One difference is that I had all of the above already, because that's what I chose to use. Well, it was iTunes 3 before the iTMS came out, of course. And the DRM limitations have absolutely no effect on my music listening habits. Well, I can't put iTMS purchases music on my iDisk for anyone to download, unless I want to give that person one of my three authorizations. But I very rarely did anything like that anyway.
Oh, you left one requirement out. QuickTime 6.3, released the same day as iTunes 4, should be on your list.
Actually, it probably has to do more with legal problems than programming ones. Last I heard, not all of the Big 5 labels have signed on for the Windows version of the iTMS. They're probably concerned about security under Windows, and perhaps higher piracy rates per user than with Mac users.
I thought that when Active X came out, everyone was going into IE preferences and disabling it for security reasons. I don't think I've ever been to a site that used Active X, though since I don't even have IE installed anymore, it would be kind of hard to check for it.
"BuyMusic founder Scott Blum called Apple CEO Steve Jobs "a visionary, but he's on the wrong platform." While Apple users constitute about 3 percent of the personal computer market, BuyMusic is targeting the 97 percent of people with PCs. "
It's not like you can be a visionary on the Windows platform anyway. Microsoft wouldn't allow it, it might threaten their control.
97%? I seriously doubt if 97% of computers are not only running Windows, but meet their other requirements.
I see a few problems with this theory, starting off with Mac users that "think different", something anathema to conservatives. GAMUG, the Gateway Area Macintosh Users Group, has a large number of educators and retirees, some of the latter retired teachers. While the subject of politics doesn't come up there much, I've not met any Bush supporters in the group.
And that's the whole reason the format changes, to encourage upgrades and break third party support. They want everyone to buy it and buy a new version every 2 years.
Myself, I'll stick with AppleWorks and its imperfect importing and exporting capabilities. I just need it to export my resume to Word format from time to time for the HR departments that only want Word formatted documents, and the one or two outside Word documents I have to open per year.
This sounds like a generic troll, so I should ignore this, but in case it's not..
My iMac DV(G3/400) from fall of '99 can copy a 20 MB file in about 2-3 seconds, going from one partition to another. Moving to another folder on the same partition is instant. Safari doesn't halt, and iTunes 4 doesn't skip. SimpleText is an OS 8-9 program, not OS X, though you may be thinking of TextEdit. I did update to a 45GB 7200 rpm hard drive years ago, and now have 320MB memory, both being plenty for my home needs.
Reasons to choose Mac? It has less to do with hardware performance and more to do with reliability, user interface, and the whole user experience. While I'd like a newer faster Mac, I don't need one, let alone some high performance PC that acts up and is vulnerable to viruses and spyware.(like the Russian porn ads that keep popping up on my brother's Win98 machine) I find the general user interface of the various versions of Windows to be nonintuitive and unpleasant, IMHO, and can't wait to finish using them and get back to my Mac. I wouldn't mind trying to use Linux sometime, but I don't have any sort of spare computer around to try it on, and I've been slowly picking up a few Unix commands to use with OS X's Terminal.
Of course, Sony ended up buying Virtual Game Station from Connectix, and burying it in the desert or something. They certainly never made it available for sale. Could be what MS is doing, too.
I mean, if their monopoly power and deep pockets and hordes of lawyers don't stop an opposing product, it might actually have to succeed on it's MERITS! MS always wants to avoid that at all costs.
I'm 32 now, but I was required to turn in all assignments in the 4th grade in cursive. As soon as 4th grade was over, I stopped, as it took me 3-4 times longer to write in cursive than in plain text. My signature is all that remains, and I'd have to think long and hard about how to write in script using letters that aren't in my name.
It was two more years before we got the TI 99/4A at home, so they can't blame the computer for me.
One feature that I've not seen elsewhere is the SnapBack button that instantly takes you back to the last place you used a Bookmark to get to. It also works within the integrated Google search feature to always take you back to the search results, no matter how far you dug down through them. It's also the only browser I've used besides OmniWeb with spell checking, very useful for online forums. It also keeps bookmarks on a seperate screen with folders, resembling the playlists in iTunes or the photo albums in iPhoto. I think it's easier to keep organized that way than with a long list of bookmarks under the Bookmarks pulldown menu. I always wince when I see the chaotic mess that's my father's bookmark list in iCab. Oh, and the only browser I've used with decent auto-fill since IE 5-Mac.
I meant that I could do those before with iTunes 3 and its lack of DRM. The new change to iTunes 4 really has no practical effect on me, since I can't stream at 128 kpbs without rebuffering every 20 seconds, and I have the fastest Internet connection among my close friends and relatives.
Well, perhaps not VERY simple. But I'm sure that requiring authorization for all streaming wouldn't be a huge undertaking. I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up in iTunes 4.02 in a few weeks.
