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Not suprising, but most the comments here are about either the new G5s or the cost of the upgrade. But, if you look through the features, IMHO there's some pretty cool stuff. Sure, I've bought all the updates. Sure, I'm annoyed that I gots to buy another (or time my system upgrade just right). Sure, I'm a complete Mac fan. But in looking at 10.3, I said wow more than a couple of times.
1. Expose - This actually looks really useful. You can never have too much screen estate, and although I might prefer a virtual screen functionality, maybe I won't care. This easily lets you not only sort through the clutter for a single app or all apps, it keeps everything the way it way (just with the new window on top). No more minimizing then having to bring back to the top. Right now, I'm running Win2k and even with my Taskbar at three levels, I've got so many terminals up it's disgusting. I'm pretty sure this is a completely new concept, but I'm sure someone will tell me otherwise. I can prolly still patent it tho....
2. Multi-User- Ok, this isn't huge. X has allowed Unix to do it for years, and XP beat OSX to the punch. But, in classic Apple style, they map the various users onto a cube and rotate that to go between users "because they can." Waste of proc power? No, cuz it's Quartz and the graphics card is handling all that. Useful? No. Supacool, I think so. Hopefully you're not limited to 6 multi-user logins though.
3. File Vault - 128bit automatic encryption/decryption of your home directory. Of course, I'm sure this slows the system and I would probably turn it off, but it's certainly viable for enterprise users. Until you lose the key, of course.
4. Font Book - I'm not a graphics guy, I'm a low level embedded software freak. But, I hear those graphics people have a lot of fonts and for some reason, have all sorts of finding the one they want. Well, here's Font Management built right into OSX.
5. X11 - Frankly, this is a no brainer. Any argument that the Mac doesn't have that many apps for it have been shot dead. At least when it's the Linux people saying it. Sure, Windows still has more apps, and more than one way to do it, but does it matter that there are 10 word processors for Windows when all anyone uses is Office?
Throw in an increase in speed speed speed, better windows (and the rest of the world) connectivity, a rewritten (Snappy!) Finder, Quicktime, and who knows what else under the hood and you've got a great update. Sure, a lot of software will have to be tweaked to work with the update, but OSX is still maturing. APIs will stabilize soon and be solid, but Apple is adding functionality on top of all this.
Plenty of reasons: 1. So it's harder to track back to who leaked them. 2. They're probably working on an app, since they are developers. The censored iChat prolly had a proprietary conversation. The Safari prolly had sumptin else in it. There's also icons it the dock obsfucated (did I just make up a word, I don't think so) as well as the menu bar.
Technically, it's Socialism. Ideally, after long enough time a centralized government (Communism) is no longer needed. Since the whatever server has already melted, if people are leaving BitTorrent open it's done what humans can't (cuz we're greedy little d!cks).
I wouldn't call it the same. Sure, WordPerfect had a strong share of the market. Sure, they lost it by being late to upgrade. But look at the timing, it was precisely at the time when WordPerfect was languishing that computers really exploded (not literally, trolls).
Not that I know, but if the publishing industry is as entrenched as people say they are, then there's a lot of Mac's running OS 9. I hope they're better than that 8600 that takes 20 minutes to copy a 20Kb file and can't run Netscape or whatever.
Buuuuut...CD Baby will get you a barcode for a mere $20. There's a link to that on their main site with a little detail behind it. So, sure, you will need a barcode, but it's not the full $750. Not that they go into any detail about what the $750 is for or how they've "already paid for it."
I can't speak for data in files that you rip yourself, but there's nothing stopping people from putting these up on the p2p networks and everyone else playing them. It's only the purchased songs that have any DRM in them.
That said, I'm sure that there are some identifiers in the the songs you rip that will help whoever track down who they "belong" too. Of course, there's always going to be a tool to hack this out or replace it wif something less personal.
Just another note, the iPod doesn't do any authentication, so I'm thinking the data isn't scambled in any fashion. Just iTunes will restrict transferring files to the iPod. I haven't played too much with things, but I'm sure there's plenty of little backdoors. You could get songs from your friend, authenticate your computer, transfer them to your iPod, and then deauthenticate your computer. The songs are worthless anywhere outside of your iPod (and if you lost them, you probably couldn't get them back on without a hack or two), but probably still playable.
