and the empty space to the right of the column headings (.., Year, Length,.. emptiness..) is that another column??
That point is absolutely useless, there are no songs in the list, of course it's as small as possible, you can get the same effect with iTunes
What does "normal matching" mean???
It's one of the different methods for searching, that should be apparent as it's next to the search field - even the names are self-explanatory
what does "collection list" mean, is that my whole music collection.. list?
Wow, who would have thought? collection list is a list of my collection, really, wow. What does "Library" mean? Is that a public library in iTunes, can I get books there? You're not the only one who can play absolutely retarded.
why the separate "pause" and "stop" buttons.
Because they're two different things, the distinction isn't that big but people know it as it's the same with real world applications; even worse, with iTunes you have *either* pause or stop depending on context and that context doesn't make any sense. And it doesn't complicate things like the abysmal volume control of the old quicktime
when I want the music to stop, which should I press?
You never used a cd-player? Don't try to be more stupid than you are
what happens if I press the play button while it's playing, does it pause?
Nothing, it's greyed out
why doesn't the play button turn into a pause button when playing?
Because some people hate that "feature" of OS X (apparently the Apple people have problems implementing it too, as iTunes for Windows don't has a maximize/restore button =)
This isn't a tape recorder, buttons can change depending on context.
Having distinct buttons for distinct functions sounds like something which could have been in Apple's HIG before they changed it for more coolness
What are those sliders for, is that one big slider or two sliders?
time and volume control - which is which is apparent as soon as you use it, although they could use some small icons to illustrate their use.
Why is "collection list" repeated at the bottom?
Because it's a status bar - the use of which is apparent to everyone who ever used a browser of any kind. Some people out there have actually enough playlists that you have to scroll to see them all
My eye is at the top of the screen first
If that's the case, how does that status bar manage to impair your music listening expirience? I'd think that having essential buttons on the bottom like iTunes would be more disadvantageous for a top oriented gentleman like you
what are those numbers in the lower right? track/total time? elapsed/remaining time?
That is evident as soon as you see the application in RL instead of critizising screens
and that arrow? what does it do?
It jumps to the song currently played - *very* useful and I don't know how to do that with iTunes
Now, the same for iTune:
- I'm playing a song and want to pause it because the phone rings, but I only see a stop button, why? Oh yeah, I was currently searching for some song in a different playlist and if I'm doing something absurd like that I can't be allowed to puase iTunes, sacrilegious.
- The interface wastes more space than the new concept for Longhorn (k, Microsoft always stole from others but never matched the original, they can't even clone an awful UI)
- What's that little arrow in the lcd thingy?
- What's that little arrow in the search field
- what does "Library" mean? is that where I can get the audio books Steve Jobs talked about?
- Why are all the buttons at the bottom? "My eye is at the top of the screen first"(TM)
- What's that plus sign? Does it add songs? Playlists? Does it open existing playlists or creating new ones?
- The next button is absolutely and
Then read the bugtraq links that are mentioned above. Also interesting would be this one
Actually you're claiming that tech report and CNET are lying without any prove or plausibility-argument and don't contribute anything to much more specific postings above which discuss Apple's policy and the probability of a patch for =10.2
They're all masterpieces compared to the current file dialog.
I don't expect brilliant innovation I just want (a) an usable file dialog and every "innovative" mock-up convinces me that the only way to get it is to copy Win/MacOS/KDE/etc. and (b) *one* file dialog, currently there are myriads of slightly "improved" versions out there, practically every gtk-application has a different file dialog. And that sucks.
In that oath, you will see the phrase "uphold the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic". This doesnt just apply to civil uprisings and such. This also applies to the government
If you read my posting again you'll see that that was exactly my point. The deciding factor will be how the military is split not the number of civilians with weapons
in court:
Courts are slow and SCO is using all means available to slow it down even further
in the press:
Reporters aren't interested in the truth, they're interested in a story therefore an article "IBM's evil and has to pay $3000000000" will always seem preferable to "Obscure company in SLC sues IBM to avoid bankruptcy" just as "WMDs found in Iraq" is more popular than "Yesterday's article about WMDs was premature"
The purpose of the second ammendment is to allow an armed populace to perform an uprising against its government if necessary. It is one of the checks on government the people retain, along with the vote and the jury system.
The problem with this is, that the types of firearms the government allows you to own are so limited that they would be almost useless in an armed conflict against the military as there's virtually no difference between half of the military with automatic weapons, tanks, artillery, aircraft, cruise missiles and WMDs against the other half and one half with all of the stuff above and a bunch of guys with hunting rifles against the other half.