I think you're overreacting slightly. About the only things I can't do now that I might have done before is put newly purchased songs on my iDisk for friends and relatives to download and listen to, since few of them are using MacOS X 10.2 or later, therefore few can use iTunes 4. I can't put them on the net with LimeWire, either, but I never did that with music from my own CD's, anyway.
Since most CD's I've bought or received lately just get ripped to my hard drive and put away, the iTMS saves me a step, a trip to the store, and sales tax. My older iMac DV with iSub subwoofer has the best sound quality of any device I own, and my 5 GB iPod lets me take most of my music with me. The FM Transmitter I bought for it lets me use it with car radios and such, and let me DJ a long road trip a week and a half ago.
The Mac users are commenting, but they're doing so on the Mac specific forums first, THEN going to general forums like Slashdot. Later, I may check and see if Fark.com is talking about it as well, you never know with them.
Your post was about 3 or 4 minutes after I heard the story on MacCentral.
Good point, the limitation already applies to music purchased from the iTMS. Making it apply to the rest of the library would be a simple matter.
Personally, I suspect the labels themselves pressured Apple to make this change. There's probably a lot more people capturing songs from RealPlayer, WMP, various online radio stations, and so forth, than from iTunes. The main advantage of iTunes sharing is that the remote system can choose exactly which songs to listen to.
Now, my own DSL connection proved to be too slow at uploading to stream anything faster than 96 kbps without rebuffering, which is both annoying and makes it quite unsuitable for piracy, since a relatively small percentage of my collection is that low in bitrate. So it was an interesting trick, but not a useful one to me. I went ahead and got the new version, though if it sounds better, I can't tell the difference with these ears.
Gollum, malnourished? Not really, he just looks like that because he makes Yoda look like a young pup. "When 2000 years old you reach, my precious, look as good you will not!"
Not true, I'm a huge Babylon 5 fan, but if it weren't for some interesting looking Anime Music Videos I found via LimeWire, I wouldn't know a thing about Evangelion. That redhead Asuka is a cute little spitfire, though..;-)
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LOL! This would be the day I don't have Mod points.
As it is, that response would probably save everyone a lot of time and money.
""everyone" being the couple thousand who read the article on Slashdot and cared enough to do it?"
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Well, that was about 4 or 5 years before I started reading
One difference is that I had all of the above already, because that's what I chose to use. Well, it was iTunes 3 before the iTMS came out, of course. And the DRM limitations have absolutely no effect on my music listening habits. Well, I can't put iTMS purchases music on my iDisk for anyone to download, unless I want to give that person one of my three authorizations. But I very rarely did anything like that anyway.
Oh, you left one requirement out. QuickTime 6.3, released the same day as iTunes 4, should be on your list.
Actually, it probably has to do more with legal problems than programming ones. Last I heard, not all of the Big 5 labels have signed on for the Windows version of the iTMS. They're probably concerned about security under Windows, and perhaps higher piracy rates per user than with Mac users.
I thought that when Active X came out, everyone was going into IE preferences and disabling it for security reasons. I don't think I've ever been to a site that used Active X, though since I don't even have IE installed anymore, it would be kind of hard to check for it.
More like, if you don't use all Microsoft products, you tend to think for yourself and are a hard sell. We'll stick to the easy targets. ;-)
"BuyMusic founder Scott Blum called Apple CEO Steve Jobs "a visionary, but he's on the wrong platform." While Apple users constitute about 3 percent of the personal computer market, BuyMusic is targeting the 97 percent of people with PCs. "
It's not like you can be a visionary on the Windows platform anyway. Microsoft wouldn't allow it, it might threaten their control.
97%? I seriously doubt if 97% of computers are not only running Windows, but meet their other requirements.
I see a few problems with this theory, starting off with Mac users that "think different", something anathema to conservatives. GAMUG, the Gateway Area Macintosh Users Group, has a large number of educators and retirees, some of the latter retired teachers. While the subject of politics doesn't come up there much, I've not met any Bush supporters in the group.
You think this is bad, just wait until "F/A-18 Hornet: Operation Iraqi Freedom" ships. Actually, I heard that the Windows version just shipped.
Some of us have joked that there won't be any air-to-air combat in in.
And that's the whole reason the format changes, to encourage upgrades and break third party support. They want everyone to buy it and buy a new version every 2 years.
Myself, I'll stick with AppleWorks and its imperfect importing and exporting capabilities. I just need it to export my resume to Word format from time to time for the HR departments that only want Word formatted documents, and the one or two outside Word documents I have to open per year.
This sounds like a generic troll, so I should ignore this, but in case it's not..
My iMac DV(G3/400) from fall of '99 can copy a 20 MB file in about 2-3 seconds, going from one partition to another. Moving to another folder on the same partition is instant. Safari doesn't halt, and iTunes 4 doesn't skip. SimpleText is an OS 8-9 program, not OS X, though you may be thinking of TextEdit. I did update to a 45GB 7200 rpm hard drive years ago, and now have 320MB memory, both being plenty for my home needs.
