Yes, but an educated adult also knows that you cannot assume that someone online is an educated adult.
An educated adult should never be dismissive of children's culture because the culture of children is the basic framework upon which the culture of adults is formed; games and play are just training for future adult situations (Cowboy and Indians, playing house or playing doctor, dress up, playing with dolls and action figures, cops and robbers, etc, etc, extrapolate to include modern games too).
You can be dismissive of kid's culture, but I won't, having only been totally enmeshed in it just a few years ago. I can't rightly say I'm an educated adult yet; sometimes I still feel like a kid pretending to be an adult. So until I can totally understand adults *and* kids, I'll admit that I'm probably more kid than adult.
Of course there isn't a G5 XServe yet, but unless Apple plans on abandoning the XServe market and form factor, I am supposing it's just a matter of time before you get dual G5s in a 1U enclosure...
Anyway, it's a bit dismissive to say that isn't it? As if children were somehow lower class citizens or something?
I watch and enjoy Pixar movies fine, as well as Disney, your standard sci-fi, thriller, drama, etc. All of it is entertainment; I guess I take issue because it's like saying 'Game are for kids' or 'Comics are for kids' or ' is for kids'.
Pixar movies are for everyone, and that makes sense financially; by targetting the largest possible market, it ensures the largest possible income.
Hardly. It's to IBMs' advantage if they can also 'rent' out processing power to Pixar; it doesn't matter to IBM who makes the better movies, as long as their 'computing on demand' initiative succeeds.
rendered frames per dollar have *two* variables: Cost of computing (including power and maintenance, and number of rendered frames per second. If you buy more computers, cost goes up and frames go up. If you change architectures, number of rendered frames changes as well.
So why do you suppose that commodity P4s, Athlons, or Opterons will whip a G5 Mac? Because P4s are designed to scale up in clock faster? That's only useful if you've got fast/short purchase and upgrade cycles. Because the AMDs are cheaper? Have you considered that a G5 might suck up less power, and thus have lower maintenance costs? Or that a G5, with it's Altivec units, might actually render more efficiently, and thus increase the value m?
I mean, it's all speculation, but I'm not willing to bet against the G5 because Apple's CEO == Pixar's CEO.
If Apple can design a solution that meets Pixar's needs, it's also likely that the same solution is applicable to many other sectors. Think of it like Honda's racing division; money invested into design and construction of racecars trickle down into everything else, so if Honda can design things that get the Honda Racing Team to win big, then it'll benefit their consumer products. Likewise if Apple can design something that gives Pixar an edge, why wouldn't Apple do so, and why wouldn't Pixar use it?
Yet you can point as Final Fantasy: Spirits Within as beautiful visuals with a lame script; arguably it did not carry the movie.
Finding Nemo isn't *revolutionary*. Like most classic revered Disney films, it's a fable with a moral and message. It does not strive to to challenge the viewer. You don't come out of a Pixar movie and spend several hours with friends arguing the significance and meaning of certain symbols or events. Everything in a pixar film is clear and concrete: The ending is already determined by the conflict in the first 10 minutes, and all the character growth is predictable.
For you it's tedious. For the many people who have not yet achieved certain milestones, Pixar movies (and Disney movies) reinforce certain norms and belief systems through analogy and example.
There are certainly movies that force growth by expanding your consciousness and awareness, but Pixar movies are not those kind of films.
Of course I can't verify they are *right*, but as of beginning of 2003, it seems Apple had 1 in 10, and what with the iTunes music store, it has been implied they have 1 in 8...
Yeah, but as of March 1 in 10 MP3 players could play AAC, and as of June, thanks to the additional sales of 304,000 iPods in this one quarter, as compared to the 3/4 million in the past two years... I wouldn't be surprised if Apple now had one in 7 or 8 players in the market right now ^^
So the better question is if 1 in 8 players support AAC, and those players happen to have 100 to 300 times the storage of the 4 nearest competitors (for a total of 50% of the market), then it seems to suggest that a *lot* of AACs can be sustained in the current market...
What I don't understand is why this guy isn't immediately comparing and contrasting with the *unarguable* most successful music distribution service... iTunes Music Store.
Unless this was submitted before the iTMS was unveiled?
Well, the initial mail is dated July 4th... which is a States-wide holiday, so they obviously couldn't reply until the Monday following... Which is the 7th of July. It is now the 14th of July and a fix is out.
