Face it...there's nothing to iPhoto and iTunes. They really aren't very complicated applications. What apple got "right" was not putting in too many features and making it bloated (like Windows Media Player vs iTunes, for example.)
Anyway, it's probably easy for a 3 person team and 1 year of calendar time to have decent clones of each one.
That's rather funny, considering that 'D' (i.e. 'D natural') and C# are the same key.
BZZZT! Thank you for playing, but you're wrong.
C# and D are different notes. On a piano keyboard there's a note between C and D. That note is called either C# (if you're in the key of D, A, E, B, F# or C#) or Db (D flat) if you're in the key of Ab, Db, Gb, etc.)
Now before you think I'm nuts, I was skeptical, too. But after programming in C# for the past year, I absolutely love it. The language is perfect. Why design another one? Just make sure good Open implementations get done for it, and leverage all the good design work Microsoft has done!
One of the reasons for the success of OSX is the general geek crowd's appreciation of it's *IX background, but without free dev tools that's nothing but another flavour of unix.
It's just too bad that Apple practically requires you to use Objective-C to access their core libraries instead of something more standard and accepted.
We used to buy 1GB Zip drives because they were sort of a standard. But there was about a 50% failure rate on the hardware. Their quality control was so shoddy, we really couldn't trust them.
Also, the company was a magnet for investment scams. There was sort of a cult of the Iomega investor. I never understood that.
I certainly won't be an early adopter of this technology!
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I remember back about 24 years at Grumman Aerospace.
Back then, it wasn't UML, but "Data Flow" diagrams that were all the rage. We all took this "Yourdan" course and learned how to draw data flow.
What happened in practice was Management (including me;-) drew these pretty little spider diagrams that were in a big thick book that pleased the Navy, and the programmers would write the actual working code that had little relation to the Yourdan diagrams.
My brief experience consulting with IT groups today that use UML reveals the same patterns. Some people earnestly draw UML in the beginning, and tools automatically make UML diagrams based on the code, but other than for top-level interfaces, nobody cares too much about them. It's a checkbox item.
(I'm glad I'm not an IT guy working in a UML sweatshop!)
You're the racist if you equate "Housing Projects" with African Americans! Most folks in the U.S. lucky enough to live in cheap section-8 housing are white.
2) This is low-incoming housing, right? where did he get money for a gun if the taxpayers are helping him pay rent?
What amazes me that the rules here in California for gift housing (i.e., Section 8 housing) stipualate eviction for drug crimes.
However, people with records of violence, or crimes against property (like breaking and entering, and burglary) aren't automatically evicted
I'd much rather they get rid of the convicted burglars than the stoners!
I used to be liberal, and favored low-income housing. Then a low-income housing project opened up near me. After a month of hearing shootings and seeing crack vials in the street, I moved. I'm no longer liberal on free housing for lazy bums.
Is that the best you can say? I related a TRUE STORY about my experience working at Apple, and all you do is refer to me as a slang term for the female pudendum
I've noticed a shift on/. in very recent days. You no longer automatically get flamed for posting anything anti-Mac.
When I used to work at Apple, it amazed me that DURING COMPANY MEETINGS, Apple people would open their powerbooks and start flaming anti-Mac folks on/. while Jobs was talking (on a Giant TV screen, too. Just like the 1984 ads portray IBM.)
For some reason, the tide has turned, and Apple Computer's goon squad can no longer overpower the voice of reason on/.
When I was forced to use a powerbook, I was EMBARRASSED to use it in public for fear that some Mac zealot would come by and start talking to me. Airports were the worst.
This news is a big relief for Apple! If gaming on PC platforms withers because of set-top gaming, then Apple no longer has to try to attract game developers to its platform.
Sorry...I should have called it "Western Art Music" not "Serious Music"
In 100 years, you'll still be able to buy a recording of Tosca. I doubt if you'll find anyone who cares about "Snoop Dog"
How many hours a day do you thing Snoop Dog or 50 Cent practice?
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Then why don't you send a letter to Apple telling them to slow down the G5?
1. They're a major record label AND a major PC vendor
2. They can get into the Japanese market easier
I think they'll be able to clobber Apple.
Good for them!
When I first saw this story, it seemed like you were linking to an old site from archive.org!
Seriously, if you were one of their clients and they were underrdelivering, this wouldn't please you.
Well, of course you can't put "f*ck" in a domain name! Asterisk ("*") is not a valid character for a domain name. You need to read the RFC.
