Wrong. Part of the license agreement is not that you are "buying" the song, you're licensing the right to listen to the song. just so happens that you are limited to listening to it on 3 (or is it 5) computers, 10 (same playlist) cd's, or an unlimited number of ipods (that you own). i personally think that the itms license is pretty fair, as are the prices. but you AGREED to that license.. either fight it in court or go with it.
Seconded. I switched to Debian Linux and ran it for the past 5 years. I got sick of things just not working easily when i needed it to. just random things and the horrible user experience in X. I then switched to a powerbook 1.33ghz almost a year ago and haven't looked back. Seriously considering getting a PowerMac when the next updates come out to use as my main computer and only use my windows machine as a game machine.
You'll still get a lot of functionality out of it. dashboard, spotlight, automator, etc. some of the eye candy might not be so hot. but you'll still get the funtionality.
you also need to know what video card you have, the ATI 9200 is not supported by coreimage or corevideo. as such, they will be scaled down and run in the CPU rather than the graphics chip. it'll still function though.
Unfortunately the only way to give them the finger is as you suggest, encrypt the traffic or don't use aim...
a 3rd party client will only allow you to encrypt the traffic... i'm sure this is what you meant but a lot of comments seem to think that just by using a third party client they are immune to this.. you are not.. you agreed to the TOS when you created the account, as such, no matter what client you use you agreed to them when creating the account.
like i said, i think you understood this but for others who are wondering that is what is really meant.
Searches pretty quick on their website... seems like it's the only real thing missing, obviously you could turn it off or if you aren't using a gmail account it simply wouldn't query gmail at all. but it does seem like it would be a good thing to have, they can finally search picasa which i had speculated they would do. everyone wondered how picasa fit into their scale of things. you have music with ID3 tags, you have text documents with.. text... etc etc.. but how do you search images? you need to tag them and provide info about them.. picasa does that. now i wonder where the gmail support is.
and in response to the use the pop mail feature, ya i know that works. but at the same time i'm doubting it would be all that hard to query gmail. at least have a simple button that says "Search my GMail account" or something after you've searched.
well obviously i'd hope they would only search your mail through the desktop search, if you were to "read" any email from google it would then log you in and when the message is loaded do what it normally does.. seems like it would be a good feature to have.
that's all compressed. so if by that you mean 8mb of compressed IE rendering dll.. blah blah blah, you'd still be wrong, but at least it might be a bit funny.
IE is built into windows.. which would mean that the IE end of things wouldn't even have to be added to the overall size, other than a bit of code to load the engine, tell it to render pages, etc.. it's trivial to use the IE rendering engine, same as you would with webkit (safari's rendering engine based on khtml). Really is just a few lines of code.
Just because it doesn't work now doesn't mean it won't in the future. You have to start somewhere. The reason everything has become divided on this front is probably due to there not being a good standard to rely on. Now that we have that maybe it can be implemented on those apps that most people use. So hold your judgement until you see what happens in the future.
I ordered mine 2 days ago. they said my first issue will be shipped shortly. meaning that the first issue is likely what you would get.. unless you order within a week or so of the second issue coming out then that might be the one you get first.. just a guess, but call to make sure
I grew up a bit late for that kinda stuff.. born in 1982 meant not being able to experience that kind of thing. I jumped on this magazine when i seen it was being published. I absolutely cannot wait to get this in my hands. I'm tempted to run to the nearest store to see if they're carrying it. I put my subscription in but i am in dire need of some projects to do, something different, something new. Programming is great but I want something new to do. I come here hoping to hear stories about people talking about the fun things they did when they tried projects like you said. I used to watch TechTV all the time, ya i know blah blah blah, but now there's only one show i watch on there and it's called Icons. It brings me back to the days of NES, and the Tandy 1000, the old computers and the old computer games i used to play. WHen games were FUN and inventive. All games are these days are pretty garbage. I care barely play them (i'm 22) without putting the mouse or controller down after an hour because the learning curve or the entertainment value is so limited. I want my old Lucas Arts adventure games back, I want my old Mario titles back, I want all those fun crappy graphics games back that had great stories and easy controls and fun game play. It's similar to what you feel about making your own things. It's a nasalgia feeling, and i love it.
