Yes, the database is an advantage. Not being able to play songs that aren't in the database is still idiotic (what if I just want to browse to the folder that the song is stored in, and click play there?).
The point is that being able to browse the disk and select a song has no impact on the database. So not supporting it is either laziness, or from some wrong-headed desire to constrain how users interact with the device (for devices that have sold millions and millions of units, the $50,000 it might have cost to include such a feature is meaningless).
Unless someone was explicitly interested, the furthest I would ever take such a description is "There is a way to get more information about what is going on, but it is complicated and annoying".
Getting computers much closer to being appliances without ruining them as general purpose devices is going to be an interesting ongoing challenge.
There is no reason for iPods to fail to play songs that are not in the database.
It might make sense to blare a warning that such songs are not 'managed' or that the more advanced features of the player won't use those songs, but it makes sense for it to at least be possible to play anything that happens to be on the disk.
So the issue I have isn't that iTunes makes it easy, it is that there is no other way to copy a song over. There is a difference.
You misunderstand, my problem is not that it works well, my problem is that it is the only way it works.
Say I happen to be at someone else's computer, they don't have iTunes installed, but I want to grab a couple of songs. Well, I'm up shit river, because the iPod won't work without it's damn database. And they really didn't need to use an obscure custom format, and attempt to protect it. Go ahead and defend that part of it.
Rhythmbox and Amarok may not be good iPod managers, but it isn't their fault that managing an iPod is shitastic.
I mean, dragging files to the player, why would anyone ever want to do something so obscure, lets use a proprietary database and make sure to try and encrypt it.
New Balance sources most of their labor from the U.S. (or at least, much of it, I'm not sure how things break down exactly), and while they don't charge $10, they don't exactly charge a fortune either.
If we are going to parse and mince, we should keep in mind that approximately half the time, going back 1 page in a physical book simply involves glancing a bit to the left.
I don't have much intuitive master of SI units, this is true.
But I also don't really have any intuitive knowledge of many of the customary units. I'm at least as good with meters and centimeters as with feet and inches, but that isn't from grade school, pounds, I might be able to judge 1 or 2, but it quickly breaks down above that, and the 2.2 multiplier for kilograms isn't something I have to think about (and I intuitively know that 100 grams isn't particularly much, without being very little). Liquid measures, I don't think I could do very well in either (though I know roughly how big various sodas are, and other food containers).
I'm not good with Celsius, but I know 40 C is hot for a human (and C*9/5+32 isn't so far from C*2+32, so making a rough calculation isn't exactly tough). I have also absorbed that 25 C is 'comfortable' or whatever (and, of course, the freezing and boiling points of water are well ingrained, in both systems).
Compared to a fabric of irradiated polyethylene, 400 square miles is huge. Compared to an ocean, it is barely worth talking about.
That his process is even hand-wavingly economic is cause for calm (given the alternative of not having any, I would gladly pay 10x for electricity...).
Is the other choice to live near a coal power plant?
I grew up living about 5 or 6 miles from a small coal power plant, I'm pretty sure I received more radiation from that coal plant than I would have from a nuke plant 10x the size (and since I have the luxury of living in the U.S., I can point to the excellent safety record of plants run under the regulatory regime here, so a disaster isn't particularly worrisome).
If the other choice is to not have electricity, make me glow baby!
It was massively inconvenient. Setting up a lab to study other lines involved being sure that nothing so much as a piece of paper resulted from federal funding. For most universities, that meant completely independent buildings, and so forth.
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Yes, the database is an advantage. Not being able to play songs that aren't in the database is still idiotic (what if I just want to browse to the folder that the song is stored in, and click play there?).
The point is that being able to browse the disk and select a song has no impact on the database. So not supporting it is either laziness, or from some wrong-headed desire to constrain how users interact with the device (for devices that have sold millions and millions of units, the $50,000 it might have cost to include such a feature is meaningless).
Look at all the ways we use glorified iron, and glorified sand.
