How many DOCs have I received? None. I've received one excel spreadsheet, for that matter.
PDFs get swapped around, but not terribly often.
I'm a tech. We work with scripts, text, and markup. If we need to distribute it, it goes on the webserver or wiki, and the link gets passed around. There is very few data that NEEDS to be in a static format, and for those PDFs do a damn good job.
I'm not sure what the problem was. Cell networks are built on standards. If you obey the standard, there should be no reason any other standards-respecting equipment won't talk.
Maybe your company just tried to cut corners/costs and built the network half-assed?
I think some sort of system to help the passengers survive would be nice. They knew something was wrong very quickly. Why they didn't have search craft out immediately?
Those crash rafts... do they have any sort of long range beacon?
You realize that preprocessor "orgy" happens anyways, just behind the scenes? And that if you used a proper IDE, you get the same "blinders" that MS-VS gives you?
And if that is your only complaint - the tools, then I challenge how you can call yourself a developer. Have you SEEN the Windows API? Now... thinking of that, have you seen glibc?
Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but from what you've given us, I'm hesitant to take anything you've said seriously.
Perhaps they even did this in conjuction with Palm...
I doubt it. If they did, why would the ID string be changed on the device, when it would be much more practical to add the ID string to iTunes in an update?
Better how? All I personally have ever needed is an artist/album/track hierarchy. My tastes don't really include things that make me worry about recording, composer etc. I also don't need it to track genre.
If it's something I like enough to keep a copy around, then I know what it is already. I don't need a database to tell me that "Processor" is techno, or that "Ruben van Rompaey" is ethnic folk.
Probably the fact that my collection is only 52gb (mostly FLAC, so that's not as massive as it sounds) helps. I don't have a musical packrat syndrome.
Why would I possibly need to check for duplicates?
If the file I'm encoding in is a duplicate, it's going to overwrite the existing one, or not (depending on my choice at that time).
I don't need a program's help sorting my collection.
Also, I don't have a braindead player that needs synchronization. I plug it in, I copy what I want on it, and remove what I don't. Same storage scheme.
As for bash scripts... the only ones I've ever used are ones to fix replaygain issues, because I goofed when I ripped the tracks to begin with. In such case, it was a simple for loop that I've used for doing other work thousands of times.
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How many DOCs have I received? None. I've received one excel spreadsheet, for that matter.
PDFs get swapped around, but not terribly often.
I'm a tech. We work with scripts, text, and markup. If we need to distribute it, it goes on the webserver or wiki, and the link gets passed around. There is very few data that NEEDS to be in a static format, and for those PDFs do a damn good job.
I'm proud to say I've never even seen Silverlight, let alone considered using it myself.
Well, the solution would be to punt the MLB developers in the face for doing that. You can hardly blame the tools for their implementor's idiocy.
DOC and PDF are apples and oranges. PDF doesn't try to be DOC, it tries to be a Portable Document Format, and tends to succeed quite well at that.
DOC files are just MS Word memory dumps. (or at least they were for the longest time)
Hrm, thats funny. Flash is all script as well.
Oh, right. There's this thing called a WYSIWYG editor. Like Adobe's own Flash studio.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1271263&cid=28359029
If your hardware doesn't make it easy, you're doing it wrong.
If you were designing a communications device... wouldn't you make the part that actually talks physically modular?
I don't see why they can't just detach the radio component and put a different one on to support a different physical layer.
If you don't build it like a retard, the upper layers shouldn't care what the hell runs underneath them.
I'm not sure what the problem was. Cell networks are built on standards. If you obey the standard, there should be no reason any other standards-respecting equipment won't talk.
Maybe your company just tried to cut corners/costs and built the network half-assed?
Or maybe you should put the troll-smacking stick down and realize that Apple did indeed have USB in their home computers before anyone else did.
At least they got that right... USB is an extremely useful thing to have around.
I think some sort of system to help the passengers survive would be nice. They knew something was wrong very quickly. Why they didn't have search craft out immediately?
Those crash rafts... do they have any sort of long range beacon?
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Sorry, George.
You realize that preprocessor "orgy" happens anyways, just behind the scenes? And that if you used a proper IDE, you get the same "blinders" that MS-VS gives you?
And if that is your only complaint - the tools, then I challenge how you can call yourself a developer. Have you SEEN the Windows API? Now... thinking of that, have you seen glibc?
Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but from what you've given us, I'm hesitant to take anything you've said seriously.
Did you even click the link? Please tell me you're trying to be silly.
This isn't a hack. This would be like changing your Firefox UA string to read as IE. Wow, that was a clever little hack there!
I doubt it. If they did, why would the ID string be changed on the device, when it would be much more practical to add the ID string to iTunes in an update?
Nope, it claims to be mozilla-compatible.
Lets look at an example user agent for IE6:
As you will notice, it's not claiming to be Mozilla. It's claiming to be compatible.
Now, whether the compatibility is a complete farce or not isn't at question...
It's like MAD, only with patents!
I don't get it.
Better how? All I personally have ever needed is an artist/album/track hierarchy. My tastes don't really include things that make me worry about recording, composer etc. I also don't need it to track genre.
If it's something I like enough to keep a copy around, then I know what it is already. I don't need a database to tell me that "Processor" is techno, or that "Ruben van Rompaey" is ethnic folk.
Probably the fact that my collection is only 52gb (mostly FLAC, so that's not as massive as it sounds) helps. I don't have a musical packrat syndrome.
Oh, and in response to your other statements.
Why would I possibly need to check for duplicates?
If the file I'm encoding in is a duplicate, it's going to overwrite the existing one, or not (depending on my choice at that time).
I don't need a program's help sorting my collection.
Also, I don't have a braindead player that needs synchronization. I plug it in, I copy what I want on it, and remove what I don't. Same storage scheme.
As for bash scripts... the only ones I've ever used are ones to fix replaygain issues, because I goofed when I ripped the tracks to begin with. In such case, it was a simple for loop that I've used for doing other work thousands of times.
Not everyone needs a point-n-clicky safety net.
Tons of features I will never use.
And easy media backups? What could be more easy than including them in my existing backup scheme?
Failing that, what is so hard about 'cp -ar /foo /bar'?
I don't need all that shit. The only thing the filesystem doesn't do that I want to do, is play the media. That's what the player is for.
You know what else makes a good media manager?
A filesystem.
You know, a system that manages files? Like media files?
Hrm, strange. You would think your server would both be able to read and log the Referer request header.
Most of the time the site doesn't submit itself for slashdotting.
Someone sees it, goes 'neat' and pushed the button.
Sort of like an ostrich's wings?