Uhm.. the only problem I see with this is that Microsoft has stated that people should use something OTHER than IE due to it's security risks. Or was that an April Fools joke? In which case I'm doubting that Microsoft could claim their little browser was being cheated on by that slutty little FireFox browser.
I never said it was "ignorable" I simple stated that it's still got a really small market share as opposed to IE. Yes, FireFox has probably put a dent in the market share of IE, BUT it isn't big enough to make huge changes. Also if you take a look at W3Schools user's (as mentioned in another reply to your comment) you'll see they're technically inclined people, they aren't your average joe computer user. In which case those people will be using IE because well, it came with windows so it has to be the best. If PC manufacturers start putting FireFox out there on their shipped machines then you'll see a lot bigger growth.
BTW, common error to think one site's demographics are the whole of the universe. Ponder your mistake before you make YOUR claims.
i never mentioned money at all in my post. It isn't about money on the specific browser or the spyware. It's keep windows customers, which means $$$. If they don't use IE that's one less graple to stay with Windows. If they don't use Office, that's yet another reason they wouldn't HAVE to use Windows. In the end it is money but by giving things free, like the spyware product and IE, they are trying to keep customers. Since no one in their right mind would really WANT to stick with Windows, there just isn't a real great alternative. By alternative i mean stable, secure, choice applications (office, cad, etc), and gaming. Some do bits and pieces, but none of them do them all. Some of that might not be as important to you, while some might be to others. It depends on your situation and usage habits.
The problem is that IE still dominates the market. Firefox might be gaining ground but it's still pretty small. It is a threat but.. not a real big one at this point. That doesn't mean it won't be a big threat, but I see this IE release as a way of trying to cut back on that threat a bit. Will it work? That really is the question.
What i'd like to see are PC maker's bundling firefox on their machines. THAT would make a big dent in IE usage.
Separate it? haha... that'd be stupid. they make more money on leaving it in than they would by taking it out. Even with the lawsuits, it isn't going to make a difference, they'll still make more money by leaving it in. They really have no reason to take it out
This is disappointing because we all know microsoft won't fill the giant security hole that is active x. Sure they have a "popup blocker" and this beta will have "tabs." But will it actually follow the W3C standards or is it going to be as hard to work with as IE6? I mean we KNOW they won't clean the issues up because they're releasing their own Anti-Spyware application. So really, what's the point?
i will point out audible.com and mention that i tend to read and follow along with audiobooks... it helps a lot in understanding.. at least for me. however i am pretty normal for the most part:-P but if you are mentally candicapped does this not give free access to audiobooks as well? i know a friend whose husband gets free audiobooks because he is blind... the state provides them. does the same apply here?
discussing it with the developers is probably step one since i don't even understand exactly what would go into making it look better.. however i do know it is possible..;) hence the reason i didn't give further details than looking into doing so. i'm kind of doubting there's many people working on it probably just a couple main developers. it isn't as big of a project (popularitywise) compared to firefox or thunderbird. so definitely look into getting into it early and make your stance known.
You seem to be a big proponent of recreating the wheel. see iCal is pretty sweet for calendaring and _individuals_ plans. it isn't great for collaborative calendaring but i lays a good groundwork for it, it's possible to make iCal a lot better, but the groundwork is there.
sunbird uses the same thing, why fix something that isn't broke? besides the best part of this is, you can export your iCal calendar and load it into Sunbird and it does the exact same thing. it coexists with iCal, unlike Outlook which obviously wants to remain closed and unopen to any outside influence.
it might look ugly but that's easy to fix after the functionality is built in big guy. why not get something working first, then make it pretty? if you're so upset about the ugliness, why not commission someone to go in and make it prettier? or do it yourself. there's only so many people working on it, so why not contribute instead of bitch?
well when steve went back to apple.. not particularly that simple.. next was bought by apple and they put steve back in his old position and used nextstep for os x... if i recall correctly... there's a book that has all this info in it.. i've been meaning to buy it
ok try this... you're a computer literate individual... kids can learn to use anything really quickly if they're introduced to it early. i for one have had no problem with two button mice since i grew up with two button mice. however my mother and father have difficulty... why? because they didn't grow up with it and they aren't computer literate like you and i. learning new things, specifically technology things is difficult for older people.
