I have a G4 and an iPod, as well as several ix86-based Windows and Linux boxes. I love my iPod and my mac. However, I have never understood the big deal about iTunes. It's slow and the interface is too large. I guess it is a matter of personal preference, but I find Winamp to be more intuitive. I often hear people make iTunes out to be a killer app, but I've just never seen it this way. Can someone enlighten me as to what makes it so great?
Your logic makes absolutely no sense at all. You are still buying the songs on the iTunes Music Service, which is what you are doing when you approach the cashier. Best Buy does not go home with you and make sure you don't copy your brand new VHS of Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle to another tape and give it to a friend, or burn a copy of 50 Cent's latest jamz and sell the copy.
The selection is good. However, the only album I could think to buy at the time was not there (Big Tymers - I Got That Work).
The interface is great, really simple, almost like a p2p interface.
However, I probably won't use it much. I downloaded one song (The "exclusive" Eminem & D-12 song) but was a little disappointed for a few reasons. My mac isn't hooked up to a good set of speakers like my PC, and there are no programs out there that will play Apple's implementation of AAC on Windows (or Linux for that matter). I am confined to my iPod and my Mac to listen to them, certainly not something I would be if they were mp3 (or hey Apple...HOW ABOUT SOME FREAKIN OGG SOMETIME?!). Beyond this, $9.99 is too pricey for an album. I recently picked up (hed)pe's latest for $7.99 at Best Buy. And you know what? I'd really rather pay the normal $12.99 at Best Buy ($3 more!) to have the higher quality CD sound, the liner notes, and the jewel case. Plus, I'm not confined to a little supported format on only a few machines. I can do whatever the hell I want with it, rip it to ogg, mp3, or hell, AAC if I REALLY wanted to (hah!).
"allow for the new higher speed media"
apparently everyone was sleeping when Pioneer released this update for their DVR-10x series (the superdrive is just a dvr-104/a04).
4x media would potentially damage the drive, it doesnt speed the drive up and it shouldnt even be considered an "improvement", it's a bug fix, and a rather nasty bug it was.
I don't see how that is relevant. The average consumer isn't going to care who is making the hardware, because quite frankly, it doesn't really matter.
In response to those saying to "just buy a new machine" instead of upgrading:
Upgrades are not such a bad idea, especially for people like me who don't need an AGP slot. I have a Radeon PCI Mac Edition using the Quartz Extreme hack and OS 10.2 is very fast. I have a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4 500mhz, and after the price drops a few hundred dollars, I will certainly look at getting a 1ghz+ cpu.
Some may argue that the memory bus is slow on older macs, well, after reading some reviews/benchmarks, I can safely conclude that any speed increases apple has done to their bus over 100mhz have not improved performance all that much. The DDR based macs perform exactly the same (Actually, slightly less) than their SDR counterparts. Even the SDR jump to 133mhz is negligible.
Games don't matter much to me, as I, being a very open minded slashdotter, run many operating systems on many different platforms, one of which beings Windows on x86. Besides, there is no Battlefield 1942 for Mac:D !
America is not a democracy. It is a republic, we elect officials to think for us.
Bush did not win the popular vote, but he did win the electoral vote, which is all that matters in this nation.
One of the reasons for the creation of the electoral college was to prevent against "mass insanity". What happens when the guy that gets voted in to office is insane?
Because there are a lot more artists than what you see on MTV, Radio, and Amazon. In fact, much of the music I listen to is not available by any of the sources you mentioned.
And if Amazon sells it, it is likely imported and lacking samples.
People have developed this way of thinking...that macs do not die. That every single one keeps running forever and PCs die in 5 years.
I'm not sure where it comes from. I've seen my share of fried macs (and ones that are still running after 15 years) and I've seen the same from PCs. I have two 386s and a 486 in my closet, and they both still work perfectly.
Positive stereotyping.
I name all of my machines after different constellations, basically anything dealing with space, goes will along with my SETI@Home initiative.
My web server is Gemini, Mac is Orion, DNS is Capricorn, etc.
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I have a G4 and an iPod, as well as several ix86-based Windows and Linux boxes. I love my iPod and my mac. However, I have never understood the big deal about iTunes. It's slow and the interface is too large. I guess it is a matter of personal preference, but I find Winamp to be more intuitive. I often hear people make iTunes out to be a killer app, but I've just never seen it this way. Can someone enlighten me as to what makes it so great?
Your logic makes absolutely no sense at all. You are still buying the songs on the iTunes Music Service, which is what you are doing when you approach the cashier. Best Buy does not go home with you and make sure you don't copy your brand new VHS of Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle to another tape and give it to a friend, or burn a copy of 50 Cent's latest jamz and sell the copy.
