New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I hate these DRm itunes purchases - why should I have less ability to do things with files I actually paid for? so idiotic

Do you mean video or apps? Because they dropped DRM on music files a long time ago.

it was music but the drm is stil there apparently

On existing files you downloaded in the past, or recently downloaded ones? I think you should be able to use the new redownload functionality to grab fresh un-drm'ed copies if you want.

I better befuckinable to!
if someone had this issue with mp3's of mine that they had downloaded I would be pissed at apple. poor customer service, but that is mainly the RIAA not getting it again

also the thing about "you have authorized too many computers to play these files" why dont you just put up a sing saying " STEAL MUSIC ITS BETTER THAT WAY"

Turns out us Britishers aren't getting cloudtunes after all. At least not this year.

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/report-itunes-in-the-cloud-not-coming-to-uk-this-year/

Lion mostly pwns except it broke bettertouchtool's three finger gestures which at this point i can't live without /:

If Steve Jobs was Davros the Daleks wouldn't be covered in all those buttons.

Why do you think he ripped the shell off himself?

Oh no, wait, he still had the bottom bit, doesn't he? Good point, well made.

actualyl steve jobs designed ILXOR - taht is why its so stripped down

Having a hell of a time trying to work out how icloud will work for families who share an apple id but want unique icloud/mobileme functions per person (e.g. email address, file storage). Google proving useless atm. Perhaps I should just wait until people actually get to use the thing.

(obv if I do find out I'll post it here)

I'd assume playlists

it's already a pain the ass to sync two iphones on one machine. every time I do this I forget to log out my wife from itunes and it half-syncs all these apps I didn't buy, and then can't use.

checkmarks xp

is there a book or something i can buy that explains, in technical detail, how mac os x works

if so, please refer AA to it

But really I would recommend digging around arstechnica.com for their history of OS X articles. They're long-winded, but really informative for that sort of thing.

lmfao mh, i was literally JUST reading a john siracusa article (although not one of his mac os x reviews, which i should go read [at least the latest one])

i also listen to his podcast hypercritical -- http://5by5.tv/hypercritical -- regularly

\(^o^)/

haw xp

The short answer is "don't share an apple ID", tbh. Have separate IDs and separate iTunes accounts.

(You can still download apps the other has bought by signing into the store as them)

ugh

markers depends how technical you want. siracusa's reviews are the place to start. if you want more after that then get amit singh's thing: http://osxbook.com/

"OS X is a Steve Jobs hack of linux" - my former coworker, the network engineer

he sounds like an mcse with a reddit account

wtf is reddit

ilxor max's favourite website

I guees its where you get emoticons

I want to punch anyone who refers to OS X as "just like Linux."

thanks caek! :D

well the little "close window X" IS in the upper left side

it's worth going through the siracusa reviews chronologically btw, or at least be sure to read 10.2-10.4. as the os has become more mature the reviews have become more about specific new features rather than "architecture"

yeah, maybe i should just read a bunch of those. (i haven't read any of them yet. i just read the first of his three part series on "avoiding copeland 2010" and need to read the other two now)

Plus, if you start at the beginning you get fun info on Rosetta and the other possibilities that were planned.

good point -- i don't even know what that is

and what is Darwin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

the tl;dr version is that it's the core kernel and system tools and it's BSD-derived

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Darwin_Operating_system

You've got that punch coming, Hanle y

:(

Siracusa's OS X reviews. Skip the developer preview ones if you want to keep your sanity.
DP2: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/1999/12/macos-x-dp2.ars
DP3: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2000/02/mac-os-x-dp3.ars
DP4: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2000/05/mac-os-x-dp4.ars

10.0: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2001/04/macos-x.ars
10.1: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2001/10/macosx-10-1.ars
10.2: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2002/09/macosx-10-2.ars
10.3: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/11/macosx-10-3.ars
10.4: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2005/04/macosx-10-4.ars
10.5: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.ars
10.6: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars

Also decent reading for background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP

In the late 90s I wanted a NeXT machine really badly, as they were being phased out and you could get them for a reasonable price.

NeXTSTEP was around 88-89ish, whereas the linux kernel didn't exist at all until 91ish. Linux was a hack to get a decent unix on commodity hardware.

the computing lab during my undergrad was entirely nexts. that's how i ended up rocking OS X DP. i still have the CD somewhere.

actually it was the public beta i installed

<3

so I see that Apple is now selling unlocked iPhones in the USA. quick q's:

1) in the USA, can you get a month-by-month voice plan for one of these (with AT&T, say)?

2) in the USA, can you get a month-by-month *data* plan?

(prob this is not the best time to write a q looking for American answers though)