It is stealing because you are trying to install an upgrade version onto unsupported hardware without owning the original license.
Apple does not sell the full version separate from the machines they make.
Apple has the policy that you can upgrade from any previously installed version of Mac OS to the latest version. That is less restrictive than the upgrade policies of XP which will not let up upgrade from Windows 95 even though a Windows 95 machine could run XP.
That's nice. Apple was bleeding money before the clones were cancelled. It is not in Apple's best interest to do the clone thing. They loose the hardware margins and gain a huge amount of support costs. Apple had to support all of those Clone users for "free".
MSFT is in a different position. They have the OEMs by the balls but do not actually make any hardware themselves.
There are already dozens of aqua themes for XP. In fact, I used to be a windows user that used those themes but it did not change my XP install into OSX.
You should probably note that they did not use the OSX build of MySQL in those tests but rather the version written with the linux threading model in mind. They also did not use the GCC compiler included with OSX but rather an older version because their linux distro of choice had not updated to the 4.x branch yet.
Had they used the official "binaries" for OS X, they would have seen different results.
Have you actually tried Office for OSX? Consistently it has new features before the windows version. The mac version has received critical acclaim and is highly profitable for MSFT. They are keeping the Entertainment unit afloat.
Do you realise how much effort the music industry puts into compiling charts? Market research? They are having orgasms on the thought of knowing what we are listening to. It's very valuable information and I have no problem with them accessing it with my permission.
You read the EULA when you installed the update and launched iTunes for the first time afterward didn't you? If you clicked agree, you gave your permission. You also gave permission when you clicked on the song with the mini store open. It was behaving like an AJAX web application like you would have on any music download site with previews.
Are you saying that you are not taking responsibility for the buttons you click? Collecting info on what you click on would not be anywhere as useful as what you buy from them. Websites do not generally track you to such granularity. They have no way of knowing how you got that music onto your computer. It could have been a CD you purchased, a CD someone gave you as a gift, a CD you received as a price or promotion or songs that you "acquired" by other means.
Client ID? User Id on the music store? IP address? Hello? The Sony rootkit hit one, non-changing and non-unique URL yet that created a massive backlash. Apple != Sony it seems, lot's of love for Apple, none for Sony.
If you have a user ID on the music store and are signed in, you have already given them your address and credit card information. You have no evidence that they are sending the User ID on the store but people who do not have an account would not have one so what is your point exactly? Your IP address? I have news for you, every website you visit knows a lot more about the computer you are using than just the IP address.
I speak as someone who has written e-commerce web products. If they are sending any sort of ID key when you are logged in, I doubt it will be non-unique per launch of the application. You also are not necessarily logged into our account when you start iTunes so again, they have no idea who you are.
Did you catch the part that, as far as we know, only the song and artist information is sent when you "click" on a song with the ministore panel open. It does not follow or track what song is playing.
It is up to you to disable the feature if you don't like it. The reason why it is enabled is to alert users to this new feature because most users would not be aware of it otherwise. Some people actually like the feature and consider it useful in helping them discover music. What are you embarrassed about? Do you have N'Sync songs in your library?
Based on my experience as a developer of e-commerce, I do not believe it is worth collecting every click a user makes on a store site or every search they make. The site might have logs but they will not necessarily link it any particular account/person. The effort and storage/performance demands cannot be easily justified for a regular online store.
When the ministore is enabled, clicking on songs will send the song name and artist to the store to provide recommendations.
This can be disabled and nothing will be sent but even with it enabled, it only sends the information that you choose to send by choosing to click on certain songs.
Sorry but you are wrong. Send yourself an email and then look at the headers or look at the headers of a usenet post you make. It will contain a unique hostname assigned by your ISP for the IP they assigned you at the last IP renewal. It usually has a random host name followed by the domain name for your ISP.
This usually shows up in the section of the header that shows which host connected to your SMTP server to send the message onward.
If you don't trust them, turn off the feature. It has already been verified by people with software firewalls that nothing is transmitted when you hide the mini store bar. I'm sure someone could easily verify that the only things sent to the server are song name and artist which are used to query the database for similar song types to the song you just clicked on.
Do you really think they would want to store that much information? Even if they did, if the request does not have any information specific to you, you have nothing to worry about.
