All you need to remember is that your iPod wants only one boss... be it a computer or you. In the preferences, you can have iTunes manage your iPod for you, or you can elect to do it manually.
If you let iTunes do it, then only one of your machines should be in charge of managing, the other machine should be set to 'manual'
be aware that if you manaully add songs on one machine, then connect it to the machine where iTunes is in control, iTunes will delete the songs that it did not put there.
personally, i say manually manage, and use smart playlists to handle any automation you want
It's difficult to type when laughing this hard.
Consistant dropdown menus on windows? HAR DE HAR HAR. Since MS randomly re-arranges the placement of menu options for its own apps and OS controls, third party softs have followed suit, providing random menu selections within randomly named menus. (i.e. will your preferences be accessed via the 'edit', 'tools', 'views', or 'options' menu, and will the selection be named 'preferences', 'options', 'config', or 'customize'.
I wish they took the time to put in some more confirmation dialogs
WIN: "Would you like to empty the trash?" => WIN:"Are you sure you want to empty the trash?" => WIN:"Emptying the trash may cause problems with your system... are you sure you want to continue?" Me: "Empty the friggin trash NOW or you will find a Penguin living in your home!".
MS products for Mac look like MS products for Mac, There are virtually no other Mac apps that would give you a window that have all the commands available in the menus duplicated 2 or 3 times in buttons across 4 to 24 button bars.
Apple who provide a lot of documentation explaining to PC programmers that when porting their applications to MacOS they should follow the Mac UI guidelines
In Windoze, the lack of UI guidelines forces the software maker to 'invent'. Remember that there is a ton of functionality in this app and that this is a first release with less than 5 mos. development time.
Perhaps you are wanting to run the wrong software. You might want to remove those GlassesXP that keep you from seeing all the cash getting sucked out of your wallet.
Windows is the best Game Console around today! And like all other game consoles, it will fade away
Remember too, that if Apple had its way back when OSX was first released, there would be no Carbon apps at all. The broken apps are those that are Carbonized and Cocoa apps are unaffected. Apple is appeasing the programmers by offering the gradual migration path from OS 9 API's that they demanded when OSX was first announced as a development project. These same developers dont seem to be making much of a fuss about the bumps encountered along the path of migration. The end users complain without understanding the process.
Apple learned its lesson well from MS... make the developers happy, and they will write software for your platform. With software comes customers. That was pretty much the incentive for a Unix based Mac in the first place.
Don't bother feeling bad for a Mac user... man, thats so wrong I don't even know where to start!
Please bear in mind that applications are seperate from the core OS. Finder is an app, expose is an app, mail is an app. Unlike windoze, where these applications are only pseudo-separated from the core OS. Because MS thinks there is some 'value' in having all these applications work as *cough* seamlessly and integrated as possible. This is the same philosophy that gives us a word editor that can edit photos.
Apple is steadfast in developing discreet applications for discreet tasks. In my book that's not really bloat, since I can either opt not to install the app, or delete it, without crippling other apps, if I don't want it.
That also fails to note that Photoshop will soon (as in not yet) be updated to run efficiently on the G5, Adobe hasnt released the updated libraries for this app. And dont even start with "but they both ran 32 bit!" yes, but Photoshop on Mac is built for the old G3 and G4 cores, the G5 is a different beast entirely, while the Opteron is set to run x86 code as efficiently (yes, more efficiently) as any other x86.
Premiere is a battleground between Apple and Adobe, with Final Cut taking market share from Premiere, Adobe has all but stopped development for this software on mac, and other benchmarks have show disparity in Premiere optimization for the respective platforms.
MS Word????????? If there is a more biased test, I don't know what it might be, Word X for mac is nothing at all like Word XP, The codebase is vastly different, as in, not the same program at all.
QuakeIII is the fairest comparison of the buch, and may prove the point, but to use the other software as unbiased comparisons is just silly
Brand X is less expensive, even if it has lower storage, is larger in size and slower connection... but cheaper = better.
'Codec Y' is not anywhere as good as 'Codec Z' because it sounds worse and the letters used in the name of the codec are displeasing to me.
Ok, job done, trolls can now take a pass on this one
playing with trolls is surely a sign of boredom... so here goes.
