Finally. Now I don't have to suffer with Microsoft Paint at work on Windows machines I don't have access to install software on. It's rather amazing after all these years Windows still doesn't have something to properly crop and resize images with.
I suppose it would be considered monopolistic if there wasn't an alternative online store with DRM designed for another particular line of products. I wonder if Rhapsody, Zune Marketplace or anything with the "PlaysForSure" logo offers something similar...
'Lock in' implies you must purchase something because of something else you already own. Which of your Apple products did you purchased because you had to?
'It doesn't support Ogg' is not lock in unless you had to buy an iPod. There are other players out there that can play Ogg.
No f'n way will I tolerate subsidizing their stupidity and refusal to embrace new technology as it came along. I suppose free market capitalism only suits them when they're swimming around in money like Scrooge McDuck.
Per the Times, the Beatles are still one of the top sellers of British acts as of 2006.
Also, a movie called Across The Universe featuring re-recorded Beatles tunes just came out a year ago and did well in the theatres with a new generation of fans.
Beatles music hasn't stop selling. From new fans just discovering them as they grow up to Baby Boomers who are just discovering things like iTunes, there are sales to be made.
The iPhone, he said, is "bigger than the personal computer..."
The iPhone is locked to one provider. The iPhone will soon have unlocked competitors.
The Personal Computer has been locked to Microsoft since MS-DOS became dominant back in the 1980s. This fact certainly didn't stop it from becoming big.
Minimalist use of screen real estate is not a Mac virtue:
Big icons is your only example of this? On the contrary:
* The 'Maximize' button will only open the app window as large as the content inside of it requires, it will not fill the screen. * One menu bar along the top for all open windows ensures no screen space is wasted with repeated displays of a menu bar. * Mac OS X automatically resizes dialog boxes to accommodate the content inside of them. * Dialog boxes that open off the edge of the screen will be automatically moved back into the screen along with the rest of the app, and when closed the OS will shift the app back where it was before you opened the dialog box. * Most apps do not have a 'background' window as to allow interaction with the desktop while the app is open. One common example is Photoshop.
Most Windows users I observe maximize all their open apps to completely cover the desktop and use the Start bar as a full-screen task-switcher. In other words, a multi-tasking MS-DOS.
On the other hand, Apple has the momentum. They've been shipping products with multi-touch features for almost a year now. The most Microsoft has done is demo something that they haven't even begun to sell yet. They're playing catchup just like the Zune is doing.
You can Command-drag a window by the titlebar that is not in the focus without bringing it to the front. You can also Command-drag to resize a window that is not in the focus without bring it to the front. You can press Command-` to cycle through all the open windows in the current application. You can press Command-H to Hide the current window in focus. You can press Command-M to Minimize the current window in focus. Command-Tab will bring up a list of all open applications. You can use your mouse while holding Command-Tab to select an application to switch to, and furthermore while you have your mouse pointer over the application you can press H to Hide that particular application or Q to close that particular application.
Per Apple's Developer Connection applications do have an API in Cocoa to use methods to manipulate the Window Z-order, so I would imagine there might be some applications out there already that could perform more specifically what you're looking for.
Why? Ogg was supposed to be a free version of MP3. We now have AAC/MPEG-4 part 3 for audio and H.264/MPEG-4 part 10 for video. Barely anything out there supports Ogg except for a VLC and maybe one handful of apps and one or two iRiver players.
I was in high school at the time OS/2 Warp 3 came out. I found the Red Spine version at my local Wal-Mart. (!!!! this sort of thing would be unheard of today). In days I was multitasking smoothly with my BBS in the background without a hitch. And OS/2 was the first OS I had that booted straight into a GUI. It was like a dream for me. When Windows 95 came out, I tried it at friends houses and was disgusted with it. It still felt like DOS to me. It still didn't multitask smoothly, and my fellow BBS sysops who ran it complained about it losing memory and their BBSes "stuttering and slowing down" when they tried to open up Word on their machines. I became an OS/2 fan, I even joined the Warp 4 beta team and IBM shipped me a copy. I was purchasing OS/2 apps from Indelible Blue during my freshman year in college.