No, it is mining the song name of the song you clicked on when that feature was turned on. It does not traverse your entire playlist. You clicked on a button which in this case is a song in the playlist window with that feature enabled. Turn it off and never be bothered by it again. Some people don't like the feature and will turn it off while others will leave it on.
They are not collecting personal info.
Worst case, you could call it an ad but again, you can turn it off.
You don't "get it". This is a beta release. I think they will eventually port over to nib files. Give then some time. I'm happy that it is now available on OSX.
I can see that someone hasn't heard of the Xeon. You know, the high-end chip in the Pentium line, which holds its own against the G5 just fine.
Except when it came to cache and memory thrashing processing of large images in Photoshop. The Xeons had a really crippled cache and a shared FSB which meant they were crap at SMP when dealing with a large datasets.
Too bad you are so damn sensitive. If you would turn off your knee from auto-jerk for a moment, you would realize that it refers to OS X and the bundled software.
I know of a lot of PC users that have "multimedia" software and hardware but it just sits there unused after the initial excitement wears off.
I used iLife '05 to put up photos from my rome trip in a matter of minutes from iPhoto and edited my DV footage from the trip into a 19 minute Widescreen DVD with iMovie HD and iDVD 5. The DVD featured a music soundtrack from the composer that did Gladiator and the woman who sang in the background. It was a snap to include any song I wanted from my iTunes music library (including iTMS songs).
I'm not a professional or video editor but I was able to create a home DVD with high production values in about half a day without reading any manuals. Laying soundtrack and adjusting audio levels is a snap in iMovie and you can preview transitions in realtime if you have a fast enough machine.
If you would get over yourself and actually go try out a mac in a store, you might get an idea of what I'm talking about. The ease of use of the software is the key to productivity and that is what Apple has got right. You can think what you want about Steve Jobs. I really don't think he give a damn what you think of him personally. Michael Dell is a a**hole too, so is Balmer, Linus and Bill Gates but what is important is which company/organization creates products ordinary people actually enjoy using.
Not all pro level apps will run on these machines until they are updated to Universal Binaries. That is the advantage the Powermacs have at the moment.
Do you generally get offended on behalf or others? Are you so damn sensitive? Did you fail to notice that shut_up_man was wise enough to let it slide? Which part were you most offended by? The less crap comment or the trolling part? I assumed he was trolling because it looked like one of the typical troll posts generally found in almost every mac story. It also appears that his questions could have been answered with a quick trip to http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ and a few google searches. Had you bothered to read the rest of the thread, you would have seen this where I mentioned my experience with the programs I recommended in the post you only quoted the last line of.
Judging by your signature "I AM BETTER THAN YOU - I OWN A MAC!" and the fact that you only quoted that last line, I'd say that it is you who are trolling.
PS. My less crap games comment is based on my experience with purchasing crappy games like Herbert's Dune by Dreamcatcher when I was a windows user at home from 1996-2002. Have a nice day.
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Apple does not sell the full version separate from the machines they make.
Apple has the policy that you can upgrade from any previously installed version of Mac OS to the latest version. That is less restrictive than the upgrade policies of XP which will not let up upgrade from Windows 95 even though a Windows 95 machine could run XP.
So, you are not going to buy new hardware then? I thought whether TPM was bad had to do with how it was used in software?
What signature?
Was the lawyer's name Lionel Hutz? Did he carry a suitcase full of confetti?
MSFT is in a different position. They have the OEMs by the balls but do not actually make any hardware themselves.
There are already dozens of aqua themes for XP. In fact, I used to be a windows user that used those themes but it did not change my XP install into OSX.
Had they used the official "binaries" for OS X, they would have seen different results.
Have you actually tried Office for OSX? Consistently it has new features before the windows version. The mac version has received critical acclaim and is highly profitable for MSFT. They are keeping the Entertainment unit afloat.
An opportunity to lose 99 Million a year? Where do I sign up?
You read the EULA when you installed the update and launched iTunes for the first time afterward didn't you? If you clicked agree, you gave your permission. You also gave permission when you clicked on the song with the mini store open. It was behaving like an AJAX web application like you would have on any music download site with previews.