Reasons to choose Mac? It has less to do with hardware performance and more to do with reliability, user interface, and the whole user experience. While I'd like a newer faster Mac, I don't need one, let alone some high performance PC that acts up and is vulnerable to viruses and spyware.(like the Russian porn ads that keep popping up on my brother's Win98 machine) I find the general user interface of the various versions of Windows to be nonintuitive and unpleasant, IMHO, and can't wait to finish using them and get back to my Mac. I wouldn't mind trying to use Linux sometime, but I don't have any sort of spare computer around to try it on, and I've been slowly picking up a few Unix commands to use with OS X's Terminal.
I could go on, but that's enough for now.
Actually, it was 800k and 1.4MB on Mac floppies, and 720k and 1.44MB on PC 3.5" floppies. Not that I've used a floppy in about 5 years.
Of course, Sony ended up buying Virtual Game Station from Connectix, and burying it in the desert or something. They certainly never made it available for sale. Could be what MS is doing, too.
I mean, if their monopoly power and deep pockets and hordes of lawyers don't stop an opposing product, it might actually have to succeed on it's MERITS! MS always wants to avoid that at all costs.
In college, just the minimum algerbra and trig classes just to get by. Never took calculus.
My father kept trying to teach me to use a slide rule as a kid, but since I've still not taken the required math classes to make use of one...
I'm 32 now, but I was required to turn in all assignments in the 4th grade in cursive. As soon as 4th grade was over, I stopped, as it took me 3-4 times longer to write in cursive than in plain text. My signature is all that remains, and I'd have to think long and hard about how to write in script using letters that aren't in my name.
It was two more years before we got the TI 99/4A at home, so they can't blame the computer for me.
One feature that I've not seen elsewhere is the SnapBack button that instantly takes you back to the last place you used a Bookmark to get to. It also works within the integrated Google search feature to always take you back to the search results, no matter how far you dug down through them. It's also the only browser I've used besides OmniWeb with spell checking, very useful for online forums. It also keeps bookmarks on a seperate screen with folders, resembling the playlists in iTunes or the photo albums in iPhoto. I think it's easier to keep organized that way than with a long list of bookmarks under the Bookmarks pulldown menu. I always wince when I see the chaotic mess that's my father's bookmark list in iCab. Oh, and the only browser I've used with decent auto-fill since IE 5-Mac.
I meant that I could do those before with iTunes 3 and its lack of DRM. The new change to iTunes 4 really has no practical effect on me, since I can't stream at 128 kpbs without rebuffering every 20 seconds, and I have the fastest Internet connection among my close friends and relatives.
Well, perhaps not VERY simple. But I'm sure that requiring authorization for all streaming wouldn't be a huge undertaking. I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up in iTunes 4.02 in a few weeks.
I think you're overreacting slightly. About the only things I can't do now that I might have done before is put newly purchased songs on my iDisk for friends and relatives to download and listen to, since few of them are using MacOS X 10.2 or later, therefore few can use iTunes 4. I can't put them on the net with LimeWire, either, but I never did that with music from my own CD's, anyway.
Since most CD's I've bought or received lately just get ripped to my hard drive and put away, the iTMS saves me a step, a trip to the store, and sales tax. My older iMac DV with iSub subwoofer has the best sound quality of any device I own, and my 5 GB iPod lets me take most of my music with me. The FM Transmitter I bought for it lets me use it with car radios and such, and let me DJ a long road trip a week and a half ago.
The Mac users are commenting, but they're doing so on the Mac specific forums first, THEN going to general forums like Slashdot. Later, I may check and see if Fark.com is talking about it as well, you never know with them.
Your post was about 3 or 4 minutes after I heard the story on MacCentral.
Good point, the limitation already applies to music purchased from the iTMS. Making it apply to the rest of the library would be a simple matter.
Personally, I suspect the labels themselves pressured Apple to make this change. There's probably a lot more people capturing songs from RealPlayer, WMP, various online radio stations, and so forth, than from iTunes. The main advantage of iTunes sharing is that the remote system can choose exactly which songs to listen to.
Now, my own DSL connection proved to be too slow at uploading to stream anything faster than 96 kbps without rebuffering, which is both annoying and makes it quite unsuitable for piracy, since a relatively small percentage of my collection is that low in bitrate. So it was an interesting trick, but not a useful one to me. I went ahead and got the new version, though if it sounds better, I can't tell the difference with these ears.
Gollum, malnourished? Not really, he just looks like that because he makes Yoda look like a young pup. "When 2000 years old you reach, my precious, look as good you will not!"
Not true, I'm a huge Babylon 5 fan, but if it weren't for some interesting looking Anime Music Videos I found via LimeWire, I wouldn't know a thing about Evangelion. That redhead Asuka is a cute little spitfire, though.. ;-)