Anyway, it's probably easy for a 3 person team and 1 year of calendar time to have decent clones of each one.
BZZZT! Thank you for playing, but you're wrong.
C# and D are different notes. On a piano keyboard there's a note between C and D. That note is called either C# (if you're in the key of D, A, E, B, F# or C#) or Db (D flat) if you're in the key of Ab, Db, Gb, etc.)
Now, B# and C are the same note, as are E# and F.
Leave the music making to the professionals.
Now before you think I'm nuts, I was skeptical, too. But after programming in C# for the past year, I absolutely love it. The language is perfect. Why design another one? Just make sure good Open implementations get done for it, and leverage all the good design work Microsoft has done!
One of the reasons for the success of OSX is the general geek crowd's appreciation of it's *IX background, but without free dev tools that's nothing but another flavour of unix. It's just too bad that Apple practically requires you to use Objective-C to access their core libraries instead of something more standard and accepted.
We used to buy 1GB Zip drives because they were sort of a standard. But there was about a 50% failure rate on the hardware. Their quality control was so shoddy, we really couldn't trust them.
Also, the company was a magnet for investment scams. There was sort of a cult of the Iomega investor. I never understood that.
I certainly won't be an early adopter of this technology!
Back then, it wasn't UML, but "Data Flow" diagrams that were all the rage. We all took this "Yourdan" course and learned how to draw data flow.
What happened in practice was Management (including me ;-) drew these pretty little spider diagrams that were in a big thick book that pleased the Navy, and the programmers would write the actual working code that had little relation to the Yourdan diagrams.
My brief experience consulting with IT groups today that use UML reveals the same patterns. Some people earnestly draw UML in the beginning, and tools automatically make UML diagrams based on the code, but other than for top-level interfaces, nobody cares too much about them. It's a checkbox item.
(I'm glad I'm not an IT guy working in a UML sweatshop!)
You're the racist if you equate "Housing Projects" with African Americans! Most folks in the U.S. lucky enough to live in cheap section-8 housing are white.
What amazes me that the rules here in California for gift housing (i.e., Section 8 housing) stipualate eviction for drug crimes.
However, people with records of violence, or crimes against property (like breaking and entering, and burglary) aren't automatically evicted
I'd much rather they get rid of the convicted burglars than the stoners!
I used to be liberal, and favored low-income housing. Then a low-income housing project opened up near me. After a month of hearing shootings and seeing crack vials in the street, I moved. I'm no longer liberal on free housing for lazy bums.
I have to admit, the ACofC is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen done with Legos! And the poem about the poor kitty made me very sad.
Is that the best you can say? I related a TRUE STORY about my experience working at Apple, and all you do is refer to me as a slang term for the female pudendum
I've noticed a shift on /. in very recent days. You no longer automatically get flamed for posting anything anti-Mac.
When I used to work at Apple, it amazed me that DURING COMPANY MEETINGS, Apple people would open their powerbooks and start flaming anti-Mac folks on /. while Jobs was talking (on a Giant TV screen, too. Just like the 1984 ads portray IBM.)
For some reason, the tide has turned, and Apple Computer's goon squad can no longer overpower the voice of reason on /.
When I was forced to use a powerbook, I was EMBARRASSED to use it in public for fear that some Mac zealot would come by and start talking to me. Airports were the worst.
I mean, if I bought a Sony laptop that had problems, my next laptop would be an IBM!
I think Cory needs a shrink!
This news is a big relief for Apple! If gaming on PC platforms withers because of set-top gaming, then Apple no longer has to try to attract game developers to its platform.
You're thinking of HP's low cost laser, the "ValueJet".
You could have called this "Ballmer's Boners!"
That's a classic!
What do you expect from someone who funded his company with the proceeds from a criminal act!
Sorry...I should have called it "Western Art Music" not "Serious Music" In 100 years, you'll still be able to buy a recording of Tosca. I doubt if you'll find anyone who cares about "Snoop Dog" How many hours a day do you thing Snoop Dog or 50 Cent practice?
You'll find it has been censored...even when it's used in ways that aren't "obscene", like the segment "The Cock" in the "Carnival of the Animals"
There's very little serious music--opera, "Classical", traditional jazz, sacred--to be had there, other than the "top 20"
.MAC accounts! And what was the name of that propritary Mac dial-in service that Apple had going for a while?