Articles like this remind me why I switched to Mac a few years ago... I didn't like the business practices of M$ forcing me to install IE with Win98, so I voted with my wallet and completely moved to Mac.
Now I admit to buying songs from iTunes which contain DRM, but they have never stood in the way of me using my music that I paid for. I wonder how many Windows users can say that about Windows Media products?
I use iWork. It's not complete(yet), and it's not universally compatible(yet). But it's Good Enough(TM) for me to use in internal documents (I only have a four person company I run). I have Office X and if I have to open a file, I do.
Occasionally I'll accidentally send someone a file back in Pages format and ironically give 'em some of their own medicine.
If a song that is more popular and/or new is going to cost more what's to stop people from waiting until its unpopular and then getting it for 99 or less?
I buy a ton of music from iTunes, but I have no problem waiting a week or two until the price goes back down to 99.
Plus, 95% of the music in iTunes top 10, I have no interest in - but fortunately they also sell lots of music I do like.
I switched to Mac from Windows about four years ago. I got a ton more productive, my time spent troubleshooting my hardware dropped to almost nil, and I find the interface and programs much more well designed.
After experimenting with Linux in my pc days, I found using the Terminal in OSX (along with the security of falling back on the GUI) enough to get me through. Now, if I NEED to use the terminal, I can.
Overall, if you're looking for an alternative to windows, even though the price of linux can't be beat, the Mac is a much easier stepping stone.
i won't hide behind "anonymous" and i'm certainly not attacking you, but i would like to present a counter point. I configured apache (on OS X, so I figure a lot of was already done for me) simply by opening the httpd.conf file in BBEdit and searching for "php" etc.. and taking out the remarks(#). As soon as I restarted the server everything worked. The next day I was helping a guy setup ISS on his Windows server and it took 3 hours (still didn't get it to work) to get Perl working. I setup Perl on Apache by removing a few # signs. Not too hard to configure for me, but I have had some html experience...
well... obviously i have no inside information, this is all speculation here... but it's well known apple posses handwriting recognition technology well beyond palm's capabilities, WELL beyond, and they have a team still working on it, plus they have publically stated they want to develop their own "digital devices" to fill in gaps left by 3rd party mac hardware developers. again, when the PDA market matures, and the price drops (a point you made, and i acknowledge as correct) then i would think iWalk will be relased in a similiar fashion.
it's not the iWalk or newton or whatever. I wanted that too, but it's still in the pipeline then... this is here now and it's hardly lame. the size of a rio, the style of apple, and the space of a nomad jukebox. it's expensive, but with apple you pay the price to be years ahead of the pack. iPod, depsite having a stupid name, should sell well. it'll make a good xmas present...
does it not bother any body else that the newest feature of windows is "product activation"? esentially giving M$ control over when you can perform hardware upgrades... i don't run out and by a new pc very often, i just upgrade my hardware.. i don't want to have to call M$ every month and tell them i got a new board and to PLEASE reactive my computer... it's a bit much for the richest man in the world to worry about piracy that much...
obviously software would have to been rewritten for these types of computers, but would all hardware change or would just the main boards (cpu, motherboard, etc..) change? would these sorts of machines be backwards compatible or not?
For some people, MP3's are more like a rental system. They download the song, listen to it for a few days, then dump it like a bad habit. Most of my MP3s are CD's I have anyway. So not ALL applications of the MP3 format are bad, just the RIAA perceives it that way.
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Articles like this remind me why I switched to Mac a few years ago... I didn't like the business practices of M$ forcing me to install IE with Win98, so I voted with my wallet and completely moved to Mac.
Now I admit to buying songs from iTunes which contain DRM, but they have never stood in the way of me using my music that I paid for. I wonder how many Windows users can say that about Windows Media products?
I use iWork. It's not complete(yet), and it's not universally compatible(yet). But it's Good Enough(TM) for me to use in internal documents (I only have a four person company I run). I have Office X and if I have to open a file, I do.
Occasionally I'll accidentally send someone a file back in Pages format and ironically give 'em some of their own medicine.
So does this mean that Triple Chocolate Caramel Starbucks® crap I drink is actually healthy?
If a song that is more popular and/or new is going to cost more what's to stop people from waiting until its unpopular and then getting it for 99 or less?
I buy a ton of music from iTunes, but I have no problem waiting a week or two until the price goes back down to 99.
Plus, 95% of the music in iTunes top 10, I have no interest in - but fortunately they also sell lots of music I do like.
Yea... and they're milking it now!! Look how long Longhorn/Vista is getting "tested"
:-)
Microsoft is taking a lot of "precautions" with Vista
Either that, or they just suck at coding.
I switched to Mac from Windows about four years ago. I got a ton more productive, my time spent troubleshooting my hardware dropped to almost nil, and I find the interface and programs much more well designed.
After experimenting with Linux in my pc days, I found using the Terminal in OSX (along with the security of falling back on the GUI) enough to get me through. Now, if I NEED to use the terminal, I can.
Overall, if you're looking for an alternative to windows, even though the price of linux can't be beat, the Mac is a much easier stepping stone.
i won't hide behind "anonymous" and i'm certainly not attacking you, but i would like to present a counter point. I configured apache (on OS X, so I figure a lot of was already done for me) simply by opening the httpd.conf file in BBEdit and searching for "php" etc.. and taking out the remarks(#). As soon as I restarted the server everything worked. The next day I was helping a guy setup ISS on his Windows server and it took 3 hours (still didn't get it to work) to get Perl working. I setup Perl on Apache by removing a few # signs. Not too hard to configure for me, but I have had some html experience...
well... obviously i have no inside information, this is all speculation here... but it's well known apple posses handwriting recognition technology well beyond palm's capabilities, WELL beyond, and they have a team still working on it, plus they have publically stated they want to develop their own "digital devices" to fill in gaps left by 3rd party mac hardware developers. again, when the PDA market matures, and the price drops (a point you made, and i acknowledge as correct) then i would think iWalk will be relased in a similiar fashion.
there was a comment made that they would look into supporting windows when they got some free time... their words, not mine...
it's not the iWalk or newton or whatever. I wanted that too, but it's still in the pipeline then... this is here now and it's hardly lame. the size of a rio, the style of apple, and the space of a nomad jukebox. it's expensive, but with apple you pay the price to be years ahead of the pack. iPod, depsite having a stupid name, should sell well. it'll make a good xmas present...
does it not bother any body else that the newest feature of windows is "product activation"? esentially giving M$ control over when you can perform hardware upgrades... i don't run out and by a new pc very often, i just upgrade my hardware.. i don't want to have to call M$ every month and tell them i got a new board and to PLEASE reactive my computer... it's a bit much for the richest man in the world to worry about piracy that much...
obviously software would have to been rewritten for these types of computers, but would all hardware change or would just the main boards (cpu, motherboard, etc..) change? would these sorts of machines be backwards compatible or not?
For some people, MP3's are more like a rental system. They download the song, listen to it for a few days, then dump it like a bad habit. Most of my MP3s are CD's I have anyway. So not ALL applications of the MP3 format are bad, just the RIAA perceives it that way.