We still don't know how much of it is due to publicity and how much to Apple doing the right thing and fixing a bug/vulnerability reported to it.
That's what they keep trying to do when they carry their Dell Inspirons over to my place, or travel on the go.
But invariably they restart their machine and everything works. I will forward that link to them, however, when they next come to my house and try to connect to my wireless network.
That's why I said read the article. You only mentioned FUS with regards to the X-Terminals... when FUS is a continuation of Location Manager, which would be more akin to a bunch of shell scripts to manage hardware interfaces and configurations plus a UI to select from those scripts.
As I said in my first post, FUS is NOT the only aspect of the patent. It is merely the most *recent* continuation of the original patent, which is years old now.
It sounds like multiple users, one single environment.
Location manager enables one user multiple environments Fast User Switch enables multiple users upon a single machine *with* a different environement for each user.
Yours sounds like each user has the same environment. That is not necessarily true for FUS; on OS X each user can have different networking capabilities, display properties, desktop patterns, printer settings, quicktime settings, etc.
Okay, so the connection between fast user switching at location manager?
However, I will answer an unasked question, where you question the value of location manager.
My laptop starts at home, plugged into power but with airport. I use that setting.
I go to work, where I have wired ethernet and power. Mail settings change, as do proxies.
I then go to a meeting, where I have no wireless or wired, and no power. Battery settings correspondingly change.
A second laptop user wants to create an adhoc network to transfer files after the meeting. I switch to the wireless unplugged.
Go back to my desk, and it's back to 'work' settings
I then go home, and it's back to wireless plugged. But perhaps a friend calls, and I drop by. I am now roaming unplugged to check my email, and then I put my system to sleep while we watch a DVD over a beer and snacks.
I then go back home, and back to wireless plugged.
You can question the value all you want, but this is how I live with my laptop ^^
Now this isn't possible under XP: I have friends with XP laptops, and they have to shut down and restart when they change from mode to mode: Wired, wireless, unwired. The corresponding proxy changes, DHCP changes, etc, also require fiddling with the network control panel. And any corresponding changes to bandwidth uses also require fiddling in the respective programs, and printing preferences, etc. My printers at work and at home were automatically configured via Location Manager. Heck, even the display calibration of the monitor at work and the monitor at home.
So now you ask about FUS?
Okay, so in *my* situation, I'd have multiple logins for *myself*.
An admin login, with a bright red desktop where I do all my admin stuff. My 'personal' login where I have my email, IM, and browsing apps My 'work' login where I might use Photoshop, iDVD, iMovie, and other stuff. My 'developer' login where I would have XCode and a handful of terminals, X11, and some man pages loaded up.
Just for ME
And I might live *mostly* in the personal login, but I would switch once in a while to admin to install or maintain stuff, I would switchinto work to do worklike stuff a little more often, and developer whenever I felt the need to, say, build mozilla, or code something.
If my friend came over and wanted to use the web, I would switch to a 'guest' login, or request that they do so.
This is not something I would do on my PowerBook, but rather my PowerMac.
How does this relate to Location Manager? Because it is me, one user, with multiple use models, first handled by location manager for my laptop to handle certain configurations, and then handled by fast user login to handle certain usage patterns. One requires mobility, the other requires a lot of CPU and ram (Hmm, like a G5)
is this useful for you?
Possibly not. You think location manager is of dubious use to you, but I know I loved it.
I also know with FUS that my dad would have one account for him to handle scanning and photos, since that's what he does, and I would give my friends a guest account for web, email, and IM, while I would use 3 or 4 accounts myself.
Again, that is the value to ME and that is why *I* think it's worth existing and possibly even a patent. Just because it's worthless to you, or anyone else reading, does not deny the value of FUS or LM.
Unless you're familiar with Location Manager and can disagree with that implementation, I don't believe there *is* prior art.
Or rather, that Mac OS (Classic, not X) *is* the prior art, and that *Apple* owns the original patent, of which this is merely a continuation if you read the article.