Iraq shows that massive numbers of small arms (don't forget that the average household there has at least one Kalashnikov and that ridiculous amounts of military grade weapons vanished at the end of the Saddam regime) can hurt occupying forces but are not even able to be a deciding factor (even in the sense of slowing down the attacker significantly) in the battle between regular armed forces let alone defeat them on their own.
So either you give Bubba and his friends their Abrahams and Stingers or you acknowledge that all that talk about the inviolable 2nd ammendment is just a farce
I'm sorry, secretary Ashcroft is currently playing dress-up with Justicia and is unavailable but true to our philosophy of lean government for the good of the people we outsourced that case anyway I can connect you to the person who is now responsible for it, it's a certain Mr. William Gates would you like to talk to him now?
Dear Mr. Jobs,
we the geeks are in full support of Microsoft's demand to open up media players for all competitors and hope you will give in.
A possible loss of revenue could be compensated by a new program with the tentative title "Apple Office for Windows" and we're all looking forward to Microsoft's complaint that office suites should be open and support all competing document formats.
but you are given far more rights with iTMS downloaded tracks than other services offer. Instead of picking nits, make valid counter-arguments... nope... didn't think so
Huh? You talked about less restriction in the software required for d/ling suddenly you're talking about the DRM of the tracks. *You* say that iTMS is less restrictive so *you* have to prove it not the other way round
My point was you only have 1 choice of OS (more options with iTMS, and no, WinME, WinXP, Win2K, etc. don't count as more than one choice)
When I downloaded iTunes for Windows (didn't test it yet, I'm running Linux currently) Apple only offered downloads for XP/2k so 98/ME compatability *is* effectivly an additional choice as Apple apparently doesn't support it
and you only have 1 choice of browser (no browser required at all with iTMS) with the PC only services.
A browser which comes with every version of Windows and is installed on nearly every system supported by the software of the music store while being available for the few systems which don't have it, free of charge of course. iTunes on the other hand is so big, the competition could bundle the browser with their software and they'd still have smaller downloads
If you look at the first reply to the parent you'll see what really frightens me about the 2000 election
While the recall issue has been trampled to death by articles, commentaries, op-eds, official and private recounts, reports, documentaries etc. I've never seen even one article which disputes that Harris manipulated the election by removing far more (overwhelmingly democratic) voters than any difference between Bush and Gore shown by any of the recounts.
And noone cares.
I'd really like to see an article convincing me of the contrary, honestly, because it frightens me that something of this magnitude gets noticed but nothing happens
Now if Napster were to offer the same licensing/same price and go on a larger variety of devices then it might have a shot.
Huh? It *has* practically the same deal, in fact it offers actually more and afaik the songs are encoded at a higher bitrate.
And which "variety of devices" are you talking about? You can u/l all stuff to your player with windows media but the Napster software only works with the official player - the same like iTunes although the iPod is of course more popular than the Napster thingy but on the other hand iirc a lot more players offered wma support than aac capability
As far as I see the new napster is a iTunes look-a-like with all the benefits/drawbacks of iTunes but the additional feature that they have a all-you-can-listen offer for $9,95.
But while yesterday the announcement of iTunes for Windows was hailed by the slashdot community as a giant leap for all mankind, the new napster service is the 5th column of the RIAA brought upon us to further the goal of destruction of geekdom
Yes but mplayer has perhaps the most informative configure-script I've ever seen. At the end it prints out what's gonna be installed and what isn't and it's easier to track down missing libraries for mplayer than for any other app I've ever compiled.
In fact it's easier to compile mplayer than it is to compile any of the competing media players for Linux and it already was that way when Barr wrote his first article bashing mplayer while praising xine which was worthy of the "Emacs-Vi-Flamer's Award" but of little relevance otherwise.
Are the MPlayer developers assholes? Sometimes
But that doesn't mean that people writing that the MPlayer devs are assholes can't be assholes too =)
(After reading that new article it seems to me like both sides have matured since the last round of their mutual bashing)
Try Teamspeak - I always loved SpeakFreely but since I used Teamspeak for the first time, I've never looked back - the best voip software for Windows/Linux (If you use something else that won't help you much, of course =)
And it works with NAT (it's more or less like IRC with voice-capability)
There is a number of different projects to make a filesystem more database-like.
WinFS is one of them, Storage another,reiser4 has a number of interesting concepts (such as a file being at the same time a directory containing the attributes of the file) which could be used in a similar way
Well, if you look at the image in the article, it *is* one hell of a ferris wheel and while I can't say how effective it is without trying it, it really doesn't look less cluttered than a normal file-list but it could be useful in distinct parts of a file system where a maximum of *visual* organisation is necessary (in a cvs-tree perhaps, to see what files influence which others if you change them, just an idea)
And just to get my daily flamebait rating: Who modded the parent offtopic? It's a valid questioning of the usefulness of the program mentioned in the article
Fresh vegetables and fruits, fresh cuts of meat, blueberries, watermellon, refills for your Cross pen, batteries for your calculator, a strapless bra that is your size... these are all things we take for granted here in the US but are often difficult to get abroad.
