Or better yet, store your porn on an encrypted disk image with a password that doesn't match any of your other passwords. They could spend hours going through your computer and never know you had a thing for horses...
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Originally, maybe. Then Apple realized they could make a hefty profit off the iPod alone, and decided to use iTunes to lure people to the iPod instead. Which has been a lot more successful.
Not even - all you have to do is make the playlist again. As another poster pointed out, this just makes it less convenient for someone to burn dozens of copies of songs to give to friends. Not impossible by any means, but more of a pain.
have a life and don't have time to update all my computers now.
If you dedicated 5 minutes of your life to updating, you would be done.
1. Download the update.dmg to a shared folder. 2. Open it on one machine, click Agree. 3. While that's installing, go open the dmg on the next computer and begin installing. 4. By the time you get back to your first computer, it should be done updating. Close installer, start iTunes. Repeat for all computers.
Now how long would that take? Seriously.... less time than it took me to type this:P
It depends on the codec, and the song.... If you rip it using the original encoder, in theory it should be the same in quality. But, note that the iTunes store uses a slightly different encoder for AAC than iTunes, the program, so you'd probably get slightly inconsistant quality there.
If those are your only 3 lists, you could just uncheck the songs you don't wanted played. If you have other playlists that you DO want the holiday/spoken word tracks in, or if you have a ridiculous amount of said tracks, then yeah you've got a point.
Whether an abstraction layer of a "playlist" is present or not, you're rights as a licensee are still being unilaterally modified.
No, they aren't. You click 'Agree' when you install iTunes - probably several times. If you don't want Apple to change the deal, don't install the new version.
Well, Palm and Symbian are obvious: besides the difficulty of shrinking iTunes onto a handheld, why would anyone buy an iPod? (plus, you'd need an expensive CF card for that to be any good anyway.)
Um..... I can listen to music from her computer without permanently adding it to mine, adding some of her music to my own playlists... And then when she turns her computer off iTunes would just gracefully ignore those songs, and perhaps indicate with a little icon that the song is no longer available.
iTunes 4.x most definitely has that feature - Shared Playlists (via Rendezvous). Make sure "Share my music" and "Look for shared playlists" are on in Preferences. When you both log in to the same network, there'll be a blue playlist sort of icon representing the other person's music, which gets played over the network. One of you leaves, the playlist disappears. With third-party apps like Leechster you can download the songs themselves directly into your library.
Actually, there was some prominent columnist that specifically requested this feature in the next version of iTunes - only he didn't mention it going to the store, only to the "Browse" command as a shortcut. I can't remember who it was, though, or find a link.
I was somewhat disappointed that clicking these went to the store, but with the option-click sending it to where i was expecting, I'm much happier. iTunes 4.5 gets a big thumbs-up from me.:-D
I believe it works with anything that will mount as a drive, which is almost any relatively modern player. It works with my old Muvo, although for some reason deleting tracks causes a few garbage tracks to appear for some reason (which I think is a file system issue, since the Muvo uses FAT16, which is probably not as supported in OSX as fat32)
Actually, you could probably do that now - burn it to a CD and rip it into the 'lossless' format. Although you would still have the "original lossiness", you wouldn't lose anything during the re-ripping process. Whether or not they offer lossless tracks on the store really doesn't affect that.
If you click 'Agree' to everything (and I recall hitting two or three 'Agrees' in the process of installing the new version of iTunes) there's really not much you can do.
However, if they did do something like that, you can bet no one would buy anything at the iTunes store anymore. And that means Apple would stop selling iPods in such ridiculous numbers. They wouldn't do anything nearly as drastic as you are afraid of, ye harbinger of doom.
I agree with what you say, except for that. How can you not despise their pricing? The TI-83 is horribly overpriced - even on ebay, they don't go for less than $35, while new they cost about $80-100 depending on where you look. Compare to a similar HP calculator, which can be found for well under $20 on ebay, or to a Zire that runs under $100 new, about $40-50 on ebay, and has about 4 times the specs of the TI.
The only thing the TI can do that the Palms can't, as far as I can tell, is be allowed into tests. Of course, you could probably mod a Zire to look like a TI (insert Zire screen into TI case?) and it might pass.... That would be an interesting project....
Although, you'd still need the TI case, which implies having bought a TI anyway.
Exactly.... I despise TI's calculators. They've been charging about $100 for the TI-83 for how many years now? For less than a TI-83 you can get a Palm Zire or similar PDA that can do a LOT more, a LOT faster, is a LOT smaller, and looks a LOT cooler. The only downside: you generally are SOL if you can't figure out how to use it.
That's why I think there needs to be an open source graphing calculator project that closely emulates a TI-83 sort of calculator - it would be available for Palm, PPC, cellphones, possibly even on some calculators that support it, not to mention all major PC OS's. And it would be free, and the TI monopoly that causes students to waste millions on hopelessly obselete hardware would cease. Then TI could lower the prices of some of its higher-end calculators that are actually worth using.
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6. PROFIT!!!!
What if a terrorist had got in there and blew up all our data.
Then, if your hosting company isn't full of morons, you will restore it from the multiple backups.
I don't believe you.
:P
A lawyer? on slashdot? We're not THAT gullible.
In retrospect I probably shouldv'e posted that anonymously :/
Or better yet, store your porn on an encrypted disk image with a password that doesn't match any of your other passwords. They could spend hours going through your computer and never know you had a thing for horses...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things! :D
Aha, found it.
