iTunes and other music library/players fill a niche that only appeared after the widespread advent of digital music. when winamp 2 was released, very few people had 30GB of mp3 files... and more likely they didn't have space to store them either. with bandwidth costs dropping and portable players becoming popular, people need a way to manage more music. the development of software like iTunes is simply a natural outgrowth of these trends.
the iTunes design is by no means entirely original. it contains elements that we all recognize from Real Jukebox, Musicmatch Jukebox, and Winamp 3... which predated iTunes.
music players that "rip off" iTunes are certainly not inventive or innovative, but this is hardly a justification for Apple to have a patent on that interface design.
iTunes, like every modern music player, represents incremental innovations over existing products. the iTunes interface boils down to three elements... a 3-column library area, a play queue area, and a transport control. the idea that Apple should be granted a monopoly on this interface is outrageous.
Mono/.NET isn't really a game development platform. the more likely scenario for cross-platform games is that 3D games would be written for OpenGL rather than DirectX.
I was discussing this with a friend over dinner the other night. once games are released for Linux as well as Windows (UT2004, for example, and the forthcoming Doom 3), gamers need only be shown Linux GL benchmarks before they'll happily switch to a Linux 2.6.x system for 5-10FPS gains over Windows.
this is what people where saying back when the first 12x CD-RW drives came out. and I'll be damned if I *still* can't find anything better than 8x blanks!
on the bright side, he released it just a little too early... seeing as this is just the time for Windows users to do their yearly Spring Reinstall anyway.
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sounds like klingon.
I just ran it through ROT13 and it came up Y.H.B.T.Y.H.L.H.A.N.D. ... whatever *that* means.
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what did you think would happen, lusting after the ancient Ring?
a technology with little corporate backing, no mainstream supporters, and not built into any native OS distributions... is there anyone that crazy?
fair enough, but SoundJam was a Winamp-alike.
iTunes and other music library/players fill a niche that only appeared after the widespread advent of digital music. when winamp 2 was released, very few people had 30GB of mp3 files ... and more likely they didn't have space to store them either. with bandwidth costs dropping and portable players becoming popular, people need a way to manage more music. the development of software like iTunes is simply a natural outgrowth of these trends.
rhythmbox obviously uses theme-able GTK2 widgets instead of static OSX brushed metal widgets. I don't think there's anything to worry about.
music players that "rip off" iTunes are certainly not inventive or innovative, but this is hardly a justification for Apple to have a patent on that interface design.
iTunes, like every modern music player, represents incremental innovations over existing products. the iTunes interface boils down to three elements ... a 3-column library area, a play queue area, and a transport control. the idea that Apple should be granted a monopoly on this interface is outrageous.
many of them you can simply download from P2P services.
additionally, you might be interested in the many hundreds of LADSPA plugins
so when i get this in M2, what do I do?
i was going for 'internet movers and shakers'.
(you are aware that WINE provides many of the libraries you need for windows compatibility without needing a copy of windows, right?)
so, I understand you suffer from "voice deafness"?
I have no way of knowing.
is the Evolution port being worked on? where can I find information about it?
I was discussing this with a friend over dinner the other night. once games are released for Linux as well as Windows (UT2004, for example, and the forthcoming Doom 3), gamers need only be shown Linux GL benchmarks before they'll happily switch to a Linux 2.6.x system for 5-10FPS gains over Windows.
as for your other questions... you haven't used any virtualization/emulation software before, have you?
this is what people where saying back when the first 12x CD-RW drives came out. and I'll be damned if I *still* can't find anything better than 8x blanks!
open the URL 'about:config'
filter for 'blink'
browser.blink_allowed : set to "false"
safari's based on KHTML, not Gecko.
on the bright side, he released it just a little too early... seeing as this is just the time for Windows users to do their yearly Spring Reinstall anyway.
another story at CNN.com
We can start by dropping the morse code proficiency requirement.