As a number of people already said above, this may be the first trademark lawsuit in years which actually has something going for it.
Apple Records sells... music
Apple iTunes sells... music
And as the Apple service has probably the greater brand recognition it's highly probable that if Selma Average tells Joe Average-but-knows-a-bit-about-computer-stuff that she bought music from Apple he'll probably think of iTunes. Sounds like trademark violation to me
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That point is absolutely useless, there are no songs in the list, of course it's as small as possible, you can get the same effect with iTunes
What does "normal matching" mean???
It's one of the different methods for searching, that should be apparent as it's next to the search field - even the names are self-explanatory
what does "collection list" mean, is that my whole music collection .. list?
Wow, who would have thought? collection list is a list of my collection, really, wow. What does "Library" mean? Is that a public library in iTunes, can I get books there? You're not the only one who can play absolutely retarded.
why the separate "pause" and "stop" buttons.
Because they're two different things, the distinction isn't that big but people know it as it's the same with real world applications; even worse, with iTunes you have *either* pause or stop depending on context and that context doesn't make any sense. And it doesn't complicate things like the abysmal volume control of the old quicktime
when I want the music to stop, which should I press?
You never used a cd-player? Don't try to be more stupid than you are
what happens if I press the play button while it's playing, does it pause?
Nothing, it's greyed out
why doesn't the play button turn into a pause button when playing?
Because some people hate that "feature" of OS X (apparently the Apple people have problems implementing it too, as iTunes for Windows don't has a maximize/restore button =)
This isn't a tape recorder, buttons can change depending on context.
Having distinct buttons for distinct functions sounds like something which could have been in Apple's HIG before they changed it for more coolness
What are those sliders for, is that one big slider or two sliders?
time and volume control - which is which is apparent as soon as you use it, although they could use some small icons to illustrate their use.
Why is "collection list" repeated at the bottom?
Because it's a status bar - the use of which is apparent to everyone who ever used a browser of any kind. Some people out there have actually enough playlists that you have to scroll to see them all
My eye is at the top of the screen first
If that's the case, how does that status bar manage to impair your music listening expirience? I'd think that having essential buttons on the bottom like iTunes would be more disadvantageous for a top oriented gentleman like you
what are those numbers in the lower right? track/total time? elapsed/remaining time?
That is evident as soon as you see the application in RL instead of critizising screens
and that arrow? what does it do?
It jumps to the song currently played - *very* useful and I don't know how to do that with iTunes
Now, the same for iTune:
- I'm playing a song and want to pause it because the phone rings, but I only see a stop button, why? Oh yeah, I was currently searching for some song in a different playlist and if I'm doing something absurd like that I can't be allowed to puase iTunes, sacrilegious.
- The interface wastes more space than the new concept for Longhorn (k, Microsoft always stole from others but never matched the original, they can't even clone an awful UI)
- What's that little arrow in the lcd thingy?
- What's that little arrow in the search field
- what does "Library" mean? is that where I can get the audio books Steve Jobs talked about?
- Why are all the buttons at the bottom? "My eye is at the top of the screen first"(TM)
- What's that plus sign? Does it add songs? Playlists? Does it open existing playlists or creating new ones?
- The next button is absolutely and
Actually you're claiming that tech report and CNET are lying without any prove or plausibility-argument and don't contribute anything to much more specific postings above which discuss Apple's policy and the probability of a patch for =10.2
Get a rio karma - it has an ethernet port
I don't expect brilliant innovation I just want (a) an usable file dialog and every "innovative" mock-up convinces me that the only way to get it is to copy Win/MacOS/KDE/etc. and (b) *one* file dialog, currently there are myriads of slightly "improved" versions out there, practically every gtk-application has a different file dialog. And that sucks.
If you read my posting again you'll see that that was exactly my point. The deciding factor will be how the military is split not the number of civilians with weapons
Courts are slow and SCO is using all means available to slow it down even further
in the press:
Reporters aren't interested in the truth, they're interested in a story therefore an article "IBM's evil and has to pay $3000000000" will always seem preferable to "Obscure company in SLC sues IBM to avoid bankruptcy" just as "WMDs found in Iraq" is more popular than "Yesterday's article about WMDs was premature"
The problem with this is, that the types of firearms the government allows you to own are so limited that they would be almost useless in an armed conflict against the military as there's virtually no difference between half of the military with automatic weapons, tanks, artillery, aircraft, cruise missiles and WMDs against the other half and one half with all of the stuff above and a bunch of guys with hunting rifles against the other half.