you are a minority my friend. sure people can "use" a computer, but not all of them understand things at the same level you and i do. with that said apple has done numerous usability studies i'm sure and they continually come back stating that a one button mouse is easier to understand for people.
it also reduces clutter. if you have to use 1 mouse button you are limited to putting important stuff in front of the user and then placing the lessor items in menus, usually in a menu bar not in the right click button. look at the right click menu for any windows app.. it's ridiculous.
also look at keyboard shortcuts, sorry but i feel the keyboard shortcuts are freakin awesome in os x. you can accomplish tasks faster if you know those shortcuts than clicking and clicking all over to find this menu item.
i have used windows pc's all my life.. since i was little.. started with windows 3.0, moved up to 3.1, and then 3.11. onward to windows 95, 98, me, 2000, and now XP. i learned as things have changed. i had never used an OS X machine until i bought my powerbook. now that i have it, i barely want to use my windows PC. it's that simple. it works how i work. you might find that your way of working fits fine with windows, that's your choice that's just how you work. others will find that a mac works great for them. choice is good, you all seem to forget this.
weird.. my 1.33ghz G4.. revision C powerbook.. battery lasts for 3 hours and 45 minutes with the screen dimmed to 1 notch (still pretty darn readable though not the greatest), with airport on, and bluetooth off.. reduced power in the energy settings. i also run it in reduced power even on a plug to keep temp down (unless i am encoding video, in which case i will change the setting to highest)... it's the most wonderful laptop i have ever used, it was between this or a ibm thinkpad.. glad i chose the powerbook.
however i don't think you'll see a typical G5 in the powerbook.. unless ibm has done massive redesigns on this.. i'd say the dual core G4 is more of a better option.. but those won't be sampled until 3rd quarter.. probably available in mass either at the end of the 3rd quarter or beginning of the fourth.. just my guess. i say stick with the dual core G4.. it's not a bad processor at all and is great for mobile devices.
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Wrong. Part of the license agreement is not that you are "buying" the song, you're licensing the right to listen to the song. just so happens that you are limited to listening to it on 3 (or is it 5) computers, 10 (same playlist) cd's, or an unlimited number of ipods (that you own). i personally think that the itms license is pretty fair, as are the prices. but you AGREED to that license.. either fight it in court or go with it.
Seconded. I switched to Debian Linux and ran it for the past 5 years. I got sick of things just not working easily when i needed it to. just random things and the horrible user experience in X. I then switched to a powerbook 1.33ghz almost a year ago and haven't looked back. Seriously considering getting a PowerMac when the next updates come out to use as my main computer and only use my windows machine as a game machine.
You'll still get a lot of functionality out of it. dashboard, spotlight, automator, etc. some of the eye candy might not be so hot. but you'll still get the funtionality.
you also need to know what video card you have, the ATI 9200 is not supported by coreimage or corevideo. as such, they will be scaled down and run in the CPU rather than the graphics chip. it'll still function though.
Unfortunately the only way to give them the finger is as you suggest, encrypt the traffic or don't use aim...
a 3rd party client will only allow you to encrypt the traffic... i'm sure this is what you meant but a lot of comments seem to think that just by using a third party client they are immune to this.. you are not.. you agreed to the TOS when you created the account, as such, no matter what client you use you agreed to them when creating the account.
like i said, i think you understood this but for others who are wondering that is what is really meant.
Searches pretty quick on their website... seems like it's the only real thing missing, obviously you could turn it off or if you aren't using a gmail account it simply wouldn't query gmail at all. but it does seem like it would be a good thing to have, they can finally search picasa which i had speculated they would do. everyone wondered how picasa fit into their scale of things. you have music with ID3 tags, you have text documents with.. text... etc etc.. but how do you search images? you need to tag them and provide info about them.. picasa does that. now i wonder where the gmail support is.
and in response to the use the pop mail feature, ya i know that works. but at the same time i'm doubting it would be all that hard to query gmail. at least have a simple button that says "Search my GMail account" or something after you've searched.
well obviously i'd hope they would only search your mail through the desktop search, if you were to "read" any email from google it would then log you in and when the message is loaded do what it normally does.. seems like it would be a good feature to have.
