Well, back in highschool, I used the beowulf cluster to do my research and stuff because it was the only computer in the library with no one on it (mostly because they didn't know how to work it, but also because they didn't have an account) does that count?
Apple's website has a couple demos and if you read the arstech article, you'll find he links to some rather impressive demos of it (including one with a DVD and iTunes vizualizations updating in realtime.
If you're using a track pad, your second, third, forth and fifth buttons are right there. Though we call them modifiers, and they're the ones labled "shift" "ctrl" "option" and the one with the funky flower and apple symbol, we call it the command key. Since the likely hood of you typing and using the mouse at the at the exact same time is almost 0, and given that the keys are within distance of the trackpad and button, it seems fairly reasonable to assume you would be able to operate it as well as you do any two button mouse.
According to Apple, any player which supports the MPEG4 AAC codec will play iTunes songs. Of course, whether any players support that format is not in Apple's cotrol, and it would probably be a good idea for you to complain to the maufacturer of your player and have them add AAC support.
That said, aparently the iRiver has AAC support, so it's likely that would play the iTunes songs
You ever worked on a carefuly laid out GUI. It's damn well near art. The designers put the labes and the colors and the items in certain places for certain reasons. And then people come through with skining apps and fuck it all up.
But in the end, you're still not making any sense because with by changing the EQ, you aren't altering the original art, you're altering your perception of the art. Equivilent to looking at a painting upside down. Or looking at a sculpture from the rear and not the front.
Art is as much about what the artist originaly intended as it is about the viewer's interpretation and preception of it.
Don't believe me, go find yourself a copy of bing crosby and david bowie singing Little Drummer Boy and tell me you believe that is what the artist originaly intended.
Art is interpreted, and the EQ is as much a part of that as the meaning behind the lyrics are.
BTW, I would be very careful about who you acuse of not being an artist.
So if someone intended a program to run a certain way and have a certain interface and you change that, are you ruining what the original author intended?
And if I want to look at a Starry Night with inverted colors why shouldn't I be allowed to?
That's all well and good though, as long as everyone has the same highquality sound system that the engineers have. Since they don't, EQ is a product that peoplewant
You know, you could just mass edit the ID3 tags of those files to check the part of compilation flag, in which case then iTunes puts them all together.
As for MP3 collector, it seems to me that that is renaming common use terms rather than Apple.
A database is a collection of data, but it isn't a collection. iTunes was quite clear in that it would organize your music collection, and that no files would be deleted in thr process. Again, a simple understanding of the english language would lead one to believe that ORGANIZING (the act of ordering) your music collection, that it would be moving the files to follow a logical hirearchy.
When you organize your CDs, what are you doing?
When you organize files on your desk, what are you doing?
Ineither case, unless you use a different defenition of organize from the rest of the world, you are moving things to logical locations based on attributes, and ordering them to make searching for a particular item more efficient.
The fact is, you fucked up. You didn't read the dialouge, and if you did, you didn't bother to check if you were confused. In either case, it is your own fault for clicking through a dialouge box and telling a computer to do something when you did not fully understand what you were telling it to do.
That's just getting obnoxious now. and in all, it's more complicated and convoluted than just making the user take responsibility for their own system. I swear, for a group of people that used to bitch about how macs sucked because they did everything for you and didn't let you have control, you people sure don't want to do anything yourselves.
such feature would be a checkbox: "Do you want to undo all reorganizations that iTunes has made to your audio files?"
But then aren't you again relying on the user to read a dialouge box? I thought we already established this was a bad idea. After all, you'd wind up in the situation where someone wouldn't read the box, and depending on what the default set they would bitch either that iTunes left it that way when they uninstalled, or it moved everything on them again when they uninstalled. You really can't make everyone happy.
Easy. Microsoft Windows and popular Windows applications display more trivial "Are you sure?" alerts than Mac OS apps do, giving Windows users a more ingrained "just click OK" reflex. For example, Windows asks for confirmation both for "move file to trash" (Delete) and for "empty trash" (right-click recycle bin and choose Empty), while Mac OS skips the confirmation for "move file to trash" (Cmd+Backspace) and gives useful information (namely the total amount of disk space that trashed items take up, in addition to the number of items that Windows displays) in the "empty trash" alert.
And Apple learned that lesson the hard way. As such, all versions of iTunes now come with the option to reorganize the music unchecked in teh dialouge by default. Consider all of this a free lesson in proper computer usage.