Are you saying that you are not taking responsibility for the buttons you click? Collecting info on what you click on would not be anywhere as useful as what you buy from them. Websites do not generally track you to such granularity. They have no way of knowing how you got that music onto your computer. It could have been a CD you purchased, a CD someone gave you as a gift, a CD you received as a price or promotion or songs that you "acquired" by other means. Client ID? User Id on the music store? IP address? Hello? The Sony rootkit hit one, non-changing and non-unique URL yet that created a massive backlash. Apple != Sony it seems, lot's of love for Apple, none for Sony.
If you have a user ID on the music store and are signed in, you have already given them your address and credit card information. You have no evidence that they are sending the User ID on the store but people who do not have an account would not have one so what is your point exactly? Your IP address? I have news for you, every website you visit knows a lot more about the computer you are using than just the IP address.
I speak as someone who has written e-commerce web products. If they are sending any sort of ID key when you are logged in, I doubt it will be non-unique per launch of the application. You also are not necessarily logged into our account when you start iTunes so again, they have no idea who you are.
Did you catch the part that, as far as we know, only the song and artist information is sent when you "click" on a song with the ministore panel open. It does not follow or track what song is playing.
It is up to you to disable the feature if you don't like it. The reason why it is enabled is to alert users to this new feature because most users would not be aware of it otherwise. Some people actually like the feature and consider it useful in helping them discover music. What are you embarrassed about? Do you have N'Sync songs in your library?
Based on my experience as a developer of e-commerce, I do not believe it is worth collecting every click a user makes on a store site or every search they make. The site might have logs but they will not necessarily link it any particular account/person. The effort and storage/performance demands cannot be easily justified for a regular online store.
Then don't buy one. If you seriously are dead set on running windows, choose another vendor. Was this a real question?
This can be disabled and nothing will be sent but even with it enabled, it only sends the information that you choose to send by choosing to click on certain songs.
This usually shows up in the section of the header that shows which host connected to your SMTP server to send the message onward.
Do you really think they would want to store that much information? Even if they did, if the request does not have any information specific to you, you have nothing to worry about.
This send the song you "click" on with the feature enabled. Nothing more. It does not track what you are playing.
They are not collecting personal info.
Worst case, you could call it an ad but again, you can turn it off.
You don't "get it". This is a beta release. I think they will eventually port over to nib files. Give then some time. I'm happy that it is now available on OSX.
I take it that you do not do any video or raster gfx work then? Fixed DPI is very important for those fields.
Except when it came to cache and memory thrashing processing of large images in Photoshop. The Xeons had a really crippled cache and a shared FSB which meant they were crap at SMP when dealing with a large datasets.
Why should you take it personally when they are putting down windows? Did you write windows?
I know of a lot of PC users that have "multimedia" software and hardware but it just sits there unused after the initial excitement wears off.
I used iLife '05 to put up photos from my rome trip in a matter of minutes from iPhoto and edited my DV footage from the trip into a 19 minute Widescreen DVD with iMovie HD and iDVD 5. The DVD featured a music soundtrack from the composer that did Gladiator and the woman who sang in the background. It was a snap to include any song I wanted from my iTunes music library (including iTMS songs).
I'm not a professional or video editor but I was able to create a home DVD with high production values in about half a day without reading any manuals. Laying soundtrack and adjusting audio levels is a snap in iMovie and you can preview transitions in realtime if you have a fast enough machine.
If you would get over yourself and actually go try out a mac in a store, you might get an idea of what I'm talking about. The ease of use of the software is the key to productivity and that is what Apple has got right. You can think what you want about Steve Jobs. I really don't think he give a damn what you think of him personally. Michael Dell is a a**hole too, so is Balmer, Linus and Bill Gates but what is important is which company/organization creates products ordinary people actually enjoy using.
Not all pro level apps will run on these machines until they are updated to Universal Binaries. That is the advantage the Powermacs have at the moment.
The Acer has a builtin isight camera and the same ports? Really? Do tell.
Sure, if you use a Apple lossless or WAV/AIFF.
Judging by your signature "I AM BETTER THAN YOU - I OWN A MAC!" and the fact that you only quoted that last line, I'd say that it is you who are trolling.
PS. My less crap games comment is based on my experience with purchasing crappy games like Herbert's Dune by Dreamcatcher when I was a windows user at home from 1996-2002. Have a nice day.