Location Manager allows a single user to change multiple settings on a computer with a single selection:
Wireless Plugged Wireless Unplugged Netless Plugged Netless Unplugged Wired Plugged Wired Unplugged At Home At Work Roaming Unplugged
So that with a single selection the user can change: Bandwidth settings on Qucktime and the network Power/Battery/Energy saver settings Screen Saver settings Printer settings Network settings (DHCP and Proxies) Browser settings... AppleScripts to manage everything else
If you look at 'Multiple locations - User':: 'Multiple users - Machine' then it does appear valid that Fast User Switching is a continuation of the original patent Apple holds regarding the technology that is Location Manager.
su is *not* fast user switching, it is just changing the user locally in a terminal; and it doesn't change the settings of the machine, applications, or even the environment *outside* the terminal, unlike FUS or Location Manager.
You only reply to *one* point I make, FUS, and ignore the other, Location Manager.
My point being that from what I have seen of XP, XP doesn't have LM, and none of the other Windows has ever had it or something like it.
The patent doesn't only apply to FUS, but seems to extend the existing patent that covers LM to also cover FUS; whether that is kosher or not is not the point of *my* first reply, but only of the fact that the concept of LM has not been seen in any of the Windows or Unices I have ever used (though I never explicitly brought up the other Unices)
With Location Manager under OS 9 I could do this:
On my louisw account, switch from the 'mobile unconnected' mode to the 'mobile airport' mode to the 'mobile ethernet mode' to the 'plugged in unconnected mode' to the 'plugged in airport mode' to the 'plugged in ethernet mode' on my laptop
That would change the following:
Bandwidth settings under Quicktime and network panels DHCP settings Network settings (such as proxy and such) Battery/Power saving settings Screensaver settings Print settings AppleScripts executed
Other things that could be changed, then, due to AppleScript: IM settings Email settings Browser settings... any number of AppleScript controllable things
And if you're wondering how this connects to *your* post about FUS and XP's FUS, the point is that the original patent, the original article, and the new patent is that the 'new' patent is merely a continuation of the original patent in which LM managed multiple modes for a single user, where FUS is a subset of that whereby a user *is* just a single mode.
No stock Unix I know of has supported multiple modes per user, via Location Manager, and no Windows has ever had it, though I don't know XP backwards and forwards, and as such I claim the original patent *is* valid, since it's been around for years without anyone else implementing it, and I do believe that FUS as an implementation of the original patent is possibly valid.
If you imagine that the relationship of 'Users - Computer':: 'Locations - User', then it really is the same thing, and if Apple is smart they'll implement both in a really, really, nice way in Panther.
Unless the X-Terminals you're talking about actually changed system settings, preferences, and configuration states (like IP address, network connection settings, battery/power settings, screen savers, executed scripts, startup and shutdown services, and ran programs in the background), FUS and LM is a different beast.
It's *obvious* in hindsight, but OS 9 had it, and Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2k, and XP don't, so perhaps it isn't *obvious* in design? Perhaps that makes it worth patenting?
I've taken up gardening (think of it as terraforming, if you must), crocheting (think of it as geometric puzzles and patterns), and cooking (advanced practical chemistry and alchemy), as well as rollerblading (all girls who rollerblade are hot, by definition. The un-hot ones either become fit, confident, and hot, or they stop rollerblading), and wushu (really flexible, fit girls), and am thinking of taking up biking (similar girls).
There are practical benefits too, like being able to give out homegrown roses, as well as recognize your girl's favorite flower by name, being able to show your manual dexterity, feeding yourself or producing a romantic dinner, showing you have stamina, strength, and flexibility.
And of course, I have FUN doing all these things.
Am I a hit with women? I don't have them crawling all over me, no, but I have found them, that way. With rollerblading you have city skates; at least in California you do, with wushu you have classrooms full of like students, with gardening you have garden clubs and groups, and the same with knitting, crochet, and sewing.
Apple *does* bundle, but not exclusively. You can use IE, Mozilla, Firebird, Camino, Omniweb, Opera, iCab, and Safari.
Same with iMovie: You are free to use FCE, FCP, or Premiere, if you so wish.
There are no advantages to Safari; I happen to like Mozilla *nearly* as much, and am using it right now. On the other hand, I like iMovie much better than I like Premiere.
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Yes, but an educated adult also knows that you cannot assume that someone online is an educated adult.
An educated adult should never be dismissive of children's culture because the culture of children is the basic framework upon which the culture of adults is formed; games and play are just training for future adult situations (Cowboy and Indians, playing house or playing doctor, dress up, playing with dolls and action figures, cops and robbers, etc, etc, extrapolate to include modern games too).
