A big part of why Apple survives in the home computer market is by providing good tools to a niche market - design, video editing, etc. Of course this is not their only market, but it's their bread and butter because they get to sell G5s to them, like office machines are Microsoft's bread and butter because they get to sell Office and desktop and server versions of Windows to them. Apple thrives in this market.
Yahoo seems to offer a very good alternative to the other subscription services (low price, high bitrate, modularity in the system although I don't know yet about the size and quality of the catalog) and will likely also thrive in their market - subscription services. What remains to be seen is if subscription services are actually widely used and if they generate enough money to make it worthwhile for the vendor and the labels.
The new video support involves playing it directly in the interface, not as a poked-out window inside the Music Store interface. You can play it in the album art corner, click that and play it in a seperate window, or play it full screen, and more importantly you can drag in.mov-files, keep them in your library and watch them like that.
If you have everything set up correctly, most of Bonjour is irrelevant. Not everyone has everything set up correctly, not everyone has everything set up correctly all the time, and not everyone uses AD.
It's not designed to survive beyond the first router because it's meant to facilitate easier (or non-existant) setup of local networks, and a competent fallback in case infrastructure such as DHCP servers go out.
The ideal situation to me would involve one more option: one of receiving exploit fixes individually as they're fixed (and pass Q&A), receiving weekly digests of these or receiving the usual Security Update package released whenever appropriate (which like you point out add up to around once a month). This is just icing, but it could come in handy if exploits *do* come out while we "wait a few weeks" for the next patch.
Hey hey hey! Focus on the real issue here - what'll happen to the Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Excellence?
True. Without having seen the movie yet - this opens in late July in Sweden (why?) - the only thing vaguely Disney-esque appears to be the romance parts, which were added by Douglas himself. And according to the earlier interview with Robbie Stamp (Executive Producer), most cuts were made with regards to movie pacing and not studio censorship. (Search for "Working with Disney".)
"So, for the next few years, we will now have one more system to use, complain about, introduce new problems, and work with."
This system replaces a *handful* of systems. You're content with having four, five, six systems to deal with, but not with another one that, while obviously not perfect, can *potentially* do a good job in replacing the rest of them, already has proven to increase performance wildly and is open for modifications?
I'm sure they could have extended the beginning of research far back into time to be able to get a comment out of him, but they simply didn't want to upset The Campaign For Real Time.
Even if you don't prefer the spatial Finder (I don't), the fact remains that, as pointed out in the review, the "browser" parts don't get much attention either, and that it's sluggish while the Classic Finder was fast.
I like the unified title bar look too, but Mail.app has still to land somewhere conceptually with me... the icons are smaller, and I was one of four people who liked being able to hide the mailbox drawer. Then again, I like the new look of the mailbox list, and smart mailboxes sounds like fun.
As an experimental developer having read all of those parts on system technologies, I for one can't wait to welcome yet another big cat overlord.
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It's spending a year offline, for bandwidth reasons.
No, he didn't hold back the release. Tiger actually went to manufacturing even with a few known bugs in it but they decided to fix them in 10.4.1 rather than hold back the release. I don't think this is a particularly good way to treat your customers either, by the way. (http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=984 - AppleInsider had other articles with more info but they're "removed at the request of Apple Legal".) Steve might have a big ego, but he didn't postpone it.
"Suffer through". Right. You still haven't even confirmed whether you've even seen the movie yet, but it seems to me that you've already made up your mind.
Or maybe Adams *were* working on all of those things, and people are just overly grumpy and pessimistic.:) HHGTTG is so broad that it's hard to NOT leave a vital part out, or change the way a major character looks or acts. I think everyone knows that but holds up some kind of false pretense that everything will be in... and then there's the people who have given up beforehand, too.
Don't you give him none more of that Old Janx Spirit. No, don't you give him none more of that Old Janx Spirit. For his head will fly, his tounge will lie, his eyes will fry and he may die. Won't you pour him one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit.
Because they don't seem to do "the big five"? I'm not going to get into discussing which of the two approaches are better, but Apple would not have been as successful if they had started out without the big five, and what the grandparent argued was that to have those aboard they had little choice but to go with DRM. Linking to a music store with just independent labels does nothing to change or challenge those assumptions.
Roman numerals would set X to the arabic decimal 10. Meanwhile in a base 36 system, X would be 33 ("10" being 36). However, since Apple reads OS X aloud as "OS ten"...
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And Microsoft doesn't sell computers.
A big part of why Apple survives in the home computer market is by providing good tools to a niche market - design, video editing, etc. Of course this is not their only market, but it's their bread and butter because they get to sell G5s to them, like office machines are Microsoft's bread and butter because they get to sell Office and desktop and server versions of Windows to them. Apple thrives in this market.
