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WinAmp's Death Greatly Exaggerated
robyannetta writes "In a previous story, we heard that WinAmp was
down for the count. Apparently, this is not the case.
Here is a note by Eric Caoili that says "No we weren't axed. We haven't even seen anyone with an axe. There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question, but that's about it.""
There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question, but that's about it.
Did you hear OJ's son confessed to the murder?
He wanted to see a movie, and OJ said I dunno - go axe your mom.
What, an "early demise" article, and no mention of netcraft?
There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question...
Ah, nothing like computer nerds using slang..... It's so cute yet so disturbing.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
"Welcome to the world of the rumor-feeding news cycle."
I'll be dead some time in the future.
So, what 3rd party audi player is going to come out of the shadows and take winamps place? XMMS?
I just recently saw this on my dad's computer.. He was watching anime.. My dad was watching anime on WinampTV.. That was pretty cool..
I just wish they had a version for Linux...
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Winamp is a nice piece of software indeed, but I take it you have never tried this.
Much, much better. Uses less memory, plays anything you throw at it, great community, it's free - anything else I'm missing?
Also, please stop mentioning WMP. This is Slashdot, after all.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- G.B. Shaw
Its great how one can write an honestly serious comment and then someone else will honestly mod it as funny.
Oops... look, it is also "Insightful" now!
Holy crap, you dogged an apple product and you didnt get modded down?
Lucky son of a bitch.:)
That's because it only rips the first and last 15 seconds of each track, the rest of the time is filled up by RIAA brand Insta-Noise for your listening enjoyment.
Just the llama, who always carried most of the load anyway.
Sigs are bad for your health.
Why would you want to use something that's named "F***ed Up Beyond Repair 2000"?
:P HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!! *ducks and hides now*
I dunno, but apparently that doesn't stop people from using Windows!!
Join the TWIT army now!
who of the original lineup of Nullsoft/Winamp coders are still there
>>Just the llama, who always carried most of the load anyway...
The llama is considered an essential employee. They have to test each new release of Winamp to make sure it still really whips his ass.
It's official; Netcraft confirms: Spelling is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Spelling Nazi community when IDC confirmed that proper spelling market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Web users. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that proper spelling has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Proper spelling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive writing test.
You don't don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the future of proper spelling. The misspelled hand writing is on the wall: Spelling faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for spelling because spell-checking is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Spelling Nazis. As many of us are already aware, spelling continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Microsoft Word spell checker is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Word developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Spell checking in Microsoft Word is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Oxford English Dictionary publishers Oxford University state that there are 7000 users of the OED. How many users of Merriam-Webster are there? Let's see. The number of OED versus Merriam-Webster posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Merriam-Webster users. Wiktionary posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Merriam-Webster posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of the Wiktionary. A recent article put Microsoft Word Spell Checker at about 80 percent of the electronic dictionary market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Word spell-check users. This is consistent with the number of poorly-spelled Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Microsoft, abysmal sales and so on, Word went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft Office who sell another troubled spell-checker. Now Microsoft Office is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that proper spelling has steadily declined in market share. Spelling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If spelling is to survive at all it will be among linguist dilettante dabblers. Spelling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, spelling is dead.
Fact: Spelling is dying
Wot?! We were actually mourning about the death of a Windows-only app on Slashdot. Get the smelling salts, I ... *klunk*
Tent Depot.
Sigs are bad for your health.
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I thought they skipped 4 because of the problems winamp 4 skins would have caused?
I'll be here all week, thanks.
Thanks, Yoda!
So, it was a pretty faithful port, then?
emacs as my OS of choice.
Is it just me (perhaps I am old) but are these guys playing too much Altered Beasts on their spare time? :-)
Yeah, I'm off topic but the title of the article just lend itself to this question.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden