Karl Oscar Weber's Profile

DRM free music... wow Apple has removed the Only reason why I refused to continue to use iTunes. Putting all the specifics aside, it's a nice business move.

worse than a Brown Zune... Which i like by the way. --KOW 1

The iTV thing is too little too late. Media center PC's have been around for ages, (windows xp media center edition anyone); and the iPhone, feels as if it's a catch up to current smartphones(a very pretty and functional catchup). It feels like Apple is releasing Me too products. --KOW 1

I have an ipod mini... I like it. the battery has been dying lately. I want a brown zune. but before I buy a zune I would rather buy a creative zen micro in light blue. the old version that doesnt show pictures and stuff. Why? because I want a freaking music player. nothing more... If i wanted to export video to the TV I would buy a zune, but I don't I just want to listen to my music.

OK, so I built my own computer. Ground up. I bought all the parts, assembled the system, partitioned the drives, then installed windows. I installed windows on a six gig partition on purpose. I was to use that partition solely for windows and use diskeeper to keep it defragmented permanently(note, windows defragmentation app is a watered down version of diskeeper). So I have my partition an around 3 gigs used when my system is finished. I installed all my software etc... all was good. But then I got this Windows warning telling me that i was running out of space on the drive. I couldn't understand it, I was saving nothing there and all my applications should save in their respective home directories. Want to know what I found? Quicktime had saved approximately 1.3 GB of folders and subfolders of videos, which I had deleted, in my user accounts application data section. I looked at the settings in quicktime... No place to change this. I just have to periodically delete all the useless files quicktime is holding onto. Out of all the software I put on my system. I have no spam, no adware, but one annoying piece of apple software. Karl Oscar Weber

Did you watch the videos?

IE isn't an integral part of the system. I don't NEED to use IE. OPERA, FIREFOX, FLOCK. I could use these. But hmm.... how am i going to get these if I can't even surf the internet to get them. What I see is that Apple is bundling too much peripheral software with their operating system. Honestly they pretty much had to because the macs market share used to be so low that noone wanted to develop software for it. Still... you see the overall strategies that each company is adopting. Microsoft. They don't need to make all the software that runs on their machine to give it functionality because they work heavily with developers to get things taken care of. (don't give me beef on apple and their developers I know they love them.) Apple. They manage their hardware, the OS, the Primary programs REGULAR people use, and they integrate it as part of the system. yes it's integrated. msn messenger and ichat are just about equally integrated as IE and Safari. MY beef is that Apple's primary focus seems to be improoving the bundled software, instead of focusing on the Core operating system. Claiming that it is superior to microsofts, then adding "revolutionary" features that have been used in other operating systems for almost a decade. Spaces, just a fancier way of doing just what is already being done in linux. Time Machine, Windows had this feature back in 2003. Mail, now it does HTML.... I thought apple said their mail program was more secure becaue it didn't use HTML... switcheroo. Core Animation, yes it is way easy. but how deep does it go? not as deep as Windows presentation foundation, hence the links to the expression designer which allows you to use the foundation to it's fullest quickly. http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/technologies/presentation/default.aspx Before you start flaming me actually look at the videos for designer, you seem some rather compelling glimpses at what vista will be capable of graphically. I was impressed. I thought vista was just going to be prettier and a little more secure, but then i saw these video's and i'm like: "holy crap... why hasn't anyone seen this?" Whatever this secret stuff is, it better be good. bottom line. Leopard should be a lot cheaper. Vista should bring windows up to speed with OSX. KOW

All this apple stuff is fine and dandy but none if it is really new. Especially this Core Animation thing. guess what, Vista's capability is not only better, but easier to program. don't take my word for it look at the video's for the following microsoft beta products. http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx pay special attention to the videos for Designer. KOW