Why doesn't it also search GMail? That would be a real benefit. Or does it already and i just don't see this listed anywhere?
Err.. CHOICE of format, CHOICE> of quality.. otherwise you nailed it.
that's all compressed. so if by that you mean 8mb of compressed IE rendering dll.. blah blah blah, you'd still be wrong, but at least it might be a bit funny.
IE is built into windows.. which would mean that the IE end of things wouldn't even have to be added to the overall size, other than a bit of code to load the engine, tell it to render pages, etc.. it's trivial to use the IE rendering engine, same as you would with webkit (safari's rendering engine based on khtml). Really is just a few lines of code.
Just because it doesn't work now doesn't mean it won't in the future. You have to start somewhere. The reason everything has become divided on this front is probably due to there not being a good standard to rely on. Now that we have that maybe it can be implemented on those apps that most people use. So hold your judgement until you see what happens in the future.
I ordered mine 2 days ago. they said my first issue will be shipped shortly. meaning that the first issue is likely what you would get.. unless you order within a week or so of the second issue coming out then that might be the one you get first.. just a guess, but call to make sure
I grew up a bit late for that kinda stuff.. born in 1982 meant not being able to experience that kind of thing. I jumped on this magazine when i seen it was being published. I absolutely cannot wait to get this in my hands. I'm tempted to run to the nearest store to see if they're carrying it. I put my subscription in but i am in dire need of some projects to do, something different, something new. Programming is great but I want something new to do. I come here hoping to hear stories about people talking about the fun things they did when they tried projects like you said. I used to watch TechTV all the time, ya i know blah blah blah, but now there's only one show i watch on there and it's called Icons. It brings me back to the days of NES, and the Tandy 1000, the old computers and the old computer games i used to play. WHen games were FUN and inventive. All games are these days are pretty garbage. I care barely play them (i'm 22) without putting the mouse or controller down after an hour because the learning curve or the entertainment value is so limited. I want my old Lucas Arts adventure games back, I want my old Mario titles back, I want all those fun crappy graphics games back that had great stories and easy controls and fun game play. It's similar to what you feel about making your own things. It's a nasalgia feeling, and i love it.
their parents instilled a sense of right and wrong in those children who don't go berserk and go on a rampage killling innocent people.
Uhm.. the only problem I see with this is that Microsoft has stated that people should use something OTHER than IE due to it's security risks. Or was that an April Fools joke? In which case I'm doubting that Microsoft could claim their little browser was being cheated on by that slutty little FireFox browser.
I never said it was "ignorable" I simple stated that it's still got a really small market share as opposed to IE. Yes, FireFox has probably put a dent in the market share of IE, BUT it isn't big enough to make huge changes. Also if you take a look at W3Schools user's (as mentioned in another reply to your comment) you'll see they're technically inclined people, they aren't your average joe computer user. In which case those people will be using IE because well, it came with windows so it has to be the best. If PC manufacturers start putting FireFox out there on their shipped machines then you'll see a lot bigger growth.
BTW, common error to think one site's demographics are the whole of the universe. Ponder your mistake before you make YOUR claims.
i never mentioned money at all in my post. It isn't about money on the specific browser or the spyware. It's keep windows customers, which means $$$. If they don't use IE that's one less graple to stay with Windows. If they don't use Office, that's yet another reason they wouldn't HAVE to use Windows. In the end it is money but by giving things free, like the spyware product and IE, they are trying to keep customers. Since no one in their right mind would really WANT to stick with Windows, there just isn't a real great alternative. By alternative i mean stable, secure, choice applications (office, cad, etc), and gaming. Some do bits and pieces, but none of them do them all. Some of that might not be as important to you, while some might be to others. It depends on your situation and usage habits.
But again, no money was mentioned in my post.
The problem is that IE still dominates the market. Firefox might be gaining ground but it's still pretty small. It is a threat but.. not a real big one at this point. That doesn't mean it won't be a big threat, but I see this IE release as a way of trying to cut back on that threat a bit. Will it work? That really is the question.
What i'd like to see are PC maker's bundling firefox on their machines. THAT would make a big dent in IE usage.