You can be dismissive of kid's culture, but I won't, having only been totally enmeshed in it just a few years ago. I can't rightly say I'm an educated adult yet; sometimes I still feel like a kid pretending to be an adult. So until I can totally understand adults *and* kids, I'll admit that I'm probably more kid than adult.
How does the XServe fit into your worldview then?
Of course there isn't a G5 XServe yet, but unless Apple plans on abandoning the XServe market and form factor, I am supposing it's just a matter of time before you get dual G5s in a 1U enclosure...
Why are you telling me this?
Anyway, it's a bit dismissive to say that isn't it? As if children were somehow lower class citizens or something?
I watch and enjoy Pixar movies fine, as well as Disney, your standard sci-fi, thriller, drama, etc. All of it is entertainment; I guess I take issue because it's like saying 'Game are for kids' or 'Comics are for kids' or ' is for kids'.
Pixar movies are for everyone, and that makes sense financially; by targetting the largest possible market, it ensures the largest possible income.
It's mostly books, for me :)
Dune series by Frank Herbert
Ender's series by Orson Scott Card
Robot series by Isaac Asimov
Hardly. It's to IBMs' advantage if they can also 'rent' out processing power to Pixar; it doesn't matter to IBM who makes the better movies, as long as their 'computing on demand' initiative succeeds.
But m is directly correlated to n, is it not?
rendered frames per dollar have *two* variables: Cost of computing (including power and maintenance, and number of rendered frames per second. If you buy more computers, cost goes up and frames go up. If you change architectures, number of rendered frames changes as well.
So why do you suppose that commodity P4s, Athlons, or Opterons will whip a G5 Mac? Because P4s are designed to scale up in clock faster? That's only useful if you've got fast/short purchase and upgrade cycles. Because the AMDs are cheaper? Have you considered that a G5 might suck up less power, and thus have lower maintenance costs? Or that a G5, with it's Altivec units, might actually render more efficiently, and thus increase the value m?
I mean, it's all speculation, but I'm not willing to bet against the G5 because Apple's CEO == Pixar's CEO.
If Apple can design a solution that meets Pixar's needs, it's also likely that the same solution is applicable to many other sectors. Think of it like Honda's racing division; money invested into design and construction of racecars trickle down into everything else, so if Honda can design things that get the Honda Racing Team to win big, then it'll benefit their consumer products. Likewise if Apple can design something that gives Pixar an edge, why wouldn't Apple do so, and why wouldn't Pixar use it?
Yet you can point as Final Fantasy: Spirits Within as beautiful visuals with a lame script; arguably it did not carry the movie.
Finding Nemo isn't *revolutionary*. Like most classic revered Disney films, it's a fable with a moral and message. It does not strive to to challenge the viewer. You don't come out of a Pixar movie and spend several hours with friends arguing the significance and meaning of certain symbols or events. Everything in a pixar film is clear and concrete: The ending is already determined by the conflict in the first 10 minutes, and all the character growth is predictable.
For you it's tedious. For the many people who have not yet achieved certain milestones, Pixar movies (and Disney movies) reinforce certain norms and belief systems through analogy and example.
There are certainly movies that force growth by expanding your consciousness and awareness, but Pixar movies are not those kind of films.
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Of course I can't verify they are *right*, but as of beginning of 2003, it seems Apple had 1 in 10, and what with the iTunes music store, it has been implied they have 1 in 8...
Yeah, but as of March 1 in 10 MP3 players could play AAC, and as of June, thanks to the additional sales of 304,000 iPods in this one quarter, as compared to the 3/4 million in the past two years... I wouldn't be surprised if Apple now had one in 7 or 8 players in the market right now ^^
So the better question is if 1 in 8 players support AAC, and those players happen to have 100 to 300 times the storage of the 4 nearest competitors (for a total of 50% of the market), then it seems to suggest that a *lot* of AACs can be sustained in the current market...
Hmm, how about waste a lot of time and effort?
FCE is essentially last year's FCP tailored for the DV market.
What I don't understand is why this guy isn't immediately comparing and contrasting with the *unarguable* most successful music distribution service... iTunes Music Store.
Unless this was submitted before the iTMS was unveiled?
Well, the initial mail is dated July 4th... which is a States-wide holiday, so they obviously couldn't reply until the Monday following... Which is the 7th of July. It is now the 14th of July and a fix is out.
We still don't know how much of it is due to publicity and how much to Apple doing the right thing and fixing a bug/vulnerability reported to it.
That's what they keep telling me, yes.
