If Apple went that far, I'd actually laugh. Technically I think it is possible, and especially on macs where the processor is integrated with the board, there wouldn't be a problem of upgrading and then having problems with the music. But I doubt Apple went this far, if anybody has an old mac with OS X with a removable ethernet card i'll ask them if they'd like to test this theory. Unfortunately I have no ethernet cards in my older macs.
Nope, I have the same serial number as before. and the sales order number remains the same. Those are written stuck in some kind of memory most likely, but obviously those arn't what itunes uses, at least not the only thing it uses on a mac.
Remember though that's only the mac platform, the "IBM Compatible" platform now days is much harder to control and varies so much in hardware that I doubt Apple could use anything other than a mac address and/or system configuration (like Windows XP does) to lock a song into a Windows machine, since the store is cross platform, it's most likely that Apple just decided to use things always present in both platforms for the security.
I know because my ibook became de-authorized when it had one of those popular logic board replacements. Since the ethernet is on-board, I had to get apple to de-authorize it for me. Unless Apple put something else in the logic board that makes the computer unique for this purpose, I don't see how it isn't the MAC address. If you had to NICs, either iTunes would get confused or it would pick the primary one. Whatever it is, it's definitely not related to any disk, that's been proven before from other people i've seen replace their hard drive or reinstall their OS.
You can but you have to talk to apple directly through their web-form (I forget where). If you give legitimate circumstances like "My ethernet card crapped out before I could de-authorize the computer" then they'll happily de-authorize it for you.
But if you know how to change your mac address you don't even need to worry about that.
"Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format"
Mac OS X and Windows are going to be able to play it. And I'm sure if other companies were willing Apple would be happy to allow other music players capable of playing iTMS files. If you hate the music store that much just don't use it.
"I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over."
authorized machines are identified by their hardware, not data on the hard drive.
"Certainly though, you've drunk Apple's cool-aid with respect to AAC having acceptable sound quality, despite strong evidence that it's only *marginally* better than MP3 at low bit rates (which ITMS files are)."
They're more than "marginally better" than the average MP3. And if you're talking about professionally encoded MP3s then tell me where I can buy those. The encoders themselves cost money.
I don't understand how stupidity, ignorance, and the inability to see why certain problems exist which are more the fault of other companies than Apple can be modded as insightful...
Oh and don't press the eject button on your CD-ROM drive when your playing a PC game, you might get a blue screen or even worse, you have flip the switch off then on on your machine to get back to Windows. And be sure to 'recycle' your files, afterall, we don't want that landfill filling up. I just hope Windows 95 will stop saying there's no CD in the drive when I click retry.
Point here, use a newer Mac OS before saying something trollish.
That's what game consoles and Windows is for. Doing actual work involves a better machine.
Can your PC run the various mac-only software out there? nope. What's your point? That's why I own both platforms.
Don't insult what you cannot beat yourself. I really can't imagine software UIs getting better until the hardware UIs change. You can only do so much with keyboards and mice.
Except Apple doesn't lock out other OSes and in fact, actually gives limited support for OSes they didn't even make (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30 608).
Before you speak, at least type the word 'linux' in Apple's support section. As for their old OSes, if someone wants to kill their own, outdated OS to save money (you do realize that Apple is a company out to make money and still does have a fairly fragile market) then that's their choice. If someone wants to run OS 9 that baddly they should either hack the OS files or just run it on an older machine and upgrade the system components.
Sorry to burst your bubble anti-Apple 'zealot'.
"Apple sometimes has problems with this, and it's gotten worse since Steve came back"
What are you talking about? Apple has only had a decrease in software quality very recently (it origionally increased when Jobs came), and it may just be a fluke, afterall the company's software design department is run by humans.
The concept of having the Sequal here (story side of it) is that now that Titus has both helped her save the world and protected her, now it's Yuna's turn to protect Titus.
Yeah, I guess none of the character conditions in that game affected you at all, I bet you have that same reaction to real people who are in similar socal situations and that's sad.
To tell you the truth, you still don't know wether he knew that Quistis loved him. Between his personality, her never being direct about it, it's quiet possible. Though I think if square put a memory sequence of Squall's with a conversation with Quistis that would give him more reason to expect her not to love him, then that would have at least smacked those who pay less attention to detail in the face with a man-eating fish.
The game becomes more difficult if you play it with the intent to see the story develop as fast as you can. It becomes boring if your intent is to fight as many battles as possible.
Yeah except if you walk into a store and walk out with a CD without paying for it, the store owner had paied for that CD, meaning basically somebody loses something. When you download an MP3 that you otherwise wouldn't have paid for in any format, nobody actually loses money, they just don't gain it.
The difference is that he didn't hijack the servers and use them for his own deeds for a month and returned them. He got in, observed how severe the exploit was, got out, and told the admins that they need to fix it. If someone broke into my car without doing any damage to it and then left a note giving me suggestions I'd welcome it, it's not like they drove off with the car and they might have saved my car from future theft.
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If Apple went that far, I'd actually laugh. Technically I think it is possible, and especially on macs where the processor is integrated with the board, there wouldn't be a problem of upgrading and then having problems with the music. But I doubt Apple went this far, if anybody has an old mac with OS X with a removable ethernet card i'll ask them if they'd like to test this theory. Unfortunately I have no ethernet cards in my older macs.