Answer to question 1: 10.1 was slower than 10.2 was slower than 10.3. and Apple openly stated 10.0 was not 'production quality' software.
kernel optimization and network que enhancements are parts of BSD which Apple could not get working before the last release of their OS
read 'optimized' as 'tuned' to the Hardware Abstraction Layer of Apples hardware, which BSD was never optimized for. 10.2 featured impressive use of the processors resources, and efficient network queueing, but it is further improved in 10.3... I just don't see how it was 'not... working'.
Apple has made zero claims regarding the performance of the new OS. They have only hyped the new features (is this where you got lost?). The RUMOR sites (rumor as in 'unsubstantiated' and 'unfounded') have provided all performance data. If someone such as myself were to give real world examples of performance improvements in the new systems, and were legitimately using a real Developers Seed from Apple, then they would be in gross violation of the NDA. You could assume that reports are coming from people who do not have a legitimate Dev. Seed. (you can believe these reports or don't, your choice, but they are quite accurate so far).
I mean, yeah, the latest XP service pack is pretty much a bunch of bug fixes, but they also added USB 2.0 support, gave users new compatibility with about 200 consumer devices, and fixed numerous DHCP and networking issues. No system running XP is likely to run any faster than before the SP, but that can be considered a good thing next to Apple's program
I get the sense that you are acknowledging that the 'upgrade' in 10.3 goes further than what you might get in a windows SP... doesnt that refute your original argument?
10.2.3 was slower than 10.2.5 was slower than 10.2.6 was slower than 10.2.8. Speed gains were marginal, but measurable. and you really lost me by stating that no speed gain is a 'good thing' as compared to Apple.
No one is forcing Mac users to upgrade, and if you say the same about Windows, you should compare the respective EULA's of each.
I don't mind that you have an opinion but to imply that continuing to improve the software is equal to screwing the customer seems a bit daft.
If you are an Apple customer, and you think the price of upgrade is a rip, then install Debian, Suse, Yellowdog or your *nix of choice. If you are not an Apple customer, you need to come out of the closet, because your level of Applephoibia is clearly an indication of deep seated fruit-flavored tendencies.
Umm, when is the last time windows released a 'Service release' that massively improved the disk cacheing scheme, the graphics subsystem, the optimization level of the kernel, the network que and tcp/ip stack, and virtually every other core level service.
In addition to that, theres fast user switching, expose, a new finder, new mail app,... blah blah, everythings updated
reports have shown older machines (~400 mhz G3 and that ilk) getting double the speed they had under 10.2 (does win XP run faster or slower than win98 on your 600 mhz p3?).
the day an MS service patch does 1/10th this level of upgrade is the day I will re-evaluate my opinion of that evil bohemoth.
By the way, on what did you base your statement... the fact that OSX is currently at 10.2.8 and since 10.3 is only.02 better, it must not be much?
The claim Apple makes is "The Worlds first 64-bit personal computer"... as opposed to server or workstation. Intel proponents seem to be so unwilling to actually investigate and compare in an unbiased way, and then point their fingers accusing proponents of any other platform of the exact same thing. sheeeeeesh.
appleturns.com is a rumor/humor/drama site, with loads and loads of tongue in cheek humor. It is not intended to be a by-the-numbers technical rundown of the performance points of cluster A vs. cluster B. appleturns is also heavily biased and makes no pretense of being unbiased. If you treat articles from this site with the same scepticism as those you get from cnn, you'll be fine.
1. TextEdit --FREE, included
2. BBEdit -- $100 (worth much more)
3. iTunes --FREE, included
4. iPhoto --FREE, included
5. iCal --FREE, included
6. AddressBook --FREE, included
7. RBrowserLite FTP client $29 ummmm.... FTP in terminal or use dozens of freeware apps (Rbrowser is nice though)
8. Mozilla/Safari --FREE, included
9. X Windows with OpenOffice --FREE, Xwin is included in 10.3
10. TheGimp.
total cost above hardware... $100
This sounds very much like the plan to build a twin engine mach 6 spy plane that will be all black and have some cool name like 'blackbird'.
The blackbird didn't 'oficially' exist for decades... but that kind of thing would never happen again, right?
we can play this one...
We spend decades building the perfect maze for rats to run through... with extra attention spent ensuring that the cows who produce the cheese for the end of the maze, are carefully groomed and slaughtered for our dinners.
