They seem to update the software every other week with it reminding you to upgrade to the latest version(not pro, just the latest free version).
The lousy part being the paid version come in two different licence forms, $20 for one version, $40 for lifetime upgrades. The "one version" licence covers any minor increment improvements they make. But on the next full version number upgrade, you have to pay again to upgrade if you don't have the lifetime license.
But MusicMatch likes to upgrade version numbers the same way AOL does, jumping full version numbers for only minor improvements.
The paid version has some nice features, the auto-tag feature is pretty much the only reason I keep MMJB around once iTunes came out for Windows, but the licence scheme just sucks.
I hope the price goes down once Yahoo takes over.
Because of the horrid color scheme, I didn't see the link. All I saw was that Craig Mundie cumming is his pants was modded +4 Interesting and was trying to grasp the situation.
Short of taxing email (would that even work?), spam is here to stay.
I think to tax spam we would first have to implement a way of verifing who sent it, otherwise you would get charged for all the spam with your spoofed address on it.
We all know that slashdot is in bed with Apple's for free laptops (email correspond with any of them and look at their headers... OS X/mail.app all over the place)
Maybe they just like using an operating system with the stability of a *nix, without all the configuration issues of one?
Not the public web. I think the statement on Mozilla.org meant it is usable for Internet browsing but it's not recommnded you use it for accessing accessing web-based apps on you companies intranet, ect. They wouldn't want some weird interaction between Firefox and a corporate homebrew app bringing down a customer database, for example.
What I don't undrstand is why I have to pay insurance on every car I own. There is only one of me, I can only drive one car at a time. So why do I have to pay per car?
I should have my rate set based on the highest risk car I own and that should cover all the vehicles I drive.
On a flip side of that, if my insurance rate is set based on the car I drive I shouldn't really be insured if I borrow someone else's car and it has a higher risk rating than the one I'm insured for. "You wanna drive the SUV? Sorry, you're only insured for class P vehicles so it's the Taurus for you?"
The probelm is this will never cause insurance rates to actually stay down for a long period of time. Sure, when the program first begins they will lower rates on good drivers to say "See? Just like we promised!" but eventally they will raise the "discount" rates until they are pretty close to what the average is today. The insurance market knows what the threshold is where consumers will grumble but still pay. That will become the new "low, safe driver" rate, eventually. The same rate you were paying five, ten years ago without big brother under the dash. Simply because they know they can charge a rate of $X and people will pay it.
This is much like the "discount" cards grocery stores handed out starting five years ago or so. At first people got them to save a dime or two on some of the itmes in their carts, they were like coupons off regular price. But the stores began to raise rates until getting what was the "normal" rate now REQUIRES using a card, and not becomes an invitation to get bent over at the checkout.
More info on that patent.
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I remember hearing about that in Auto Tech in high school. I remember that the patent was eventually ruled invalid because it only covered two-cycle engines and at that point most cars were using four cycle engines.
The man was George Selden, and you can info about that patent mentioned here.
But I'm only replying to this to use this oppertunity to apologize to the grandparent poster, my words were rash and overly harsh.
As for the individual so quick with the name-calling this goes back to, who made you the man's bitch?
People goof up the capitalization of acronyms all the time! How often it is that I see "ram" "rom" "bios" and "mb" (when meaning MegaByte). When I see someone type "m" "b" after a ram figure, I expect it to be in megabytes, as that is the normal unit used for discussing amounts of memory today. I only expect it to be "megabits" when the discussion is highly technical or highly archaic.
I haven't been on a BBS in about five years, and most people have never used one, so I don't go around talking about my modem speed in charaters per second now do I?
So anyway, have an unpleasant day if you can find nothing constructive to add to the conversation. The majority of the post was not about historical technical specs but the fact the iMac was built for the market it was intended for.
I don't complain to Yacht builders that their boats are slower than speedboats and make lousy Navy Clippers.
Look, Ive used macs since the orignal - that just had 1Mb of ram!
The original Macintosh had only 128k of RAM. The first Mac one could have one megabyte of RAM in was the Macintosh Plus, which came out two years later.
I won't try to justify my knowledge of Macs by stating I've been using them since the beginning, my first Mac was a IIsi. But I will point out I seem to know more than you do about your own computer. I'll also point out the iMac is by Apple's own definition a consumer machine, so I'm not shocked the new iMac wasn't built for the "hard core corporate client." A gamer may be a type of consumer, but they are more prosumer, and haven't considered the iMac in the past because the screen nor the graphics card can be upgarded.
If you're looking for an iMac to satisfy both of these users, you will be looking for a very long time. The two groups are opposites in term of needs.
Does a corporate user need a high-horsepower graphics card? No.
Is 5.1 sound important to Powerpoint presentations? No.
