But the Finder doesn't just "Find"
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The Death of Folders?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Sure, you can let files accumulate on your hard drive with all the organization of a pile of sawdust, but finding the files by Spotlight or a Smart Folder query is only the beginning. You will want to copy or move one or more of those files, so it is vital to have an application with a good interface to arrange the move between target and destination (e.g., hard drive -> optical). Spotlight/Smart Folders are by no means ready for that, and by the time you add that functionality, you're back to something like the Finder all over again.
Actually, we do have fair use rights that pertain to songs you might create, even if you'd like to charge us $100 for one listening (hypothetically, of course). The battleground is where the lines are drawn and where your copyright ends and my fair use rights begin.
For example, if you charge me $100 to listen to your song once, but then I parody your song, that is my fair use right, and you should not be able to drag me to court to use your song in this way without payment.
As far as Apple pissing on Real, let's not forget that iTunes and iPod can play non-DRM content like mp3, so it is disingenuous for Real to complain too loudly that Apple's system is closed.
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Sure, you can let files accumulate on your hard drive with all the organization of a pile of sawdust, but finding the files by Spotlight or a Smart Folder query is only the beginning. You will want to copy or move one or more of those files, so it is vital to have an application with a good interface to arrange the move between target and destination (e.g., hard drive -> optical). Spotlight/Smart Folders are by no means ready for that, and by the time you add that functionality, you're back to something like the Finder all over again.
For example, if you charge me $100 to listen to your song once, but then I parody your song, that is my fair use right, and you should not be able to drag me to court to use your song in this way without payment.
As far as Apple pissing on Real, let's not forget that iTunes and iPod can play non-DRM content like mp3, so it is disingenuous for Real to complain too loudly that Apple's system is closed.
beowulf clus...never mind.
Looks like they've used Linux in the renderfarm from the beginning, and than began moving their artist workstations to Linux as well.