But I eventually gave OS/2 up for NT 4 Workstation a few years later. As much as I liked OS/2, by that time I realized IBM just wasn't going to support it and major apps would never get ported to it. IBM was preloading Windows on all their machines and servers by then. And when I did reformat for NT, I could then finally run Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
The only thing I would like to see of OS/2 resurrected is the WPS. I always thought the WPS running on Linux would be a killer OS. Which probably explains why I am now running Mac OS X.:)
...then why was it just cut out of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac? If we Mac users are supposed to use Applescript instead of VBA, then where are the Microsoft supplied tools to convert VBA to Applescript? Does Microsoft not care about their customers enough to ensure compatibility between their most recent Office release?
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Finally. Now I don't have to suffer with Microsoft Paint at work on Windows machines I don't have access to install software on. It's rather amazing after all these years Windows still doesn't have something to properly crop and resize images with.
I suppose it would be considered monopolistic if there wasn't an alternative online store with DRM designed for another particular line of products. I wonder if Rhapsody, Zune Marketplace or anything with the "PlaysForSure" logo offers something similar...
'Lock in' implies you must purchase something because of something else you already own. Which of your Apple products did you purchased because you had to?
'It doesn't support Ogg' is not lock in unless you had to buy an iPod. There are other players out there that can play Ogg.
These rogue 3rd party devices all sport the "Designed for Windows" sticker on the box, do they not?
No f'n way will I tolerate subsidizing their stupidity and refusal to embrace new technology as it came along. I suppose free market capitalism only suits them when they're swimming around in money like Scrooge McDuck.
Per the Times, the Beatles are still one of the top sellers of British acts as of 2006.
Also, a movie called Across The Universe featuring re-recorded Beatles tunes just came out a year ago and did well in the theatres with a new generation of fans.
Beatles music hasn't stop selling. From new fans just discovering them as they grow up to Baby Boomers who are just discovering things like iTunes, there are sales to be made.
The iPhone, he said, is "bigger than the personal computer..."
The iPhone is locked to one provider. The iPhone will soon have unlocked competitors.
The Personal Computer has been locked to Microsoft since MS-DOS became dominant back in the 1980s. This fact certainly didn't stop it from becoming big.
You can add Vampire Weekend to that list. Pick up a copy of Spin sometime, many new acts are generating buzz online, mainly through Myspace.
Minimalist use of screen real estate is not a Mac virtue:
Big icons is your only example of this? On the contrary:
* The 'Maximize' button will only open the app window as large as the content inside of it requires, it will not fill the screen.
* One menu bar along the top for all open windows ensures no screen space is wasted with repeated displays of a menu bar.
* Mac OS X automatically resizes dialog boxes to accommodate the content inside of them.
* Dialog boxes that open off the edge of the screen will be automatically moved back into the screen along with the rest of the app, and when closed the OS will shift the app back where it was before you opened the dialog box.
* Most apps do not have a 'background' window as to allow interaction with the desktop while the app is open. One common example is Photoshop.
Most Windows users I observe maximize all their open apps to completely cover the desktop and use the Start bar as a full-screen task-switcher. In other words, a multi-tasking MS-DOS.
On the other hand, Apple has the momentum. They've been shipping products with multi-touch features for almost a year now. The most Microsoft has done is demo something that they haven't even begun to sell yet. They're playing catchup just like the Zune is doing.
Thanks! I'll have Ferris help me reverse the miles off.
I suppose you won't mind if I take your car for a spin while you're asleep?
Hawaii is on the wrong side of the planet. They can only look down.
In the meantime, the following may help you:
You can Command-drag a window by the titlebar that is not in the focus without bringing it to the front.
You can also Command-drag to resize a window that is not in the focus without bring it to the front.
You can press Command-` to cycle through all the open windows in the current application.
You can press Command-H to Hide the current window in focus.
