Hmm, I see version changes, but no overview of the program. And a version number that hasn't yet reached 0.5. I try to avoid version numbers less than 1.
If Apple's and MS's positions were flipped, Apple would need more than 20 times the number of employees to build all those Macs, and save for Dell, all the PC makers would be out of business. They're different types of companies, so it couldn't really happen.
One could argue that if Apple had the majority market share, they wouldn't be trying as hard, or innovating as much, since they wouldn't need to. And Microsoft would either have much better products or be dead and gone, because their whole strategy right now is to protect and expand their monopolies, and they couldn't afford to put out such crappy products without monopoly revenue money to support them.
Actually, Bill Gates said "we invented personal computing" just the other day. The article is on The Register, the one about Longhorn being 3 years away.
Myself and others have been poking fun at that for a day or two now.:-)
Always smooth for me on an old G3/400, even when running that bloated Java program LimeWire, but I remember reading that Apple may have done something to OS X's multitasking to make sure iTunes always receives plenty of CPU power, giving it a higher multitasking priority or something.
Right. iTunes lets you rip to AAC, MP3, WAV, or AIFF. iTMS purchases are limited to a protected version of AAC, but they can be freely burned to CD, after which there's no protection anymore. Other music players should be able to add the ability to play non-protected AAC files fairly easily. The protections on purchased songs really just keep you from putting them on P2P networks, web sites, or emailing them to other people. The latter can be gotten around if they also have iTunes AND you trust them with your authorization password.
This is just about Microsoft worrying about their licensing revenues for WMA, and their reflex rejection to any standard or protocol they don't fully own. That's why you can't even rip to MP3 with WMP9.
I never look at my song files after importing them myself, or almost never. And there's an option in Preferences to turn off the track number in the file name, which I've used. So I'm happy with that aspect of it. Since every song I have has ID3 tags, I'd consider artist name on each song to be redundant.
Oh, and I told iTunes to use my MP3 folder for its default library location when I started using it with version 1. So it never moved it anywhere, and slowly sorted out the files I had already from SoundJam, the shareware program iTunes was based on. Perhaps the current defaults aren't as friendly as with the older versions of the program..
I also have to agree. I'm still using a 15" CRT, and the slide out window doesn't work well when the iCal window is normally full screen. It's a little better with the To-Do list window turned off, but it still makes everything cramped. Time to use that "Provide iCal Feedback" option.
Depends on where you work, and what site you post to. By Fark.com standards, this isn't worthy of the NSFW warning, though it would have gotten me canned(sooner) at Express Scripts last year.
Those 2 or 3 would also be members of the local UNIX User Group. Don Ellis, anyway. But the MUG does have a lot of grey hair. I'm the youngest regular attendee at 32, and my father is the Treasurer.
I thought I was a pretty big geek, but that article looked like pure gibberish to me.;-) I suspect that my local Mac User Group might have 2 or 3 members who know something about shell programming, but that's it.
So can a company trademark single words in a foreign language? What do the French think of this? I'd think it'd be like trademarking a word such as "travel".
My father still uses iCab in 9.22, so I use it when visiting. I haven't see the face turn into a smile in what seems like years. He does like the Print Preview features over other browsers.
IE for the Mac has only one advantage over other Mac browsers - it's preinstalled. Well, two if you consider that WMP for X's plug-in only works with IE.
I used to try that Bounce to Sender command. But it never worked with Spam, I'd just get an invalid email bounce back to me. Save for the one time I got an angry letter saying it didn't come from them in the first place.
No reason to use it on the virus emails themselves, the From addresses are quite random and have nothing to do with the source of the virus.
A note on that Security Update. A user might have been able to get root access through that bug, but he/she would have to have a standard user account on that Mac first. It wouldn't work with anonymous access, from what I read.
That sounds about right. And I think about 2-4 of those don't even work at all on System 7 on later, being designed to infect a file that only System 6 and earlier Macs had.
The only reason I have Virex is because it's part of.Mac. It's slow, and I've never scanned all my partitions at once because it would take about two days. Scanning iPhoto alone takes about 20 minutes, as it looks at every single resource file within the bundle, including all the built-in foreign language support files. It also doesn't recognize SoBig.F; I dragged a copy of it from one of the many emails I got on my iMac to the desktop, and told Virex to scan it. Nothing found. But I have been told that only Norton Anti-Virus for the Mac can identify PC viruses.(used to use it on my Performa 6400, never found a virus)
About 3 years and 5 months since 5.02 came out, though there might have been a minor "security update" that I missed after switching to OS X. They also said there would never be an OS X version of OE, just that improved variant they call Entourage that only comes with Office.
I was under the impression that VBS worms were a product of Outlook alone. I know they don't work with OE for the MacOS(9 and earlier), and assumed that they didn't in IE for Windows.
Make that two, I don't care for them. I know they're available in Safari, but I've never tried enabling them, and wasn't impressed with them in Mozilla based browsers. I just click the thumb button on my mouse to close the foreground window, and tabs would just make things more complicated, less intuitive for me.
Only problem is the Tomahawks cost a whole lot more than half a million dollars. Now if they still have any Iowa class battleships in service, how about some nice cheap 20" shells? As long as it's a costal target, it's much more cost effective.;-)
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Hmm, I see version changes, but no overview of the program. And a version number that hasn't yet reached 0.5. I try to avoid version numbers less than 1.
We're getting a bit offtopic here anyway.
That, and 10.3 isn't out yet, right?
