perhaps we should rename leopard : fat bloated kitty, snow leopard better be a massive improvement in this direction in terms of user control or these fuckers are just screwing us over again, with more hyper marketed down our throats cruft we get to have no control over.

Why is it only when i try and overwrite an application, I discover to my horror that it wont allow me to write over certain parts of the applications package, due to their being background running processes operating out of the application package with out my permission ? itunes has at least two processes
even when you have supposedly quit the application! Its this kind of cruft that programmers feel they have a write to put over us on us without offering us the choice or anything, because they think were to thick to notice, no wonder my quadcore feels like a 68020, this situation massiveley screwed me over recently when I tried to move a user folder, which had an adobe background process operating out of it from an acrobat reader install.

The software companies have got completely out of control with their use of background processes and presumptious use of the internet to keep a tab on users. The important thing is not whether they write this stuff this way, the important thing is they inform and give us the option not to run this crap, and don’t just presume well be happy with a zillion background process, after all I make a choice as to which programs to launch, I dont want them to be running without my permission ! At least in Macos 9 you had control over this crap via a GUI, ie extensions and control panels now it seems coders are able to run hundreds of bits of background code without ever asking my permission or even bothering to say what they do and what they are communicating with !?!

anybody have any idea why itunes 8.2.1 seems unbeleivably slow in comparison to older itunes ? I swear they have some count loop code they insert when they want us to upgrade to new machines just to make the kit weve got feel slow.