The Finder->preferences will restore the app folder to your sidebar. When you drag the app folder, two rules apply: take the copy of Applications from the root of the drive, and drag it to the right side of the dock, just past the little hairline division. Left of that, it's apps only. (By the way, you are going to have a virtual desktop in Leopard.)
If you don't have a two-button mouse -- and any two-button USB mouse will do -- put two fingers on the trackpad and tap twice. That's what they say. I have no trackpad.
Maybe this partnership would have "changed everything," but definitely for the worse. It's endlessly annoying that some putative interest MS might have had in partnering with Apple is automatically seen by the business press as the salvation or transformation of the project. There's only two contributions MS could have made: show Apple some secrets in installing iTunes + Quicktime on the Windows desktop so that it wouldn't be as buggy as it often is, and standing with Apple to fight the idea of DRMed music. In return, the iPod certainly could have supported wma, and there could have been some coordination between Quicktime and the Windows Media Player so that either might have fed the iPod, and the two media players could have played each other's stuff.
But this is cloudcuckooland. This isn't how Microsoft has ever worked. They make it as difficult as possible to play nice with them. They learn whatever they can from temporary alliances, then they either buy you out or crush you with what they learned. But of course, they didn't learn it from YOU, no.
When windows becomes an open-source project, that's when I'll trust them. Or five years later, after the open-source community has had the chance to pick over their code.
IF they want to support Vista in Boot Camp, and I guess they do, the most tricky part in Boot Camp isn't the partitioning but the drivers that you install to translate the Mac keyboard, iSight, mouse and so on into Windows-compatible devices. In XP, you are warned that these are unsigned drivers. In Vista, or in a final Boot Camp version, would Apple keep them unsigned? Probably not, especially since Vista may lock out any unsigned drivers. So that would leave Apple to pay thousands to MS every year for the privilege of keeping its signed status.
Also, if they were to charge for Boot Camp, I think they would have to support Boot Camp, though not whatever software you chose to install on the Boot Camp partition.
Look at the demo. There's a fair amount of Tiger/Leopard graphics in there, including Core Animation. Were you expecting iMovie? You can get a fair-sized subset of OS X in a few hundred megs. The whole thing, including the iLife apps and a ton of irrelevant complexity, comes in under 3 GB in Tiger. You don't WANT the full OS on a phone. Do you want to click around with a mouse, or would you like to have Terminal the way to navigate and phone people?
The Mail app is a shrunken Mail. The browser is Safari. Looks pretty meaningful to me.
This would explain why the "iPhone" by Cisco came out a week before Apple's iPhone. This would also explain why it's such a lame, slapped-together design.
If it's true, then you can see why trademarks lapse if not used or enforced. Why, otherwise, companies could buy up a bunch of trademarks, or think up obvious ones, and sue in perpetuity. Not that that's what's happening here, of course. Kaff, kaff.
Cisco has a good reputation for quality on the corporate (premium) market, and they also are worshipped by a certain kind of business school graduate, but just look at that mess of a website, and I'd say their corporate culture sucks hard.
Actually, I went for comic effect. But one of the worst cases of this was some reputable financial site that popped up a small window for information. However, the next time I launched Explorer, it came up in that teeny window, too. And I find that once Explorer decides what size its default window is, it's the devil trying to open it any other way. Does any Windows master know how to do it?
I use Windows in the office, and, sadly, Explorer for the web. You can set the windows anyway you like, it's true, even make Explorer the full screen if you want. But then, any web site seems capable of popping up a window of any size, taking over my preference, and it is nearly impossible to change. I know, I've done web searches. The fix is of the "open the window, open another one, go to the first, maximize it, spit in the wind, turn around three times, and bang! You're-- Well, it still opens in that little window that the Poker/Porn/Pirate site made it be.
So I think it's a GOOD thing that, if you have a dock, the window won't expand, and I've never come to a web site that changed my preferences.
In the first versions of OS X, Apple apps weren't that sophisticated. But if you want an app that allows you to write on a full screen, with green type, just like the old Apple II days, try this: WriteRoom, from HogBay software. http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom
But here's a tip: set the dock preference to "disappear." Then click the green light. Bingo! Full screen now means you can't see the dock, either. Of course, now, every time you point your cursor near the bottom, the dock comes up. I know, ugly and annying. Same reason I don't use this option in (*&&&%%%% Windows.