You can press Command-M to Minimize the current window in focus.
Command-Tab will bring up a list of all open applications. You can use your mouse while holding Command-Tab to select an application to switch to, and furthermore while you have your mouse pointer over the application you can press H to Hide that particular application or Q to close that particular application.
Per Apple's Developer Connection applications do have an API in Cocoa to use methods to manipulate the Window Z-order, so I would imagine there might be some applications out there already that could perform more specifically what you're looking for.
> 1) Requires iTunes.
There are 3rd party apps capable of loading music on iPods.
> 2) Doesn't work with Linux.
There are Linux apps capable of loading music on iPods.
> 3) Is laden with DRM.
Only if you purchase music from the iTunes Store, and then only if you purchase the DRMed tracks as the Store includes DRM free tracks.
> 4) Doesn't support popular codecs like OGG.
Contrary to Slashdot believe, OGG is not popular.
> 5) ONLY supports iTunes Music Store and not other, cheaper services.
iPods are able to work with Amazon's online store and any others that sell MP3s.
> 6) Doesn't allow simple drag-and-drop access to copy music.
You can drag any song you wish from the library to copy your music to the iPod or you can use the autosync feature.
> 7) Software is locked down on the device.
There is a Linux distro available for iPods.
> 8) Non-removable storage.
There are many guides on iPod drive replacement on the web.
> 9) Non-removable battery.
There are many guides on iPod battery replacement on the web.
> 10) Costs $500, much more than cheaper, more open-devices do.
Then please list any sub $499 32GB flash touch screen device that is more cheaper and more "open".
Per BusinessWeek they were 2 years ago
If you don't have a computer with Internet access, how do you expect to get music onto your phone or use the WiFi features of the phone?
Why? Ogg was supposed to be a free version of MP3. We now have AAC/MPEG-4 part 3 for audio and H.264/MPEG-4 part 10 for video. Barely anything out there supports Ogg except for a VLC and maybe one handful of apps and one or two iRiver players.
The WPS was nimble and fast compared to KDE and Gnome. And no, I still haven't found either to be as drag-and-drop flexible as the WPS was.
I was in high school at the time OS/2 Warp 3 came out. I found the Red Spine version at my local Wal-Mart. (!!!! this sort of thing would be unheard of today). In days I was multitasking smoothly with my BBS in the background without a hitch. And OS/2 was the first OS I had that booted straight into a GUI. It was like a dream for me. When Windows 95 came out, I tried it at friends houses and was disgusted with it. It still felt like DOS to me. It still didn't multitask smoothly, and my fellow BBS sysops who ran it complained about it losing memory and their BBSes "stuttering and slowing down" when they tried to open up Word on their machines. I became an OS/2 fan, I even joined the Warp 4 beta team and IBM shipped me a copy. I was purchasing OS/2 apps from Indelible Blue during my freshman year in college.
:)
But I eventually gave OS/2 up for NT 4 Workstation a few years later. As much as I liked OS/2, by that time I realized IBM just wasn't going to support it and major apps would never get ported to it. IBM was preloading Windows on all their machines and servers by then. And when I did reformat for NT, I could then finally run Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
The only thing I would like to see of OS/2 resurrected is the WPS. I always thought the WPS running on Linux would be a killer OS. Which probably explains why I am now running Mac OS X.
The WPS, plain and simple.
The drag-and-drop capabilities in the WPS are still ahead of many others that are out there today.
It's your own company to blame for coding IE specific apps in the first place.
...then why was it just cut out of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac? If we Mac users are supposed to use Applescript instead of VBA, then where are the Microsoft supplied tools to convert VBA to Applescript? Does Microsoft not care about their customers enough to ensure compatibility between their most recent Office release?
Yeah but have you tried to jam that straw through a Capri Sun lately? Now try doing that in weightlessness. Talk about frustration.
It's only on the Mac mini, at least as of 2006 as far as I know. iMacs, Macbooks and Mac Pros have a variety of Pioneer and Sony drives.