WTF! How do you mod the friggen original article up to 5 for Interesting??? It's the article, it's linked at the top. Sure, no one actually reads these anymore (especially the moderators). But, I guess I can start sounding more intelligent by posting inline the article comments. Can I get modded up for common sense?
Btw, isn't this technically copyright infringement? I mean, the text is taken directly from the article, but no mention of that is made.
Good joke, wrong crowd. All Mac freaks know that Apple releases stuff on Tuesdays (typically). For at least 2 months now, and probbably more, both a new 15" Aluminum Powerbook and a new iPod have been coming.
Alas, not this Tuesday. Maybe NEXT Tuesday. Of course, nowadays the popular money is on Apr 28 (a Monday???), but who really knows.
The real release date is tomorrow. Apparently someone started selling them early, so Nintendo went ahead and let them sell. Most places that took preorders are distributing those. But if you didn't, no dice (even when they're got em). I even tried to preorder today to get one, but it was too late for that. And I went to GameSpot, Target, Must Buy, Fry's, WalMart, CompUSA, and Gamers (my friendly local video game store).
So, looks like tomorrow AM I gots to get up and go get mine. I know a couple of stores that have them, so hopefully I won't go to 20 different effen stores and actually get to take one home.
No, they most likely rely on Aqua, that nice OS X gui. Apple keeps that to themselves. That, and the fact that all those apps are compiled for the PPC and not x86.
I seem to recall hearing somewhere (can anyone help me out?) that in the US there is nothing illegal about receiving signals transmitted. So, technically, it's legal to listen in on analog cell phone conversations, police band, and what not. Were that data encrypted, then it is illegal to break the encryption to read it.
The UK may be different, but I'm not sure what the illegal part is. Running dhcp to receive an IP address is not hacking. If you then attempted to get into their systems, that would be hacking. So as long as activities were kept to simply using their system as an access point and nothing more, I believe you're within your legal rights (in the US) (for now).
There are plenty of other solutions (Toast, for instance) that allow you to create DVDs. iDVD just provides a nice package to make it simple. Technically, iDVD can (and should) be decoupled from the hardware. Apple has chosen not to, and there's nothing really wrong with that. I don't think it will have the desired effect, but it's not my decision. I would think that you get them hooked on the software, so when they do upgrade they'll stick with the platform.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of some of Apple's actions, but I do like their products. If you notice the trend, Apple tends to sell products that help drive hardware sales. The iPod with only Mac support to start is a perfect example. Sure, they should allow iDVD to work with third-party drives, since I wouldn't expect most people to upgrade their computers just to get the Superdrive. And what if you *do* get that and want to upgrade it to a faster one 2 years down the road.
Of course, the other issue is support. To make plug and play work as (nearly) flawlessly as it does on the Mac, it's easier to support a single chipset than multiple ones. And even if Apple let manufacturers create their own drivers/hacks, Apple gets blamed if something doesn't work properly. I hate to say it, but with only a 5% market share you've only got so many resources.
Finally, a note on Mac pricing. Sure, they're a little more expensive. Sure, the OS X upgrades have been a little gauging. But you're not buying a computer and an OS, you're buying a system. You can either spend the time configuring Linux/Windows on your own to get all your hardware supported and everything working just right, or you can buy a Mac. I realize "It just works" is overused and cliche, but to a large extent that's how things have worked for me. Sure, I could into the guts of my system and hack, but I don't have to. Apple's brought *nix to the masses (well, 5%) and they've done it pretty darn well. If you crazy/. people would buy the hardware, Apple can bring you a decent gui front end to make your life simpler. One day I got tired of mucking with my config.sys and my autoexec.bat and bought a Mac. Things have been much easier since the.
Buying an mp3 player from Apple is an option, you're not required to get one from you. And iTunes (and numerous other mp3 players) will continue to support those devices.
Besides, unless it's a part of a bundle, prices at the Apple Store usually aren't the best. Having all your software and hardware play well together is great, but they're not going to stop supporting the Rio or Nomad. But it is an interesting question if there will be some sort of Windoze interface to add music to it. I'm sure playlists have to be a certain format, but if you could mount it as a firewire drive and look at the contents, you could potentially use it as a drag and drop device.
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Not suprising, but most the comments here are about either the new G5s or the cost of the upgrade. But, if you look through the features, IMHO there's some pretty cool stuff. Sure, I've bought all the updates. Sure, I'm annoyed that I gots to buy another (or time my system upgrade just right). Sure, I'm a complete Mac fan. But in looking at 10.3, I said wow more than a couple of times.