The selection is good. However, the only album I could think to buy at the time was not there (Big Tymers - I Got That Work).
The interface is great, really simple, almost like a p2p interface.
However, I probably won't use it much. I downloaded one song (The "exclusive" Eminem & D-12 song) but was a little disappointed for a few reasons. My mac isn't hooked up to a good set of speakers like my PC, and there are no programs out there that will play Apple's implementation of AAC on Windows (or Linux for that matter). I am confined to my iPod and my Mac to listen to them, certainly not something I would be if they were mp3 (or hey Apple...HOW ABOUT SOME FREAKIN OGG SOMETIME?!). Beyond this, $9.99 is too pricey for an album. I recently picked up (hed)pe's latest for $7.99 at Best Buy. And you know what? I'd really rather pay the normal $12.99 at Best Buy ($3 more!) to have the higher quality CD sound, the liner notes, and the jewel case. Plus, I'm not confined to a little supported format on only a few machines. I can do whatever the hell I want with it, rip it to ogg, mp3, or hell, AAC if I REALLY wanted to (hah!).
both zerowing torrents are seeded by my 100mbit connection :D
It isn't...it's getting a Slashdot Apple page story.
"allow for the new higher speed media" apparently everyone was sleeping when Pioneer released this update for their DVR-10x series (the superdrive is just a dvr-104/a04). 4x media would potentially damage the drive, it doesnt speed the drive up and it shouldnt even be considered an "improvement", it's a bug fix, and a rather nasty bug it was.
I don't see how that is relevant. The average consumer isn't going to care who is making the hardware, because quite frankly, it doesn't really matter.
A mac will lock you in to proprietary Apple "crap" just as much as a Dell would lock one in to proprietary Microsoft "crap".
In response to those saying to "just buy a new machine" instead of upgrading: Upgrades are not such a bad idea, especially for people like me who don't need an AGP slot. I have a Radeon PCI Mac Edition using the Quartz Extreme hack and OS 10.2 is very fast. I have a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4 500mhz, and after the price drops a few hundred dollars, I will certainly look at getting a 1ghz+ cpu. Some may argue that the memory bus is slow on older macs, well, after reading some reviews/benchmarks, I can safely conclude that any speed increases apple has done to their bus over 100mhz have not improved performance all that much. The DDR based macs perform exactly the same (Actually, slightly less) than their SDR counterparts. Even the SDR jump to 133mhz is negligible. Games don't matter much to me, as I, being a very open minded slashdotter, run many operating systems on many different platforms, one of which beings Windows on x86. Besides, there is no Battlefield 1942 for Mac :D !
Valve is not owned by Vivendi. Sierra, which is owned by Vivendi, merely publishes Valve's game. (Come to think of it, they really only have one.)
Hey, he was a fighter pilot. He could fly some form of aircraft! Give the man some credit.
America is not a democracy. It is a republic, we elect officials to think for us. Bush did not win the popular vote, but he did win the electoral vote, which is all that matters in this nation. One of the reasons for the creation of the electoral college was to prevent against "mass insanity". What happens when the guy that gets voted in to office is insane?
I wonder how long before the TI-83+ port is out?
Of course, by posting the link on slashdot, Google's pagerank for this site will only jump higher.
Because there are a lot more artists than what you see on MTV, Radio, and Amazon. In fact, much of the music I listen to is not available by any of the sources you mentioned. And if Amazon sells it, it is likely imported and lacking samples.
Hell yeah...cruisin' round the Kremlin in a stolen Lada, working job for the Russian mafia. Good idea.
The OSI model has 7 layers, the TCP/IP model has 4.
Mirror here. don't be surprised if all the images aren't on it yet...getting 900bytes/sec here folks.
So many quotable lines. What an excellent film.
Corporations who need data crunching are the real target market of something like this, not research institutions.
mirror in case in of /.'ing:
http://100mbit.hexxxen.net/slashdot/death_taxes.pd f
People have developed this way of thinking...that macs do not die. That every single one keeps running forever and PCs die in 5 years. I'm not sure where it comes from. I've seen my share of fried macs (and ones that are still running after 15 years) and I've seen the same from PCs. I have two 386s and a 486 in my closet, and they both still work perfectly. Positive stereotyping.
I name all of my machines after different constellations, basically anything dealing with space, goes will along with my SETI@Home initiative. My web server is Gemini, Mac is Orion, DNS is Capricorn, etc.