You are correct. iDVD is NOT a *free* program to just give to everyone. iDVD is part of the SuperDrive package. If you do not purchase an Apple SuperDrive, then you do not have rights to iDVD.
You can purchase an internal SuperDrive after the fact form Apple to put in your Tower, and guess what, you get iDVD.
OWC was freely distributing Apple's software, which was NOT free.
On top of that, Apple must pay a licensing fee for every DVD encoder it ships. If Apple didn't bundle iDVD with the SuperDrive, but just gave it away freely, they would have to pay a licensing fee (you wouldn't, they would) for every copy shipped/downloaded. Imagine, they sold 20,000 SuperDrives, but 50,000 copies of iDVD were distributed? They'd be paying for other people *free* access to encoding DVD's.
If you want to hack, hack. If you want to encode DVD's without proper authorization, encode. But wehy do you expect Apple to pay for you to do this?
Jeesh...
Salon doesn't say anything. SOmeone who was trying to use her new Mac like a Windows machine says it.
If you read the article again, you can plainly see that she is basicxally complaining that it is different from what she is used to.
Macs running OS X are incredibly "compatible". You can run OS X, OS 9, XDarwin, Linux, and (with Virtual PC) Windows 95, 98, 2000, & XP on on the same machine -- often at the same time!
You'll note that she complains that there are no floppies (which is like complaining that 8Tracks are dead). There is only a one-button mouse (without mentioning that not only do Macs support third-party multi-button mice out of the box (just plug it in, but they support both "Press" & CTRL+Click instead of right-click. On top of it, she actually complains that AppleWorks gives her too many export options...!
Where in the world did Salon get this person? There is obviously something wrong. I have been using OS X since it first came out, and am at 10.1.5 right now, and I have NEVER received an error message with some arcane code. WHy is she constantly using Disk Utility? Why doesn't she just email her obvioulsy small files, or use a CD-RW with simple drag+drop updating? She is obvioulsy looking for the hard answers to rather simple questions (because that is what she's used to).
I can remember when I first switched to a Mac, I was not only surprised, but I also found it unbelievable ("Really, that's all I have to do? Are you sure?"), that installing most apps was a matter of dropping their icon into your Applications folder. EVen more incredulous was deleting was a simple drag and drop app icon to Trash. No install / uninstall. No restarting, no icons all over my desktop, Apple Menu, or Menu Bar.
Granted, I can see a new user having a few difficulties, but her example is truly preposterous and almost "too good to be true" considering salon.com is owned by MicroSoft.
I use Windows & a *Nix box all day at work because I have to, but at home I use a Mac/*Nix box because it is actally enjoyable. Although the PCU's might be behind in their MHz, it is really the simple attention to detail and quest for the most rational , consistent, and easiest way to get thigns done without much tinkering that makes up for the speed difference.
Also, since I've been running OS X, I have had a total of one (1) kernel panic - which was entirely my fault.
Although USB 2.0 may be 480 vs FireWires 400 MB/sec, there are other beneifts to FireWire (other than FireWire 2, at 800 MB/sec, should be out and about this year) like:
1. You don't need a computer to use FireWire. One FireWire device can connect directly to another FireWire device without a workstation. Although we don't see much implementation of this - it would be conventient. How about a FireWire port on my car stereo to connect my iPod?
2. FireWire can carry POWER as well as data. WHen you plug an iPod in with it's FireWire cable, it charges as well as trasmits data through the same cable. In fact, if you should need to recharge away from your computer, the usual AC plug for recharging is a FireWire cable.
I do think that Apple fucked up when they made licensing the name so expensive. Instead of one name "FireWire" everywhere you go, you see FireWire on Apple's, iLink on Sony computers and cameras,...etc. With all these different names, nobody realizes how pervasive it is. SOme PC users don't even know they have FireWire, and most Mac users don't know they have "1394".
blue& white G3 towers are old. you can boot with newer systems. perhaps booting from firewire devices wasn't even supported on these systems and wasn't implemented until a newer release.