That's what they keep trying to do when they carry their Dell Inspirons over to my place, or travel on the go.
But invariably they restart their machine and everything works. I will forward that link to them, however, when they next come to my house and try to connect to my wireless network.
That's why I said read the article. You only mentioned FUS with regards to the X-Terminals... when FUS is a continuation of Location Manager, which would be more akin to a bunch of shell scripts to manage hardware interfaces and configurations plus a UI to select from those scripts.
As I said in my first post, FUS is NOT the only aspect of the patent. It is merely the most *recent* continuation of the original patent, which is years old now.
Your technique sounds different.
It sounds like multiple users, one single environment.
Location manager enables one user multiple environments
Fast User Switch enables multiple users upon a single machine *with* a different environement for each user.
Yours sounds like each user has the same environment. That is not necessarily true for FUS; on OS X each user can have different networking capabilities, display properties, desktop patterns, printer settings, quicktime settings, etc.
Okay, so the connection between fast user switching at location manager?
However, I will answer an unasked question, where you question the value of location manager.
My laptop starts at home, plugged into power but with airport. I use that setting.
I go to work, where I have wired ethernet and power. Mail settings change, as do proxies.
I then go to a meeting, where I have no wireless or wired, and no power. Battery settings correspondingly change.
A second laptop user wants to create an adhoc network to transfer files after the meeting. I switch to the wireless unplugged.
Go back to my desk, and it's back to 'work' settings
I then go home, and it's back to wireless plugged. But perhaps a friend calls, and I drop by. I am now roaming unplugged to check my email, and then I put my system to sleep while we watch a DVD over a beer and snacks.
I then go back home, and back to wireless plugged.
You can question the value all you want, but this is how I live with my laptop ^^
Now this isn't possible under XP: I have friends with XP laptops, and they have to shut down and restart when they change from mode to mode: Wired, wireless, unwired. The corresponding proxy changes, DHCP changes, etc, also require fiddling with the network control panel. And any corresponding changes to bandwidth uses also require fiddling in the respective programs, and printing preferences, etc. My printers at work and at home were automatically configured via Location Manager. Heck, even the display calibration of the monitor at work and the monitor at home.
So now you ask about FUS?
Okay, so in *my* situation, I'd have multiple logins for *myself*.
An admin login, with a bright red desktop where I do all my admin stuff.
My 'personal' login where I have my email, IM, and browsing apps
My 'work' login where I might use Photoshop, iDVD, iMovie, and other stuff.
My 'developer' login where I would have XCode and a handful of terminals, X11, and some man pages loaded up.
Just for ME
And I might live *mostly* in the personal login, but I would switch once in a while to admin to install or maintain stuff, I would switchinto work to do worklike stuff a little more often, and developer whenever I felt the need to, say, build mozilla, or code something.
If my friend came over and wanted to use the web, I would switch to a 'guest' login, or request that they do so.
This is not something I would do on my PowerBook, but rather my PowerMac.
How does this relate to Location Manager? Because it is me, one user, with multiple use models, first handled by location manager for my laptop to handle certain configurations, and then handled by fast user login to handle certain usage patterns. One requires mobility, the other requires a lot of CPU and ram (Hmm, like a G5)
is this useful for you?
Possibly not. You think location manager is of dubious use to you, but I know I loved it.
I also know with FUS that my dad would have one account for him to handle scanning and photos, since that's what he does, and I would give my friends a guest account for web, email, and IM, while I would use 3 or 4 accounts myself.
Again, that is the value to ME and that is why *I* think it's worth existing and possibly even a patent. Just because it's worthless to you, or anyone else reading, does not deny the value of FUS or LM.
Unless you're familiar with Location Manager and can disagree with that implementation, I don't believe there *is* prior art.
... AppleScripts to manage everything else
:: 'Multiple users - Machine' then it does appear valid that Fast User Switching is a continuation of the original patent Apple holds regarding the technology that is Location Manager.
Or rather, that Mac OS (Classic, not X) *is* the prior art, and that *Apple* owns the original patent, of which this is merely a continuation if you read the article.
