when Tiger came out I reformatted my system and had no trouble at all with my iTunes songs. I followed the instructions.
the only slight difficulty was when my Windows machine decided to crash and I couldn't get it to boot properly so that I could run iTunes and deregister the machine. I went through Apple's website form and they deregistered it for me. (and even if I couldn't have deregistered it, that would only have been one of my five simultaneous registrations out of order.)
on the Prevention of Terrorism Act (UK), it is interesting to note that Tony Blair said it would never be used to prevent legitimate protesters. then, a matter of days later, it was used to eject a pensioner who objected to the war on Iraq from the Labour party conference. how the hell is a pensioner objecting to a war a terrorist?
>None of these consoles seem to be reliable... The only thing he hasn't managed to break so far is his Gamecube.
this is why I have a GC and plan to buy a Revolution. for work and personal computing I use Mac. the idea of an entire PC just for gaming is unthinkable, especially given how PC games have become so DRM-filled - I got out of PC gaming when legally bought games refused to even install on systems that had CD writers.
am I remembering incorrectly or wasn't the 360 meant to have a simultaneous worldwide release? UK release isn't until 2nd Dec, though this is at least a shorter gap than usual.
anyway, we all know about MS's intentional low supply but here's what Amazon.co.uk has to say:
"Due to limited supply from Microsoft, we are unable to guarantee delivery of some Xbox 360 pre-orders for Christmas. Please also note that all pre-orders made on or after November 2nd, 2005 will have expected delivery dates in 2006. We are working with Microsoft to ensure the consoles are delivered as soon as they become available."
i.e. if you're in the UK and didn't pre-order ages ago, you might as well wait for PS3 or Revolution.
yeah iTunes is a monopoly because it has 80% (or whatever) of the online music sales and everyone knows how selling a product "on the internet" is fundamentally different from selling it in real life.
I'm guessing you're one of those people who like to claim that Apple also has a monopoly on iPods.
Jobs has specifically said he doesn't want variable pricing. this whole debate is BS until he does otherwise.
if people want to bitch about online sales, then bitch about Sony - it's been proven that they have actually fixed prices.
yes, and every new version of Microsoft Windows claims to be even easier and more secure than the previous, so I guess that's why all businesses got rid of their training and security budgets around the time Microsoft Windows 98 was released didn't they?
>And from the screens, it appears MS has gone even further down the road of giant, screen-space-wasting icons...
yep. I'm looking at the Contoso Journal screenshot. the actual page doesn't start until half way down the screen. after the space used for headers and titles, only THREE lines of actual text are visible.
I imagine this is the exception rather than the rule, but looking at it I'm still confused as to why it needs to be like this.
I expect Apple to get 100% compatibility via Rosetta quite easily. the only difference is speed - MS needs to run games in "real time" whereas computer programs being a bit slower isn't too much of a problem.
I'm guessing they'll go with the single core since the gap between the ibook and powerbook is already so small, especially the 12" versions.
(personally, I don't see the point of the 12" powerbook at all. imo the ibook looks a lot better at 12" - the metal look suits the larger laptops better since they are wider and seem thinner. the 12" powerbook looks like a fat, heavy piece of metal. ymmv)
I agree it should be external, but the size is ridiculous. I don't like the plug->wire->brick->wire->device design as the lengths of the wires inevitably makes brick placement awkward. I prefer the brick to be integrated into the plug but this clearly isn't possible here.
I don't know anything about power supply design. is increase in size inevitable or can we see smaller, better supplies in the future? how many console generations until the power supply is bigger than the actual console?
I know a lot of people bitch that iTunes "does too much... I use LAME to rip mp3s I don't need my mp3 player to do it.. wah wah wah..." but iTunes was one of the things that made me switch to Mac. I was very impressed with how it did so much yet was very simple, especially the part where it keeps music files names and arranged according to tags.
before iTunes I used Musicmatch on Windows which I liked a lot because of its library management, though it started getting bloated towards the end (bloat doesn't mean adding lots of features, it means adding features at the cost of ease of use).
"at least they are trying" is a bit weak when you consider, for example, that Nintendo will provide full backwards compatibility with the GC, and Sony had full compatibility with the PS2.
MS is being very agressive about getting into the console market, and they aren't throwing billions into the xbox hole for YOUR benefit. if they aren't going to do things right then I don't see why they should be commended, otherwise you only have yourself to blame for any mess in the future.
*flashback to the 90s* "Internet Explorer's ActiveX might be half-broken and potentially dangerous when combined with Windows' lack of proper permissions, but at least they're trying!"
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the TV version of iTunes is already here for the USA
when Tiger came out I reformatted my system and had no trouble at all with my iTunes songs. I followed the instructions.
the only slight difficulty was when my Windows machine decided to crash and I couldn't get it to boot properly so that I could run iTunes and deregister the machine. I went through Apple's website form and they deregistered it for me. (and even if I couldn't have deregistered it, that would only have been one of my five simultaneous registrations out of order.)
nothing to see here.
desktop hard drives are quite possibly the most boring technology possible, except maybe non-wireless network cards. who cares?
I wish I had a penny for every time a noob like you thought relying on Windows to secure itself was a valid security policy.
on the Prevention of Terrorism Act (UK), it is interesting to note that Tony Blair said it would never be used to prevent legitimate protesters. then, a matter of days later, it was used to eject a pensioner who objected to the war on Iraq from the Labour party conference. how the hell is a pensioner objecting to a war a terrorist?