Sure you can. If you and I are neighbors, I can put a fence up on the dividing line between our respective properties. Such is the same with the music and DRM. The DRM must be placed at the boundry between your property (the music file and it's contents) and their property (the music and the rights to distribute). For the most part, it seems Apple's DRM is on that boundry. The fact that if you created a program to remove the DRM to play it on your linux box is a violation of the DMCA is an issue with the DMCA and not with DRM specificaly.
Checkbox, and possibly leave a small (16 KB or so) program behind whose sole purpose is to replay the log file to revert iTunes's reorganization of MP3 files.
Even better, we can have iTunes leaving programs on your computer after you unintall it. Yeah that will go over real well.
And you still didn't answer the practical questions about what to do with files you add after the first reorganization etc.
Given the discussion in threads such as this, no
The only people I see with this problem are "experienced" users who blindly clicked through the questions without reading and comprehending them. I'm sorry that Apple assumed that you would read a dialouge box before you clicked OK, and I'm sorry that Apple's program did what you told it to do, and I'm sorry that your organization scheme was so complicated you cant take 10 minutes to write a script to automate the reorganization of your files. In the end though, it's still your fault.
All right, then how about fences that keep you out of private property, security filters that make it difficult for you to read a screen in an office building unless you are directly in front of a computer, and barricades that prevent you from driving over the median and on to the other side of the road?
Are these inherrently evil? They render you less capable of taking the intended action, but they can't dicern whether you have a legitimate reason to be preforming that action.
What do you call the mass of MP3 files you own? Everyone that I know and their mother calls it a collection. Likewise, the dialouge box mentions specificaly that no files will be deleted in the preocess. If you are so dumb as to have such a failed command of the english language, perhaps you should return your computer to the store before you hurt yourself.
DRM is not evil if it is applied in the crrect manner. Just like laws which prevent you from stealing, killing and raping are not inherrently evil, provided they are applied in the correct manner.
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Who is we? the public? Have you watched public access recently?
Well, back in highschool, I used the beowulf cluster to do my research and stuff because it was the only computer in the library with no one on it (mostly because they didn't know how to work it, but also because they didn't have an account) does that count?
But the UID has to have a puchase asset asociated with it. If it doesn't have one, the order will be canceled.
There's an option to turn off anti aliasing for font sizes smaller than X (where X is whatever you set it to) you might want to try that.
they ask for an appl user id before they allow you to complete the order.
And they're serous about it too. Type "Mac OS X" into text edit and tell it to speak the text and see what happens.
Read the Ars article for a better explination, but just to give you the short and sweet version:
open up 12 or 13 IE windows, each with different pages. Now find which window has each page. With only one click.
Apple's website has a couple demos and if you read the arstech article, you'll find he links to some rather impressive demos of it (including one with a DVD and iTunes vizualizations updating in realtime.
Damn, where the hell do you live that it costs $1500 to drive to the nearest CompUSA or other Apple carrying store?
If you're using a track pad, your second, third, forth and fifth buttons are right there. Though we call them modifiers, and they're the ones labled "shift" "ctrl" "option" and the one with the funky flower and apple symbol, we call it the command key. Since the likely hood of you typing and using the mouse at the at the exact same time is almost 0, and given that the keys are within distance of the trackpad and button, it seems fairly reasonable to assume you would be able to operate it as well as you do any two button mouse.
According to Apple, any player which supports the MPEG4 AAC codec will play iTunes songs. Of course, whether any players support that format is not in Apple's cotrol, and it would probably be a good idea for you to complain to the maufacturer of your player and have them add AAC support.
That said, aparently the iRiver has AAC support, so it's likely that would play the iTunes songs
You ever worked on a carefuly laid out GUI. It's damn well near art. The designers put the labes and the colors and the items in certain places for certain reasons. And then people come through with skining apps and fuck it all up.
But in the end, you're still not making any sense because with by changing the EQ, you aren't altering the original art, you're altering your perception of the art. Equivilent to looking at a painting upside down. Or looking at a sculpture from the rear and not the front.
Art is as much about what the artist originaly intended as it is about the viewer's interpretation and preception of it.
Don't believe me, go find yourself a copy of bing crosby and david bowie singing Little Drummer Boy and tell me you believe that is what the artist originaly intended.
Art is interpreted, and the EQ is as much a part of that as the meaning behind the lyrics are.
BTW, I would be very careful about who you acuse of not being an artist.
So if someone intended a program to run a certain way and have a certain interface and you change that, are you ruining what the original author intended?
And if I want to look at a Starry Night with inverted colors why shouldn't I be allowed to?
Except the idea behind open source is that the code is there if you want it. By taking away manual control of the EQ, you are taking that code away.