....you know, on the off chance anyone cares.
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Originally, maybe. Then Apple realized they could make a hefty profit off the iPod alone, and decided to use iTunes to lure people to the iPod instead. Which has been a lot more successful.
> I have to give up 3 identical CD burns.
Not even - all you have to do is make the playlist again.
As another poster pointed out, this just makes it less convenient for someone to burn dozens of copies of songs to give to friends. Not impossible by any means, but more of a pain.
Check the Leechster link I included.
have a life and don't have time to update all my computers now.
.dmg to a shared folder.
:P
If you dedicated 5 minutes of your life to updating, you would be done.
1. Download the update
2. Open it on one machine, click Agree.
3. While that's installing, go open the dmg on the next computer and begin installing.
4. By the time you get back to your first computer, it should be done updating. Close installer, start iTunes. Repeat for all computers.
Now how long would that take? Seriously.... less time than it took me to type this
It depends on the codec, and the song.... If you rip it using the original encoder, in theory it should be the same in quality. But, note that the iTunes store uses a slightly different encoder for AAC than iTunes, the program, so you'd probably get slightly inconsistant quality there.
If those are your only 3 lists, you could just uncheck the songs you don't wanted played.
If you have other playlists that you DO want the holiday/spoken word tracks in, or if you have a ridiculous amount of said tracks, then yeah you've got a point.
Actually iTunes on campus is somewhat insignificant. It just lets the colleges redistribute the iTunes application, not any songs.
Whether an abstraction layer of a "playlist" is present or not, you're rights as a licensee are still being unilaterally modified.
No, they aren't. You click 'Agree' when you install iTunes - probably several times. If you don't want Apple to change the deal, don't install the new version.
Well, Palm and Symbian are obvious: besides the difficulty of shrinking iTunes onto a handheld, why would anyone buy an iPod? (plus, you'd need an expensive CF card for that to be any good anyway.)
Um.....
I can listen to music from her computer without permanently adding it to mine, adding some of her music to my own playlists... And then when she turns her computer off iTunes would just gracefully ignore those songs, and perhaps indicate with a little icon that the song is no longer available.
iTunes 4.x most definitely has that feature - Shared Playlists (via Rendezvous). Make sure "Share my music" and "Look for shared playlists" are on in Preferences. When you both log in to the same network, there'll be a blue playlist sort of icon representing the other person's music, which gets played over the network. One of you leaves, the playlist disappears. With third-party apps like Leechster you can download the songs themselves directly into your library.
Actually, there was some prominent columnist that specifically requested this feature in the next version of iTunes - only he didn't mention it going to the store, only to the "Browse" command as a shortcut. I can't remember who it was, though, or find a link.
:-D
I was somewhat disappointed that clicking these went to the store, but with the option-click sending it to where i was expecting, I'm much happier. iTunes 4.5 gets a big thumbs-up from me.
Well, that wouldn't sell very many iPods.
They don't make much money at the store, only on the iPods that come with it.
Why not download iTunes and rip a CD into Apple Lossless yourself?
I believe it works with anything that will mount as a drive, which is almost any relatively modern player. It works with my old Muvo, although for some reason deleting tracks causes a few garbage tracks to appear for some reason (which I think is a file system issue, since the Muvo uses FAT16, which is probably not as supported in OSX as fat32)
Actually, you could probably do that now - burn it to a CD and rip it into the 'lossless' format. Although you would still have the "original lossiness", you wouldn't lose anything during the re-ripping process. Whether or not they offer lossless tracks on the store really doesn't affect that.
If you click 'Agree' to everything (and I recall hitting two or three 'Agrees' in the process of installing the new version of iTunes) there's really not much you can do.
However, if they did do something like that, you can bet no one would buy anything at the iTunes store anymore. And that means Apple would stop selling iPods in such ridiculous numbers. They wouldn't do anything nearly as drastic as you are afraid of, ye harbinger of doom.
I don't despise their pricing
I agree with what you say, except for that. How can you not despise their pricing? The TI-83 is horribly overpriced - even on ebay, they don't go for less than $35, while new they cost about $80-100 depending on where you look. Compare to a similar HP calculator, which can be found for well under $20 on ebay, or to a Zire that runs under $100 new, about $40-50 on ebay, and has about 4 times the specs of the TI.
The only thing the TI can do that the Palms can't, as far as I can tell, is be allowed into tests. Of course, you could probably mod a Zire to look like a TI (insert Zire screen into TI case?) and it might pass.... That would be an interesting project....
Although, you'd still need the TI case, which implies having bought a TI anyway.
Exactly.... I despise TI's calculators. They've been charging about $100 for the TI-83 for how many years now? For less than a TI-83 you can get a Palm Zire or similar PDA that can do a LOT more, a LOT faster, is a LOT smaller, and looks a LOT cooler. The only downside: you generally are SOL if you can't figure out how to use it.
That's why I think there needs to be an open source graphing calculator project that closely emulates a TI-83 sort of calculator - it would be available for Palm, PPC, cellphones, possibly even on some calculators that support it, not to mention all major PC OS's. And it would be free, and the TI monopoly that causes students to waste millions on hopelessly obselete hardware would cease. Then TI could lower the prices of some of its higher-end calculators that are actually worth using.