Unless someone was explicitly interested, the furthest I would ever take such a description is "There is a way to get more information about what is going on, but it is complicated and annoying".
Getting computers much closer to being appliances without ruining them as general purpose devices is going to be an interesting ongoing challenge.
There is no reason for iPods to fail to play songs that are not in the database.
It might make sense to blare a warning that such songs are not 'managed' or that the more advanced features of the player won't use those songs, but it makes sense for it to at least be possible to play anything that happens to be on the disk.
So the issue I have isn't that iTunes makes it easy, it is that there is no other way to copy a song over. There is a difference.
You misunderstand, my problem is not that it works well, my problem is that it is the only way it works.
Say I happen to be at someone else's computer, they don't have iTunes installed, but I want to grab a couple of songs. Well, I'm up shit river, because the iPod won't work without it's damn database. And they really didn't need to use an obscure custom format, and attempt to protect it. Go ahead and defend that part of it.
Rhythmbox and Amarok may not be good iPod managers, but it isn't their fault that managing an iPod is shitastic.
I mean, dragging files to the player, why would anyone ever want to do something so obscure, lets use a proprietary database and make sure to try and encrypt it.
The glass is half full of sand.
The bats I commonly see eat insects. I didn't say mice weren't predatory, I wouldn't bet on nature being so constrained.
Now I'm curious about which mice are predatory.
Sounds like you guys need some hobbies.
For some definition of frequently.
Rumor has it I have yet to die in a car accident (and I was even in a head on collision at 35 + 35 mph...go seat belts, car didn't have an airbag).
One example would be if it contained the text of the summary.
Don't worry, I knew what I was doing.
So what if someone programs an AI that happens to have emergent properties?
New Balance sources most of their labor from the U.S. (or at least, much of it, I'm not sure how things break down exactly), and while they don't charge $10, they don't exactly charge a fortune either.
The minority you speak of is not set apart because they seek power over others, they are set apart because they have achieved power over others.
If we are going to parse and mince, we should keep in mind that approximately half the time, going back 1 page in a physical book simply involves glancing a bit to the left.
They try. They seem to have less influence on prices than China though.
I don't have much intuitive master of SI units, this is true.
But I also don't really have any intuitive knowledge of many of the customary units. I'm at least as good with meters and centimeters as with feet and inches, but that isn't from grade school, pounds, I might be able to judge 1 or 2, but it quickly breaks down above that, and the 2.2 multiplier for kilograms isn't something I have to think about (and I intuitively know that 100 grams isn't particularly much, without being very little). Liquid measures, I don't think I could do very well in either (though I know roughly how big various sodas are, and other food containers).
I'm not good with Celsius, but I know 40 C is hot for a human (and C*9/5+32 isn't so far from C*2+32, so making a rough calculation isn't exactly tough). I have also absorbed that 25 C is 'comfortable' or whatever (and, of course, the freezing and boiling points of water are well ingrained, in both systems).
Compared to a fabric of irradiated polyethylene, 400 square miles is huge. Compared to an ocean, it is barely worth talking about.
That his process is even hand-wavingly economic is cause for calm (given the alternative of not having any, I would gladly pay 10x for electricity...).
Til we are dead. So really, our concern should be what works out best for those that are next.
You are overstating things, lots of plutonium (that's recycled nuclear waste) is being burned in Europe.
Is the other choice to live near a coal power plant?
I grew up living about 5 or 6 miles from a small coal power plant, I'm pretty sure I received more radiation from that coal plant than I would have from a nuke plant 10x the size (and since I have the luxury of living in the U.S., I can point to the excellent safety record of plants run under the regulatory regime here, so a disaster isn't particularly worrisome).
If the other choice is to not have electricity, make me glow baby!
I build houses out of fire.
It was massively inconvenient. Setting up a lab to study other lines involved being sure that nothing so much as a piece of paper resulted from federal funding. For most universities, that meant completely independent buildings, and so forth.