iTunes is more geared towards consumers. I can see ways to cram your collection in iTunes, but it won't (and never will) be pretty.
Don't professional tools offer management of recordings where you can use metadata like date, venue, session artists, booking agency, studio, gear lists, time breaks (for things like notes or references to other recordings) and such?
I'm not a musician, but I do see a whole lot of potential for such a tool. Something like Aperture for musicians.
Is there one solution for managing your music, photos, videos, documents and other data you download/generate? I don't think so. Files and folders are good for basic media management and easy to implement, but it just doesn't cut it when you need to manage >5000 songs or photos. That's when you need an application that's able to handle the specific properties of the kind of media you want to manage. Music has artist/album/genre/play count/rating, photos have rating/event/keywords/version, and so on.
The problem is two-fold. On the one side there's the problem of storing the data (which, like you said, should be the task of the OS), on the other hand there's the user interface for managing the data, and that's 100% the task of the application.
Amarok/Songbird/iTunes AREN'T music players! They are music management applications that also tend to play the songs because that's what you'll also want anyway.
If you want a music player, well... use a music player then!
Besides the fact that this proves that tv has a way too big influence on our lives an our personalities, I wonder if this effects the way we look at the world outside our dreams. Do "b&w people" have more feeling for shapes and textures while "color people" look at the world from a more color-based perspective? Does it influence the way a photographer composes a picture? Does it influence how quick we react in traffic, recognizing colors instead of shapes? Does it influence our definition of beauty?
What happens when their reputation is ruined? Will we vote for another World Bank? Will an almost-bankrupt African (or Northern) country decide to work with another World Bank to fix their economy?
You'd better fix the coder's habits by giving them a workstation without a compiler and an editor without on-the-fly syntax checking. It'll make them less productive in the short run, but the code will be better, more thought out and far easier to maintain.
'Better' languages and 'better' tools make programmers lazy.
Okay, but let's see this in the perspective of a flat earth as they call it. In fact the earth isn't flat our round(ish). It has it's own unique dimensional system. The Round Earth theory is made by the New World Order government (USA, 'former' USSR, China, Japan and the EU) after they discovered this Earth-specific dimension system.
This system is so complex, it's ungraspable for most of mankind, but that would lead to the realization by us proles that we're not as smart as we think we are, reducing our level of self-confidence to that of the non-NWO countries (the cheap labour slaves). So they invented the Round Earth theory by providing (manipulated) pictures of a round earth, all made by combining photo's taken from hot air balloons. Steve Fossett had a big role in this project, but about one year ago he had some personal issues with some of the conspiracists and he threatened to write a book about the true shape of the earth.
They also provide 'pictures' of other round planets, just to let us believe that there are more round planets and that it's a perfectly normal thing for a planet to be round.
But as I said, the truth is as good as ungraspable. There are all sorts of complexities involved. The teleport from one end to another, for example. It prevents people from falling off the earth (but it also (still) prevents us from knowing what's underneath the earth). It's easily exploited to cross the pacific ocean from Japan to the USA, for example. This teleport-thing also makes it possible to strenghthen the Round Earth theory.
And what to think of the amazingly complex gravitational system that puts us on the earth and manages to move the sun, moon and stars in predictable yet complex ways? They just recently started to understand this system and made use of it to place satellites in 'orbit' without falling down (how else do you think that satellites always stay on the same place? By moving just exactly as fast as the earth? Impossible. They're just hanging there in the flat, static sky).
It's exactly those people that managed to analyze the inner workings of the teleport and made their own teleports and placed them in populated areas around the world, calling them 'Airports'. They attached bird-like wings to the buses that bring people to the teleports, just to make them believe they were going to fly through the air. In fact, the plane doesn't come off the ground, it's just replaced with a laser projected version while the real bus ('plane') is taxied to the teleport to be teleported to another 'Airport'. The windows are in fact hi-res screens. The current system is still pretty slow though (but a lot faster than boats and trains!), but in the future it will allow us to be teleported to anywhere in the world in seconds. Maybe even with a pocket 'aeroplane', but that won't be released to the public before they find a way to masquerade it as something that fits in the Round Earth theory.