1. Expose - This actually looks really useful. You can never have too much screen estate, and although I might prefer a virtual screen functionality, maybe I won't care. This easily lets you not only sort through the clutter for a single app or all apps, it keeps everything the way it way (just with the new window on top). No more minimizing then having to bring back to the top. Right now, I'm running Win2k and even with my Taskbar at three levels, I've got so many terminals up it's disgusting. I'm pretty sure this is a completely new concept, but I'm sure someone will tell me otherwise. I can prolly still patent it tho....
2. Multi-User- Ok, this isn't huge. X has allowed Unix to do it for years, and XP beat OSX to the punch. But, in classic Apple style, they map the various users onto a cube and rotate that to go between users "because they can." Waste of proc power? No, cuz it's Quartz and the graphics card is handling all that. Useful? No. Supacool, I think so. Hopefully you're not limited to 6 multi-user logins though.
3. File Vault - 128bit automatic encryption/decryption of your home directory. Of course, I'm sure this slows the system and I would probably turn it off, but it's certainly viable for enterprise users. Until you lose the key, of course.
4. Font Book - I'm not a graphics guy, I'm a low level embedded software freak. But, I hear those graphics people have a lot of fonts and for some reason, have all sorts of finding the one they want. Well, here's Font Management built right into OSX.
5. X11 - Frankly, this is a no brainer. Any argument that the Mac doesn't have that many apps for it have been shot dead. At least when it's the Linux people saying it. Sure, Windows still has more apps, and more than one way to do it, but does it matter that there are 10 word processors for Windows when all anyone uses is Office?
Throw in an increase in speed speed speed, better windows (and the rest of the world) connectivity, a rewritten (Snappy!) Finder, Quicktime, and who knows what else under the hood and you've got a great update. Sure, a lot of software will have to be tweaked to work with the update, but OSX is still maturing. APIs will stabilize soon and be solid, but Apple is adding functionality on top of all this.
Plenty of reasons:
1. So it's harder to track back to who leaked them.
2. They're probably working on an app, since they are developers. The censored iChat prolly had a proprietary conversation. The Safari prolly had sumptin else in it. There's also icons it the dock obsfucated (did I just make up a word, I don't think so) as well as the menu bar.
I agree that the naming is total garbage, but at least they didn't change the older one to "XP 2000+" and make the new one sumptin like "XP 2000!"
Technically, it's Socialism. Ideally, after long enough time a centralized government (Communism) is no longer needed. Since the whatever server has already melted, if people are leaving BitTorrent open it's done what humans can't (cuz we're greedy little d!cks).
I wouldn't call it the same. Sure, WordPerfect had a strong share of the market. Sure, they lost it by being late to upgrade. But look at the timing, it was precisely at the time when WordPerfect was languishing that computers really exploded (not literally, trolls).
Not that I know, but if the publishing industry is as entrenched as people say they are, then there's a lot of Mac's running OS 9. I hope they're better than that 8600 that takes 20 minutes to copy a 20Kb file and can't run Netscape or whatever.
Buuuuut...CD Baby will get you a barcode for a mere $20. There's a link to that on their main site with a little detail behind it. So, sure, you will need a barcode, but it's not the full $750. Not that they go into any detail about what the $750 is for or how they've "already paid for it."
I can't speak for data in files that you rip yourself, but there's nothing stopping people from putting these up on the p2p networks and everyone else playing them. It's only the purchased songs that have any DRM in them.
That said, I'm sure that there are some identifiers in the the songs you rip that will help whoever track down who they "belong" too. Of course, there's always going to be a tool to hack this out or replace it wif something less personal.
Just another note, the iPod doesn't do any authentication, so I'm thinking the data isn't scambled in any fashion. Just iTunes will restrict transferring files to the iPod. I haven't played too much with things, but I'm sure there's plenty of little backdoors. You could get songs from your friend, authenticate your computer, transfer them to your iPod, and then deauthenticate your computer. The songs are worthless anywhere outside of your iPod (and if you lost them, you probably couldn't get them back on without a hack or two), but probably still playable.
WTF! How do you mod the friggen original article up to 5 for Interesting??? It's the article, it's linked at the top. Sure, no one actually reads these anymore (especially the moderators). But, I guess I can start sounding more intelligent by posting inline the article comments. Can I get modded up for common sense?