Separate it? haha... that'd be stupid. they make more money on leaving it in than they would by taking it out. Even with the lawsuits, it isn't going to make a difference, they'll still make more money by leaving it in. They really have no reason to take it out
This is disappointing because we all know microsoft won't fill the giant security hole that is active x. Sure they have a "popup blocker" and this beta will have "tabs." But will it actually follow the W3C standards or is it going to be as hard to work with as IE6? I mean we KNOW they won't clean the issues up because they're releasing their own Anti-Spyware application. So really, what's the point?
i will point out audible.com and mention that i tend to read and follow along with audiobooks... it helps a lot in understanding.. at least for me. however i am pretty normal for the most part :-P but if you are mentally candicapped does this not give free access to audiobooks as well? i know a friend whose husband gets free audiobooks because he is blind... the state provides them. does the same apply here?
discussing it with the developers is probably step one since i don't even understand exactly what would go into making it look better.. however i do know it is possible.. ;) hence the reason i didn't give further details than looking into doing so. i'm kind of doubting there's many people working on it probably just a couple main developers. it isn't as big of a project (popularitywise) compared to firefox or thunderbird. so definitely look into getting into it early and make your stance known.
You seem to be a big proponent of recreating the wheel. see iCal is pretty sweet for calendaring and _individuals_ plans. it isn't great for collaborative calendaring but i lays a good groundwork for it, it's possible to make iCal a lot better, but the groundwork is there.
sunbird uses the same thing, why fix something that isn't broke? besides the best part of this is, you can export your iCal calendar and load it into Sunbird and it does the exact same thing. it coexists with iCal, unlike Outlook which obviously wants to remain closed and unopen to any outside influence.
it might look ugly but that's easy to fix after the functionality is built in big guy. why not get something working first, then make it pretty? if you're so upset about the ugliness, why not commission someone to go in and make it prettier? or do it yourself. there's only so many people working on it, so why not contribute instead of bitch?
well when steve went back to apple.. not particularly that simple.. next was bought by apple and they put steve back in his old position and used nextstep for os x... if i recall correctly... there's a book that has all this info in it.. i've been meaning to buy it
ok try this... you're a computer literate individual... kids can learn to use anything really quickly if they're introduced to it early. i for one have had no problem with two button mice since i grew up with two button mice. however my mother and father have difficulty... why? because they didn't grow up with it and they aren't computer literate like you and i. learning new things, specifically technology things is difficult for older people.
you are a minority my friend. sure people can "use" a computer, but not all of them understand things at the same level you and i do. with that said apple has done numerous usability studies i'm sure and they continually come back stating that a one button mouse is easier to understand for people.
it also reduces clutter. if you have to use 1 mouse button you are limited to putting important stuff in front of the user and then placing the lessor items in menus, usually in a menu bar not in the right click button. look at the right click menu for any windows app.. it's ridiculous.
also look at keyboard shortcuts, sorry but i feel the keyboard shortcuts are freakin awesome in os x. you can accomplish tasks faster if you know those shortcuts than clicking and clicking all over to find this menu item.
i have used windows pc's all my life.. since i was little.. started with windows 3.0, moved up to 3.1, and then 3.11. onward to windows 95, 98, me, 2000, and now XP. i learned as things have changed. i had never used an OS X machine until i bought my powerbook. now that i have it, i barely want to use my windows PC. it's that simple. it works how i work. you might find that your way of working fits fine with windows, that's your choice that's just how you work. others will find that a mac works great for them. choice is good, you all seem to forget this.
weird.. my 1.33ghz G4 .. revision C powerbook.. battery lasts for 3 hours and 45 minutes with the screen dimmed to 1 notch (still pretty darn readable though not the greatest), with airport on, and bluetooth off.. reduced power in the energy settings. i also run it in reduced power even on a plug to keep temp down (unless i am encoding video, in which case i will change the setting to highest)... it's the most wonderful laptop i have ever used, it was between this or a ibm thinkpad.. glad i chose the powerbook.
however i don't think you'll see a typical G5 in the powerbook.. unless ibm has done massive redesigns on this.. i'd say the dual core G4 is more of a better option.. but those won't be sampled until 3rd quarter.. probably available in mass either at the end of the 3rd quarter or beginning of the fourth.. just my guess. i say stick with the dual core G4.. it's not a bad processor at all and is great for mobile devices.