If Apple's and MS's positions were flipped, Apple would need more than 20 times the number of employees to build all those Macs, and save for Dell, all the PC makers would be out of business. They're different types of companies, so it couldn't really happen.
One could argue that if Apple had the majority market share, they wouldn't be trying as hard, or innovating as much, since they wouldn't need to. And Microsoft would either have much better products or be dead and gone, because their whole strategy right now is to protect and expand their monopolies, and they couldn't afford to put out such crappy products without monopoly revenue money to support them.
With Poison? Nah, they're a lousy hair band...
I'm sure you meant something else, but I don't know what.
I know Apple wants to sell in multiple countries, but the international legal red tape will take some time to get through.
Actually, Bill Gates said "we invented personal computing" just the other day. The article is on The Register, the one about Longhorn being 3 years away.
:-)
Myself and others have been poking fun at that for a day or two now.
Always smooth for me on an old G3/400, even when running that bloated Java program LimeWire, but I remember reading that Apple may have done something to OS X's multitasking to make sure iTunes always receives plenty of CPU power, giving it a higher multitasking priority or something.
Right. iTunes lets you rip to AAC, MP3, WAV, or AIFF. iTMS purchases are limited to a protected version of AAC, but they can be freely burned to CD, after which there's no protection anymore. Other music players should be able to add the ability to play non-protected AAC files fairly easily. The protections on purchased songs really just keep you from putting them on P2P networks, web sites, or emailing them to other people. The latter can be gotten around if they also have iTunes AND you trust them with your authorization password.
This is just about Microsoft worrying about their licensing revenues for WMA, and their reflex rejection to any standard or protocol they don't fully own. That's why you can't even rip to MP3 with WMP9.
I never look at my song files after importing them myself, or almost never. And there's an option in Preferences to turn off the track number in the file name, which I've used. So I'm happy with that aspect of it. Since every song I have has ID3 tags, I'd consider artist name on each song to be redundant.
Oh, and I told iTunes to use my MP3 folder for its default library location when I started using it with version 1. So it never moved it anywhere, and slowly sorted out the files I had already from SoundJam, the shareware program iTunes was based on. Perhaps the current defaults aren't as friendly as with the older versions of the program..
I also have to agree. I'm still using a 15" CRT, and the slide out window doesn't work well when the iCal window is normally full screen. It's a little better with the To-Do list window turned off, but it still makes everything cramped. Time to use that "Provide iCal Feedback" option.
Isn't it a bit like asking if modern cars are so good looking to cover up the fact that they don't fly?
Depends on where you work, and what site you post to. By Fark.com standards, this isn't worthy of the NSFW warning, though it would have gotten me canned(sooner) at Express Scripts last year.
Those 2 or 3 would also be members of the local UNIX User Group. Don Ellis, anyway. But the MUG does have a lot of grey hair. I'm the youngest regular attendee at 32, and my father is the Treasurer.
I thought I was a pretty big geek, but that article looked like pure gibberish to me. ;-) I suspect that my local Mac User Group might have 2 or 3 members who know something about shell programming, but that's it.
So can a company trademark single words in a foreign language? What do the French think of this? I'd think it'd be like trademarking a word such as "travel".
My father still uses iCab in 9.22, so I use it when visiting. I haven't see the face turn into a smile in what seems like years. He does like the Print Preview features over other browsers.
IE for the Mac has only one advantage over other Mac browsers - it's preinstalled. Well, two if you consider that WMP for X's plug-in only works with IE.
I used to try that Bounce to Sender command. But it never worked with Spam, I'd just get an invalid email bounce back to me. Save for the one time I got an angry letter saying it didn't come from them in the first place.
No reason to use it on the virus emails themselves, the From addresses are quite random and have nothing to do with the source of the virus.
A note on that Security Update. A user might have been able to get root access through that bug, but he/she would have to have a standard user account on that Mac first. It wouldn't work with anonymous access, from what I read.
That sounds about right. And I think about 2-4 of those don't even work at all on System 7 on later, being designed to infect a file that only System 6 and earlier Macs had.
.Mac. It's slow, and I've never scanned all my partitions at once because it would take about two days. Scanning iPhoto alone takes about 20 minutes, as it looks at every single resource file within the bundle, including all the built-in foreign language support files. It also doesn't recognize SoBig.F; I dragged a copy of it from one of the many emails I got on my iMac to the desktop, and told Virex to scan it. Nothing found. But I have been told that only Norton Anti-Virus for the Mac can identify PC viruses.(used to use it on my Performa 6400, never found a virus)
The only reason I have Virex is because it's part of
About 3 years and 5 months since 5.02 came out, though there might have been a minor "security update" that I missed after switching to OS X. They also said there would never be an OS X version of OE, just that improved variant they call Entourage that only comes with Office.
I was under the impression that VBS worms were a product of Outlook alone. I know they don't work with OE for the MacOS(9 and earlier), and assumed that they didn't in IE for Windows.
5 figures? I look forward to the day when I have 5 figures again...
Make that two, I don't care for them. I know they're available in Safari, but I've never tried enabling them, and wasn't impressed with them in Mozilla based browsers. I just click the thumb button on my mouse to close the foreground window, and tabs would just make things more complicated, less intuitive for me.
Only problem is the Tomahawks cost a whole lot more than half a million dollars. Now if they still have any Iowa class battleships in service, how about some nice cheap 20" shells? As long as it's a costal target, it's much more cost effective. ;-)