, none of that.
Of course, yes, an application does not have to take advantage of the encapsulation of
I do recommend the 'uninstall' process as a first resort, but for small apps downlaodes from versiontracker et al, the cleanup is as easy as drag to the trash bin.
Moderators - the parent is not a troll - come on, there is not one inflamatory or offtopic remark. The person is sparking open conversation, not trolling, by sharing his experience from switching from XP to OS X.
Our Linux/Windows gurus recently added a Mac to our computer lab for testing purposes. They spent THREE HOURS trying to figure out how to do a useradd.
Here's another great resource for next time:
Google: Add User OS X See the link to "In Mac OS X, how do I create and delete users?"
Um, why can't this person just like Windows better.
Who said _anything_ about this person changing their views on OS X or Windows? I was pointing out the diffrences in windows and OS X from a user interface perspective. I made no mention of needing to change a preference, only trying to help explain the differences.
I think that much of your issue with OS X is simply understand a new paradigm for using an OS.
A few comments make me think you have missed the point:
Finder is like "Explorer" for Windows - it allows you to navigate a file system, go in and out of folders, etc.
"Docking Station" (the Dock) is NOT like the Start menu in windows and NOT like the task bar ar the bottom either. It is a place where you can put applications you often run, so they are easily accessed, as well as applications that are running, to easily switch between, as well as open or closed documents you may be working on and even file folders and finally, the trash can. That's why they call it the Dock, you can just "dock" things there.
Another issue I think is confounding things is that to install an application in OS X, 9 times out of 10, you just copy one file from the CD to the hard drive. It can live in just about any directory and when you click it, it launches. This is WAY different than windows, but very nice because you don't end up with dozens of files everywhere for a single program (makes uninstalling clean too!) But I digress - you may find it helpful to drag your "Applications" folder to the dock (right side of the divider bar, near the trash can is where documents and folders go). When you want to launch an application, simply hold down your mouse click on that folder for about a second and the contents will pop up, allowing you to launch an application from there.
As for the keyboard shortcut things, I am surprised how much you feel they are necessary. I don't believe, but admit I could be wrong, there is anything that cannot be done with just the mouse that can with a keyboard shortcut.
I have two recommendations - if you are really worried about the way the OS works, go to a local Apple store or even CompUSA/other Apple retailer and ASK SOMEONE TO SHOW YOU AROUND IT. Yeah, it is a different experience, but I argue it would be easier to learn than Windows, had someone no experience with either OS. SECONDLY, there are great books at Amazon/etc for switching to OS X from XP. Here is just one.
As a .Net developer, I have to use Windows XP at work - and to tell you the truth, that is when I am most productive. It doesn't have anything to do with the OS and in fact, fighting XP is a real pain the ass.
But the question is Productivity, and Windows XP lets me be most productive.
Of course, at home, I am writing this on the sofa using a Mac laptop. I wouldn't call it "productivity", but for managing digital photos, home movies (iMovie and iDVD rock!), iTunes, and web/email, I sure do get a whole lot of gettin-nothin-done done. Again, it isn't "productivity", but I prefer it hands down to Windows XP.
NeoOfficeJ. Very nice, actually using it at the moment. I use both MS Office and NeoOfficeJ as NeoOfficeJ has some features that MS has not implemented well. I'm really hoping they get on the ball somehow with the 2 beta as I'd love to see a true native Open Office for Mac OS X.
Yeah, NeoOfficeJ(ava) is the one I was thinking of. Is this project still live? The homepage shows the last "news" posted 12/21/04 (not that OO.o ever updates their website with regularity either).
I applaude these guys and gals who have stepped up to support OS X native while OO.o has backed away from OS X support (X11 is their solution which - to me - is not a solution for the Apple crowd that has always expected more from their user experience.)
I hope that instead of porting to so many languages (40 the site says) they focus on getting these v2.0 features in the Suite.
Okay, so the 1.1 to 2.0 feature guide shows there is a new "presentaiton engine" called Impress (PowerPoint?) but it only lists this:
New Presentation engine
spec link
"spec link" is not a link at all, just text.
Anyone have any Impress specs to disclose?
Also, Draw got only one entry in the otherwise lengthy document for the addition of "CustomShape" that allows 3D extrusions:
The Drawing Toolbar has been reworked to provide a rich set of new commonly used drawing shapes such as: Basic, Block Arrow, Symbol, Flowchart and Stars & Banners . Furthermore the huge number of different arrow types in our lines and connectors toolbox has been reduced.
The geometry of CustomShapes is editable by the user through modifier handles. CustomShapes can be converted to 3-D through extrusion and provide 3-D effects for Fontwork. They can be imported / exported to commonly known formats without loss.
Could this be used for a CAD module in the future?
Not to be off topic, but there was a great OO.o 1.1 based version native to OS X - cannot recall the name.
Has this (yet to be remembered by me) group made any announcement on using the new 2.0 code in their OS X implementation?
It emits noise after using for ten minutes, unless you purchase the "pro" version
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