The translucent windows are nothing but a mighty thief of computer cycles. Only some computers can display it, while it drowns in meritriciousness even when being displayed. The proof? The little red X in the close thingy. Is it possible to make something that ugly? A number of people don't like the stop lights on Aqua windows, but at least it's well designed. The color-coding is self-explanatory, and when you hove the mouse over it, it also gives you a clue when the +, - and x appear inside the "light." By contrast, the Vista close box is a big, nasty red thing that seems pasted on. Microsoft aesthetics.
They're rushing like crazy, on the Mac at least -- they also make it for Windows -- to become the de facto standard before VM Ware for the Mac comes out.
Does Apple do Kaza, bearshare, e-mule, and Bittorrent? It does all that, but with different names. Except Bittorrent, that's got a Mac version. I'm not sure the RIAA hasn't dinged those other guys, but there were lots of clients that went on those networks in the old days.
The Mac was dying out in the '90s, so its choir got older and older. Now it's on the rebound, so it's gaining all kinds of customers, and all kinds of capabilities. It's gaining market share hand over fist. Doubled in the past year. So some of those guys are young, right? But added to the cost, and younger people not having that extra couple hundred to spend, and the aged original users from 1984, there are factors to skew the user base older. If it keeps growing, as Wall Street definitely thinks it will, the gap will disappear. So take your shots now, boys.
Different political parties boast about this or that majority -- soccer moms or security moms, NASCAR dads and latte drinkers -- only to see that statistical anomaly fade away later on. So, bore on, Apple-haters. Your worm will turn.
Microsoft does this so it can point to the miserly Apple, which insists that tunes stay at.99.
It's ironic that there have been proposals that there be a tax on each player to compensate the RIAA for stolen or ripped music, but these were rejected in our "free market," but Microsoft is in effect proposing a monopoly tax. How far is this from licensing the OS to manufacturers under the condition that they install only Internet Exploder? Is there a hidden codicil here? Will the labels start withdrawing their music from the iTunes store unless they get a piece of each iPod?
In which case, we would have a "tax," and be paying higher prices, without the benefit of legalizing downloads. Regulation for the wealthy, pocket lint for the people.
Oh, I will vote, in this election, straight D, and I don't care who knows it. I'm not voting in all cases for the man, but for the party, because that's the way the game is played.
It's all binary in these United States. Don't like it? Change the electoral laws. Join campaigns to allow multiple votes on a single ballot -- first choice, second choice, first candidate to go over 50% wins -- or public financing, free time on channels in formats of at least five minutes, pass laws requiring TV stations to run candidate forums, whatever. But until the day when elections are structured so that raising money isn't the be-all and end-all, you have to vote strategically. Although, as long as the GOP is being run by its current scurrilous ideologues, they're not getting a single vote from me.
I think you should all retire to my little work camp, where you can your worst little pansy fears of the State confirmed, but you will at least be making license plates, or anything useful. And we can make some money off you for a change.
Disgruntled Statist, who realizes that libertarians are just right-wingers with a hoity-toity attitude.
There are three or four constant refrains here on Slashdot/Apple. Apple is an evil monopoly, its computer are terrible, its adherents are fanboys, the Zune, or something else, and there's always a new something else, is going to kill the iPod, etc., etc. Oh, and, I'm not free of viruses and malware, it's just my imagination. If you look on the larger board, there are any number of general theses being explored. There's some Microsoft bashing, but what the hey, Slashdotters are geeks. So, yeah, this forum has become THE place on the web to crap on Apple. I'm going over to Digg, where is't permissible to criticize Apple -- there's lots of negative stories -- but it's also possible to be a fan and not forever be reading this crap. Adios, boys.
Apple has always been a hardware company with its own OS. In 1984, it was brilliant. In 1996, not so much. But now that we have an OS that can run on multiple processors, maybe there is a rationale for selling two different Mac OSes: one for Macs, and another one for a limited set (at first) of PC mothrboards. However, for the Dells, it would sell in one version, Deluxe, for about $50 less than Vista Ultimate. That's the good part. The tough part would be this: it would have to have a control for the PCs it would work with. If you could buy a PC with the Mac OS preinstalled, it would be welded to that machine. If you try to do anything more than refresh or update that OS, it wouldn't work. You'd have to have serial numbers, activation and the like. Just a little less draconian than Windows. Don't have a real serial number? Total lockout.Then Apple wouldn't bleed sales to cheaper PCs, because if you have a Mac, each new OS sells for $129 -- maybe less, once the cost of the OS is amortized by sales to PC box owners.
