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Aiming to reward those households with more than one Mac, Apple Computer will introduce a family plan for licensing OS X. Under the plan, which will coincide with next week's release of Mac OS X version 10.2 (also known as Jaguar), consumers can buy a $199 a copy of the operating system and install it on up to five Macs in a single household.
Some Mac owners have been miffed by Apple's decision not to widely offer an inexpensive upgrade version of Jaguar to Mac OS X owners. Only customers who bought a Mac or Mac OS X since Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) was announced on July 17 are eligible for a free upgrade, as long as they pay $20 for shipping and handling.
All other Mac OS X owners have to pay $129 to graduate to Jaguar. Mac OS X was released just 18 months earlier than its upgrade, and, according to some users, Jaguar is not a radical departure from the original operating system.
"We've been getting feedback over the last while that more and more families are adding second and third Macs," said Mac OS X marketing director Ken Bereskin.
Bereskin said the family licensing program had been in the works for some time and was not the result of customer complaints. Apple already has volume pricing plans for businesses and schools, as well as a program that lets those customers buy a three-year subscription covering all new versions of the OS during that time.
As Bereskin says, "Our software has never had draconian activation,". However, he said that many Mac owners want their installations to be legal, but they're not willing to pay full price for each copy of the operating system.
News source: CNet News.com
Aiming to reward those households with more than one Mac, Apple Computer will introduce a family plan for licensing OS X. Under the plan, which will coincide with next week's release of Mac OS X version 10.2 (also known as Jaguar), consumers can buy a $199 a copy of the operating system and install it on up to five Macs in a single household.
Some Mac owners have been miffed by Apple's decision not to widely offer an inexpensive upgrade version of Jaguar to Mac OS X owners. Only customers who bought a Mac or Mac OS X since Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) was announced on July 17 are eligible for a free upgrade, as long as they pay $20 for shipping and handling.
All other Mac OS X owners have to pay $129 to graduate to Jaguar. Mac OS X was released just 18 months earlier than its upgrade, and, according to some users, Jaguar is not a radical departure from the original operating system.
"We've been getting feedback over the last while that more and more families are adding second and third Macs," said Mac OS X marketing director Ken Bereskin.
Bereskin said the family licensing program had been in the works for some time and was not the result of customer complaints. Apple already has volume pricing plans for businesses and schools, as well as a program that lets those customers buy a three-year subscription covering all new versions of the OS during that time.
As Bereskin says, "Our software has never had draconian activation,". However, he said that many Mac owners want their installations to be legal, but they're not willing to pay full price for each copy of the operating system.
News source: CNet News.com
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- The import image wraparound problem is now rectified in the majority of cases.
- Custom terrains now don't get their objects reset to a very low number.
- Fixed duplicate reference of "Tribal" terrain.
- Double mouse clicks are now treated as single clicks where convenient, for example when paging through a list box of schemes or maps.
- Game schemes can now include super weapons, as long as the host has “Full Wormage”.
- Now possible to scroll through message chat lists via a mouse wheel, the list must be initially clicked upon and the scrolling is set at one line per wheel bump.
- Much improved quick-messaging of people in the lobby, host/join and in-game chats.
- Current message typed is retained, while the recipient of the message can be changed. In host/join, the right mouse button now achieves this.
- An /ignore command function is now available for the WormNET lobby which will highlight a name in red and is useful to combat spammers. Typing /ignore alone will clear all ignores.
- People to whom you've spoken privately and the messages typed can now be recalled.
- Placing a girder anywhere, even intersecting with land.
- Teleporting on top of the roof in a cavern.
- Pausing time.
- Triggering Sudden Death.
- Forcing the game to end or draw.
- Forcing the surrender of a player.
- Making all Worms invincible.
- Unleashing an unlimited number of cows, even if you have only one
- Using Parachute or Bungee during a retreat.
- Preventing WA hanging during placement by selecting an item other than Teleport or Girder
- Fuse/Herd of 0 or above 5 now isn't allowed (herd of 0 allowed user to release infinite cows).
- It is no longer possible to evade being kicked from a game at the host/join stage
- Placing a Girder instead of a Worm on starting a manual placement game, preventing the player being located way up in the sky and untouchable during turns.
- Illegal strike angles are now not allowed; previously this could freeze a game and with a straight-down angle, the strike plane never flew away
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