Btw, isn't this technically copyright infringement? I mean, the text is taken directly from the article, but no mention of that is made.
Good joke, wrong crowd. All Mac freaks know that Apple releases stuff on Tuesdays (typically). For at least 2 months now, and probbably more, both a new 15" Aluminum Powerbook and a new iPod have been coming.
Alas, not this Tuesday. Maybe NEXT Tuesday. Of course, nowadays the popular money is on Apr 28 (a Monday???), but who really knows.
The real release date is tomorrow. Apparently someone started selling them early, so Nintendo went ahead and let them sell. Most places that took preorders are distributing those. But if you didn't, no dice (even when they're got em). I even tried to preorder today to get one, but it was too late for that. And I went to GameSpot, Target, Must Buy, Fry's, WalMart, CompUSA, and Gamers (my friendly local video game store).
So, looks like tomorrow AM I gots to get up and go get mine. I know a couple of stores that have them, so hopefully I won't go to 20 different effen stores and actually get to take one home.
No, they most likely rely on Aqua, that nice OS X gui. Apple keeps that to themselves. That, and the fact that all those apps are compiled for the PPC and not x86.
I don't think there's any need for a defense fund, since they're suing for damages. WalMart et al will pay for this in the end.
Wait, what am I saying? DCMA != Justice, they'll get screwed.
I seem to recall hearing somewhere (can anyone help me out?) that in the US there is nothing illegal about receiving signals transmitted. So, technically, it's legal to listen in on analog cell phone conversations, police band, and what not. Were that data encrypted, then it is illegal to break the encryption to read it.
The UK may be different, but I'm not sure what the illegal part is. Running dhcp to receive an IP address is not hacking. If you then attempted to get into their systems, that would be hacking. So as long as activities were kept to simply using their system as an access point and nothing more, I believe you're within your legal rights (in the US) (for now).
I don't know if you've noticed, but few people are applauding the lockout. Except maybe MS, who's pushing Apple to push OSX more.
There are plenty of other solutions (Toast, for instance) that allow you to create DVDs. iDVD just provides a nice package to make it simple. Technically, iDVD can (and should) be decoupled from the hardware. Apple has chosen not to, and there's nothing really wrong with that. I don't think it will have the desired effect, but it's not my decision. I would think that you get them hooked on the software, so when they do upgrade they'll stick with the platform.
/. people would buy the hardware, Apple can bring you a decent gui front end to make your life simpler. One day I got tired of mucking with my config.sys and my autoexec.bat and bought a Mac. Things have been much easier since the.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of some of Apple's actions, but I do like their products. If you notice the trend, Apple tends to sell products that help drive hardware sales. The iPod with only Mac support to start is a perfect example. Sure, they should allow iDVD to work with third-party drives, since I wouldn't expect most people to upgrade their computers just to get the Superdrive. And what if you *do* get that and want to upgrade it to a faster one 2 years down the road.
Of course, the other issue is support. To make plug and play work as (nearly) flawlessly as it does on the Mac, it's easier to support a single chipset than multiple ones. And even if Apple let manufacturers create their own drivers/hacks, Apple gets blamed if something doesn't work properly. I hate to say it, but with only a 5% market share you've only got so many resources.
Finally, a note on Mac pricing. Sure, they're a little more expensive. Sure, the OS X upgrades have been a little gauging. But you're not buying a computer and an OS, you're buying a system. You can either spend the time configuring Linux/Windows on your own to get all your hardware supported and everything working just right, or you can buy a Mac. I realize "It just works" is overused and cliche, but to a large extent that's how things have worked for me. Sure, I could into the guts of my system and hack, but I don't have to. Apple's brought *nix to the masses (well, 5%) and they've done it pretty darn well. If you crazy
Buying an mp3 player from Apple is an option, you're not required to get one from you. And iTunes (and numerous other mp3 players) will continue to support those devices.
Besides, unless it's a part of a bundle, prices at the Apple Store usually aren't the best. Having all your software and hardware play well together is great, but they're not going to stop supporting the Rio or Nomad. But it is an interesting question if there will be some sort of Windoze interface to add music to it. I'm sure playlists have to be a certain format, but if you could mount it as a firewire drive and look at the contents, you could potentially use it as a drag and drop device.