Of course, before Apple does this, they'd have to have their own, full-blown Office setup. iWrite, iNumber, iPre-- well, you get the idea.
And Apple could then, without the difficulty of making all of its own hardware, could become Just Like Microsoft. Hackers would proliferate, to get the Mac OS on their box for free. That's easily controlled by sending lawyer's letters to the big hackers' websites. (Can't have a movement without a clubhouse.) Hackers are really okay, because there aren't many of them. The mass market doesn't want to go through all that crap, and then lose the OS for a month or so after an upgrade breaks it. Most users just want to install the OS and go.
Keep the whole OS open source and give it away? Fuggedaboutit. Use Linux if you want free. They don't make a computer, or an iPod, or whatever new thing is coming down the Apple hardware pipeline, do they? Don't get me wrong, it's great. But Apple's UNIX can't go open source and have Apple survive as a company.
If there's no more Hubble, where do I get my computer desktops?
Sell it to the NSA. Get around the "don't point it at the ground" limitation. Sell it on the basis of our need to see down every cleavage in the world, in case they're carrying bombs in there.
Are slashdotters anti-DRM, or just anti-Apple? In the end, it's true, this is not bad for Apple, but they'll still have to fight it, because the studios are watching. Once your DRM is cracked, if it remains cracked you will lose the labels, and that's the end of your store.
Interesting to see that the outlaw rebel freedom fighter DVD Jon is just another damn businessman, huh?
Because you only read the Creationist Genetics Journal. I myself see no ethical concern here. But you can disregard the views of non-Christians, agnostics, atheists, or anybody you want.
There have been lots of false starts in any field of medicine. Don't forget, Pasteur saved the boy from rabies only by taking an enormous ethical risk. Marie Curie died from radiation poisoning.
If adult stem cells can be used, that's fine. If stem cells from embryos have to be used, that's fine with me, too.
It did cure the people, didn't it. All therapies have side-effects. Figure out what happened, and try again.
Well, I've been trapped in the Windows office -- until this year. I'm now running all my office software on my Mac mini. There were a lot of amazed faces when the Windows logo came up on the screen, I tell you. Now I've bought Parallels, and they're amazed.
I've become more and more convinced that if we shut down Gardner and McKinney and the rest of the horrible slop shops, we'd actually have a better world. The MBA is a vastly overestimated degree. Far superior? Work for a summer in your uncle's business. Meet a payroll for a while. Anything you don't understand about that? You probably never will understand it. I want the old American masters of business back, not these effete, number-crunching, elitist morons. Gimme Henry Ford any day. Okay, without the antisemitism. Gimme Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Republicans. Seen one recently? All these morons pretend like there's some science to this whole thing about business. I'll give you the scientific part: buy low, sell high. End of course. Now hit the street, maggots. When you actually make something like the Mac, or like Dell, or anybody, then we'll listen to you pimply consultants. I know what an autoworker is, or a gandy dancer fer chrissakes, but what's a "Gardner" except a parasite who's well-connected enough that he thinks his sorry little job can't be outsourced to Bangalore.
Most people, in fact, do not "fill their iPods" with music from the iTunes store. The majority of songs on an iPod are either CD rips -- at whatever audio quality you want -- or well, from "other places." I admit, though, that the hard drive crash is a problem, as is the iPod crash or the accidental erasure of the iTunes library.
"Wal-Mart Wants to Abolish Physical Reality" to eliminate price differences with free oxygen of atmosphere.
The $12.99 price has already been forced on Apple by the Studios so as not to piss off their big retailers. $9.99 is far more reasonable, given that iTunes offers less resolution, no extras, and makes burning to DVD impossible. In fact, $5.99 would be fair, with $9.99 for a version you could burn.
The big box retailers need trucks, people to stock the shelves, retail clerks, and they sell a fancy package, a DVD 9 configuration with extras and all the rest, booklets, etc.-- of course their prices are higher, because their costs are higher all along the way!
In fact, this is the same kind of whipsawing that Target and Wal-Mart have been using against labor for 20 years. That's why they pay slave wages and employ a majority of part-timers because they won't have to worry about health insurance or other benefits. Disgusting cretins.
I have about 50% CDs, 20% out of the iTunes store, and the other 30% from various free sources -- very, very few off of Napsterish sources, honest, but the rest from artist's web sites, free samples, other cuts from Salon or other places that give away a free song or two.
And when I play music from my iPod, I never recognize a thing? It seems to me that most of the time, I'm surprised, even when I'm hearing something familiar. (Oh, listen to that guitar lick. That lyric says THAT?) That kind of thing.
