Let me preface this by saying I'm a mac user who loves itunes and the itunes music store. Still one thing I don't get. I always read posts on slashdot stating that finding songs via p2p is difficult and time consuming and that is why itms has become so popular. I mean I see these posts anytime the itms is mentioned. Now I dont' pretend to be that bright, but I can't be alone in thinking this doesn't jive with any p2p experience I've tried lately. Example, I just fired up cabos a gnutella based client (loaded in 1.5 sec on my g5). I typed in James Taylor Fire and Rain. six seconds later I had 76 songs listed (missippi count style). I clicked the first one at the top of the list it began downloading instantly at 150 kilo bytes a second and was finished downloading in less than 20 seconds. I fired up the song in itunes and listened to it (nice quality). Total time to get a song less than 30 seconds? Can someone explain to me how this was hard? In fact it takes about that long to get a song from itms?
Anyway I call bs on p2p is hard to get songs compared to itms
There are not top gamers using ball mice anymore period. If you think optical mice skip compared to ball mice your only experience with them must be the very first generation of opticals. Optical mice at this stage are superior in every way to ball mice. Proof is in the pudding not one quaker at the last quakecon that was a serious competitor was using a ball mouse.
"don't be an idiot. OSX has had 4 paid upgrades and 5 release compared to XP and its two free upgrades. "
lol you're the fucking moron xp has has far more security patches than osx. I have an xp box and a g5 sitting next to me and I can definitely tell you which one makes me more nervous. Hey that doesn't matter anyway tadah! how about the latest neat exploit? that's right as of today there is a serious fucking gaping hole in windows. please remove your foot from your mouth.
"The only reason osx doesn't have the spyware and security problems that get published with XP is because nobody uses it. "
Lucasfilm would have to disagree but I guess they are nobody? owned
your userbase theory is old and tired and has be disproved many times. mac osx is inherently more secure by design than windows xp. if you are trying to say it's not you would definitely be in the minority on slashdot. Nice try tho
"That's cute. Your statement is absurd on its face. You clearly aren't a developer of any stature. Linux people could make an argument, but macs sure as hell can't. In fact you and Steve Jobs are the only fools I've heard try and pretend xcode is in a serious alternative to a real dev suite like visual studio. lol. Keep dreamy buddy."
macs sure as hell couldn't as they are computers you fucking simpleton. I'm sorry you find that abortion that is visual studio great lmao I dont' know what to tell you. You obviously haven't used interface builder. There is nothing close.
"I use both of them in my lab at home, and I support OSX at client offices (I don't know who Paul is). I can tell you they are not the same. Just so I understand, what is the same again?"
paul thurrot disagrees
"OSX offers no tools comprable to Visual Studio"
You're right xcode and interface builder are much better. There is no comparison!
The lateset build of Vista is basically osx Tiger. Take a look at winsupersite.com Paul thurrots site. He is the biggest windows fanboy known to man.
Here is what he had to say about the latest build of vista "One issue Microsoft is going to have to work hard to overcome is how closely parts of this product resemble Mac OS X."
Let me tel you, If Paul Thurrot says ms is copying apple lmao they aren't just copying them they are rebranding tiger dvds.
"From built in anti-spyware, to great IE upgrades, to cool screen effects."
yah that's a great feature! hahaha I'd rather take an os that doesn't require a built anti spyware application due to better engineering. But hey that's just me!
Hardrives are not more reliable than commericial optical media in storage life or in physical abuse.
try dropping a hardrive a few times on concrete see how well the platter spins up. I've had several hard drives fail over the years I've yet to have one commercial dvd or cd "fail"
hahaha I didn't buy an ipod and my current player has an inferior interface but atleast I'm not trendy! Way to make your self feel better about your purchase mistake!
yah or you are too stupid to turn off magnification. Clearly the dock is better you have the a dynamic pretty resizing launch bar or a static launch bar ala the taskbar.
aghhahahahaha
I just went to secunia and took a look at all the improvements microsoft have added since xp was released. I don't know about putting apple to shame but it certainly puts xp to shame rofl
Seriously though, care to list these amazing features microsoft has "added/upgraded for free since xp was released" ?
No fixing critical system flaws and exploits doesn't count lmao
This is total bullshit. You get an email that looks like it's from ebay and you follow it and enter your info? how is that os specific. No it's not it's moron specific.
hahah your dreaming if you think labels are sending original analog master tapes to apple. Obviously making a copy doesn't make financial sense. No they are most likely encoded from the mastered retail cd. Mabye in some cases pcm files at higher quality direct.
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that is certainly a good point. Jobs is definitely the driving force behind apple's climb and it's scary to have your stock riding on one man.
we are talking music. not apps or viruses mp3s.