Location Manager allows a single user to change multiple settings on a computer with a single selection:
Wireless Plugged
Wireless Unplugged
Netless Plugged
Netless Unplugged
Wired Plugged
Wired Unplugged
At Home
At Work
Roaming Unplugged
So that with a single selection the user can change:
Bandwidth settings on Qucktime and the network
Power/Battery/Energy saver settings
Screen Saver settings
Printer settings
Network settings (DHCP and Proxies)
Browser settings
If you look at 'Multiple locations - User'
su is *not* fast user switching, it is just changing the user locally in a terminal; and it doesn't change the settings of the machine, applications, or even the environment *outside* the terminal, unlike FUS or Location Manager.
You only reply to *one* point I make, FUS, and ignore the other, Location Manager.
... any number of AppleScript controllable things
:: 'Locations - User', then it really is the same thing, and if Apple is smart they'll implement both in a really, really, nice way in Panther.
My point being that from what I have seen of XP, XP doesn't have LM, and none of the other Windows has ever had it or something like it.
The patent doesn't only apply to FUS, but seems to extend the existing patent that covers LM to also cover FUS; whether that is kosher or not is not the point of *my* first reply, but only of the fact that the concept of LM has not been seen in any of the Windows or Unices I have ever used (though I never explicitly brought up the other Unices)
With Location Manager under OS 9 I could do this:
On my louisw account, switch from the 'mobile unconnected' mode to the 'mobile airport' mode to the 'mobile ethernet mode' to the 'plugged in unconnected mode' to the 'plugged in airport mode' to the 'plugged in ethernet mode' on my laptop
That would change the following:
Bandwidth settings under Quicktime and network panels
DHCP settings
Network settings (such as proxy and such)
Battery/Power saving settings
Screensaver settings
Print settings
AppleScripts executed
Other things that could be changed, then, due to AppleScript:
IM settings
Email settings
Browser settings
And if you're wondering how this connects to *your* post about FUS and XP's FUS, the point is that the original patent, the original article, and the new patent is that the 'new' patent is merely a continuation of the original patent in which LM managed multiple modes for a single user, where FUS is a subset of that whereby a user *is* just a single mode.
No stock Unix I know of has supported multiple modes per user, via Location Manager, and no Windows has ever had it, though I don't know XP backwards and forwards, and as such I claim the original patent *is* valid, since it's been around for years without anyone else implementing it, and I do believe that FUS as an implementation of the original patent is possibly valid.
If you imagine that the relationship of 'Users - Computer'
Apple happens to have prior art, since 1995, that applies to the current patent, and is evidently a continuation of that patent.
Nope.
Read the article.
Grok fast user switching
Grok Location Manager
Unless the X-Terminals you're talking about actually changed system settings, preferences, and configuration states (like IP address, network connection settings, battery/power settings, screen savers, executed scripts, startup and shutdown services, and ran programs in the background), FUS and LM is a different beast.
It's *obvious* in hindsight, but OS 9 had it, and Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2k, and XP don't, so perhaps it isn't *obvious* in design? Perhaps that makes it worth patenting?
It's still a better patent than, say, One Click.
iPod stuff
They have a replacement battery for $60
It's about as proprietary as any other mass produced product, really.
How about this?
$97m one year, $190m the next?
Um, why can't they be replaced?
If an iPod can be disassembled, then the iPod's battery can be replaced...? Yes?
I've taken up gardening (think of it as terraforming, if you must), crocheting (think of it as geometric puzzles and patterns), and cooking (advanced practical chemistry and alchemy), as well as rollerblading (all girls who rollerblade are hot, by definition. The un-hot ones either become fit, confident, and hot, or they stop rollerblading), and wushu (really flexible, fit girls), and am thinking of taking up biking (similar girls).
There are practical benefits too, like being able to give out homegrown roses, as well as recognize your girl's favorite flower by name, being able to show your manual dexterity, feeding yourself or producing a romantic dinner, showing you have stamina, strength, and flexibility.
And of course, I have FUN doing all these things.
Am I a hit with women? I don't have them crawling all over me, no, but I have found them, that way. With rollerblading you have city skates; at least in California you do, with wushu you have classrooms full of like students, with gardening you have garden clubs and groups, and the same with knitting, crochet, and sewing.
LOL, it's okay, we all goof up.
Apple *does* bundle, but not exclusively. You can use IE, Mozilla, Firebird, Camino, Omniweb, Opera, iCab, and Safari.
Same with iMovie: You are free to use FCE, FCP, or Premiere, if you so wish.
There are no advantages to Safari; I happen to like Mozilla *nearly* as much, and am using it right now. On the other hand, I like iMovie much better than I like Premiere.