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The Finder->preferences will restore the app folder to your sidebar. When you drag the app folder, two rules apply: take the copy of Applications from the root of the drive, and drag it to the right side of the dock, just past the little hairline division. Left of that, it's apps only. (By the way, you are going to have a virtual desktop in Leopard.) If you don't have a two-button mouse -- and any two-button USB mouse will do -- put two fingers on the trackpad and tap twice. That's what they say. I have no trackpad.
Maybe this partnership would have "changed everything," but definitely for the worse. It's endlessly annoying that some putative interest MS might have had in partnering with Apple is automatically seen by the business press as the salvation or transformation of the project. There's only two contributions MS could have made: show Apple some secrets in installing iTunes + Quicktime on the Windows desktop so that it wouldn't be as buggy as it often is, and standing with Apple to fight the idea of DRMed music. In return, the iPod certainly could have supported wma, and there could have been some coordination between Quicktime and the Windows Media Player so that either might have fed the iPod, and the two media players could have played each other's stuff.
But this is cloudcuckooland. This isn't how Microsoft has ever worked. They make it as difficult as possible to play nice with them. They learn whatever they can from temporary alliances, then they either buy you out or crush you with what they learned. But of course, they didn't learn it from YOU, no.
When windows becomes an open-source project, that's when I'll trust them. Or five years later, after the open-source community has had the chance to pick over their code.
IF they want to support Vista in Boot Camp, and I guess they do, the most tricky part in Boot Camp isn't the partitioning but the drivers that you install to translate the Mac keyboard, iSight, mouse and so on into Windows-compatible devices. In XP, you are warned that these are unsigned drivers. In Vista, or in a final Boot Camp version, would Apple keep them unsigned? Probably not, especially since Vista may lock out any unsigned drivers. So that would leave Apple to pay thousands to MS every year for the privilege of keeping its signed status. Also, if they were to charge for Boot Camp, I think they would have to support Boot Camp, though not whatever software you chose to install on the Boot Camp partition.
Look at the demo. There's a fair amount of Tiger/Leopard graphics in there, including Core Animation. Were you expecting iMovie? You can get a fair-sized subset of OS X in a few hundred megs. The whole thing, including the iLife apps and a ton of irrelevant complexity, comes in under 3 GB in Tiger. You don't WANT the full OS on a phone. Do you want to click around with a mouse, or would you like to have Terminal the way to navigate and phone people?
The Mail app is a shrunken Mail. The browser is Safari. Looks pretty meaningful to me.
This would explain why the "iPhone" by Cisco came out a week before Apple's iPhone. This would also explain why it's such a lame, slapped-together design.
If it's true, then you can see why trademarks lapse if not used or enforced. Why, otherwise, companies could buy up a bunch of trademarks, or think up obvious ones, and sue in perpetuity. Not that that's what's happening here, of course. Kaff, kaff.
Cisco has a good reputation for quality on the corporate (premium) market, and they also are worshipped by a certain kind of business school graduate, but just look at that mess of a website, and I'd say their corporate culture sucks hard.
Leopard allows you to make an "answering message" with your built-in iSight.
Actually, I went for comic effect. But one of the worst cases of this was some reputable financial site that popped up a small window for information. However, the next time I launched Explorer, it came up in that teeny window, too. And I find that once Explorer decides what size its default window is, it's the devil trying to open it any other way. Does any Windows master know how to do it?
I use Windows in the office, and, sadly, Explorer for the web. You can set the windows anyway you like, it's true, even make Explorer the full screen if you want. But then, any web site seems capable of popping up a window of any size, taking over my preference, and it is nearly impossible to change. I know, I've done web searches. The fix is of the "open the window, open another one, go to the first, maximize it, spit in the wind, turn around three times, and bang! You're-- Well, it still opens in that little window that the Poker/Porn/Pirate site made it be. So I think it's a GOOD thing that, if you have a dock, the window won't expand, and I've never come to a web site that changed my preferences. In the first versions of OS X, Apple apps weren't that sophisticated. But if you want an app that allows you to write on a full screen, with green type, just like the old Apple II days, try this: WriteRoom, from HogBay software. http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom But here's a tip: set the dock preference to "disappear." Then click the green light. Bingo! Full screen now means you can't see the dock, either. Of course, now, every time you point your cursor near the bottom, the dock comes up. I know, ugly and annying. Same reason I don't use this option in (*&&&%%%% Windows.
