Now I understand what you were saying. And I have to agree about the security patches. Have you tried troubleshooting 10.2.8? you might be able to reinstall and make that baby work.
Damn apple for not supporting your 5 year old mac with third party add ons!
Seriously, I'm not saying you have to spend two grand upgrading, I know I sure as hell can't afford that. But bashing apple for not supporting your configuration is kind of nit-picky. And you might bug your upgrade company for a fix. They have responsibility as well.
There is an option called "archive and install" when you install. This touches nothing but the system files, even puts your old system folder in a nice folder by itself. Saves the trouble of reinstalling those apps.
I'd paypal you a thousand dollars if you could find ANY 10.2 machine that upon boot-up, declared you need to upgrade to 10.3.
Or did you mean to say that certain apps will require 10.3? Obviously. Developers who want to take advantage of new features will require 10.3.
The interface kind of sucks. Why they chose to redefine 'Maximize' is beyond me, and you can't get it to fill the window.
That's how it works in the mac world. There is no reason that you would want one app to fill your whole window. Defeats the purpose of having a multi-app multi-window os.
Quicktime and iTunesHelper are both loaded at computer startup and happily sit in the background, guzzling memory (iTunesHelper is 3 MB, for example). Does this crap really need to run when I'm not using it?
3 WHOLE megs? WOW! That's a pittance. Please. Ram is cheap. If you're complaining about an app taking 3 megs of memory, you need to upgrade. And quicktime is there to encode/decode the audio files.
Arbitrary restrictions on burning a playlist (10 burns, then you have to mess with it to burn more) seems a bit silly.
Have to make the RIAA happy. And why would you need to make more than 10 copies of a playlist?
Then you will never pay for your music. It is impossible, with the RIAA making the calls, to get legal DRM-less music off the internet.
Apple makes a great compromise. Instead of sticking your nose up at any notion of DRM, maybe you should look past the acronym into what it really means.
Songs bought through the ITMS will be called Protected AAC audio file, with a file extension of ".m4p" Other aac files ripped into itunes will be a ".m4a"
I would think that the versions would be the same, using the same engine. I noticed that the windows version is quite a bit bigger, so along with installing quicktime, I would assume it installs the webcore framework, just for itunes.
Or maybe as well for a future version of safari.;)
I would love it if iTunes for the mac could encode to ogg; hopefully someday soon we will have it. I know for a fact that there is a quicktime plugin to listen to ogg files through itunes:mac, so hopefully it should be easy to port that bad boy over.
As for encoding, maybe there needs to be more outcry from the ogg loving community. I've found that apple genuinely listens to users.
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Like I would expect a non-biased comparison from "pcworld".
Fastest PERSONAL computer, slick.
Too bad the anti-trust laws would probably break the whole deal up.
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.
And I think that all versions are different enough that they can't. That's like saying M$ should release a patch that fixes 95, 98, Me, and 2k.
Now I understand what you were saying. And I have to agree about the security patches. Have you tried troubleshooting 10.2.8? you might be able to reinstall and make that baby work.
Uhhh... No! Why would a cool guy like that be posting on geek sites! I'm.... err.. he's much too cool for that.
;)
And too busy, yeah! That's it! Too busy doing cool shit!
2 days? Maybe they're not whipping their coders fast enough.
Yes, a small output of what processor they are running.
This isn't windows. In order to do serious damage, you'd have to run a malicious command as root.
So it's more apple's responsibility to support 3rd party upgrade cards, than the card manufacturer itself? I don't get it.
Damn apple for not supporting your 5 year old mac with third party add ons!
Seriously, I'm not saying you have to spend two grand upgrading, I know I sure as hell can't afford that. But bashing apple for not supporting your configuration is kind of nit-picky. And you might bug your upgrade company for a fix. They have responsibility as well.
At least ZDNet continues their excellent track record of fair, unbiased reporting with regards to apple.
Not in several, in EVERY article. ;)
Wow. Maybe we should calm down and wait to actually HEAR SOMETHING OFFICIAL from apple before we get the torches and pitchforks out.
There is an option called "archive and install" when you install. This touches nothing but the system files, even puts your old system folder in a nice folder by itself. Saves the trouble of reinstalling those apps.
I'd paypal you a thousand dollars if you could find ANY 10.2 machine that upon boot-up, declared you need to upgrade to 10.3. Or did you mean to say that certain apps will require 10.3? Obviously. Developers who want to take advantage of new features will require 10.3.
The interface kind of sucks. Why they chose to redefine 'Maximize' is beyond me, and you can't get it to fill the window.
That's how it works in the mac world. There is no reason that you would want one app to fill your whole window. Defeats the purpose of having a multi-app multi-window os.
Quicktime and iTunesHelper are both loaded at computer startup and happily sit in the background, guzzling memory (iTunesHelper is 3 MB, for example). Does this crap really need to run when I'm not using it?
3 WHOLE megs? WOW! That's a pittance. Please. Ram is cheap. If you're complaining about an app taking 3 megs of memory, you need to upgrade. And quicktime is there to encode/decode the audio files.
Arbitrary restrictions on burning a playlist (10 burns, then you have to mess with it to burn more) seems a bit silly.
Have to make the RIAA happy. And why would you need to make more than 10 copies of a playlist?
Then you will never pay for your music. It is impossible, with the RIAA making the calls, to get legal DRM-less music off the internet.
Apple makes a great compromise. Instead of sticking your nose up at any notion of DRM, maybe you should look past the acronym into what it really means.
In the list view, you can have it show the kind of file it is.
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Songs bought through the ITMS will be called Protected AAC audio file, with a file extension of ".m4p" Other aac files ripped into itunes will be a ".m4a"
Most, if not all, credit card companies won't authorize transactions for less than 99 cents. It doesn't make them any money.
Unless you change anything, it won't modify the id3 tag. There is an option for artwork cover, that is part of the tag I believe.
But I think that's the only thing it would modify. I have old mp3's from back in SoundJam's days that still retain their original info.
This is what they do.
I never thought I'd be so excited about a piece of software being released for windows.
I would think that the versions would be the same, using the same engine. I noticed that the windows version is quite a bit bigger, so along with installing quicktime, I would assume it installs the webcore framework, just for itunes. Or maybe as well for a future version of safari. ;)
And windows isn't? For fuck's sake. The port is for sharing. Calm down.
I would love it if iTunes for the mac could encode to ogg; hopefully someday soon we will have it. I know for a fact that there is a quicktime plugin to listen to ogg files through itunes:mac, so hopefully it should be easy to port that bad boy over. As for encoding, maybe there needs to be more outcry from the ogg loving community. I've found that apple genuinely listens to users.
Damn, I wish I had some mod points.