Does a company want systems that just get the job done without being extravagently expensive? Yes.
Is liquid cooling necessary in the workplace? No.
Does extra piping for liquid cooling annoy IT guys trying to replace a bad NIC? Yes.
There was a program called Black Night and I believe it supported telnet. I never used it bacause I think it was shareware and ZTerm was simply a better program (and free) for someone dialing BBS's.
The analysits think this is 'innovative' now, wait till they find themselves having to pay a monthly fee to type their articles instead of actaully owning licences to use their Office apps.
Who needs an operating system when you run all your services through a portal on a cross platform environment like the web?
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There are people out there who don't trust Mozilla. Why? Because it isn't run by a major corporation that they will be able to sue should there be any problems.
That makes sense. And certainly is part of the reason FOSS is not more widely accepted in business. But it's an unwarranted idea. EULA's usually say that the software is used at your own risk and the vendor cannot be held responsible for coincidental, accidental, anecdotal, and total disasters.
So even if there software is being written by a megasupacorporation, there's few legitaimate reasons you could sue.
The fact the ports are open doesn't mean software vendors have to take advantage of them.
Some of the software vendors have no real need for network connectivity. If a software application does not have internet connectivity on it's requirements list to run (like P2P software or network gaming functions of URT2003) is there any reason the software should "behave differently" when it is online but blocked compared to when it can't get online at all, or is able to get online and is not blocked?
I blame sloppy programming around Windows issues and the need for every vendor to insert some sort of "usage" or "feedback" component into their software for this mess.
Isn't the fact we paid for the software enough reason to leave us alone and let us use it without "profiles" being built in a marketing dept. somewhere?
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No, it would go something like this...
"Explorer": 35%
"What's a web browser?": 15%
"Mozilla" or "Firefox": 5%
"Netscape" (all versions, consumers don't know anything about the Mozilla-Netscape relationship): 12%
"AOL": 15%
"(Named ISP)": 8%
"(Named their homepage)": 10%
They seem to update the software every other week with it reminding you to upgrade to the latest version(not pro, just the latest free version). The lousy part being the paid version come in two different licence forms, $20 for one version, $40 for lifetime upgrades. The "one version" licence covers any minor increment improvements they make. But on the next full version number upgrade, you have to pay again to upgrade if you don't have the lifetime license. But MusicMatch likes to upgrade version numbers the same way AOL does, jumping full version numbers for only minor improvements. The paid version has some nice features, the auto-tag feature is pretty much the only reason I keep MMJB around once iTunes came out for Windows, but the licence scheme just sucks. I hope the price goes down once Yahoo takes over.
Because of the horrid color scheme, I didn't see the link. All I saw was that Craig Mundie cumming is his pants was modded +4 Interesting and was trying to grasp the situation.
those "couple of stories" both come from a rumor site
The stories are about features found in a developer release from Apple. How is it a rumor to be skeptical of when Apple itself is the source?
Short of taxing email (would that even work?), spam is here to stay.
I think to tax spam we would first have to implement a way of verifing who sent it, otherwise you would get charged for all the spam with your spoofed address on it.
and I bet there still wont be anything on.
We all know that slashdot is in bed with Apple's for free laptops (email correspond with any of them and look at their headers... OS X/mail.app all over the place)
Maybe they just like using an operating system with the stability of a *nix, without all the configuration issues of one?
Nahhhhh, why would someone want that?
Except the sticking the photo into the scanner part.
The web is mission critical?
Not the public web. I think the statement on Mozilla.org meant it is usable for Internet browsing but it's not recommnded you use it for accessing accessing web-based apps on you companies intranet, ect. They wouldn't want some weird interaction between Firefox and a corporate homebrew app bringing down a customer database, for example.
Houses don't cost 15 grand anymore either!
Yes, but they don't cost what they do today because of inflation.
There's a differnece between natural inflation and being gouged.
What I don't undrstand is why I have to pay insurance on every car I own. There is only one of me, I can only drive one car at a time. So why do I have to pay per car? I should have my rate set based on the highest risk car I own and that should cover all the vehicles I drive. On a flip side of that, if my insurance rate is set based on the car I drive I shouldn't really be insured if I borrow someone else's car and it has a higher risk rating than the one I'm insured for. "You wanna drive the SUV? Sorry, you're only insured for class P vehicles so it's the Taurus for you?"
The probelm is this will never cause insurance rates to actually stay down for a long period of time. Sure, when the program first begins they will lower rates on good drivers to say "See? Just like we promised!" but eventally they will raise the "discount" rates until they are pretty close to what the average is today. The insurance market knows what the threshold is where consumers will grumble but still pay. That will become the new "low, safe driver" rate, eventually. The same rate you were paying five, ten years ago without big brother under the dash. Simply because they know they can charge a rate of $X and people will pay it.