Don't waste your time on this pathetic & unimaginitive piece of trash someone called a movie.
I think I laughed all of once. The humour is mundane and boring, the acting and plot wooden, and the "surprise" ending isn't even good enough for a *bad* Twilight Zone.
PS: Minority Report is HIGHLY overrated, as well. Yet another example of Steven Spielberg's saturday-morning-cartoon version of cinema.
The problem is that it ISN'T the same time everywhere in the world. Certainly we have set up a system to determine approx daylihgt and nighttime hours based upon a twenty-four hour clock. And people are active at all times during this twenty four hours, but the FACT is, the earth rotates on its axis. As it does, some of the earth is exposed to the sun's rays, while others lose exposure. It takes the earth 24 hours and 11minutes to do this (right now...). The purpose of the clock is to mark THIS passage, not when we get up for work or eat dinner!!!!
I don't know if anyone remembers a rather funny cartoon that won an award on swatch.com when they came out with.beats. Essentially, this cartoon guy lived his life on.beats. Hey dude! Kewl! The problem was, IT WAS THE SAME TIME ALL OVER THE EARTH. SO he was calling people at @210, and saying "Good Morning!" even though someone else was going to bed, another was leaving work, and another was having lunch.
The existing system actually makes sense because it is actually keyed to a natural physical phenomenon -- hte rotation of the earth. On top of that, you can adop the current GMT system, and then it is the same time all over the world, with a + or - for your location.
"Good morning!'
If you're running an Apple, 10.2 (coming at end of summer) will support auto-detection and connection with a $100 AirPort card and built-in Rendevous networking software...
But then again, Apple is evil...
I *need* my trailers as much as you *need* your Linux.
Linus might be good for those that actually like to tinker with the engine, but what of those that just want to drive the damned thing without hassles. I think Apple is oeffering a specific servie to a specific crowd. Just becasue it isn't your crowd, doesn't mean their evil, it just means you're even more elitist than Apple is accused of being...
ANd yet, everyone always says that Mac's are expensive.
They seem expensive at first glance. But when you look at the specs, they are really competively priced. They may be slightly higher in price than a comparable Wintel machine, but expensive...?
Not to mention, if these babies are going to be available through resellers, it gives them an opportunity to run "specials" to attract buyers -- Get an extra 128MB RAM free,... all that crap. If Apple preloaded it with 256MB then it would offer then no opportunity for upgrade profits (they are a business), plus the resellers wouldn;t like it either. Everyone would just buy straight from Apple (I think...?).
I think that a lot of rumours may be coming from Apple's work on the new and improved Sherlock. Although Sherlock is quite similar to Watson (correct me if I'm wrong, but Keralia is making use of OS X's built in handling of XML, did anyone really not expect aApple to take advatage of OS X's built in XML, AppleScript, and Services...?
If you check out the pictures, video, and decsriptions of the new Sherlock, it is basically a Web Broswer with special interfaces (Channels) for what you are trying to look at on the internet (just as Watson does).
With Sherlock's Indexing/Find features moving into The Finder, Sherlock is basically becoming an Internet search & find tool. Instead of going to a browser for movie times, TV times, maps, news, you go to a specialized channel of Shelock, and voila!
I thought it was pretty cool how doing a phone number look-up for a listed business or residence could also display a map in another pane.
Question is (as anyone who has used Watson will know) if it filters out ads and accesses information from someone else's site and presents it in a new format (1) Aren't the advertisers going to worry about whether or not someone actually saw their banner (2) Aren't the websites going to be a little PO'd about their info being highjacked. Unless of course Apple is going to form agreements with the affected websites (unlike Watson).