When all is perfect with our maze construct, we go to get the mice to place in the maze, only to find that they have been hand fed cheese by Apple since birth, and have no interest in walking a maze to get more.:P
Google doesn't sell any merchandise directly to the public, and therefor has no incentive to 'inject' results that favor their products...
MS on the other hand...
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If you let iTunes do it, then only one of your machines should be in charge of managing, the other machine should be set to 'manual'
be aware that if you manaully add songs on one machine, then connect it to the machine where iTunes is in control, iTunes will delete the songs that it did not put there.personally, i say manually manage, and use smart playlists to handle any automation you want
Consistant dropdown menus on windows? HAR DE HAR HAR. Since MS randomly re-arranges the placement of menu options for its own apps and OS controls, third party softs have followed suit, providing random menu selections within randomly named menus. (i.e. will your preferences be accessed via the 'edit', 'tools', 'views', or 'options' menu, and will the selection be named 'preferences', 'options', 'config', or 'customize'.WIN: "Would you like to empty the trash?" => WIN:"Are you sure you want to empty the trash?" => WIN:"Emptying the trash may cause problems with your system... are you sure you want to continue?" Me: "Empty the friggin trash NOW or you will find a Penguin living in your home!".
MS products for Mac look like MS products for Mac, There are virtually no other Mac apps that would give you a window that have all the commands available in the menus duplicated 2 or 3 times in buttons across 4 to 24 button bars.
In Windoze, the lack of UI guidelines forces the software maker to 'invent'. Remember that there is a ton of functionality in this app and that this is a first release with less than 5 mos. development time.quality not quantity is what most consumers want... well, until they are beaten sensless by marketing departments.
Perhaps you are wanting to run the wrong software. You might want to remove those GlassesXP that keep you from seeing all the cash getting sucked out of your wallet.
Windows is the best Game Console around today! And like all other game consoles, it will fade away
The broken apps are those that are Carbonized and Cocoa apps are unaffected. Apple is appeasing the programmers by offering the gradual migration path from OS 9 API's that they demanded when OSX was first announced as a development project. These same developers dont seem to be making much of a fuss about the bumps encountered along the path of migration. The end users complain without understanding the process.
Apple learned its lesson well from MS... make the developers happy, and they will write software for your platform. With software comes customers.
Don't bother feeling bad for a Mac user... man, thats so wrong I don't even know where to start!That was pretty much the incentive for a Unix based Mac in the first place.
Please bear in mind that applications are seperate from the core OS. Finder is an app, expose is an app, mail is an app. Unlike windoze, where these applications are only pseudo-separated from the core OS. Because MS thinks there is some 'value' in having all these applications work as *cough* seamlessly and integrated as possible.
This is the same philosophy that gives us a word editor that can edit photos.
Apple is steadfast in developing discreet applications for discreet tasks. In my book that's not really bloat, since I can either opt not to install the app, or delete it, without crippling other apps, if I don't want it.
Time to do a redesign of user services on /. or accept the inevitable... MS will own us all.
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Se voce gostasse de che cosa ho detto ma musique
so very obviousThat also fails to note that Photoshop will soon (as in not yet) be updated to run efficiently on the G5, Adobe hasnt released the updated libraries for this app. And dont even start with "but they both ran 32 bit!" yes, but Photoshop on Mac is built for the old G3 and G4 cores, the G5 is a different beast entirely, while the Opteron is set to run x86 code as efficiently (yes, more efficiently) as any other x86.
Premiere is a battleground between Apple and Adobe, with Final Cut taking market share from Premiere, Adobe has all but stopped development for this software on mac, and other benchmarks have show disparity in Premiere optimization for the respective platforms.
MS Word????????? If there is a more biased test, I don't know what it might be, Word X for mac is nothing at all like Word XP, The codebase is vastly different, as in, not the same program at all.
QuakeIII is the fairest comparison of the buch, and may prove the point, but to use the other software as unbiased comparisons is just silly
queue, look it up
*sigh*
Brand X is less expensive, even if it has lower storage, is larger in size and slower connection... but cheaper = better.
Ok, job done, trolls can now take a pass on this one'Codec Y' is not anywhere as good as 'Codec Z' because it sounds worse and the letters used in the name of the codec are displeasing to me.