This is much like the "discount" cards grocery stores handed out starting five years ago or so. At first people got them to save a dime or two on some of the itmes in their carts, they were like coupons off regular price. But the stores began to raise rates until getting what was the "normal" rate now REQUIRES using a card, and not becomes an invitation to get bent over at the checkout.
I remember hearing about that in Auto Tech in high school. I remember that the patent was eventually ruled invalid because it only covered two-cycle engines and at that point most cars were using four cycle engines.
The man was George Selden, and you can info about that patent mentioned here.
You're right.
But I'm only replying to this to use this oppertunity to apologize to the grandparent poster, my words were rash and overly harsh.
As for the individual so quick with the name-calling this goes back to, who made you the man's bitch?
People goof up the capitalization of acronyms all the time! How often it is that I see "ram" "rom" "bios" and "mb" (when meaning MegaByte). When I see someone type "m" "b" after a ram figure, I expect it to be in megabytes, as that is the normal unit used for discussing amounts of memory today. I only expect it to be "megabits" when the discussion is highly technical or highly archaic.
I haven't been on a BBS in about five years, and most people have never used one, so I don't go around talking about my modem speed in charaters per second now do I?
So anyway, have an unpleasant day if you can find nothing constructive to add to the conversation. The majority of the post was not about historical technical specs but the fact the iMac was built for the market it was intended for.
I don't complain to Yacht builders that their boats are slower than speedboats and make lousy Navy Clippers.
Look, Ive used macs since the orignal - that just had 1Mb of ram!
The original Macintosh had only 128k of RAM. The first Mac one could have one megabyte of RAM in was the Macintosh Plus, which came out two years later.
I won't try to justify my knowledge of Macs by stating I've been using them since the beginning, my first Mac was a IIsi. But I will point out I seem to know more than you do about your own computer. I'll also point out the iMac is by Apple's own definition a consumer machine, so I'm not shocked the new iMac wasn't built for the "hard core corporate client." A gamer may be a type of consumer, but they are more prosumer, and haven't considered the iMac in the past because the screen nor the graphics card can be upgarded.
If you're looking for an iMac to satisfy both of these users, you will be looking for a very long time. The two groups are opposites in term of needs.
Does a corporate user need a high-horsepower graphics card? No.
Is 5.1 sound important to Powerpoint presentations? No.
Does a company want systems that just get the job done without being extravagently expensive? Yes.
Is liquid cooling necessary in the workplace? No.
Does extra piping for liquid cooling annoy IT guys trying to replace a bad NIC? Yes.
What? You can see the ads?
Well, we know who isn't using Firefox!
Or you could just go to the English version of the site.
According to Micorsoft, the product lifecycle is five years.
The way Longhorn is coming, Windows XP will have reached the end of its own support time before Longhorn is released.
Do you think Microsoft is going to end product activation on it's current version of WIndows before they are at least two major releases past it?
Hey! Think of the money Microsoft will save in technical support staff wages during that interim!
There was a program called Black Night and I believe it supported telnet. I never used it bacause I think it was shareware and ZTerm was simply a better program (and free) for someone dialing BBS's.
You can find it here.
The analysits think this is 'innovative' now, wait till they find themselves having to pay a monthly fee to type their articles instead of actaully owning licences to use their Office apps.
How did this get to be first post?
"Browser Stats also Gone" was the first post when I looked at the comments just before posting a reply.
Who needs an operating system when you run all your services through a portal on a cross platform environment like the web?
There are people out there who don't trust Mozilla.
Why?
Because it isn't run by a major corporation that they will be able to sue should there be any problems.
That makes sense. And certainly is part of the reason FOSS is not more widely accepted in business. But it's an unwarranted idea. EULA's usually say that the software is used at your own risk and the vendor cannot be held responsible for coincidental, accidental, anecdotal, and total disasters.
So even if there software is being written by a megasupacorporation, there's few legitaimate reasons you could sue.
AOL supports IMAP now, so we can use whatever mail client we want to check it.
This move was in response to people dropping AOL because they had to use the lousy mail tools.
The fact the ports are open doesn't mean software vendors have to take advantage of them.
Some of the software vendors have no real need for network connectivity. If a software application does not have internet connectivity on it's requirements list to run (like P2P software or network gaming functions of URT2003) is there any reason the software should "behave differently" when it is online but blocked compared to when it can't get online at all, or is able to get online and is not blocked?
I blame sloppy programming around Windows issues and the need for every vendor to insert some sort of "usage" or "feedback" component into their software for this mess.
Isn't the fact we paid for the software enough reason to leave us alone and let us use it without "profiles" being built in a marketing dept. somewhere?