The translucent windows are nothing but a mighty thief of computer cycles. Only some computers can display it, while it drowns in meritriciousness even when being displayed. The proof? The little red X in the close thingy. Is it possible to make something that ugly? A number of people don't like the stop lights on Aqua windows, but at least it's well designed. The color-coding is self-explanatory, and when you hove the mouse over it, it also gives you a clue when the +, - and x appear inside the "light." By contrast, the Vista close box is a big, nasty red thing that seems pasted on. Microsoft aesthetics.
They're rushing like crazy, on the Mac at least -- they also make it for Windows -- to become the de facto standard before VM Ware for the Mac comes out.
The Mac was dying out in the '90s, so its choir got older and older. Now it's on the rebound, so it's gaining all kinds of customers, and all kinds of capabilities. It's gaining market share hand over fist. Doubled in the past year. So some of those guys are young, right? But added to the cost, and younger people not having that extra couple hundred to spend, and the aged original users from 1984, there are factors to skew the user base older. If it keeps growing, as Wall Street definitely thinks it will, the gap will disappear. So take your shots now, boys. Different political parties boast about this or that majority -- soccer moms or security moms, NASCAR dads and latte drinkers -- only to see that statistical anomaly fade away later on. So, bore on, Apple-haters. Your worm will turn.
Microsoft does this so it can point to the miserly Apple, which insists that tunes stay at .99.
It's ironic that there have been proposals that there be a tax on each player to compensate the RIAA for stolen or ripped music, but these were rejected in our "free market," but Microsoft is in effect proposing a monopoly tax. How far is this from licensing the OS to manufacturers under the condition that they install only Internet Exploder? Is there a hidden codicil here? Will the labels start withdrawing their music from the iTunes store unless they get a piece of each iPod?
In which case, we would have a "tax," and be paying higher prices, without the benefit of legalizing downloads. Regulation for the wealthy, pocket lint for the people.
Oh, I will vote, in this election, straight D, and I don't care who knows it. I'm not voting in all cases for the man, but for the party, because that's the way the game is played. It's all binary in these United States. Don't like it? Change the electoral laws. Join campaigns to allow multiple votes on a single ballot -- first choice, second choice, first candidate to go over 50% wins -- or public financing, free time on channels in formats of at least five minutes, pass laws requiring TV stations to run candidate forums, whatever. But until the day when elections are structured so that raising money isn't the be-all and end-all, you have to vote strategically. Although, as long as the GOP is being run by its current scurrilous ideologues, they're not getting a single vote from me.
I think you should all retire to my little work camp, where you can your worst little pansy fears of the State confirmed, but you will at least be making license plates, or anything useful. And we can make some money off you for a change. Disgruntled Statist, who realizes that libertarians are just right-wingers with a hoity-toity attitude.
There are three or four constant refrains here on Slashdot/Apple. Apple is an evil monopoly, its computer are terrible, its adherents are fanboys, the Zune, or something else, and there's always a new something else, is going to kill the iPod, etc., etc. Oh, and, I'm not free of viruses and malware, it's just my imagination. If you look on the larger board, there are any number of general theses being explored. There's some Microsoft bashing, but what the hey, Slashdotters are geeks. So, yeah, this forum has become THE place on the web to crap on Apple. I'm going over to Digg, where is't permissible to criticize Apple -- there's lots of negative stories -- but it's also possible to be a fan and not forever be reading this crap. Adios, boys.
Apple has always been a hardware company with its own OS. In 1984, it was brilliant. In 1996, not so much. But now that we have an OS that can run on multiple processors, maybe there is a rationale for selling two different Mac OSes: one for Macs, and another one for a limited set (at first) of PC mothrboards. However, for the Dells, it would sell in one version, Deluxe, for about $50 less than Vista Ultimate. That's the good part. The tough part would be this: it would have to have a control for the PCs it would work with. If you could buy a PC with the Mac OS preinstalled, it would be welded to that machine. If you try to do anything more than refresh or update that OS, it wouldn't work. You'd have to have serial numbers, activation and the like. Just a little less draconian than Windows. Don't have a real serial number? Total lockout.Then Apple wouldn't bleed sales to cheaper PCs, because if you have a Mac, each new OS sells for $129 -- maybe less, once the cost of the OS is amortized by sales to PC box owners.
Of course, before Apple does this, they'd have to have their own, full-blown Office setup. iWrite, iNumber, iPre-- well, you get the idea.