Oh, and btw, the Flat Earth Theory is made by the same conspiracists, just to give the non-believers something else to believe in.
It can be applied to most of us, companies should be aware of that. Cubicles and open offices are default nowadays, so people can constantly drop by and ask things. Instant messaging and e-mail only make it worse.
When I'm at work programming, I want to do just that. When my manager asks me about the state of things, I lose my concentration, have to write down some notes about what I was working on, answer his question, read my notes and try to regain my concentration. Sometimes it takes fifteen minutes or more to regain my concentration, most of the time I completely lose important work because I lost the idea or can't make sense of the halfway finished code I just wrote. A simple question (from his perspective) costs fifteen minutes or more of my time and could lead to ugly unmaintainable code.
When companies just start to realise that most people can't multitask and change their corporate culture accordingly, overall productivity will increase.
iTunes 7 is a phased out product. It's Apple's only core app that still uses Carbon. The only reasons for updates are new features to support new products and security fixes.
I guess the next version will be a rewrite with Cocoa, maybe even some different tools because syncing contacts on your iPhone doesn't have much to do with listening to music and the video capabilities of iTunes are a pita GUI-wise.
Companies that seem to think that you bought your computer for the sole purpose of using their software. That's OK for specialized software, not for basic services like anti-virus or printer drivers.
But it's the specialized software that doesn't interfere too much with your system (any 'uninstallable' IDE's? 3D designer apps?) and the basic services that hog your system and annoy the hell out of you while they should be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible.
Why?
Yes. I know the answer. Marketing. But still, WHY? Like anybody buys the software if the free version is driving them nuts!
Freecell and Patience (on XP) are typical MS programs:
- different engines - different user interfaces (clicking vs dragging) - way too many dialog boxes - some often used functions don't have a hotkey (like starting over with Freecell)
Inconsistent and unpolished, just like a lot of other MS software. But hey, I can't complain about it because they're just some stupid games and they're free!
They lost your company, but to prevent further damage, they *have* to release a new (business desktop) OS within a year and a half from now. All those "complete rewrite to fix the mess" ideas are great, but they take five years to develop and five more years to iron out before it becomes a really stable working product. Enough time for Apple and Linux to take over a lot of the market.
I think Windows 7 will be XP + some extra stuff. A bit more extra stuff than a service pack, but not a lot. Maybe some better administration tools and some features to fit it on (ultra)portables with their limited speed, storage and screens.
Bullshit. The software is the user interface (steering wheel + pedals + dashboard) and the software that operates the engine. From a user's perspective there shouldn't be a difference between hardware and software, they should work flawlessly together. And that's where Apple wins and Microsoft fails. I've seen numerous people with 'broken laptops' because they accidentaly pushed the 'wireless' button and suddenly Windows reported that the WiFi module was 'broken'.
And for the other guy who said that it generally happens that a car has an engine of brand X and other parts of brand Y while the car is sold as being brand Z... How's that different from Apple, with their Intel processors, Hitachi hard disks, heck, my whole MacBook is made by ASUSTek! But it's designed by Apple, branded by Apple and runs Apple software. And the hardware and software works flawlessly together, as if there was no difference between the two.
Maybe we need a new idea in Operating systems. They should be invisible! They should just work and get out of your way. Never gonna happen when it's the flagship product of a company.
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iTunes is more geared towards consumers. I can see ways to cram your collection in iTunes, but it won't (and never will) be pretty.
Don't professional tools offer management of recordings where you can use metadata like date, venue, session artists, booking agency, studio, gear lists, time breaks (for things like notes or references to other recordings) and such?
I'm not a musician, but I do see a whole lot of potential for such a tool. Something like Aperture for musicians.
