No matter what Apple releases, no one is ever satisfied.
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Yep, I know
I mean they should let us keep our mac.com email addresses only, if we don't have a need or don't want the other stuff they are offering(which is good, I just don't need it).I think it would be fair to let the people who already have a mac.com email address keep it, but not sign any more people up for a free address.
Yes, I agree with you about that. I was thinking that as well when Steve was showing all the stuff that can be done with Rendezvous. For example, I don't want everyone to be able to see my printer and print stuff on it. Rendezvous looks like it's only installed in network printers though, so it shouldn't be a big deal for most people.
The sharing of play lists, etc. is a great idea, but I hope that they make that an option that you can turn off if you want to. I want to have the choice of people streaming songs from me.
Also, I don't think it'll be as big a problem as the peer to peer file sharing progs because it most likely won't use as much bandwidth as they do.
Rendezvous looks like it'll only work on your local subnet as well, so if you have small subnets in your LAN that would help as well.
I'd just like to say that I totally agree with everything Sim just said. $100 is not that bad of a deal. Sure it when you compair it to free .. but nothing in life is free anymore, now is it?
You can get your Hotmail or Yahoo account, but the price you'll pay is annoying banners, ads and junkmail. I'll drop the chunk of cash and get my .Mac
You can get your Hotmail or Yahoo account, but the price you'll pay is annoying banners, ads and junkmail. I'll drop the chunk of cash and get my .Mac
LordOphidian
Adjutant On-Line
It works with USB printers as well I have heard, and is part of the USB printer sharing.
It would just just about as much, asuming that they are streaming the mp3's off your ocmputer. You wouldn't have the problem of people doing searches for files, but you will have the problem of Rendezvous doing brodcast searches acrost a very large subnet for new macs to add to its service.
With small subnets that might work, but with small subnets you probably wouldn't have too many people streaming mp3's at the same time.
Our network stays pretty static most of the time, so if Rendezvous can be configured to only search for new computers when we tell it to, or when something is needed, it wouldn't be too bad of a hit on network performace. I will be interested in how this tech works though, because done correctly this could be very nice.
That's actually a good idea as long as you can secure your printer on the network with a username/password or something like that.
The bandwidth for streaming would be the same, but I'm talking about how in a lot of p2p file sharing networks, computers are used as "super hubs" or whatever they call it, to relay data to a bunch of users.
I think that Rendezvous only does broadcasts when something joins the network, much like a computer does when it's starting up.
Yes, that certainly would be needed. It would be a lot better if it would only search the network when you ask it, such as in a print window.
xaqintosh
Master of Reality
1. I'm sorry if this is a "harsh wake-up call" but we don't need Virus protection software, macs have practically NO virii.Originally posted by Gregita
One thing that appeals to me is the free virus scanning using Virex. I had to buy Virex for OS 9 because Norton Antivirus would lock up or freeze the entire system. I trust Virex more than Norton. I'm sorry, but I do.
When I was on the dark side, I had all kind of products from McAfee. They worked great, for the most part. I was more than happy to continue with them on the Mac. So that is one thing.
Another thing is the iDisk. I have a webpage that I work on daily. On occasion, I put songs in my public folder for people to download.
Can you imagine how many songs I could store with 100MB of storage?
At first, the price tag seems radical, but when you look at the big picture, it is not a bad deal at all.
2. Virex probably is better than Norton, I haven't had good experience with Norton
3. with 100 mb of storage you could store about 20 songs, judging by Apple's estimates. That's not that much, and if people actually want to download songs, they won't go to your site, they'll go to Gnutella. Also, for about $5 a month you can have UNLIMITED storage space at a few web hosts, a lot better than 100 mb at 8.34 a month. In addition, the RIAA is going to get people who share songs over the internet first, because it is a lot easier to track.
Thanks for letting me know.
Without you telling me, I would have not slept nights worrying over all the Mac viruses.
As for the songs, I am a realist.
I never planned on competing with Gnutella. Someone with those delusions should seek help.
I provide songs to people who visit my site (www.xanga.com/gregita) as a courtesy. It is just a another way to communicate to them.
By providing the url, maybe I will give the RIAA a fighting chance of finding me. Maybe I will become the next Shawn Fanning. The young radical fighting the corporate America behemoth.
There is almost as much chance of that as a Mac virus or a positive response to something I post on here.
Then again, I guess you knew that, too.
Without you telling me, I would have not slept nights worrying over all the Mac viruses.
As for the songs, I am a realist.
I never planned on competing with Gnutella. Someone with those delusions should seek help.
I provide songs to people who visit my site (www.xanga.com/gregita) as a courtesy. It is just a another way to communicate to them.
By providing the url, maybe I will give the RIAA a fighting chance of finding me.
Maybe I will become the next Shawn Fanning. The young radical fighting the corporate America behemoth. There is almost as much chance of that as a Mac virus or a positive response to something I post on here.
Then again, I guess you knew that, too.
jove
Member
Hello,
I am soooo psyched.
iThe iPod and iTunes 3 rocks. We purchased an iPod because of the existing and upcomming technologies.
We are going to put our 150 CDs onto a device the size of a deck of cards. With a small amplifier, it will become our upstairs stereo system. If need be, the iPod has plenty of storage space as an external drive. iTunes will sort through all those songs using the amazingly powerful smart-playlists. OR operations on the comment tag contents - think the possibilities. Through our airport enabled iBook, the 20GBs of music will be served to the iMac downstairs. We will no longer have to maintain two iTune libraries. Using iTunes file/folder auto-organizing by tags and the various free filename to tag converters, our music will have all the correct names and tags.
And we'll have a portable MP3 player as well.
Much of the expo has been about Enabling type features. Mostly the same apps and hardware but with capabilities to take the Mac System to the next level.
I am soooo psyched.
iThe iPod and iTunes 3 rocks. We purchased an iPod because of the existing and upcomming technologies.
We are going to put our 150 CDs onto a device the size of a deck of cards. With a small amplifier, it will become our upstairs stereo system. If need be, the iPod has plenty of storage space as an external drive. iTunes will sort through all those songs using the amazingly powerful smart-playlists. OR operations on the comment tag contents - think the possibilities. Through our airport enabled iBook, the 20GBs of music will be served to the iMac downstairs. We will no longer have to maintain two iTune libraries. Using iTunes file/folder auto-organizing by tags and the various free filename to tag converters, our music will have all the correct names and tags.
And we'll have a portable MP3 player as well.
Much of the expo has been about Enabling type features. Mostly the same apps and hardware but with capabilities to take the Mac System to the next level.