And Apple could then, without the difficulty of making all of its own hardware, could become Just Like Microsoft. Hackers would proliferate, to get the Mac OS on their box for free. That's easily controlled by sending lawyer's letters to the big hackers' websites. (Can't have a movement without a clubhouse.) Hackers are really okay, because there aren't many of them. The mass market doesn't want to go through all that crap, and then lose the OS for a month or so after an upgrade breaks it. Most users just want to install the OS and go.
Keep the whole OS open source and give it away? Fuggedaboutit. Use Linux if you want free. They don't make a computer, or an iPod, or whatever new thing is coming down the Apple hardware pipeline, do they? Don't get me wrong, it's great. But Apple's UNIX can't go open source and have Apple survive as a company.
If there's no more Hubble, where do I get my computer desktops?
Sell it to the NSA. Get around the "don't point it at the ground" limitation. Sell it on the basis of our need to see down every cleavage in the world, in case they're carrying bombs in there.
Are slashdotters anti-DRM, or just anti-Apple? In the end, it's true, this is not bad for Apple, but they'll still have to fight it, because the studios are watching. Once your DRM is cracked, if it remains cracked you will lose the labels, and that's the end of your store.
Interesting to see that the outlaw rebel freedom fighter DVD Jon is just another damn businessman, huh?
Because you only read the Creationist Genetics Journal. I myself see no ethical concern here. But you can disregard the views of non-Christians, agnostics, atheists, or anybody you want.
There have been lots of false starts in any field of medicine. Don't forget, Pasteur saved the boy from rabies only by taking an enormous ethical risk. Marie Curie died from radiation poisoning.
If adult stem cells can be used, that's fine. If stem cells from embryos have to be used, that's fine with me, too.
It did cure the people, didn't it. All therapies have side-effects. Figure out what happened, and try again.
Well, I've been trapped in the Windows office -- until this year. I'm now running all my office software on my Mac mini. There were a lot of amazed faces when the Windows logo came up on the screen, I tell you. Now I've bought Parallels, and they're amazed.
I've become more and more convinced that if we shut down Gardner and McKinney and the rest of the horrible slop shops, we'd actually have a better world. The MBA is a vastly overestimated degree. Far superior? Work for a summer in your uncle's business. Meet a payroll for a while. Anything you don't understand about that? You probably never will understand it. I want the old American masters of business back, not these effete, number-crunching, elitist morons. Gimme Henry Ford any day. Okay, without the antisemitism. Gimme Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Republicans. Seen one recently? All these morons pretend like there's some science to this whole thing about business. I'll give you the scientific part: buy low, sell high. End of course. Now hit the street, maggots. When you actually make something like the Mac, or like Dell, or anybody, then we'll listen to you pimply consultants. I know what an autoworker is, or a gandy dancer fer chrissakes, but what's a "Gardner" except a parasite who's well-connected enough that he thinks his sorry little job can't be outsourced to Bangalore.
Most people, in fact, do not "fill their iPods" with music from the iTunes store. The majority of songs on an iPod are either CD rips -- at whatever audio quality you want -- or well, from "other places." I admit, though, that the hard drive crash is a problem, as is the iPod crash or the accidental erasure of the iTunes library.
Back up your purchased music, at least.
"Wal-Mart Wants to Abolish Physical Reality" to eliminate price differences with free oxygen of atmosphere.
The $12.99 price has already been forced on Apple by the Studios so as not to piss off their big retailers. $9.99 is far more reasonable, given that iTunes offers less resolution, no extras, and makes burning to DVD impossible. In fact, $5.99 would be fair, with $9.99 for a version you could burn.
The big box retailers need trucks, people to stock the shelves, retail clerks, and they sell a fancy package, a DVD 9 configuration with extras and all the rest, booklets, etc.-- of course their prices are higher, because their costs are higher all along the way!
In fact, this is the same kind of whipsawing that Target and Wal-Mart have been using against labor for 20 years. That's why they pay slave wages and employ a majority of part-timers because they won't have to worry about health insurance or other benefits. Disgusting cretins.
I have about 50% CDs, 20% out of the iTunes store, and the other 30% from various free sources -- very, very few off of Napsterish sources, honest, but the rest from artist's web sites, free samples, other cuts from Salon or other places that give away a free song or two. And when I play music from my iPod, I never recognize a thing? It seems to me that most of the time, I'm surprised, even when I'm hearing something familiar. (Oh, listen to that guitar lick. That lyric says THAT?) That kind of thing.