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You are correct. iDVD is NOT a *free* program to just give to everyone. iDVD is part of the SuperDrive package. If you do not purchase an Apple SuperDrive, then you do not have rights to iDVD. You can purchase an internal SuperDrive after the fact form Apple to put in your Tower, and guess what, you get iDVD. OWC was freely distributing Apple's software, which was NOT free. On top of that, Apple must pay a licensing fee for every DVD encoder it ships. If Apple didn't bundle iDVD with the SuperDrive, but just gave it away freely, they would have to pay a licensing fee (you wouldn't, they would) for every copy shipped/downloaded. Imagine, they sold 20,000 SuperDrives, but 50,000 copies of iDVD were distributed? They'd be paying for other people *free* access to encoding DVD's. If you want to hack, hack. If you want to encode DVD's without proper authorization, encode. But wehy do you expect Apple to pay for you to do this? Jeesh...
Salon doesn't say anything. SOmeone who was trying to use her new Mac like a Windows machine says it.
If you read the article again, you can plainly see that she is basicxally complaining that it is different from what she is used to.
Macs running OS X are incredibly "compatible". You can run OS X, OS 9, XDarwin, Linux, and (with Virtual PC) Windows 95, 98, 2000, & XP on on the same machine -- often at the same time!
You'll note that she complains that there are no floppies (which is like complaining that 8Tracks are dead). There is only a one-button mouse (without mentioning that not only do Macs support third-party multi-button mice out of the box (just plug it in, but they support both "Press" & CTRL+Click instead of right-click. On top of it, she actually complains that AppleWorks gives her too many export options...!
Where in the world did Salon get this person? There is obviously something wrong. I have been using OS X since it first came out, and am at 10.1.5 right now, and I have NEVER received an error message with some arcane code. WHy is she constantly using Disk Utility? Why doesn't she just email her obvioulsy small files, or use a CD-RW with simple drag+drop updating? She is obvioulsy looking for the hard answers to rather simple questions (because that is what she's used to).
I can remember when I first switched to a Mac, I was not only surprised, but I also found it unbelievable ("Really, that's all I have to do? Are you sure?"), that installing most apps was a matter of dropping their icon into your Applications folder. EVen more incredulous was deleting was a simple drag and drop app icon to Trash. No install / uninstall. No restarting, no icons all over my desktop, Apple Menu, or Menu Bar.
Granted, I can see a new user having a few difficulties, but her example is truly preposterous and almost "too good to be true" considering salon.com is owned by MicroSoft.
I use Windows & a *Nix box all day at work because I have to, but at home I use a Mac/*Nix box because it is actally enjoyable. Although the PCU's might be behind in their MHz, it is really the simple attention to detail and quest for the most rational , consistent, and easiest way to get thigns done without much tinkering that makes up for the speed difference.
Also, since I've been running OS X, I have had a total of one (1) kernel panic - which was entirely my fault.
Although USB 2.0 may be 480 vs FireWires 400 MB/sec, there are other beneifts to FireWire (other than FireWire 2, at 800 MB/sec, should be out and about this year) like: 1. You don't need a computer to use FireWire. One FireWire device can connect directly to another FireWire device without a workstation. Although we don't see much implementation of this - it would be conventient. How about a FireWire port on my car stereo to connect my iPod? 2. FireWire can carry POWER as well as data. WHen you plug an iPod in with it's FireWire cable, it charges as well as trasmits data through the same cable. In fact, if you should need to recharge away from your computer, the usual AC plug for recharging is a FireWire cable. I do think that Apple fucked up when they made licensing the name so expensive. Instead of one name "FireWire" everywhere you go, you see FireWire on Apple's, iLink on Sony computers and cameras,...etc. With all these different names, nobody realizes how pervasive it is. SOme PC users don't even know they have FireWire, and most Mac users don't know they have "1394".
blue& white G3 towers are old. you can boot with newer systems. perhaps booting from firewire devices wasn't even supported on these systems and wasn't implemented until a newer release.
Dumb people think they're smart, but smart people know better.