Answer to question 1: 10.1 was slower than 10.2 was slower than 10.3. and Apple openly stated 10.0 was not 'production quality' software.
read 'optimized' as 'tuned' to the Hardware Abstraction Layer of Apples hardware, which BSD was never optimized for. 10.2 featured impressive use of the processors resources, and efficient network queueing, but it is further improved in 10.3... I just don't see how it was 'not
Apple has made zero claims regarding the performance of the new OS. They have only hyped the new features (is this where you got lost?). The RUMOR sites (rumor as in 'unsubstantiated' and 'unfounded') have provided all performance data.
If someone such as myself were to give real world examples of performance improvements in the new systems, and were legitimately using a real Developers Seed from Apple, then they would be in gross violation of the NDA. You could assume that reports are coming from people who do not have a legitimate Dev. Seed. (you can believe these reports or don't, your choice, but they are quite accurate so far).
I get the sense that you are acknowledging that the 'upgrade' in 10.3 goes further than what you might get in a windows SP... doesnt that refute your original argument?
10.2.3 was slower than 10.2.5 was slower than 10.2.6 was slower than 10.2.8. Speed gains were marginal, but measurable. and you really lost me by stating that no speed gain is a 'good thing' as compared to Apple.
No one is forcing Mac users to upgrade, and if you say the same about Windows, you should compare the respective EULA's of each.
I don't mind that you have an opinion but to imply that continuing to improve the software is equal to screwing the customer seems a bit daft.
If you are an Apple customer, and you think the price of upgrade is a rip, then install Debian, Suse, Yellowdog or your *nix of choice. If you are not an Apple customer, you need to come out of the closet, because your level of Applephoibia is clearly an indication of deep seated fruit-flavored tendencies.
Umm, when is the last time windows released a 'Service release' that massively improved the disk cacheing scheme, the graphics subsystem, the optimization level of the kernel, the network que and tcp/ip stack, and virtually every other core level service. .02 better, it must not be much?
In addition to that, theres fast user switching, expose, a new finder, new mail app,... blah blah, everythings updated
reports have shown older machines (~400 mhz G3 and that ilk) getting double the speed they had under 10.2 (does win XP run faster or slower than win98 on your 600 mhz p3?).
the day an MS service patch does 1/10th this level of upgrade is the day I will re-evaluate my opinion of that evil bohemoth.
By the way, on what did you base your statement... the fact that OSX is currently at 10.2.8 and since 10.3 is only
The claim Apple makes is "The Worlds first 64-bit personal computer"... as opposed to server or workstation.
Intel proponents seem to be so unwilling to actually investigate and compare in an unbiased way, and then point their fingers accusing proponents of any other platform of the exact same thing. sheeeeeesh.
appleturns.com is a rumor/humor/drama site, with loads and loads of tongue in cheek humor. It is not intended to be a by-the-numbers technical rundown of the performance points of cluster A vs. cluster B.
appleturns is also heavily biased and makes no pretense of being unbiased. If you treat articles from this site with the same scepticism as those you get from cnn, you'll be fine.
1. TextEdit --FREE, included 2. BBEdit -- $100 (worth much more) 3. iTunes --FREE, included 4. iPhoto --FREE, included 5. iCal --FREE, included 6. AddressBook --FREE, included 7. RBrowserLite FTP client $29 ummmm.... FTP in terminal or use dozens of freeware apps (Rbrowser is nice though) 8. Mozilla/Safari --FREE, included 9. X Windows with OpenOffice --FREE, Xwin is included in 10.3 10. TheGimp. total cost above hardware... $100
What a great birthday present for me!
This sounds very much like the plan to build a twin engine mach 6 spy plane that will be all black and have some cool name like 'blackbird'.
The blackbird didn't 'oficially' exist for decades... but that kind of thing would never happen again, right?
we can play this one... We spend decades building the perfect maze for rats to run through... with extra attention spent ensuring that the cows who produce the cheese for the end of the maze, are carefully groomed and slaughtered for our dinners. When all is perfect with our maze construct, we go to get the mice to place in the maze, only to find that they have been hand fed cheese by Apple since birth, and have no interest in walking a maze to get more. :P
Google doesn't sell any merchandise directly to the public, and therefor has no incentive to 'inject' results that favor their products...
MS on the other hand...
is a simple little worm, that takes all the remainder fractions and adds them all up, and deposits them into the FSF legal defense fund.
Asbestos iPants?
... because dragging the picture to the desktop with your single mouse button is to hard?
Bah! You can't not talk and drive!
damn, you got the last word. :(