I find it rather amusig that you preach open source and then say that 99% of the public shouldnt be allowed to manualy set their EQ settigns
That's all well and good though, as long as everyone has the same highquality sound system that the engineers have. Since they don't, EQ is a product that peoplewant
Seems like it to me. I have a 2nd gen iPod and I can easily get 8 hours of continuous use.
You know, you could just mass edit the ID3 tags of those files to check the part of compilation flag, in which case then iTunes puts them all together.
As for MP3 collector, it seems to me that that is renaming common use terms rather than Apple.
A database is a collection of data, but it isn't a collection. iTunes was quite clear in that it would organize your music collection, and that no files would be deleted in thr process. Again, a simple understanding of the english language would lead one to believe that ORGANIZING (the act of ordering) your music collection, that it would be moving the files to follow a logical hirearchy.
When you organize your CDs, what are you doing?
When you organize files on your desk, what are you doing?
Ineither case, unless you use a different defenition of organize from the rest of the world, you are moving things to logical locations based on attributes, and ordering them to make searching for a particular item more efficient.
The fact is, you fucked up. You didn't read the dialouge, and if you did, you didn't bother to check if you were confused. In either case, it is your own fault for clicking through a dialouge box and telling a computer to do something when you did not fully understand what you were telling it to do.
That's just getting obnoxious now. and in all, it's more complicated and convoluted than just making the user take responsibility for their own system. I swear, for a group of people that used to bitch about how macs sucked because they did everything for you and didn't let you have control, you people sure don't want to do anything yourselves.
such feature would be a checkbox: "Do you want to undo all reorganizations that iTunes has made to your audio files?"
But then aren't you again relying on the user to read a dialouge box? I thought we already established this was a bad idea. After all, you'd wind up in the situation where someone wouldn't read the box, and depending on what the default set they would bitch either that iTunes left it that way when they uninstalled, or it moved everything on them again when they uninstalled. You really can't make everyone happy.
Easy. Microsoft Windows and popular Windows applications display more trivial "Are you sure?" alerts than Mac OS apps do, giving Windows users a more ingrained "just click OK" reflex. For example, Windows asks for confirmation both for "move file to trash" (Delete) and for "empty trash" (right-click recycle bin and choose Empty), while Mac OS skips the confirmation for "move file to trash" (Cmd+Backspace) and gives useful information (namely the total amount of disk space that trashed items take up, in addition to the number of items that Windows displays) in the "empty trash" alert.
And Apple learned that lesson the hard way. As such, all versions of iTunes now come with the option to reorganize the music unchecked in teh dialouge by default. Consider all of this a free lesson in proper computer usage.
Sure you can. If you and I are neighbors, I can put a fence up on the dividing line between our respective properties. Such is the same with the music and DRM. The DRM must be placed at the boundry between your property (the music file and it's contents) and their property (the music and the rights to distribute). For the most part, it seems Apple's DRM is on that boundry. The fact that if you created a program to remove the DRM to play it on your linux box is a violation of the DMCA is an issue with the DMCA and not with DRM specificaly.
Checkbox, and possibly leave a small (16 KB or so) program behind whose sole purpose is to replay the log file to revert iTunes's reorganization of MP3 files.
Even better, we can have iTunes leaving programs on your computer after you unintall it. Yeah that will go over real well.
And you still didn't answer the practical questions about what to do with files you add after the first reorganization etc.
Given the discussion in threads such as this, no
The only people I see with this problem are "experienced" users who blindly clicked through the questions without reading and comprehending them. I'm sorry that Apple assumed that you would read a dialouge box before you clicked OK, and I'm sorry that Apple's program did what you told it to do, and I'm sorry that your organization scheme was so complicated you cant take 10 minutes to write a script to automate the reorganization of your files. In the end though, it's still your fault.
All right, then how about fences that keep you out of private property, security filters that make it difficult for you to read a screen in an office building unless you are directly in front of a computer, and barricades that prevent you from driving over the median and on to the other side of the road?
Are these inherrently evil? They render you less capable of taking the intended action, but they can't dicern whether you have a legitimate reason to be preforming that action.
WTF?!?!
What do you call the mass of MP3 files you own? Everyone that I know and their mother calls it a collection. Likewise, the dialouge box mentions specificaly that no files will be deleted in the preocess. If you are so dumb as to have such a failed command of the english language, perhaps you should return your computer to the store before you hurt yourself.
DRM is not evil if it is applied in the crrect manner. Just like laws which prevent you from stealing, killing and raping are not inherrently evil, provided they are applied in the correct manner.