Is there one solution for managing your music, photos, videos, documents and other data you download/generate? I don't think so. Files and folders are good for basic media management and easy to implement, but it just doesn't cut it when you need to manage >5000 songs or photos. That's when you need an application that's able to handle the specific properties of the kind of media you want to manage. Music has artist/album/genre/play count/rating, photos have rating/event/keywords/version, and so on.
The problem is two-fold. On the one side there's the problem of storing the data (which, like you said, should be the task of the OS), on the other hand there's the user interface for managing the data, and that's 100% the task of the application.
Amarok/Songbird/iTunes AREN'T music players! They are music management applications that also tend to play the songs because that's what you'll also want anyway.
If you want a music player, well... use a music player then!
/Funny F3 F3 F3 F3... (That's not UNIX, that's what I'm doing right now in Firefox :) )
Besides the fact that this proves that tv has a way too big influence on our lives an our personalities, I wonder if this effects the way we look at the world outside our dreams. Do "b&w people" have more feeling for shapes and textures while "color people" look at the world from a more color-based perspective? Does it influence the way a photographer composes a picture? Does it influence how quick we react in traffic, recognizing colors instead of shapes? Does it influence our definition of beauty?
Interesting stuff :)
What happens when their reputation is ruined? Will we vote for another World Bank? Will an almost-bankrupt African (or Northern) country decide to work with another World Bank to fix their economy?
You'd better fix the coder's habits by giving them a workstation without a compiler and an editor without on-the-fly syntax checking. It'll make them less productive in the short run, but the code will be better, more thought out and far easier to maintain.
'Better' languages and 'better' tools make programmers lazy.
Okay, but let's see this in the perspective of a flat earth as they call it. In fact the earth isn't flat our round(ish). It has it's own unique dimensional system. The Round Earth theory is made by the New World Order government (USA, 'former' USSR, China, Japan and the EU) after they discovered this Earth-specific dimension system.
This system is so complex, it's ungraspable for most of mankind, but that would lead to the realization by us proles that we're not as smart as we think we are, reducing our level of self-confidence to that of the non-NWO countries (the cheap labour slaves). So they invented the Round Earth theory by providing (manipulated) pictures of a round earth, all made by combining photo's taken from hot air balloons. Steve Fossett had a big role in this project, but about one year ago he had some personal issues with some of the conspiracists and he threatened to write a book about the true shape of the earth.
They also provide 'pictures' of other round planets, just to let us believe that there are more round planets and that it's a perfectly normal thing for a planet to be round.
But as I said, the truth is as good as ungraspable. There are all sorts of complexities involved. The teleport from one end to another, for example. It prevents people from falling off the earth (but it also (still) prevents us from knowing what's underneath the earth). It's easily exploited to cross the pacific ocean from Japan to the USA, for example. This teleport-thing also makes it possible to strenghthen the Round Earth theory.
And what to think of the amazingly complex gravitational system that puts us on the earth and manages to move the sun, moon and stars in predictable yet complex ways? They just recently started to understand this system and made use of it to place satellites in 'orbit' without falling down (how else do you think that satellites always stay on the same place? By moving just exactly as fast as the earth? Impossible. They're just hanging there in the flat, static sky).
It's exactly those people that managed to analyze the inner workings of the teleport and made their own teleports and placed them in populated areas around the world, calling them 'Airports'. They attached bird-like wings to the buses that bring people to the teleports, just to make them believe they were going to fly through the air. In fact, the plane doesn't come off the ground, it's just replaced with a laser projected version while the real bus ('plane') is taxied to the teleport to be teleported to another 'Airport'. The windows are in fact hi-res screens. The current system is still pretty slow though (but a lot faster than boats and trains!), but in the future it will allow us to be teleported to anywhere in the world in seconds. Maybe even with a pocket 'aeroplane', but that won't be released to the public before they find a way to masquerade it as something that fits in the Round Earth theory.