Much to most everyone's surprise, it seems, is that Brazil is not a sci-fi movie, at all. It doesn't even take place in the future.
It is/was a satire of our *current* bureacratic times. That's why there were so many "old" things.
It is strange that everyone thinks of Brazil as sci-fi when there is nothing sci-fi about it. It's just a *very* cheeky fantasy/satire.
Don't waste your time on this pathetic & unimaginitive piece of trash someone called a movie.
I think I laughed all of once. The humour is mundane and boring, the acting and plot wooden, and the "surprise" ending isn't even good enough for a *bad* Twilight Zone.
PS: Minority Report is HIGHLY overrated, as well. Yet another example of Steven Spielberg's saturday-morning-cartoon version of cinema.
The problem is that it ISN'T the same time everywhere in the world. Certainly we have set up a system to determine approx daylihgt and nighttime hours based upon a twenty-four hour clock. And people are active at all times during this twenty four hours, but the FACT is, the earth rotates on its axis. As it does, some of the earth is exposed to the sun's rays, while others lose exposure. It takes the earth 24 hours and 11minutes to do this (right now...). The purpose of the clock is to mark THIS passage, not when we get up for work or eat dinner!!!! I don't know if anyone remembers a rather funny cartoon that won an award on swatch.com when they came out with .beats. Essentially, this cartoon guy lived his life on .beats. Hey dude! Kewl! The problem was, IT WAS THE SAME TIME ALL OVER THE EARTH. SO he was calling people at @210, and saying "Good Morning!" even though someone else was going to bed, another was leaving work, and another was having lunch.
The existing system actually makes sense because it is actually keyed to a natural physical phenomenon -- hte rotation of the earth. On top of that, you can adop the current GMT system, and then it is the same time all over the world, with a + or - for your location.
"Good morning!'
If you're running an Apple, 10.2 (coming at end of summer) will support auto-detection and connection with a $100 AirPort card and built-in Rendevous networking software... But then again, Apple is evil...
I *need* my trailers as much as you *need* your Linux. Linus might be good for those that actually like to tinker with the engine, but what of those that just want to drive the damned thing without hassles. I think Apple is oeffering a specific servie to a specific crowd. Just becasue it isn't your crowd, doesn't mean their evil, it just means you're even more elitist than Apple is accused of being...
ANd yet, everyone always says that Mac's are expensive.
They seem expensive at first glance. But when you look at the specs, they are really competively priced. They may be slightly higher in price than a comparable Wintel machine, but expensive...?
Not to mention, if these babies are going to be available through resellers, it gives them an opportunity to run "specials" to attract buyers -- Get an extra 128MB RAM free,... all that crap. If Apple preloaded it with 256MB then it would offer then no opportunity for upgrade profits (they are a business), plus the resellers wouldn;t like it either. Everyone would just buy straight from Apple (I think...?).
I think that a lot of rumours may be coming from Apple's work on the new and improved Sherlock. Although Sherlock is quite similar to Watson (correct me if I'm wrong, but Keralia is making use of OS X's built in handling of XML, did anyone really not expect aApple to take advatage of OS X's built in XML, AppleScript, and Services...? If you check out the pictures, video, and decsriptions of the new Sherlock, it is basically a Web Broswer with special interfaces (Channels) for what you are trying to look at on the internet (just as Watson does). With Sherlock's Indexing/Find features moving into The Finder, Sherlock is basically becoming an Internet search & find tool. Instead of going to a browser for movie times, TV times, maps, news, you go to a specialized channel of Shelock, and voila! I thought it was pretty cool how doing a phone number look-up for a listed business or residence could also display a map in another pane. Question is (as anyone who has used Watson will know) if it filters out ads and accesses information from someone else's site and presents it in a new format (1) Aren't the advertisers going to worry about whether or not someone actually saw their banner (2) Aren't the websites going to be a little PO'd about their info being highjacked. Unless of course Apple is going to form agreements with the affected websites (unlike Watson).