He just goes to a university that's signed an extortion deal with Microsoft, where every student is required to pay for Microsoft software in their student fees. Then they think they are getting a deal when they can buy a $2 piece of shiny plastic for $10.
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Apple Officially Announces Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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He just goes to a university that's signed an extortion deal with Microsoft, where every student is required to pay for Microsoft software in their student fees. Then they think they are getting a deal when they can buy a $2 piece of shiny plastic for $10.
Stuipdboy1000
macrumors 68000
Quillz
macrumors 65816
Really, they do? Then how come as a university student I get Windows and Office for free?
FreeState
macrumors 68000
Nothing in life is free... thats what they should be teaching you at your university 🙂
Check out your student fees... ever wonder what those are used for? Most likely in part to buy bulk software...
A download of the GM build of Leopard SHOULD be up on or before this Friday (Oct. 19) so if you are a part of the ADC Select, Premier, or Student subscriptions then you will get it a week ahead of everyone else. Also, the DVD will come in November's monthly mailing, approximately the first week of November.
morespce54
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notjustjay
macrumors 603
Careful, resolution independence isn't a magic solution. Your post makes sense if the 46" widescreen TV is a high-resolution one (1080p for example) but many LCD TV's offer much poorer resolutions than computer monitors. Resolution indepedence makes most sense for high-resolution LCD screens that pack a lot more pixels in (like the Dell laptop I once had, that crammed 1920x1080 pixels into a 15" display).
Resolution independence means that the OS dynamically scales things instead of always mapping them pixel-by-pixel. For example, how tall is the standard OS X menu bar? I don't have one handy but let's say it's 30 pixels tall. 30 pixels on a 15" LCD running 1024x768 looks a lot different from 30 pixels on a 30" LCD running 2560x1600.
A resolution independent OS would say that the menu bar should be, say, 1/4" tall, and scale the number of pixels and font sizes accordingly. Maybe it's 30 pixels on a 15" LCD, but 65 pixels on a huge 30" monitor, or maybe 22 pixels on the bigscreen TV.
Yeah, I'm majorly bummed about the lack of support of the backdrop effects...I would think my 2.1GHz G5 would be more than enough horsepower to handle that. What gives, Apple??!!😕
Just ordered my copy of Leopard on the phone with Apple (I couldn't get the discount to go through on the website). It works! I'm sure it will work in the store too.
Mark.
Any guesses on when new systems will be pre-loaded based on past releases (Tiger, Panther, etc...)?
nvbrit
macrumors 6502
In this case the 46" is a 1080p and so I see your point, in any case a vectorized GUI on a big display has to look better than a bitmaped GUI becuase your not going to have the blockiness that you get when a bitmap is enlarged... right?
English - Japanese translation built in???
Hi all,
in dictionary there is a built-in English-Japanese translation option. Is this an add-on and I can choose English-German, too, or is this just English-Japanese only???
Confidemus
Hi all,
in dictionary there is a built-in English-Japanese translation option. Is this an add-on and I can choose English-German, too, or is this just English-Japanese only???
Confidemus
rhpenguin
macrumors 6502a
LOL.. Well, at least us Canucks don't have to share that dev cost 😛
... Not that I'll be buying it anyway. Actually, I probably will. Ill make my own install disks with them.
akac
macrumors 6502a
Infringe or steal. Its breaking the law. Breaking the law is a moral issue. So your point is?
Oh, and stealing is taking someone's property away. Copyright is property. You're stealing.
nvbrit
macrumors 6502
By installing a single license OS on more than one computer, are you really breaking the law or are you just breaking the company's policy; in this case Apple?
Like most students here, I was also a bit disappointed that there was a price increase on Leopard, up from $69.00 from Tiger. I just called Apple and the lady on the phone said that "Leopard is a new program, with over 300 new features, so it's more expensive..."
So, anyways, I took the plunge and ordered it. Says DELIVERY on the 26th.
Let the countdown begin... 🙄
So, anyways, I took the plunge and ordered it. Says DELIVERY on the 26th.
Let the countdown begin... 🙄
Peace
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You win the "Stupidest Comment of the Day Award".
It's criminal of Apple to charge the price they want for their product but it's OK for you to pirate a copy? There are too many citizens of the U.S. that don't understand the basics of a capitalist economy or are too immature to take proper action when they don't like what they see in pricing or product features. Grow up.
nvbrit
macrumors 6502
Just to add fuel to the fire, and make some more students mad...... I work for a company that has an Apple online employee store as we get discounts on Apple hardware and software. I just checked and with my discount I can get Leopard for $107.10 🙂
akac
macrumors 6502a
There is a balance. That's why its different than outright physical theft. RIAA goes way too far one way and the others who say its not theft at all go way too far to the right. There is a middle ground where its wrong, but not so wrong that people go to jail for it.
jackc
macrumors 65816
What's your argument going to be? That's what a different product used to sell for? Please videotape and post to YouTube.
Your third sentence doesn't follow from your first two. As you said, stealing is taking someone's property away. By copying software, you have not taken anyone's property away - they still have their software. That's why copyright infringement is a different animal.
(Notice that this doesn't say that copyright infringement is not every bit as serious - only that it is not stealing.)
Has anyone read the 300 new features page? Wow, what a load of crap that was. Russian localization: Yay! A new screensaver: Yay! Another new screensaver: Yay!