Oh, and btw, the Flat Earth Theory is made by the same conspiracists, just to give the non-believers something else to believe in.
...for the first mission to Uranus.
Is she such a slut that she lets you run fsck without root access?
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Sue me.
It can be applied to most of us, companies should be aware of that. Cubicles and open offices are default nowadays, so people can constantly drop by and ask things. Instant messaging and e-mail only make it worse.
When I'm at work programming, I want to do just that. When my manager asks me about the state of things, I lose my concentration, have to write down some notes about what I was working on, answer his question, read my notes and try to regain my concentration. Sometimes it takes fifteen minutes or more to regain my concentration, most of the time I completely lose important work because I lost the idea or can't make sense of the halfway finished code I just wrote. A simple question (from his perspective) costs fifteen minutes or more of my time and could lead to ugly unmaintainable code.
When companies just start to realise that most people can't multitask and change their corporate culture accordingly, overall productivity will increase.
Ubuntu 15.10: Woody Woodpecker
At least they didn't call it "Loving Leopard" or something like that...
iTunes 7 is a phased out product. It's Apple's only core app that still uses Carbon. The only reasons for updates are new features to support new products and security fixes. I guess the next version will be a rewrite with Cocoa, maybe even some different tools because syncing contacts on your iPhone doesn't have much to do with listening to music and the video capabilities of iTunes are a pita GUI-wise.
The ability to hibernate your Mac with 16TB of RAM :)
Companies that seem to think that you bought your computer for the sole purpose of using their software. That's OK for specialized software, not for basic services like anti-virus or printer drivers.
But it's the specialized software that doesn't interfere too much with your system (any 'uninstallable' IDE's? 3D designer apps?) and the basic services that hog your system and annoy the hell out of you while they should be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible.
Why?
Yes. I know the answer. Marketing. But still, WHY? Like anybody buys the software if the free version is driving them nuts!
Freecell and Patience (on XP) are typical MS programs:
- different engines
- different user interfaces (clicking vs dragging)
- way too many dialog boxes
- some often used functions don't have a hotkey (like starting over with Freecell)
Inconsistent and unpolished, just like a lot of other MS software. But hey, I can't complain about it because they're just some stupid games and they're free!
They lost your company, but to prevent further damage, they *have* to release a new (business desktop) OS within a year and a half from now. All those "complete rewrite to fix the mess" ideas are great, but they take five years to develop and five more years to iron out before it becomes a really stable working product. Enough time for Apple and Linux to take over a lot of the market.
I think Windows 7 will be XP + some extra stuff. A bit more extra stuff than a service pack, but not a lot. Maybe some better administration tools and some features to fit it on (ultra)portables with their limited speed, storage and screens.
Bullshit. The software is the user interface (steering wheel + pedals + dashboard) and the software that operates the engine. From a user's perspective there shouldn't be a difference between hardware and software, they should work flawlessly together. And that's where Apple wins and Microsoft fails. I've seen numerous people with 'broken laptops' because they accidentaly pushed the 'wireless' button and suddenly Windows reported that the WiFi module was 'broken'.
And for the other guy who said that it generally happens that a car has an engine of brand X and other parts of brand Y while the car is sold as being brand Z... How's that different from Apple, with their Intel processors, Hitachi hard disks, heck, my whole MacBook is made by ASUSTek! But it's designed by Apple, branded by Apple and runs Apple software. And the hardware and software works flawlessly together, as if there was no difference between the two.
(Ps. The fuel is the electricity)
Exactly the "yeah but" fanboyism that I was looking for!
Microsoft is 33, Linux is barely 17.
hmm, will it be Illegal for MS to screw Linux?
Try the Safari/Webkit nighly builds (on OSX) or Opera 9.5 beta.
I use those browsers and wasn't imressed with the 'speed' of FF3 at all. It was, at best, less sluggish than FF2.