Let me preface this by saying I'm a mac user who loves itunes and the itunes music store. Still one thing I don't get. I always read posts on slashdot stating that finding songs via p2p is difficult and time consuming and that is why itms has become so popular. I mean I see these posts anytime the itms is mentioned. Now I dont' pretend to be that bright, but I can't be alone in thinking this doesn't jive with any p2p experience I've tried lately. Example, I just fired up cabos a gnutella based client (loaded in 1.5 sec on my g5). I typed in James Taylor Fire and Rain. six seconds later I had 76 songs listed (missippi count style). I clicked the first one at the top of the list it began downloading instantly at 150 kilo bytes a second and was finished downloading in less than 20 seconds. I fired up the song in itunes and listened to it (nice quality). Total time to get a song less than 30 seconds? Can someone explain to me how this was hard? In fact it takes about that long to get a song from itms? Anyway I call bs on p2p is hard to get songs compared to itms
There are not top gamers using ball mice anymore period. If you think optical mice skip compared to ball mice your only experience with them must be the very first generation of opticals. Optical mice at this stage are superior in every way to ball mice. Proof is in the pudding not one quaker at the last quakecon that was a serious competitor was using a ball mouse.
"don't be an idiot. OSX has had 4 paid upgrades and 5 release compared to XP and its two free upgrades. "
lol you're the fucking moron xp has has far more security patches than osx. I have an xp box and a g5 sitting next to me and I can definitely tell you which one makes me more nervous. Hey that doesn't matter anyway tadah! how about the latest neat exploit? that's right as of today there is a serious fucking gaping hole in windows. please remove your foot from your mouth.
"The only reason osx doesn't have the spyware and security problems that get published with XP is because nobody uses it. "
Lucasfilm would have to disagree but I guess they are nobody? owned your userbase theory is old and tired and has be disproved many times. mac osx is inherently more secure by design than windows xp. if you are trying to say it's not you would definitely be in the minority on slashdot. Nice try tho
"That's cute. Your statement is absurd on its face. You clearly aren't a developer of any stature. Linux people could make an argument, but macs sure as hell can't. In fact you and Steve Jobs are the only fools I've heard try and pretend xcode is in a serious alternative to a real dev suite like visual studio. lol. Keep dreamy buddy."
macs sure as hell couldn't as they are computers you fucking simpleton. I'm sorry you find that abortion that is visual studio great lmao I dont' know what to tell you. You obviously haven't used interface builder. There is nothing close. "I use both of them in my lab at home, and I support OSX at client offices (I don't know who Paul is). I can tell you they are not the same. Just so I understand, what is the same again?" paul thurrot disagrees
wow that's amazing how did you fit all 15 gallons in one glass?
"OSX offers no tools comprable to Visual Studio" You're right xcode and interface builder are much better. There is no comparison! The lateset build of Vista is basically osx Tiger. Take a look at winsupersite.com Paul thurrots site. He is the biggest windows fanboy known to man. Here is what he had to say about the latest build of vista "One issue Microsoft is going to have to work hard to overcome is how closely parts of this product resemble Mac OS X." Let me tel you, If Paul Thurrot says ms is copying apple lmao they aren't just copying them they are rebranding tiger dvds. "From built in anti-spyware, to great IE upgrades, to cool screen effects." yah that's a great feature! hahaha I'd rather take an os that doesn't require a built anti spyware application due to better engineering. But hey that's just me!
This is a nice theory until you browse to apple site and take a look at Pages and keynote. Microsoft stopped IE mac dev because it's a waste of money.
sweet the non alpha version of songbird is now available here
I'll still probably get an x2 anyway as I'm american and I enjoy wasting power!
Yes there will definitely be a rootkit for the upcoming ps3
Hardrives are not more reliable than commericial optical media in storage life or in physical abuse. try dropping a hardrive a few times on concrete see how well the platter spins up. I've had several hard drives fail over the years I've yet to have one commercial dvd or cd "fail"
yah all 5 of you unix types. That's some nail! They'd prefer that nail to the mighty jesus stake from the x86 masses
hahaha I didn't buy an ipod and my current player has an inferior interface but atleast I'm not trendy! Way to make your self feel better about your purchase mistake!
pal is not a higher framerate than NTSC, just resolution. Now that we have ATSC (HD) who cares. pal = 25 fps NTSC = 29.97
yah or you are too stupid to turn off magnification. Clearly the dock is better you have the a dynamic pretty resizing launch bar or a static launch bar ala the taskbar.
aghhahahahaha I just went to secunia and took a look at all the improvements microsoft have added since xp was released. I don't know about putting apple to shame but it certainly puts xp to shame rofl Seriously though, care to list these amazing features microsoft has "added/upgraded for free since xp was released" ? No fixing critical system flaws and exploits doesn't count lmao
wow modded as interesting. This guy is a troll right out of that childrens book where the bad things are.
Finder image preview is not on by default in osx.
This is total bullshit. You get an email that looks like it's from ebay and you follow it and enter your info? how is that os specific. No it's not it's moron specific.
hahah your dreaming if you think labels are sending original analog master tapes to apple. Obviously making a copy doesn't make financial sense. No they are most likely encoded from the mastered retail cd. Mabye in some cases pcm files at higher quality direct.
If slashdot editors spent as much time coding html and posting duplicates this site would be the taj mahal of web pages
I know your a troll but atleast get you facts straight apple didn't steal from xerox.
Doesn't matter to me at the end of the day what processor Intel or AMD launch if it can't run osx that's a deal closer for me.