Remember though that's only the mac platform, the "IBM Compatible" platform now days is much harder to control and varies so much in hardware that I doubt Apple could use anything other than a mac address and/or system configuration (like Windows XP does) to lock a song into a Windows machine, since the store is cross platform, it's most likely that Apple just decided to use things always present in both platforms for the security.
I know because my ibook became de-authorized when it had one of those popular logic board replacements. Since the ethernet is on-board, I had to get apple to de-authorize it for me. Unless Apple put something else in the logic board that makes the computer unique for this purpose, I don't see how it isn't the MAC address. If you had to NICs, either iTunes would get confused or it would pick the primary one. Whatever it is, it's definitely not related to any disk, that's been proven before from other people i've seen replace their hard drive or reinstall their OS.
You can but you have to talk to apple directly through their web-form (I forget where). If you give legitimate circumstances like "My ethernet card crapped out before I could de-authorize the computer" then they'll happily de-authorize it for you. But if you know how to change your mac address you don't even need to worry about that.
"Apparently you've never wanted to play your music on any non-apple product without first expanding your files to 12x their original size, and then possibly having to re-compress them to another format" Mac OS X and Windows are going to be able to play it. And I'm sure if other companies were willing Apple would be happy to allow other music players capable of playing iTMS files. If you hate the music store that much just don't use it. "I also imagine you've never had to deal with losing a hard disk full of all those precious songs and having to redownload and re-license them for your new machine because you can't just copy them over." authorized machines are identified by their hardware, not data on the hard drive. "Certainly though, you've drunk Apple's cool-aid with respect to AAC having acceptable sound quality, despite strong evidence that it's only *marginally* better than MP3 at low bit rates (which ITMS files are)." They're more than "marginally better" than the average MP3. And if you're talking about professionally encoded MP3s then tell me where I can buy those. The encoders themselves cost money. I don't understand how stupidity, ignorance, and the inability to see why certain problems exist which are more the fault of other companies than Apple can be modded as insightful...
Oh and don't press the eject button on your CD-ROM drive when your playing a PC game, you might get a blue screen or even worse, you have flip the switch off then on on your machine to get back to Windows. And be sure to 'recycle' your files, afterall, we don't want that landfill filling up. I just hope Windows 95 will stop saying there's no CD in the drive when I click retry. Point here, use a newer Mac OS before saying something trollish.
Have you ever noticed that the people who make insults based off homosexuality are still waiting for their balls to drop?
That's what game consoles and Windows is for. Doing actual work involves a better machine. Can your PC run the various mac-only software out there? nope. What's your point? That's why I own both platforms.
Or wait for a port or use VPC or program a compareable program yourself.
Don't insult what you cannot beat yourself. I really can't imagine software UIs getting better until the hardware UIs change. You can only do so much with keyboards and mice.
Except Apple doesn't lock out other OSes and in fact, actually gives limited support for OSes they didn't even make (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30 608).
Before you speak, at least type the word 'linux' in Apple's support section. As for their old OSes, if someone wants to kill their own, outdated OS to save money (you do realize that Apple is a company out to make money and still does have a fairly fragile market) then that's their choice. If someone wants to run OS 9 that baddly they should either hack the OS files or just run it on an older machine and upgrade the system components.
Sorry to burst your bubble anti-Apple 'zealot'.
"Apple sometimes has problems with this, and it's gotten worse since Steve came back" What are you talking about? Apple has only had a decrease in software quality very recently (it origionally increased when Jobs came), and it may just be a fluke, afterall the company's software design department is run by humans.
Not funny, go back to your corner.
The concept of having the Sequal here (story side of it) is that now that Titus has both helped her save the world and protected her, now it's Yuna's turn to protect Titus.
Yeah, I guess none of the character conditions in that game affected you at all, I bet you have that same reaction to real people who are in similar socal situations and that's sad. To tell you the truth, you still don't know wether he knew that Quistis loved him. Between his personality, her never being direct about it, it's quiet possible. Though I think if square put a memory sequence of Squall's with a conversation with Quistis that would give him more reason to expect her not to love him, then that would have at least smacked those who pay less attention to detail in the face with a man-eating fish.
The game becomes more difficult if you play it with the intent to see the story develop as fast as you can. It becomes boring if your intent is to fight as many battles as possible.
Yeah except if you walk into a store and walk out with a CD without paying for it, the store owner had paied for that CD, meaning basically somebody loses something. When you download an MP3 that you otherwise wouldn't have paid for in any format, nobody actually loses money, they just don't gain it.
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The difference is that he didn't hijack the servers and use them for his own deeds for a month and returned them. He got in, observed how severe the exploit was, got out, and told the admins that they need to fix it. If someone broke into my car without doing any damage to it and then left a note giving me suggestions I'd welcome it, it's not like they drove off with the car and they might have saved my car from future theft.
Both of you are acting like children and you both sound like the typical arrogant American vs. arrogant forigener, you both should be smacked.
The last one...
Odd, the LCD screen on my laptop seems to be better at fooling my eyes for gaming than when it's connected to a CRT. Maybe I need a better CRT?
Oh trust me there is...I hang around with enough people of both genders to know that social stigmas have a great impact.
I'm more inclined to believe in the social stigma effect.