Yahoo seems to offer a very good alternative to the other subscription services (low price, high bitrate, modularity in the system although I don't know yet about the size and quality of the catalog) and will likely also thrive in their market - subscription services. What remains to be seen is if subscription services are actually widely used and if they generate enough money to make it worthwhile for the vendor and the labels.
Me, I just want an iPod shuttle.
The new video support involves playing it directly in the interface, not as a poked-out window inside the Music Store interface. You can play it in the album art corner, click that and play it in a seperate window, or play it full screen, and more importantly you can drag in .mov-files, keep them in your library and watch them like that.
If you have everything set up correctly, most of Bonjour is irrelevant. Not everyone has everything set up correctly, not everyone has everything set up correctly all the time, and not everyone uses AD.
It's not designed to survive beyond the first router because it's meant to facilitate easier (or non-existant) setup of local networks, and a competent fallback in case infrastructure such as DHCP servers go out.
The ideal situation to me would involve one more option: one of receiving exploit fixes individually as they're fixed (and pass Q&A), receiving weekly digests of these or receiving the usual Security Update package released whenever appropriate (which like you point out add up to around once a month). This is just icing, but it could come in handy if exploits *do* come out while we "wait a few weeks" for the next patch.
Well it keeps to the spirit of their software! It just works.
...once
...barely.
Hey hey hey! Focus on the real issue here - what'll happen to the Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Excellence?
True. Without having seen the movie yet - this opens in late July in Sweden (why?) - the only thing vaguely Disney-esque appears to be the romance parts, which were added by Douglas himself. And according to the earlier interview with Robbie Stamp (Executive Producer), most cuts were made with regards to movie pacing and not studio censorship. (Search for "Working with Disney".)
"So, for the next few years, we will now have one more system to use, complain about, introduce new problems, and work with."
This system replaces a *handful* of systems. You're content with having four, five, six systems to deal with, but not with another one that, while obviously not perfect, can *potentially* do a good job in replacing the rest of them, already has proven to increase performance wildly and is open for modifications?
I'm sure they could have extended the beginning of research far back into time to be able to get a comment out of him, but they simply didn't want to upset The Campaign For Real Time.
Even if you don't prefer the spatial Finder (I don't), the fact remains that, as pointed out in the review, the "browser" parts don't get much attention either, and that it's sluggish while the Classic Finder was fast.
I like the unified title bar look too, but Mail.app has still to land somewhere conceptually with me... the icons are smaller, and I was one of four people who liked being able to hide the mailbox drawer. Then again, I like the new look of the mailbox list, and smart mailboxes sounds like fun.
As an experimental developer having read all of those parts on system technologies, I for one can't wait to welcome yet another big cat overlord.
It's spending a year offline, for bandwidth reasons.
No, he didn't hold back the release. Tiger actually went to manufacturing even with a few known bugs in it but they decided to fix them in 10.4.1 rather than hold back the release. I don't think this is a particularly good way to treat your customers either, by the way. (http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=984 - AppleInsider had other articles with more info but they're "removed at the request of Apple Legal".) Steve might have a big ego, but he didn't postpone it.
Well, when Apple's released a version that passes Acid2, they don't really have much choice, do they? ;)
"Suffer through". Right. You still haven't even confirmed whether you've even seen the movie yet, but it seems to me that you've already made up your mind.
(I'd love to see Zems too, by the way.)
The film is going to bomb for everyone EXCEPT 5 year olds. Fans will be annoyed with it and the highlight will probably be the theme song.
If your mind's set on that - presumably without even having seen it - why would you possibly want a follow-up?
Or maybe Adams *were* working on all of those things, and people are just overly grumpy and pessimistic. :) HHGTTG is so broad that it's hard to NOT leave a vital part out, or change the way a major character looks or acts. I think everyone knows that but holds up some kind of false pretense that everything will be in... and then there's the people who have given up beforehand, too.
counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor
Death's too good for you.
Suddenly, I felt a disturbance in the force, as if a million people showed up all of a sudden and said "Whop".
Don't you give him none more of that Old Janx Spirit.
No, don't you give him none more of that Old Janx Spirit.
For his head will fly, his tounge will lie, his eyes will fry and he may die.
Won't you pour him one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit.
Because they don't seem to do "the big five"? I'm not going to get into discussing which of the two approaches are better, but Apple would not have been as successful if they had started out without the big five, and what the grandparent argued was that to have those aboard they had little choice but to go with DRM. Linking to a music store with just independent labels does nothing to change or challenge those assumptions.
Okay, screw that. I just got it, but in my world all math variables are "x", italic and lowercase. Bah. :)
Roman numerals would set X to the arabic decimal 10. Meanwhile in a base 36 system, X would be 33 ("10" being 36). However, since Apple reads OS X aloud as "OS ten"...