Iraq shows that massive numbers of small arms (don't forget that the average household there has at least one Kalashnikov and that ridiculous amounts of military grade weapons vanished at the end of the Saddam regime) can hurt occupying forces but are not even able to be a deciding factor (even in the sense of slowing down the attacker significantly) in the battle between regular armed forces let alone defeat them on their own.
So either you give Bubba and his friends their Abrahams and Stingers or you acknowledge that all that talk about the inviolable 2nd ammendment is just a farce
I'm sorry, secretary Ashcroft is currently playing dress-up with Justicia and is unavailable but true to our philosophy of lean government for the good of the people we outsourced that case anyway I can connect you to the person who is now responsible for it, it's a certain Mr. William Gates would you like to talk to him now?
we the geeks are in full support of Microsoft's demand to open up media players for all competitors and hope you will give in.
A possible loss of revenue could be compensated by a new program with the tentative title "Apple Office for Windows" and we're all looking forward to Microsoft's complaint that office suites should be open and support all competing document formats.
etc...
Huh? You talked about less restriction in the software required for d/ling suddenly you're talking about the DRM of the tracks. *You* say that iTMS is less restrictive so *you* have to prove it not the other way round
My point was you only have 1 choice of OS (more options with iTMS, and no, WinME, WinXP, Win2K, etc. don't count as more than one choice)
When I downloaded iTunes for Windows (didn't test it yet, I'm running Linux currently) Apple only offered downloads for XP/2k so 98/ME compatability *is* effectivly an additional choice as Apple apparently doesn't support it
and you only have 1 choice of browser (no browser required at all with iTMS) with the PC only services.
A browser which comes with every version of Windows and is installed on nearly every system supported by the software of the music store while being available for the few systems which don't have it, free of charge of course. iTunes on the other hand is so big, the competition could bundle the browser with their software and they'd still have smaller downloads
While the recall issue has been trampled to death by articles, commentaries, op-eds, official and private recounts, reports, documentaries etc. I've never seen even one article which disputes that Harris manipulated the election by removing far more (overwhelmingly democratic) voters than any difference between Bush and Gore shown by any of the recounts.
And noone cares.
I'd really like to see an article convincing me of the contrary, honestly, because it frightens me that something of this magnitude gets noticed but nothing happens
Huh? It *has* practically the same deal, in fact it offers actually more and afaik the songs are encoded at a higher bitrate.
And which "variety of devices" are you talking about? You can u/l all stuff to your player with windows media but the Napster software only works with the official player - the same like iTunes although the iPod is of course more popular than the Napster thingy but on the other hand iirc a lot more players offered wma support than aac capability
You either use html-tags or switch the pulldown menu next to the preview button to "Plain Old Text"
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Why should SuSE do the work for Red Hat when Red Hat's twice as big and much more dependant on the American market (also afaik =)
jm2
But while yesterday the announcement of iTunes for Windows was hailed by the slashdot community as a giant leap for all mankind, the new napster service is the 5th column of the RIAA brought upon us to further the goal of destruction of geekdom
Is there any valid reason for that?
In fact it's easier to compile mplayer than it is to compile any of the competing media players for Linux and it already was that way when Barr wrote his first article bashing mplayer while praising xine which was worthy of the "Emacs-Vi-Flamer's Award" but of little relevance otherwise.
Are the MPlayer developers assholes? Sometimes
But that doesn't mean that people writing that the MPlayer devs are assholes can't be assholes too =)
(After reading that new article it seems to me like both sides have matured since the last round of their mutual bashing)
Been there, done that, called it Pentium-M;
nothing to see here, move along =)
And it works with NAT (it's more or less like IRC with voice-capability)
Of course a new CPU, why do you think they're changing the sockets all the time =)
WinFS is one of them, Storage another,reiser4 has a number of interesting concepts (such as a file being at the same time a directory containing the attributes of the file) which could be used in a similar way
And just to get my daily flamebait rating: Who modded the parent offtopic? It's a valid questioning of the usefulness of the program mentioned in the article
"kn" with an audible "k" still exists in English but not at the beginning of a word.
Say "acknowledge" and try to swallow the "a".
Now do the step from "aknoppix" to "knoppix" the same way
Don't know if it helps but I had some success trying to teach a friend of mine to pronounce "xine" this way =)
Electricity
*ducks* =)
Apple Records sells ... music ... music
Apple iTunes sells
And as the Apple service has probably the greater brand recognition it's highly probable that if Selma Average tells Joe Average-but-knows-a-bit-about-computer-stuff that she bought music from Apple he'll probably think of iTunes. Sounds like trademark violation to me
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