>None of these consoles seem to be reliable... The only thing he hasn't managed to break so far is his Gamecube.
this is why I have a GC and plan to buy a Revolution. for work and personal computing I use Mac. the idea of an entire PC just for gaming is unthinkable, especially given how PC games have become so DRM-filled - I got out of PC gaming when legally bought games refused to even install on systems that had CD writers.
Nintendo, like Apple, Just Works.
>DO NOT BUY AN XBOX 360 UNTIL MARCH!!!
that's not making them responsible.
how about: do not buy one at all unless MS apologises, fixes all problems and compensates the people affected.
personally, I don't buy anything MS or Sony but even if I did I'd still get a Revolution as it's the most interesting to me.
am I remembering incorrectly or wasn't the 360 meant to have a simultaneous worldwide release? UK release isn't until 2nd Dec, though this is at least a shorter gap than usual.
anyway, we all know about MS's intentional low supply but here's what Amazon.co.uk has to say:
"Due to limited supply from Microsoft, we are unable to guarantee delivery of some Xbox 360 pre-orders for Christmas. Please also note that all pre-orders made on or after November 2nd, 2005 will have expected delivery dates in 2006. We are working with Microsoft to ensure the consoles are delivered as soon as they become available."
i.e. if you're in the UK and didn't pre-order ages ago, you might as well wait for PS3 or Revolution.
also note (for non Mac OSX users) that root login is disabled by default.
in my life I've only ever logged in as root on a Mac once. just to see what it was like.
yeah iTunes is a monopoly because it has 80% (or whatever) of the online music sales and everyone knows how selling a product "on the internet" is fundamentally different from selling it in real life.
I'm guessing you're one of those people who like to claim that Apple also has a monopoly on iPods.
Jobs has specifically said he doesn't want variable pricing. this whole debate is BS until he does otherwise.
if people want to bitch about online sales, then bitch about Sony - it's been proven that they have actually fixed prices.
yes, and every new version of Microsoft Windows claims to be even easier and more secure than the previous, so I guess that's why all businesses got rid of their training and security budgets around the time Microsoft Windows 98 was released didn't they?
>And from the screens, it appears MS has gone even further down the road of giant, screen-space-wasting icons...
yep. I'm looking at the Contoso Journal screenshot. the actual page doesn't start until half way down the screen. after the space used for headers and titles, only THREE lines of actual text are visible.
I imagine this is the exception rather than the rule, but looking at it I'm still confused as to why it needs to be like this.
I expect Apple to get 100% compatibility via Rosetta quite easily. the only difference is speed - MS needs to run games in "real time" whereas computer programs being a bit slower isn't too much of a problem.
I'm guessing they'll go with the single core since the gap between the ibook and powerbook is already so small, especially the 12" versions.
(personally, I don't see the point of the 12" powerbook at all. imo the ibook looks a lot better at 12" - the metal look suits the larger laptops better since they are wider and seem thinner. the 12" powerbook looks like a fat, heavy piece of metal. ymmv)
> A repeat of the "Religion - Opiate of the Masses" bumper sticker slogan is +5 Insightful?
bumper sticker!? it's a Karl Marx quote, you filthy peasant (ooh! that's a dead give away!). now get back to your mud.
what part of "one of the things" is so hard to understand?
the vast majority of software is total crap from a usability point of view. seeing something I liked got me interested in looking at more Apple stuff.
try swearing at them or asking for sex; a recent New Scientist article found that this would provoke some bots into fighting back :)
I agree it should be external, but the size is ridiculous. I don't like the plug->wire->brick->wire->device design as the lengths of the wires inevitably makes brick placement awkward. I prefer the brick to be integrated into the plug but this clearly isn't possible here.
I don't know anything about power supply design. is increase in size inevitable or can we see smaller, better supplies in the future? how many console generations until the power supply is bigger than the actual console?
I know a lot of people bitch that iTunes "does too much... I use LAME to rip mp3s I don't need my mp3 player to do it.. wah wah wah..." but iTunes was one of the things that made me switch to Mac. I was very impressed with how it did so much yet was very simple, especially the part where it keeps music files names and arranged according to tags.
before iTunes I used Musicmatch on Windows which I liked a lot because of its library management, though it started getting bloated towards the end (bloat doesn't mean adding lots of features, it means adding features at the cost of ease of use).
that power supply really is huge!
the age of power supplies doubling as heaters/cookers has truely dawned.
...how much effort people are willing to put into creating fixes and work-arounds for the simple fact that Microsoft Windows is broken.
he's actually claiming it's *as powerful* as linux!? why should that interest anyone, unless it's also as free?
"at least they are trying" is a bit weak when you consider, for example, that Nintendo will provide full backwards compatibility with the GC, and Sony had full compatibility with the PS2.
MS is being very agressive about getting into the console market, and they aren't throwing billions into the xbox hole for YOUR benefit. if they aren't going to do things right then I don't see why they should be commended, otherwise you only have yourself to blame for any mess in the future.
*flashback to the 90s*
"Internet Explorer's ActiveX might be half-broken and potentially dangerous when combined with Windows' lack of proper permissions, but at least they're trying!"
"shot itself in the foot, then jumped the shark"
*rollseyes* there have been demos.